In addition, the University of Iowa directly sponsors the Iowa Summer Program in Valladolid, Spain, which includes five weeks of classes and one week of travel. Classes include grammar and conversation, culture and literature. Students live with host families in the city of Valladolid, located in the Meseta Central of Spain, approximately 120 miles northwest of Madrid. This program serves students who want to complete the General Education sequence in Spanish as well as students who have no more than one Spanish course beyond the two-year basic sequence. Students take language skills courses and can choose from a variety of elective courses, ranging from courses taught in English which satisfy UI General Education requirements to courses taught in Spanish on Spanish American literature, Venezuelan history and society, and art history.
Students live with host families.
Like the USAC Program in the Basque Country, there are four tracks of language skills courses, and a number of elective courses focusing on Latin American history, culture and literature. At the Costa Rica sites, there are also a number of courses on tropical biology and ecology. Students can study for a semester or a year in these programs. More information and application materials can be obtained from the Office for Study Abroad. The University of Iowa is one of the participating institutions in the CIC Summer Program in Guanajuato, Mexico , which is primarily designed for students with six or more previous semesters of Spanish.