Spanish C2 Spanish Language & Culture Program Summer 2024 July 4-Week - Barcelona

Spanish for Heritage Speakers is a special course within the area of Spanish as a foreign language. The course is aimed at native or near-native Spanish speakers living in non-Spanish speaking countries who wish to consolidate their linguistic competence, with a special emphasis on use of the language in highly formal contexts.

Universitat de Barcelona awards credits based on the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) and also lists contact hours on their official transcript.
ECTS to U.S. Credit Conversion:
- 2 ECTS: 1 U.S. Credit

Contact Hours Credit Conversion: 15 contact hours: 1 U.S. Credit
- 1 UB contact hour is equivalent to 60 minutes
- 1 US contact hour is equivalent to 50 minutes
- UB Language Courses are equivalent to 40 UB contact hours (60 minutes)
- 40 UB contact hours is equivalent to 3.2 U.S. semester credits (50 minutes)

CEA CAPA recommends converting the UB Language courses to U.S. contact hours (50 minutes) however, course equivalences and transfer of credit is at the discretion of the home institution.