Study Abroad | Granada
Summer 2024: Academics

Course Code: Art 301

Instruction Language: English

Spanish art from its origins to the present: pre-historic art, Spanish-Roman, Visigoth, Islamic, Asturian, Mozarabic, Romanesque, Mudejar, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Neoclassicissm, Romantic art and Impressionist painting, sculpture and archicture.

Course Code: Spanish 317/417

Instruction Language: Spanish

Offers a realistic and lively approach to situations students might encounter in careers, especially if interested in improving their knowledge of the Spanish and/or Latin American business world from a cross-cultural perspective. Student develop oral and written communication skills and pursue topics with materials used in business. Meets 5 hours per week for 20 hours total. Taught entirely in Spanish. Offered to Intermediate, Advanced and Superior students only.

Course Code: Environmental Science 301

Instruction Language: Spanish

Focuses on developing theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of technology in the energy resources sector in general and in particular renewable technologies. The subject matter focuses on the application of different systems of renewable energy such as solar thermal, solar photovoltaic and biomass. The course will include laboratory work and practical sessions.

Course Code: Spanish 318

Instruction Language: Spanish

Translating English to Spanish, increasing vocabulary and syntactical skills. Documents, poems, recipes and articles are translated. Students are evaluated weekly on individual translations out of class and during class on small group translation.

Course Code: Geography/History 303

Instruction Language: Spanish

Topics include Spain’s climate and vegetation, the development of towns and the current distribution of population, agriculture and industry, internal communications, foreign trade, tourism and the evolution of the Spanish economy. After a brief introduction to Spain’s history, this course covers aspects of contemporary history of Spain. It reviews the political, social and economic problems from 1900 to 1975: Alfonso XII, the Civil War, and the Franco regime. This course also covers the post-Franco transition to Democracy including the Constitution of 1978.

Course Code: Geography 301

Instruction Language: Spanish

Spain’s climate and vegetation, development of towns and population distribution, agriculture and industry, internal comunications, foreign trade, tourism and the evolution of the Spanish economy.

Course Code: Art/History 303

Instruction Language: Spanish

Follows the development of Spanish art from its Arabic origins to the present including Moslem, Visigothic, Mozarabic, Romanesque, Mudejar, Gothic, and the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Emphasis is placed on the Spanish masters: Velazquez, Goya, Picasso and Dalí. After a brief introduction to Spain’s history, this course covers aspects of contemporary history of Spain. It reviews the political, social and economic problems from 1900 to 1975: Alfonso XII, the Civil War and the Franco regime. This course also covers the post-Franco transition to Democracy including the Constitution of 1978.

Course Code: History 301

Instruction Language: English

Spain’s history from the first settlers to the present: Mediterranean colonists, Roman colonization, Islamic invasion, reconquest, Catholic kings, Emperor Carlos V, the 18th century and the War of Independence and Restoration. Political, social, and eco

Course Code: Internship 301

Instruction Language: Spanish

This course is available to students with an Upper Advanced level of Spanish who place into Spanish 304/403/404 Upper Advanced B2.2 level or above. Most internships are based in hotels in Granada. Working alongside professionals in the tourism and hospitality industry students will receive hands on experience and insight into business practice in Spain.

Course Code: Internship 302

Instruction Language: Spanish

Students undertaking the medical internship will work in a private hospital shadowing and working with healthcare professionals. Students must place into Spanish 304/403/404 Upper Advanced B2.2 level or above and be studying relevant (major or minor) health courses as part of their degree program.

Course Code: Law 301

Instruction Language: Spanish

This course addresses the essential institutions of the Spanish and European legal system as a starting point to deepen the study of law.

Course Code: Law 302

Instruction Language: Spanish

This course introduces Spanish business law to those interested in developing their understanding of economic activity in Spain, dealing with topics such as European law and the single market, competition and management, company tax law and banking law, among others.

Course Code: Law 303

Instruction Language: Spanish

This course addresses the essential institutions of the Spanish and European legal systems as a starting point to deepen the study of business law.

Course Code: Literature 302

Instruction Language: Spanish

Literary currents of Hispano-American countries throughout five centuries of American literature in Spanish. Azuelo’s “Los de abajo”, Rivera’s “La Voragine”, Jorge Luis Borges’ “Ficciones”, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes.

Course Code: Literature 305

Instruction Language: Spanish

An overview of the history of Latin American literature from indigenous writers to the most contemporary writers. Some of the most representative works of the literature of these countries will be analyzed so that students get a clear introductory idea of Latin American literature. The text will be the basis from which the introductory theory of each topic will be contextualized. In addition, the course aims to be an approach to micro-reports, a narrative genre paradigm of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from its origins to contemporary productions. Throughout the course, the different Latin American traditions will be investigated, from the formal and stylistic characteristics of the micro-relation through the analysis of the most representative texts of the genre.

Course Code: Literature 303

Instruction Language: Spanish

The course aims to be an approach to the micro-relation, a narrative genre paradigm of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from its origins to contemporary productions. Throughout the course, the different Spanish and Latin American traditions will be investigated, inspecting the formal and stylistic characteristics of the micro-relation through the analysis of the most representative texts of the genre. In this course the fundamental core of the work is the texts. For this reason, the class is structured on the basis of theoretical information about the author and the time to move to class work of the texts.

Course Code: Literature 301

Instruction Language: English

Traces the major movements and principal authors of Spanish literature. Movements and periods studied include: Medieval romances, the Siglo de Oro, Romanticism, 20th century. Genres such as drama, poetry and novels are studied. Authors and works such as La Celestina, El Lazarillo de Tormes, Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quijote, Lope de Vega, and F. Garcia Lorca are studied.

Course Code: Literature 304

Instruction Language: Spanish

This course will work on the most important chapters of Spanish Literature from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. There will be a historical and social approach that will help the student to contextualize the literary text. Texts and fundamental authors of that period will then be read and analyzed so that the theory is contextualized from the reading of the text. In addition, the course aims to be an approach to micro-reports, a narrative genre paradigm of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from its origins to contemporary productions. Throughout the course, the different Spanish traditions will be investigated, from the formal and stylistic characteristics of the micro-relation through the analysis of the most representative texts of the genre.

Course Code: Marketing 301

Instruction Language: English

The aim of this course will be to enable the student to understand/acknowledge the concept of international marketing and its function within the global markets; the socio-economic, political, legal, cultural, technological and competitive dimensions of the current international scenario such as its potential impact onto the development of the international marketing strategies; and the different approaches to the process of internationalization, as well as the main drivers and obstacles to the internationalization.

Course Code: Marketing 318

Instruction Language: English

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Course Code: Religion/Sociology 308

Instruction Language: English

Importance and effect of Islamic influence on Spain’s history, tradition, life and culture. The concept of Islam, message of the Koran, Andalucía under Islamic rule, North African dynasties in Andalucía, cultural, literary and artistic aspects of Islam and Islamic architecture and symbols as exemplified by the Alhambra.

Course Code: Sociology 309

Instruction Language: Spanish

Basic elements of Hispano-American culture are addressed to provide an understanding of its complexity. The American geographic environment, racial distribution and historical evolution, demographics and problems of growth, family structure and daily life, social groups and their behavior, political tendencies, current ideologies, dependence, underdevelopment, external debt, art and folklore.

Course Code: Sociology 306/406

Instruction Language: English

A unified and integrated interpretation of Spanish civilization and today’s society in Spain. Themes of this complex cultural reality are the relationships between the professional, labor and cultural sectors of society, the aging of the population, gypsies, bullfighting, Spanish holidays, gastronomy and flamenco.

Course Code: Religion/Sociology 310

Instruction Language: Spanish

Discusses the importance and the effect of Islamic rule on Spain’s history, tradition, language and culture. Topics include: the concept of Islam, the message of the Koran, Andalucia under Islamic rule, North African dynasties in Andalucia, the Nazari dynasty of Granada, cultural, literary and artistic aspects of Islam, and Islamic architecture and symbols as exemplified by the Alhambra. Spanish civilization and contemporary society are examined through themes such as the relationships between professional, labor and cultural sectors, the aging of the population, gypsies, bullfighting, holidays, gastronomy and flamenco. Audio-visuals, newspapers, magazines and texts are used.

Course Code: Sociology 311

Instruction Language: Spanish

Spanish civilization and contemporary society are examined through themes such as the relationships between professional, labor and cultural sectors, the aging of the population, gypsies, bullfighting, holidays, gastronomy and flamenco. Audio-visuals, newspapers, magazines and texts are used. Basic elements of Hispano-American culture are addressed to provide an understanding of its complexity. Topics include: the American geographic environment, racial distribution and historical evolution, demographics and problems of growth, family structure and daily life, social groups and their behavior, political tendencies, current ideologies, dependence, underdevelopment, external debt, art and folklore.

Course Code: Spanish 110/210/310/410

Instruction Language: Spanish

Students increase their communicative competence through intensive practice in speaking Spanish. Emphasis on pronunciation and vocabulary through discussion of contemporary topics such as newspapers, magazines, literary texts, songs and television commercials. Taught entirely in Spanish.

Course Code: Spanish 110/210/310/410

Instruction Language: Spanish

Open to students at all levels. Students increase their communicative competence through intensive practice in speaking Spanish. Emphasis on pronunciation and vocabulary through discussion of contemporary topics such as newspapers, magazines, literary texts, songs and television commercials. 

Course Code: Spanish 201

Instruction Language: Spanish

Students who have studied Spanish throughout high school and continued with 1 or 2 semester(s) in college, or students who have 2 or 3 semesters in college, usually place in this level. During this course, students will be able to understand and express themselves in general situations that require the interchange of information and show personal attitudes about a multitude of familiar themes, not exclusively related to personal experience. Specific content includes: contrasting uses of the indefinite and the indicative perfect, morphology and uses of the indicative imperfect, “hace”, impersonal “se”, “parecerse”, and possessive adjectives and pronouns, making hypothesis.

