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Program Type: Arizona Abroad

Credit Type: Transfer Credit

Terms Available: Academic Year, Fall, Spring, Summer

GPA: 2.5

Eligibility: Sophomore, Junior, Senior, UA and Non-UA Students

Language of Instruction: English

Application Deadline: Fall & Academic Year: April 15, Spring: September 15

Coordinator: Michelle Anderson

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Since enrolling its first class in 1957, our partner, the Institute for American Universities (IAU) has served as a center for education abroad for U.S. undergraduates. IAU has worked with over 700 U.S. public and private colleges and universities, given its high academic standards.

Please note: Spanish language courses at UA Madrid are transferable to UArizona as elective credits. Students interested in taking courses to satisfy their second language requirement while abroad should contact the Spanish Department directly to discuss their options.

Below are courses that are approved for credit at UArizona. Please note, 1 IAU unit is equal to 1 UArizona unit and course offerings are subject to change.

Fall Semester Courses

Art History

Great Masters of the Prado

Course Description:
The aim of this course is to make students familiar with the most relevant and internationally outstanding Spanish and European artists within the Prado Museum Permanent Collections. The course will help students to fully understand and assimilate art history fundamental concepts and movements such as Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassicism, with a specific concentration on Spanish masters such as El Greco, Velázquez, and Goya. Simultaneously, it will help students confront Spain’s and Europe most controversial history: from the dark Medieval Ages to the beginning of the 19th Century.
Partner Course Code:
ART/ARH 334
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ARH Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Business

Corporate Social Responsibility

Course Description:
This course examines principles of social responsibility, ethics, law, and stakeholder theory as they apply to organizations domestically and abroad. Coverage includes business ethics; individual versus societal interests; labor and employment issues; consumer protection; discrimination and diversity; the natural environment; politics, public policy, and government regulation of business. Particular attention is given to developing moral reasoning skills.
Partner Course Code:
BUS/MGT/PHI 371
UArizona Equivalent Course:
BNAD Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Financial Management

Course Description:
This course is an introduction to the main areas of corporate finance. Its focus is on developing an understanding of the tools and methodologies available to the financial manager for decision-making in capital budgeting, working capital management, capital structure and profit planning and control.
Partner Course Code:
FIN 300
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
3

Global Marketing

Course Description:
Exploration of basic knowledge of global marketing focusing on the impact of environment on the strategies used by firms and understanding of consumer behavior management as it relates to the development and implementation of global marketing strategies.
Partner Course Code:
BUS 305
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MKTG 456
UArizona Units:
3

Intercultural Management

Course Description:
This course is designed to introduce students to concepts and fundamentals of international management. The course will consider aspects of management within an international and culturally complex environment, while considering the business influences within the global workplace. Students with or without prior international management knowledge will benefit from the course.
Partner Course Code:
BUS 303
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MGMT 435
UArizona Units:
3

Operations Management

Course Description:
This course is an introduction to the concepts, principles, problems, and practices of operations management. Operations Management is one of the key functional areas in any organization or company that deals with the production of goods and services. This course is concerned with the tasks, issues and decisions of those operations managers who have made the services and products on which we all depend. Emphasis is on managerial processes for effective operations in both goods-producing and servicerendering organization. Topics include operations strategy, process design, 3 Credits Course offerings and times are subject to change capacity planning, facilities location and design, forecasting, production scheduling, inventory control, quality assurance, and project management. The topics are integrated using a systems model of the operations of an organization. Pre-requisites: Introductory Statistics, Introductory Information Systems & Introductory Calculus.
Partner Course Code:
MGT 311
UArizona Equivalent Course:
OSCM 373: Basic Operations Management
UArizona Units:
3

Principles of Marketing

Course Description:
The objective of this course is to introduce students to the important issues undertaken by marketers. Students will learn the language of marketing and the basic elements of a marketing analysis. Students will be able to identify, define, and examine the process of developing the components of the marketing mix, and explain how marketing managers use these components to gain competitive advantage within a socially responsible and ethical environment. Pre-requisites: Introductory Microeconomics & Introduction to Calculus.
Partner Course Code:
MKT 311
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MKTG Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Communication

