Introduction

International education in globalized world calls for flexibility.

UNTREF has the know-how and the decision to meet the demands of the time.

We are ready to present a series of short credit courses, including cultural tourism, museums, companies, organizations and government agencies contacts, according to the academic content of each course.

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Courses taught by UNTREF highly qualified faculty

Contact us: dschiro@untref.edu.ar

1 – THE JESUIT MISSIONS – CORDOBA – IGUAZU

• History, Spanish & Folk Music, Tango (optional)
• 10 days – 40 hours  or customized
• Only for groups of 15 minimum

2 – UPS & DOWNS IN ARGENTINE ECONOMY

• Hyperinflation, Currency Board, Privatization, Recession, Devaluation, Default, Current growth.  
• Tango (optional)
• 4 weeks - 40 hours  or customized
• Only for groups of 15 minimum

3 – ARGENTINE LITERATURE

• Spanish, Argentine authors: Sarmiento, Arlt, Borges, Cortazar, Valenzuela, Tomás Eloy Martínez.
• Tango (optional)
• 4 weeks - 40 hours  or customized
• Only for groups of 15 minimum

4 – ARGENTINE LITERATURE  2

• Spanish, Cortazar & Borges famous stories analized, performed.
• Audio-visual presentations, museums   
• Tango (optional)
• 4 weeks - 40 hours  or customized
• Only for groups of 15 minimum

5 – PATAGONIA : MUSIC  & ABORIGINAL CULTURES

• Creation & making of musical native  instruments
• The “mapuche” culture
• Spanish ,  Environment
• Body language, improvisation, Zen bow archery
• 15 days, January 2009, San Martin de los Andes
• Only for groups of 15 minimum

6 -  HUMAHUACA, NORTH OF ARGENTINA, ABORIGINAL CULTURES

• The “colla”  culture
• Creation & making of musical native  instruments
• Spanish,  Environment
• Body language, improvisation, Zen bow archery
• 15 days – 40 hours  or customized
• Only for groups of 15 minimum

7 -  TANGO, CULTURE, MUSIC,  LYRICS

• The history of Tango: music, musicians, lyrics, poets
• Elite and popular culture: Tango, soccer, polo
• Tango lessons
• Outings to “milongas”
• 10 days -  40 hours  or customized
• Only for groups of 15 minimum

8 – ARGENTINA  21ST CENTURY

• Spanish
• 2001/2 Crisis, Poverty
• New Social Actors: employee-run factories, “cartoneros”
• Tango (optional)
• 4 weeks  - 40hours   or customized
• Only for groups of 15 minimum

9 -  REVOLUTIONARIES: ACTORS & WITNESSES OF LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS

• The Cuban Revolution, its spirit, how it spread in the continent
• The “guerrilla” warfare: Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil
• The Sandinista revolution
• Che Guevara
• 4 weeks -  40 hours  or customized
• Only for groups of 15 minimum

10 – HISTORY, SOCIETY & PHOTOGRAPHY

• Historicity and Social Conscience
• Looking at “the other”
• Political use of images
• Photography, reality and the truth. The digital era.  
• 4 weeks -  40 hours  or customized
• Only for groups of 15 minimum