San José

Application Deadlines: See this page

Language Requirement: Open to all levels of Spanish. Classes available in English & Spanish.

Final Transcript: Issued by Universidad Veritas

HOW MANY COURSES CAN I TAKE?

Students take 4 or 5 courses per semester.

CREDITS

12-20 semester credits. Note! Some US institutions have a credit overload fee if you take over a certain number of credits. Discuss your credit load with your home institution and ask them if there will be a credit overload fee.

Courses worth 48 or 60 contact hours (3-4 credits or 4-6 quarter units).  15 contact hours = 1 semester credit / 10 contact hours = 1 quarter unit

Classes are taken with American and international students.

PLACEMENT TEST 

An online placement test is required before arrival to determine your Spanish level regardless of your previous coursework. The placement test consists of a multiple-choice exam and an online interview with a professor from Universidad Veritas.

The results of the multiple-choice exam will be available immediately after you finish the exam, although you will have the opportunity to demonstrate greater language skills during the interview with a professor, which will ultimate determine which courses in Spanish you can take.

Taking a Spanish Language class is optional but strongly recommended. 

MANDATORY ALTERNATE COURSES

You MUST have a total of 8 different courses approved by your home institution. This will give you back-ups in case of changes in course availability or schedule conflicts.

Course offerings are subject to change. A minimum number of enrollments must be met to open a course.

ART & HUMANITIES

Taught in English

Offered during Fall & Spring semesters, unless otherwise noted

ART 2100 Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
ART 2130 Mural Painting and Public Art 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
HUM 2100 Introduction to Video Creation 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
HUM 3150 Indigenous Ecology and Sustainability 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
HUM 3513 Costa Rica Colloquium: History and Culture 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
PHIL 3100 Philosophical Foundations in Ancient Civilizations 48 contact hours / 3 US credits SPRING ONLY
PHOT 2100 Ecological Photography 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
PHOT 2130 Cultural Photography 48 contact hours / 3 US credits

BUSINESS, MARKETING, ECONOMICS

Taught in English

Offered during Fall & Spring semesters, unless otherwise noted

ECON 1100 Introduction to Macro and Micro Economics 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ECON 3403 Introduction to International Economics in Latin America 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
ECON 3500 Introduction to Circular Economy 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
GEB 3000 Introduction to Project Management 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
GEB 3120 Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
GEB 3350 Introduction to International Business 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
GEB 3500 Ecotourism: The Costa Rica Case 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
MGMT 3020 Renewable Energy and Resource Management 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
MGMT 3030 Creative Leadership Skills 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
MKTG 3010 International Marketing Management 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
MKTG 3150 Sustainable Consumption & Production 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
SUSD 3160 Systems Thinking and Sustainability 48 contact hours / 3 US credits

COMMUNICATIONS

Taught in English

Offered during Fall & Spring semesters, unless otherwise noted

COMM 3070 Creative Conflict Resolution: a Multicultural, Gender Perspective 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
COMM 3100 Communication for Development & Social Leaders 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
COMM 3200 Intercultural Communication & Competency 48 contact hours / 3 US credits

SCIENCE, MATH & STATISTICS

Taught in English

Offered during Fall & Spring semesters, unless otherwise noted

BIO 1100 Principles of Biology 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 2500 Introduction to Genetics: Current Applications 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 2800 Permaculture for a Regenerative Culture 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 3005 Environmental Impact and Social Development 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 3020 Molecular Marine Biology 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 3044 Tropical Ecology 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 3100 Tropical Birds (Tropical Ornithology) 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 3120 Land Vertebrates of Costa Rica 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 3150 Tropical Botany: Useful Plants 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 3160 Conservation Biology of Endangered Marine Species 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 3170 Freshwater Ecology (Limnology) 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 3190 Tropical Marine Biology 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 3200 Marine Mammals of Costa Rica: Biology and Conservation 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 3210 Coral Reef Ecology and Conservation 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 3740 Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptations 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 4030 Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 4040 Sustainable Development and Environmental Awareness 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
ENV 4100 Biotechnology and Sustainability 60 contact hours / 4 US credits SPRING ONLY
MATH 1231 Foundations of Single-Variable Calculus 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
STAT 1151 Introduction to Statistical Reasoning & Data Analysis 48 contact hours / 3 US credits

PSYCHOLOGY & HEALTH

Taught in English

Offered during Fall & Spring semesters, unless otherwise noted

HHD 1020 Physical Therapy and Sports Rehabilitation 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
HHD 1050 Holistic Health Approaches 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
HHD 1070 Health and Nutrition: a Sustainability Approach 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
HHD 3070 Conflict Resolution and Health Care 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
HIS 3293 Costa Rican Health Care System and Tropical Medicine 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
PSY 2200 Health and Psychology 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
PSY 3050 Cultural Psychology 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
HDD 3000 Dimensions of Healthy Living 60 contact hours / 4 US credits