Communication and Gender

Course Description:
This course examines gender as a cultural communication practice that simultaneously reflects and enacts the culture in which it occurs. That is, gender is positioned as something that we do—via communication— rather than what we are. In order to understand and consider critically gender as communication, this course examines the difference between sex and gender, the intersection of gender and culture, and theories of how we become gendered. We will examine the ways in which social and political meanings attached to gender are communicated in various cultural institutions, practices, and contexts; and we will also consider how issues such as identity, representation, race, sexuality, class, and power bear on gender.
Partner Course Code:
COM 317
UArizona Equivalent Course:
COMM 413: Communication and Gender
UArizona Units:
3

Culture, Globalization, and Media

Course Description:
The main objectives of this course are to study the structure and characteristics of the international news media system, understand mass media’s role and influence in creating the world’s public opinion, and to review the evolution of mass media from the invention of the printing press to the arrival of internet. Students will also study the principal international news media systems as well as the future of mass media in our globalized society.
Partner Course Code:
COM 374
UArizona Equivalent Course:
JOUR Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Intercultural Communication

Course Description:
The main differences the course focuses on are nationality, race, class, gender and religion. Students will study and observe how different identities under those categories affect people’s perceptions of themselves as individuals, themselves within their groups, themselves within other groups, and how those perceptions affect the way they communicate and interpret messages. In response to the changes in the way we communicate due to communication, the course will also focus on the impact of technology on intercultural communication as well as the ways that different cultures utilize the various forms of social media platforms.
Partner Course Code:
COM 318
UArizona Equivalent Course:
COMM 117: Culture and Communication (transfers as Upper Division)
UArizona Units:
3

Media and Conflict

Course Description:
This course examines the role media play in the progression and public perceptions of conflict. Relevant topics will include media and military intervention, portrayals of protest movements, and news and entertainment coverage of crime, rumors, domestic politics, violence, and ethnicity.
Partner Course Code:
COM 316
UArizona Equivalent Course:
COMM Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
3

Computer Science

Computer Security

Course Description:
This course provides an overview of network security and related topics. General threat classifications are discussed as they relate to the CIA triad: eavesdropping (confidentiality), man-in-the-middle (integrity), and denial-of-service (availability). We will discuss vulnerabilities as they manifest in standard TCP/IP network protocols and real-world attack incidents and implementations are used to tie concept to reality. Defensive technologies and techniques, including authentication/authorization, access control, segmentation, log/traffic monitoring, reputation-based security, and secure protocol (SSH, TLS, DNSSEC) usage are discussed and demonstrated.
Partner Course Code:
ITS 401
UArizona Equivalent Course:
CSC 466: Computer Security
UArizona Units:
3

Database Systems

Course Description:
Basic concepts in database systems, including data manipulation language and data definition language. The relational model and its implementation will be covered in depth together with an overview of SQL.
Partner Course Code:
ITS 350
UArizona Equivalent Course:
CSC 460: Database Design
UArizona Units:
3

Microcomputer Architecture and Assembly Programming

Course Description:
This course providers an overview of computer systems, including assembly language programming, microprogramming, memory, registers, busses, and computer control.
Partner Course Code:
ITS 250
UArizona Equivalent Course:
CSC 252: Computer Organization
UArizona Units:
4

Operating Systems

Course Description:
This course provides advanced Computer Science students with a foundational grounding in the development, design, and use of Operating Systems (OS) in general. While OS have significantly evolved over the past few decades, the foundational components are still an important part of understanding and modeling OS operations. In addition to understanding OS software specifically, students are engaged with non-trivial and large-scale programming challenges, which include creating a software product that simulates a working OS.
Partner Course Code:
ITS 371
UArizona Equivalent Course:
CSC 452: Principles of Operating Systems
UArizona Units:
3

Engineering

Circuit Analysis II

Course Description:
Sinusoidal steady-state analysis, sinusoidal steady-state power calculation, balanced 3- phase systems. Mutual inductance and transformers, series and parallel resonance. Applications of Laplace and Fourier transforms to circuit analysis.
Partner Course Code:
EEG 201
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGR Department Elective, Lower Division
UArizona Units:
3

