EEHH (SP) - Intermediate II

Estudios Hispanicos (in Spanish)
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA (UB)
UB01AD 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) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UB02AD 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) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UB05AD General Spanish History: Modern and Contemporary
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) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UB06AD Latin American Literature
Course focus on 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) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UB07AD Spanish Geography
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) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UB08AD Reading of Contemporary Narrative Texts
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) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UB09AD Modern and Contemporary Spanish Art
Course will focus 19th century Spanish art. Credits: 2 Institution: Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UB10AD Ancient and Medieval Spanish Art
Course will focus on Romanesque, Gothic and "Mudéjar" art in Spain during the Midle Ages. Credits: 2 Institution: Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UB11AD Reading and Commentary of Poetic Texts
Study of Spanish Poetry of 19th and 20th centuries (Romanticism, Modernism, 27-year generation) based on the reading and critique of the most representative works. Credits: 2 Institution: Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UB12AD 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. Students will work on the Spanish language variety and the Spanish social and historical reallity. Credits: 2 Institution: Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA (UPF)
UPFEH05 Communication and Society in Spain
The course intends to show the functioning and structure of the media in Spain. For that purpose, sessions will alternate theory and practice in order to reflect on the general communication system and its peculiarities, and there will be visits to the most important media in Barcelona. The course will give a historical and current, critical and reflexive point of view on the role of the communication media of the contemporary Spanish society and future perspectives on the burst of new technologies. The knowledge of the functioning of the media is essential to all citizens in the current modern societies. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFEH06-G1 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 relations with other type of artistic expressions, such as literature and painting. Finally, the course will offer the necessary theoretical tools to contextualize all other important issues within social, political and economical evolution in Spain, of the last decades. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFEH06-G2 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 relations with other type of artistic expressions, such as literature and painting. Finally, the course will offer the necessary theoretical tools to contextualize all other important issues within social, political and economical evolution in Spain, of the last decades. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFEH07-G1 Contemporary Spanish Art
The focus of this course will be exploring Spanish art through the Barcelona Art Collections. This is an introduction course for students who: Desire to obtain a broad overview of Spanish art. Have the necessity of a survey of the cultural background of Barcelona. Wish to have a live approach to Barcelona's art works Students do not need to have any specific background in Spanish art or in art history to take this course. The course proposes to complement a theoretical overview of Spanish art with a practical approach to the works of art. Barcelona has a great art variety and richness, but there are some artists who have their main museum in the city, and who have an international prestige. These artists are: Gaudi, Picasso, Miro, Dali and Tapies. They are the main subjects of this course. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFEH07-G2 Contemporary Spanish Art
The focus of this course will be exploring Spanish art through the Barcelona Art Collections. This is an introduction course for students who: Desire to obtain a broad overview of Spanish art. Have the necessity of a survey of the cultural background of Barcelona. Wish to have a live approach to Barcelona's art works Students do not need to have any specific background in Spanish art or in art history to take this course. The course proposes to complement a theoretical overview of Spanish art with a practical approach to the works of art. Barcelona has a great art variety and richness, but there are some artists who have their main museum in the city, and who have an international prestige. These artists are: Gaudi, Picasso, Miro, Dali and Tapies. They are the main subjects of this course. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFEH08 Society and Politics in Contemporary Spain
This course provides an overview of important topics like strategy, organization structures, control systems, leadership and motivation... which are fundamental in our understanding of organizations and that will provide a conceptual framework for future insights in those concepts. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFEH09-G1 Barcelona: The City and it´s 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) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFEH09-G2 Barcelona: The City and it´s 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) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFEH13 Quixote in 20th Century Philosophical Spanish Thought
This course wants to introduce an overview on the most relevant Spanish philosphers of 20th century as well as to trace the mainstreams of modern Spanish philosphy using the Spanish thinkers approach to El Quijote. Most of these philosophers found in El Quijote the sinthesis of the Spanish metaphysic, and the universal fight between the Don Quijote idealis and Sancho Panza realism. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFEH25 Nationalism in Contemporary Europe: The Catalan Case.
Nationalism is one of the most important political elements en the modern world. It is also one of the greatest themes in Spanish and Catalan politics. This course combines comparative politics, political theory and history in it´s treatment of nationalism. Different realities of nationalism will be presented to analyse the Spanish and Catalan cases, as well as other European countries. Credits: 3 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses