Study Abroad | Barcelona
Spring 2025: Academics

Course Code: Architecture 329

Instruction Language: English

The evolution of the city of Barcelona is explained using concepts of urbanism, politics and society. The course covers how cities shape societies and how societies shape cities. Students will compare Barcelona to other cities such as Madrid, Paris, London, Moscow, New York or Washington D.C.

Course Code: Art 326

Instruction Language: Spanish

Examines the concepts behind the work and the evolution of Spanish art in relation to similar movements in Europe and the United States. Includes visits to relevant exhibitions in Barcelona and talks by professional artists. Prerequisite: Students must place into Upper Intermediate level (B1.2) Spanish language or higher.

Course Code: Art & Architecture 338

Instruction Language: English

The course offers the opportunity to discover the master works of Barcelona’s Art Nouveau architecture and the marvels of design contained in them. The history and cultural context of Modernism will be addressed in the classroom; however special emphasis is placed on practice outdoors. Students will sketch in front of buildings and in museums. No previous artistic training is necessary.

Course Code: Art 342

Instruction Language: English

The course provides an introduction to Spanish contemporary art. It examines the concepts behind the work and the evolution of Spanish art in relation to similar movements in Europe and the United States. Includes visits to relevant exhibitions in Barcelona and talks by professional artists.

Course Code: Art 339

Instruction Language: English

Students will be able to recognize masterpieces of Spanish art and know the reasons that account for their unanimous positive appraisal. Analysis of artistic characteristics and their social and historical implications. Instruction includes lectures and field visits.

Course Code: Art 340

Instruction Language: English

Examination of the most representative buildings of each period that have been included in the UNESCO’s World Heritage List for having outstanding universal value. Instruction includes lectures and field visits.

Course Code: Art & Architecture 337

Instruction Language: English

Students develop an understanding of fundamental elements which assist with the observation of painting and sculpture. The course then looks at works of art as urban interventions with reference to the cityscape of Barcelona. Students will participate in scheduled visits to museums and public spaces.

Course Code: Business 343

Instruction Language: English

The goal of this module is to gain an insight into the different strategies and operational activities of Catalan and Spanish institutions and companies working within the European framework. Students will maintain direct contact with the business and ecomomic world in Barcelona where, with the full personal support and collaboration of the instructor, they will gain hands-on experience of observing, researching, interacting with and analyzing a range of local companies.

Course Code: Business 305

Instruction Language: English

The aim of the course is to increase the awareness of the impact of national cultures on business. Students will be provided with theoretical and practical tools in order to improve their productivity. Cultural dimensions analyzed include: individual versus collective identity; rigid versus flexible norms (price, business contract); task (“specific”) orientation versus people (“diffuse”) orientation; power distribution and vision of time and priorities.

Course Code: Business 342

Instruction Language: English

Emerging economies account for approximately 120 of a total of 160 recognized by the United Nations. The course is centered on the challenges and opportunities associated with the organizational management and business strategy in emerging economies. Business cases in emerging economies from diverse geographical regional such as Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Eastern Europe will be discussed.

Course Code: Business 317

Instruction Language: English

Students will analyze the factors that have provoked the incredible growth of e-Commerce. The course explores the technical underpinnings as well as the legal and fiscal environment of e-Commerce, particularly in the Spanish arena. Students will understand the concepts related to marketing online and publicity on the Internet, and will develop business strategies to conduct e-Commerce.

Course Code: Business 316

Instruction Language: English

This course is set out to empower students by providing the knowledge, skills and attitudes to achieve entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings (independent as well as corporate entrepreneurship). The course aims to provide students with a mindset that supports creativity and innovation needed to transform ideas into new ventures that create value and wealth. By linking theory and practice the course is also offering students a hands-on experience in planning and developing new ventures.

Course Code: Business 331

Instruction Language: Spanish

The Marketing of products and services is a fascinating phenomenon transcending the political and country borders. This course focuses on marketing strategy and management in the context of international markets. Introduce the complex reality of international marketing that is constantly evolving. Evaluate how the cultural, social, economic differences, etc. They relate to marketing. The course begins with an overview of the variables that are addressed in the markets international (i.e. cultures, economic systems, markets) financial institutions, governments and legal systems, etc.) and then review the elements of global marketing strategy (product, price, distribution, promotion, etc.) and its application. Its objective is to improve the student’s skills in the development and application of marketing strategies and decision making in the international context

Course Code: Business 307

Instruction Language: English

This course provides an overview of the challenges facing businesses as they compete on the global playing field. Focus is on the economic foundations of International business and the main forces that shape business across countries: political, economic, cultural, and legal forces. The last part of the course will analyze the internal aspects of a firm oriented towards international business.

