someone from UCSD.

Hei hei.

I'm considering to consider studies in the Dominican Republic.
Having done a random search in the archives I'm still unsure
about certain things.

What I'm mainly interested in is a postgraduate/MA level course in political science, preferably international politics.

I might bug Hillbilly privately at some point but I try going public
first as my plans are too vague at the moment. My next trip to
the DR should be, along with my beloved mom, in February and
it would be useful if I knew what to do with documents etc by
then.

CONES: What is it? How long time might they need to legalize my
documents? As in, will they take a glance at it, stamp it then
charge me or? Fee? Will English copies do?

Is the Dominican Republic a good place to study what I do? I
suspect not. "Good"= Quality, not beer, not even the women.

This I'm pretty sure about: INTEC, APEC, PUCCxx?, UNIBE and who else doesn't offer postgraduate courses, only licensituras at
best. UASD does but I've heard it's messy and I need to finish
a degree within the intended time, 1 or 2 years. FLASCO is
some sort of Latin American thinktank, I know of a Venezuelan
professor linked to it ( Andres Serbin ), but I'm not convinced
they actually do anything there.

Finally UCSD does offer a Maestria in Diplomatic Studies but I've
had problems figuring out basic info like start up dates, application procedure etc. despite having sieged their postgrad.
office on numerous occasions. I was told by them to come down
there last September but I was too much of a sissy to do so.

Two reasons for that: First, I want a good, intellectually
demanding course which offers a good service to its students.
Also, if I may say so..if possible.. predictability, no ma?anas, no
ahoritas and no secunditos.

Second: My Spanish isn't anywhere near the required academic
level, though what I'm doing is mostly in English anywhere you
go. Which is why I just can't go down on 3 weeks notice but
need some months of intensive language classes.

So maybe one final question would simply be: Should I go for
Argentina, China or even Colombia instead?

Thanks in any case, and apologies for my inability to keep things
short and neat.

PS: No loons!

Hei igjen.

Thanks, I might just do that, they still got a nice climate..

I want the classes to be taught in Spanish, I do have a fair
understanding of it, but in order to study there I just need to
have some time prepare. Give me 3 months and a decent tutor
and I'll speak it better than the average Dominican, that's what
my old tutorita told me.. Then again, that would still be insufficient for a postgrad course, so give me another two.

Thanks again.