HISTORY, RELIGION, GENDER STUDIES

Taught in English

Offered during Fall & Spring semesters, unless otherwise noted

ETH 3100 Selected Topics in Afro-Caribbean Studies 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
HIS 2302 Contemporary Latin American History 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
HIS 3130 Green Legacies: Ecology in Ancient Civilizations 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
HIS 3290 Latin American Human Development: Health, Education & Economy 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
SOCY 3050 LGBTQ Diversity and Sexual Identity in Latin America 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
SUSD 3100 Gender and Sustainability 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
THEO 3150 Major Word Religions 48 contact hours / 3 US credits

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Taught in English

Offered during Fall & Spring semesters, unless otherwise noted

POL 2500 Human Rights in Latin America 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
POL 3100 Costa Rican Tradition: Peace and Democracy 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
POL 3220 Migration, Globalization and Social Change 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
POL 3420 Costa Rica Environmental Policy 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
POL 3450 International Relations in Latin America 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
POL 3250 Global Systems for Human Rights Protection 48 contact hours / 3 US credits

LITERATURE

Taught in Spanish

Offered during Fall & Spring semesters, unless otherwise noted

SPN 3000 Introduction to Literary Analysis 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
SPN 3020 Selected Readings in Latin American Literature 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
SPN 3050 Phonetics and Phonology 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
SPN 3070 Introduction to Translation 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
SPN 3420 The Central American Story 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
SPN 3520 Latin American Dialect 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
SPN 3550 Poetic Journey through Latin America in the Twentieth Century: Reading and Writing Poems 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
SPN 4110 Contemporary Costa Rican Female Writers 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
SPN 4330 Selected Topics in Spanish Literature 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
SPN 4390 Latin American Literature in Film 48 contact hours / 3 US credits

SPANISH LANGUAGE

Taught in Spanish

Offered during Fall & Spring semesters, unless otherwise noted.

Spanish Language courses listed below are offered throughout the year in 4-week modules

SPN 304 Spanish for Business 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
SPN 101 Spanish Basic I 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
SPN 102 Spanish Basic II 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
SPN 201 Spanish Intermediate I 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
SPN 202 Spanish Intermediate II 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
SPN 210 Intermediate Conversational Spanish 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
SPN 301 Spanish Advanced I 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
SPN 302 Spanish Advanced II 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
SPN 310 Advanced Conversational Spanish 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
SPN 320 Cultural Heritage in Latin America 60 contact hours / 4 US credits SPRING ONLY 
SPN 340 Speaking Techniques 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
SPN 410 Advanced Writing 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
SSP 141 Basic Spanish for Health Professionals 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
SSP 241 Intermediate Spanish for Health Professionals 60 contact hours / 4 US credits
SSP 341 Advanced Spanish for Health Professionals 60 contact hours / 4 US credits

Contact us for detailed syllabi!

Application Deadlines: See this page

Language Requirement: Open to all levels of Spanish. Classes available in English & Spanish.

Final Transcript: Issued by Universidad Veritas

HOW MANY COURSES CAN I TAKE?

Students can take 1 or 2 courses per Summer session. Cost varies by number of courses taken. 

CREDITS

1 course: 3-4 semester credits (1 Spanish language course or 1 elective)

2 courses: 6-8 semester credits (2 electives, or 1 Spanish language course +1 elective)

Courses are worth 48 or 60 contact hours (3-4 semester credits or 4-6 quarter units). 15 contact hours = 1 semester credit / 10 contact hours = 1 quarter unit

Classes taken with American and international students.

PLACEMENT TEST 

If you pan to take Spanish language or electives taught in Spanish, an online placement test is required before arrival to determine your Spanish level regardless of your previous coursework. The placement test consists of a multiple-choice exam and an online interview with a professor from Universidad Veritas.

The results of the multiple-choice exam will be available immediately after you finish the exam, although you will have the opportunity to demonstrate greater language skills during the interview with a professor, which will ultimate determine which courses in Spanish you can take.

Taking a Spanish Language class is optional but strongly recommended. 

MANDATORY ALTERNATE COURSES

You MUST have DOUBLE the number of courses approved by your home institution than you plan to take. This will give you back-ups in case of changes in course availability or schedule conflicts.

Course offerings are subject to change.  A minimum number of enrollments must be met to open a course.

