HISPANIC STUDIES

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Stack

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Notes

Students are strongly encouraged to take both Latin America: A Cultural History and Spain: A Cultural History.

Overview

This course will introduce students to Latin American history, culture and society from the pre-Hispanic period to the present through a selection of archaeology, historical and contemporary writings, visual culture and music. All texts studied will be available in English translation.

Structure

2 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: One 1,500 word essay (35%); one two-hour written examination (35%); in-course assessment (30%) including group oral presentation, written comments on readings and in-tutorial tests.

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

Feedback

The above assessments are given CAS marks, and additional written or verbal feedback is also given.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Ms S Domingo

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Notes

This course may not be taken by students who qualify for Spanish Language 2 or any other more advanced courses.

Overview

This course provides an intensive introduction to the Spanish language for students with little or no previous knowledge of Spanish, or with qualifications below the entry requirement for Spanish Language 2. It concentrates on the four basic language skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening comprehension. Students attend 3 grammar/reading and writing classes per week and attend a further tutorial focusing on spoken Spanish. Students are also required to pursue private study and to submit regular written work.

Structure

3 one-hour language classes per week; one further tutorial per week.

Assessment

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

In order to pass the course, 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%).

Formative Assessment

Regular formative assessments of different aspects of written Spanish language. Continuous formative feedback on spoken Spanish.

Feedback

Written and /or verbal feedback is given on all assessments. Additional informal feedback on performance is also given in both grammar classes and oral classes.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Ms S Domingo

Pre-requisites

Normally Spanish Language 1 or Higher or A level Spanish or equivalent. Students will, however, be allocated to the appropriate level 1 Spanish language course on the basis of a diagnostic test taken at the beginning of the academic year/semester.

Co-requisites

None

Overview

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 development of basic communicative fluency.

Structure

3 one-hour classes per week; one further tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (60%); in-course assessment: written exercises (20%), class test (10%) and oral skills (10%).

In order to pass the course, 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%).

Formative Assessment

Regular class exercises and oral practice.

Feedback

Summative assessments are given CAS marks, and written or verbal feedback is also given. Additional informal feedback on performance is also given in both written language classes and oral/aural classes.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J A Biggane

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Overview

This course focuses on cultural history in the Iberian Peninsula, from the early medieval period to the present day. It explores selected key cultural social and political questions over the course of Spain's history as they are presented in a variety of written and visual texts, such as contemporaneous accounts, narrative fiction, poetry, film, painting and architecture. All texts studied will be available in English translation.

Structure

2 one-hour lectures per week and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: One 1,500 word essay (40%); 4 short written WebCT assignments (10%); Tutorial assessment mark (10%) 1 two-hour written examination (40%). Students must present for, and pass each component of assessment in order to pass the course as a whole.

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (50%); one essay (50%).

Feedback

The above assessments are given CAS marks, and additional written or verbal feedback is also given.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

Spanish Language 2 or equivalent.

Notes

Not available to students qualified for Spanish Language 1, 2, 4 or higher level courses and/or native speakers of Spanish. Students who have not recently completed Spanish Language 2 will sit a placement test to ensure they have been allocated to the appropriate level course.

Overview

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 development of communicative fluency. In addition to the three weekly classes, students follow a programme of private audio-visual study (1 hour per week) in the Language Centre.

Structure

3 one-hour classes per week; one further tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (60%); in-course assessment: written exercises (20%), class test (10%) and oral skills (10%).

In order to pass the course, students must pass the written examination and oral skills element of assessment and present themselves for all elements of assessment.

1 two-hour written examination (100%).

Formative Assessment

5 assessments of different aspects of written Spanish language; 1 assessment of oral language.

Feedback

The above assessments are given CAS marks, and written or verbal feedback is also given. Additional informal feedback on performance is also given in written language classes and oral classes.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T Stack

Pre-requisites

SP 2025 or SP 2525.

Overview

Building on work done in SP 2025 / SP 2525, the course will develop further language skills, both receptive (aural comprehension capacity through tuition based on audio and video material; reading comprehension through analysis of written Spanish and translation into English) and productive (composition and letter-writing; translation into Spanish; oral language). Classes on grammatical and linguistic analysis will contribute to the development of both sets of skills. In addition students will complete a structured self learning programme of aural study and grammatical reinforcement study.