Course Code: Business 309

Instruction Language: English

This course focuses on marketing strategy and management within the context of the international markets. It introduces the complex and constantly evolving realities of international marketing. It evaluates cultural differences and aims to enhance student skills in developing and implementing marketing strategies and decision making in the international contexts. It starts with an overview of the environments faced in international markets (cultures, economic systems, financial markets, governments and legal systems) and then addresses in depth the elements of global marketing strategy (product, price distribution) and its

Course Code: Business 341

Instruction Language: English

This course intends to enable students to develop the competencies required to succeed in an International Business environment as future managers. Management education can be based on the content of management (what a manager’s job is) and the process of management, or the how of a manager’s job. The focus will be on the second approach: helping students to develop behaviors that characterize a leader while keeping their own genuine style and personality in multicultural and diverse contexts. To achieve such an ambitious goal, students will work in self-directed collaborative teams to solve problems and make their own decisions both during in-class activities and outdoor exercises. All these group activities facilitate learning, creating a nice atmosphere of reflection and feedback. Overall, this course aims to educate “servant leaders”, good people that make a remarkable contribution to society.

Course Code: Business 311

Instruction Language: English

This course presents a deep analysis in terms of interrelations which exist between marketing processes, operations, logistics and human resources in the services industry. Topics covered include: fundamentals of services marketing management; buyer behavior and segmentation; service relationships and brands, and creating the service experience: price, promotion and place.

Course Code: Business 332

Instruction Language: Spanish

Although doing business in the international marketplace has been important for decades, its impact on our lives has been more visible in recent years. Right now I am typing on a computer made by an American company, many of whose components are made in Taiwan or mainland China. The equipment was assembled in the Czech Republic and I bought it from the Spanish subsidiary in an Internet auction conducted by an American firm. Why this complex network of commercial companies that extends throughout the world? Why now and not before? Why should we study international business differently as a regular activity? This course will provide an overview of the challenges that businesses face as they compete in the global marketplace.

Course Code: Business 310

Instruction Language: English

Focus is on the concept of strategy and the factors that impact on strategic decision making, implementation and evaluation. Students will learn to understand the relationship between strategic planning and business performance. They will conduct in-depth organizational, industrial and environmental analysis as well as appreciating how the differences in the economic, sociocultural, political and legal environments among countries affect the decision making process and strategic paths.

Course Code: Business 315

Instruction Language: English

Nowadays almost everything can be replicated except the value of the human capital of an organization. And it is precisely this which makes a company exceptional and competitive. People management, talent management or previously called human resources management can be defined as the effective use of human capital in an organization through the management of people-related activities. The old Personnel Department has evolved into the modern concept of People or Talent Department which means not only a change in the label but also a shift from a bureaucratic department into a strategic one. Besides, the workforce costs may represent from 50 to 80% of the total company budget. The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the processes, principles, and techniques of workforce management. The program takes a practical view that integrates the last theories of People Management and Organization Development with the practice in the real world. And, although not everyone who takes this course will become a Head of People, as executives and managers they will be involved in managing their teams and work as People Partners. Effectively, the modern conceptions of Talent Management consider the Managers to be the real Head of People of their teams, being the Talent or People Department, a facilitator. People management involves planning, organizational structure, equity and diversity, staffing, induction, training & development, performance management, work climate, labor relations, managing compensation and benefits, health& safety, and employees’ separations. All those processes significantly influence the corporate culture. The role of the People Manager pivots around two axes: people and business; and it is based on competencies as David Ulrich et al. (2007) states in his HR competency model. Therefore, the approach to People Management on this course will go around competencies.

Course Code: Communication 321

Instruction Language: English

This course aims to reflect on the importance of the media in the production, reproduction and perpetuation (or change) of gender roles. We will investigate how socially constructed gender categories inform our daily lives as citizens, consumers and creators of public discourse. We will also explore the dynamic relationship between gender and other identity categories (race, religion, class, sexuality, nationality, etc.). Finally, this course will analyse the contents of the press, radio, television, TV series, movies and Internet from a gender perspective.

Course Code: Communication 322

Instruction Language: English

The aim of this course is to help you develop skills and knowledge that will increase your understanding and awareness of the impact of our differences on the way we communicate and become more effective handling these differences effectively in Barcelona as well as in other intercultural contexts. We will explore various topics in intercultural communication, and will practice intercultural learning processes in the context of your experience abroad that you can apply when working across difference in a wide variety of contexts.

Course Code: Politics/Economics 324

Instruction Language: English

This course takes soccer as an illustration of theories and empirical evidence related to economic incentives and behavior. Soccer is widely followed and generates a great amount of information. This knowledge is used in a systematic way to explore the validity of economic theories and to empirically test predictions generated by these theories.

