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University Studies of Catalan Estudis (EUC) are university courses that started on the 16th of October in 1903 as a result of the First University Catalan Congress. This took place as a response when the University of Barcelona's rector refused to accept Catalan as a language of communication.

As the Spanish Ministry of Education did no issue any official authorization  to use the classrooms at the university, classes had to be set up at the Ateneu Barcelonès,  Industrial Technical College and the Public Library,Biblioteca de Catalunya.

At first classes were given in Catalan only in the subjects of civil law and the history of Catalonia, but this was soon followed by social economy and tariff policy classes, then Catalan public law, Catalan Literature, Catalan history of art, Geology applied to Catalan, chemical techniques and analysis, agriculture, national pedagogy, studies in Portuguese, the study of romance languages, philosophy, comparative grammar in Latin and Catalan, musical and ethnic history of popular song folklore, logic and metholodology in science and geography. All of these subjects were taught at the Univesiity by qualified teachers.

Among the teachers in the Studies, there are several well-known public figures such as  Antoni Rubió i Lluch, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Antoni Borrell i Soler, Pompeu Fabra, Eugeni d'Ors, Pere Bosch i Gimpera, Manuel de Montoliu, Jordi Rubió i Balaguer, Ferran Valls i Taberner, Francesc Martorell i Trabal i Pau Vila.

With the arrival of the Second Spanish Republic, education matters were taken over by  the  Generalitat de Catalunya, which coincided with the foundation of the  Autonomous University of Barcelona  and the implementation of Catalan at all levels at the University of Barcelona, which reduv¡ced subjects to four : Grammar, Literature, History and Geography.

At the end of the Spanish civil war, all of these activities were suspended and were not reinstated until 1942 and were carried out as clandestine activities until 1950. In those days, Catalan linguistics were taught by Ramon Aramon i Serra, history of literaure by Jordi Rubió i Balaguer ( and later on by Jordi Carbonell, Antoni Comas and  Joaquim Molas), history of Catalan by  Ferran Soldevila (later on by  Miquel Coll i Alentorn) and, sporadically, Catalan civil code by Antoni Borrell i Macià, political economy by  Salvador Millet i Bel, paleography by Pere Bohigas,and  archaeology by Josep de Calassanç Serra i Ràfols.

From 1961 to 1985 the EUC also organized courses on Catalan culture for foreign students. They also edited a magazine with the same name in which they published research carried out by the majority of teachers and select students.