Structure

2 weekly one-hour written language and grammar classes; 1 weekly one-hour oral practice class.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Written exercises (30%); class test (10%); Oral skills (20%); 1 two-hour written examination (40%).

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

Formative Assessment

4 formative assessments of different aspects of written Spanish language; 1 formative assessment of aural Spanish language.

Feedback

The above assessments are given CAS marks, and written or verbal feedback is also given. Additional informal feedback on performance is also given in written language classes; oral classes.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

Spanish Language Level 1 and Spanish Language Level 2 or equivalent.

Co-requisites

N/A

Notes

Students intending to proceed to honours are advised to take Spain: Texts and Contexts as well as this course.

Overview

This course explores themes and issues raised by written and visual texts from Latin America. The texts will be related to their local and international contexts of production and consumption. The course aims to equip students with analytical skills in preparation for more advanced study of literary and visual texts at Honours level, but is also suitable for students not intending to proceed to Honours. Students must present for, and pass each component of assessment in order to pass the course as a whole.

Structure

1 two-hour class, and 1 one-hour class per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Final written examination (40%); Continuous Assessment: 1 essay (30%): Seminar Assessment (10%); short written commentaries (20%).

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

Feedback

The above assessments are given CAS marks, and additional written or verbal feedback is also given.?

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

SP 2026 / SP 2526 Spanish Language 4.

Overview

This course emphasises the development of accurate and idomatic writing skills, the further development of grammar and broadening and deepening of students' reading. The course will involve two closely integrated classes per week to develop speaking, writing and comprehension skills, and a further hour to assist students towards consolidation of communicative accuracy and fluency. In addition to the three weekly classes, students follow a programme of private audio and audio-visual study in the Language Centre.

Structure

3 one-hour seminars per week (plus 1-1½ hours private study in the Language Centre).

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (60%), oral skills (10%), 1 in-class test (10%), 4 written assessments (20%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (70%), oral examination (30%).

Formative Assessment

4 formative assessments of different aspects of written Spanish language; and 1 continuously assessed formative assessment of oral Spanish language.

Feedback

The above assessments are given CAS marks, and written or verbal feedback is also given. Additional informal feedback on performance is also given in written language classes; oral classes; aural classes; and reading comprehension/composition classes.

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

SP 1027 or SP 1028.

Notes

Students intending to proceed to honours are advised to take code will change Latin America: Texts and Contexts as well as this course.

Overview

This course explores questions raised by written and visual texts from Spain from the early modern to the contemporary period. The texts will be related to their local and international contexts of production and consumption. The course aims to equip students with analytical skills in preparation for more advanced study of literary and visual texts at Honours level, but is also suitable, and useful for students not intending to proceed to Honours.

Structure

1 two-hour class, and 1 one-hour class per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Final written examination (40%); Continuous Assessment: 1 essay (30%): Seminar Assessment (10%); short written commentaries (20%). Student must present for, and pass each component of assessment in order to pass the course as a whole.

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

Feedback

The above assessments are given CAS marks, and additional written or verbal feedback is also given.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Ms S Domingo

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

Ms S Domingo

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

Ms S Domingo

Pre-requisites

SP 2525, SP 2526 or SP 2531. This course may be taken only by Junior Honours Mode B candidates in Hispanic Studies while studying or working in a Spanish-speaking country.

Notes

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

Overview

This course contains a variety of advanced language exercises designed to further develop students' linguistic competence while they are residing in a Spanish-speaking country.

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 T R Stack

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or by permission of the Head of School

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4088 (Citizenship in Latin America B).

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: Two essays (40% each) and in-course assessment (20%) (Consisting of 10% student-led discussion and 10% individual oral presentation).

Resit: Two essays (50% each).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4095 (Colonial Chronicles IB). This course will not be available in Session 2011/12.

Overview

This course studies some of the most important sixteenth chronicles concerning the New World. Primary texts - written by Cristobal Colon, Bartolome de las Casas, Gines de Sepulveda, Hernan Cortes, Fray Toribio de Benavente, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Jose de Acosta, and Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca - will be complemented by critical and historiographical literature.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

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

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

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

240 credit points. Normally only available to students in Programme Year 3.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4096 (Basque Culture: Memory and Modernity B). This course will not be available in 2011/12.

