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| Course ID: | SPAN 4050. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Exploring Modern Spain | Course
Description: | Develop advanced Spanish skills through the study of literature, film, and culture from modern and contemporary Spain. Given in Spanish. | | Oasis Title: | Exploring Modern Spain | | Prerequisite: | SPAN 3030 or SPAN 3030E or SPAN 3030H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | To familiarize upper-division undergraduate students with the
major texts and literary movements in Spain from 1700 to the
present. Emphasis will be placed on reading a variety of texts
and situating those texts within their cultural, historical,
and linguistic context. Reading assignments will be
complemented by written and oral assignments as well as exams.
Students will be expected to develop their reading skills as
well as the analytical and research techniques necessary to
understand, discuss, and develop coherent arguments about
literary texts. | | Topical Outline: | Enlightenment Ideals and their Corresponding Neoclassical
Aesthetics
The Old Regime vs. the New Regime
The Napoleonic Invasion of Spain and its Consequences
Romanticism
Costumbrismo
Realism and Naturalism
Generation of 1898 and Modernism
Vanguard Movements
The Spanish Republic and the Political and Social Circumstances
Leading up to the Spanish Civil War of 1936 | |
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