Catalogue of Courses offered in Foreign Languages
The offer of courses taught in English is one of the essential actions for the strengthening of internationalization at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Considering the need to attract international students from leading universities, as well as to offer UFSC students the possibility of cultural interaction with people from different countries and the improvement on the knowledge of a second language, the Office of International Relations (SINTER) developed the Catalogue of Courses offered in Foreign Languages for undergraduate and graduate students at UFSC.
The first edition of the Course Catalogue was published in the second semester of 2018 on SINTER’s website, containing 3 undergraduate courses and 31 graduate courses offered in the Florianópolis campus during the years of 2018 and 2019. The second edition was published in the beginning of the first semester of 2020, containing 12 undergraduate courses and 60 graduate courses offered in the Florianópolis and Joinville campuses during the years of 2020 and 2021. The courses were offered either in English or Spanish.
The first catalogue was a successful pilot project, in which proposals of undergraduate and graduate courses were submitted after consulting with faculty members and their respective programs. With the proposals gathered, the translation staff at SINTER assisted at the translation of the course descriptions, and UFSC Communication Agency (AGECOM) was responsible for the layout.
Based on lessons learned from the pilot project, SINTER prepared the second edition with important improvements such as increasing the number of courses offered, the inclusion of courses outside Florianópolis campus and the classification of the courses into: i) specific courses of a knowledge area and ii) general courses with interdisciplinary proposals.
The Catalogue of Courses offered in Foreign Languages is currently undergoing restructuring due to the pandemic and soon we will publish a new edition, containing new information such as the addition of virtual courses. Stay tuned!
