This international program provides students an opportunity to study at a major Chilean private university taking elective courses in most fields of study, while living in a colorful and historic seaport. This port city, just over an hour's drive from Santiago, is famous for its seafood, night life and warm people. Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda wrote about so emotively, creating images of the city's people , the sea smells, and the port's flowery mild climate.
Chile has four seasons, but at the opposite months of North America.
Obviously, applicants should be able to understand lectures in Spanish and have the ability to take notes and write. The program seeks not just Spanish majors, but encourages applicants from liberal arts majors as well as business. The academic program is designed to permit each student the greatest possible latitude to explore and to understand the complexities of Chilean society while also learning specific new material in course work. While the Southern Cone Programs will provide support through our Santiago office, the student will be more on his or her own than if studying in Santiago. ELA 300 requirements include assigned reading prior to departure, keeping a journal of your stay in Chile, writing on a series of structured assignments, and a final essay written to analyze your experience in Chile.