LOGAN – For visitors to Utah State University’s Logan campus, daily tours are conducted several times a day as USU student ambassadors personally escort you around campus, answer questions and treat you to Aggie Ice Cream.
Recently a new feature is being added.
Last month students in a legal and business translation course taught by Sofia Monzon Rodriguez, adapted a Logan campus tour script into Spanish and in April a group of those students gathered, eager to to see their work executed by tour guide Miles Crowshaw.
Crowshaw, who admitted he wasn’t the best Spanish speaker, was able to get the script early and that day led a 75-minute mock tour so Monzon and her students could listen along and make tiny revisions as they went. They eventually created a model USU admissions can adopt for future use.
Annette Vazquez-Torres of the USU Admissions staff said many Utah institutions offer college tours in Spanish. She was the one who approached Monzon about having current students help create a Spanish language version for the tour script.
Among the 120 ambassadors who help represent USU at admissions events and on-campus tours, 20 t0 25 speak Spanish.
Tours begin in the Taggart Student Center Big Blue Room, 229, and tours last one hour and 30 minutes. You must register at least two days in advance. It is asked that you only bring two guests per student.
Register for a daily campus tour at https://www.usu.edu/admission/campustour.