Avis sur Fundação Getulio Vargas (EAESP)

take some classes about politics and culture of brazil to get a proper insight into the past and be able to understand what goes on today

do courses in Portuguese so as to improve your language skills

As everywhere - there`re great classes as well as bad. So it depends on the teacher and your interests. I think it`s very subjective. The choice of courses IN ENGLISH is rather limited (so that`s why I put low grade for this). But if you speak Portuguese then you have great variety of courses! I took: 1) Politics and Culture in Brazil (prof. Jose Carlos Garcia Durand) - good course (good to know at least a little bit of the country; the prof. uses a lot of DVDs and films; a prof. is a bit chaotic; the course is not hard to pass; you will have midterm exam and than final exam) 2) Managing People Managing Psychological Proccesses (prof. Sigmar Malvezzi) - course ok (you have to write 2-3 papers during the course and than 1 disertation and the final exam so there`s a bit of work; I really didn`t understand fully the subject of the course) 3) The Dynamics of Brazilian BUsiness (prof. Vicky Jones) - very good course; prof. Jones is great; you`ll learn a lot about the contry; there`re a lot of guest speakers (sometimes good, sometimes bad); pretty much of work (5 papers during the semester, 1 group project, final exam) 4) Branding (prof. Paulo Standerski) - very good course; prof. Standerski is really good and in the topic; you`ll use a lot of cases during the class; workload (4 summaries of the cases, 1 group project + presentation, final exam)

Read my report on my exchange semester, available at the International Office of my University (isc.wu-wien.ac.at)