Summer Chilean Culture and Spanish Language in Valparaiso

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What's Included

Students who choose to study abroad in Valparaíso in API’s Chilean Culture and Spanish Language Program have the opportunity to complete 6 semester credits of language and culture coursework.

What's Included?

Highlights

Pre Departure Services

Advising

@api Online System

Orientation Materials and Resources

Access to International Phone Plans

API Alumni Network

Social Networking

Scholarships

On Site Services

Airport Reception

API Center

On-Site Orientation

Tuition

Medical and Life Insurance

Excursions (overnight, day)

Resident Directors

Social and Cultural Activities

Welcome and Farewell Group Meals

Volunteer Opportunities

Tutoring

Housing (including meals and laundry)

Language and Culture Tools

Re-Entry Services

Re-Entry Materials and Support

Post-Program Evaluation

Transcript

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Application Requirements

  • Minimum 2.5 G.P.A.
  • Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors
  • No minimum study of Spanish required
  • Completed API application
  • University Approval Form
  • One letter of recommendation
  • Official transcript
  • Entry requirement: valid passport with supporting documents
Dates & Fees
Session Program Dates Program Cost Application Deadline Payment Deadline
Summer 1 May 15, 2020 - Jun 20, 2020 $4,980 Apr 1, 2020 Apr 15, 2020
Summer 1 and 2 Combined May 15, 2020 - Jul 25, 2020 $8,980 Apr 1, 2020 Apr 15, 2020
Summer 2 Jun 19, 2020 - Jul 25, 2020 $4,980 Apr 1, 2020 Apr 15, 2020
Excursions

API students participate in several excursions per session designed to help familiarize them with areas of their host city, country, and surrounding region. The following is a listing of all excursions for API Valparaíso programs. All excursions are subject to change.

  • Aromatics Farm

    Be prepared for a sensory delight! API students will enjoy visiting an organic farm that produces oils used for aromatherapy. Students will participate in a hands-on demonstration of how the oils are produced, starting with a tour of the gardens where the herbs are grown to the packaging of the final product.

  • Santiago

    Housing more than one-third of the total Chilean population, Santiago defines Chile for many visitors. It is a thriving metropolis with a wealth of museums, restaurants and other cultural activities. Surrounded by mountains, the city’s cleanliness and order enthrall visitors. With its mixture of architecture reminiscent of both Europe and the United States, visitors from around the world feel comfortable in this most modern of Chilean cities.

  • Vineyard

    Chile is widely recognized for the quality of its wines, especially Carmenere, a variety of grape that was once close to extinction due to a plague in France. Students have the opportunity to learn more about Chilean wine and its roots dating back to the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century.

  • Aromatics Farm

    Be prepared for a sensory delight! API students will enjoy visiting an organic farm that produces oils used for aromatherapy. Students will participate in a hands-on demonstration of how the oils are produced, starting with a tour of the gardens where the herbs are grown to the packaging of the final product.

  • Santiago

    Housing more than one-third of the total Chilean population, Santiago defines Chile for many visitors. It is a thriving metropolis with a wealth of museums, restaurants and other cultural activities. Surrounded by mountains, the city’s cleanliness and order enthrall visitors. With its mixture of architecture reminiscent of both Europe and the United States, visitors from around the world feel comfortable in this most modern of Chilean cities.

  • Vineyard

    Chile is widely recognized for the quality of its wines, especially Carmenere, a variety of grape that was once close to extinction due to a plague in France. Students have the opportunity to learn more about Chilean wine and its roots dating back to the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century.

  • Isla Negra

    Isla Negra was made famous by the decision of Pablo Neruda, one of Chile’s greatest poets, to establish a home there. Neruda described the island to be a place where “todo florece” (“everything flourishes”). Today, the island is filled with artists and writers and considered as an amazing source of creative inspiration.

  • Natural Monument Island of Cachagua

    A beautiful ride along the coast of the region until we reach the Natural Monument Island of Cachagua, also called Island of the Penguins to surprise us with the sighting of one of the five most important nesting sites of the Humboldt penguin.

  • Parque Tricao

    More than 120 hectares to appreciate the rescue of the native forest of the central zone of Chile and the recovery of wetlands and original fauna of the area. We will discover the largest aviary in South America with beautiful exotic species.