Dynamics

Course Description:
Particle kinematics and kinetics of a particle in rectangular, cylindrical and normaltangential coordinates: projectile motion; relative motion using translating axes; work; conservative forces; conservation of energy; linear and angular impulse and momentum; conservation of momentum. Planar kinematics and kinetics of a rigid body: force, work-energy, and impulse-momentum.
Partner Course Code:
MEG 320
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGR Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Mechanics of Materials

Course Description:
The objective of this course are to learn the principles of mechanics applied to different materials and to develop problem solving skills through application of these principles to basic engineering problems. Specific topics covered in this class include: behavior of axially loaded members; torsion of circular shafts; stresses and deflections in beams; connectors in built-up beams; stress transformation under rotation of axes; principal stresses; triaxial stress and maximum shear stress; pressure vessels; and buckling behavior of columns.
Partner Course Code:
MEG 301
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGR Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Information Science

Artificial Intelligence

Course Description:
This course is designed to provide an introduction to the specialized area of Artificial Intelligence. It is therefore suitable for students interested in pursuing studies or industrial work in intelligent or self-adapting/learning systems, or those wishing to gain a broad understanding of the state of the art and programming approaches used in this rapidly growing area.
Partner Course Code:
ITS 370
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
3

Internship

Global Internship

Course Description:
Internship positions in various enterprises from small local businesses to regional chains to multi-nationals with offices in the Madrid area. Students usually work 10-12 hours per week on site, submitting regular written reports to their professors at IAU. Availability depends on company offers.
Partner Course Code:
INT 341
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
3

Mathematics

Calculus & Analytic Geometry I

Course Description:
Methods of integration; applies calculus, elements of analytic geometry, improper integrals, sequences, and series.
Partner Course Code:
MTH 149
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MATH Department Elective, Lower Division
UArizona Units:
4

Calculus & Analytic Geometry II

Course Description:
Methods of integration; applies calculus, elements of analytic geometry, improper integrals, sequences, and series.
Partner Course Code:
MTH 150
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MATH Department Elective, Lower Division
UArizona Units:
4

Calculus & Analytic Geometry III

Course Description:
Methods of integration; applies calculus, elements of analytic geometry, improper integrals, sequences, and series.
Partner Course Code:
MTH 151
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MATH Department Elective, Lower Division
UArizona Units:
4

Discrete Structures

Course Description:
A study of propositional logic, set theory, functions, algorithms, divisibility, introductory number theory, elementary proof techniques, counting techniques, recursive definitions, mathematical induction, and graph theory.
Partner Course Code:
MTH 271
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MATH Department Elective, Lower Division
UArizona Units:
3

Experimental Statistics

Course Description:
This course introduces key concepts in probability and statistics with engineering applications. Emphasis is placed on modeling variation in observations, characterizing its distribution, and making inferences with regards to quality assurance and control. Fitting multivariate models, experimental design and hypothesis testing are all critical skills developed in the course.
Partner Course Code:
MTH 350
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MATH Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Linear Algebra

Course Description:
A systematic study of the theory of matrices, vector spaces, and linear transformations. Topics include systems of linear equations, determinants, linear independence, bases, dimension, rank, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors. Additional topics may include inner products, orthonormal bases, projections, and quadratic forms. Applications may include geometry, adjacency matrices, calculus, difference equations, least squares, and Markov chains.
Partner Course Code:
MTH 260
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MATH Department Elective, Lower Division
UArizona Units:
3

Ordinary Differential Equations

Course Description:
Ordinary differential equations (ODE's) and systems of ODE's. Existence, uniqueness and stability of solutions; first and second order ODE's; applications; the Laplace transform; numerical methods; systems of ODE's; solutions of linear equations with constant coefficients; qualitative results.
Partner Course Code:
MTH 270
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MATH 254: Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations
UArizona Units:
3

Philosophy

Ethics in Society

Course Description:
From the perspective of selected topical issues of politics and society, students will be encouraged to develop an enhanced critical awareness of how major political and social thinkers in the past have treated the relationship between individual and society. The course will thus include the study of prominent texts in moral and political philosophy (from Plato and Aristotle to authors of the twentieth century), but it will also aim directly to improve students’ analytical skills for understanding conflicts that commonly arise in the practice of citizenship, while also helping them to develop a finer appreciation the significance of social change and of cultural diversity, in an emergent global society.
Partner Course Code:
PHI/POL 312
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PHIL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
3

