We offer a whole range of courses and resources to help you familiarize yourself with the Catalan language and culture in a short period of time. 

With this in mind, we offer you the following:

  • First of all, the Landing programme, a two-week workshop that will quickly introduce you, no sooner than you arrive at the University, to the Catalan language and culture. This programme is held in September, before the classes start at the University.
  • Then, to be able to go further and start to acquire the necessary language skills to communicate in Catalan, we offer you a series of term-long Catalan language courses (from September to December, January to March, and from April to June) that will allow you to progress to level C 1.2 of the common European framework for languages.
  • Introductory MOOC to the Catalan language, culture and society: 

    The main goal of the MOOC Getting to Know Catalonia: An Introduction to the Catalan Language, Culture and Society is to present the Catalan nation to all those people who might be interested and to introduce them to the main fields and aspects of our country. Thus, this MOOC is taught by a multidisciplinary team of lecturers especialized in the different fields of knowledge dealt with in the course. The MOOC is made up of three modules, each of which is structured in two units dealing with similar subjects. The first module deals with economy and with the main fields of knowledge, and is composed of the Economy and the Society and welfare state units. The second module is about history, politics and media in Catalonia, and in its corresponding units the emphasis is put in the origines of the Catalan nation, which date as far back as one thousand years, as well as in the Catalan communication area. Finally, the third module is about language, art and culture. The first unit of this third module deals with history, the evolution and the main features of the Catalan language, whereas the second modules is about the maine artistic and cultural expressions.

    For further information click here.
    To enrol for the MOOC click here.

  • And finally, we also offer a series of online resources so you can begin to familiarize yourself with the language before you arrive or to reinforce or improve your knowledge during your stay in Catalonia.