Course Code: Economics 315

Instruction Language: English

Econometrics presents basic tools for the empirical analysis of relationships between economic variables. The course begins with the simple regression model, and continues with multiple regression, including both quantitative and qualitative regressors. The goal of this course is for students to learn to extract information from economic data using basic regression analysis, being able to rigorously assess the advantages and limitations of this tool. Major emphasis shall be placed on understanding the intuition behind the general theoretical aspects of econometric analysis. Throughout the course numerous applications using real data and econometric software will be presented to help students learn to value the empirical applications of the tools introduced

Course Code: Economics 335

Instruction Language: English

At the turn of the 21st century, the richest 5% of people received one-third of total global income. This course studies the development of international and global inequality; inequality within nations; gender inequality, and long term poverty. Has inequality increased over time? Does globalization make the world less equal? What policies have been implemented to reduce inequality and how effective have they been?

Course Code: Economics 306

Instruction Language: English

International economics is divided into two broad subfields: international trade and international money. International trade focuses on real transactions in the international economy, that is, on those transactions that involve a physical movement of goods. On the other hand, international money focuses on financial transactions and refers to the monetaryside of the international economy. This course deals with the first aspect of international economics, i.e. the real transactions and focuses on two main aspects of it: international trade theory and evidence and international trade policy

Course Code: Economics/Finance 321

Instruction Language: English

Crypto economy and decentralized finance (DeFi) will increasingly be part of our lives. This course is designed to understand the basic principles and mechanics behind cryptocurrencies, digital assets and blockchain technologies. It covers how decentralized finance systems work, such as exchanges or smart contracts, how DeFi platforms are used to invest and trade digital assets, cryptocurrencies or crypto projects, and how blockchain technology is the basis for innovation and new business models. You’ll also learn about the potential risks to navigate this new world.

Course Code: Politics/Economics 322

Instruction Language: English

This course examines the main changes in politics, economics and war since 1914 focusing on the different academic schools that tried to explain the major changes that affected people during the 20th century. Also important will be the study of theories that tried to organise how people live. These theories embrace economics, politics and sociology. One important element to be studied in this course is war, understanding this element as the last tool used by the State to achieve goals or stability.

Course Code: Economics 304

Instruction Language: English

The main objective is to provide the students with decision theory and game theory tools that can be useful not only in business environments but also in everyday life. Students will learn how to solve and analyze decision problems and games. Prerequisite: basic knowledge of Microeconomics and Mathematics.

Course Code: Economics 308

Instruction Language: English

The purpose of the course is to make students aware of the crucial role of creativity and innovation in the 21st century and provide them with tools to be effective actors of change in their organizations in the future.

Course Code: Politics/Economics 312

Instruction Language: English

This course aims to deepen student’s knowledge of the institutional functioning of the E.U. as well as its most important economic policies. Review of three important E.U. policies: agricultural policy with an emphasis on possible future reforms; regional policy in the light of increasing competitiveness brought on by each successive step in European integration, and trade policy including a discussion of the most important economic accords between the E.U. and third countries.

Course Code: Business 308

Instruction Language: English

This course extends the principles of finance to the international context. Topics include: exchange rate determination; foreign exchange markets; currency derivatives; currency forecasting; offshore markets; saps and interest rate derivatives; risk management and cost of capital for foreign investments.

Course Code: History 324

Instruction Language: Spanish

Este curso empieza con una explicación amplia de la historia española que pretende dar a los estudiantes un marco general en el que puedan colocar los temas que se tratarán con posterioridad. Después se examinarán las diferentes culturas que existen en España: Castilla, Cataluña, el País Vasco y Galicia, prestando especial atención a la lengua, la nacionalidad y las implicaciones políticas. El resto del curso versará sobre los diversos aspectos de la Civilización Española (entendiendo como civilización tanto el modo de vida como la sociedad en general), que se explicarán básicamente a través de los varios modos de expresión artística (Pintura, Arquitectura, Literatura, Música y Cine). A través de la utilización de conceptos provenientes de estos temas los estudiantes verán cómo España pasó de ser un país polarizado en tensión constante a convertirse en un país occidental completamente moderno. Aunque se entiende el curso como una introducción básica a los diversos aspectos de la sociedad española actual, no se trata tan sólo del tratamiento por separado de la Historia, la Sociología o la Antropología, si no de la comprensión de las múltiples conexiones e implicaciones existentes entre estos y otros temas, con el objetivo final de caracterizar los grandes cambios que han tenido lugar en España en los últimos 50 años a través de la utilización de nombres como Picasso, Berlanga, Calatrava, Nonell, Miró, Dalí, García Lorca, Machado, Almodóvar, Goya o Alberti. Teniendo en cuenta que se trata de un curso en lengua española, se pondrá especial atención en la creación y comprensión de un vocabulario específico que permita a los estudiantes utilizar los términos adecuados de cada uno de los temas.

