HISPANIC STUDIES

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Not available to students qualified for SP 1018, or higher level courses.

Overview

This is a highly intensive ab-initio course for students with little or no previous knowledge of Spanish. It introduces students to the fundamentals of Spanish grammar and usage, aiming to strike a balance between an analytical, reflective approach to learning and the development of basic communication skills. The course will involve three closely integrated classes per week to develop speaking, writing and listening skills, and a further hour to assist students towards the rapid acquisition of spoken Spanish.

Structure

3 one-hour seminars a week; one further tutorial a week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (50%) and in-course assessment: written exercises (30%), class tests (10%) and oral skills (10%). In order to pass the assessment overall, students must pass the written examination and oral skills element of assessment and present themselves for all elements of assessment.

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Stack

Pre-requisites

Higher or A level Spanish or equivalent. Not open to native speakers of Spanish.

Overview

The course aims to enable students to consolidate and extend their knowledge and understanding of Spanish. It provides a strong grammar base, and a variety of exercises designed to develop and improve performance in reading, writing, speaking and listening to the Spanish language. These core elements of the course will be complemented by the analysis of contemporary textual and audio-visual material, and small-group oral classes. Overall, the course aims to strike a balance between an analytical, reflective approach to language learning and the development of basic communicative fluency.

Structure

2 one-hour seminars a week; one further tutorial a week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (40%), one oral examination (10%) and in-course assessment: written exercises (30%), class tests (10%) and oral skills (10%). A satisfactory level of performance in written and oral coursework will exempt candidates from the examination.

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

10

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Stack

Pre-requisites

None.

Overview

This course focuses on Latin American cultural history, from pre-conquest 'America' to the present day. It explores key themes in Latin American cultural experience as they are presented in a variety of written and visual texts, including monuments and codices, explorer and missionary accounts, history and ethnography, fiction and film, songs, rituals, and rebel communiqués.

Structure

2 one-hour lectures/seminars a week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour examination (50%) and in-course assessment (50%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

SP 1017. Not open to students qualified for SP 1518 or higher level courses.

Overview

Please see SP 1017, of which this is a continuation.

Structure

3 one-hour seminars a week, one further tutorial a week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (50%) and in-course assessment: written exercises (30%), class tests (10%) and oral skills (10%). In order to pass the assessment overall, students must pass the written examination and oral skills element of assessment and present themselves for all elements of assessment.

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Stack

Pre-requisites

SP 1018. Not open to native speakers of Spanish.

Overview

Please see SP 1018, of which this is a continuation.

Structure

2 one-hour seminars a week; one further tutorial a week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (40%), one oral examination (10%) and in-course assessment: written exercises (30%); class tests (10%) and oral skills (10%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

10

Course Coordinator

Dr J A Biggane

Pre-requisites

None.

Overview

This course focuses on Spanish cultural history from 1800 to the present day. It explores key themes in Spanish cultural experiences as they are presented in a variety of written and visual texts, including fiction, film, photography, painting and political commentary.

Structure

1 lecture per week; 1 seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 essay 1,500 words (50%); 1 two-hour written examination (50%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

SP 1518. Not open to native speakers of Spanish.

Notes

Students with SP 1517 (Introductory Spanish 2) should register for SP 2019 (Level 2 Advanced Introductory Spanish Language).

Overview

This course is designed to consolidate and extend the language skills acquired in the first year courses (SP 1018 and SP 1518, Spanish Language 1 & 2). The course aims to develop students' skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening to Spanish, providing a strong grammar base, and a variety of exercises are designed to develop familiarity with different registers and varieties of Peninsular and Latin-American Spanish. These core elements of the course will be complemented by the analysis of audio-visual material, and small-group oral classes. Overall, the course aims to strike a balance between an analytical, reflective approach to learning and the development of communicative fluency.

Structure

2 one-hour seminars a week; one further tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (40%) and in-course assessment: written exercises (30%), oral exercises (20%), intercalated class text (10%). A satisfactory level of performance in written and oral course work will exempt candidates from examination.