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%).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J A Biggane

Pre-requisites

EITHER Spanish Language 4 OR Spanish Language 5.

Co-requisites

None.

Notes

This course is only open to Hispanic Studies students in programme year 4, European Studies students in programme year 4, and Bachelor of Law with options in Spanish Language students in programme year 3.

Overview

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

Structure

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

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (50%); continuously assessed written tasks (30%); oral examination (10%); continuously-assessed oral skills (10%). Students must present for, and pass each component of assessment in order to pass the course as a whole.

Resit: 1 three-hour written examination (75%); one oral examination (25%).

Formative Assessment

The above assessments are given CAS marks, and additional written or verbal feedback is also given.

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

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 40AA (Basque Arts: The Conflict of Belonging B). This course will not be available in session 2011/12.

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%).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T Stack

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Hispanic Studies honours programme who have achieved 240 credits by the end of Level 2.

Overview

The aim of the residence abroad project is to develop an in-depth understanding of a specific aspect (anthropological, political or cultural) connected with one of the Hispanic countries in which students are staying. Students are expected to study a topic in its socio-and to complete a report in Spanish of c. 4000 words.

Structure

This course will follow a distance-learning model. As such, students will be able to contact the course coordinator, Dr Trevor Stack, by email whilst they are abroad. This will allow students to discuss any concerns, queries they may have with the course coordinator.

Assessment

1st attempt: Written report (100%).

Resit: Re-submission of written report (100%).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

Compulsory course for Honours students in Hispanic Studies.

Overview

This course provides a foundation for students beginning research into the Hispanic Studies dissertation and, more generally, for other Honours-level assessments. Students will review the critical apparatus relevant to the topic chosen and will consider the approach and technique to be adopted in carrying it out.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment: bibliographical exercise (100%).

Resit: Continuous assessment: bibliographical exercise (100%).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

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

Notes

This course will not be available in 2011/12. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP40JB Contemporary Argentina : Film and Literature in Historical Context B.

Overview

This course introduces the student to a broad range of themes that help to make up contemporary Argentine culture. By studying a variety of literary and visual texts the course aims to help the student understand the complex nature of the various cross currents that make up the contemporary Argentine cultural and political scene. Among the themes covered are: Peronism, the legacy of Argentina’s authoritarian past, current debates about human rights and commemorative strategies, the changing nature of gender roles and the construction of youth culture.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment: essay 3,000 words (80%); presentation (10%); seminar participation (10%).
Resit: Essay (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3, or by permission of the Head of School.

Overview

The course will cover a range of genres: journalistic accounts of terror, diaries, fiction and hybrid genres in order to explore how literature can depict taboo topics in the most challenging fashion. The course will be divided into three sections: (i) Terror as the real (ii) The writer as terrorist (iii) Global terror. The course will include case studies from Argentina, Cuba, Central America, Spain and USA.

Structure

One two-hour lecture / seminar per week.

Assessment

1st attempt: Two x 2,000-word essays – 50% each.

Resit: 2 essays x 2,000 words

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

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

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP40MC Literature and Films of the Civil War B. The course will not be available in session 2011/12.

Overview

The course will study some important novels, poems, and films that were made as the result of the social and historical impact the Civil War had on Spanish society. They are an essential part of Spanish contemporary culture.

Structure

2 one-hour seminars per week

Assessment

1st attempt: Three take-home exams (90%), class participation (10%).

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

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T Stack

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 40SC (The Rule of Law in Latin America B). This course will not be available in session 2011/12.

Overview

This course will address recent debates about the rule of law in Latin America. Politicians across the continent (and in other parts of the world) have been proclaiming the virtues of the "rule of law". That is partly because international bodies such as World Bank are making rule-of-law reforms a condition of financial aid. But what do politicians mean by the rule of law, are they putting it into practice, and if so, with what consequences? For example, is the US supposed to be the model, and if so, does it live up to its ideals? Within Latin America, given the rhetoric about the rule of law, how can we explain the slow pace of judicial reform in the face of fast-paced electoral reform? Are governments themselves bound by the rule of law, or is it just for their citizens? And does the rule of law just serve the interests of political and economic elites? Or can it bring equality, and if so, what kind of equality? Is it enough to be equal before the law, or could the rule of law do better that that?

