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Resolution No. 02012 of June 22, 2021 of the Secretariat of National Education
The Language Institute of the Catholic University of Colombia holds as one of its purposes to allow members from other cultures to approach Colombian culture through the learning of Spanish which strengthens the links between cultures and shows a vision closer to the reality of Colombian culture. It is from this objective that the different Spanish Programs for Foreigners offered by the Language Institute were created as a way to open the doors of our culture to the world through learning one of the most important languages required by members of other cultures, as the following data shows:
In the search of quality, the Spanish Programs of the Catholic University of Colombia are committed to excellence with differentiating factors in both the use of technology and in the methodology. Thus, for the development of classes, teachers and students have high technology equipment that turns classrooms into interactive multimedia sites, where students can have an innovative and vivid experience for greater recall and learning.
The Spanish Program for foreigners has been designed to get our students to achieve academic, professional and social objectives in Spanish.
To offer strategies and support to foreigners, allowing them to successfully develop all academic activities related to Spanish, such as reading specialized and academic texts, and understanding lectures. In addition, it aims to promote the development of good study habits, reading strategies, writing, listening and academic speech, as well as higher order cognitive strategies such as making inferences, conclusions and developing critical thinking.
To promote the development of professional skills such as public management, performance and mastery of interviews, etc., besides transmitting the importance of Spanish in order to expand the student’s professional profile by developing skills and knowledge to ensure their success at a national and international level.
To develop appropriate social skills for a global world, through a methodology focused on the student and their environment. In addition, the students are expected to explore our culture, in order to broaden their worldview, to develop a capacity for adaptation and understanding of cultural differences and similarities.
| Program | Level* | Academic Period | Module | On-site hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BASIC | A1 | I | Basic I | 60 hours |
| II | Basic II | 60 hours | ||
| A2 | III | Basic III | 60 hours | |
| IV | Basic IV | 60 hours | ||
| INDEPENDENT | B1 | V | Independent I | 60 hours |
| VI | Independent II | 60 hours | ||
| VII | Independent III | 60 hours | ||
| ADVANCED | B2 | VIII | Avanced I | 60 hours |
| IX | Avanced II | 60 hours | ||
| X | Avanced III | 60 hours | ||
| XI | Avanced IV | 60 hours |
*Our courses are aligned with the international standards determined in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
Note: If the student already has prior knowledge of Spanish, they can take a classification exam.
To fill in the corresponding form, click here
If the student has as their nationality one of the countries that is found in the list of Annex I they must request a Visitor Visa that allows them to study in Colombia, as well as carry out tourism and recreational activities and participate in academic events.
The V-Visa can be requested before entering the country, or if the interested party entered Colombia with a tourist visa and wishes to take the Spanish Program for Foreigners. The interested party can request the V-Visa via:
To request the visa, all interested parties must have the documents mentioned below:
The V-Visa to carry out academic exchanges, studies in art or professions and postgraduate studies has a cost of 51USD/40EUR and the study of documents costs 16USD/12EUR.
Following this link, the student can consult all information regarding Visas: https://www.cancilleria.gov.co/tramites_servicios/visa
If the Visa-V lasts more than three (3) months, students must request a foreigner’s ID card at the Colombian Migration Office within the 15 days after they have arrived. With this link you will find further information about the paperwork: https://www.nomasfilas.gov.co/memoficha-tramite/-/tramite/T703
Students coming from countries that are not in the following list clic here can enter the country with an Entry and Stay Permit (Permiso de Ingreso y Permanencia-PIP). The PIP is a stamp that Colombian Migration stamps on every students’ passport and allows them to take the Spanish for Foreigners Program.
There are three types of PIP, thus students must request getting the PIP-2 or PIP-5 stamped in their passports (this is ONLY for students that come from the Schengen area).
In the event that the migration official stamps the passport with a different PIP, students must request its amendment at the Colombian Migration Office and pay a cost of 96.000 COP. To be able to get a PIP-2 or PIP-5 stamp students must hand in the following papers once they arrive to Colombia:
Wide-coverage international health insurance that includes medical repatriation in the case of serious disease or death The PIP has a 90-day validity that can be extended to an additional period, depending on the number of courses to be taken
https://www.cancilleria.gov.co/sites/default/files/resolucion_1128_de_2018.pdf
International Health Insurance
Every foreign student needs international health insurance with coverage in Colombia.
