Since 2002, over 348 UMW students have participated in the UMW in Spain program for a summer, semester or for an academic year at our partner institution, the University of Deusto-CIDE. You do not have to be a Spanish major to participate; it is open to all majors. In fact, our course offerings address the needs of many students. Some of our most typical students coming on the program are looking to:

• complete UMW’s Gen Ed Requirements:
  Foreign Language, Experiential Learning or Global Inquiry
• complete IA major requirement of two courses at the advanced level in a foreign languge
• take courses in the following majors:
  Spanish, Business, Economics, International Affairs, Math or Political Science
• take courses for elective credit in their major
• experience studying in another country
• become more fluent in Spanish

Be part of the group!!

- Top Ten Reasons to Study Abroad

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Program highlights:

• Tour Madrid, the capital of Spain
• Touch the Roman Aqueduct of Segovia (I century)
• Visit the Alcazar of Segovia (XII century).
• Roam the streets of Toledo, where Christians, Arabs and Jews lived in peace
• Visit the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
• Tour the town of Gernika, whose bombing during the Spanish Civil War inspired Picasso’s famous painting, “Guernica“
• Climb the Bridge of Bizcay, recently recognized as a European Heritage Site
• Experience the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona
• Visit the south of France

• “Bilbao, 10 Years Later“, New York Times (Sept, 23, 2007)

The true Bilbao colors

You got it…at the Running of the Bulls

Where’s the UMW crew?…at Larrabasterra

Gernika

A replica of Picasso’s painting in the Town of Gernika

In Segovia

In the Town of Gernika

In the Town of Toledo