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Two essays (40% each) and in-course assessment (20%) (consisting of 10% student-led discussion and 10% individual oral presentation).

Resit: Two essays (50% each).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

SP 2526 or SP 2527. Course will normally be open only to students in Programme Year 3 or above or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course will not be available in session 2011/12. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP40ZA : Key Topics in Modern Spanish culture 1B.

Overview

This course involves study of selected key topics, debates and texts relevant to advanced study of modern Spanish culture. The course may have different thematic emphases from year to year, and may include study of literary texts, visual culture, essays, testimonials, and histories.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st attempt: One 2,500 word essay (50%); 1 oral presentation (20%); written exercises and in-class tests (30%). Students must present for, and pass each component of assessment in order to pass the course as a whole.

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

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

SP 2526 or SP 2527. Course will normally be open only to students in Programme Year 3 or above.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2010/12. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 40ZA: Key topics in modern Latin-American culture 1B).

Overview

This course involves study of selected key topics, debates and texts relevant to advanced study of modern Latin-American culture. The course may have different thematic emphases from year to year, and may include study of literary texts, visual culture, essays, testimonials, and histories.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st attempt: One 2,500 word essay (50%); 1 oral presentation (20%); written exercises and in-class tests (30%). Students must present for, and pass each component of assessment in order to pass the course as a whole.

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

SP 3095 Colonial Chronicles IA

Notes

This course will not be available in 2011/12. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4593 (Colonial Chronicles IIB).

Overview

This honours seminar studies some of the most important chronicles concerning the New World from the mid 16th to the late 17th centuries. Primary texts - written by Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, Pedro Cieze de Leon, Fernando de Alva lxlilxhochiti, and Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc - will be complemented by critical and historiographical literature, for example, studies by Serge Gruzinski and J. H. Elliott. The class will be conducted in Spanish.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

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

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

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may not be taken as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 45AA: Film and Visual Culture B. This course will not be available in session 2011/12.

Overview

The first block of the course will engage in a theory-based, critical study of the broad Spanish film production of the twentieth-century. The second block of the course will study contemporary Latin-American cinema and photography in relation to the political. Materials studied within the course will include the following: film, painting, photography and architecture.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and one-hour tutorial per week. Two-hour film screening per week.

Assessment

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

Resit: Two 2,000-word essays (50% each).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J A Biggane

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2525, SP 2526 or SP 2531). Normally only available to students in Programme Year 3.

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 at an advanced level. Students will translate texts on a variety of topics using a variety of discourses, evaluating published translations, discussing, analysing and engaging with different translation theories and strategies, and will produce annotated translations and an evaluation of a published translation.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment: five written exercises (12% each), and 1 two-hour written examination (40%).

Resit: 1 extended translation exercise (40%), 1 two-hour written exam (60%).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

Available only to candidates in Programme Year 3 or above or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may not be taken as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 45MB: Spanish Civil War B. The course will be conducted in Spanish and English. The course will not be available in 2011/12.

Overview

The Spanish Civil War was the defining event of twentieth-century Spanish history and a defining moment in European history. This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the fundamental reasons for the conflict, the main participants and the long term consequences for Spain and the world. The course will draw upon a wide range of materials including historical documents, film and literary texts.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar meeting per week, including lecture and discussion.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment: essay 3,000 words (80%); presentation (10%); seminar participation (10%).

Resit: Essay (100%).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

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

Co-requisites

Either SP 2518 or SP 2026 / SP 2526

Notes

This course will not be available in 2011/12. This course may not be taken as part of a graduating curriculum with SP45MC Latin America in Colonial times B. The class will be conducted in Spanish.

Overview

This course studies some of the most important cultural and historical issues concerning the New World. Amongst the authors and topics it studies will be the Valladolid Controversy, the Destruccion de idolatrias processes, the establishments of Jesuit missions in the South, 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. 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.

Assessment

1st attempt: Essay (one 2,000 word essay) (50%); written exam (50%).

Resit: Written exam (3 hours) (100%).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T Stack

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above, or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 45SA (Politics in Mexico B).

Overview

This course gives a broad introduction to the political system of modern Mexico from the early twentieth-century to the present day. It will focus on the rise and fall of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its system of government, but it will also consider the rise of the National Action Party (PAN), which finally won the Presidency in 2000, and of the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). Beyond party politics, the course will consider a range of other actors, including trade unions, the Church, artists and intellectuals, and social movements such as the Zapatistas.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week for twelve weeks.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Two essays (40% each) and in-course assessment (20%) (consisting of 10% student-led discussion and 10% individual oral presentation.