This must include medical repatriation in the case of death or serious
disease.
This insurance must have coverage from their first day in Colombia until the end of their residence.
The insurance policy must be handed in with every document the Language Institute demands upon arrival at the Catholic University of Colombia.
Medical insurance provided by credit card companies is not accepted as wide coverage international health insurance.
institutodelenguas@ucatolica.edu.co
Telephone: (601) 4433700. Ext. 5100-5104
Address: Calle 47 No. 13 – 54, sede Carrera 13, bloque B
Customer service schedule: Mondays to Fridays from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m
Resolution No. 02012 of June 22, 2021 of the Secretariat of National Education
The Language Institute of the Catholic University of Colombia holds as one of its purposes to allow members from other cultures to approach Colombian culture through the learning of Spanish which strengthens the links between cultures and shows a vision closer to the reality of Colombian culture. It is from this objective that the different Spanish Programs for Foreigners offered by the Language Institute were created as a way to open the doors of our culture to the world through learning one of the most important languages required by members of other cultures, as the following data shows:
In the search of quality, the Spanish Programs of the Catholic University of Colombia are committed to excellence with differentiating factors in both the use of technology and in the methodology. Thus, for the development of classes, teachers and students have high technology equipment that turns classrooms into interactive multimedia sites, where students can have an innovative and vivid experience for greater recall and learning.
The Spanish Program for foreigners has been designed to get our students to achieve academic, professional and social objectives in Spanish.
To offer strategies and support to foreigners, allowing them to successfully develop all academic activities related to Spanish, such as reading specialized and academic texts, and understanding lectures. In addition, it aims to promote the development of good study habits, reading strategies, writing, listening and academic speech, as well as higher order cognitive strategies such as making inferences, conclusions and developing critical thinking.
To promote the development of professional skills such as public management, performance and mastery of interviews, etc., besides transmitting the importance of Spanish in order to expand the student’s professional profile by developing skills and knowledge to ensure their success at a national and international level.
To develop appropriate social skills for a global world, through a methodology focused on the student and their environment. In addition, the students are expected to explore our culture, in order to broaden their worldview, to develop a capacity for adaptation and understanding of cultural differences and similarities.
| Program | Level* | Academic Period | Module | On-site hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BASIC | A1 | I | Basic I | 60 hours |
| II | Basic II | 60 hours | ||
| A2 | III | Basic III | 60 hours | |
| IV | Basic IV | 60 hours | ||
| INDEPENDENT | B1 | V | Independent I | 60 hours |
| VI | Independent II | 60 hours | ||
| VII | Independent III | 60 hours | ||
| ADVANCED | B2 | VIII | Avanced I | 60 hours |
| IX | Avanced II | 60 hours | ||
| X | Avanced III | 60 hours | ||
| XI | Avanced IV | 60 hours |
*Our courses are aligned with the international standards determined in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
Note: If the student already has prior knowledge of Spanish, they can take a classification exam.
To fill in the corresponding form, click here
If the student has as their nationality one of the countries that is found in the list of Annex I they must request a Visitor Visa that allows them to study in Colombia, as well as carry out tourism and recreational activities and participate in academic events.
The V-Visa can be requested before entering the country, or if the interested party entered Colombia with a tourist visa and wishes to take the Spanish Program for Foreigners. The interested party can request the V-Visa via:
To request the visa, all interested parties must have the documents mentioned below:
The V-Visa to carry out academic exchanges, studies in art or professions and postgraduate studies has a cost of 51USD/40EUR and the study of documents costs 16USD/12EUR.
Following this link, the student can consult all information regarding Visas: https://www.cancilleria.gov.co/tramites_servicios/visa
If the Visa-V lasts more than three (3) months, students must request a foreigner’s ID card at the Colombian Migration Office within the 15 days after they have arrived. With this link you will find further information about the paperwork: https://www.nomasfilas.gov.co/memoficha-tramite/-/tramite/T703
Students coming from countries that are not in the following list clic here can enter the country with an Entry and Stay Permit (Permiso de Ingreso y Permanencia-PIP). The PIP is a stamp that Colombian Migration stamps on every students’ passport and allows them to take the Spanish for Foreigners Program.