Political Science

Political History of Contemporary Spain

Course Description:
The object of this course is to analyze the principal institutions, actors and issues in contemporary Spanish government and politics. The course has four broad themes: first, the collapse of the Francoist dictatorship and its replacement by a constitutional parliamentary democracy; second, the key actors and institutions in Spanish government under democracy, third, the evolution of politics and policies in Spain over the last three decades, and finally, the nature of the country’s current economic and political crisis.
Partner Course Code:
POL/HIS 336
UArizona Equivalent Course:
POL Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Psychology

Abnormal Psychology

Course Description:
The purpose of this course is to give the student an opportunity to explore current issues in understanding and treating abnormal behavior. The course will provide an initial overview of history, perspectives, assessment (DSM), diagnosis and treatment, followed by an in-depth look at several disorders from a combined biological, developmental and cultural approach. The focus will be to achieve an understanding of the various ways that human behavior can be compromised and the various factors that affect our ability to adapt.
Partner Course Code:
PSY 333
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
3

Biological Psychology

Course Description:
The course begins with brief overviews of the structure of the central nervous system, basic principles of nervous conduction and synaptic transmission, neurotransmitter systems, and basic techniques used in biological psychology research. We will then review current knowledge on the biological substrates of a range of behaviors and mental processes, including perception, memory, emotion, and sleep. The course will also examine the biological basis of a variety of neuropsychological disorders and forms of mental illness, including addiction, depression, and anxiety. Finally, the course will take advantage of its location in Madrid to understand biological psychology within a Spanish cultural and scientific context.
Partner Course Code:
PSY/BIO 360
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Cross-Cultural Psychology

Course Description:
This course offers an understanding of how culture influences our behavior from a cultural psychology perspective. Through the lenses of cultural psychology, we consider how embedded culture is in our lives, how vital a cultural perspective is in understanding the lives of others and the importance of a cultural lens in academic psychology. It is a unique opportunity for you to combine academic learning with personal development: understand the influence of your culture on your behavior, your intercultural interactions and your cultural adjustment during your study abroad period and eventually your personal and professional life on returning home. Being in a new cultural context while learning about cultural psychology promotes self-awareness and learning and brings many concepts to life. Development of cultural awareness, sensitivity and competence is facilitated.
Partner Course Code:
PSY 332
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Health Psychology

Course Description:
Recent advances in psychological, medical, and physiological research have led to a new way of thinking about health and illness and understanding that our health is not only the product of biological processes but also of psychological, behavioral and social processes. Health psychology is a relatively young field of study that examines the relationship between psychology and health. The course highlights differences between health psychology and the biomedical model and examines the kinds of questions asked by health psychologists like: How our personality may affect our health? What does stress do to our health? What psychological and social factors cause people to behave in unhealthy ways? What can psychologists do to help cure illness? Are there ethnic and gender variations in health? Does it matter how your doctor talks to you?
Partner Course Code:
PSY 410
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Human Neuroanatomy

Course Description:
This course provides a broad introduction to the nervous system with an emphasis on the human nervous system. The course will introduce the structure and function of neurons, the main anatomical and functional units of the nervous system, and of the main functional systems. The nervous system complexity stems not only from a great number of neurons, but also from an enormous number of connections between them, which are organized into functional systems. Functional systems will be approached through an understanding of the anatomical circuitry. The fundamental concepts of neural communication will be introduced early in the course and re-examined relative to specific functional systems towards the end of the course. Although the course is centered on the normal nervous system, common disorders and pathologies will be introduced for each main topic.
Partner Course Code:
PSY/BIO 377
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Positive Psychology and Happiness

Course Description:
This course reviews the history and key concepts of positive psychology and the contributions this new field has made to several traditional research areas in psychology. Areas of controversy (e.g., what is happiness, how should we measure it, what determines it, can and should we deliberately increase it) will be critically examined, with consideration given to conflicting viewpoints and their respective empirical support. Throughout the course we will also engage in experiential learning and practical exercises to increase well-being, which will inform our theoretical and empirical understanding of important questions in positive psychology.
Partner Course Code:
PSY 328
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Psychology and Research

