Saint Louis University. -Alumni, Special Programs Fund- SLU. Universidad americana en Madrid (España). Universities Madrid Campus. Colleges Spain.

- Operación inglés

These are English-language summer camps for Spanish secondary school students offered in collaboration with Jesuit secondary schools in Spain. Our regular undergraduate and study abroad students fill the bulk of the teaching and monitoring positions in the programs, which take place in July. We also invite a select number of U.S. secondary school students to work as monitors while enrolled in intensive Spanish courses in the mornings. The mix is extraordinary. After three years of operation, it's fair to say that we're changing the standard for English-language summer camps in Spain. We are also giving our university students a rare opportunity to discover how enriching a career in teaching and mentoring can be. As the commitment is extensive, we give a small stipend to our university student monitors and would like to help offset travel and maintenance costs for deserving U.S. secondary school students.

- Interpretation of Spanish and Latin American Song

In the summer of 2004, the Madrid campus sponsored its first annual Music Festival in Granada, where student musicians from universities and conservatories around the world took lessons on the Spanish repertoire in guitar, piano, and voice from some of Spain's finest maestros and performed during their two-week stay.

This year our Festival moves to Madrid and expands its repertoire to include Latin American Song. The University offers program discounts to deserving students.

- Conferences

From time to time we sponsor multi-day conferences and seminars relating to issues of interest to our faculty and students. For example in 2004 we organized a conference on Ibero-American women writers in collaboration with the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the University of Stockholm, Sweden, that brought in more than 80 scholars from the U.S., Europe, and Latin America.

Our campus is also the home to a group of scholars dedicated to the study of the role of Conversos and Moriscos (Jewish and Islamic converts to Christianity) in Spanish history. Each year we sponsor an international conference on this theme and we will soon be home to the world's only journal on this topic, which has received scant attention in Spain. Our long-run goal in the future is to create a center for the study of Spain's period of convivencia between its Muslim, Jewish, and Christian populations.