There are three types of PIP, thus students must request getting the PIP-2 or PIP-5 stamped in their passports (this is ONLY for students that come from the Schengen area).
In the event that the migration official stamps the passport with a different PIP, students must request its amendment at the Colombian Migration Office and pay a cost of 96.000 COP. To be able to get a PIP-2 or PIP-5 stamp students must hand in the following papers once they arrive to Colombia:
Wide-coverage international health insurance that includes medical repatriation in the case of serious disease or death The PIP has a 90-day validity that can be extended to an additional period, depending on the number of courses to be taken
https://www.cancilleria.gov.co/sites/default/files/resolucion_1128_de_2018.pdf
International Health Insurance
Every foreign student needs international health insurance with coverage in Colombia.
This must include medical repatriation in the case of death or serious
disease.
This insurance must have coverage from their first day in Colombia until the end of their residence.
The insurance policy must be handed in with every document the Language Institute demands upon arrival at the Catholic University of Colombia.
Medical insurance provided by credit card companies is not accepted as wide coverage international health insurance.
institutodelenguas@ucatolica.edu.co
Telephone: (601) 4433700. Ext. 5100-5104
Address: Calle 47 No. 13 – 54, sede Carrera 13, bloque B
Customer service schedule: Mondays to Fridays from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m
Resolution No. 02012 of June 22, 2021 of the Secretariat of National Education
The Language Institute of the Catholic University of Colombia holds as one of its purposes to allow members from other cultures to approach Colombian culture through the learning of Spanish which strengthens the links between cultures and shows a vision closer to the reality of Colombian culture. It is from this objective that the different Spanish Programs for Foreigners offered by the Language Institute were created as a way to open the doors of our culture to the world through learning one of the most important languages required by members of other cultures, as the following data shows:
In the search of quality, the Spanish Programs of the Catholic University of Colombia are committed to excellence with differentiating factors in both the use of technology and in the methodology. Thus, for the development of classes, teachers and students have high technology equipment that turns classrooms into interactive multimedia sites, where students can have an innovative and vivid experience for greater recall and learning.
The Spanish Program for foreigners has been designed to get our students to achieve academic, professional and social objectives in Spanish.
To offer strategies and support to foreigners, allowing them to successfully develop all academic activities related to Spanish, such as reading specialized and academic texts, and understanding lectures. In addition, it aims to promote the development of good study habits, reading strategies, writing, listening and academic speech, as well as higher order cognitive strategies such as making inferences, conclusions and developing critical thinking.
To promote the development of professional skills such as public management, performance and mastery of interviews, etc., besides transmitting the importance of Spanish in order to expand the student’s professional profile by developing skills and knowledge to ensure their success at a national and international level.
To develop appropriate social skills for a global world, through a methodology focused on the student and their environment. In addition, the students are expected to explore our culture, in order to broaden their worldview, to develop a capacity for adaptation and understanding of cultural differences and similarities.
| Program | Level* | Academic Period | Module | On-site hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BASIC | A1 | I | Basic I | 60 hours |
| II | Basic II | 60 hours | ||
| A2 | III | Basic III | 60 hours | |
| IV | Basic IV | 60 hours | ||
| INDEPENDENT | B1 | V | Independent I | 60 hours |
| VI | Independent II | 60 hours | ||
| VII | Independent III | 60 hours | ||
| ADVANCED | B2 | VIII | Avanced I | 60 hours |
| IX | Avanced II | 60 hours | ||
| X | Avanced III | 60 hours | ||
| XI | Avanced IV | 60 hours |
*Our courses are aligned with the international standards determined in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
Note: If the student already has prior knowledge of Spanish, they can take a classification exam.
To fill in the corresponding form, click here
If the student has as their nationality one of the countries that is found in the list of Annex I they must request a Visitor Visa that allows them to study in Colombia, as well as carry out tourism and recreational activities and participate in academic events.
The V-Visa can be requested before entering the country, or if the interested party entered Colombia with a tourist visa and wishes to take the Spanish Program for Foreigners. The interested party can request the V-Visa via:
To request the visa, all interested parties must have the documents mentioned below:
The V-Visa to carry out academic exchanges, studies in art or professions and postgraduate studies has a cost of 51USD/40EUR and the study of documents costs 16USD/12EUR.
