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| The Argentine Language and Culture |
| The Argentine Language and Culture Programs that F.A.S.T.A.
University offers to foreigner are specially designed for those people who
want to develop their abilities for communicating in Spanish and to know
the characteristic aspects of the Argentine Culture through an university
program of total immersion. |
| Programs |
| There are three programs offered every year: Otoño
program (16 week course), Primavera (16 week course), and Intensivo (6 weeks)
in July-August. |
| Otoño |
Intensivo |
Primavera |
A Spanish Course
Intermediate Spanish
Conversation and Composition
Advanced Communication |
A Spanish Course
Initial Spanish
Intermediate Spanish
Advanced Spanish |
A Spanish Course
Intermediate Spanish
Conversation and Composition
Advanced Communication |
| Argentine Culture |
Argentine Culture |
Argentine Culture |
| Tango |
Tango |
Tango |
| One or Two Complementary Courses |
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One or Two Complementary Courses |
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| Admission Requirements |
Otoño and Primavera
Four semesters of University Spanish or its equivalent
Registration forms completed
Intensivo
Two semester of University Spanish or its equivalent
Regsitration forms completed |
| Courses |
| Otoño and Primavera |
Intermediate Spanish
The Intermediate Spanish course makes it possible to concentrate the grammer
and increase vocabulary by emphasizing the use of Spanish word structures
in daily situations which the student encounters in his house, with his
companions, and in his classes. 90 minutes classes, 4 days a week. Suggested
credits: 6. Program
Conversation and Composition
Precision in the use of the spoken and written language is the objective
of this course. Intensive hearing and oral practice taught through interviews,
journal articles, and Argentinean literature extracts. 90 minute classes,
4 days a week. Suggested credits: 6.
Advanced
Communication
This course facillitates a flowing management of the Hispanic language,
and targets confidence in the use of Spanish for complex business transactions
where where it is necessary to make elaborated arguments. The class works
with materials and situations of the professional's lifestyle. 90 minute
classes, 4 days a week. Suggested credits: 6.
Argentinean
Culture
The objective of this course is to enhance the student's knowledge of the
more characteristic aspects of " La Argentina ". Defining the
reality of understanding through the " Argentinean perspective "
is the constant objective. Finally, the dialog between the cultures is stimulated
through the acquired knowledge and the experiences lived. There are used
historic materials, historic materials, critiques, essays of different environments,
films, and journal articles. 120 minute classes, 3 days a week. Suggested
credits: 6. Program
Tango
This is a practical course of dance that is accompanied with the analysis
of Tango letters and data of the life of famous Tango men, making possible
to know and experiment one of the most notable and world wide recognized
characteristic of the rioplatense culture.
120 minute classes, 2 days a week. Suggested credits: 3.
Complementary
Courses
These are courses that supplement the regular curriculum of FASTA University.
These are available to registered foreign students who have demonstrated
sufficient Spanish-speaking ability to be successful in an university class
for Argentinean students. |
| Intensivo Program |
Initial Spanish
For those students with two semesters of university Spanish or its high
school equivalent, this course makes possible the knowledge of structures,
vocabulary and pronunciation that are necessary for maintaining simple conversations
and being able to relate in daily life.
120 minutes classes, 5 day a week. Suggested credits: 5.
Intemediate
Spanish
The Intermediate Spanish course makes possible to affirm the grammar and
increase the vocabulary emphasizing the use of the structures and the vocabulary
to the daily situations that the student experiments in his house, with
his companions and in the classes. 120 minutes classes, 5 day a week. Suggested
credits: 5.
Advanced Spanish
Advanced Spanish for those students that have several semesters in Spanish
and wish to accelerate their acquisition of Spanish. This course delivers
in six weeks a level attained in one year of studies outside of an Hispanic
atmosphere. It is equivalent to the Conversation and Composition course
( 16 week program ).
120 minutes classes, 5 day a week. Suggested credits: 5.
Argentinean
Culture
Ehe objective of this course is to make it possible to acquire the knowledge
of the more characteristic aspects and characters of "La Argentina".