Resit: Two essays (50% each).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T Stack

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 or above, or by the permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 45SB (The Golden State: History, Culture and Politics of California B). This course will not be available in session 2011/12.

Overview

This course engages in a broad-based analysis of the history, culture and politics of the state of California. It begins with the indifenous and Spanish colonial settlement of the region, followed by the period within the independent Mexican Republic, before California became one of the United States of America. More recent topics will include the fate of the Californios after Independence and mass immigration in the 20th century, especially from Mexico, as well as the status of the Spanish language in contemporary California. The course will include approaches from history, anthropology, cultural studies, and political science.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week for eleven weeks.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Two essays (40% each) and in-course assessment: seminar assessment (20%)(consisting of 10% student-led discussion and 10% individual oral presentation).

Resit: Two essays (50% each).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

SP 2526, SP 2527 or SP 2531. Key Topics in modern Spanish Culture 1A. Course will normally only be open to students in Programme Year 3 or above or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course will be available in 2011/12. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 45YA: Key topics in modern Spanish culture 2B.

Overview

This course involves continued study of selected key topics, debates and texts relevant to advanced study of modern Spanish culture. The course may have different thematic emphases from year to year, and may include study of literary texts, visual culture, essays, testimonials, and histories.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st attempt: One 2,500 word essay (50%); 1 oral presentation (20%); written exercises and in-class tests (30%). Students must present for, and pass each component of assessment in order to pass the course as a whole.

Resit: Two-hour written examination

Formative Assessment

The above assessment are given CAS marks, and additional written or verbal feedback is also given.

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

SP 2526 or SP 2527 or SP 2531. Course will normally be open only to students in Programme Year 3 or above or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course will be available in 2010/11. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP45ZA: Key topics in modern Latin-American culture 2B).

Overview

This course involves continued study of selected key topics, debates and texts relevant to advanced study of modern Latin-American culture. The course may have different thematic emphases from year to year, and may include study of literary texts, visual culture, essays, testimonials, and histories.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week for twelve weeks.

Assessment

1st attempt: One 2,500 word essay (50%); 1 oral presentation (20%); written exercises and in-class tests (30%). Students must present for, and pass each component of assessment in order to pass the course as a whole.

Resit: Two hour written examination 100%

Formative Assessment

The above assessments are given CAS marks, and additional written or verbal feedback is also given.

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Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T R Stack

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 or above.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3088 (Citizenship in Latin America A).

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: Two essays (40% each) and in-course assessment (20%) (consisting of 10% student-led discussion and 10% individual oral presentation).

Resit: Two essays (50% each).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 or above.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2011/12. 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 chronicles concerning the New World. Primary texts - written by Cristobal Colon, Bartolome de las Casas, Gines de Sepulveda, Hernan Cortes, Fray Toribio de Benavente, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Jose de Acosta, and Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca - will be complemented by critical and historiographical literature.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

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

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

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

240 credit points. Normally only available to students in Programme Year 4 or above.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3096 (Basque Culture: Memory and Modernity A). This course will not be available in 2011/12.

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.

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

Spanish Language 6.

Co-requisites

None.

Notes

This course is open only to Hispanic Studies students in programme year 5.

Overview

Building on Spanish 6 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. 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 by focusing on advanced writing skills. The course curriculum reflects the emphasis placed on self-directed learning and private study at this level.

Structure

2 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment, language work (25%); 2 three-hour written examination papers (25% each) and one oral exam (25%). Students must pass all components.

Resit: Written examination (75%); plus oral exam (25%).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

Normally only available to students in Programme Year 4 or above.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 30AA (Basque Arts: The Conflict of Belonging A). This course will not be available in 2011/12.

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 2,500 word essays.

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 or above or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2011/12. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 30JB Contemporary Argentina: Film and Literature in Historical Context A.

Overview

This course introduces the student to a broad range of themes that help to make up contemporary Argentine culture. By studying a variety of literary and visual texts the course aims to help the student understand the complex nature of the various cross currents that make up the contemporary Argentine cultural and political scene. Among the themes covered are: Peronism, the legacy of Argentina's authoritarian past, current debates about human rights and commemorative strategies, the changing nature of gender roles and the construction of youth culture.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment: essay 4,000 words (80%); presentation (10%); seminar participation (10%).

