Experience report of the “Production Management” discipline offered exclusively in english to graduate students in UFMG – Montes Claros campus
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2237-5864.2018.2365Keywords:
Internationalization of higher education, Subject in English, UndergraduationAbstract
This paper reports the unprecedented experience of offering a subject taught exclusively in English to undergraduates of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Montes Claros Campus. It focuses on the creation context of the discipline, the most relevant aspects of its construction and the main reflections generated from the experience. The first offer of the discipline had 17 enrolled students and the second had 22. The course was completed by 7 and 12 academics respectively. Students reported, on the one hand, difficulties in attending a course taught in a foreign language and, on the other hand, satisfaction in completing the course and exercising their English language skills. Even though it is premature to evaluate the repercussions of the subject offer for the internationalization of teaching in the Campus, it can be said that it has provided a valid opportunity, both for those students who do not have the opportunity to go abroad and for those who are preparing for this upcoming experience.
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