UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID
This exchange program is sponsored by SDSU International Business Program
Contact studyabroad@sdsu.edu at the International Student Center for more information

http://www.uva.es/

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The University of Valladolid is one of the oldest in Spain, and although, the exact date of its foundation is unknown, the first reference to it is in a document of King Sancho IV of Castilla in 1293. In the 16th century, Valladolid was declared one of the three principal universities of the Kingdom of Spain. Through the years, Valladolid has added among others, faculties or college of Sciences, Economics, Law, Arts and Medicine. Students registered for courses at the University number in the 40,000s.

The beautiful, medium-sized, progressive city of Valladolid, where the University is located is the capital of the region of Castilla and Leon. Valladolid has a population of approximately 450,000 and its weather is very comfortable, but the winters are colder than San Diego's and the summers are hotter. Valladolid is one the most important cities of Spain combining the splendor of its past with contemporary advances and development. The city houses famous "Castillos" and museums such as the National Museum of Sculpture and Casa de Colón, where he died.

The city and its surroundings are well known for the quality of Castillian Spanish, which is heard there. Great, famous writers and poets such as Miguel de Cervantes and José Zorrila have been raised or lived in this city.

HOUSING

The University offers the following different types of accommodation to our students:

Single room in a student apartment: these are apartments with kitchen facilities that you would share with other students. The approximate cost is between $350 and $400 per month.

University residence: the residences are very limited and only available for students staying for the full academic year.

Family housing: students would live in a single room with a family and full board is provided. The approximate cost is between $300 and $500 per month.

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

Valladolid's academic year starts in late September and continues into July at the end of spring semester. The University does not go by semesters, so specific arrangements have to be made with the professors at the University in order to come back on time to take classes at SDSU.

UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALA DE HENARES (Graduate Spanish Majors Only)
This exchange program is sponsored by SDSU'S Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Contact studyabroad@sdsu.edu at the International Student Center for more information

http://www.alcala.es

SPECIAL NOTE: Preference is given to graduate students .

The University is believed to have its origins in the 13th Century (1293), under the regime of King Sancho IV de Castilla. Originally founded as a General Studies Institution, the University became the focus of the Spanish Renaissance in the 16th Century. After a period of decline in the 18th Century, the University was transferred to Madrid in the 19th Century. However, in the academic year 1975-1976 the University re-opened its doors in Alcalá de Henares.

Ever since 1979, when it was formally reestablished, the University has continued its excellent academic trajectory and today it houses among, many others, the faculty of Medicine, Environmental Sciences and the Economic and Entrepreneurial Sciences. The University district and some of the university's centers such as the University's Hospital Ramon y Cajal and the Center of Iberoamerican Industrial Relations are in Madrid.

The City of Alcalá de Henares is about 20 miles from Madrid and it has a population of 166,925. It is part of the comunidad Autónoma de Madrid. Alcalá de Henares, a city of great historic tradition was initially called Complutum by the Romans. In December 3, 1998, UNESCO declared the city and its University as "Patrimonio de la Humanidad" (Monumental City of the Patrimony of Humanity). UNESCO recognizes Alcalá de Henares and its University not only as contributors to the Spanish language and of architectural richness, but also as a great cultural influence in the world.

HOUSING

Students who go to Alcalá de Henares have the following options:

University residencies: double occupancy rooms, at approximately $250 a month, or single occupancy rooms at about $350 a month.

Apartments: lodging with one or two more students for which you have to pay between $200 to $300 a month per person.

Family housing: a private room in a family home

Hotels and Pensions: the University provides information about different hotels and pensions at affordable prices.

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

Alcala's academic calendar year starts on the last week of September and it is organized in two semesters.

