HISPANIC STUDIES

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr S Bannatyne

Pre-requisites

Not available to students qualified for SP 1018.

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 J Rodriguez

Pre-requisites

None.

Overview

This course examines key aspects of the history and culture of Spain in the 19th and 20th centuries. After an introduction to how the modern state of Spain came into existence, the focus will be on the most important social, economic, political and cultural developments that have taken place in the last two centuries.

Structure

2 one-hour lectures a week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment: 1 essay (50%) and examination (50%).

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

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr S Bannatyne

Pre-requisites

SP 1017

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 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 T Stack

Pre-requisites

SP 1017 or SP 1018

Overview

This course is about Latin-American cultural history, from pre-conquest 'America' up to the twentieth century. The course explores key themes in Latin-America cultural experience as they are presented in film, fiction and visual representation.

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

15

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

None

Notes

This course is available only to Level 2 students following the Degree Programme in Two European Languages with Education.

Overview

This course builds upon language skills acquired in SP 1018 and SP 1518. The course aims to develop the five principles of reading, writing, speaking, listening and translating. These elements will be enhanced by the analysis of varied textual and audio-visual material and weekly small-group oral classes.

Structure

3 one-hour seminars per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (70%), intercalated class tests (10%) and oral skills (20%).

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

None

Notes

This course is available only to Level 3 students following the Degree Programme in Two European Languages with Teacher Education.

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

Dr S Bannatyne

Pre-requisites

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

Notes

This course is run over the full session.

Overview

Prose passages for translation from Spanish to English.

Assessment

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

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

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr S Bannatyne

Pre-requisites

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

Overview

Prose passages for translation from Spanish to English.

Assessment

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

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

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be advised

Pre-requisites

240 credit points (including SP 2518).

Notes

This course is only available to those students taking the degree in Two European Languages with Teacher Education.

Overview

The dissertation is a piece of extended independent research (8-10,000 words long), structured as a critical evaluation, analysis or argument, about an aspect of Hispanic Studies that interests you. The topic is chosen by you, in conjunction with the dissertation Co-ordinator, and an individual supervisor. It is a chance for you to carry out in-depth study in Hispanic Studies outside the course programme, and to acquire and develop valuable research skills. The title of the dissertation must be approved in writing by the Dissertations Co-ordinator.

Assessment

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

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

To be confirmed

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 J Rodriguez

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 4072 (Post-Civil War Spanish Women’s Narrative B). It will be available in 2005/06 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course explores texts by Spanish women writers from the 1940s to the 1990s. Detailed textual study will be combined with consideration of writing under dictatorship, of the boom in women’s writing in Spain, the relationships between gender and genre in Spanish women’s writing, and study of selected key issues in feminist literary theory and criticism.

Structure

1 two-hour 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 4077 (20th Century Mexico: Visual Perspectives B). It will be available in 2005/06 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 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 4078 (Spanish Realism B). It will be available in 2004/05 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Realism is a protean, relative and complex construct rather than a single specific literary movement, or an unproblematic mode of literary communication. This course will examine the structure, ideology and forms of different 'realisms' in Spanish narrative and relate them to selected texts from the mid nineteenth century onwards. The course will engage with questions about realism and language, realism and politics, realism and determinism, realism and irony and realism and censorship.

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

30

Course Coordinator

Dr S Bannatyne

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 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).

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 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 be available in 2005/06 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

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%).

Resit: Essay (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Rodriquez

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 3 who have passed SP 2518.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4090. It will be available in 2006/07 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course examines a selection of materials both visual and textual relating to the movement commonly known as 'La Movida Madrileña, which saw young people in Spain celebrating their newly-found freedom following the repression of the Franco years. The course involves placing the relevant texts within a wider, cultural, historical and political context, so that students will form a nuanced understanding of the topic in a more contextualized sense as well as focussing in detail on individual works.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar a week for eleven weeks.

Assessment

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

Resit: Two essays (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr S Bannatyne

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

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

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). It will be available in 2005/06 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

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, exploring ‘modernismo’, the ‘Generación del 98’ and the ‘Generación del 27’. 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

Dr T Phillips

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. It will be available in 2005-06.

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: 2 written assignments (50% each).

Resit: One two-hour 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 4568 (Questioning the Questioner: the work of Miguel de Unamuno B). It will be available in 2004/05 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 J Rodriquez

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 4569 (Representations of the Spanish Civil War B). It will be available in 2004/05 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course explores a variety of materials, both visual and textual, in order to explore a variety of representations on the Civil War. Detailed textual and visual study will be combined with consideration of the history of the war and the way it has been perceived and represented by both sides.

