The Bonaventurian Educational Project contemplates the linguistic tool as one of the fundamental components in the educational practice for the integral formation of its professionals. The linguistic tool is seen as a “Component for the progressive teaching and learning of a foreign language that serves as a tool for reading, comprehension, analysis, oral and written expression of specialized literature, related to the student’s field of professional training. It will be understood as a tool in that it is not intended to be a bilingual education, but a comprehensive practice of the language for the management of information flows.”
“The University will incorporate as a component of its academic identity the linguistic tool, recognizing that it is an essential means of communication and information worldwide in all fields of knowledge.”
Bonaventurian Educational Project (p. 74)
As a strategy to strengthen bilingualism in the Bonaventurian community and respecting our corporate policy, the alliance with Berlitz is made.
Language Center – Berlitz
Berlitz, with more than 140 years and presence in more than 70 countries around the world, is a worldwide company with the broadest portfolio of language programs for children, youth, adults and companies. The success of our courses is achieved through the combination of the 100% conversational Berlitz method, with technological tools and a constant improvement and innovation in our service; this is proven by more than one million satisfied students around the world.
Berlitz Education is a division of the Berlitz corporate portfolio focused on the generation of programs and proposals aimed at supporting and strengthening the guidelines of the country’s academic institutions, thus supporting bilingualism plans aimed at the entire academic community. For this reason, starting in 2019 Berlitz and the San Buenaventura University of Cali, have partnered to strengthen the academic offerings of language courses in the different programs of the university.
Benefits of studying English with Berlitz
- Teaching based on the Berlitz Method, taught in 460 centers established in more than 70 countries.
- Communicative approach oriented to the needs of students
- New technological platforms that promote a flexible, interactive and enjoyable learning process.
- Small class sizes, between 14 and 17 students, will allow you to better develop your communication skills in another language.
Program offerings
Languages offered for undergraduates
- English: Up to 8 levels
- Italian: 2 levels
- French: 2 levels
- Portuguese: 2 levels
Postgraduate offer
Courses in English for Academic Purposes (EAP), according to the needs of the program.
Academic integration (teaching team)
Academic integration is a pedagogical strategy in which teachers from different training programs participate for the transversal use of English in other subjects.
It has been conceived to strengthen the study skills of those students who are committed to the inclusion of English in their daily learning tasks, which today has become a latent need, given the objectives of internationalization that have been proposed even from the same policies of the Ministry of Education.
The complementary Academic Integration workshops provide the training and tools necessary to execute academic activities whose inputs are readings in English, as well as provide students with the necessary elements to be taken into account in their academic activities.
The selection, preparation, and study of contents in which the main vehicle is the English language.
Get to know our corporate foreign language policy of the Universidad de San Buenaventura and our institutional foreign language policy.
