INNOVATIVE, ORIGINAL COURSES

Content is key in language learning. Cultivating Minds offers innovative courses to improve your English skills built around interesting topics and useful knowledge.

The News Literacy Project

Cultivating Minds offers a comprehensive multi-media EFL course based on The News Literacy Project, with assignments and exercises adapted to your level of English.  Strengthen your English aptitudes and develop enduring media literacy skills in a vital and innovative course designed in the U.S. and now available online.

"The News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the abilities needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy." -

Introducing the first English course based on the early history of Hip-Hop.

LANGUAGE LEARNING ·  HISTORY  ·  SOCIOLOGY · URBAN STUDIES  ·  COMPARATIVE CULTURE 

The B-More Project is named in tribute to the original B-Boys, teens who created a global cultural phenomenon from the New York City streets of the 1970s. 

B-More is dedicated to cross-cultural education encompassing the academic, the cultural, and the aspirational. 

Learn more. Understand more. Be more.

Courses for students

Improve key English skills while learning a fascinating and relevant history.

Structured reading and writing exercises are compatible with TOEFL and Certificate exam preparation.

Students engage in spirited discussions and debates in-class culminating in group presentations on what they have learned and how Hip-Hop influences modern arts, culture, and society.
 

Courses for professionals

Adapted courses for professionals are tailored to the skills and attributes necessary in today's business world: writing, speaking, composition, and presentation skills

Improve key English communication skills in the context of an innovative, original course. Engage in spirited debates and discussions, relating the history of this movement to your personal artistic and cultural influences.

The Cultivating Minds Difference

Thomas Colón grew up with many of the pioneers of Hip-Hop in the Bronx of the 1970s and experienced much of this history first-hand.  Using a combination of text, video, music, and personal anecdote, our course delivers intimate and authentic insight into the early history of one of the world's most powerful cultural forces.

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