EEHH (SP) - Intermediate I

Estudios Hispanicos in Spanish
PO 01A Contemporary Spain: Society and Institutions
The course will provide knowledge about the nowdays Spain, particularly to its regional diversity. Specital attention will be paid to the political transition from francoist dictatorship. Current institutions and Consitution will be anaylized. Finally, course will describe the Spanish society through some of the most striking aspects as: population, economy and culture. Credits: 2 Institution: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
HS 02A General Spanish History: Ancient and Medieval
Course focus on the Muslim and Christian Spain during the Middle Ages, since the arabic conquest, 8th century, till the 15th century. The course will emphasize the coexistence of two different cultures, societies and economies that distinguish the Spanish Middle Ages from the rest of Europe. The course is, as well, composed by some fieltrips through the city of Barcelona. Credits: 2 Institution: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
HS 05A General Spanish History: Modern and Contemporary
This course will focus on 19th and 20th century Spanish History, paying special attention to the establishment of the Liberal regim, the Carlist wars, the dictatorhips???? ? and the social division between political ideologies. Credits: 2 Institution: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
LT 06A Latin American Literature
Introduction to the Latin American Literature. The aim of the curse is to provide key comptences related to specific texts as well as to strengthen understanding strategies to students. Credits: 2 Institution: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
GE 07A Geography
This course will focus on the relationship between physical environment and human agency on Spain in its regional and global dimension. Credits: 2 Institution: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
LT 08A Reading of Contemporary Narrative Texts
Reading of short Spanish literature texts, helping students to their first approach to Spanish present literature. Credits: 2 Institution: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
AH 09A Modern and Contemporary Spanish Art
Course will focus 18th to 20th century Spanish art. Life and works before Francisco de Goya. The neoclassic style: architecture, sculpture and painting. The Romanticism. The Impressionist movement in Spain other styles. Credits: 2 Institution: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
AH 10A Ancient and Medieval Spanish Art/td>
Course will focus on Romanesque, Gothic and "Mudéjar" art in Spain during the Midle Ages. Credits: 2 Institution: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
LT 11A Reading and Commentary of Poetic Texts
Reading and understanding of basic poetry texts for the learning of fundamental expressive resources in order to analyze poems. Credits: 2 Institution: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
FS 12A Spanish Cinema
Using the critique of showed movies, students will deepen their knowledge on the Spanish language as well as the relationship between narrative and film. Credits: 2 Institution: Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
FS 51091EH Images of Spain in Contemporary Cinema
The course offers an introduction to Spanish cinema from the beginning of democracy in Spain, during the seventies, until today, with a particular attention to those movie-makers that stand out for their artistic value as well as for their capacity to reflect the most important characteristics of Spanish contemporary reality and culture. The different course sessions will explain the plural imaginary of the most recent Spanish cinema, through the work of filmmakers such as Pedro Almodovar, Victor Erice, Julio Medem, Alejandro Amenabar, or Jose Luis Guerin. Students will have the chance to study the particular poetic art of these authors, the evolution of movie genres,and the importance of cinema in the Spanish society framework, as well as to attain throughout the course knowledge of cinematographic theory, and resources to analyze movies and establish elations with other type of artistic expressions, such as literature and painting. Finally, the course will offer the necessary theoretical tools to contextual rise all other important issues within social, political and economical evolution in Spain, of the last decades. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
AH 51088EH Contemporary Spanish Art
The objective of this course is to offer a survey approach to the history of artistic developments in Spain from Goya to our days. A background in this specific field is not required. For this reason not only will the main artistic events be covered, but also some political, historical and cultural issues that might be relevant. Although this course is mainly based on lectures; some visits to museums and exhibitions will be also part of the course requirements. These visits will be made during the class time, and are equivalent to an usual in-class lecture. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
PO 51080EH Society and Politics in Contemporary Spain
This course is designed to give both political science and non-political science majors an overview of fundamental issues in the study of Spanish politics. The core of the course is the study of the nature and functioning of the Spanish democratic system installed since the middle of the seventies, paying special attention to the processes, institutions, actors, political culture and electoral behavior. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
HS 51083EH Barcelona: The City and its History
Barcelona is nowadays a very cosmopolitan city with a great international projection. This course is an introduction to the city of Barcelona by studying its past and analyzing its present. This course will review the most important moments in the urban development of Barcelona focusing in the ways these events can be seen in the present layout of the city. We will also analyze the expressions of Catalan and Mediterranean identity in its buildings and traditions. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
PH 51086EH Quixote in the Philosophical Spanish Thought of the 20th Century
En este curso, de doce semanas de duración, se trata de ofrecer una breve panorámica de los máximos representantes de filosofía en el ámbito hispánico del siglo pasado, y de marcar las líneas o tendencias preferentes del pensamiento filosófico español actual, y ello a partir del análisis de los acercamientos de diversos pensadores hispánicos a la obra El Quijote. El hilo argumental de esta panorámica será el intento de formular una razón-vital. Esta razón vital se formula y concreta en la forma como los autores del siglo XX se acercan a la gran obra cervantina, El Quijote, en el que ven sintetizada toda la metafísica española, toda la esencia de un problema universal que en suelo hispano cobra su singular forma y figura: el idealismo de Quijote frente al realismo de Sancho, la fe que desconfía de los sentidos y el sensualismo que recela de todo ideal del más allá, la forja del amor cortés y soberana ironía en la figura de Dulcinea, aldeana e inspiradora de todas las gestas de nuestro caballero y un largo etcétera. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
CM 51082EH Media and Society
Temas del curso: Panorama actual del periodismo y la comunicación en España. Historia del Periodismo en España. Orígenes, consolidación y plenitud. Historia del Periodismo en España. El franquismo y la prensa de la Transición. Tradición europea versus norteamericana en los medios de comunicación. Modelos de prensa, radio y televisión e Internet. Empresa informativa en España. Grupos mediáticos. Financiamiento. Géneros en los medios de comunicación (entretenimiento, ficción y publicidad). Géneros periodísticos en los medios españoles. Modelos de diario. Fuentes en la información periodística. Agencias y gabinetes de comunicación. Organización de redacciones. Legislación y deontología profesional en los medios de comunicación españoles. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
LT 51090EH Hispanic Poetry
Acercar a los estudiantes norteamericanos al conocimiento de la poesía hispánica, desde los orígenes medievales hasta el presente, a través de una selección de textos que serán objeto de lectura y comentario detallados. Con el fin de contextualizar esa lectura se abordarán los principales problemas literarios que plantean, así como su relación con la cultura de su época. Metodologéa: La lectura de los textos irá precedida de un sintético panorama sobre movimientos y autores literarios, aunque el peso mayor del curso recaerá sobre la lectura y comentario de las obras escogidas teniendo en cuenta diferentes perspectivas críticas. A los alumnos se les entregará al principio de cada tema unas guías de lectura que les sirvan a modo de pauta y donde se señalarán los aspectos principales que serán objeto de debate en clase y que habrán de traer previamente preparadas. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
PO 51093EH Nationalism in Present Europe
Students will learn about the different types and approaches to nationalism. They will use them to analyze the Catalan and other Spanish and European cases (programs, social base, politics, strategies) and discuss their present and foreseeable future in an integrated Europe. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
LT FS (pending code) Barcelona / Madrid: Literature and Cinema against Contemporary City
A course description will be uploaded shortly. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)