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Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

This course is designed to give the student a better understanding of the historical origins of the social, political, and economic structures and allowing them to relate these structures with the way of life, work, beliefs, religious practices, and artistic creation from ancient times up to the Baroque period.
General themes discussed in this class are:
1. The ancient world. Theocracy. Asiatic mode of production and slavery.
2. Greece and Rome and the move from Paganism to Christianity. From the reign of beauty to urban conquest.
3. The Middle Ages and the feudal world. Pilgrimages and crusades. The Christian view of the world: Romance and Gothic.
4. Humanism and the Renaissance and their utopian views.
5. Reform, Counter-reform and the Baroque.