Hone your international business knowledge in the bustling city of Barcelona! This versatile program allows you to choose from a range of business electives at either Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) or Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). Complete your experience with CEA CAPA Barcelona Center electives that take full advantage of the Center's location in the heart of the city and allow you to delve into Spanish culture, history, and society. Classes are taught in English and Spanish for all levels of Spanish language ability.
Barcelona
early Jan 2026 - late Apr 2026
$20,995
12 - 15
10/15/25
11/15/25
All Levels
Students must currently be enrolled full-time at their home institution.
1 Year of College
2.75
The host institution has offered the following courses in the past. Please note that course listings will not be finalized until the start of the term.
*Courses with an asterisk indicate that the course has been associated with multiple subject areas.
Please click on the course title to view additional subject areas and detailed course information.
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Cross-Cultural Management * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Catalan Language & Culture * | 100 | Ot | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Communication & Global Competence | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Analyzing & Exploring the City: Barcelona | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Cultural History of Spain: From Dictatorship to the Digital Era * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Spanish Civilization & Culture * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Teaching English Abroad: From Theory to Classroom Practice * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Teaching English Abroad: From Theory to Classroom Practice * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Spain as Seen Through Its Movies: 1980s to Today * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Cultural History of Spain: From Dictatorship to the Digital Era * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Contemporary Spain: History, Politics & Society * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Nationalism & Separatism in Catalonia Today | 400 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Intercultural Interactions: Psychological Perspectives * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Community Engaged Global Learning: Society, Inequality & Social Exclusion * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Analyzing & Exploring the City: Barcelona | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Community Engaged Global Learning: Society, Inequality & Social Exclusion * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Advanced Conversational Spanish: Daily & Practical Uses | 300 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Advanced Spanish | 300 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Beginning Spanish I | 100 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Beginning Spanish II | 100 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Cultural Visions through Spanish Cinema * | 300 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Intermediate Conversational Spanish: Daily & Practical Uses | 200 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Intermediate Spanish I | 200 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Intermediate Spanish II | 200 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Spanish Civilization & Culture * | 300 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Spanish for Business | 300 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Spanish for Heritage Speakers | 300 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Financial Statement Analysis * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Architecture & Painting in Barcelona * | 400 | En | 45 | 3 |
Picasso, Matisse, Dali and the Mediterranean | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Public Art in the Global City | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Spanish Art | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Spanish Art in the Digital Age | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Basic Operations Management * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Business Consulting | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Business Ethics & Management in a Global Context | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Business Statistics | 200 | En | 45 | 3 |
Cross-Cultural Management * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Entrepreneurship: The Art of Creative Business | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
International Business | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Negotiations | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Principles of Business Analytics | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Catalan Language & Culture * | 100 | Ot | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Advertising & Society | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Communication & Global Competence | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Mass Media & the Fashion Industry * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Media & Conflict * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Social Media: Digital Identity & the Virtual Community * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Analyzing & Exploring the City: Barcelona | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Brand Barcelona: Marketing the Global City * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Cultural History of Spain: From Dictatorship to the Digital Era * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Food & Culture in Spain * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Global Perspectives on Diversity: Narratives, Identity & Inclusion * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Heroes in the 21st Century: Understanding the World through TV Shows | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Immigration, Race & Identity in Contemporary Spain * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Spanish Civilization & Culture * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Sport & Culture in Contemporary Spain * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Comparative Economic Systems * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Intermediate Macroeconomics * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Money & Banking | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Principles of Macroeconomics | 200 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Teaching English Abroad: From Theory to Classroom Practice * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Teaching English Abroad: From Theory to Classroom Practice * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Travelers, Exiles & Tourists: The Search for Identity & Self in Literary & Filmic Expression * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Writing the Global City Barcelona | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Introduction to Global Climate Change | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Natural Resource Management: Conflict & Cooperation * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Sport & Sustainability * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Spain as Seen Through Its Movies: 1980s to Today * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
The Documentary Experience | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Business Finance | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Entrepreneurial Finance | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Financial Statement Analysis * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
International Finance | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Investments | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Sexual Identities in Modern Spain | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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A History of Persecution: Five Centuries of Religious & Racial Prejudice | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Cultural History of Spain: From Dictatorship to the Digital Era * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
The Making of the Mediterranean World * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Natural Resource Management: Conflict & Cooperation * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Digital Journalism & Communication: Blogging & Storytelling in the 21st Century * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
International Journalism & Global Media * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Photojournalism * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-Based Approach * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Basic Operations Management * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Brand Barcelona: Marketing the Global City * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Consumer Behavior | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Digital Marketing | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
International Marketing * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Principles of Marketing | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Sport Marketing | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
The Business of Social Media | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Media & Politics in Western Europe: Spain * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Photography in Barcelona | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Contemporary Spain: History, Politics & Society * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
EU Integration: Theories, Institutions & Issues * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Nationalism & Separatism in Catalonia Today | 400 | En | 45 | 3 |
Political Marketing | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Abnormal Psychology | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Cognitive Psychology | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Health Psychology * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Intercultural Interactions: Psychological Perspectives * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-Based Approach * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Social Psychology | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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World Religions * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Community Engaged Global Learning: Society, Inequality & Social Exclusion * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Analyzing & Exploring the City: Barcelona | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Community Engaged Global Learning: Society, Inequality & Social Exclusion * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Immigration, Race & Identity in Contemporary Spain * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Social Media: Digital Identity & the Virtual Community * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Sport & Sustainability * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Advanced Conversational Spanish: Daily & Practical Uses | 300 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Advanced Spanish | 300 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Beginning Spanish I | 100 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Beginning Spanish II | 100 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Cultural Visions through Spanish Cinema * | 300 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Intermediate Conversational Spanish: Daily & Practical Uses | 200 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Intermediate Spanish I | 200 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Intermediate Spanish II | 200 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Spanish Civilization & Culture * | 300 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Spanish for Business | 300 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Spanish for Heritage Speakers | 300 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Women Voices in Spanish Literature & Cinema | 300 | Sp | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Studio Barcelona: The Artist's Perspective | 200 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Transportation & Logistics Management | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Business in Action: Local Companies in a Global World | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Doing Business in Emerging Markets * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
E-Commerce & Online Business | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
International Business | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Managerial Skills For International Business * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Managing Services | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Politics, War & Economy in the Age of Globalization * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Strategic Behavior in Business and Economics * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Strategic Management of the Firm * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Behavior & Incentives in Economics: The Case of Soccer * | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
International Economics | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
The Creative Economy | 400 | En | 45 | 3 |
Understanding The European Economy | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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International Finance | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Career Management | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Cross-Cultural Management | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
People Management | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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International Marketing Strategies | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Geopolitics and International Relations * | 400 | En | 45 | 3 |
Inequality, Poverty, and Globalization | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
Politics of the Developing World | 300 | En | 45 | 3 |
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*Housing options may change and will be confirmed on the housing application form prior to the start of the term. Below are the housing options that have been offered in the past.
Get out and explore! Excursions are offered for most semester, year, and summer programs. Semester students are typically offered between two to three excursions and summer study students are typically offered between one to two excursions. You'll receive a calendar of excursions during orientation; here are a few day and overnight excursions we've offered in the past.
From housing to excursions, our programs include a variety of inclusions to enhance your study abroad experience! Here are examples that may be available in Barcelona. Inclusions vary by program – please contact our Enrollment and Advising team to find out what options are available for you.
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