Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

 

The Autonomous University of Barcelona was founded in 1967, and in 1976 the university introduced a plan to create a model of a democratic, independent university.  UAB has more than 40,000 students and was ranked as the best university in Spain in 2012. It is currently considered one of the top 'under 50' (new) universities, ranked at 12th in the world.

 

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UAB is located Cerdanyola del Vallès, 30 minutes north of the center of Barcelona, Spain. While Cerdanyola del Vallès is a town of 57,000, it is considered part of the metropolitan Barcelona area, which includes almost 5.4 million people. 

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The Program:

The Department of Language and Literature Education and Social Science Education is responsible for the training of pre-service and in-service teachers (early years, primary and secondary education) in the areas of expertise related to the Department.

This expertise guides the teaching and research tasks of the Department faculty members, which include the organisation and development of research projects in the fields of Language, Literature and Social Science Education and the design and development of teacher training programmes in the same fields.

The teaching tasks are developed in degrees in teacher training courses for primary and secondary school teachers, in degrees in Speech Therapy and Pedagogy, and professionalizing and research master degrees as well as two doctorate degrees (the Didactics of Language and Literature Teaching and the Social Sciences) and postgraduate continuing education courses organized occasionally.

Research is conducted by three research centres and is funded through local (ARIE; MQD) and national government agencies (DGI; CIDE) as well as European projects (Lingua, Comenius, Minerva, Action IV and through the participation in research networks, along with organization of research activities with private foundations or corporations. The basis of the research and teaching of this particular course stem from work carried about by the GREIP research centre.

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About the Banner Image:  Las Columnas de las UAB

The UAB campus has since 1999 been an emblematic art project that has already become a sign of identity from the University. It consists of four columns of reddish granite that crack and stretch simultaneously, looking for the sky. They are the work of the Valencian sculptor Andreu Alfaro. These four columns, which measure between 25 and 40 meters high, are surrounded by a lawn space where blocks of stone are placed with inscriptions of all the universities that are part of the Joan Lluís Vives Institute. This gateway to the UAB is a symbol of the future, based on the basis of the durability of what it wants to represent: the union between the Catalan university community and the inseparable relationships between nature, science, art and the Identity "Where there is a stone, it continues that way after a thousand years, so it is contemplated by several generations," said Andreu Alfaro on the day of the inauguration of the Columns of the Autonomous, which took place on September 10, 1999. This monumental work was Inaugurated by the President of the Generalitat, Jordi Pujol, who made incapable of the simplicity of Alfaro's work "which is how great artists do things". Numerous personalities of culture and politics accompanied the rector Carles Solà and the university community on September 10 that changed the face of the campus.

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