Course Code: Cultural Studies 330

Instruction Language: English

The main goal of this interdisciplinary course is to offer an approach, from the Cultural Studies perspective, to some of the most crucial ideas that have shaped, accompanied and influenced the development of European civilization, its cultures, and by extension Western thought. The general structure of the semester revolves around ten specific or abstract concepts, such as love, otherness or fear, which are still today in constant evolution and continue to influence the European collective identity. The conceptual, cultural and chronological dissection of each of these topics, together with the development of their most important branches, will allow a wider comprehension of the different realities that they have portrayed throughout the centuries. Ultimately, this subject aims to offer the tools to help students approach and better understand Europe and its intellectual roots from a critical perspective, by exposing the ways in which its societies and cultures, past and present, have ordered reality and how they have made sense of their world.

Course Code: History 328

Instruction Language: English

The goal of this course is to offer a wide introduction to the main evolution of the Mediterranean using not history but its cultures, religions and peoples. The main topics covered are: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Greece, Rome, Germanics, Byzantines, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, the Renaissance, the Mediterranean family and the Modernization of the Mediterranean Societies.

Course Code: History 323

Instruction Language: English

As a way of providing students a starting perspective and a general framework, this course opens with an extensive and chronological view of Spanish history and its cultural/artistic evolution from prehistory to the present. The course continues with an in-depth examination of the current Spanish sociological and political situation, pointing out specific case studies depending on their relevance. By using concepts from these various disciplines, students will learn about how Spain changed from a polarized country in constant distress to become a fully modern, westernized country. Although offering a basic introduction to the different aspects of modern day Spanish society, this class is not exclusively History, Sociology, Anthropology or Politics, but about the comprehension of the various links and multiple implications of these subjects within themselves with the final goal of characterizing the major changes in Spanish society in the last 50 years.

Course Code: History/Politics 327

Instruction Language: English

This course aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of recent Spanish history and its political system(s). Following a chronological explanation, the major historical, political and military events will be explained, without losing perspective of the social and economic consequences, and always trying to picture the big periods and changes that the country has undergone in the last decades. There will be a special emphasis on the major trends in Spanish political thought from each period, looking at different perspectives and interpretations. The different steps throughout the semester will be: an overview of the current Spanish political situation, main characters, political parties, etc., so that students get acquainted with the specific vocabulary; an introduction to the late 19th and the early 20th, paying special attention to the events that can be considered as immediate precedents, both ideologically and historically, to the Spanish Civil War; the Civil War itself and the subsequent dictatorship of Francisco Franco, both essential to understand the political and cultural mentality of every Spaniard today; the Transition and the Democratic years until the present and how Spain has struggled to normalize its political and social life.

Course Code: Politics 343

Instruction Language: English

Geopolitics is the art and practice of using political power over a given territory. Students analyze geography, history and social scene with reference to spatial politics and patterns (ranging from state to international). The past and present are explored (Cold War and aftermath, North and Middle America, South America) before turning to the future (China 2020, American Power and the crisis of 2030, the 2040 prelude of war).

Course Code: Literature 301

Instruction Language: English

After the Olympic Games of 1992, Barcelona became known to the world as an international tourist destination; but a short tourist visit cannot account for the cultural complexities of the Catalan capital. In order to know any city, to “dwell’ in it, we need to become familiar with its oral history, paintings, architecture, sculpture, and literary texts. More specifically, the more we learn about the literature of Barcelona, the more we shall know about its cultural past and present. With this aim in mind, this course will explore the city through the eyes of its writers. We shall start in the nineteenth century with the rise of the modern metropolis that we know today and finish with the post-Olympic urban reality of the twenty-first century. Students will encounter a wide variety of materials – poetry, novel, theater and essay – and will be expected to study them with a critical eye, applying additional historical, cultural and theoretical readings. Our goal will be to arrive at a greater knowledge of the city and its context, as well as the literature surrounding it.

Course Code: Humanities 331

Instruction Language: English

This course aims to enable students to find their place in the labor market by developing the appropriate competencies and promoting the right attitudes and behavior at work. This ongoing process embraces some subprocesses such as self-awareness, career exploration, career planning, continuous learning, and managing networking. The program takes a holistic view of the individual within a dynamic economy. Managing life trajectories in a global world demands agility, creativity, tech-savvy, teamwork, emotional intelligence, cultural awareness, flexibility, analytical skills, and critical thinking. Those are some of the competencies which will be developed along this course. In the context of Business, students will work on their personal marketing plan and their blogs. Therefore, participants will learn how to make a marketing plan to place themselves into the labor market through efficient personal branding techniques. The methodology promotes introspection, analytical and critical thinking, giving and receiving feedback from classmates and the professor, and teamwork. This is a course all students should take to clarify their career choices and to develop their resources to accomplish both their personal and professional goals.

Course Code: Politics 323

Instruction Language: English

This course offers an in-depth introduction to a fundamental geostrategic area since the end of World War II; the Middle East. The course will cover each region, but will always maintain the bigger, global picture behind the specific region. Both the Carter Doctrine (1980) and George W. Bush’s Greater Middle East and North Africa Initiative (2004) provide the references through with each region is studied, together with North Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Area of Influence of the Central Command.

