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This course is meant for students with little or no experience with the Spanish language. You will learn basic greetings and sayings to help you better navigate the local Segovia community and Spanish culture during the program.

Leonardo da Vinci was working in a time before the split between art and science, before the split between the humanities and science. As Fritjof Capra writes, Leonardo can be seen as working through an ecological world view, where art and science are informed by each other to understand the complex dynamics by which life is sustained and nurtured.

Umberto Eco (1932-2016) was a world-renowned Italian media theorist and bestselling novelist who loved to explore and interpret how cultures make sense of themselves through language and symbols. From the study of James Bond to Superman to James Joyce and Thomas Aquinas, from the Monasteries in the Middle Ages to California's Hearst Castle, Eco was a cultural detective. He studied how we make meaning in popular culture as well as high art.

This is a three-week long course in which students will go on excursions to two large-scale indigenous territories.

This class introduces students to a selection of texts written in the various languages of the Iberian Peninsula (Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Castilian, Catalan, Asturian, Portuguese) from 900-1600 in their literary, artistic, and historical contexts. It is a survey course meant to familiarize students with some of the major historical, cultural, and literary currents of the premodern Iberian world. In addition, students will gain proficiency in the critical analysis of primary literary texts, using secondary texts as supporting evidence for historical and cultural context.

In this course we will study the languages of Iberia in their socio-cultural context. Topics will include the development of the Iberian Romance languages from Latin, Andalusi Arabic in its classical and vernacular forms as well as Aljamiado (Islamic Spanish), Hebrew, and Judeo-Spanish. Emphasis will be on language use across different speech communities, and the relationship between written and spoken communication in their social, cultural, and political contexts.

Internships integrate theory and practice through planned, supervised work experience.  A key component of a student’s professional development is the ability to apply what has been learned as a university student, to the world of work.  This course offers students individualized, applied learning opportunities to explore and clarify career goals, apply theory, acquire new skills, gain experience, network with professionals, and improve Spanish language proficiency. 

This course aims to provide a comprehensive but selective overview and analysis of the landmarks of Italian cinema from its beginnings in the Silent era to current production more than 100 years later. The course examines the ways in which Italian cinema reflects the evolution of modern Italy in terms of the changing social, political, economic and cultural developments which characterize 20th century Italian life.

The composition class contributes to the development of written production and interaction. The development of such a skill is based on four axes: content; acquisition and expansion of vocabulary; grammar; and spelling all based on students' previous knowledge. The above is based on the fact that writing is a technique that exercises different functions in everyday life according to the contexts and purposes of the user of the language