Ginette Alomar Eldredge, PhD, will be your Program Director and will accompany students to Spain. Dr. PLEASE NOTE: All University of Maryland study abroad programs are financially self-supporting and, therefore, subject to cancelation due to low enrollment. Please refer to the following resources for more information on funding study abroad NOTE: If you are a non-UMD graduate student, you will need to pay a $75 application fee to the UMD graduate school to participate in this program. Optional trip cancelation/interruption Insurance (estimate) This fee represents the housing provided during the program. This fee includes: Tuition, in-country transportation, course related activities, group meals, and teaching services. This fee is charged to your UMD account upon course registration. This fee is charged to your account when the application status changes from "Accepted" to "Committed." This fee includes Education Abroad services including registration, billing, advising, risk management, and pre-departure orientation. Be sure to check your statements when they are available. ![]() They are due based on the Office of Student Financial Services and Cashiering payment schedule. Application Feeīillable costs are charged to your student account. **Scholarships of up to $500 each are available to students who apply to this program. Online applications will open in mid-August and are due Thursday, October 5, 2023, at 11:59pm PT. *This program qualifies for eligible Pell Grant recipients to apply for the Gilman International Scholarship. Please refer to the following resources for funding study abroad: Expect to walk between 20 to 25 miles per day.ĪLL COST INFORMATION REPRESENTS 2023 COSTS. It is not suitable for students that require special assistance. This is a medium to high impact walking trek on unpaved, rocky, and uneven country dirt roads. Expect a medium paced walk during the pilgrimage. 90 kms) from Portomarín to the shrine of St. Students will walk a total of 56 miles (approx. Keep In Mind: This program is designed to allow you to interact with the local culture and living history of the El Camino. We will also consider its impact of today’s society and the multicultural pilgrims experience considering the contemporary importance of pilgrimage of the Camino from historical, political cultural, and religious perspectives. Through pilgrimage narratives, literature, poetry, music, and direct participation in the Camino de Santiago, this course will also explore the importance of pilgrimage within medieval society which has transcended throughout the centuries. What To Expect? Participants on El Camino de Santiago de Compostela (or Saint James Way) will explore both the historical but also the artistic, folkloric, and literary traditions during this one‐week focusing on the importance of the pilgrimage road to Santiago de Compostela and the relevance of this 1000‐year‐old tradition to Spain. At the end of the journey, students will receive La Compostela, an official document issued by the pilgrimage office in Santiago marking their accomplishment. Students will discover what centuries of pilgrims have felt, experienced, and considered as one walks in their footsteps and experiences the magical moments of the way. For academic purposes, UMD students will be culturally and academically motivated pilgrims, although this does not preclude other personal motives for making the journey. ![]() The Camino de Santiago is distinctive, since Medieval times, for it strings of ancient Roman ruins, art, medieval architecture, which is enhanced by its unique geological features and the native flora associated with the histories and folklores of the landscape. Thus, this pilgrimage that characterizes the Santiago de Compostela is not exclusively religious. And even though there are many roads that lead to Santiago, there is one factor that have not changed: the interaction between pilgrims sharing through the rich cultural, literary, historical, and artistic variety that connects each city. Its last 90 kilometers, and the focus of this course, was probably the most travelled road in the European Middle Ages and was a great source of cultural exchanges. ![]() Today, what we call “The Road to Santiago” or Saint James Way was a complex network of roads that started in France and ended in northern Spain. Solvitur ambulando, “It is resolved by walking.” Since Medieval times pilgrimage have taken into walking the roads that lead to Santiago the Compostela which its distinctive for developing its own culture and way of life which is so different from the rest of Spain.
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