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i miss barcelona and IES every day
IES Abroad: Barcelona - IES Abroad Barcelona Center
Program Information
Study abroad in Barcelona—capital of the autonomous province of Catalonia. The IES Abroad Barcelona program provides students with opportunities to learn or perfect Spanish while studying business and liberal arts.
| Provider: | IES Abroad |
| Location(s): | Barcelona, Spain |
| Year Founded: | |
| Website | Take me there! |
Review By:
Tessa J. (Textiles, The University of Texas at Austin) on August 16, 2011
Overall Rating
Personal Information
| * Start Date: | 2011-05-22 |
| * End Date: | 2011-07-09 |
| How much international exposure did you have prior to this program? | None |
Review Your Program
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* Overall educational experience
Academic rigor, intensity, resources, etc. |
awesome program. took us on vacations to places we would have never gone to on our own, put us up in 4 star hotels, time to ourselves to explore the cities. |
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* Host Country Program Administration
On-site administration of your program |
no complaints whatsoever. exceeded all my expectations. Great teachers, beautiful building with incredible security measures, classes were challenging, informative, yet manageable. Directors were so involved, knew all of us and helped us with anything we needed. |
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beautiful apartment, great family. no complaints |
| * Food: |
spanish food sucks after a few weeks. very bland |
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* Social & Cultural Integration:
How integrated did you feel with the local culture? |
AMAZING trip to costa brava, nice buses and 4 star hotels. best food i ate the whole time |
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| * Safety: |
IES was so safe, security guards, codes to get in every door. |
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* Home Institution Advising:
How well did The University of Texas at Austin prepare and support you for your time abroad? |
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Finances
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* Money: How easily were you able to live on a student's budget?
(1 = not very easy/$200+ on food & personal expenses/week, 2.5 = $100/week, 5 = very easily/minimal cost) |
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| Do you have any general money-saving tips for future study abroad participants? | spanish phone costs much more than the program tells you |
Language
| * Did your program have a foreign language component? | Yes |
| How would you rate your language skills at the beginning of the program? | Intermediate |
| What was the highest level language course you had completed prior to departure? | upper division spanish |
| Language acquisition improvement? |
everyone, English wasn't allowed in my Spanish class and I spoke Spanish to all the locals |
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Other Program Information
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A Look Back
| * If you could do it all over again, would you choose the same program? | Yes |
| * What do you know now that you wish you knew before going on this program? | choose IES |
| * What did you gain/learn from your experience abroad? Was it worthwhile? | absolutely |
Individual Course Reviews
| Course Name/Rating: |
International Marketing and Business |
| Course Department: | IB 350 |
| Instructor: | Jay Moran |
| Instruction Language: | English |
| Comments: | Great teacher, learned a lot. Very hands on, small class |
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| Course Name/Rating: |
Advanced Spanish |
| Course Department: | SP 302 |
| Instructor: | Rosa Brion |
| Instruction Language: | Spanish |
| Comments: | very challenging but the best Spanish class I have ever taken |
| Credit Transfer Issues: | Harder than any class I've taken at UT but doesn't transfer as an upper division credit which it should |