FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE PROGRAM
FUNDED IN PART BY FIPSE
THE FUND FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF
POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
Study in Brazil
Fairfield
University, in
coordination with the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
(FIPSE) of the U.S. Department of Education, is now offering a study abroad
opportunity in Brazil! Fairfield
has recently entered a consortium of universities including Universidade do
Amazonas in Amazonas, Brazil and Universidade Estadual do
Norte Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Fairfield
students are now eligible to study at our partner institutions, participate in
all university-sponsored events and benefit from the expertise of well
recognized faculty abroad.
Fairfield
University is also
pleased to welcome a number of students and faculty from Brazil.
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Above are Dr. Dina Franceschi (Fairfield U.),
a Co-Principal Investigator of the FIPSE grant, and Camila, one of our first exchange
students from Brazil. Camila was also our first Assistant
Teacher for Portuguese. Here she
is taking a moment’s pause from keeping in touch with friends in Brazil thru e-mail programs in the Culpeper Language Resource
Center (the “LARC”).
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Andre Santana, from Universidade Federal do Amazonas in Manaus, was also an
exchange student, 2002-2003. Like Camila, he was an inspiration to the
American students interested in going to Brazil. On the right is Mark Maestranzi ’03.
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Experience the unique
environment and culture
The curriculum at both of our partner institutions will
introduce our students to the distinctive Brazilian environment, energetic
culture and vibrant lifestyle. Much of
the coursework is accompanied by supporting experiences through faculty led
field trips, internships, travel and independent study. Each student will have the opportunity to
explore the Amazon forest, Amazon river region
and the beautiful Brazilian coasts through visits with each host
institution. Students participating in
the program will study one full semester at a Brazilian partner institution and
receive Fairfield
credit for their course work. A variety
of courses are offered at each university and could possibly count for credit
toward a student’s major, minor or core curriculum requirements.
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Mark Maestranzi ’03
getting acquainted with a denizen of the Amazon River.
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Artistic fervor and color are important
parts of the vibrant lifestyle of Brazil.
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Financing
Fairfield
University students would
pay usual Fairfield
tuition fees and would be expected to contribute to their living expenses
(although living expenses are significantly less in Brazil than in Connecticut). The FIPSE grant provides for additional funds
specifically for student travel expenses.
Each student is eligible to receive approximately $3000 in scholarship monies for additional in-country travel or to
defer costs of airfare, ground transportation, accommodations or food.
Portuguese
In order to prepare students for this Fall
semester study experience, Fairfield
offers Elementary Portuguese (PG 110) each year prior to the term of
travel. Our Portuguese instruction team
is native Brazilian with several years of teaching experience. Brazilian exchange students are on campus
each spring to interact with our students and prepare them for the new culture
and lifestyle. In addition to the formal
language training on campus, our selected students will travel to Brazil a few
weeks before the fall semester begins to take an intensive Portuguese language
course with language professors at the Universidade of Amazonas in Manaus.
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We were pleased that Plinio Silva, Universidade of
Amazonas in Manaus,
could be our first exchange faculty member to conduct Brazilian Portuguese
classes at Fairfield
University. A number of his students from Portuguese 11
or 110 have now studied in Brazil.
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Summer
Since the summer of 2004, Fairfield
University has been organizing short,
intensive travel/study trip to universities in Brazil. Students have the option of engaging in
independent study while in country.
Contacts
For more information, please contact:
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