Course Description:
This course aims to offer an opportunity for undergraduates to gain a meaningful research experience while earning course credit. The course has been designed to teach research theory because, as in all the natural sciences, ideas in psychology need to be critically evaluated using available research evidence. An emphasis will be placed on critical thinking to encourage students to exercise analytical, independent, qualitative and quantitative thinking with scientific concepts and not only to memorize the material presented in class. This is not a textbook course and students will be expected to read and discuss assigned readings, write reports, and listen to and give presentations about current research.
Partner Course Code:
PSY 450
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Psychology and the Workplace

Course Description:
Application of psychological theory/research to recruitment, personnel selection, training/development, job design, work group design, work motivation, leadership, performance assessment, and job satisfaction measurement. Industrial/organizational psychology is the application of the scientific study of human behavior and thinking to work organizations. I/O psychology is both an academic discipline and a professional discipline; thus, in this class we focus on the research and the application of research findings to practical problems in the workplace. I/O psychologists are concerned with the recruitment, selection, training, motivation, and job performance of individuals at work. They are also involved in issues such as teamwork, leadership, and job attitudes.
Partner Course Code:
PSY/MGT 363
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Sensation and Perception

Course Description:
Learn how the human body turns different physical stimuli into neural impulses (sensation), and how the brain receives and interprets these impulses (perception). The Focus will be on commonalities between senses as a guide to understanding how the brain interprets data about the external world.
Partner Course Code:
PSY 353
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Religious Studies

Problem of God

Course Description:
This course offers a critical assessment of the contemporary relevance and plausibility of belief in God, against the background of an historical review of attempts to propose its philosophical basis and justification. Students will be invited to critically reflect on such perennial questions as: What is evil? Does God exist? What is the good life? Why do we have religion? What is the relationship between religion and science? Particular attention will be paid to situating the human spiritual experience within the philosophical discourse of modernity, assessing religious faith within the context of major political, social, and intellectual upheavals of our time.
Partner Course Code:
REL 301
UArizona Equivalent Course:
RELI Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Course Description:
This course is a comparative study of the three Abrahamic religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam.  It examines the shared aspects as well as the distinct elements of these religions, and shows that sometimes these traditions work together and sometimes they are at odds with each other.  The course first introduces the three Abrahamic religions emphasizing their common source.  Then it compares them along thematic lines, and finally it examines the way these three major traditions impact the modern West and the Middle East specifically.  Among the themes to be discussed are: Abraham, scripture and tradition, law, the creation, God, worship, mysticism, the house of God, the tradition of head covering, homosexuality, Jerusalem, and the end of times.
Partner Course Code:
REL 312
UArizona Equivalent Course:
RELI Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
3

Sociology

Borders, Memory, Identities: Cultural Representations of Contemporary Migrations in Europe

Course Description:
This course offers an introduction to the different cultural representations of contemporary migrations into and within Europe. The emphasis will be given to the study of the realities and their cultural representations of both emigration and immigration and the sociocultural and cognitive effects migration may have on migrants as well as on European citizens and national institutions. Forced migration towards Europe has had a deep cognitive and emotional impact on the migrant subjects, shaping their individual and collective identity. It has even disrupted not only migrants’ own conscience, but also the way that national governments in Europe and worldwide have perceived what now is referred to in the media as the refugee crisis. The main influx on non-European migrants has been mainly through: a) Greece and the Balkans countries, b) Libya and Italy, and c) the Spain’s African territories (Ceuta and Melilla) into Andalusia. The extent that it is relevant, the textual and cultural representations of both emigration and immigration in Europe will be studies in relation to their historical and social backgrounds as well as from an interdisciplinary and an international perspective.
Partner Course Code:
LIT/SOC 349
UArizona Equivalent Course:
SOC Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Spring Semester Courses

Art History

Great Masters of the Prado

Course Description:
The aim of this course is to make students familiar with the most relevant and internationally outstanding Spanish and European artists within the Prado Museum Permanent Collections. The course will help students to fully understand and assimilate art history fundamental concepts and movements such as Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassicism, with a specific concentration on Spanish masters such as El Greco, Velázquez, and Goya. Simultaneously, it will help students confront Spain’s and Europe most controversial history: from the dark Medieval Ages to the beginning of the 19th Century.
Partner Course Code:
ART/ARH 334
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ARH Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Business

