campus queretaro - Tecnológico de Monterrey

STUDY IN MEXICO |CAMPUS QUERETARO
CAMPUS QUERETARO
[email protected]
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GENERALITIES OF THE PROGRAM
LOCATION............................................................................ ITESM, Campus Queretaro
LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION........................................................ Undergraduate
DURATION OF THE PROGRAM............................................. 4 weeks
DATES................................................................................... July 3rd to July 31st
MINIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS............................... 15 students
HOUSING............................................................................. Host Family Program
PROGRAM CALENDAR
ACTIVITY
DATE
Official Arrival Day
July 3rd, Sunday
Orientation and Welcome Party
July 4th, Monday
First Day of Classes
July 5th, Tuesday
Last day of Classes
July 29th, Friday
Final exams and Closing Ceremony
July 29th, Friday
Official Departure Day
July 31st, Sunday
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COURSE OPTIONS
COURSE*
US CREDITS
LECTIVE HOURS
Spanish I
3
45
Spanish II
3
45
Spanish III
3
45
Doing Business in Mexico
3
45
Mexican Culture
3
45
Literature, Cinema and Culture
3
45
* Course content may be provided upon request.
ACADEMIC TRIP
DESTINATION
ABOUT THE CITY
DURATION
Teotihuacan
Discover the history behind one of the world’s most
intriguing and ancient cultures, while living the spiritual
experience around the pyramids and enjoying at the
end of the tour a delicious buffet meal and an amazing
pool party.
1 day
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PROGRAM COSTS
The program fee includes:
• Tuition: 3 or 6 credits.
• On-line Spanish placement test (one per student).
• Academic Trip to Teotihuacan.
• Airport transfer on the official arrival day (one shuttle).
• Airport transfer on the official departure day (one shuttle).
• Welcome Pool Party.
• Closing Ceremony.
• Orientation Session, Monday July 4th.
• Student ID Card.
• Welcome kit.
• Housing arrangements in the Host Family Program (4 weeks).
• Salsa classes and all the cultural and sport classes (available in July).
• Access to all university facilities (gym, swimming pool, computer labs, library, sports
center, etc).
• Weekly activities organized during the summer.
• Student advisors (Primos Program).
• Free Legal Advising upon demand.
• One social visit of the NGO “Niños y Niñas de México”.
• Summer t-shirt.
• Official group picture.
• USB with the summer memories.
• Free WIFI in the campus area.
• Use of one classroom for a maximum of 3 hours per day, for a Cal Poly professor to
instruct one course in site.
The program fee does not include:
• Health insurance.
• Local Transportation.
• Other trips organized (Ixtapa, Guanajuato, Huasteca, etc.) by the International
Programs Office.
• Personal expenses.
• Meals not specified in this document.
• Any other incidental costs.
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HOUSING
Tecnologico de Monterrey – Campus Queretaro offers the opportunity to live with a host
family. The students would be able to experience the Mexican culture, improve their
Spanish and enjoy Mexican life from a closer perspective.
The fee for living with a host family includes:
• Three meals per day
• Individual Bedroom
• Internet access
• Laundry facilities
• Cleaning two days per week
HEALTH INSURANCE
It is the responsibility of the contracting university to make sure that all of their students are
well covered while in Mexico. Students are requested to provide a copy of their insurance
policy to the international office upon arrival.
ORIENTATION SESSION
The International Programs Office offers important information about Queretaro City, safety
and security, academic information, getting around Queretaro, cultural information,
student life, campus services, etc., to help the students with rapid adaptation to life,
culture and studying in Mexico.
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PROGRAM´S GENERAL COSTS
FEE PAYING STUDENTS
Students (including 3 credits)
$1,850 USD
Students (including 6 credits)
$2,850 USD
Professors$ 750 USD
PARTNER UNIVERSITIES can get a tuition waiver in a 3 summer to one semester exchange
student basis.