ART & HUMANITIES

Taught in English

ART 2130 Mural Painting and Public Art 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 ONLY
HUM 2100 Introduction to Video Creation 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
HUM 3150 Indigenous Ecology and Sustainability 60 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
HUM 3513 Costa Rica Colloquium: History and Culture 48 contact hours / 3 US credits -  SUMMER 2 ONLY
PHIL 3100 Philosophical Foundations in Ancient Civilizations 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
PHOT 2100 Ecological Photography 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
PHOT 2130 Cultural Photography 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 ONLY

BUSINESS, MARKETING, ECONOMICS

Taught in English

ECON 1100 Introduction to Macro and Micro Economics 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 ONLY
ECON 3403 Introduction to International Economics in Latin America 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
ECON 3500 Introduction to Circular Economy 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
GEB 3000 Introduction to Project Management 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 ONLY
GEB 3500 Ecotourism: The Costa Rica Case 60 contact hours / 4 US credits -  SUMMER 1 ONLY
MGMT 3020 Renewable Energy and Resource Management 60 contact hours / 4 US credits -  SUMMER 2 ONLY
MGMT 3030 Creative Leadership Skills 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 ONLY
MKTG 3010 International Marketing Management 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
MKTG 3150 Sustainable Consumption & Production 48 contact hours / 3 US credits -  SUMMER 2 ONLY
SUSD 3160 Systems Thinking and Sustainability 48 contact hours / 3 US credits-  SUMMER 2 ONLY

COMMUNICATIONS

Taught in English

COMM 3100 Communication for Development & Social Leaders 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
COMM 3200 Intercultural Communication & Competency 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2

SCIENCE, MATH & STATISTICS

Taught in English

ENV 3005 Environmental Impact and Social Development 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
ENV 3044 Tropical Ecology 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
ENV 3100 Tropical Birds (Tropical Ornithology) 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
ENV 3120 Land Vertebrates of Costa Rica 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
ENV 3150 Tropical Botany: Useful Plants 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
ENV 3160 Conservation Biology of Endangered Marine Species 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
ENV 3170 Freshwater Ecology (Limnology) 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
ENV 3190 Tropical Marine Biology 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
ENV 3200 Marine Mammals of Costa Rica: Biology and Conservation 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
ENV 3210 Coral Reef Ecology and Conservation 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
ENV 3740 Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptations 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
ENV 4030 Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
ENV 4040 Sustainable Development and Environmental Awareness 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
ENV 4100 Biotechnology and Sustainability 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2

PSYCHOLOGY & HEALTH

Taught in English

HHD 1020 Physical Therapy and Sports Rehabilitation 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
HHD 1050 Holistic Health Approaches 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 ONLY
HHD 1070 Health and Nutrition: a Sustainability Approach 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 ONLY
HHD 3070 Conflict Resolution and Health Care 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 ONLY
HIS 3293 Costa Rican Health Care System and Tropical Medicine 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
PSY 2200 Health Psychology 48 contact hours / 3 US credits- SUMMER 1 ONLY
PSY 3050 Cultural Psychology 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY

HISTORY, RELIGION, GENDER STUDIES

Taught in English

ETH 3100 Selected Topics in Afro-Caribbean Studies 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 ONLY
HIS 2302 Contemporary Latin American History 48 contact hours / 3 US credits -SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SOCY 3050 LGBTQ Diversity and Sexual Identity in Latin America 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
SUSD 3100 Gender and Sustainability 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
THEO 3150 Major Word Religions 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 ONLY

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Taught in English

POL 2500 Human Rights in Latin America 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
POL 3220 Migration, Globalization and Social Change 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
POL 3420 Costa Rica Environmental Policy 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
POL 3450 International Relations in Latin America 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 2 ONLY
POL 3250 Global Systems for Human Rights Protection 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2

LITERATURE

Taught in Spanish

SPN 3000 Introduction to Literary Analysis 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 3020 Selected Readings in Latin American Literature 48 contact hours / 3 US credits- SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 3050 Phonetics and Phonology 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 3070 Introduction to Translation 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 3420 The Centro American Story 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 3520 Latin American Dialect 48 contact hours / 3 US credits- SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 3550 Poetic Journey through Latin America in the Twentieth Century: Reading and Writing Poems 48 contact hours / 3 US credits
SPN 4110 Contemporary Costa Rican Female Writers 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER  1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 4330 Selected Topics in Spanish Literature 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 4390 Latin American Literature in Film 48 contact hours / 3 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2

SPANISH LANGUAGE

Taught in Spanish

SPN 304 Spanish for Business 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 101 Spanish Basic I 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 102 Spanish Basic II 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 201 Spanish Intermediate I 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 202 Spanish Intermediate II 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 210 Intermediate Conversational Spanish 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 ONLY
SPN 301 Spanish Advanced I 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 302 Spanish Advanced II 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 ONLY
SPN 310 Advanced Conversational Spanish 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 320 Cultural Heritage in Latin America 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 ONLY 
SPN 340 Speaking Techniques 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SPN 410 Advanced Writing 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SSP 141 Basic Spanish for Health Professionals 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SSP 241 Intermediate Spanish for Health Professionals 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2
SSP 341 Advanced Spanish for Health Professionals 60 contact hours / 4 US credits - SUMMER 1 & SUMMER 2

Contact us for detailed syllabi!