Financial Management

Course Description:
This course is an introduction to the main areas of corporate finance. Its focus is on developing an understanding of the tools and methodologies available to the financial manager for decision-making in capital budgeting, working capital management, capital structure and profit planning and control.
Partner Course Code:
FIN 300
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
3

Global Marketing

Course Description:
Exploration of basic knowledge of global marketing focusing on the impact of environment on the strategies used by firms and understanding of consumer behavior management as it relates to the development and implementation of global marketing strategies.
Partner Course Code:
BUS 305
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MKTG 456
UArizona Units:
3

Operations Management

Course Description:
This course is an introduction to the concepts, principles, problems, and practices of operations management. Operations Management is one of the key functional areas in any organization or company that deals with the production of goods and services. This course is concerned with the tasks, issues and decisions of those operations managers who have made the services and products on which we all depend. Emphasis is on managerial processes for effective operations in both goods-producing and servicerendering organization. Topics include operations strategy, process design, 3 Credits Course offerings and times are subject to change capacity planning, facilities location and design, forecasting, production scheduling, inventory control, quality assurance, and project management. The topics are integrated using a systems model of the operations of an organization. Pre-requisites: Introductory Statistics, Introductory Information Systems & Introductory Calculus.
Partner Course Code:
MGT 311
UArizona Equivalent Course:
OSCM 373: Basic Operations Management
UArizona Units:
3

Organizational Behavior

Course Description:
This course focuses on the theory and application in the management of organizational behavior. It introduces students to key concepts and models of human behavior in organization and provides information about the essential and practical skills needed to be an effective manager and leader. Topics addressed include self-awareness, learning, motivation, stress, group dynamics, intergroup behavior, ethics, conflict, power, change, leadership, and cultural implications. Behavioral science concepts are applied through self-assessment, case studies, videos, and experiential exercises. Pre-requisites: Introductory Microeconomics.
Partner Course Code:
MGT 318
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MGMT Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Principles of Marketing

Course Description:
The objective of this course is to introduce students to the important issues undertaken by marketers. Students will learn the language of marketing and the basic elements of a marketing analysis. Students will be able to identify, define, and examine the process of developing the components of the marketing mix, and explain how marketing managers use these components to gain competitive advantage within a socially responsible and ethical environment. Pre-requisites: Introductory Microeconomics & Introduction to Calculus.
Partner Course Code:
MKT 311
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MKTG Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Communication

Media and Conflict

Course Description:
This course examines the role media play in the progression and public perceptions of conflict. Relevant topics will include media and military intervention, portrayals of protest movements, and news and entertainment coverage of crime, rumors, domestic politics, violence, and ethnicity.
Partner Course Code:
COM 316
UArizona Equivalent Course:
COMM Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
3

Internship

Global Internship

Course Description:
Internship positions in various enterprises from small local businesses to regional chains to multi-nationals with offices in the Madrid area. Students usually work 10-12 hours per week on site, submitting regular written reports to their professors at IAU. Availability depends on company offers.
Partner Course Code:
INT 341
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
3

Philosophy

Ethics in Society

Course Description:
From the perspective of selected topical issues of politics and society, students will be encouraged to develop an enhanced critical awareness of how major political and social thinkers in the past have treated the relationship between individual and society. The course will thus include the study of prominent texts in moral and political philosophy (from Plato and Aristotle to authors of the twentieth century), but it will also aim directly to improve students’ analytical skills for understanding conflicts that commonly arise in the practice of citizenship, while also helping them to develop a finer appreciation the significance of social change and of cultural diversity, in an emergent global society.
Partner Course Code:
PHI/POL 312
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PHIL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
3

Political Science

Political History of Contemporary Spain

Course Description:
The object of this course is to analyze the principal institutions, actors and issues in contemporary Spanish government and politics. The course has four broad themes: first, the collapse of the Francoist dictatorship and its replacement by a constitutional parliamentary democracy; second, the key actors and institutions in Spanish government under democracy, third, the evolution of politics and policies in Spain over the last three decades, and finally, the nature of the country’s current economic and political crisis.
Partner Course Code:
POL/HIS 336
UArizona Equivalent Course:
POL Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Psychology