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr S Bannatyne

Pre-requisites

SP1517. Not open to native speakers of Spanish.

Notes

Students with SP 1518 Spanish Language 2 should register for SP 2018 Level 2 Spanish Language 1.

Overview

This is an intensive course designed to consolidate and extend the language skills acquired in the first year ab initio courses (SP 1017 and SP 1517, Introductory Spanish 1 & 2). The course aims to develop students' skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening. The course provides a strong grammar base, and a variety of exercises are designed to develop communicative linguistic skills. Particular attention is paid to the acquisition of vocabulary, analysis of textual material and translation skills. These core elements of the course will be complemented by the analysis of audio-visual material, and small-group oral classes. Overall, the course aims to strike a balance between an analytical, reflective approach to learning and the development of communicative fluency.

Structure

3 one-hour seminars a week; one further tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (40%) and in-course assessment: written exercises (30%), oral exercises (20%), intercalated class test (10%). In order to pass the assessment overall, students must pass the written examination and oral assessment and present themselves for all elements of assessment.

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Biggane

Pre-requisites

SP 1517 or SP 1518.

Overview

The conflict and fragmentation that characterises modern Spanish history and culture means that the notion of Spanish identity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and film is complex and plural. The course will focus on texts and films that present, or raise questions, about various Spanish identities.

Structure

3 one-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (50%) and in-course assessment (50%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

SP 2019 or SP 2018

Overview

This course is designed to consolidate and extend the language skills acquired in the second year courses (SP 2019, Level 2 Advanced Introductory Spanish, and SP 2018, Level 2 Spanish Language 1), and prepare students for residence abroad in a Spanish speaking country. The course aims to develop students' skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening to Spanish, continuing to provide a strong grammar base, and a variety of exercises are designed to develop further familiarity with different registers and varieties of Peninsular and Latin-American Spanish. These core elements of the course will be complemented by the analysis of audio-visual material, and small-group oral classes. Overall, the course aims to strike a balance between an analytical, reflective approach to learning and the development of communicative fluency.

Structure

2 one-hour seminars a week; one further tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (40%) and in-course assessment: written exercises (30%), oral exercises (10%), intercalated tests (10%); oral skills (10%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

SP 1517.

Overview

The course looks at themes and issues raised by visual and written texts from Latin America. The texts will be related to their local and international contexts, and to their context of production and consumption.

Structure

3 one-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (50%) and in-course assessment (50%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Available only to candidates in European Studies in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course is run over the full session.

Overview

Prose passages for translation.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Available only to Honours candidates in European Studies in Programme Year 3.

Overview

Prose passages for translation.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

SP 2518. May be taken only by candidates for Honours in Hispanic Studies.

Notes

This course is run over the full session. Assessed in the summer diet for SP 4003. One half-session of this course may be completed during residence abroad for students following Mode B Hispanic Studies programmes.

Overview

This course is topic-based, and aims to enable students to identify and use, accurately and fluently, a wide range of vocabulary and linguistic registers. Reading and writing skills are honed though the exploitation of a wide variety of literary, journalistic and other Spanish and Latin-American texts. Skills and techniques for beginning advanced translation into Spanish will be introduced. Aural and oral skills will be further developed through the linguistic exploitation of Spanish and Latin-American programmes and films, and other activities. Special attention will be paid to those advanced grammatical areas which are still likely to cause difficulty to students. The course curriculum reflects the emphasis placed on self-directed learning and private study at this level.

Structure

1 one-hour seminar a week; one further tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (75%) and 1 oral examination (25%) (for those students not continuing to Senior Honours only see Note(s) above).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4077 (20th Century Mexico: Visual Perspectives B). It will be available in 2007/08 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course focuses on the interaction between literature and the visual arts in 20th Century Mexico. First, it will examine the impact of painting and photography on the literary renewal of Mexican writing. It will also consider the use of the rich artistic scene after the Mexican Revolution as narrative material in some recent Mexican novels, offering a narration of the nation from a visual perspective.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): two essays.

