Bruno Guerra
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"The experience of participating in a class that brought together global and local perspectives was extremely interesting and enriching," says Bruno Muñoz, a student of our Faculty of Management and Senior Management, referring to the opportunity to take Diversity Management for Organisations, taught by Ausrine Silenskyte, senior lecturer at the University of Vaasa, Finland, one of the international courses offered this year as part of the "International Week".
Like Bruno, more than 360 students enrolled in one of the 15 courses offered, giving them different perspectives on the subjects they have been learning about.
Student of Management and Senior Management
Student of Social Sciences
"We have had 15 international courses in 8 faculties running in parallel in the week before the official start of the 2021-2 cycle," explains María de los Ángeles Fernández, head of the Academic Internationalisation Office at the DARI. She adds that "it has been possible to access an internationalisation experience at home with a variety of courses with various specialists in their disciplines. In addition, in the interests of curricular flexibility, students have been encouraged to take courses in faculties other than their own, so as to promote interdisciplinarity in the undergraduate programme.
In the coming cycles, one-credit international courses will continue to be offered at the University, which will allow the addition of elective credits under this modality.
The international courses were taught in the faculties of Arts and Humanities, General Studies, Arts and Design, Social Sciences, Law, Education, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Management and Senior Management with a total of 368 credits enrolled. "Based on this experience, we hope that more faculties can join this type of international academic offer in the coming cycles, so that their students can also have access to these benefits in their training," says Fernández.
Beyond the figures, the students joined in expressing their satisfaction with the academic experience. "Having an international teacher, the learning method is different and provides us with different tools that help us in our professional growth," says Fernanda Pizarro, a student from the Faculty of Social Sciences, who took the course Bureaucracies and Public Policy in Latin America, taught by Professor Gabriela Lotta. "Without a doubt, it was one of the best decisions I have made since I entered the faculty," adds Pizarro.
The aim of this programme, according to DARI, has been to be able to offer students the possibility to experience internationalisation at home, taking different courses with foreign specialists, an invaluable opportunity in times when the pandemic has made such exchanges difficult, but at the same time has found ways to adapt thanks to technology.
In addition, on the perception of the international professors, Fernández emphasises: "The professors highlight in a special way the high level of training of PUCP students, their great motivation to learn, to participate with their opinions and to engage in dialogue. I think this speaks of the good training we are already providing at the University".
For those who were unable to participate in these courses, there is good news. In the coming cycles, one-credit international courses will continue to be offered at the University, which will allow for the addition of elective credits under this modality.
Credits from international courses are counted as elective credits. Thus, the student can accumulate and add credits of this type throughout the cycles.
If the student takes an international course in his/her own faculty, it is automatically recognised as an elective credit. If the student is taking an international course in a faculty other than his/her own, it is recommended that he/she first enquire about the recognition of the credit in his/her own faculty.