Resit: Essay (100%).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4, or by permission of the Head of School.

Overview

The course will cover a range of genres: journalistic accounts of terror, diaries, fiction and hybrid genres in order to explore how literature can depict taboo topics in the most challenging fashion. The course will be divided into three sections: (i) Terror as the real (ii) The writer as terrorist (iii) Global terror. The course will include case studies from Argentina, Cuba, Central America, Spain and USA.

Structure

One two-hour lecture / seminar per week.

Assessment

1st attempt: Two x 2,500-word essays – 50% each.

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

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

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 30MC: Literature and Films of the Civil War A. This course will not be available in session 2011/12.

Overview

The course will study some important novels, poems, and films that were made as the result of the social and historical impact the Civil War had on Spanish society. They are an essential part of Spanish contemporary culture.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st attempt: Three take-home exams (90%) (30% each), class presentation (10%).

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

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T Stack

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 or above or by permission of the Head of School

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 30SC (The Rule of Law in Latin America A). This course will not be available in session 2011/12.

Overview

This course will address recent debates about the rule of law in Latin America. Politicians across the continent (and in other parts of the world) have been proclaiming the virtues of the “rule of law”. That is partly because international bodies such as the World Bank are making rule-of-law reforms a condition of financial aid. But what do politicians mean by the rule of law, are they putting it in to practice, and if so, with what consequences? For example, is the US supposed to be the model, and if so, does it live up to its ideals? Within Latin America, given the rhetoric about the rule of law, how can we explain the slow pace of judicial reform in the face of fast-paced electoral reform? Are governments themselves bound by the rule of law, or is it just for their citizens? And does the rule of law just serve the interests of political and economic elites? Or can it bring equality, and if so, what kind of equality? Is it enough to be equal before the law, or could the rule of law do better than that?

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st attempt: Two essays (40% each) and in-course assessment (20%) (consisting of 10% student-led discussion and 10% individual oral presentation).

Resit: Two essays (50% each).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

SP 30BC or SP 35DC. Course will normally be open to students in Programme Year 4 or above or by permission of the Head of School

Notes

This course will not be available in session 2011/12. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 30YA: (Key Topics in Modern Spanish Culture 1A.

Overview

This course involves study of selected key topics, debates and texts relevant to advanced study of modern Spanish culture. The course may have different thematic emphases from year to year, and may include study of literary texts, visual culture, essays, testimonials, and histories.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st attempt: One 3,500 word essay (50%); 1 oral presentation (20%); written exercises and in-class tests (30%). Students must present for, and pass each component of assessment in order to pass the course as a whole.

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

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

SP 30BC or SP 35DC. Course will normally be open to students in Programme Year 4 or above or by permission of the Head of School. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 30ZA.

Notes

This course will not be available in session 2011/12.

Overview

This course involves study of selected key topics, debates and texts relevant to advanced study of modern Latin-American culture. The course may have different thematic emphases from year to year, and may include study of literary texts, visual culture, essays, testimonials, and histories.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

First attempt: One 3,500 word essay (50%); 1 oral presentation (20%); written exercises and in-class tests (30%). Students must present for, and pass each component of assessment in order to pass the course as a whole.

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

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

Available only to Senior Honours students in Hispanic Studies.

Overview

A dissertation of 8,000-10,000 words on a topic approved by the Dissertation Co-ordinator to be submitted by the end of the spring term of the senior honours year i.e. teaching week 8.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Dissertation (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr N Arruti

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 or above or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may not be taken as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 35AA: Film & Visual Culture in Spain and Latin America A. This course will not be available in session 2011/12.

Overview

The first block of the course will engage in a theory-based, critical study of the broad Spanish film production of the twentieth-century. The second block of the course will study contemporary Latin-American cinema and photography in relation to the political. Materials studied within the course will include the following: film, painting, photography and architecture.

Structure

1 one-hour lectures and one-hour tutorial per week. Two-hour film screenings per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Two 3,000-word essays (50% each).

Two 3,000-word essays (50% each).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Biggane

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Senior Honours in Hispanic Studies.

