Bucknell en España
Bucknell en España offers a high quality academic and residential experience for Bucknell students who want to complete overseas study in Spain. The Bucknell en España program is open to all Bucknell students in good standing who have completed at least five semesters of Spanish. Students choose from a wide variety of curricular options at the Universidad de Granada’s Centro de Lenguas Modernas to advance their major or minor studies in Spanish or to complement other programs of study at Bucknell. A Bucknell faculty member, normally from the Department of Spanish, serves as faculty-in-residence and teaches a required course (SPAN 245) that deals with some aspect of Iberian culture related to the professor’s area of expertise. This course includes several excursions to relevant cultural sites throughout Spain.
Students who have completed five or fewer semesters of Spanish language study at Bucknell will enter one of two tracks at the CLM following a placement exam, being able to take courses in various disciplines such as anthropology, art history, Spanish and Latin American cultures, dance, economics, geography, history, language and linguistics, literature and film, management, music, political science, sociology, translation, women’s studies, and in the spring semester, health and environmental studies.
Students’ coursework from the Centro de Lenguas Modernas or the Universidad de Granada counts toward their major at Bucknell, having been approved by the department chair or program director of the major. The SPAN 245 course is a Bucknell University course and receives a Bucknell grade and credit. Courses taken at the CLM must be approved by the student’s academic adviser or chair of a specific department for proper credit transfer. The grades of the courses taken through the CLM are not factored into your grade point average.
Bucknell en España offers the best linguistic and cultural immersion experience possible while studying in Spain. It provides the basic structure for living and studying in Granada to take full advantage of the opportunity to live in another culture and learn another language while expanding personal horizons. The basic elements of the experience in Granada are academic courses, life with a host family, program excursions and activities, and participation in a local cultural, social, religious or athletic association to enhance their interaction with the Spanish-speaking community.
The program is centered in Granada, an Andalusian city of approximately 250,000 inhabitants located at the foot of the perennially snow-capped Sierra Nevada mountains, one hour from the Mediterranean Costa del Sol. The Universidad de Granada is one of Spain’s most prestigious universities and its Centro de Lenguas Modernas (CLM) is recognized as a leader in the area of Spanish and Hispanic studies for non-native speakers.