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 2004/05 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 2005/06 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 T 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 2004/05 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 and an oral presentation.

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 2005/06 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 (60%) and written examination (40%).

Resit: Essay (100%).

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr J Rodriguez

Pre-requisites

Normally only available to students in Programme Year 3 who have passed SP 2518.

Notes

This course may not be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 4586 (The Films of Luis Buñuel B). It will be available in 2005/06 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course will focus on a selection of films by the Spanish film-director Luis Buñuel in order to explore some of the features of the often experimental and always challenging work of one of the key directors of twentieth century cinema.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

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

Resit: 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 be available in 2005/06. 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 (40% each) and an oral presentation (20%).

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

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr T Stack

Pre-requisites

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 2005/06 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

Dr T Phillips

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 be available in 2005/06.

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

Dr T 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

Dr J Rodriguez

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: 1 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 J Rodriquez

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 3072 (Post-Civil War Spanish Women’s Narrative A). It will be available in 2005/06 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course explores texts by Spanish women writers from the 1940s to the late 1990s. Detailed textual study will be combined with consideration of writing under dictatorship, and the boom in women’s writing in a democratic Spain, the relationships between gender and genre in Spanish women’s writing, and study of selected key issues in European and North-American feminist literary theory and criticism. The course involves placing the selected texts written by women within a cultural, social, historical and political context, so that students will form a nuanced understanding of twentieth-century Spanish culture as well as focussing on the work of relevant writers.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar a 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

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 2004/05 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 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 3078 (Spanish Realism A). It will be available in 2004/05 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

Realism is a protean, relative and complex construct rather than a single specific literary movement, or an unproblematic mode of literary communication. This course will examine the structure, ideology and forms of different 'realisms' in Spanish narrative and relate them to selected texts from the mid nineteenth century onwards. The course will engage with questions about realism and language, realism and politics, realism and determinism, realism and irony and realism and censorship. Contextualisation of different forms of realism and comparative study will be an important part of the course.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week, 1 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

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).

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 be available in 2005/06 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

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 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 J Rodriquez

Pre-requisites

Available only to students in Programme Year 4 who have passed SP 2518.

Notes

This course may NOT be included as part of a graduating curriculum with SP 3090. It will be available in 2006/07 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course examines a selection of materials both visual and textual relating to the movement commonly known as 'La Movida Madrileña'. which saw young people in Spain celebrating their newly-found freedom following the repression of the Franco years. The course involves placing the relevant texts within a wider, cultural, historical and political context, so that students will form a nuanced understanding of the topic in a more contextualized sense as well as focussing in detail on individual works. Emphasis is placed on comparative and synthetic study, and on the use of selected developments in critical theory in the analysis of texts.

Structure

1 two-hour seminar a week for twelve weeks, and a further 1 hour research workshop.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): two 2,000 word essays and on 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 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). It will be available in 2005/06 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

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, exploring ‘modernismo’, the ‘Generación del 98’ and the ‘Generación del 27’. 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

Dr T Phillips

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. It will be available in 2005-06.

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: 2 written assignments (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 3568 (Questioning the Questioner: the Work of Miguel de Unamuno A). It will be available in 2004/05 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 J Rodriguez

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 3569 (Representations of the Spanish Civil War A). It will be available in 2004/05 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

The course explores a variety of materials, both visual and textual, and visual study will be combined with consideration of the history of the war and the way it has been perceived and represented by both sides, so that the students will form a nuanced understanding of the historical, political and social contexts in which the war took place.

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 2004/05 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 2005/06 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 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 2004/05 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 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 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 2005/06 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 J Rodriguez

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 3586 (The Films of Luis Buñuel A). It will be available in 2005/06 and in alternate sessions thereafter.

Overview

This course will focus on a selection of films by the Spanish film-director Luis Buñuel in order to explore some of the features of the often experimental and always challenging work of one of the key directors of twentieth century cinema. In addition, emphasis will be placed on enabling students to develop their understanding and application of critical theory and film theory when examining Buñuel’s films.

Structure

1 two-hour lecture/seminar per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: In-course assessment (100%): one essay 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 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 be available in 2005/06. 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 (40% each) and an oral presentation (20%).

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 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 2005/06 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 (40% each) and an oral presentation (20%).

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 Phillips

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 be available in 2005/06.

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: 2 essays (2,500 words) (50% each).

Resit: 2 essays (2,500 words).