Hello again dear readers,
Today I'm going to write about classes in Spain.
Before leaving for Madrid, the international programs office of Fairfield U sent us an email asking us to choose the classes we wanted from a course booklet. There was a lot of classes taught in Spanish but also in English. I wanted to take a business class abroad but the international programs office said it would be complicated so I chose to get rid of my core classes here. I'm taking history of modern philosophy, European history of the 20th century, international current issues from a Spanish perspective, Spanish modern Art and a Spanish class. They're taught by Spaniards who speak English. They're mostly lectures but some require a lot of participation because they're more interactive. We don't have as much homework as in the US but the final is 50% of our final grade !! They use a platform called "Moodle" which is like our Blackboard. You have two weeks in the beginning of September to add/drop a class so don't stress out before your departure.
Finals are in mid December, and papers are due the end of November, early December.
I got really lucky with my schedule since I don't have class on Friday and Monday, which means that I have a mini vacation every week. The professors here don't like it when you skip class, since attendance is part of your grade. People who have a Pass/Fail system don't really care if they miss 2 or 3 classes but Fairfield students must be careful since our grades in Spain will count towards our GPA. The grading system is on a 10-scale and not a 100 like in the US. 9-10 is excellent and difficult to achieve. Most Spaniards have between 7 and 9. I had to buy only one textbook, for my Spanish class, otherwise all the other classes are based on Power Point slides that are posted on "Moodle" so no need to even take notes.
Voila! hope that helps!
Today I'm going to write about classes in Spain.
Before leaving for Madrid, the international programs office of Fairfield U sent us an email asking us to choose the classes we wanted from a course booklet. There was a lot of classes taught in Spanish but also in English. I wanted to take a business class abroad but the international programs office said it would be complicated so I chose to get rid of my core classes here. I'm taking history of modern philosophy, European history of the 20th century, international current issues from a Spanish perspective, Spanish modern Art and a Spanish class. They're taught by Spaniards who speak English. They're mostly lectures but some require a lot of participation because they're more interactive. We don't have as much homework as in the US but the final is 50% of our final grade !! They use a platform called "Moodle" which is like our Blackboard. You have two weeks in the beginning of September to add/drop a class so don't stress out before your departure.
Finals are in mid December, and papers are due the end of November, early December.
I got really lucky with my schedule since I don't have class on Friday and Monday, which means that I have a mini vacation every week. The professors here don't like it when you skip class, since attendance is part of your grade. People who have a Pass/Fail system don't really care if they miss 2 or 3 classes but Fairfield students must be careful since our grades in Spain will count towards our GPA. The grading system is on a 10-scale and not a 100 like in the US. 9-10 is excellent and difficult to achieve. Most Spaniards have between 7 and 9. I had to buy only one textbook, for my Spanish class, otherwise all the other classes are based on Power Point slides that are posted on "Moodle" so no need to even take notes.
Voila! hope that helps!
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