Oxbridge Academic Programs - La Academia de España

Dear Students, Parents and Teachers,

Welcome to La Academia de España, a program specifically designed for students in grades 10 to 12 in the beautiful Spanish city of Barcelona. The program, now in its fifth year, continues to grow, with additional courses and a renewed energy, all aimed at creating a unique program of intellectual and cultural enrichment.

For two thousand years, scholars and sailors, merchants and artists, musicians and athletes, and countless others have left their mark on Barcelona. From Roman ruins to Gothic churches, this is a city steeped in history. It is an amazing cultural crossroads, and the perfect place to begin a lifetime of intellectual and imaginative exploration.

Today, Barcelona is at the cutting edge of European culture and one of Europe’s most visited cities. It is famous worldwide for its stunning architecture, five-star cuisine, countless museums, and bustling, colorful streets. With all this, our students also have an unmatched exposure to Spanish language and daily life. They come away with a new sense of the world around them and all the possibilities that international study brings into view. I love sharing all this with students.

Please take the time to read about this unparalleled learning opportunity. As you do, I hope you come to see why I’m so excited by the prospect of another summer in Barcelona – and why I hope you will join us this July.

Sincerely,

Ed Denault
Director

Ed is Chairman of the Department of Humanities at the Elon School, an independent day school in Elon, North Carolina, where he teaches Spanish and English. Before that, he taught high school Spanish for eleven years at the Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, and for nine of those years led the school’s five-week summer program in Valencia, Spain. Ed has taught English as a second language in New York and has worked for New York University’s School of Continuing Education both as an administrator and as a Spanish teacher. Between work on his BA at SUNY Oneonta and his MA at Rutgers, he spent a year teaching English at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Ed lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with his Spanish wife, Irene, who is an assistant professor of Spanish at UNC-Chapel Hill.