Undergraduate Catalogue of Courses 2013/2014
HISPANIC STUDIES
Course Co-ordinator: Dr N Arruti
Pre-requisite(s): 240 credit points (including SP2525, SP2526 or SP2531).
Note(s): Open to Level 3 and 4 students.
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 'minor literature'; their problematic insertion into the Spanish canon will also be explored. The tensions between the local and global will be also 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.
1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour seminar per week.
1st Attempt: Continuous assessment: Level 3 - two 2000-word essays (40% each). Level 4 two 2500-word essays
oral presentation (20%) - students will submit outline of presentation. Level 3 students have a preliminary meeting and formative feedback in writing before the final presentation. Level 4 students are expected to deliver presentation without having received written pointers.
Resit: Two essays (50%).
Formative Assessment and Feedback Information
The first written assignment has a formative as well as a summative role.
The above assignments receive CAS marks, which the Course Guide links to specific marking criteria, and written or verbal feedback in the form of tutors' comments is also given. Additional informal feedback on performance and tutorial participation is offered in tutorials. Tutors have office hours at which further feedback may be sought.
Course Co-ordinator: Dr N Arruti
Pre-requisite(s): 240 credit points (including SP2525, SP2526 or SP2531).
Note(s): Available only to students in Programme Year 3 and 4.
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:
- Terror as the real
- The writer as terrorist
- Global terror
1 two-hour seminar per week.
1st Attempt: Oral presentation 20% (students will submit outline of presentation)
Level 3: Two 2000 word essays (40% each)
Level 4: Two 2500 word essays (40% each)
Resit: Level 3: Two 2000 word essays (50% each)
Formative Assessment and Feedback Information
The first written assignment has a formative as well as a summative role.
The above assignments receive CAS marks, which the Course Guide links to specific marking criteria, and written or verbal feedback in the form of tutors' comments is also given. Additional informal feedback on performance and tutorial participation is offered in tutorials. Tutors have office hours at which further feedback may be sought.
Course Co-ordinator: Dr T Stack
Pre-requisite(s): Normally available only to students in Programme Year 3.
Note(s): This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with Politics in Mexico B.
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.
1 two-hour seminar per week.
1st Attempt: Two 2000 word essays (40% each) and in-course assessment (20%) (consisting of 10% student-led discussion and 10% individual oral presentation)
Resit: Two 2000 word essays (50% each)
Formative Assessment and Feedback Information
The first written assignment has a formative as well as a summative role.
The above assignments receive CAS marks, which the Course Guide links to specific marking criteria, and written or verbal feedback in the form of tutors' comments is also given. Additional informal feedback on performance and tutorial participation is offered in tutorials. Tutors have office hours at which further feedback may be sought.
PLEASE NOTE: 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.
Course Co-ordinator: Dr T R Stack
Pre-requisite(s): Normally only available to students in Programme Year 4.
Note(s): This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3080 (Narrating Collective Pasts in the Hispanic World A). It will not be available in 2008/09.
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.
1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.
1st Attempt: Two essays (50% each).
Resit: Two essays (50% each).
Course Co-ordinator: To be confirmed
Pre-requisite(s): Available only to Senior Honours students in Hispanic Studies.
This course will examine theories of creativity with an emphasis on creativity in literary writing. It 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.
1 two-hour seminar per week.
1st Attempt: In-course assessment: two essays (50% each).
Course Co-ordinator: Dr T R Stack
Pre-requisite(s): Available only to students in Programme Year 4 or above who have a reading knowledge of Spanish.
Note(s): This course will not be available in 2008/09. This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3588.
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.
1 two-hour seminar per week.
1st Attempt: Two essays (50% each).
Course Co-ordinator: Dr A Marcus
Pre-requisite(s): 240 credit points. Normally only available to students in Programme Year 4 or above.
Note(s): This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3568 (On Documentary: history, theory and practice A).
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.
1 two-hour seminar per week and one two-hour workshop to be arranged.
1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): two essays and an oral presentation.
Formative Assessment and Feedback Information
Course Co-ordinator: Ms S Domingo
Pre-requisite(s): SP 30BC or SP 35DC. The course will normally be open only to students Hispanic Studies Honours Students in Programme Year 4 or above, or by permission of the Head of School.
This course will develop advanced writing skills in Spanish in a variety of registers, contexts and genres.
One two-hour seminar per week.
1st Attempt: 5 in-course written assessments (60%); 1 two-hour 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 (100%).
Formative Assessment and Feedback Information