Subject offer & requirements
The Faculty of Politics and Sociology at UAB, offers a selection of courses taught in English, Spanish and Catalan. The offer is yearly updated and includes subjects among our regular students offer:
CLICK HERE TO CHECK THE 2023/24 ACADEMIC OFFER
⇒Syllabi: You can find the subjects guides here
⇒Schedules and rooms: You can check them in the above published academic offer.
See also: How can I check the subjects schedules and rooms?
It is important to check that the subjects belong to the semester during which the student is coming (ex. a 2nd semester student can not take a 1st semester or full year subject)
(!) Our main teaching language is Catalan, which means that we have a limited offer of subjects in Spanish and English. In order to allow all students take subjects in both languages, they can register in a maximum of 5 courses, 30 ECTS per semester in our faculty, which may be:
- Maximum 2 subjects in English (12 ects)
- Maximum 1 subject in Spanish (6 ects)
- Other courses in Catalan
Full year students can register in the double credits in each option, understanding that a full year course in English takes 12 ects (that would be understood as 6 ects in semester 1 and 6 ects in semester 2),although the subject can't be splitted.
The minimum quota will be guaranteed, but course selection will be upon availability (no specific courses can be confirmed until the student makes the selection in the application).
A minimum 50% of the total credits must be enrolled at your host faculty at UAB. The remaining credits can be enrolled in a different faculty (upon availability, note that there may be also limitations or requirements), or students can also take language courses in the UAB School of Languages that may transfere into recognized ECTS, depending on each university.
(!) LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT
Our incoming students taking bachelor courses from our faculty are required to have a minimum level of B2 of English and B2 in Spanish (depending on the language of instruction of the requested subjects).
If students want to register in both Spanish taught and English taught courses, they will have to submit both certificates. No Catalan certificate is required.
Courses from other faculties
On this page you will find the general academic offer of the UAB. To make sure that the subjects you are interested in are open to exchange students, consult the Exchange Office of the relevant faculty or school.
Other faculties subjects also work under availability, and the period for requesting them opens about 2 weeks after the start of the semester. The timing responds to the needs of each faculty of close their own courses add drop during the first days of classes, and then each faculty opens their available spots to other centers.
During these firsts days students can try different classes if desired, however, they can't follow them if they do not get a spot during the application period.
A few days after the start of the semester you will get further instructions on how to apply for them.
Catalan and Spanish Language Courses:
Exchange students can learn Catalan and Spanish with subsidized courses (Spanish subsidized coures are offered too). Each year there are also free initial Catalan courses for incoming students. More info at:
2023/24 Spring term offer:
⇒ Information about Catalan language courses for incoming students (ES, EN)
*Catalan "Inicial" course is 100% subsidised for UAB students (exchanges included) and staff, see the above mentioned web to know about the registration. The rest of the levels have different percentage of subsidy.
⇒ Information about Spanish language courses for incoming students (ES, EN)
*The available levels have different percentage of subsidy.
Master courses are only available to exchange students of Master level coming from universities with an active bilateral agreement for that level. In all cases students must ask for the approval approval of the master coordinator through our exchange office (intercanvis.politiques@uab.cat).
Students can choose among the following Masters:
Ciencia Política / Polítical Science
Política Social, Trabajo y Bienestar / Social Policy, Employment and Welfare
Please contact the exchange office in order to get detailed information about the open offer and procedures for incoming students