  • Santiago

    Housing more than one-third of the total Chilean population, Santiago defines Chile for many visitors. It is a thriving metropolis with a wealth of museums, restaurants and other cultural activities. Surrounded by mountains, the city’s cleanliness and order enthrall visitors. With its mixture of architecture reminiscent of both Europe and the United States, visitors from around the world feel comfortable in this most modern of Chilean cities.

  • Isla Negra

    Isla Negra was made famous by the decision of Pablo Neruda, one of Chile’s greatest poets, to establish a home there. Neruda described the island to be a place where “todo florece” (“everything flourishes”). Today, the island is filled with artists and writers and considered as an amazing source of creative inspiration.

  • Parque Tricao

    More than 120 hectares to appreciate the rescue of the native forest of the central zone of Chile and the recovery of wetlands and original fauna of the area. We will discover the largest aviary in South America with beautiful exotic species.

  • Natural Monument Island of Cachagua

    A beautiful ride along the coast of the region until we reach the Natural Monument Island of Cachagua, also called Island of the Penguins to surprise us with the sighting of one of the five most important nesting sites of the Humboldt penguin.

Program Details

What You’ll Study

TOTAL CREDITS - 6 credits per session (up to 12 total)

Students who choose to study abroad in Valparaíso in API’s Chilean Culture and Spanish Language Program have the opportunity to complete 6 semester credits of language and culture coursework.

Beginning and intermediate-level Spanish speakers can select from a Spanish grammar course, a conversation and culture course, or English-taught electives.

Advanced Spanish speakers may choose to complete a grammar course along with an elective course or simply select two elective courses.

All courses are available only to visiting international students and are taught in Spanish. All courses are equivalent to three semester credits.

TRANSCRIPTS

API students receive a transcript from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso upon completion of their program.

Staff & Coordinators

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    Alejandra Rojas

    Alejandra Rojas will be your Resident Director and a resource for you on-site.

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    Gabi Perches

    Gabi Perches will be your Program Coordinator and prepare you to go abroad!

    Email - gabriela.perches@apiabroad.com

Courses

COURSE OFFERINGS

Participating students complete two courses per session, in accordance with their Spanish levels. Language levels are determined by an on-site placement test, administered by the host institution.

CREDIT INFORMATION

API’s university partners in Chile operate according to the contact hour system; the number of credits earned depends on the time spent in class with a professor. To determine the conversion of contact hours to U.S. semester credits, similarly, divide the Chilean contact hours in a given course by 15.

Conversacion y Cultura Chilena, Nivel Principiante (Beginning Conversation and Chilean Culture)

The conversation and culture module, beginning level, integrates language and culture starting with small pieces of Chilean movies, documentaries, TV shows, and short articles from local press to enhance the immersion program.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Beginner   Course Level: Lower Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Lower Division  

View Syllabus   

Gramática, Nivel Principiante (Beginning Spanish Grammar)

["This grammar course is designed to introduce students to the rules of the Spanish language and teach students how to communicate basic needs. Specific areas to be covered include: word order","indicative, subjunctive and imperative verbs","simple and compound tenses","the use of the subjunctive in simple sentences","use of ser and estar","commonly-used prepositions (of, with, por vs para)","simple, compound and complex sentences."]

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Beginner   Course Level: Lower Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Lower Division  

View Syllabus   

Human Rights in Latin America

This course will examine the evolution, approaches, and debates regarding Human Rights in Latin America during the 20th and 21st centuries, paying particular attention to the Chilean case. Students will focus on the interdisciplinary study of human rights as a concept, as a set of laws and institutions, and as a set of political and cultural practices.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Identity Issues in Contemporary Latin American History: An Intercultural approach

This course will work with a limited number of texts of primary as well as secondary nature that displays central problems in the identity traditions in the 20th century in Latin American thought. The modules will be based on different themes related to identity throughout contemporary Latin American History and each theme will be centered on the questions and the problems that have sparked its existence. Themes will include discussions on race, name, origin, authority as well as ideas on dependency and liberation.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Latino Studies

This course is designed to acquaint students with Hispanic American literary works. Students will explore the contemporary experience of Hispanic Americans through readings and how these works represent not only an intersection between cultures but also a culture in itself. The course will examine how issues of sex, race, class, and education have an impact on Latino(a) self-definition and community identity.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Conversacion y Cultura Chilena, Nivel Intermedio (Intermediate Conversation and Chilean Culture)

The Conversation and Cultures module, intermediate level, integrates language and culture from diverse and various texts to enhance the total immersion program.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate   Course Level: Lower Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Lower Division  

View Syllabus   

Gramática, Nivel Intermedio (Intermediate Grammar)

This intermediate-level grammar course seeks to improve conversational skills and knowledge of grammar rules. Specific areas to be covered include: pronouns, interrogative pronouns, direct and indirect objects, the reflexive “se”, uses of ser and estar, the ‘preterite’ tense, subjunctive mood, value of time, adverbial clauses and prepositions.

