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This Mason faculty-led semester program in one of Spain's most beautiful and culturally rich cities is open to students in all majors and offers a wide variety of courses in English as well as Spanish. The tuition and program fees cover 18 credits, a homestay (meals included), a 4-day field trip to Barcelona, excursions to Sevilla, Córdoba and Málaga, a visit to the Alhambra, and lots more!

Following the tremendous success of the inaugural 2021-22 Spanish Heritage Language Education (SHLE) lecture series, the Spanish program will again host an online SHLE lecture series in 2022-23.

On July 21, the Spanish program will host an online colloquium on the language practices and experiences of Latin Americans in Europe. The colloquium features renowned sociolinguists Prof. Rosina Márquez-Reiter (Open University – UK), Prof. Adriana Patiño-Santos (University of Southampton – UK) and Prof. David Block (Universitat Pompeu-Fabra – Barcelona).  Organized in conjunction with Prof. Leeman’s SPAN 502 Hispanic Sociolinguistics course, the colloquium is free and open to the public.

The Office of Government and Community Relations presented a Jack Wood Award for Town-Gown Relations, in the faculty category, to Esperanza Roman-Mendoza.

Spanish professor Rei Berroa is working with a team of poets representing Mason faculty, staff, students, and alumni who will join with poets around the world for a day long celebration of poetry.