Following this link, the student can consult all information regarding Visas: https://www.cancilleria.gov.co/tramites_servicios/visa
If the Visa-V lasts more than three (3) months, students must request a foreigner’s ID card at the Colombian Migration Office within the 15 days after they have arrived. With this link you will find further information about the paperwork: https://www.nomasfilas.gov.co/memoficha-tramite/-/tramite/T703
Students coming from countries that are not in the following list clic here can enter the country with an Entry and Stay Permit (Permiso de Ingreso y Permanencia-PIP). The PIP is a stamp that Colombian Migration stamps on every students’ passport and allows them to take the Spanish for Foreigners Program.
There are three types of PIP, thus students must request getting the PIP-2 or PIP-5 stamped in their passports (this is ONLY for students that come from the Schengen area).
In the event that the migration official stamps the passport with a different PIP, students must request its amendment at the Colombian Migration Office and pay a cost of 96.000 COP. To be able to get a PIP-2 or PIP-5 stamp students must hand in the following papers once they arrive to Colombia:
Wide-coverage international health insurance that includes medical repatriation in the case of serious disease or death The PIP has a 90-day validity that can be extended to an additional period, depending on the number of courses to be taken
https://www.cancilleria.gov.co/sites/default/files/resolucion_1128_de_2018.pdf
International Health Insurance
Every foreign student needs international health insurance with coverage in Colombia.
This must include medical repatriation in the case of death or serious
disease.
This insurance must have coverage from their first day in Colombia until the end of their residence.
The insurance policy must be handed in with every document the Language Institute demands upon arrival at the Catholic University of Colombia.
Medical insurance provided by credit card companies is not accepted as wide coverage international health insurance.
institutodelenguas@ucatolica.edu.co
Telephone: (601) 4433700. Ext. 5100-5104
Address: Calle 47 No. 13 – 54, sede Carrera 13, bloque B
Customer service schedule: Mondays to Fridays from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m
Autorizo conforme a las disposiciones estatutarias en materia de Habeas Data, específicamente el Acuerdo No. 02 del 4 de septiembre de 2013 (Acuerdo), así como las demás normas vigentes, con el fin de garantizar para los titulares de la información la protección y tratamiento de datos personales de conformidad con la Ley 1581 de 2012 y demás normas concordantes y complementarias de la materia, así como lo prescrito en la ley 2300 de 2023, referente al contacto con fines comerciales, de manera libre, previa y voluntaria a la Universidad Católica de Colombia, a dar el tratamiento de mi información, para que en desarrollo de sus funciones propias como Institución de Educación Superior y su finalidad Académica y Administrativa, pueda recolectar, recaudar, almacenar, usar, circular, suprimir, procesar, intercambiar, compilar, dar tratamiento y/o transferir a terceros y disponer de los datos por mi suministrados en el presente formulario, así como a enviar información relacionada con la oferta de sus programas académicos a través de los medios de contacto que se señalen de forma voluntaria por parte del titular de los datos personales.
Mediante la presente autorizo especialmente a dar tratamiento a mis Datos Personales de conformidad a la actividad académica y administrativa, a enviar comunicaciones de carácter académico, especialmente la relacionada con sus programas de estudio a través de llamadas, correo institucional y/o el sugerido a título personal por el titular de la información, así como mediante mensajería de datos a través de SMS y WhatsApp o demás aplicaciones de mensajería instantánea, así como a través de redes sociales, conforme a las franjas horarias dispuestas y autorizadas por la ley 2300 de 2023 y las demás disposiciones vigentes sobre este aspecto, y la grabación de las sesiones de aulas virtuales en las cuales participe o en los escenarios académicos a los que asista en desarrollo del programa académico para el cual me he matriculado.
En caso de cualquier inquietud, petición, queja o reclamo sobre habeas data, podrá dirigirse al correo electrónico: contacto@ucatolica.edu.co o contactar directamente en nuestra sede principal ubicada en la Avenida Caracas Número 46 – 72, en la ciudad de Bogotá D.C. “