Alicante Courses – 2025 January Session

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Courses

You will enroll in three or four credits during the January term. Courses are intensive and meet for three hours each day plus nightly homework assignments. Language courses are small and have a maximum enrollment of 15 students. Courses in Spanish and European studies are designed to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject matter and to familiarize you with the region.

Course availability is contingent on student enrollment and is subject to change.

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Spanish Language Study

• Intermediate Spanish I

  January Session

  Spanish 200-level 3 credits Taught in Spanish

  This course is designed to help learners of Spanish to develop basic communicative competence and critical thinking skills. It offers an intensive study and practice of the productive and receptive language skills in the oral and written modes. The main emphasis of this track is on communication.

  Prerequisite: two semesters of college-level Spanish, or equivalent

• Intermediate Spanish II

  January Session

  Spanish 200-level 3 credits Taught in Spanish

  This course is designed to help learners of Spanish to develop basic communicative competence and critical thinking skills. It offers an intensive study and practice of the productive and receptive language skills in the oral and written modes. The main emphasis of this track is on communication.

  Prerequisite: three semesters of college-level Spanish, or equivalent

• Advanced Spanish I

  January Session

  Spanish 400-level 3 credits Taught in Spanish

  This course is designed for students who may manage in daily tasks and interactions, but still need to improve their control over different oral and written registers. In addition, these courses will offer them the opportunity to enhance their vocabulary in specific and technical areas, and to improve grammatical accuracy in their oral and written expression.

  Prerequisite: six semesters of college-level Spanish, or equivalent

European Studies

• Economic and Political Institutions of the European Union

  January Session

  Economics History Political Science 400-level 3 credits Taught in English

  The subject aims to analyze the past, present and future of European integration, on the basis of historic and economic reasoning. The process of European integration and its effects will be assessed taking into account differences in European Member States economies as well as considering the EU as a whole at the international level.

• Spanish Culture and Civilization

  January Session

  Spanish 300-level 3 credits Taught in Spanish

  This course will develop student understanding of topics related to contemporary Spanish culture and civilization. Students will build a strong theoretical and historical foundation to effectively analyze life in Spain in the present. This course will first introduce historical events during Franco’s dictatorship, the civil war, and the politics of Spain since the late 1970s. Then, students will have the opportunity to evaluate the changes that have taken place in society related politics, religion, economy, society, and LGBTQ rights. This course will also cover topics related to Spanish traditions, regionalism, and nationalism.

  Prerequisite: four semesters of college-level Spanish, or equivalent

To request a course syllabus: syllabus@usac.edu