Students normally enroll in four or five courses each semester:

1. A program course in Spanish theater coordinated with plays, films, lectures, and exhibits currently available in Madrid, conducted by the director of the program. This course is required of all full-year students in the program during the fall semester and optional for the spring semester.
2. An additional program course in Contemporary Spanish Civilization and Art is offered spring semester only. It is optional for full-year students; spring-semester students must select between this course and the above-mentioned Theater course.  Both courses are structured according to the same pattern, which includes a cultural activities component, and students may not take both courses because of this overlap.
3. An optional program course in Advanced Spanish language is highly recommended and offered at both the Madrid and Alcalá program centers. Other options are available at both university locations.
4. Two or three courses to be selected by the student, with the advice of the director, from among the course offerings of the Autonomous University of Madrid (full-year and spring semester) or the University of Alcalá (full-year, fall and spring semesters). Students make individual agreements with their professors regarding exams, papers, and readings for which they are responsible each semester and are expected to make use of the individual tutorial help covered by the program. Fall semester Alcalá student course selection at the University of Alcalá will be limited to those taught by professors willing to offer them an exam in December.

All Tufts-in-Madrid students will meet with the director each week during the academic year to handle program business and announcements. The director will monitor students’ progress in their university courses and convert Spanish grades into Tufts grades.

Internships can be arranged for qualified full-year students in their second semester. In the past, these have included work in schools, businesses, volunteer agencies, government ministries, and the media.