Maristela Cardona Abrego
9 semesters and 1 semester of work placement
$ 8.520.000 COP
The Bachelor in Foreign Languages with an English Concentration at Universidad ICESI proposes trained and skilled professionals who are highly sensitive to their social responsibilities in regards to equality, justice, and integration. Similarly, they will develop high fluency in the English language through permanent practice, as well as, skills to assess own learning while working with others. Also, they will develop effective research skills, technological repertoire management, fluency in Spanish, mathematical reasoning, and ethical and aesthetical sense.
In 2015, the Ministry of National Education extended ICESI University the High-Quality Institutional Accreditation until 2021. This, in recognition to the University´s ongoing commitment in maintaining high standards of quality in the development of the functions of training, research and social outreach, as well as, administrative support work within the region and the country.
The student aiming to become a graduate of Bachelor in Spanish Language and Literature at ICESI should be identified by a keen interest in the fields of communication, literature, and education, and be someone with a previously developed reading habit who values aesthetical aspects and the poetic and rhetoric capabilities of language and other expressive systems. Also, the future professional should be interested in the exploration of the diverse dimensions of the human condition through multiple types of discourse productions.
On the other hand, the aspiring student must be curious, oriented to research, to the search of empirical textual evidence and extracted from the framework of social interaction, and to the establishment of judgements supported on that evidence. In addition, the aspiring student should be autonomous the knowledge-building processes, with the ability to teamwork, and gifted with a restless, respectful, and propositional attitude.
The graduate of Bachelor in Spanish Language and Literature at Universidad Icesi is a professional in education who can identify and pay special attention to the linguistic, cognitive, aesthetical, affective, and social development in children. This knowledge will allow the graduate to create experiences for the learning and development of communicative, scientific, expressive, social, and emotional skills through the integration of pedagogy, curricular, didactic, psychological, disciplinary, and research knowledge.
Graduates of Bachelor in Spanish Language and Literature will be able to perform as: