Harvard Summer Program in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain

  Spain

• Barcelona: 
Barcelona
• Madrid: 
Madrid

Term: Summer 

Description: Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, offers a blend of industriousness and entertainment. Located on the Mediterranean, not far from France and the Balearic Islands, Barcelona boasts sun-drenched beaches and lush mountains, a vibrant medieval quarter, and world-class modern architecture, as well as an impressive array of museums, theaters, sports venues, parks, and promenades. Cosmopolitan and casual, bilingual (Spanish-Catalan) and multicultural, it is a city rich with history and art, where Columbus, Gaudí, Miró, and Picasso still figure prominently.

Though Barcelona is the home base for this program, students take two four-day excursions to Madrid, the cultural and geographic heart of the Iberian Peninsula. As the highest capital in Europe and the seat of the earlier empires, Madrid offers a striking counterpoint to Barcelona's coastal culture. Students in this program do coursework on the cultural history of these two Spanish metropolises, as well as advanced study of Spanish language and literatur

Highlights: SPAN S-74 Study Abroad in Spain: Madrid-Barcelona--Encuentros y desencuentros de la Modernidad
Luis Fernández-Cifuentes
This course is a comparative survey of the divergent modern developments of Madrid and Barcelona as reflected in literature, film, painting, sculpture, urban planning, architecture, and social and political history. The course includes two long weekends in Madrid and focuses primarily on the turn of two centuries, the nineteenth to the twentieth and the twentieth to the twenty-first.

SPAN S-51 Study Abroad in Spain: Advanced Oral and Written Expression
Luis Fernández-Cifuentes and Silvia Bonamusa
This suitably advanced language course (equivalent to Spanish 54) is designed, in conjunction with SPAN S-74, to strengthen oral and written skills through discussion of related Spanish texts and films. It includes intensive practice in pronunciation, listening comprehension, general expression of ideas and emotions, grammatical analysis, and vocabulary building. The readings and the visual materials in this course--from Santiago Rusiñol's narrative to Pons' films and Benet i Jornet plays--complement in different ways the simultaneous assignments in the Madrid-Barcelona course.

Prerequisites for both courses: two years of college-level Spanish or the equivalent

Cost in US$: $7,000

- tuition
- room and some meals
- all scheduled excursions and extracurricular activities

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to World Wide Participants.

Application Process Involves:

• Transcript
• Written Application

Year Founded: 1871