Summer Study: Trinity-in-Barcelona!
Summer is the perfect time to
explore the beautiful city of
Barcelona, Spain! The Trinityin-Barcelona Summer Program
offers students the opportunity to
experience Barcelona in a fourweek, two-course summer session.
Barcelona’s long and rich history,
coupled with its vibrant cosmopolitan
pulse, provides students with many
opportunities for the exploration
of art, Hispanic studies, and urban
cultural issues. Students experience
both the Spanish and Catalan cultures
in this fully bilingual–and multicultural–city.
Three-Week Curriculum
Students participating in the Barcelona
three-week neuroscience program will
experience the course and the city
of Barcelona in a very unique and
intensive level. The neuroscience
course is designed with an experiential
component taking advantage of all
that Barcelona has to offer. Students
will live in homestays. Keep in mind
with a three-week summer program
that the time goes by quickly and
professors encourage these students
to plan their time carefully in order
to complete all requirements.
The city
Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia,
a unique region in the northeast of Spain.
The city is located on the Mediterranean
Sea, yet it is also close to the Pyrenees
Mountains and the French border.
Barcelona was the site of a great Roman
metropolis, and the present-day city dates
back to the ninth century, when the
Count of Barcelona established the city’s
independence from both Muslim forces to
the south and the Carolingian forces to the
north. The Catalan language and culture
are a source of pride to the Catalan people.
Led recently by the renaissance that began
with the 1992 Olympics, Barcelona is
in the midst of dynamic change, with
entire districts undergoing renovation.
Originally developed as a series of largely
self-contained neighborhoods–each with
its distinct identity and function–Barcelona
is surprisingly easy to navigate. From its
medieval Gothic quarter and historic old
town to its world-famous art nouveau
buildings and futuristic architecture near
the harbor, Barcelona is a city of contrasts
and unrivaled artistic beauty and diversity.
Housing and meals
All students in the program live in homestays with Spanish families. Homestays are
an integral component of the program,
and they enable students to improve their
Spanish-language proficiency while learning about the culture and people of
Barcelona. Students eat breakfast and
dinner with their host families and prepare
their own lunches to eat at Trinity Space
or in local restaurants or cafes.
The program
This course provides an in-depth analysis
of the cultural history of Barcelona over
the past century and a half, a time in
which the city has emerged as one of
the world’s prime laboratories of urban
innovation. Students will study the
foundations of this innovation and just
what the “Barcelona Model” can bring
to analyses of urban problems throughout
the world.
The program combines standard course-
work based at the Trinity program space
with on-site teaching throughout the city
of Barcelona. Over the course of the
program, students will gain a firsthand
understanding of the politics of public
space as well as the adjunct issues of
bilingualism and multiculturality.
Four-week curriculum
The Alchemy of Identity: Culture-Planning
and Civil Society in Barcelona,1850-2000
– HISP 233...............................1.0 credit
The program is appropriate for students
from all majors who have an interest in
Spain and Barcelona, or are interested
in cultural history and urban studies.
Intensive Language and Culture in
Barcelona – HISP 227..................1.0 credit
This course is designed to improve the
writing and conversational skills of students
who have taken at least one year of college
Spanish or the equivalent.
Three-week Course
Program prerequisites
Any college or university student in good
standing is eligible. Participants must have a
valid passport. Although not required, a basic
knowledge of Spanish is strongly recommended.
Non-Trinity students are both welcome and
encouraged to apply!
Program dates
The program generally runs from the end
of May until the end of June. The three-week
neuroscience course will run the last two weeks
of June and the first week of July for 2014.
Contact the Office of International Programs
for specific summer dates.
Expenses
The program fee covers tuition for Trinity
College credit, housing, breakfasts and evening
meals with your homestay, excursions and field
trips, and orientation. The fee does NOT
include travel to and from the Barcelona
program. A nonrefundable $1,000 deposit
toward the fee is due within three weeks of
admission. Contact the Office of International
Programs for the updated summer program fee.
Who’s who on-site
Academic Director Thomas S. Harrington
Thomas Harrington is an associate professor of
Hispanic studies at Trinity College in Hartford,
where he teaches courses on 19th and 20th
century Spanish cultural history, literature, and
film. His areas of research expertise include
modern Iberian nationalist movements,
contemporary Catalonia, and the history of
migration between the peninsular “periphery”
(Catalonia, Galicia, Portugal, and the Basque
Country) and the societies of the Caribbean
and the Southern Cone. He has lived and
worked in Madrid, Barcelona (where he was
a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar), Lisbon,
Santiago de Compostela, and Montevideo,
Uruguay, and speaks Spanish, Catalan, Galician,
and Portuguese.
On-Site Director Águeda Quiroga
Águeda has nearly 10 years of management
experience coordinating academic programs
and projects. More importantly, Agueda has a
true love of the city of Barcelona. A native of
Argentina, she has firsthand experience studying
and living in a new country. Águeda received
her bachelor’s degree in social anthropology
from the University of Buenos Aires and her
master’s degree in social and public policies from
Universitat Pompeu Fabra-Johns Hopkins
University. She is fluent in Spanish, Catalan,
and English.
The Brain – BARC 101
............................ ……1.0 TC Credit
This course will introduce students
to the brain and its functions with a
focus on language acquisition and
the human brain. There will be an
examination of the lifespan perspective
from infancy, childhood, adolescence,
adulthood, and aging. All excursions
in and around Barcelona will
incorporate aspects of the brain and
these functions. This course will be
dependent upon enrollment and will
run with a sufficient number of students
only. Please submit your application
and deposit in a timely manner to
show that you are serious about
participation in the course.
This course will be taught by Trinity
College Associate Professor of Biology
and Neuroscience Hebe GuardiolaDiaz. Guardiola-Diaz is currently the
department chair of neuroscience at
Trinity, where she conducts research
at the intersection of chemistry and
biology. She is a native of Puerto Rico
and is excited to be teaching this
course in the beautiful city of
Barcelona in 2014.
Application instructions
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106-3100
www.trincoll.edu/UrbanGlobal/
StudyAway/Summer
To apply, please visit www.trincoll.edu/
UrbanGlobal/StudyAway/Summer.
All students must be prepared to submit
online the following materials for
admission:
TRINITY COLLEGE
SUMMER 2014
BARCELONA
• The completed online application
• Application Agreement
• Faculty Recommendation completed
by one of your college professors
• Personal statement explaining
your interest in applying to the
Barcelona Summer Program
• Trinity students may submit an
unofficial transcript from their
My Trin account
Due dates
Admission is on a rolling basis beginning
January 1, with a final deadline of April 1.
The program has a maximum enrollment
of 15 students.
For general questions, contact:
Office of International Programs
Trinity College
66 Vernon Street
Hartford, CT 06106
Phone: (860) 297-2005
Fax: (860) 297-5218
oip@trincoll.edu
For academic questions, contact
the faculty sponsor:
Trinity College Associate Professor
of Language and Culture Studies
Thomas Harrington
Phone: (860) 297-2380
thomas.harrington@trincoll.edu
Fall 2013