Course Code: Politics/Economics 322

Instruction Language: English

This course aims to highlight the urban dimension of the European society, making reference to the different phenomena that European (and Spanish) cities face today. Students are introduced to the economic, political and social factors that configure urban Europe in order to understand its development in a global world. The course combines theoretical and practical sessions, presenting case studies of different European and Spanish cities. Field trips are a component of this course.

Course Code: Politics 328

Instruction Language: English

Ideas of Nation, Nationalism and State are examined using the Catalan Case and the evolution of such ideas in the West. Characteristics of different ideas of Nationalism and the main evolution of the Catalan identity as well as tensions in the Basque country will be covered.

Course Code: Politics 321

Instruction Language: English

This course explores the elements, figures and characters that shaped the Mediterranean political scenario since the French Revolution (1789) to the Barcelona Process or Euro-Mediterranean Policy. Students will understand the process that built the Mediterranean as it is today, giving special relevance to: the French Revolution, the emergence of Modernity and Liberalism in the Mediterranean, the Italian Unification, the European Imperialism in North Africa and the Middle East, the dictatorships in the Mediterranean, the two World conflicts and the Cold War in the Mediterranean.

Course Code: Politics 324

Instruction Language: English

Addresses development issues across different points in time and across different world regions. Two main topics will be analyzed: development and state. Latin America, Africa and Asia, often labeled as the “developing world” or “Third World” will be discussed, together with connotations of these labels.

Course Code: Science 351

Instruction Language: English

This course aims to empower STEM students with the essential skills and knowledge required to manage projects efficiently, enabling them to thrive as successful professionals in their respective fields. By combining theoretical foundations, practical applications, and real-world challenges, students will emerge with the confidence and competence to excel in diverse STEM projects and contribute effectively to the ever-evolving world of science and technology.

Course Code: Spanish 342

Instruction Language: Spanish

A deep development of the linguistic skills required to understand the Spanish language in academic settings including studies of sociocultural norms. A minimum level of B1.2 is required to take this course.

Course Code: Spanish 303

Instruction Language: Spanish

Development of the linguistic tools necessary to survive in the Spanish-speaking business world. Students will learn to appreciate and adopt different registers and to apply the appropriate terminology according to social convention. Students will learn to take structured and meaningful notes from meetings and to write reports, letters, memos and all business-related documents. Prerequisite: Students must place into Intermediate level (B1.1) or higher.

Course Code: Spanish 203

Instruction Language: Spanish

To succeed at this level student must demonstrate their capacity for linguistic activity that allows them to cover the following objectives in all the basic skills with a sufficient level of communicational effectiveness: Speaking, Writing, Speaking-writing activities, Social function, Expressive function, Evaluative function, Inductive function, Meta-linguistic function, Determinants, Nouns and adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Pronouns, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Spelling.

Course Code: Spanish 201

Instruction Language: Spanish

At the end of this course students should be able to: — Improve the degree of correctness in the pronunciation and intonation of Spanish. — Use Spanish to interact appropriately within the classroom, recognizing using communication mechanisms in this area. — Extract specific information from short oral messages issued through media of communication, in public places. — Participate appropriately in conversations of daily life face to face and by phone. — Recognize moods in the way the interlocutors express themselves and react appropriately. — Understand, in a global way, the information in texts on general topics. — Understand and extract specific information from real informative documents (posters, advertisements, information brochures, show posters, press articles, etc.). — Read aloud, and with a certain degree of correction, texts written by themselves or By others. — Narrate, in writing or orally, past, present or future events, ordering appropriately his speech. — Write letters, personal notes and postcards in an informal register. — Develop basic comprehension and expression strategies: deduce the meaning of a word by context, relating words with common roots, etc. — Take notes or transcribe oral messages into writing. — Expand the degree of knowledge of social and cultural aspects that favor the integration of the student into their learning environment. — Consolidate the use of a bilingual dictionary and get started in the use of a dictionary monolingual.

Course Code: SA1001S

Instruction Language: Spanish

Students in this course are expected to take part in conversations with native speakers with little or no difficulty and new grammatical errors and using acceptable pronunciation. Additionally, they should be prepared to handle literary texts and documents on any subject in their field of interest, and write complex texts with very few errors. To succeed at this level student must demonstrate their capacity for linguistic activity that allows them to cover the following objectives in all the basic skills with a sufficient level of communicational effectiveness: Speaking, Writing, Function of Language and Grammar. See the details syllabus in the AIFS Student Portal for additional details.