Resit: Essay (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Stack

Pre-requisites

Normally only available to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4580 (Narrating Collective Pasts in the Hispanic World B). It will be available in 2006/07 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

All societies give collective accounts of their collective pasts. However, these accounts differ in kind from one society to another, even across the Hispanic world. The first part of the course looks at different approaches to the study of such accounts. The second part of the course compares and contrasts accounts of collective pasts across the Hispanic world. It focuses on history as one particular way of narrating a collective past.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: in-course assessment (100%): two essays (50% each).

Resit: Essay (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

SP 2518. May be taken only by students not taking Honours in Hispanic Studies.

Notes

This course is run over the full session.

Overview

This course will be based on a series of topic areas aiming at covering as wide a range of vocabulary and linguistic registers as possible, with particular emphasis on those areas related to current affairs. Reading and writing skills will be developed through a series of contemporary written materials. Listening and speaking skills will be developed through the use of audio-visual material and different oral activities in class. Particular emphasis will be placed on those grammatical areas which are likely to cause difficulties to students.

Structure

3 one-hour classes per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (50%), in-course assessment (30%), oral skills in-course assessment (10%) and oral examination (10%).

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Biggane

Pre-requisites

SP 2518 (Level 2 Spanish Language 2), may be taken only by Junior Honours Mode B candidates in Hispanic Studies while studying or working in a Spanish-speaking country.

Co-requisites

SP 3069

Notes

This course, open only to mode B Junior Honours students of Hispanic Studies, fulfilling their residence requirements in a Spanish-speaking country, complements SP 3069.

Overview

An intensive programme of language exercises is designed to develop linguistic competence in a variety of registers, including formal and informal.

Structure

Required field work; regular submission of written and/or recorded material by correspondence.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4087 (The Body Politic in Southern Cone Narrative B). It will be available in 2006/07 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course will focus on narrative accounts that challenge the boundaries between personal and public spheres. One of the key themes of the course will be the power and limitation of linguistic communication when exploring the issue of political repression.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Two 2,000-word essays (50% each).

Resit: Essay (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Stack

Pre-requisites

Only available to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4088 (Citizenship in Latin America B). It will not be available in 2006/07.

Overview

This course focuses on the principles and practices of citizenship across Latin America. It begins by considering different models of citizenship and then looks at the application of those models across diverse contexts in Latin America.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): two essays (50% each).

Resit: Essay (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

SP 2518. May be taken only by students not pursuing Hispanic Studies at Honours level.

Overview

This course will be based on a series of topic areas, aiming to cover a selected range of vocabulary, grammar and registers, with a particular emphasis on current affairs. Reading and Writing will be developed through a selection of contemporary written materials. Listening and speaking skills will be developed through the use of audio-visual and selected oral activities in class. Particular emphasis will be placed on selected grammar points likely to cause difficulties to students.

Structure

3 one-hour classes per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 ninety minute written examination (50%) in-course assessment (30%), oral skills assessment.

Resit: 1 ninety minute written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Biggane

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4575 (Spanish Modernisms B). This course is not available in session 2006/07.

Overview

Modernism is a complex set of responses to the accelerated and uneven modernisation of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Europe and the Americas. This course will examine the structures, ideologies and forms of modernism in early twentieth-century Spain. There will be some exploration of the relation between these movements and wider European modernisms and avant-garde trends. Materials studied will include items from some of the following: narrative fiction, film and other visual culture, the polemic essay, poetry and architecture.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): two essays and an oral presentation.

Resit: Essay (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in programme year 3.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP4093 Writing War, Dictatorship and Democracy: Paraguay in the work of Augusto Roa Bastos A. This course will be available in session 2007/08.

Overview

This course aims to introduce students to the work of Augusto Roa Bastos, a key figure in twentieth-century Latin-American fiction. It will examine his, and others’ representation of Paraguay’s modern history, politics and culture.