Overview

This course aims to extend and refine students' practical skills for translation from English into Spanish. 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.

Structure

1 two-hour session per week, combining lecture, practical and seminar elements.

Assessment

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

Resit: 3 hour written examination (100%).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

Available only to candidates in Programme Year 3 or above or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may not be taken as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 35MB: Spanish Civil War A. The course will not be available in session 2011/12.

Overview

The Spanish Civil War was the defining event of twentieth-century history and a defining moment in European history. This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the fundamental reasons for the conflict, the main participants and the long term consequences for Spain and the world. The course will draw upon a wide range of materials including historical documents, film and literary texts.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar meeting per week, including lecture and discussion.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment: essay 3,500 words (80%); presentation (10%); seminar participation (10%).

Resit: Essay (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

TBC

Pre-requisites

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

Co-requisites

SP 2026 / SP 2526.

Notes

This course will not be available in 2011/12. This course may not be taken as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 35MC Latin America in Colonial times A.

Overview

This course studies some of the most important cultural and historical issues concerning the New World. Amongst the authors and topics it studies will be the Valladolid Controversy, the Destruccion de idolatrias processes, the establishments of Jesuit missions in the South, 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. 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

One two-hour seminar per week

Assessment

1st attempt: Essay (50%) (one 2,500 words); written exam (50%).
Resit: Written exam (3 hours) (100%).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T Stack

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 or above or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 35SA (Politics in Mexico A).

Overview

This course gives a broad introduction to the political system of modern Mexico from the early twentieth-century to the present day. It will focus on the rise and fall of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its system of government, but it will also consider the rise of the National Action Party (PAN), which finally won the Presidency in 2000, and of the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). Beyond party politics, the course will consider a range of other actors, including trade unions, the Church, artists and intellectuals, and sociol movement such as the Zapatistas.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week for eleven weeks.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Two essays (40% each) and in-course assessment (20%) (consisting of 10% student-led discussion and 10% individual oral presentation).

Resit: Two essays (50% each).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T Stack

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programm Year 4 or above,or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 35SB (The Golden State: History, Culture and Politics of California A). This course will not be available in session 2011/2012.

Overview

This course engages in a broad-based analysis of the history, culture and politics of the state of California. It begins with the indigenous and Spanish colonial settlement of the region, followed by the period within the independent Mexican Republic, before California became one of the United States of America. More recent topics will include the fate of the Californios after Independence and mass immigration in the 20th century, especially from Mexico, as well as the status of the Spanish language in contemporary California. The course will include approaches from history, anthropology, cultural studies, and political science.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week for eleven weeks.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Two essays (40% each) and in-course assessment (20%) (consisting of 10% student-led discussion and 10% individual oral presentation).

Resit: Two essays (50% each).

Formative Assessment

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

SP 3069 Course will normally be open to students in Programme Year 4 or above or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course will be available in 2011/12. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 35YA (Key Topics in Modern Spanish Culture 2A).

Overview

This course involves continued study of selected key topics, debates and texts relevant to advanced study of modern Spanish culture. The course may have different thematic emphases from year to year, and may include study of literary texts, visual culture, essays, testimonials, and histories.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week

Assessment

1st attempt: One 3,500 word essay (50%); 1 oral presentation (20%); written exercises and in-class tests (30%). Students must present for, and pass each component of assessment in order to pass the course as a whole.

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

Formative Assessment

The above assessments are given CAS marks, and additional written or verbal feedback is also given.

Feedback

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

Pre-requisites

SP 2525 or SP 2526 or SP 2531 Key Topics in Modern Latin American Culture 1B. Course will normally be open to students in Programme Year 4 or above or by permission of the Head of School.

Notes

This course will be available in 2010/11. This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 35ZA Key Topics in Modern Latin American Culture 2A.

Overview

This course involves continued study of selected key topics, debates and texts relevant to advanced study of modern Latin American culture. The course may have different thematic emphases from year to year, and may include study of literary texts, visual culture, essays, testimonials, and histories.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar per week.

Assessment

1st attempt: One 3,500 word essay (50%); 1 oral presentation (20%); written exercises and in-class tests (30%). Students must present for, and pass each component of assessment in order to pass the course as a whole.

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

Formative Assessment

The above assessments are given CAS marks, and additional written or verbal feedback is also given.

Feedback