Course Code: SA1001S

Instruction Language: English

This Intensive Spanish Language course will prepare students to: – Be familiar with the Spanish alphabet letters and signs and relate them to the corresponding sounds. – Recognise the main intonations of the Spanish language. – Express themselves with a minimum level of correctness and a pronunciation that can be understood by a Spanish speaker. – Understand basic information (timetables, shopping, personal information) and communicate in everyday situations. – Take part in very simple conversations on topics of daily life: basic communicative situations (formulae for social interaction), personal relationships (talking about habits and personal tastes) and relationships with public service staff (asking for information). – Reading and overall understanding of very simple texts which allow basic activities to be carried out. – More precise reading and understanding of specific texts: enrolment forms, library service application forms, sports, etc. – Read aloud texts they have written themselves. – Narrate, simply and using simple structures, present and past events related to the present. Talk about future plans and intentions. – Fill in simple forms, write personal notes, postcards and brief letters. – Take notes and transcribe oral messages. – Apply strategies to improve comprehension of oral and written messages, associate meanings, discover similarities by comparing with other languages, identify internationalisms. – Use Spanish as a vehicular language of communicative interaction of the reading activity (between students and the teacher).

Course Code: SA1001S

Instruction Language: English

This intensive Spanish language course prepares students to do the following: On completing this course, student should be able to: – Relate letters to their corresponding sounds, especially homophones (b/v, c/z) and homographs (c, g, before e/i and a/o/u). – Recognise and pronounce the following with basic Spanish intonation of: declaration, exclamation, interrogation and hesitation. – Express themselves with a minimum level of correctness and a pronunciation that can be understood by a Spanish speaker. – Understand basic information (street signs, information about third parties, advertisements and instructions about basic academic tasks) and be able to communicate in everyday situations. – Take part in simple conversations about events in daily life: habitual communicative situations (forms of social interactions), personal relations (talking about experiences, asking for and giving opinions, talking about customs and comparing) and relations with the professionals and staff of public services (asking for information, assistance, requesting a service). – Read and gain a general and detailed understanding of simple texts that allow basic activities to be carried out. – Reading and accurate understanding of specific texts with the aid of a dictionary: academic programmes, recipes, cinema listings, etc. – Reading aloud texts written by themselves and by others. – Using simple structures to narrate present, past and future events. Describe proposals and intentions. – Fill in forms; write personal notes, postcards or informal letters. – Take notes and transcribe oral messages. – Apply strategies to increase understanding of oral and written messages, deduce meaning from context, associate meanings, discover similarities by comparison with another language, and identify internationalisms. – Use Spanish as a vehicular language of communicative interaction of the reading activity (between students and the teacher). – Start using a bilingual dictionary.

Course Code: SA1001S

Instruction Language: Spanish

This intensive upper intermediate Spanish language course prepares students to: On completing this course, student should be able to: – Understand without any difficulty any conversation between native speakers on nonspecialist themes, in standard register. – Follow an oral presentation in an academic environment on subject included in their studies (lectures, conferences, presentation and contributions by colleagues in the classroom), write and summarise information from notes taken during the class. – Understand the overall meaning and extract specific information for different types of oral and written texts. – Recognise the basic differences in formal and colloquial registers. – Recognise attitudes and moods in a speaker from intonation, gestures, rhythm, etc. – Understand genuine literary texts by contemporary authors, both Spanish and Latin American, with some lack of vocabulary. – Extract the main information from texts related to their professional, studies or any other kind of informative document. – Take part in conversations, discussions, debates, etc. on general subject matters, adjusting the discourse to the required register, formal or informal, with an appropriate control of the Spanish language and recognising idiomatic expressions appropriate to the level. – Speak about a subject with clarity and coherence for a brief period of time, suing the appropriate resources for discourse. – Write with correct spelling and talk with clarity and coherence about facts (past, present and future) related to their own situation. – Write texts (personal letters, formal letters, etc.), adapting the model and using the appropriate register, vocabulary and style for each type of text. – Write a report or essay about a specific subject related to their professional field or studies using appropriate vocabulary, register and style. – Reproduce orally and in writing information, opinions and stories from other people. – Use monolingual dictionaries and other necessary reference works to work independently in the process of learning.

Course Code: Spanish 101

Instruction Language: Spanish

This level is for students who have no previous knowledge of Spanish. During this course, students will be able to understand and express themselves in everyday situations and those related to the personal experiences of the learner, with basic language recourses. Students will be able to exchange simple and direct information. Included topics are: the present tense indicative or regular and irregular verbs, demonstrative and possessive adjectives, pronunciation and intonation, uses of “ser”, “estar” and “hay”, frequent reflexive verbs and definite and indefinite articles.

Course Code: Spanish 102

Instruction Language: Spanish

Students who have studied Spanish only in high school, or 1 or 2 semester(s) in college generally place in this level. During this course, students will be able to understand and express themselves in everyday situations and those related to the personal experiences, with basic language recourses. Students will be able to exchange simple and direct information. Included topics are: forms and uses of the gerund, forms and uses of “gustar”, “encantar”, “interesar”, the differences between “ser” and “estar”, the preterit perfect tense, positive imperative and expressions of cause and excuse.