Abnormal Psychology

Course Description:
The purpose of this course is to give the student an opportunity to explore current issues in understanding and treating abnormal behavior. The course will provide an initial overview of history, perspectives, assessment (DSM), diagnosis and treatment, followed by an in-depth look at several disorders from a combined biological, developmental and cultural approach. The focus will be to achieve an understanding of the various ways that human behavior can be compromised and the various factors that affect our ability to adapt.
Partner Course Code:
PSY 333
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
3

Biological Psychology

Course Description:
The course begins with brief overviews of the structure of the central nervous system, basic principles of nervous conduction and synaptic transmission, neurotransmitter systems, and basic techniques used in biological psychology research. We will then review current knowledge on the biological substrates of a range of behaviors and mental processes, including perception, memory, emotion, and sleep. The course will also examine the biological basis of a variety of neuropsychological disorders and forms of mental illness, including addiction, depression, and anxiety. Finally, the course will take advantage of its location in Madrid to understand biological psychology within a Spanish cultural and scientific context.
Partner Course Code:
PSY/BIO 360
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Cross-Cultural Psychology

Course Description:
This course offers an understanding of how culture influences our behavior from a cultural psychology perspective. Through the lenses of cultural psychology, we consider how embedded culture is in our lives, how vital a cultural perspective is in understanding the lives of others and the importance of a cultural lens in academic psychology. It is a unique opportunity for you to combine academic learning with personal development: understand the influence of your culture on your behavior, your intercultural interactions and your cultural adjustment during your study abroad period and eventually your personal and professional life on returning home. Being in a new cultural context while learning about cultural psychology promotes self-awareness and learning and brings many concepts to life. Development of cultural awareness, sensitivity and competence is facilitated.
Partner Course Code:
PSY 332
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Human Neuroanatomy

Course Description:
This course provides a broad introduction to the nervous system with an emphasis on the human nervous system. The course will introduce the structure and function of neurons, the main anatomical and functional units of the nervous system, and of the main functional systems. The nervous system complexity stems not only from a great number of neurons, but also from an enormous number of connections between them, which are organized into functional systems. Functional systems will be approached through an understanding of the anatomical circuitry. The fundamental concepts of neural communication will be introduced early in the course and re-examined relative to specific functional systems towards the end of the course. Although the course is centered on the normal nervous system, common disorders and pathologies will be introduced for each main topic.
Partner Course Code:
PSY/BIO 377
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Positive Psychology and Happiness

Course Description:
This course reviews the history and key concepts of positive psychology and the contributions this new field has made to several traditional research areas in psychology. Areas of controversy (e.g., what is happiness, how should we measure it, what determines it, can and should we deliberately increase it) will be critically examined, with consideration given to conflicting viewpoints and their respective empirical support. Throughout the course we will also engage in experiential learning and practical exercises to increase well-being, which will inform our theoretical and empirical understanding of important questions in positive psychology.
Partner Course Code:
PSY 328
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Psychology and Research

Course Description:
This course aims to offer an opportunity for undergraduates to gain a meaningful research experience while earning course credit. The course has been designed to teach research theory because, as in all the natural sciences, ideas in psychology need to be critically evaluated using available research evidence. An emphasis will be placed on critical thinking to encourage students to exercise analytical, independent, qualitative and quantitative thinking with scientific concepts and not only to memorize the material presented in class. This is not a textbook course and students will be expected to read and discuss assigned readings, write reports, and listen to and give presentations about current research.
Partner Course Code:
PSY 450
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Psychology and the Workplace

Course Description:
Application of psychological theory/research to recruitment, personnel selection, training/development, job design, work group design, work motivation, leadership, performance assessment, and job satisfaction measurement. Industrial/organizational psychology is the application of the scientific study of human behavior and thinking to work organizations. I/O psychology is both an academic discipline and a professional discipline; thus, in this class we focus on the research and the application of research findings to practical problems in the workplace. I/O psychologists are concerned with the recruitment, selection, training, motivation, and job performance of individuals at work. They are also involved in issues such as teamwork, leadership, and job attitudes.
Partner Course Code:
PSY/MGT 363
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