Students (including 3 credits)
$ 850 USD
Students (including 6 credits)
$ 850 USD
Professors$ 750 USD
PAYMENT
Deposit payable to:
ITESM
Wells Fargo Bank N.A
Attn: Int’l Business Banking
1100 Matamoros St.
Laredo, TX 78040-5005
78040-5005
Account: 2985-50094-7
Abba # 121-000-248
Send confirmation of the payment (including the date deposited) by fax to 011 52 (442)
238-3374 or e-mail [email protected]
FINAL AGENDA
Final Agenda will be agreed upon once the group is confirmed.
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HI1004 BASIC SPANISH I
Course objective: Towards the end of this Basic Spanish course students must understand
terms of reference and habitual expressions on topics of personal interest, interact
adequately in communicative contexts that need a simple and direct exchange of
information, write notes and brief and simple messages relative to his immediate needs,
know and to value positively the culture of the Spanish-speaking peoples.
HI1005 BASIC SPANISH II
Course objective: Towards the end of this Basic Spanish course students must have reviewed
language registers, the Spanish alphabet, orthography, punctuation and accent marks,
Enunciation fundamentals, regular verb tenses and moods and their enunciate quality.
Enunciative functions.
HI2015 INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I
Course objective: Towards the end of the course, students would have reviewed and
must be able to use at a low intermediate level; question words, noun gender and
number, agreement and position of adjectives, comparisons, verb moods and tenses,
reflexive verbs, verbs like “gustar”, complement pronouns, uses of “se”, “ser” and “estar”,
imperative, prepositions, vocabulary related to student life, hobbies, trips, traditions and
environment.
HI2016 INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II
Course objective: Towards the end of the course, students would have reviewed and
must be able to use at a high intermediate level; Noun gender and number, agreement
and position of adjectives, comparisons, verb moods and tenses, complement pronouns,
prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, verbal periphrasis, vocabulary related to social life,
family and work, health, the city, politics, government, hobbies and traditions.
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HI3010 ADVANCED SPANISH I
Course objective: Towards the end of the course, students would have reviewed and
must be able to communicate in an advanced level of Spanish enunciation system. They
mus understand and use indicative and subjunctive tenses, Object pronouns, value and
use of infinitive, gerund and participle. Students must produce reflexive constructions,
using indefinite pronouns and adverbs. Use correctly prepositions and connecting word,
articles, adjectives and adverbs, orthography and accent marks. Understand and use
expressions for interacting, idioms, proverbs and riddles. Articulation of Spanish sounds.
HI3011 ADVANCED SPANISH II
Course objective: Towards the end of the course, students would have reviewed and
must be able to communicate in Spanish, being able to express ideas correctly, give
opinions and argument in Spanish using elaborated elements and discursive resources.
Students should also be able to understand the complexity of Spanish speaking countries
cultural elements.
NI2006 DOING BUSINESS IN MEXICO
Course objective: Towards the end of this intermediate level course, students would have
reviewed:
•General aspects of the history and political environment of Mexico: from the
formative period to present time.
•The study of cultural patterns and business protocol and a general review of Mexican
economy in the 70s and 80s; under presidents Salinas, Zedillo and Fox is included.
•General principles under Federal Labor Law, Mexican labor unions. Management
styles, working behavior and attitudes. Foreign companies and foreign investment in
Mexico.
•The maquiladoras industry. Infrastructure in communications and transportation.
Mexico’s trade agreements.
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H1011 INTRODUCTION TO MEXICAN CULTURE
Course objective: Towards the end of this intermediate level course, students would have
a general view of the Mexican roots: science, philosophy and art in the pre-Hispanic
world, the conquest culture shock, the Evangelism and the Knights during the colonial
period. A general historical review of the periods from Independence to the Revolution,
from the Revolution to the party dictatorship, the cultural syncretism in Mexico. They would
also have a theoretical approach to Mexican psychology and an overview of the Sixth
Sun: the awakening of consciousness in the XXI Century Mexico.
H1037 LITERATURE, CINEMA AND CULTURE
Course objective: This is a Humanities and Citizenship course where students acquire
basic knowledge for the analysis, interpretation and appreciation for cinematographic
and literature work as a mean to approach more sophisticated cultural dilemmas and it
effect in the human condition. It is a cross-curricular course where students do not require
prior cinema specialized knowledge.
HI3010 ADVANCED SPANISH I
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