Course Description
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)
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
Syllabus