The City:  On the right bank of the Tormes River is Salamanca, a picturesque, largely medieval university city.  The capital of the province, Salamanca was originally a fortified Roman camp.  There are few remains from the Visigoth period, because of the destruction wrought by the Moors.  Reconquered in the 12th century by Don Raimundo de Borgona, Salamanca was subsequently repopulated by Franks, Castillians, mountain people, Baranzians, and Christianized Moors. 

Over the centuries Salamanca became a cultural capital, the place where Fernando de Rojas wrote La Celestina, and where playwrights Lucas Fernández and Juan de Encina lived and work.  At one time or another, nearly every great Spanish figure passed through Salamanca -- Cervantes, Unamuno, Melendez Valdéz, the Condeduque de Olivares.  (Click on the map to see an enlarged version, and you can see where Salamanca is located, slightly to the northwest of Madrid..  To reduce the size of the map again, click on the back arrow on the left end of the navigation bar at the top of this page.)

Overview of the program:

Professor Arboleda has been taking groups of undergraduates and graduate students to Spain every summer for ten years.  The following is an overview of the program for July, 1999:

Twenty-seven students are in the program in Salamanca, from June 28 to July 30.  Some live in a residence hall, and others with a family.  Students take a maximum of 6 credits, choosing from among the following courses:

Critics in residence for Summer 1999 taught the following courses:
Novela española del fin de siglo, Prof. Angel Basanta
La literatura del Caribe: identidad y nacionalidad, Prof. Efrain Barradas
El español en América, Prof. Susana de los Heros
La novela española del siglo XIX, Prof. Andrés Zamora
Poesía femenina hispanoamericana del siglo XX, Prof. Gustavo Pellon
Las peregrinaciones medievales y el Camino de Santiago, Prof. José Luis de Celis
Introducción a la literatura de la Edad Media, Renacimiento y Barroco, Prof. Maite Ortega
Problemas fundamentales de la gramática española, Profs. Blanca Marcos y Juana Rodríguez

Cost for the summer of 1999:
    Undergraduate:  $3450 (approximately)
    Graduate: $3500 (approximately)
        for earning up to six credits. 
Includes airfare, bus transportation from Madrid to Salamanca, room and board, six credits tuition, guided instructional excursions, Language Practicum, health insurance (effective July 1-30), cultural parties, and other cultural activities sponsored by the program.

To find out more interesting cultural information on Spain (theatre, dance, music, museums, libraries), click on: Spanish Culture.