NOTE: This course is offered during the "early start" session and, as such, is only offered to students enrolling in a Spring or Fall Early Start semester program.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate   Course Level: Lower Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Lower Division  

View Syllabus   

Cine y literature latinoamericanos (Latin American Film and Literature)

This course allows students to understand and problematize the idea of Latin America through literary and filmic texts produced in the region. Foreign students get informed about the multiple realities of Latin America and gain a different perspectic of the art, literary and cinematographic world we live in.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Conversacion y Cultura Chilena, Nivel Avanzado (Advanced Conversation and Chilean Culture)

The Conversation and Culture module, advanced level, integrates language and culture from various types of Chilean texts: Chilean films, documentaries, press articles, stories, short films.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Gramática, Nivel Avanzado (Advanced Grammar)

This course will help students to analyze more complex grammar rules and apply them in daily communication. Specific topics to be covered include: determinants, adjectives, pronouns, verbal phrases, auxiliary verbs (haber, ser, estar), the passive tense, composite forms, indicative vs subjective, and code-switching.

NOTE: This course is offered during the "early start" session and, as such, is only offered to students enrolling in a Spring or Fall Early Start semester program.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Historia sociopolítica de América Latina, siglos XX-XXI (Sociopolitical History of Latin America, 19th-20th Centuries)

This course uncovers the search for Latin America political stability from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty- first century. Students observe the system's relationship with the State as well as the individual.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea (Contemporary Hispanic American Literature)

This course is designed for visiting international students and seeks to explore the historical, social and cultural perspectives that influence contemporary Hispanic American literature by studying its principle characters, works and issues.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Español para Propósitos Específicos: Área Negocios (Spanish for Specific Purposes - Business)

This is a theoretical-practical course oriented specifically at the communication contexts as well as the topics and roles that characterize the institutional-labor framework of business in Valparaíso –Viña del Mar. The course will have an emphasis on the development of both oral and written comprehension, expression and interaction through formal and informal communicative activities with authentic texts related specifically to business.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Español para Propósitos Específicos: Área Salud (Spanish for Specific Purposes - Health)

This is a theoretical-practical course oriented specifically at the communication contexts as well as the topics and roles that characterize the institutional-labor framework of health. The course will have an emphasis on the development of both oral and written comprehension, expression and interaction through formal and informal communicative activities with authentic texts related specifically to health in Valparaíso –Viña del Mar.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Conversacion y Cultura Chilena, Nivel Principiante (Beginning Conversation and Chilean Culture)

The conversation and culture module, beginning level, integrates language and culture starting with small pieces of Chilean movies, documentaries, TV shows, and short articles from local press to enhance the immersion program.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Beginner   Course Level: Lower Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Lower Division  

View Syllabus   

Gramática, Nivel Principiante (Beginning Spanish Grammar)

["This grammar course is designed to introduce students to the rules of the Spanish language and teach students how to communicate basic needs. Specific areas to be covered include: word order","indicative, subjunctive and imperative verbs","simple and compound tenses","the use of the subjunctive in simple sentences","use of ser and estar","commonly-used prepositions (of, with, por vs para)","simple, compound and complex sentences."]

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Beginner   Course Level: Lower Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Lower Division  

View Syllabus   

Human Rights in Latin America

This course will examine the evolution, approaches, and debates regarding Human Rights in Latin America during the 20th and 21st centuries, paying particular attention to the Chilean case. Students will focus on the interdisciplinary study of human rights as a concept, as a set of laws and institutions, and as a set of political and cultural practices.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Identity Issues in Contemporary Latin American History: An Intercultural approach

This course will work with a limited number of texts of primary as well as secondary nature that displays central problems in the identity traditions in the 20th century in Latin American thought. The modules will be based on different themes related to identity throughout contemporary Latin American History and each theme will be centered on the questions and the problems that have sparked its existence. Themes will include discussions on race, name, origin, authority as well as ideas on dependency and liberation.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Latino Studies