Structure

1 two-hour class per week for eleven weeks. Classes will be structured as a combination of lecture and seminar, depending on material/topics to be studied.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment: (100%): two 2,000 word essays (50% each).

Resit: One two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Biggane

Pre-requisites

SP 2518

Notes

This course will be available in 2006/07. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 40XX (Advanced Translation into Spanish B).

Overview

This course aims to extend and refine students' practical skills for translation from English into Spanish, and to extend and refine their understanding of selected issues in recent translation theory. By the end of the course, students will have acquired and/or developed: practical strategies for translation into Spanish at an advanced level; the terminology and techniques necessary for analytical discussion of selected issues in recent translation theory; the ability to read modern English discourse in various registers with due sensitivity to translation issues; the ability to apply and evaluate appropriate translation strategies with respect to various forms of literary and non-literary English discourse, all at a level appropriate for a level 3 student.

Structure

1 two-hour session per week (Fri 9-11am) for eleven weeks, combining lecture, practical and seminar elements.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (4 written exercises) (60%); 2 hour written examination (40%).

Resit: 3 hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor A Moreiras

Pre-requisites

SP 2518

Notes

The class will be conducted in Spanish.
This course will be available in 2006/07. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4095 (Colonial Chronicles IB).

Overview

This course studies some of the most important sixteenth and seventeenth chronicles concerning the New World. Amongst the authors and topics it studies will be the Valladolid Controversy, the ideologies regarding the second wave of colonization, and mestizo Chroniclers such as Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca and Guaman Poma. Primary texts will be complemented by critical and historiographical literature.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week (Tues 12-2pm) for eleven weeks.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Essay (3,000 word essay) (100%).

Resit: Written examination (2 hours) (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Biggane

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4568 (Questioning the Questioner: the work of Miguel de Unamuno B). It will be available in 2006/07 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course will focus on a selection of Unamuno’s narrative, drama and political writing in order to explore some of the characteristics of the often experimental and always challenging work of one of the major figures of early twentieth century Spanish literary, intellectual and political life.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): two essays and an oral presentation.

Resit: Essay (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4574 (Basque Arts: The Conflict of Belonging B). It will be available in 2006/07 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course focuses on Basque literature and visual arts from the 1898 period onwards. The course will study both traditions of writers writing in Spanish and those writing in Basque (for the purpose of this course read in Spanish). The Basque writing tradition in Spanish language will be studied from the critical framework for the “minor literature”; their problematic insertion into the Spanish canon will also be explored. The tensions between the local and global will also be studied in the visual media, from the interest in Basque art exclusively from the anthropological perspective, to the current global spectacle created by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): two essays.

Resit: Essay (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4576 (Basque Culture: Memory and Modernity B). It will be available in 2007/08 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course reflects a current and growing interest in the autochthonous in an increasingly global environment. It aims to reflect the plurality of cultures and the conflict between peripheral politics and central government in the Spanish peninsula. It will analyse the various definitions of nationalism that have offered specific constructions of the Basque nation throughout history. Moreover, it will explore realities and myths surrounding the Nationalist ideology. In order to teach this multifaceted phenomenon, the approach will be an interdisciplinary one, building on historical, political and cultural discourses within the field.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): two essays.

Resit: Essay (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Biggane

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4582 (Advanced Translation Skills B). It will be available in 2007/08 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course aims to extend and refine students’ practical translation skills from Spanish into English. It will also introduce students to selected key issues in translation studies and theory, and enable students to think critically about linguistic and cultural issues associated with translation from Spanish into English. Students will translate texts on a variety of topics using a variety of discourses, evaluating published translations, discussing, analysing and applying different translation theories and strategies, and will produce annotated translations.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment: two essays (50% each).

Resit: 1 Essay (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Stack

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518 or a reading knowledge of Spanish). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2007/08. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4587 (Creativity in Hispanic Writing B).

