Pre-registration for the University of Experience will be available on June 6

Pre-registration for the University of Experience will be available on June 6
Pre-registration for the University of Experience will be available on June 6
Academic
(06/06/2017)

People over 55 who want to enroll in one of the twelve educational programs offered by the University of Experience (UdE) for next academic year can now pre-register, both online (website of UdE) and in person (in any of the offices of the Area of Complementary Training of the UB) from June 6 to 9. After these dates, registration can also be done online and in-person. In this case, it will be done in the different offices of the Area of Complementary Training of the UB, dates can be checked in the registration schedule. There are fifty student places for each course; in case there are more than fifty pre-registrations, the assignation will be done by draw.

Pre-registration for the University of Experience will be available on June 6
Pre-registration for the University of Experience will be available on June 6
Academic
06/06/2017

People over 55 who want to enroll in one of the twelve educational programs offered by the University of Experience (UdE) for next academic year can now pre-register, both online (website of UdE) and in person (in any of the offices of the Area of Complementary Training of the UB) from June 6 to 9. After these dates, registration can also be done online and in-person. In this case, it will be done in the different offices of the Area of Complementary Training of the UB, dates can be checked in the registration schedule. There are fifty student places for each course; in case there are more than fifty pre-registrations, the assignation will be done by draw.

 

New record in amount of students

Susana Vendrell, head of the University of Experience, values positively the current course, which is now ending: “The almost 1.250 registered students mean there is once more, a record regarding the amount of students. Moreover, the level of loyalty of the students is getting higher and higher (60%), and more than half the students enroll for another course in University of Experience when they finish one”. In these lines, Vendrell adds that the training program in Fine Arts, which was new this year, has been successfully received and has run out of places”.

The results of the student questionnaires also show that the satisfaction level is quite high, both regarding the received information before registering, and the content in the program and teaching task of the lecturers, as well as the conditions and quality of the buildings. 

Course offerings for next academic year

All programs offer a high level training in different knowledge areas and they follow a mixed training model, sharing the room with bachelor students in some subjects. These are aimed at people over 55, so there is no requirement regarding education; its length is about one or more academic years, and lectures are given by lecturers from the University of Barcelona.

Food and gastronomy
This course offers an integrated and transverse vision of the world of food and nutrition, with multidisciplinary content from different fields of food sciences.

Astronomy and meteorology
This course aims to teach about the Universe we live in and transmit some general but rigorous knowledge on meteorology.

Fine Arts
This course offers an introductory program for the main artistic disciplines -drawing, painting, sculpture and engraving- to give the fundamentals in order to get into the contemporary art practice.

Personal and social wellbeing
This course aims to develop skills to reach peopleʼs wellbeing.

Libraries and archives in the Digital Age
There is an introduction to the history of the book, inside the knowledge and use of archives and libraries, Internet and social networks.

Biology: man and biodiversity
This course aims to provide a view of the evolutionary factors that defined the current biodiversity.

Health sciences
Program offering a multidiscipline perspective of the subject with basic training on prevention and promoting healthy habits.

Philosophy
A course proposing to understand the most important topics of our culture and reflect on them with philosophy and the most representative philosophers.

History of art
It gives the basics of history of art that allow students to read and contextualize a work of art.

History, society and territory
It provides knowledge to understand the transformation of human society through history, archaeology and geography.

Language and literature
A course providing basic training on communication and languages, as well as classic, European, Spanish and Catalan literature.

Psychology
This course provides the basics of individual and social psychology and allows students to find about the main pathologies and disorders as well as their diagnosis and treatment.

The UdE is sponsored by Fundació Agrupació, and supported by the Barcelona City Council, which, through a yearly agreement signature, collaborates financially in the diffusion of training programs and holds all the UdE information in its website.