Organized by the School of Business at PUC-Rio, this part of the program takes place four afternoons a week on the PUC campus. It incorporates visits to local companies in the financial, industrial and service sectors and social responsibility projects sponsored by the private sector. Five mornings a week, students study Portuguese with other students in the UF summer language program at IBEU in Copacabana. Portuguese is offered at the beginning, intermediate and advance levels in small, intensive classes taught by native-speaking, professionally trained IBEU instructors. This arrangement guarantees immersion in the language and culture of Brazil.
Host families provide breakfast and dinner.
The program is designed for students who have had one year of graduate-level business training, or the equivalent, but is open to advanced undergraduates with outstanding academic records and plans to do graduate work in a business. Faculty may participate on a non-credit basis. Prior Latin American coursework or knowledge is useful but not required.