MSU Faculty Led Short-Term Study Abroad Institutes
Global Education Center
Montclair State University
22 Normal Avenue
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

Tel: 973 655-4185
Fax: 973 655-7654
simonw@mail.montclair.edu

Program Overview
This program features Spanish language, literature and cultural history, and is based at the University of Nebrija in Madrid, a city which has led Spain as the lively crossroads of Iberia since the Golden Age. In conjunction with the Nebrija summer program, faculty-led field trips in Madrid will include the incredible masterpieces of the Prado Museum, the Reina Sofia Museum, the Palacio Real, and historical walking tours throughout Madrid’s colorful neighborhoods. Full-day excursions are also included to Toledo, with its Muslim, Jewish and Christian traditions that made it a great center of religion and learning; Segovia, with its unique castle; an optional excursion may be added on to Salamanca, a thriving university town since the 15th century.

Faculty
Dr. Diana Guemárez-Cruz holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Puerto Rico and a M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is the department specialist in Contemporary Spanish Poetry with its connections with the European avant-garde.  She has also published and publicly lectured on very important women writers, and has published her first book of poetry in 2004). She is also a faculty member in the Latin American and Latino Studies and Women’s Studies programs. Professor Guemárez-Cruz is currently serving as the Graduate Advisor in Spanish.

Dr. David Sanders, who received his Ph.D. from New York University, is an associate professor in the Broadcasting Department. In addition to his duties as producer of Inside MSU, the weekly campus television news program and audio supervisor for Carpe Diem, the MSU Broadcasting Department's award winning weekly cable show, Dr. Sanders teaches courses in television production, audio production, multi-track recording, sound design, and music technology.  He has been the Director of the National Music Council since 1994.   He produces the National Music Council's annual Leadership in Music symposium and American Eagle Awards in New York City, and is the U.S. representative to the International Music Council of UNESCO.

Academics
With the exception of the Beginning Spanish, Spanish Art History, International Business and Spanish Media Journal courses, all courses are taught in Spanish. High achieving high school juniors and seniors with a minimum of three years of high school Spanish may be considered for the program.

The Broadcasting course, Spanish Media Journal (BDCS 470) is open to both Broadcasting majors and non-majors. Students will research, write and produce short videos on various aspects of Italian culture. They will explore the Western European broadcast system to experience Italian culture through its media. Students will train on video camcorders, learn simple production techniques and then use the camcorders as a tool for research.  For their primary project, students will research a particular area and conduct primary source research by interacting with people, doing interviews and producing short video journals.  Knowledge of television production is not necessary. 

All students register for two courses (six credits).
SPAN 374         Spanish Cultural History
Or                  SPAN 375   Study Abroad
SPAN 101         Beginning Spanish I
SPAN 102         Beginning Spanish II
SPAN 103         Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 104         Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 344         Spanish Conversation
SPAN 347         Commercial Spanish
SPAN 361         Voices of Past and Present: Spain
           
INBS 346          Introduction to International Business (Taught in English)
ARHS 480        Field Trips in Art History: Spanish Art (Taught in English)
BDCS 470      Spanish Media Journal (Taught in English)

SPAN 530         Spanish Cultural History
SPAN 534         Spanish Prose of the 20th Century
SPAN 560         Women Writers of the Golden Age
SPAN 525         Enlightenment and Romanticism

Accommodations and Meals
All undergraduate students will reside in single occupancy dormitory rooms with private baths in a modern air-conditioned dormitory in Madrid, convenient to the metro and bus stations. Daily meals in the cafeteria, linens, weekly laundry and cleaning services are included, and the dormitory has its own swimming pool and tennis court. Graduate students may choose the same housing or studio or shared one bedroom apartments with efficiency kitchens for cooking and laundry facilities.

Program Costs:
Estimated $3,600 plus tuition and fees for six credits. This includes:

• Roundtrip airfare from New York
• All transfers in Spain to and from airports
• Single room with private bathroom in dorm, with pool
• Meals in cafeteria (three meals per day, seven days per week)
• Field trips and entrance fees in Madrid
• Two Full-Day trips and entrance fees in Toledo, Segovia or Salamanca
• Madrid metropass
• Pre-departure orientation at MSU

Graduate housing options:
Single Studio apartment (no meal plan included): $ to be confirmed
Shared one-bedroom apartment (no meal plan included): $2,800 instead of $3,600

Program prices are based on 20 participants and current exchange rates and are subject to change. Fluctuations in currency exchange rate will be reflected in final payment.

Application procedure and payment schedule:
All participants are required to have
1) a minimum GPA of 2.75;
2) an interview with one or both of the faculty leading that program;
3) a reference form completed by a faculty member other than the faculty
leading that program; and
4) a $100 non-refundable application fee.
Summer programs are open to non-MSU students and high achieving high school seniors who demonstrate special interest. Non-MSU students, new transfer students and high school seniors will need to submit two references forms, an official transcript from their home institution(s) and an additional $100 administration fee.

Once accepted into the program, the payment schedule for program costs is as follows:

Payment Schedule:
Non-Refundable Application fee:      $      100
By February 15, 2010:                      $      900
By March 15, 2010:                           $   1,300
By April 15, 2010:                              $   1,300
Make checks payable to “Montclair State University”

Non-MSU Students
Applicants should submit two reference forms and official transcript(s) from the home institution(s) plus the $100 non-MSU administrative fee and the $100 non-refundable deposit. Telephone interviews with the faculty will be accepted for out of state students. After completion of the program, non-MSU students will need to request an MSU transcript for submission to the home institution.

For further information:
Contact the Global Education Center at 973-655-4185 or email simonw@mail.montclair.edu. For further information regarding academic offerings, please contact Dr. Guemárez-Cruz at 973-655- or guemarezcruz@mail.montclair.edu.
Or visit us on the web at www.montclair.edu/globaled