Course Code: Spanish 401

Instruction Language: Spanish

Students with at least six semesters of college Spanish usually place in this level. Students will be able to understand and express themselves correctly and with fluidity in situations familiar to them and communicate adequately in unfamiliar situations through linguistically complex structures.

Course Code: Spanish 302

Instruction Language: Spanish

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Course Code: Spanish 301

Instruction Language: Spanish

Students with at least five semesters of college Spanish, experience living in a Spanish-speaking country or Spanish study on a regular basis since elementary school usually place in this level. During this course, students will be able to understand and express themselves in multiple and unfamiliar situations that will require exchanging information with complex linguistic structures. Content includes: uses of the imperfect, preterit, conditional, imperative, and subjunctive, correlation of the tenses in specific situations–arguments, debates, degrees of possibility, causes, consequence, etc., direct and indirect object pronouns, and the impersonal “se”.

Course Code: Spanish 101

Instruction Language: Spanish

This level is for students who have no previous knowledge of Spanish. During this course, students will be able to understand and express themselves in everyday situations and those related to the personal experiences. Students will be able to exchange simple and direct information. Included topics are: present tense of regular and irregular verbs, demonstrative and possessive adjectives, pronunciation and intonation, uses of “ser”, “estar” and “hay”, frequent reflexive verbs and definite and indefinite articles.

Course Code: Spanish 102

Instruction Language: Spanish

Students who have studied Spanish only in high school or one or two semester(s) in college generally place in this level. Students will be able to understand and express themselves in everyday situations and those related to the personal experiences, with basic language recourses. Students will be able to exchange simple and direct information. Included topics are: forms and uses of the gerund; forms and uses of “gustar”, “encantar”, “interesar”, the differences between “ser” and “estar”, the preterit perfect tense; positive imperative and expression of cause and excuse.

Course Code: Catalan 100

Instruction Language: Spanish

This course is designed for students to learn a basic understanding of the Catalan language to be able to use it in everyday life while in Barcelona. Upon successful completion of this course, users are able to cope linguistically in a range of limited but basic survival situations that require a very predictable use of language. They can: Give simple personal details about themselves, such as where they live, whom they know, what they like and what they have; express basic needs. Ask for and give specific information using common, everyday expressions and very simple phrases; understand short texts, expressed in simple language, directed at the general public; identify the central topic of longer messages and extract the main relevant points; write short, simple notes and texts and complete forms with personal details.

Course Code: SA1002S

Instruction Language: Spanish

On completing this course, student should be able to: Use a broad knowledge of the formal aspects of language to achieve a high degree of precision and appropriateness, both in comprehension and expression; understand overall meaning (capture the main ideas) and gain a deeper understanding of theatre plays, films, songs, TV programmes as well as messages or news in the media; Respond immediately and appropriately in different circumstances; produce more extensive texts with diverse objectives and functions, organising the ideas and information coherently and comprehensively, showing precision of expression and a command of the different registers; show a certain command of the use and social conventions of the language and the different registers; write clear, detailed descriptions and presentations on a wide range of topics including those in their specialist area, highlighting the most significant aspects to support them; use a broad vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions as well as a variety of connectors and textual markers; take part in debates and discussions on topics of general interest or news with sufficient fluency and spontaneity, showing good capacity for arguing a case; use linguistic and learning strategies to reflect on and correct the main shortfalls in expression and comprehension; understand the main ideas and extract specific information from different types of texts (informative, literary, etc.) showing an appreciation of the differences in style and rhetorical figures; identify the function and typology of a text or document, as well as the intention of the author or emitter; read and understand a broad range of extensive non-specialist texts; use the resources and materials at available with ease and efficiency to increase knowledge and resolve doubts; take notes from long presentations (conferences, talks, classes, speeches…) in standard language; write reports from spoken or written information from notes taken previously, in standard language; synthesise or summarise the information from an exhibitive text, oral or written, in standard language. Pre-requisite: Prior Upper Intermediate Spanish course or equivalent

Course Code: SA1002S

Instruction Language: English

This Beginning Spanish course is open to students with no prior Spanish Language. The course covers the Spanish alphabet letters and signs and corresponding sounds; the main intonations of the Spanish language; oral expression with a minimum level of correctness and a pronunciation that can be understood by a Spanish speaker; basic information (timetables, shopping, personal information) and communicate in everyday situations; very simple conversations on topics of daily life; basic communicational situations (forms of social interaction) and personal relations (talking about habits and personal tastes); reading and overall understanding of very simple texts which allow basic activities to be carried out; reading aloud texts that students have written themselves; simple narration and using simple structures, present and past events related to the present; writing personal notes and postcards and the use of Spanish as a vehicular language of communicative interaction of a reading activity (between students and the teacher).

