Semester at Universidad Veritas

Credits earned vary according to the policies of your home institution. Our enrollment policy and possible visa implications require you to maintain full-time enrollment status, as determined by your home institution, during your program.

The transcript from Universidad Veritas will reflect contact hours for each course listed below. Please be in touch with your U.S. university regarding credit transfer.

Students on a Semester + Community Engagement program have the option to receive 1 additional credit from our School of Record, the University of South Florida (USF). Students will receive a letter grade and transcripts will be sent to their home university 2–3 months after the program ends.

Early Start

In January you will take an intensive 60-hour Spanish language course, followed by your regular semester of coursework.

Semester

You'll enroll in four courses at the Universidad Veritas. All 60-hour Spanish courses will be held in the mornings, whereas the 60 and 48 hour electives will be held in the afternoons. You can have one of the following schedules:

• Three 60-hour modular courses and one elective

• Two 60-hour modular courses and two electives

• One 60-hour modular course and three electives

• Four electives during this program

+ Community Engagement

All students participating in a community engagement program will be enrolled in our community-engaged learning course. This online course will provide you with a framework to reflect on your experience, learn about social issues affecting your host community, and demonstrate your professional and cultural competencies achieved during your time abroad.

If you have not completed a college semester or quarter of Spanish or the equivalent, we strongly recommend you to choose a Spanish module as one of your courses. Please note that we cannot guarantee course placement and availability. For this reason, we ask all students to consider alternate courses in the event that their preferred courses are not available.

We offer course level recommendations for the courses listed below. Please note that the course level recommendations are solely based on the host university's input but are not necessarily representative of course levels at your home university. These recommendations are intended to facilitate the determination of course equivalencies by advisers and credential evaluators at participants' U.S. home institutions.

At Veritas University, course codes are composed of two parts: an alpha code indicating the discipline or field of study and a numeric code that indicates the type of course and level.

• The first number indicates the level or degree of complexity of ongoing research.

  • Courses that start with a 1 are introductory courses or beginner level language acquisition courses.

  • Courses that start with a 2 are courses that require more hours of independent study and are intermediate level language acquisition courses.

  • Courses that start with a 3 are courses that require research and presentations, have field trips or visits requiring reports, and are advanced level language acquisition courses.

  • Courses that start with a 4 have a very similar level to level 3 courses, but usually are "specialty areas" within a discipline.

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All students enrolling in a language course above the Beginner level must take a Spanish language placement exam prior to departure. The exam will indicate each student's language proficiency level and determine the courses in which the student is eligible to enroll.

60-hour Spanish Language courses: These are 4-week long, intensive modular courses and are completed sequentially. You can enroll in up to three 60-hour courses.

60-hour elective courses: These courses are offered by the university and may include a field study component at no extra cost to the student. Because of the schedule of these field trips, you'll likely only able to enroll in one or two such courses per program. These 60-hour electives run throughout the duration of the trimester. Offered in English and Spanish.

48-hour elective courses: These courses run for the duration of the semester. Offered in English and Spanish.