Madrid, Spain

COURSES

Students must register for 8 points. It is strongly suggested that students register for one 4-point language course and one 4-point content course or for one 8-point intensive language course.

LANGUAGE COURSES

Elementary Spanish (Intensive)
SPAN-UA 9010 - Staff - 8 points - sample course syllabus
Open to students with no previous training in Spanish and to others on assignment by placement test. Conducted in Spanish.
Completes the equivalent of a year's elementary course in one semester. This course is supplemented by cultural activities in Madrid as well as lectures and excursions with professional guides and professors whose field of expertise corresponds to each activity.

Spanish for Advanced Beginners (Intensive)
SPAN-UA 9015 – Staff – 8 points; Prerequisite: SPAN-UA 0001 or the equivalent.
Intensive Spanish for Advanced Beginners is an intensive language course designed to help students with limited knowledge of Spanish strengthen their language skills and develop their cultural competency. The course covers the materials of Spanish 2 and Spanish 3 in one semester. Successful completion of this course prepares students for a fourth semester college Spanish language course.

Intermediate Spanish (Intensive)
SPAN-UA 9020 - Staff - 8 points - sample course syllabus
Prerequisite for NYU students: SPAN-UA 0010 or SPAN-UA 0002. Completes MAP language requirement for NYU students. Conducted in Spanish.
Completes the equivalent of a year's intermediate course in one semester. Promotes proficiency in reading and writing as well as oral performance. This course provides direct contact with and immersion in the Madrid community, supplemented by cultural activities, lectures, and excursions with professional guides and professors whose field of expertise corresponds to any given activity.

Intermediate Spanish, Level II
SPAN-UA 9004 - Staff - 4 points Prerequisites for NYU students: SPAN-UA 0003
Conducted in Spanish.
Intermediate Spanish Level II is a four-credit course that reviews and continues the material covered in Spanish SPAN-UA 0003. The principal goal of this course is to provide you with the opportunity to improve your oral and written communication skills in the language, by applying all the grammar rules you have learned and will be reviewing. You will be expected to substantially increase your working vocabulary and make solid progress in reading and writing skills.

ADVANCED LANGUAGE COMPOSITION COURSES

Advanced Grammar and Composition
V95.9100 - Staff - 4 points - sample course syllabus
Prerequisite: SPAN-UA 0004 or SPAN-UA 0020, a minimum score of 660 on the NYU language placement exam or on the SAT II, a score of 4 on the AP language exam, or permission of the director of Spanish language program. Conducted in Spanish.
Designed to expand and consolidate the student's lexical and grammatical understanding of the language and to introduce the student to the fundamental principles of expository writing as they apply to Spanish, through exercises, readings, and intensive practice of various prose techniques and styles.

Critical Approaches: Reading, Writing, and Textual Analysis
SPAN-UA 9200 - Staff - 4 points - sample course syllabus
Prerequisite for NYU Students: SPAN-UA 0100. Non-NYU students must have advanced Spanish language skills. Conducted in Spanish.
Introduction to literary analysis through close readings of texts from the early to modern periods of peninsular Spanish and Spanish American literatures. Engages students in the practice of textual explication, provides basic critical skills, and encourages reflection on literature as a system.

Blogging Spain
SPAN-UA 9950.001 - Armando Figueroa - 4 points
Prerequisite: SPAN-UA 0100 or permission of the director of undergraduate studies. Conducted in Spanish. Course for students beyond SPAN-UA 9100 Advanced Grammar and Composition level of Spanish.
This course aims to develop students’ written skills in a more sophisticated and academic manner in order to be able to report on their overall cultural experience in Spain. We will work with newspaper articles, podcasts, radio, and TV programs from Spanish media to cover current social, political and cultural issues. The coverage of political and cultural developments in Spain in American media will also be examined to complement our newsgathering and research. Students will publish a blog that includes their different journalistic articles and their summaries about the different class and program activities. Therefore, our aim will be to acquire a broad understanding of the Spanish modern society while developing new linguistic skills in Spanish.

