UNIVERSITY PROCEDURES BAFFLE WERLIN

Seville, SPAIN -- Jessica “Cosmo” Werlin has successfully completed the first week of classes at the University of Seville and will soon complete the extended process of enrollment. Werlin will be taking classes at the Faculties of Geography and History, Philology, and possibly The Sciences of Economics and Business. 

Werlin will not be taking classes this semester towards the completion of her major, Biology, while she is in Seville. She instead selected subjects that captured her interest. These include such classes as Languages of the World, Political Ideologies and Social Movements in Contemporary Spain, and The History of Latin America’s Independence. She will also complete one course in Advanced Spanish Writing at the Michigan-Cornell-Penn Consortium (MCP) program center. 

Werlin has found classes to be difficult in Spanish, although she has not had any extreme issues following the progression of class. “It’s hard enough to understand, for example, the anthropology of contemporary societies in Spanish, without the professor going off on tangents and jumping between ideas. But there we are,” Werlin wrote in a recent correspondence with El País. “Sometimes it’s a challenge in that sense. But, for the most part, I get the idea.” 

Werlin described the matriculation process as “overly complicated” in a televised interview this afternoon. “Not only is it a challenge to attend classes in Spanish, but because we have to matriculate via MCP, we have to present a list of several viable classes in our order of preference - and then, depending on availability, we get enrolled.”

Werlin as of yet does not know which classes of her list of six she will be taking. “I’ve handed in my list, and Eva [MCP academic program coordinator] will, I presume, do her best to get me into the top three,” Werlin explained. She will be notified early next week definitively in which classes she has been enrolled.

MCP officials have defended the complexity of the process as “the only way to navigate the Faculty system.” Spanish students choose to enroll in one degree specifically, and therefore take classes in one Faculty only for their entire university career. MCP participants, however, may select to take classes from any of the University of Seville’s 25 Faculties - so long as there are no temporal conflicts. 

The Faculties of Philology and History & Geography are both located in La Fabrica Real de Tabacos, Seville’s historical cigarette factory near the city center. Today the building has been restored and modified to house the university. The Faculty of the Sciences of Economics and Business, however, is located in Nervión, adjacent to the Faculties of the Work Sciences, Psychology, and Law.