Overview

The first part of the course will examine theories of creativity with an emphasis on creativity in literary writing. The second part of the course will focus on a piece of writing by a Spanish author and will consider the creative process involved in that writing.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment: two essays (50% each).

Resit: 1 essay (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Stack

Pre-requisites

Normally available only to students in Programme Year 3 who have passed SP 2518 or who have a reading knowledge of Spanish.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4528. It will be available in 2007/08 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course looks at a range of issues concerning urbanism in Spain and Latin America. It will begin with the meeting of Spanish and American urban traditions in the 16th century and will end with mass urbanization of the 20th century. Topics will include urban architecture and planning, the rise and fall of the "lettered city", and the relationship between urban and national citizenship.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment: two essays (40% each) and an oral presentation (20%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in programme year 3 or by permission of the Head of School.

Co-requisites

SP 2518

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4590 Contemporary Latin American Cinema: The New Wave B. This course will not be available in 2006/07.

Overview

This course aims to broaden and deepen students' appreciation of key works in contemporary Latin American cinema by analysing the films' representation of Latin America's modern history, politics and culture.

Structure

1 two-hour class per week. Classes will be structured as a combination of lecture and seminar, depending on material/topics to be studied.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 2 essays (2,000 words) (50% each).

Resit: 2 essays (2,000 words).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor T Vilarós

Pre-requisites

SP 2518

Notes

This course will be available in 2006/07. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4591 (Spain in the Sixties I: Banality and Biopolitics B)

Overview

This course engages in a theory-based analysis of the state-sponsored, mass-culture production put in place during the middle years of the Francoist dictatorship, in relation to the local launching of the Spanish mass-tourism industry and global Cold War politics. Texts studied include child-actress Marisol's film hits such as Fernando Palacio's Búsqueme a esa chica, official propaganda documentries like José Luis Sánchez de Heredia Franco, ese hombre, Pedro Lazaga's successful B-movies Los tramposos or EL turismo es un gran invento, as well as mass-pop music and TV programmes of the period.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week (Friday 11am-1 pm) for eleven weeks.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Essay (3,000 word essay) (100%).

Resit: Written examination (2 hours) (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor T Vilaros

Pre-requisites

SP 2518

Notes

This course will be available in 2006/07. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4592 (Spain in the Sixties II: La Escuela de Barcelona in Film and Literature B).

Overview

This course offers a theory-based analysis of two related movements of the sixties, one literary and one cinematic, known as La Escuela de Barcelona. The course engages with selected novels, poetry, and films produced by both schools in relation to broader left-wing ideologies and political aims of the period, examining, amongst other things, their relation to events of May 1968. Literary texts include novels and poetry by Juan, Jose Agustin, and Luis Goytsisolo, Gabriel Ferrater, Carlos Barral and Jaime Gil de Biedma. Cinematic texts include the avant-garde production of Joaquim Jordà, Jacint Esteve, Pere Portabella, Carles Duran, and Vincente Aranda.

Structure

1 two-hour seminars per week (Monday 3pm-5pm) for eleven weeks.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Essay (3,000 word essay) (100%).

Resit: Written examination (2 hours) (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor A Moreiras

Pre-requisites

SP 30XX Colonial Chronicles IA

Notes

The class will be conducted in Spanish.
This course will be available in 2006/07. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4593 (Colonial Chronicles IIB).

Overview

This course is a continuation of SP 30XX, and studies some of the most important sixteenth- and seventeenth-century chronicles concerning the New World. Amongst the authors and topics it studies will be Fanciscan, Dominican and Jesuit accounts pertaining to the colonization and evangelization of Mexico, the Tahuantinsuyo, and the River Plate region. And it will end with chronicles relating the Extirpacion de idolatrías and indigenous rebellions in the former Incario. Primary texts wilol be complemented by critical and histographical literature.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week (Tues 12-2pm) for eleven weeks.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Essay (3,000 word) (100%).

