The Spanish Village

Required for all program participants fall semester.

After the orientation phase in Salamanca, group members move to individual villages in the province of Segovia before taking up residence in Madrid in mid September. Students spend about two weeks in the village. They are housed with families, one student per family and normally one student per village. Students participate in the life of the village and complete a program of research, interviews and study assigned by the program director. The group gathers weekly in the city of Segovia for a seminar.  Through readings, interviews and detailed personal observation, students investigate the economic, political and social structure of rural Spain.