Course Code: Spanish 103

Instruction Language: Spanish

A bridge level between the Elementary and Intermediate levels, this course concentrates on increasing students’ oral and written skills. Students who have studied one or two semester(s) in college generally place in this level. Students will be able to ask for and give personal information, compare, express opinions, security and insecurity and judgments. Grammar topics include: demonstrative and possessive pronouns, direct and indirect object pronouns, the preterit, the imperative and the imperfect tenses.

Course Code: Spanish 401

Instruction Language: Spanish

Students with at least 6 semesters of college Spanish place into this level. During this course, students will be able to understand and express themselves correctly and with fluidity in situations familiar to them and communicate adequately in situations that are not familiar to them through linguistically complex structures. Specific topics include: specific uses of the infinitive, gerund, participle, conditional and future tenses, particularities in the use of “ser” and “estar” and the passive voice. Cultural content includes themes such as; “20th Century Spanish History”, “The Cultural legacy: Christian, Jews and Moors”, and “Gastronomy: The Mediterranean Diet”.

Course Code: Spanish 302

Instruction Language: Spanish

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Course Code: Spanish 202

Instruction Language: Spanish

Students who have studied Spanish throughout high school and continued with 2 or 3 semesters in college, or students who have four semesters in college, usually place in this level. Focus on communication skills and grammar. During this course, students will be able to understand and express themselves in general situations that require the interchange of information and show personal attitudes about a multitude of familiar themes, not exclusively related to personal experience. Specific content includes: morphology and uses of the future and conditional tenses, morphology and uses of the present subjunctive, giving advice, morphology and uses of the imperfect subjunctive.

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: Spanish 402

Instruction Language: Spanish

Bilingual students generally place into this level. During this course, students will be able to understand and express themselves correctly and with fluidity in situations familiar to them and communicate adequately in situations that are not familiar to them through linguistically complex structures. Specific topics include: prepositional patterns of verbs; problematic prepositions; proverbs and sayings; lexical adaptations on different socio-linguistic levels and varied conversational recourses. Cultural content includes themes such as: “The Family Structure”, “Principle Political, Cultural and Ideological Tendencies in Today’s Spain”, “Bullfighting” and “Flamenco”.

Course Code: Spanish 303

Instruction Language: Spanish

Students who have studied Spanish throughout high school and continued with 2 or 3 semesters in college, or students who have 4 semesters in college, usually place in this level. Focus on communication skills and grammar. During this course, students will be able to understand and express themselves in general situations that require the interchange of information and show personal attitudes about a multitude of familiar themes, not exclusively related to personal experience. Specific content includes: morphology and uses of the future and conditional tenses, morphology and uses of the present subjunctive, giving advice, morphology and uses of the imperfect subjunctive. This course meets for 45 hours.

Course Code: Spanish 304

Instruction Language: Spanish

A complete study of Spanish grammar for students at an Intermediate level. Tenses, constructions and usages. Regular and irregular verbs, imperatives, the indicative versus the subjunctive and active and passive constructions.

Course Code: Spanish 203

Instruction Language: Spanish

Students who have studied Spanish throughout high school and continued with 1 or 2 semester(s) in college, or students who have 2 or 3 semesters in college, usually place in this level. During this course, students will be able to understand and express themselves in general situations that require the interchange of information and show personal attitudes about a multitude of familiar themes, not exclusively related to personal experience. Specific content includes: contrasting uses of the indefinite and the indicative perfect, morphology and uses of the indicative imperfect, “hace”, impersonal “se”, “parecerse”, and possessive adjectives and pronouns, making hypothesis. This course meets for 45 hours.

Course Code: Spanish 204

Instruction Language: Spanish

A general review of Spanish grammar. Differences between ser and estar, tenses in the indicative mood, constructions with si, que and como, prepositions and pronouns. Uses of the subjunctive.

Course Code: Spanish 403

Instruction Language: Spanish

Students with at least 5 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 situations not necessarily familiar to them that will require exchanging information and personal opinions with complex linguistic structures. Specific content includes: uses of the imperfect, preterit, conditional, imperative and subjunctive, correlation of the tenses in specific communicative situations – arguments, debates, degrees of possibility, cause, consequence, etc., direct and indirect object pronouns, and the impersonal “se.” This course meets for 45 hours.

Course Code: Spanish 404

Instruction Language: Spanish

Specific content includes: use of the subjunctive in forming opinions, values and attitudes, marginal uses of the imperfect: dreams, fiction, virtuosity, use of the compound conditional in the formulation of hypothesis and phonetic characteristics of Spanish.

Course Code: Spanish 315

Instruction Language: Spanish

Designed for students who already have a sufficient fluency in Spanish and who wish to become more expressive in the everyday language. Special attention is paid to vocabulary, the semantic differences of words in Spain and Latin America, gestures, phrases, slang and sign language. Themes are practiced through oral discussion, written essays and audio tapes.