This course is designed to acquaint students with Hispanic American literary works. Students will explore the contemporary experience of Hispanic Americans through readings and how these works represent not only an intersection between cultures but also a culture in itself. The course will examine how issues of sex, race, class, and education have an impact on Latino(a) self-definition and community identity.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Conversacion y Cultura Chilena, Nivel Intermedio (Intermediate Conversation and Chilean Culture)

The Conversation and Cultures module, intermediate level, integrates language and culture from diverse and various texts to enhance the total immersion program.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate   Course Level: Lower Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Lower Division  

View Syllabus   

Gramática, Nivel Intermedio (Intermediate Grammar)

This intermediate-level grammar course seeks to improve conversational skills and knowledge of grammar rules. Specific areas to be covered include: pronouns, interrogative pronouns, direct and indirect objects, the reflexive “se”, uses of ser and estar, the ‘preterite’ tense, subjunctive mood, value of time, adverbial clauses and prepositions.

NOTE: This course is offered during the "early start" session and, as such, is only offered to students enrolling in a Spring or Fall Early Start semester program.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate   Course Level: Lower Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Lower Division  

View Syllabus   

Cine y literature latinoamericanos (Latin American Film and Literature)

This course allows students to understand and problematize the idea of Latin America through literary and filmic texts produced in the region. Foreign students get informed about the multiple realities of Latin America and gain a different perspectic of the art, literary and cinematographic world we live in.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Conversacion y Cultura Chilena, Nivel Avanzado (Advanced Conversation and Chilean Culture)

The Conversation and Culture module, advanced level, integrates language and culture from various types of Chilean texts: Chilean films, documentaries, press articles, stories, short films.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Gramática, Nivel Avanzado (Advanced Grammar)

This course will help students to analyze more complex grammar rules and apply them in daily communication. Specific topics to be covered include: determinants, adjectives, pronouns, verbal phrases, auxiliary verbs (haber, ser, estar), the passive tense, composite forms, indicative vs subjective, and code-switching.

NOTE: This course is offered during the "early start" session and, as such, is only offered to students enrolling in a Spring or Fall Early Start semester program.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Historia sociopolítica de América Latina, siglos XX-XXI (Sociopolitical History of Latin America, 19th-20th Centuries)

This course uncovers the search for Latin America political stability from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty- first century. Students observe the system's relationship with the State as well as the individual.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea (Contemporary Hispanic American Literature)

This course is designed for visiting international students and seeks to explore the historical, social and cultural perspectives that influence contemporary Hispanic American literature by studying its principle characters, works and issues.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Español para Propósitos Específicos: Área Negocios (Spanish for Specific Purposes - Business)

This is a theoretical-practical course oriented specifically at the communication contexts as well as the topics and roles that characterize the institutional-labor framework of business in Valparaíso –Viña del Mar. The course will have an emphasis on the development of both oral and written comprehension, expression and interaction through formal and informal communicative activities with authentic texts related specifically to business.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Español para Propósitos Específicos: Área Salud (Spanish for Specific Purposes - Health)

This is a theoretical-practical course oriented specifically at the communication contexts as well as the topics and roles that characterize the institutional-labor framework of health. The course will have an emphasis on the development of both oral and written comprehension, expression and interaction through formal and informal communicative activities with authentic texts related specifically to health in Valparaíso –Viña del Mar.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Conversacion y Cultura Chilena, Nivel Principiante (Beginning Conversation and Chilean Culture)

The conversation and culture module, beginning level, integrates language and culture starting with small pieces of Chilean movies, documentaries, TV shows, and short articles from local press to enhance the immersion program.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Beginner   Course Level: Lower Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Lower Division  

View Syllabus   

Gramática, Nivel Principiante (Beginning Spanish Grammar)

["This grammar course is designed to introduce students to the rules of the Spanish language and teach students how to communicate basic needs. Specific areas to be covered include: word order","indicative, subjunctive and imperative verbs","simple and compound tenses","the use of the subjunctive in simple sentences","use of ser and estar","commonly-used prepositions (of, with, por vs para)","simple, compound and complex sentences."]

