UPF's cross-disciplinary programmes encompass a series of diverse training offers designed to enable students to personalize their own curriculum with interdisciplinary training that goes beyond the specific proposal of a bachelor's degree. The programmes available target different groups so that each programme adapts its objectives to the needs of the group it is intended for. Here you can find the offer that might address your concerns and satisfy your desire to learn.
Open Bachelor’s Degree
Like different degrees and still don't want to decide to study one in particular? The Open Bachelor's Degree allows you, during your first year at university, to explore subjects from different UPF bachelor’s degrees, building your own academic itinerary. At the end of this first exploratory year, you will be able to plump for one of the degrees you have discovered.
Recognition: Incorporation into the academic record
Recipients: Newly admitted undergraduate students to UPF
Minors
If you want to go beyond the field of knowledge of the degree you are studying, a minor allows you to train in a specific subject or field. Each minor includes various training activities (subjects, activities, courses, etc.), that can be taken separately or together to obtain the minor qualification.
Recognition: UPF-endorsed; incorporation of part of the training into the academic record
Recipients: Undergraduate, master's, doctoral students and alumni
Free elective cross-disciplinary training
If you want to gain interdisciplinary knowledge, free elective cross-disciplinary training allows you to incorporate into your academic record subjects from the curricula of degree programmes other than the one in which you are enrolled. Some of these subjects belong to a minor.
Recognition: Incorporation into the degree or minor academic record
Recipients: UPF undergraduate students
Barcelona International Summer School - BISS
If you want to continue learning during the summer, the Barcelona International Summer School (BISS) is a programme of subjects offered in the summer, in which you will share a classroom with UPF students and students from other universities, both Spanish and foreign.
Recognition: Incorporation into the academic record
Recipients: University students from all around the world
Barcelona Program for Interdisciplinary Studies-BAPIS
El Barcelona Program for Interdisciplinary Studies (BAPIS) ofrece durante el primer y segundo trimestre asignaturas con una aproximación interdisciplinaria, abiertas tanto a estudiantes de la UPF como a estudiantes internacionales.
Reconocimiento: Incorporación en el expediente
Destinatarios: Estudiantes universitarios de todo el mundo
UPF Senior
If you are aged 50 or older and want to refresh your knowledge, keep up to date and learn, UPF Senior is the programme for you. This proposal provides you with more than 180 subjects organized termly, which will allow you to share a classroom with undergraduate students, do group work, chat or enjoy a good cup of coffee.
Recognition: Certificate
Recipients: People aged 50 and over
Campus Júnior
If you are a secondary school or a high school student, Campus Júnior is your opportunity to satisfy your curiosity during the summer in a university environment. You will meet new classmates with similar interests to yours and over a week, you will delve into a topic related to one of the academic disciplines taught at UPF.
Recognition: Certificate
Recipients: 3rd and 4th year secondary (ESO) and high school (batxillerat) students