Resit: Written examination (2 hours) (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Stack

Pre-requisites

Available only to Senior Honours students who have passed SP 2518.

Overview

A dissertation of 8,000-10,000 words on a topic approved by the Dissertation Co-ordinator to be submitted by the beginning of Senior Honours.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Dissertation (100%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

SP 2518. May be taken only by candidates for Honours in Hispanic Studies.

Overview

Building on SP3069 (Level 3 Spanish Language), this course is topic-based, and aims to enable students to identify and use, accurately and fluently, a further range of advanced lexical & syntactical features, and linguistic registers. Reading and writing skills are further honed though the exploitation of a wide variety of literary, journalistic and other Spanish and Latin-American texts. Skills and techniques for advanced translation from and into Spanish will be developed and extended from SP3069. Aural and oral skills will be further developed through the linguistic exploitation of Spanish and Latin-American programmes and films, and other activities. Special attention will be paid to further advanced grammatical areas which are still likely to cause difficulty to students. The course curriculum reflects the emphasis placed on self-directed learning and private study at this level.

Structure

1 one-hour seminar a week; one further tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 3 three-hour written examination (75%) and 1 oral examination (25%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3077 (20th Century Mexico: Visual Perspectives A). It will be available in 2006/07 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course focuses on the interaction between literature and the visual arts in 20th Century Mexico. First, it will examine the impact of painting and photography on the literary renewal of Mexican writing. It will also consider the use of the rich artistic scene after the Mexican Revolution as narrative material in some recent Mexican novels, offering a narration of the nation from a visual perspective.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attemp: In-course assessment (100%): two essays.

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Stack

Pre-requisites

Normally only available to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3580 (Narrating Collective Pasts in the Hispanic World A). It will be available in 2006/07 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

All societies give collective accounts of their collective pasts. However, these accounts differ in kind from one society to another, even across the Hispanic world. The first part of the course looks at different approaches to the study of such accounts. The second part of the course compares and contrasts accounts of collective pasts across the Hispanic world. It focuses on history as one particular way of narrating a collective past.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): 2 essays (50% each).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

Normally only available to Senior Honours students or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3087 (The Body Politic in Southern Cone Narrative A). It will be available in 2006/07 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course will focus on narrative accounts that challenge the boundaries between personal and public spheres. One key theme of the course will be the power and limitation of linguistic communication when exploring the issue of political repression.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Two 2,500 word essays (50% each).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Stack

Pre-requisites

Only available to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3088 (Citizenship in Latin America A). It will not be available in 2007/08.

Overview

This course focuses on the principles and practices of citizenship across Latin America. It begins by considering different models of citizenship and then looks at the application of those models across diverse contexts in Latin America.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): two essays (50% each).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Biggane

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3575 (Spanish Modernisms A). This course is not available in session 2006/07.

Overview

Modernism is a complex set of responses to the accelerated and uneven modernisation of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Europe and the Americas. This course will examine the structures, ideologies and forms of modernism in early twentieth-century Spain. Contextualising these movements in relation to wider European modernisms and avant-garde trends will be an important part of the course. Material studied will include items from some of the following: narrative fiction, film and other visual culture, the polemic essay, poetry and architecture.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week, one further two-hour workshop.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): two essays and an oral presentation.

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in programme year 4.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP3093 Writing War, Dictatorship and Democracy: Paraguay in the work of Augusto Roa Bastos A. This course will be available in session 2007/08.

Overview

This course aims to introduce students to the work of Augusto Roa Bastos, a key figure in twentieth-century Latin-American fiction. It will examine his, and others’ representation of Paraguay’s modern history, politics and culture. Students will engage with selected theoretical issues bearing on the representation of history in literature.

Structure

1 two-hour class per week for twelve weeks. Classes will be structured as a combination of lecture and seminar, depending on material/topics to be studied.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment: two 2,000 essays (50% each).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Biggane

Pre-requisites

SP 2518

Notes

This course will be available in 2006/07. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 30XX (Advanced Translation into Spanish A).

