Latin American Studies

A contact hour at the Universidad de Belgrano is 45 minutes. A cover letter will accompany your transcript and will reflect the adjusted U.S. 50-minute contact hour and updated transfer credit recommendations. Please discuss credit transfer with your home university prior to departure.

The transcript from the Universidad de Belgrano will reflect contact hours for each course listed below. Please be in touch with your home university regarding credit transfer for this program.

If you've chosen to enroll in the Early Start session, you'll be participating in an intensive, month-long Spanish Language program prior to the start of your semester program. You'll need to select a Spanish level for this intensive month.

You can enroll in 4 courses during your semester program. Depending on your level of Spanish, this can be a mixture of Language Courses, PALAS courses, and PEAL courses. Be sure to check out the courses that offer the unique opportunity to study alongside local students.

Course level recommendations are based on the University of Belgrano course code system. Each code starts with four letters that denote the program to which the course pertains:

• PEAL (Programa de Estudios Argentinos y Latinoamericanos)

• PALAS (Program in Argentine and Latin American Studies)

The remainder of the course code is made up of three numbers. Courses coded 100-200 were designed as lower division undergraduate courses, and courses coded 300-400 were designed as upper division undergraduate courses. Course level recommendations are intended to facilitate the determination of course equivalencies by advisors and credential evaluators at participants' U.S. home institutions.

Should you need to request a syllabi, please contact us.

If you have not completed a college semester or quarter of Spanish or the equivalent, we recommend you take at least one language course during your program.