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Beginner   Course Level: Lower Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Lower Division  

View Syllabus   

Human Rights in Latin America

This course will examine the evolution, approaches, and debates regarding Human Rights in Latin America during the 20th and 21st centuries, paying particular attention to the Chilean case. Students will focus on the interdisciplinary study of human rights as a concept, as a set of laws and institutions, and as a set of political and cultural practices.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Identity Issues in Contemporary Latin American History: An Intercultural approach

This course will work with a limited number of texts of primary as well as secondary nature that displays central problems in the identity traditions in the 20th century in Latin American thought. The modules will be based on different themes related to identity throughout contemporary Latin American History and each theme will be centered on the questions and the problems that have sparked its existence. Themes will include discussions on race, name, origin, authority as well as ideas on dependency and liberation.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Latino Studies

This course is designed to acquaint students with Hispanic American literary works. Students will explore the contemporary experience of Hispanic Americans through readings and how these works represent not only an intersection between cultures but also a culture in itself. The course will examine how issues of sex, race, class, and education have an impact on Latino(a) self-definition and community identity.

Language of Instruction: English   

Recommended US semester credits: 3  

View Syllabus   

Conversacion y Cultura Chilena, Nivel Intermedio (Intermediate Conversation and Chilean Culture)

The Conversation and Cultures module, intermediate level, integrates language and culture from diverse and various texts to enhance the total immersion program.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate   Course Level: Lower Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Lower Division  

View Syllabus   

Gramática, Nivel Intermedio (Intermediate Grammar)

This intermediate-level grammar course seeks to improve conversational skills and knowledge of grammar rules. Specific areas to be covered include: pronouns, interrogative pronouns, direct and indirect objects, the reflexive “se”, uses of ser and estar, the ‘preterite’ tense, subjunctive mood, value of time, adverbial clauses and prepositions.

NOTE: This course is offered during the "early start" session and, as such, is only offered to students enrolling in a Spring or Fall Early Start semester program.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Intermediate   Course Level: Lower Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Lower Division  

View Syllabus   

Cine y literature latinoamericanos (Latin American Film and Literature)

This course allows students to understand and problematize the idea of Latin America through literary and filmic texts produced in the region. Foreign students get informed about the multiple realities of Latin America and gain a different perspectic of the art, literary and cinematographic world we live in.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Conversacion y Cultura Chilena, Nivel Avanzado (Advanced Conversation and Chilean Culture)

The Conversation and Culture module, advanced level, integrates language and culture from various types of Chilean texts: Chilean films, documentaries, press articles, stories, short films.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Gramática, Nivel Avanzado (Advanced Grammar)

This course will help students to analyze more complex grammar rules and apply them in daily communication. Specific topics to be covered include: determinants, adjectives, pronouns, verbal phrases, auxiliary verbs (haber, ser, estar), the passive tense, composite forms, indicative vs subjective, and code-switching.

NOTE: This course is offered during the "early start" session and, as such, is only offered to students enrolling in a Spring or Fall Early Start semester program.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Historia sociopolítica de América Latina, siglos XX-XXI (Sociopolitical History of Latin America, 19th-20th Centuries)

This course uncovers the search for Latin America political stability from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty- first century. Students observe the system's relationship with the State as well as the individual.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea (Contemporary Hispanic American Literature)

This course is designed for visiting international students and seeks to explore the historical, social and cultural perspectives that influence contemporary Hispanic American literature by studying its principle characters, works and issues.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Español para Propósitos Específicos: Área Negocios (Spanish for Specific Purposes - Business)

This is a theoretical-practical course oriented specifically at the communication contexts as well as the topics and roles that characterize the institutional-labor framework of business in Valparaíso –Viña del Mar. The course will have an emphasis on the development of both oral and written comprehension, expression and interaction through formal and informal communicative activities with authentic texts related specifically to business.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Español para Propósitos Específicos: Área Salud (Spanish for Specific Purposes - Health)

This is a theoretical-practical course oriented specifically at the communication contexts as well as the topics and roles that characterize the institutional-labor framework of health. The course will have an emphasis on the development of both oral and written comprehension, expression and interaction through formal and informal communicative activities with authentic texts related specifically to health in Valparaíso –Viña del Mar.

Language of Instruction: Spanish    Language Level Required: Advanced   Course Level: Upper Division  

Recommended US semester credits: 3   Course Level: Upper Division  

View Syllabus   

Highlights
  • Classes taught in Spanish
Housing

Semester and summer students living in Valparaíso will live with local host families in either Valparaíso or nearby Viña del Mar. In Chile, API places one student per family, and all students have a private bedroom. Host families serve as a unique introduction to Chilean culture and may be made up of a retirement-age couple, a single woman with or without children, or a traditional two-parent household. Students are provided with two to three meals per day, as well as laundry service once per week. Generally, if a student is at the university during the family’s lunch hour, the host mother will prepare a light meal for the student to bring to the university or lunch is saved for the student and eaten later.

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