Each course is 90 contact hours

Intermediate I (equivalent to Intermediate I & II)

Intermediate II (equivalent to Advanced I & II)

Advanced (equivalent to Superior I & II)

Each course is 45 contact hours

Beginner I Beginner II

Intermediate I Intermediate II

Advanced I Advanced II

Superior I Superior II

NOTE: If the UB  does not have enough students enrolled to offer the courses listed below you will be enrolled in Latin American Civilization & Culture I & II at the Academia Buenos Aires and earn an ESEADE Transcript.

Electives taught in Spanish:
Prerequisite: Intermediate Spanish II

• Latin American Civilization & Culture

• Argentine Literature

Summer I: Prerequisite: Intermediate Spanish II

• Hispanic Literatures: Possible crossovers with Latin America

• Latin American History

• Spanish Language (Advanced I, Advanced II, Superior I, Superior II)

Summer II: Prerequisite: Advanced Spanish I

• Latin American Civilization & Culture I & II

• Spanish for the Health Professions (MED SPAN 555)

  • Specifically designed for premedical students and health professionals, this course aims to improve physician-patient interactions with Spanish-speaking patients. The syllabus includes grammatical constructions, specific vocabulary, and cultural topics needed to improve Spanish skills within the field of health. The combination of the experience at the hospital and class instruction will allow students to overcome the language barrier, acquiring Spanish rapidly and increasing cultural competency. The course meets Monday through Thursday in the afternoons for a total 60 contact hours.

• Health Internship (MED SPAN 556)

  • The purpose of this course is to provide students with the clinical experience needed to consider pursuing a career in medicine while learning about the medical healthcare system in Argentina. Shadowing a doctor is a great opportunity to have an inside look at hospital life, as it will expose students to a range of specialties, developing professional skills. The clinical practicum is framed within a larger course, which aims to promote reflection, including debate sessions, research projects, oral presentations, and visits to health institutions. Students will be assigned to specific medical areas, e.g. Internal Medicine, Intensive Care Unit, and Neurology, depending on the hospital’s vacancies, and they will also benefit from the calendar of events at the hospital, including Medical Rounds. The course is for 60 contact hours, which are the sum of clinical rotation hours at the hospital and class time at the University of Belgrano.

All students take the Healthcare in Latin America course (45 contact hours) and a Medical Spanish Class (Intermediate or Advanced). Transcripted by ESEADE University (administered by Academia Buenos Aires). 

Social Media Workshop  ($1,995)

This 2-week Spanish Media 60-hour for credit workshop combines in-class instruction with a hands-on production workshop. It is ideal for anyone wanting to experience Buenos Aires’ urban culture in depth and create a visual travel journal. Students who have taken semester or intensive courses may wish to add this workshop in order to extend their stay and go for a fun experiential learning project with an academic purpose. 

Students will gain first-hand experience of culture related with immigration and national identity; race, class, gender, and economic inequality; politics, graffiti art and popular culture; urban and environmental planning. The workshop will use the urban experience to enhance students’ awareness, responsiveness and communication skills by grounding formal education in “real world” experiences. Using the language of social media, mainly film, photography and podcast, as a lens to explore and interpret various aspects of experience in Buenos Aires, this workshop will guide students through a series of short daily assignments that they will build into a dossier of different visual and audio exercises. The routine of posting a short paragraph every day in response to a prompt will help students become more fluent in Spanish and sharper observers. Real engagement with the environment entails noticing things that are not pretty but will definitely influence our perception of the city. Students will cooperate with classmates in making a creative film about Buenos Aires and giving peer feedback on other students’ projects. The 10-minute documentary will be shot and edited with the students’ own smartphones or tablets. 

At the end of the course, students will screen their work and engage in critiques and discussion with their classmates and instructor. The course requires the active participation of all students. Significant production and post-production hours outside of class time are necessary, and students are expected to walk around the city and interview people in order to complete the assignments. The purpose of this workshop is to use the “innocent” eye of students to unveil lesser known features of Buenos Aires through their own lived experiences and those of the local urban dwellers. Putting these experiences into Spanish will help students appreciate cities from a new perspective, promoting cultural understanding during these key formative years.

Each Healthcare & Medical Spanish session at Academia Buenos Aires has the option to add on two more weeks of Medical Shadowing (30 hours) or Spanish (45 hours).

Spanish classes to choose from: Advanced I Advanced II