TOPICS COURSES CONDUCTED IN SPANISH

Masterpieces in the Prado Museum
ARTH-UA 9328 - Staff - 4 points - sample course syllabus
Prerequisite: SPAN-UA 0100 or permission of the director of undergraduate studies. Conducted in Spanish.
For description, see ARTH-UA 9338, below.

Cultural History of Spain
SPAN-UA 9310.001 – Staff – 4 points
Prerequisite: SPAN-UA 0100 or permission of the director of undergraduate studies. Conducted in Spanish.
This course provides an introduction to the making of modern Spain through the study of key cultural practices in literature, visual art, film, and performance from the 19th century to the present. We ask: what are the different materials that Spanish artists and writers have chosen to articulate the often complex understandings they have of themselves, their nation(s), their relation to modernity (its opportunities and challenges), and the broader international community? Rather than assume simplistic answers to these questions, or take for granted a relation between a specific form, be it literary, visual or performative, this class will ask students to critically approach Spanish culture by learning about specific works (and the close analysis of them) and the contexts within which they exist (when they were made, how they were perceived, and how we come to study them today). The time frame for this class is the mid-nineteenth century through the late-twentieth century. Among the different media and materials we will look at are: fiction, poetry, film (fiction and documentary), painting, poster art, photography, performance, and architecture. Readings will be taken from a variety of sources (not just one textbook) and we will try as often as possible to incorporate works of art, films, lectures, and performances that are taking place in our community. The goal of this class is for students to actively engage in an informed analysis of cultural works from Spain in order for each student to better understand and question the relation between cultural forms and questions of national identity, tradition, modernity, and authorship as they relate to the historical moment and location in which they are produced.

Spanish Culture through Cinema
SPAN-UA 9994 - Staff - 4 points - sample course syllabus
Prerequisite: SPAN-UA 0100 or permission of the director of undergraduate studies. Conducted in Spanish.
A survey of Hispanic cinema from the early beginnings of the silent movie to the present day. The works of important film directors from Spain and Latin America, like Buñuel, Gutiérrez Alea, María Novarro, and Almodóvar, are studied, as well as the phenomenon of cinema as a reflection of the political, social, and cultural development of the country and its people. A selection of the most representative films is shown in class and in theatres of arte y ensayo, such as the well-known filmoteca of Madrid.

TOPICS COURSES CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH

Masterpieces in the Prado Museum
SPAN-UA 9338 - Staff - 4 points - sample course syllabus
Conducted in English.
A gallery course focusing on the baroque schools of Rubens and Rembrandt, "tenebrist" painting, Velázquez, and the etchings and paintings of Goya. Ends with a survey of the painters of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Women's Writing in Spain and Latin America
SPAN-UA 9640 - Staff - 4 points - sample course syllabus
Conducted in English.
Students read a selection of novels written by women from both Spain and Latin America in translation. Class discussion also focuses on Feminist theory, as well as current trends in literary criticism.

COSTS

Undergraduate Tuition
$6744 (8 points)

Program & Activities Fee
$550

International Health Insurance
approximately $70

Housing
Estimated Homestay Costs:
Homestay (with Meals): $1,723 (single) and $1,544 (double)
Homestay (without Meals): $1,158 (single) and $980 (double)

Estimated Apartment Costs:
Two-month rent ranges from $2,550 (studio) to $2,000 (four-bedroom apartment). Additional housing information, with detailed rental rates, will be made available online to accepted students.

PLEASE NOTE: All students participating in the program are required to live in NYU-provided housing. Students are billed a standard housing rate in the spring. Housing charges will be adjusted at the end of the program based on actual housing assignments, which may result in an additional charge or credit issued in the late summer.

There is an additional registration and services fee of:
$250 for students registered at NYU for spring 2012
$276 for students not registered at NYU for spring 2012