Course Code: SA1002S

Instruction Language: English

On completing this course, student should be able to: Express themselves with a minimum level of correctness and a pronunciation that can be understood by a Spanish speaker; understand basic information (street signs, information about third parties, advertisements and instructions about basic academic tasks) and be able to communicate in everyday situations; Take part in simple conversations about events in daily life: habitual communicative situations (forms of social interactions), personal relations (talking about experiences, asking for and giving opinions, talking about customs and comparing) and relations with the professionals and staff of public services (asking for information, assistance, requesting a service); overall reading and understanding with a certain degree of detail of simple texts that allow students to take part in basic activities; reading and accurate understanding of specific texts with the aid of a dictionary; using simple structures to narrate present, past and future events; describe proposals and intentions; Fill in forms; write personal notes, postcards or informal letters; and take notes and transcribe oral messages.

Course Code: SA1002S

Instruction Language: English

To succeed at this level student must demonstrate their capacity for linguistic activity that allows them to cover the following objectives in all the basic skills with a sufficient level of communicational effectiveness: 1. Speaking: Communicate with a level of confidence on both habitual and less habitual matters related to their personal interests and specialist field; understand brief and clear public messages: announcements, signs, instructions, answering machines, most material recorded or broadcast in standard Spanish, etc.; hold face to face or telephone conversations with known and unknown people on personal questions and understand the possible replies, ask for (if necessary) clarification, more detail or repetition of the explanation (standard and colloquial); Describe a range of topics of interest, presenting them as a linear sequence of events; distinguish basic meaning from longer spoken information, presentations, interviews, documentaries, etc. (standard and colloquial); Use strategies to promote communicative capacity using resources of a limited command of Spanish: paraphrase, ask for help, retrieve information for an interlocutor, etc. (standard and colloquial). 2. Writing: Understand texts aimed at the general public: poster, notes, warnings, information leaflets, advertisements, programmes, institutional information, administrative forms, etc. (standard); understand and write message related to daily activities: notes, postcards, personal letters, etc. (standard and colloquial); understand basic press news information, opinion articles or journalistic reports (standard); tead specialised language texts related to professional activity, studies or personal interests: magazine articles, technical documents, etc; and be able to argue a case in writing with a reasonable level of coherence. 3. Speaking-writing activities: Take notes from brief, clear and precise oral information, spoken in a standard register; Summarise information taken from a written text or oral messages.

Course Code: SA1002S

Instruction Language: English

On completing this course, student should be able to: Improve their level of accuracy in pronunciation and intonation in Spanish; use Spanish to interact effectively in the classroom, recognising and using communication mechanisms in this area; Participate appropriately in everyday conversations, both face-to-face and by telephone; recognise moods from the way in which speakers express themselves and react appropriately; Understand in general terms the information in texts about general subjects; understand and extract specific information from real information documents (posters, advertisements, informative leaflets, events listings, press articles, etc.); narrate, orally or in writing, past, present or future events, organising the information adequately; write letters, personal notes and postcards in an informal style; take notes and transcribe oral messages; extend knowledge of social and cultural aspect that encourages integration of the student into their learning environment; consolidate the use of the bilingual dictionary and begin to use a monolingual dictionary. Pre-requisite: Prior Elementary Spanish course or equivalent.

Course Code: SA1002S

Instruction Language: English

On completing this course, student should be able to: Understand without any difficulty any conversation between native speakers on non-specialist themes, in standard register; follow an oral presentation in an academic environment on subject included in their studies (lectures, conferences, presentation and contributions by colleagues in the classroom), write and summarise information from notes taken during the class; recognise attitudes and moods in a speaker from intonation, gestures, rhythm, etc.; understand genuine literary texts by contemporary authors, both Spanish and Latin American, with some lack of vocabulary; intervene in conversations, discussions, debates, etc.; take part in conversations, discussions, debates, etc. on general subject matters, adjusting the discourse to the required register, formal or informal, with an appropriate control of the Spanish language and recognising idiomatic expressions appropriate to the level: speak about a subject with clarity and coherence for a brief period of time, suing the appropriate resources for discourse; write texts (personal letters, formal letters, etc.) adjust use of language to different models, using the appropriate vocabulary and register for each type of text; reproduce orally and in writing information, opinions and stories from other people. Prerequisite- Intermediate Spanish or equivalent

Course Code: Art 328

Instruction Language: English

The course is designed for photography enthusiasts who want to take control of their camera and start to explore the beauty and diversity of photography. The course is divided into 2 parts. In part 1 (technical) students will gain in-depth knowledge of digital cameras, learn the basics of composition, retouch images and learn about and get inspiration from some of the historical masters of photography. In part 2 (project) students will apply what they learned in part 1 and use their skills to work on an individual photography project. The task of part 2 is to conceptualize, edit a photographic essay and learn to work independently on photographic subjects. Requirements: Own DSLR, Bridge or Rangefinder camera