Summer Program in Spain & Portugal

May 20th - June 14th 2008

 Letters of the Exploration and Conquest

A very affordable, short program that  enables students to  visit the origins of the age of exploration:

Lisbon, Seville and Madrid.

          In this special topics course entitled Letters of the Exploration and Conquest (SPAN395) students study the Spanish and Portuguese exploration and conquest of the New World in Huelva (Spain), Columbus’s port of departure, Seville, the Port of the Indies, and Lisbon. Students will read first-hand accounts of the explorers and Conquistadors, and visit the Navigation Museum in Lisbon. Readings will include Christopher Columbus, Fray Bartolome de las Casas, Bernal Diaz and others. Students attend classes at the University of Huelva. Participants have the opportunity to attend lectures, museum visits, and cultural trips associated with the New World.

          This course may also be taken as an English course(Engl 312) which satisfies the General Education requirement. As such, it will be offered in English as well as in Spanish. Students will receive an additional 2 credits as Humanities (Hum 195).

Included in the program fee of $3,500:

• Airfare
• All trains and buses within Spain and Portugal
• Room and Board in a student residence in n Huelva
• All hotels (plus breakfasts)
• Excursions to:

  -Madrid and surrounding area

  -Seville: the tomb of Columbus and the  Archive of the Indies

  -Lisbon: the tomb of Vasco da Gama

  -Cascais: view of the Atlantic coast line

  -Algarve: the spectacular beaches of southern Portugal

  -Sagres: home of Prince Henry’s School of Navigation

• Entrances to museums, castles, and cathedrals
• Guided tours by UVA-Wise faculty and local experts
• The price of the course (5 credits).
• Medical insurance
• Does NOT include the food (apart from breakfast). Student must estimate $20 a day for food.
• The priceless experience of immersion in the daily life of a foreign culture and language!!!!

Director: Anne Gilfoil, Associate Professor of Spanish, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise.

E-mail: awg2d@uvawise.edu, Phone: (276) 3284555, Office: Darden Hall 134.

Course: Span 395 or Engl 312 (3 credits + 2 “Humanities” credits = 5 credits)

For more info and to apply:

International Progrmas Office,

Darden Hall 105

e-mail: internationalprograms@uvawise.edu

Phone: (276) 328 -0287

See photos from Spain&Portugal 2007