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The Institutional Center for Languages ​​and Translation (NILT/SINTER) promotes the course “Cultural texts in German: a translation practice”. Classes will take place between 7 and 17 March 2022. Students will be able to recognize cultural aspects in German language texts and understand how functionalist theory can help in the translation of these elements.

Registration is open until 6 March and there are 20 available seats. Participants must have knowledge of the German language for the translation tasks. The synchronous classes will be taught via Google Meet on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 7 pm to 8 pm, by Juliana de Abreu (who holds an undergraduate degree in German Language and Literature and a Master’s and a Doctoral degree in Translation Studies – PGET/UFSC).

On Monday, 7 March, participants will receive a welcome message by email with information about how the course will be organized.

Click here to register.

Should you have any questions, please contact NILT’s staff at cursonilt@gmail.com.

The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) offers the online English course “Written Production in English– Abstracts”. The course is aimed at faculty, staff and students at UFSC. Classes will take place remotely, via Moodle, and applications will be open from 7 to 14 February.

The goal of the course is to capacitate students to produce abstracts, identify the characteristics of the genre, and compare and contrast different types of abstracts. Intermediate knowledge of English – at B1, B2 or C1 level – is recommended.

Classes will take place from 17 February to 25 March. The course content will be available on Moodle for independent study. Evaluation activities will be carried out asynchronously and sent to the instructor’s e-mail on the following dates: 22 and 28 February, and 4, 9, 16 and 23 March.

The course totals 16 hours and there are 30 available seats. To apply, click here.

If you have any questions, please send them to victor.gobatti@posgrad.ufsc.br.

The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) offers the online Spanish course “Elaboration of a motivation letter for academic exchange/mobility”. Applications will be open from 8 February to 8 March and classes will take place from 9 March to 1 April. 

The course contains guidelines for the elaboration of a motivation letter in Spanish to apply for academic exchange programs. The course materials and activities will be in Spanish; therefore, reading proficiency in the language is a minimum prerequisite.

Classes will include the 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.

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The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) promotes the course “Ways and perspectives of studying in Italy – reading and understanding Calls for Application in Italian language – 2nd edition”. The initiative seeks to equip the academic community (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff) to understand Calls for Applications for scholarships in Italian educational institutions.

Given the offer of Italian government scholarships for undergraduate exchange, graduate research and cultural exchanges, it is intended that students, at the end of this course, will be able to: 1) easily locate Calls for Applications for Italian government scholarships; 2) understand the Italian higher education system; 3) know the main Italian proficiency tests; 4) recognize characteristics of a Call for Applications, in Italian; 5) autonomously fill in registration forms.

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The Office for International Relations (SINTER) announces the final results of the simplified selection process for scholarship holders of the Institutional Center of Languages and Translation (NILT) in accordance with CALL No. 19/2021/SINTER.

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Ways and perspectives for studying in Italy – reading and understanding Italian Calls for Applications in Italian language.

This extension course, which is part of an initiative of the Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER), seeks to equip the academic public (undergraduates, graduate students, administrative staff and professors) to understand scholarship Calls for Applications for Italian educational institutions.

Duration: from 23 November to 17 December 2021

Workload: 20 hours.

Synchronous meetings: on 30 November, 7 December and 14 December,  Tuesdays, from 10 am to 11:30 am.

The first week of activities will be asynchronous and the Moodle space will open on 23 November

Speakers: Cleide Giacomelli Borraz and Telmo Clos Ambrosini

Registration: from 10 to 21 November 2021.

Number of places: 30.

Criteria: order of entry, no language prerequisite.

Registration link: http://inscricoes.ufsc.br/leitura-e-compreendeo-de-editais

For more information, access the Teaching Program.

Contact and questions: daniela.bunn@ufsc.br

The Office for International Relations (SINTER) announces the preliminary results of the simplified selection process for scholarship holders of the Institutional Center of Languages and Translation (NILT) in accordance with CALL No. 19/2021/SINTER.

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