Dates
May 8 – May 23, 2027 (subject to change)
Costs
Program Fee: $4,250 (includes $500 non-refundable deposit, subject to change)
*Includes housing, some meals and several excursions.
Deposit Deadline: December 1, 2026
Program fee does not include roundtrip airfare, tuition or the study abroad fee.
| Airfare | Varies | For flexibility, students book their own flight. Program leaders will share their flight itinerary with the class and students often fly as a group on the international leg of the trip. |
| Study Abroad Application | $225.00 | Fee to the Education Abroad Office for administrative preparation. |
| Tuition | Varies | Students should check with the Bursar’s Office to see how much this 3-credit hour course will charge them in tuition. |
| International Insurance | $38.24 | Fee that the Education Abroad Office adds to each students bill who studies abroad. The policy provides medical and mental health coverage, but it is NOT trip interruption insurance. |
The Class
Taught by: Matt Childs, Ph.D. and Kelly Goldberg, Ph.D.
Pre-requisites: There is no prerequisite for this course.
Course attributes: To be announced
For Spain, the 16th and 17th centuries is known as their “Golden Age” when they were the most powerful country in Europe and ruled over empires that had colonies across the globe. Long before the British had an “empire on which the sun never set” in the 18th century, Spain had theirs in the 16th century.
This program examines how Conquest and Colonization in the Americas, Africa, and Asia by the Spanish quite literally produced this “Golden Age” through extracting precious metals and other wealth from around the globe. Rather than only studying colonization with a focus on how it transformed colonies in the Americas, we will examine how it revolutionized the home country of Spain. Through visiting historic sites, museums, libraries, and churches in Madrid, Seville, and the Canary Islands of the coast of West Africa, we will analyze how Conquest and Colonization in the Americas had direct consequences on reshaping Spain and Portugal.