Bilbao, long the largest business and cultural city in Northern Spain, has enjoyed a relaunching of the city as an international tourist center due to the recent opening of the Guggenheim-Bilbao Museum. The International Spanish Programs of Deusto are Intensive Courses in Spanish as a foreign language. The CIDE Programs forms part of the School of Letters at the University of Deusto, which is known for its longstanding tradition in language teaching and by its appointment as a host venue of the Instituto Cervantes. CIDE not only offers year around, semester, and summer programs in Spanish language and culture, but also the opportunity for students to take courses in Business and Economics, Sociology, Education, European Studies, or Engineering in the different Schools during the academic year at the University of Deusto. In the Summer 104 program, students will take 14 hours of class work per week.
Classes meet, according to the calendar above, for a total of twenty-two days, five days a week.
This means a total of 62 classroom contact hours. Additionally, built into the program are several excursions, beginning with a study tour of Madrid, Toledo, and Segovia, and a day trip to the world famous Sanfermines in Pamplona. As a point of reference, the semester-long 104 course at Vanderbilt meets five hours per week, meaning five hours per week times fourteen weeks, equaling 70 contact hours. These two courses combined will be the equivalent of Spanish 104. Students will take both the language course and the culture course.