This location offers students a wealth of local cultural offerings as well as easy access to the region's other major cultural centers, including Granada, Sevilla, and Cadiz. Cordoba also has excellent connections to Madrid. Spring semester students may take advantage of Cordoba's festive, month-long celebration in May that indudes public access to the Arabic patios, fiamenco and Sevillanas dances, a fair, and the Semana Santa. Classes focus on the acquisition of functional communication skills and the study of Spanish culture and society. Students may participate for either the fall or spring semester.
All instruction is in Spanish.
Students will attend class four days a week. Two hours a day are devoted to language study, and two hours to the study of Spanish culture. Course work indudes an intermediate Spanish language course, along with a course on Spanish culture and civilization. Students will also take an additional course in either Spanish literature or contemporary Spain in the context of modern Europe. Excursions will be integrated into the course material.