Universitat Jaume I - UJI - Castello

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Registration at Universitat Jaume I, 2011/2012

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 227 exchange students from all over Europe, the United States, Latin America, Australia and Russia. This year you will be one of them. We hope that you will have a pleasant time in Castellón, and we will make our best to make your stay as successful and useful as possible.

Registration procedure as incoming exchange student

The registration 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.

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.

While you are waiting:

Book temporary or permanent accommodation in a student residence or hotel. We have a new facebook group called Intercanviat OCIE: pisos, apartamentos y habitaciones
Pre-register in the Spanish / Catalan courses
Check information on study programmes and timetables, http://lleu.uji.es/ (go to Titulaciones). This web address will be extremely useful when filling- in the learning agreement after you have pre-registered. There is also an abridged version in English of our degrees and subjects in http://www.uji.es/UK/basic/estudis/titulacions/
Find out how to arrive in Castellon
Check our FAQ for incoming exchange students
Read about our Arrival pages
Find us in Facebook, we are Intercanviat ORI, you can make many friends before arriving.
Read the brief academic guidelines
Read stories of previous students in Castellon

Academic calendar 2011/2012

Since 2009/2010 new and old study programmes coexist. The new undergraduate courses, called GRADOS, are being introduced progressively since their first year of studies, year by year. That means that no new undergraduate year is taught in its full 4 years of studies, yet. At the same time, the old study programmes, called TITULACIONES DE PRIMER Y SEGUNDO CICLO, are eventually disappearing as the new programmes are being activated. New study programmes are only taught in the first and second year, and old study programmes are only taught in their third and fourth year. Incoming exchange students can choose subjects in both old and new programmes. We advise exchange students to plan their stay according to this circumstance. Therefore, it is very important to check the lleu.uji.es, where the course offer for the year 2011/12 will be published at the end of June.

This can be visualized better in this table:

YEAR OF STUDIES	OLD STUDY PROGRAMME	NEW STUDY PROGRAMME
1	no teaching	teaching activated
2	no teaching	teaching activated
3	Teaching	no teaching activated, yet
4	Teaching	no teaching activated, yet
5	teaching (mainly engineering degrees)	does not exist

New and old study programmes have slightly different schedules:

*NEW UNDERGRADUATE COURSES (GRADOS)

*Have been adapted to the European Harmonization standards.

1st semester:

Classes: from 20th September to 23th December.
Exams: from 9th to 23rd January.

2^nd Call exams: from 18th to 30th June.

Holidays: 19th September, 12th October, 1st November, 6th and 8th December, Christmas from 24th December to 8th January.

2nd semester:

Classes: from 25th January to 20th May.
Exams: from 21th May to 7th June.
2^nd Call exams: 2nd to 13th July

Holidays: 24th February, Magdalena Fiestas from 10th to 18th March, 19th March, Easter from 6th to 16th April.

We advise you to arrive one week before the start of the classes in order to attend our orientation sessions.

OLD STUDY PROGRAMMES (PRIMER Y SEGUNDO CICLO)

1st semester:

Classes: from 20th September to 23rd December.
Exams: from 09th January to 24rd January

2nd Call exams: from 02nd to 13th July

Holidays: 19th September, 12th October, 1st November, 6th and 8th December, Christmas from 24th December to 9th January.

2nd semester:

Classes: from 25th January to 18th May.
Exams: from 21st May to 9th June.
2^nd Call exams: 3rd to 8th September.

Holidays: 24th February, Magdalena Fiestas from 10th to 18th March, 19th March, Easter from 6th to 16th April.

We advise you to arrive one week before the start of the classes in order to attend our orientation sessions

Spanish and Catalan courses

Every semester the Language and Terminology Service (SLT) organizes specific courses of Spanish for overseas students. These are run at three levels: initial, intermediate and advanced (A, B, C). They also offer Catalan courses at beginners 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 a year 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:

1st semester: mid September - beginning of October
2nd semester: the last three weeks in February. If you are a European student, you can have the possibility of getting an EILC (Erasmus Intensive Language Course) grant if you wish to study Catalan. More information here: http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus/doc902_en.htm

Throughout each semester there are two long-lasting Spanish courses at intermediate and advanced level.

Approximate calendar of the semiintensive Spanish courses:

1st semester: from mid October to mid December.
2nd semester: from March to May.

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:
http://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: http://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:

http://www.uji.es/bin/serveis/otci/incoming/infoex.pdf, page 14.