Terms
and Conditions of Enrollment
All
of the course-types (Culture, Colloquial, Business, Legal, DELE) require
the same tuition, regardless of the level (Beginner, Intermediate,
Advanced, Superior). The tuition includes:
- Three
and a half hours per day of class-time, five days a week.
- Academic materials and general information provided
in the initial folder (textbooks; notebooks; lists of hostels, hotels,
and recommended restaurants; a guide-book; and an official identification
card from Alea)
- Use of Alea's instruction center, which includes
a small library for studying, reading, and conducting research.
Computers are available for access to e-mail and the Internet.
- Conferences
organized by alea, and guided visits to museums and other places
of interest within Oviedo.
Not
included in the tuition are trip, meals, housing (see Housing
and Meals), and optional tourism visits or excursions to the
country or other cities.
Alea's qualified and dynamic
professors enliven classroom language instruction with the help of
audio-visual materials, documentaries, films, songs, etc. They are
ready and willing to engage the students in discussion and to answer
whatever questions might come up during the course of the day.
Apart from the complete three-month
course, there is the possibility of taking individual weeks of
class, especially in the summer. At the other end of the spectrum,
students choosing to enroll in two or three complete courses
are eligible for reductions in the course price, even if the courses
are not taken consecutively. That it is say, a student who has comleted
one course and chooses to return the next year for another would be
eligible for the same discount as a student who had taken the second
course immediately after the first. The same goes for students interested
in three complete courses. (See Prices
and Schedule)
MEDICAL ATTENTION
Do not forget that each student should procure medical insurance in his
or her country of origin before arriving to Spain. Obtaining insurance
policies is not the responsibility of Alea, and is not included in
the tuition. However, Alea will not hesitate to aid any student needing
medical care. Assistance might include taking students to the appropriate
doctor or helping at the pharmacy in the process of obtaining medicine.
CERTIFICATE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
At the conclusion of the course, each student will
receive two documents: a DIPLOMA DE ESPAŅOL, certifying the
satisfactory completion of the course of the appropriate level, and
a more personal CERTIFICATE, assessing in detail the advances
the student has made. Alea also prepares students for the official
examination of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture. Those
who pass this test receive the DELE, acronym of 'Diploma de Espaņol
como Lengua Extranjera' (Diploma of Spanish as a Foreign Language). (top)
