Intensive Program of Language, Culture and Social Immersion

These programs are interdisciplinary that situate the learning of Spanish as a second language, and the study of the Latin-American culture, in the framework of the integration of the students to the reality of Latin American life.

Essential Components:

• To study Spanish language and literature, and Latin-American culture.
• Understand the work of social organizations, by means of actually contributing
  to the said organizations work (“Community-Based Learning”) and/or guided
  visits and reflection on problems of poverty and development.
• Staying with a Chilean family.
• Guided visits to places of cultural and historical interest in Santiago and its
  outskirts.

Characteristics:

• They can last between four and eight weeks.
• Need a minimum of ten students.
• They adapt to the requests of each institution.
• They are carried out exclusively for international students and Spanish is used
  predominantly/exclusively for the duration of the course.

Possible Courses:

• Poverty and Development
• Social Justice
• Grammar and Poetry
• Latin-American Story
• Culture and Oral Expression

Other Example of Intensive Program

Intensive, Community-Based Learning Summer School for Georgetown University

Contact: Constanza Bauer
Coordinator of Intensive Program
E-mail: cbauer@uahurtado.cl
Phone: 0056-2-6920-414