Develop advanced Spanish skills through the study of literature, film, and culture from modern and contemporary Spain. Given in Spanish.
Athena Title
Exploring Modern Spain
Prerequisite
SPAN 3030 or SPAN 3030E or SPAN 3030H
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will interpret themes, symbols, and literary techniques in Spanish literature from the 18th century to the present.
Students will examine how literature reflects and comments on cultural, political, and historical developments.
Students will formulate and defend arguments about texts through evidence-based analysis while engaging in oral and written discussions about the intersections of literature with history, politics, philosophy, and art in Spain.
Students will compare and contrast the historical, cultural, and social contexts of different literary and cultural works.
Students will examine how literature reflects and comments on cultural, political, and historical developments.
Students will engage in oral and written discussions about the intersections of literature with history, politics, philosophy, and art in Spain.
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