Spring Semester: Late September - early February
Fall Semester: Late February - early June

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Contact studyabroad@sdsu.edu at the International Student Center for more information 

Madrid, Spain (pop. 4 million)

Language of instruction: Spanish 
http://www.uam.es/ 
                 

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Locale: Madrid became Spain’s capital simply through its geographical position at the centre of Iberia . When Felipe II moved the seat of government here in 1561 his aim was to create a symbol of the unification and centralization of the country, and a capital from which he could receive the fastest post and communications from each corner of the nation. The site itself had few natural advantages – it is 300km from the sea on a 650-metre-high plateau, freezing in winter, burning in summer – and it was only the determination of successive rulers to promote a strong central capital that ensured Madrid’s survival and development. Nonetheless, it was a success, and today Madrid is a vast, predominantly modern city, with a population of some three million and growing. The journey in – through a stream of concrete-block suburbs – isn't pretty, but the streets at the heart of the city are a pleasant surprise, with pockets of medieval buildings and narrow, atmospheric alleys, dotted with the oddest of shops and bars, and interspersed with eighteenth-century Bourbon squares. By comparison with the historic cities of Spain – Toledo, Salamanca, Sevilla, Granada – there may be few sights of great architectural interest, but the monarchs did acquire outstanding picture collections, which formed the basis of the Prado museum. This has long ensured Madrid a place on the European art tour, and the more so since the 1990s arrival – literally down the street – of the Reina Sofía and Thyssen-Bornemisza galleries, state-of-the-art homes to fabulous arrays of modern Spanish painting (including Picasso's Guernica ) and European and American masters.

Profile: The Autonomous University of Madrid was created in 1968. It was conformed by five faculties: Sciences, Law, Philosophy, Arts & Letters, Medicine, Political Science, Economics and Commercial (Economic Section); localized in different areas of Madrid . On October 25, 1971, with the inauguration of Cantoblanco's campus, the university started to grow in its infrastructure. The university raised the number of staff; the Psychology faculty is created; and also raised the number of research projects and help services for those activities.

The Autonomous University of Madrid is a public institution in the Spanish and international context. It is recognized by its highest quality researcher units, its enterprising capacity, its permanent search of the educational excellence, as its noticeable social commitment. Its international projection is seen promoted by numerous programs of exchange with universities of the entire world, in which students, professors and not educational personnel participate. The Autonomous University of Madrid offers undergraduate and graduate studies. The innovative teaching, research and quality defines it personality. Its management, transparent and efficient, is oriented to service the users. The proposal of physical ordering of the campus carried out by the architect Carlos Ferrán, in 1983, was the base of its subsequent urban development that materializes in the following years with the construction of numerous buildings and infrastructures that conforms its current image.

The campus of Cantoblanco has 22.252.000 square meters total surface. Of the 766.630 m2 built-up, 120.000 are zones landscaped, which gives the feeling of a privilege mountain area. In the campus of Cantoblanco are found the building of the governed and central services, and the faculties of Sciences, Philosophy and Letters, Law, Economics and Business, Psychology, Education and the School Upper technical college. The campus of the Faculty of Medicine is situated next to the hospital The Peace.

The university is gifted of spaces and infrastructures adapted for the work and living of the university community, with a great respect by the environment. It possesses an excellent communication with Madrid and neighboring towns, such as Alcobendas , San Sebastián of the Kings, Three Songs and Old Apiary. The presence of schools (preschool, school), offers an extensive cultural and sports that promote complementary leisure activities, and the basic services (bookstore, pharmacy, optical, banking branch offices, travel agencies) facilitate the life in the campus and they permit to be approached each time more to their initial conception of university campus.

These conditions create the environment required for the learning, the professional training, the communication and, above all, the life forms experience, the acquisition of know-how and of convictions, key for an integral formation in a company of just, supportive, and free beings.

Divisions: The University has seven main faculties: Sciences, Law, Philosophy and Letters, Law, Economics and Business (Marketing, Economics, Business and Tourism), Psychology, Education and the School Upper technical college.

Room and board : The University offers four mayor sources of housing: Colegio Mayor “Juan Luis Vives,” University Residence “Erasmo,” Residence “La Cristalera” and the Program of living Intergeneration “Vive y Convive.” For a better description of the housing facilities, please visit http://www.uam.es/alojamientos.html . In a north tranquil zone of Madrid, the Greater School Juan Luis receives university students from all the corners of the Spanish geography. Its proximity to the Plaza of Castile and to the Station of Chamartín, makes the place suitable of residence for all students that choose the Autonomous University of Madrid to initiate their university studies. The temporary stays of visiting professors of the U.A.M. from different countries, also enrich the day by day of our School. The prices for housing vary from €285 (around U$393.00) for a share room and €577 (around U$796) for single room.

Exchange dates: It is recommended that the students go abroad to UAM in the spring semester because the fall semester overlaps with the SDSU academic semester. The spring semester at UAM starts February 11, 2008, and ends on June 24, 2008. 

UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA

This exchange program is sponsored by SDSU’s International Student Center
Contact studyabroad@sdsu.edu at the International Student Center for more information

Locations: Four campuses in the following locations:
Zaragoza; Population: 660,000
Huesca; Population: 52,000
Teruel; Population: 34,000
La Almendua de Dona Godina; Population:  9,000
Language of Instruction: English, Spanish
Spring semester or Academic year exchanges

Universidad de Zaragoza
International Student website
Courses Available  ("First and second level studies" refer to undergraduate programs)
Courses in English(“Oferta de asignaturas en inglés” is posted for academic year)

Application Form (In the section for "Otros Datos” please select #8 "Programas de intercambio con gratuidad", and leave blank the section for "Datos economicos").

Profile:  The University of Zaragoza, with its 35,000 students, is meeting point of an increasingly multicultural population with science and research, open to a constantly widening and evolving world.
The University of Zaragoza features 22 faculties, schools and colleges, as well as 5 Research Institutes spread among 6 campuses. Some of them are among the best in their specialties. Within these, the university offers 94 undergraduate degrees, 42 Masters, 29 Postgraduate Programs, 78 Doctoral Programs and 36 Specialization Studies.
Academic staff at the University of Zaragoza are highly specialized and have a broad research and teaching experience. Be it Spanish as a Foreign Language or fields as interesting to international students as Spanish Literature, Geography, Archaeology, Cinema, History, Business Administration, Biocomputation, Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI Research Group), Logistics or Nanotechnologies (among many others), our combination of teaching and research is proving very successful.
Through the Vice-Rectorship for International Relations, the University of Zaragoza participates in various exchange programs, collaborating with universities and research centers from Europe, Latin America, USA and Canada, Australia, thereby strengthening its international standing.

Locale: Zaragoza, Capital City of Aragon, is a multicultural modern and ancient city with 700,000 inhabitants and over 2000 years of history. Zaragoza has Roman, Muslim, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles, mingled with a dynamic hightech 21st Century City feverishly getting ready for the 2008 International Exposition. Zaragoza also has museums and theatres, restaurants and shops, pubs and discos, parks and, not far away, the Pyrenees with plenty of outdoor activities.

Divisions:
Zaragoza: Faculty of Sciences; Faculty of Economics and Business Administration; Faculty of Law; Faculty of Arts; Faculty of Medicine; Faculty of Veterinary Sciences; College of Higher Engineering ; Faculty of Education; College of Industrial Engineering; College of Health Sciences; College of Business Studies; College of Social Studies; College of Tourism
Huesca: Agricultural and Chemical Engineering; Faculty of Humanities and Education; College of Business Studies; Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences; College of Nursing .
Terual: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities ; College of Engineering; College of Nursing
La Almunia:Engineering School

Academic notes:
All faculties are open to exchange students who possess adequate Spanish language skills.  The above link to “Courses Available” includes offerings in both Spanish and English.  Courses are regularly offered in English in the following departments: Engineering, Sciences, and English Philology.

Language notes: Language of instruction is Spanish, except for the list of subjects taught in English mentioned above.

Courses in Spanish as a Foreign Language at the University of Zaragoza are run throughout the year in Zaragoza.  The fees for these courses are in addition to Exchange tuition.

Room and board: The University Residences are University Centres that provide the student with accommodation and promote their cultural and scientific education, directing their activities towards serving the university community.
The University Residences have the important responsibility of providing the university student with an after-hour environment where they can live together with other students, maintain certain attitudes and values considered to be a vital part of their training, and where they can share intellectual, cultural and leisure interests.
There are several residences in our Autonomous Community, some sponsored by private companies and others founded by the University of Zaragoza itself.
There are university cafeterias, bars and canteens. Besides the normal bar service, the cafeterias offer hot and cold sandwiches, and hot meals with at least 7 dishes. Besides the above mentioned, the canteens daily serve a three-course set menu which includes bread and water. At present, the menu costs 5 € and is self-service in all the establishments.
Exchange dates: Zaragoza’s academic calendar year starts in mid September and it is organized in two semesters.
Fall Semester: Mid September – Mid january
Fall Semester: Early February – Late May

Special conditions: Please refer to the International Student website.