Bilbao: Program Highlights
Since 2002, over 500 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, 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 language
- take courses in the following majors:
- Spanish, Business, Economics, International Affairs, History, Political Science, and more.
- take courses for elective credit in their major
- complete an internship
- experience studying in another country
- become more fluent in Spanish
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)
