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Registration at Universitat Jaume I, 2013/2014
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Dear Student,
Thank you for your interest in studying at Universitat Jaume I de Castellón (UJI) as an exchange student. During the previous academic year we have received 211 exchange students from all over Europe, the United States, Latin America and Malaysia. This year you will be one of them. We hope that you will have a pleasant time in Castellón, and we will do our best to make your stay as successful and as useful as possible.
Registration procedure as incoming exchange student
The preregistration procedure is made on-line to make sure that every incoming student is well organized and registered before his arrival in Castellón.
First: we will need to have received an official e-mail or letter from your home university’ s International Office nominating you as a student exchange candidate for this year. They must send it to incoming@uji.es
Second: you need to fill in some basic data about yourself in the following web page (Deadline: 15th June for 1st semester / 15th November for 2nd semester)
https://e-ujier.uji.es/pls/www/!gri_www.euji06614 REGISTRATION ON-LINE
This will serve as a pre-registration with us.
Third: wait to receive a letter from us with all necessary information and documents about UJI and Castellón, usernames and passwords so that you can continue on-line with your full registration and enrolment here. In this letter you will be admitted to a particular Bachelor degree programme or Master.
While you are waiting:
Plan Plan your stay academically
Since 2009/2010 new and old study programmes coexist. The new undergraduate courses, adapted to the European Harmonization standards, called GRADOS, have been introduced progressively since their first year of studies, year by year. In the academic year 2013/2014 all new degrees have been activated until the 4th year of studies, with the exception of Nursing and Medicine, that will be in their third year of existence. The old degrees are progressively disappearing as they are no longer being taught in theirs first years. Therefore we advise students to look mainly for subjects of the new degrees called GRADOS and if necessary, look for last year courses in the old degrees. Subjects in the old degrees with group Z are not offered to exchange students, because there is no teaching left.
Therefore, it is very important to check the LLEU, where the course offer for the year 2013/14 will be published at the end of June 2013.
As an undergraduate Student, you should choose mainly subjects from the degree programme you have been admitted, although you will be able to take subjects in other related programmes under supervision of an academic tutor. As a Master Student, you will be able to choose subjects only from the Master programme where you have been admitted. There should exist a bilateral agreement at Master level with your home institution in your field of studies
Language of teaching
80% of the teaching is done in Spanish and the rest in Catalan, 17% and in English 3%. We advise students to have studied previously at least 2 years of Spanish to make sure that their stay is academically successful.
Academic calendar 2013/2014 for undergraduate studies
New and old study programmes have the same schedules.
The university will be closed from 5 to 25 August 2013.
1st semester:
Classes: from 9 September to 20 December 2013
Exams: from 7 to 24 January 2014
2nd Call of exams: from 23 June to 11 July 2014.
Holidays: 16th September, 9th October, 1st November, 6thh December, Christmas from 23th December to 6th January.
2nd semester:
Classes: from 25 January to 17 May 2014.
Exams: from 26 May to 13 June 2014.
2nd Call of exams: 23 June to 11th July 2014.
Holidays: 24th February, Magdalena Fiestas from 22nd to 29th March, 19th March, Easter from 19th to 26th April.
We advise you to arrive one week before the start of the classes in order to attend our orientation sessions and to settle down in our town. The orientation programme can be found in www.incoming.uji.es .
The Schedule for the Master. programmes is slightly different, generally they start and end later. The director of the Master shall inform you about the start of the classes each semester
Every semester the Language and Terminology Service (SLT) organizes specific courses of Spanish for international students. These are run at three levels: initial, intermediate and advanced (A, B, C). They also offer Catalan courses at beginner’s level. Exchange students are expected to have a basic grasp of the Spanish language, which is to say, they will have studied the language for at least two years at University and know the language enough to get by in everyday life and in lectures.
The courses are provided both semi-presentially or virtually on-line. The virtual courses have two options, either the Aula Virtual UJI of our university or the Aula of the Cervantes Institute, called AVE. The semi-presential courses combine dynamic conversational classes with Aula Virtual UJI.
Level A and B courses are offered before the start of each semester. They are intensive 3 weeks language courses meant to prepare students for the longer, regular courses run throughout the semester. The dates of the courses are approximately as follows:
Throughout each semester there are two long-lasting Spanish courses at intermediate and advanced level.
Approximate calendar of the semiintensive Spanish courses:
There are morning and afternoon groups at all levels.
You can sign up for Spanish and Catalan courses from August 1st.
Detailed information about registration, times, dates and a description of the content of the courses can be found at:
https://www.uji.es/CA/serveis/slt/adf/ser/clg.html#3
Initial level of Spanish (level A) is only recommended if the student has only studied Spanish for one year. Initial level of Catalan is suitable for students with an advanced level of Spanish. Catalan is the official language of the university and around 18% of the classes are taught in this language. But if you are not sure about your level of Spanish, you can do a level test, prueba de nivel on this web site: https://ave.cervantes.es/#prueba
On finishing the course the student receives a grades report if he takes the final exam and fulfils attendance requirements.
Medical Insurance
European Union citizens must bring the European health card, which they apply for at their national Health Service.
Non-European Union citizens, however, must have a private insurance. Your insurance needs to cover all medical, surgical, pharmaceutical and hospitalisation expenses from minimum 10,000 euros. Besides, the repatriation or transportation in case of injury, illness or death as well as the travel of an accompanying family member of the hospitalised contracting party have to be covered.
If you want to contract your medical insurance here, please, read the following page:
https://www.uji.es/bin/serveis/otci/incoming/infoex.pdf. , page 14
Stories from previous students
You have plenty to do before arriving here, good luck !!!!
Castelló de la Plana, ORI, February 2013
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