Religious Studies

Problem of God

Course Description:
This course offers a critical assessment of the contemporary relevance and plausibility of belief in God, against the background of an historical review of attempts to propose its philosophical basis and justification. Students will be invited to critically reflect on such perennial questions as: What is evil? Does God exist? What is the good life? Why do we have religion? What is the relationship between religion and science? Particular attention will be paid to situating the human spiritual experience within the philosophical discourse of modernity, assessing religious faith within the context of major political, social, and intellectual upheavals of our time.
Partner Course Code:
REL 301
UArizona Equivalent Course:
RELI Department Elective, Upper Division
UArizona Units:
3

The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Course Description:
This course is a comparative study of the three Abrahamic religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam.  It examines the shared aspects as well as the distinct elements of these religions, and shows that sometimes these traditions work together and sometimes they are at odds with each other.  The course first introduces the three Abrahamic religions emphasizing their common source.  Then it compares them along thematic lines, and finally it examines the way these three major traditions impact the modern West and the Middle East specifically.  Among the themes to be discussed are: Abraham, scripture and tradition, law, the creation, God, worship, mysticism, the house of God, the tradition of head covering, homosexuality, Jerusalem, and the end of times.
Partner Course Code:
REL 312
UArizona Equivalent Course:
RELI Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
3

Global Tracks

Global Tracks have been designed by certain departments for their major students. If you do not see your major in this area, that’s okay! You can choose from any of the classes in the Academics section (above) in coordination with your academic advisor.

Location & Housing

Location

Madrid is regarded as an important economic, artistic, and educational center, home to the Spanish Parliament (las Cortes), the Spanish Stock Exchange (la Bolsa), as well as a number of world renowned cultural and historical sites. Students studying in Madrid will have access to a wide variety of activities, including visiting the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Parque del Buen Retiro, to catching a fútbol (or soccer) match at The Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, to flamenco dancing, and sampling local cuisines such as tapas, bocadillo de calamares, and churros con chocolat.

Housing

Students in Madrid have the option to be housed in either shared homestays or shared residence halls. Students who select the homestay option will live with Spanish families (who may also house other international students), which includes daily breakfast and dinner. Although meals are not included for students living in shared residence halls, students will have shared kitchens and will also have the option to purchase a meal plan. Students may request roommates on the housing application form and IAU will do its best to accommodate such requests.

Program Details: Summer

Coming in Summer 2023! 

Program Details: Semester

Please note: The Institute for American Universities (IAU) requires proof of vaccination to participate in this program.

Semester Dates (IAU Calendar)

  • Arrival: tbd (likely Sept. 8)
  • Depart: tbd (likely Dec. 17)

Semester Cost

  • $50 Study Abroad Application Fee
  • Mandatory Geo Blue International Health Insurance at a rate of $3 a day (approximately $360 a semester)
  • You pay Main Campus UA Tuition & Fees to study abroad and receive all of the financial aid you use on main campus
  • Additional fees of $150 per course will be assessed for certain wine, photography and art courses
  • Students can choose between homestay or residence halls for housing. Participants are required to utilize the housing provided by the program.
  • Housing costs $6,665* per semester at UA Madrid (*approximate; final cost tbd); homestay option includes daily breakfast and dinner
  • Other estimated costs include but not limited to transportation (air & local), visa, meals, books and supplies
  • UA Study Abroad scholarships are available based on eligibility

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Study Abroad Students

Anna Petronella
"As an art student, I wanted to be in a city that was surrounded by art and there is no better place for this than Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance."
Anna Petronella
Santa Reparata International School of Art
Florence, Italy
Bryn Sharp
"Study abroad helped me identify my deepest passions in the field of Latin American Studies – urban development and environmental protection – and develop the application of photography to these subjects."
Bryn Sharp
Arizona in Viña del Mar
Viña del Mar, Chile
Christy Fierros
"If there's a program that really speaks to you, do it! Traveling abroad gives you a greater sense of your place in the world."
Christy Fierros
Climate Justice
Longo Mai, Costa Rica
Edward Monteverde Jr.
"I chose the Research in Munich study abroad program because it had a great balance of traveling throughout Europe and gaining technical knowledge and experience in the engineering field."
Edward Monteverde Jr.
Research in Munich
Munich, Germany
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