What Are Classes Like At Veritas University?

By Kelsi Brooks on February 12, 2014
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Classes at Veritas University

An Intensive Spanish course at eight in the morning sounds like a drag, but I promise you that you will learn more in that month than in any other classroom setting. These Spanish courses are intense, intensive, attention grabbing, and intentional about making you learn more about the Tico culture and about Central and Latin America as a whole.

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The best way that you can be ready for these courses: bring a huge pad and paper and be ready to talk.  Your professor loves it when you give your input, and might even give you participation points for expressing your viewpoints about the Tico culture (or your adaption to a different culture in general).

The best part about learning Spanish at Veritas University is that you can practice outside of class. There are literally Spanish-speakers all around you when you walk out of your classroom–students from neighboring Central American countries, like Nicaragua and Honduras, learning about art and design.

Costa Rican universities give most courses in Spanish, though individual classes in English are available. Several private universities offer entire majors in English. Those include the Universidad de Iberoamerica (UNIBE) that specializes in medicine; the Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnologia (ULACIT), which offers baccalaureate through doctorate degrees in many subjects; and the Universidad Veritas, a national leader in architecture and design.  (See more here.)

The atmosphere at Veritas University makes for an overall great studying abroad experience. Professors are open to questions outside of the classroom setting, and appreciate you going the extra mile and asking questions to your family while at your home stay.

Certain things you can only learn by doing, and conversing with your host family may be one of the only ways that you get to ask about cultural practices on a daily basis. Your Spanish professor might even give you insight into how your family operates and why they do certain things during their daily routine–things that you would not pick up on if you were not aware of the Tico cultural norms.

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Elective courses at Veritas University follow a different criteria. Your class might not start until one in the afternoon, and your professor might even be American or European. Your course topics can range from Biology and ethics, to dance and photography. Depending on the course, English is spoken in the classroom, and the size of the class is usually under twenty persons.

 

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