Defining the reality of understanding through "the Argentinean perspective"
is the constant objective. Finally, the dialog between the cultures is stimulated
through the acquired knowledge and the experiences lived. There are used
historic materials, historic materials, critiques, essays of different environments,
films, and journal articles. 120 minutes classes, 4 day a week.Suggested
credits: 5. Program
Tango
This is a practical course of dance that is accompanied with the analysis
of Tango letters and data from the lives of famous Tango men, making it
possible to know, making possible to know notable and world-wide recognized
characteristics of the rioplatense culture. 120 minutes classes, 2 day a
week. Suggested credits: 2. |
| Certificates and Credits |
| At the end of the selected program, each student receives
a certificate with the data of every course done, the number of class hours
completed and grades obtained in every course. A copy is delivered to the
University University of origin by sealed envelope in English or Spanish,
whichever is preferred. The percentages achieved in each program course
are itemized and tabulated clearly. |
Lodging and Food
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The F.A.S.T.A. University offers, lodging in local
family homes, or in apartments with Argentinean students, as being indicated
in the Inscription Form. It is expected that the foreign student would have
the necessary consideration to integrate to the group or family life, because
this facilitates the experiential knowledge of the cultural rules and its
en important part of the programmed learning. Only one student is allowed
per familiar group.
The family offers space in a private room or to share with a young of the
same age, and three meals per day: breakfast, lunch and dinner during the
whole program. The hosts don’t have the obligation nor to provide
money to the foreign student for any concept, neither to refund for days
of lodging or alimentation not used. The foreign student must pay the expenses
made for the use of the phone, which is essentially for receiving calls,
and making local calls of less than 5 minutes duration. For large distance
calls, the student can use his card or any other way that doesn’t
mean expenses for the hosts. |
| Student Host |
During the first two weeks of the Intensive Program
and during the first month of the Fall and Spring Programs, an Argentinean
student is available to help the foreign student to made familiar with the
peculiar ways of moving, relating and acceding to the services he would
use in his stay in Argentina.
The Argentinean student is a bridge with the Argentinean student culture,
and with the young social reality in Mar del Plata. Frequently, this relation
comes into a friendship that transcends the formalities of the program,
during also after the foreign student’s departure. |
| Travels and Trips |
The Fall and Spring Programs include a travel to Bariloche
City, in the Argentinean Patagonia, where the F.A.S.T.A. University has
another university location. This travel lasts 10 days and is integrated
with a series of academic and touristic activities in different places of
the Argentinean south.
El lago Nahuel Huapi de origen glaciar, tiene 560 Kms² de superficie
y sus brazos penetran en los bosques del Parque Nacional homónimo.
En sus orillas, San Carlos de Bariloche es un centro turístico de
primer orden con la estación invernal de Cerro Catedral en sus cercanías
y una intensa actividad cultural. |
| Visa and Health Insurance |
You must contact the nearest Argentinean Consulate
or Embassy to inquire if you need any kind of visa for entering to Argentina.
There are countries that have special treaties for which their citizens
can require for a tourist visa when arriving to the Buenos Aires City Airport.
This kind of visa has validity for three months, and can be extended in
the Mar del Plata migration offices.
Is advisable to bring a copy of the clinical history and to obtain a health
insurance before leaving your country. During your activities in the F.A.S.T.A.
University, you are covered as any other student, but you must have an insurance
to cover your health out of the University. The State Assistential Centers
provide free basically assistance, but medicines and special treatments
must be paid for the patient. |
| Costs |
The cost of the Otoño and Primavera Programs
is about U$A 4.450,60 and covers the university costs, lodging and foods
for 16 weeks and the complete travel of 10 days to Bariloche City.
This sum of money doesn’t cover costs of: international, national
of local travels; telephone calls, books, class notes, health insurance,
hotel before or after the program, and no other cost not specified in the
former paragraph.
The Intensive Program cost U$A 1.669,50 and covers the university costs,
lodging and foods for 6 weeks.
This sum of money doesn’t cover costs of: international, national
of local travels; telephone calls, books, class notes, health insurance,
hotel before or after the program, and no other cost not specified in the
previous paragraph. |
| Inscription Forms |
| Print, complete and send by airmail the following
forms: Application
for Admission |
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For suggestions or additional information
contact with:
International Affairs Office, IAO
FASTA University - Gascón 3145
B7600FNK Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Phones/Fax +54 223 493.7426
oai@ufasta.edu.ar |
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| Colaboration english version of this page Michael Reaves. |
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