The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT) offers the course “La carta de motivación en Español” [The motivation letter in Spanish]. The aim is to guide participants on how to prepare a motivation letter in Spanish to apply for academic mobility programs. The course will cover the following topics: analysis and identification of the parts of a motivation letter; formality and informality; forms of address; greeting and farewell formulas in Spanish; selection and organization of information relevant to the letter; lexicon and appropriate contents.

• Course type: online, through Moodle Groups.

• Period: from 14 September to 7 October.

• Time: synchronous classes will take place on Wednesdays, from 3 to 5 pm, and the asynchronous activities on Fridays.

• Registrations: from 24 August to 12 September, through the link http://inscricoes.ufsc.br/carta-motivacao-espanhol-nilt.

• Note: materials, classes and activities will be in Spanish. Thus, the participants must have reading and writing proficiency in Spanish.

• If you have any questions, please contact espanhol.nilt@gmail.com.

Welcome to the French Conversation Group! If you are interested in news related to the francophone world and its different cultural aspects, this discussion group is for you. In weekly meetings, we will discuss and work together on several themes associated with the francophone culture. Thus, you will be able to practice your French while learning how to structure your arguments during a debate. The meeting will be in table ronde [round table] format, in which everyone will have to defend their arguments to strengthen their critical thinking and train their debating skills in French.

Course objective: This course aims at engaging the students, offering them the possibility of giving their opinions in French about subjects pre-defined by the teacher or by the participating students.

DATES: every THURSDAY from 10 to 11:30 pm. The meetings will be held in-person,  in the Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT), Rectorate Building II (Av. Desembargador Vitor Lima, no. 222)

Start date: 5 September 2022.

Register here until 2 September.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) held a Welcome Session, on 22 August, for international students arriving at UFSC for the second semester of 2022. The session took place at the Rectorate Building Auditorium, on the Trindade Campus, in Florianópolis. The event aimed to broaden the reception to the entire international student community at UFSC. Thus, in addition to the exchange students, the event was also targeted at all degree-seeking international students on campus.

From left to right: Prof. Dilceane Carraro, Prof. Irineu Manoel de Souza, Prof. Joana Célia dos Passos and Fernanda Leal.

UFSC community gathered at the Rectorate Building Auditorium to welcome international students.

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What is francophony? How far does the French language go? What are the different university models? These are the issues we will try to tackle in this course, establishing our first contact with this multi-faceted culture.

The classes are targeted at students, faculty members and administrative staff interested in undertaking mobility in one of the French-speaking countries. The aim of the course is for participants to broaden their knowledge of the French language and become familiar with the francophone university education system. Registrations are open until 2 September 2022.

Level required: B1

Total hours: 8 hours

Two groups will be offered:

• Morning period: Mondays and Tuesdays, from 10 am to 11:30 am. Classes on 5, 6, 12 and 13 September. Register here.
• Afternoon period: Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 2 pm to 3:30 pm. Classes on 7, 8, 14 and 15 September. Register here.

Course description by Prof. Clarissa Oliveira: Ce module se déroulera en deux temps. Pour commencer une partie plus culturelle, où je vous présenterais la francophonie en général, pour ensuite me concentrer sur les spécificités reliées à la Belgique, le Canada et la France. Évoquer les stéréotypes reliés à ces pays, pour pouvoir à terme en faire une description la plus authentique possible. La deuxième partie du module, dans la continuité de la présentation de la Francophonie, va être concentré sur la présentation des différents modèles universitaires francophone. Nous nous concentrerons plus spécifiquement sur le système universitaire Belge, Français et Canadien, qui sont les plus demandés par les étudiants étrangers.

The Director of International Relations at UFSC, Fernanda Leal, is one of the collaborators of the book “Decolonizing the Internationalization of Higher Education in the Global South: Applying Principles of Critical Applied Linguistics to Processes of Internationalization”, accepted for publication by Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. The book, which is organized by Kleber Silva (UnB) and Lauro Pereira (UnB), will be part of the Routledge Research in Decolonizing Education series. The chapter signed by the director is entitled “Confronting colonial imaginaries: The limits of the Eurocentric critique to internationalization of higher education and the possibilities of decolonial inflection” and presents a decolonial perspective for the study of internationalization of higher education.

On Monday, 22 August 2022, SINTER´s Office will be closed between 2 and 4 p.m. due to the International Students Welcome Session  – 2022.2.

The Welcome Session will be held at the Rectorate Building Auditorium, Trindade Campus, Florianópolis. To learn more about the event, click here.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER), through the Translation Service, launched the Pilot Project for the translation of academic documents of undergraduate students applying for the International Exchange Program, Call for Applications no. 2/2022/SINTER, in the second semester of 2022.

The initiative meets the proposal of internationalization at UFSC, presented in the 2020-2024 Institutional Development Plan (PDI), and aims at attending part of the institution’s demand for the translation of academic documents.

Initially, the Pilot Project will assist undergraduate students that will undertake academic mobility through the International Exchange Program (Outgoing). The Translation Service will translate into English the Certificate of Enrollment and  the Summary Undergraduate Transcript of Records (issued by CAGR), which are the documents frequently requested by foreign institutions. Later one, the idea is to expand the proposal as well as the public that will be assisted by the project.

To have the documents translated, the students must send the updated documents, in Portuguese, along with the proof of application provided by UFSC’s online application system, to the e-mail traducao.sinter@contato.ufsc.br. The Translation Service will send the translated documents back to the students within 5 working days.