Overview

This course aims to extend and refine students' practical skills for translation from English into Spanish, and to extend and refine their understanding of selected issues in recent translation theory. By the end of the course, students will have acquired and/or developed: practical strategies for translation into Spanish at an advanced level; the terminology and techniques necessary for analytical discussion of selected issues in recent translation theory; the ability to read modern English discourse in various registers with due sensitivity to translation issues; the ability to apply and evaluate appropriate translation strategies with respect to various forms of literary and non-literary English discourse. Particular attention will be paid to the ability to analyse, self-reflexively, one's own translations in the light of the course's theoretical readings.

Structure

1 two-hour session per week (Fri 9-11am), combining lecture, practical and seminar elements.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (5 written exercises) (60%); 2 hour written examination (40%).

Resit: 3 hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor A Moreiras

Pre-requisites

SP 3069

Notes

The class will be conducted in Spanish.
This course wil be available in 2006/07. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3095 (Colonial Chronicles IA).

Overview

This course studies some of the most important sixteenth- and seventeenth-century chronicles concerning the New World. Amongst the authors and topics it studies will be the Valladolid Controversy, the ideologies regarding the second wave of colonization, and mestizo chronicles such as Garcilaso de la Inca and Guaman Poma. Primary texts will be complemented by critical and historiographical literature. Students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in an appropriately wide context, and synthesising and analysing material from a range of sources.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week (Tues 12-2pm).

Assessment

1st Attempt: Essay (4,000 words) (100%).

Resit: Written examination (3 hour) (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Biggane

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3568 (Questioning the Questioner: the Work of Miguel de Unamuno A). It will be available in 2006/07 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course will focus on a selection of Unamuno’s narrative, drama and political writing in order to explore some of the characteristics of his often experimental and always challenging work. The course involves placing Unamuno’s work within some of its early twentieth-century cultural, historical and political contexts, so that students will form a nuanced understanding of early twentieth-century Spanish culture as well as focusing on the work of one writer.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week and one two-hour workshop to be arranged.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): two essays and an oral presentation.

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3574 (Basque Arts: The Conflict of Belonging A). It will be available in 2006/07 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course focuses on Basque literature and visual arts from the 1898 period onwards. The course will study both traditions of writers writing in Spanish and those writing in Basque (for the purpose of this course read in Spanish). The Basque writing tradition in Spanish language will be studied from the critical framework of the “minor literature”; their problematic insertion into the Spanish canon will also be explored. The tensions between the local and global will also be studied in the visual media, from the interest in Basque art exclusively from the anthropological perspective to the current global spectacle created by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): two essays.

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3576 (Basque Culture: Memory and Modernity A). It will be available in 2007/08 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course reflects a current and growing interest in the autochthonous in an increasingly global environment. It aims to reflect the plurality of cultures and the conflict between peripheral politics and central government in the Spanish peninsula. It will analyse the various definitions of nationalism that have offered specific constructions of the Basque nation throughout history. Moreover, it will explore realities and myths surrounding Nationalist ideology. In order to teach this multifaced phenomenon, the approach will be an interdisciplinary one, building on historical, political and cultural discourses within the field.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): two essays.

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Biggane

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3582 (Advanced Translation Skills A). It will be available in 2007/08 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course aims to extend and refine students’ practical translation skills from Spanish into English. It will also introduce students to selected key issues in translation studies and theory, and able students to think critically about linguistic and cultural issues associated with translation from Spanish into English. Students will translate texts on a variety of topics and with a variety of discourses, evaluating published translations, discussing, analysing and applying different translation theories and strategies. Awareness of theoretical and strategic issues will be important at this level, and the students will be expected to submit a critical self-reflective commentary to supplement one assignment project.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week, one further workshop.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (60%) and written examination (40%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Stack

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518 or a reading knowledge of Spanish). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 4.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2007/08. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3587 (Creativity in Hispanic Writing A).

Overview

The first part of the course will examine theories of creativity with an emphasis on creativity in literary writing. The second part of the course will focus on a piece of writing by a Spanish author and will consider the creative process involved in that writing. In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context, and synthesizing material from a range of sources.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment: two essays (50% each).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Stack

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 who have passed SP 2518 or who have a reading knowledge of Spanish.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3588. It will be available in 2007/08 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course looks at a range of issues concerning urbanism in Spain and Latin America. It will begin with the meeting of Spanish and American urban traditions in the 16th century and will end with the mass urbanization of the 20th century. Topics will include urban architecture and planning, the rise and fall of the "lettered city", and the relationship between urban and national citizenship. In addition, students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in their wider context, and syntheisizing material from a range of sources.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment: two essays (50% each).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in programme year 4 and above or by permission of the Head of School.

Co-requisites

SP 2518

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3590 Contemporary Latin American Cinema: The New Wave A. This course will not be available in 2006/07.

Overview

This course aims to broaden and deepen students' appreciation of key works in contemporary Latin American cinema by analysing the films' representation of Latin America's modern history, politics and culture. Students will engage with selected theoretical issues at stake in film's representation of national identity.

Structure

1 two-hour class per week. Classes will be structured as a combination of lecture and seminar, depending on material/topics to be studied.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment: 2 essays (2,500 words) (50% each).

Resit: 2 essays (2,500 words).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor T Vilaros

Pre-requisites

SP 3069

Notes

This course will be available in 2006/07. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3591 (Spain in the Sixties: Banality and Biopolitics 1A).

Overview

This course engages in a theort-based analysis of the state-sponsored, mass-culture production put in place during the middle years of the Francoist dictatorship, in relation to the local launching of the Spanish industry of mass-tourism and global Cold War politics. Texts studied include film hits such as Fernando Palacio's Búsqueme a esa chica, offical propoganda documentaries, successful B-movies, as well as mass-pop music and TV programmes of the period. Students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in an appropriately wide context, and synthesising and analysing material from a range of sources.

Structure

1 two-hour seminars per week (Friday 11am-1 pm).

Assessment

1st Attempt: Essay (4,000 word essay) (100%).

Resit: Written examination (2 hours) (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor T Vilaros

Pre-requisites

SP 2518

Notes

This course will be available in 2006/07. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3592 (Spain in the Sixties II: La Escuela de Barcelona in Film and Literature A).

Overview

This course analyses two related movements of the 1960s, one literary and the other cinematic, known as La Esceula de Barcelona. The course relates texts of both schools in relation to broader left-wing ideologies and political aims of the period, examining, amongst other things, their relation to events of May 1968. Students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting topics treated in an appropriately wide context, and synthesising and analysing material from a range of sources.

Structure

1 two-hour seminars per week (Monday 3pm-5pm).

Assessment

1st Attempt: Essay (4,000 word essay) (100%).

Resit: Written examination (2 hours) (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Professor A Moreiras

Pre-requisites

SP 40XX Colonial Chronicles IB

Notes

The class will be conducted in Spanish.
This course will be available in 2006/07. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3593 (Colonial Chronicles IIA).

Overview

This course is a continuation of SP 40XX, and studies some of the most important sixteenth- and seventeenth-century chronicles concerning the New World. Amongst the authors and topics it studies will be Franciscan, Dominican and Jesuit accounts pertaining to the colonization and evangelization of Mexico, the Tahuantinsuyo, and the River Plate region. And it will end with Chronicles relating the Extirpacion de idolatrías and indigenous rebellions in the former Incario. Primary texts will be complemented by critical and historiographical literature. Students will extend their understanding of the subject by means of independent research, setting the topics treated in an appropriately wide context, and synthesising and analysing material from a range of sources.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week (Tues 12-2pm).

Assessment

1st Attempt: Essay (one 3,000 word essay) (100%).

Resit: Three-hour written examination (100%).