Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Intermediate

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of two semesters (or three quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

FALL STUDENTS WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Objective

The principle objective is to get to know the History of Spain from the peninsular unification created by the efforts of the Catholic Kings (at the end of the XV century) up to the crisis of the Old Regime at the end of the XVIII century. This extensive period includes the reigns of the two Monarchies- Hapsburgs and Bourbons- that controled Spain first in an Authoritarian form and then Absolutist. Interesting historical phenomenons will be looked at such as the universal empire of Carlos V, the Austrias or the Bourbon Reformism. There will also be a series of visits to the historic parts of Barcelona with the objective of getting to know the modern city.

Program

The Catholic Kings and peninsular unification
The Hapsburgs and the Spanish Hegemony of the XVI century: from the universal
empire of Carlos I to the Spanish empire of Felipe II (1516-1598)
The Decadence of the Austrias and the crisis of the XVII century: from Felipe III to
Carlos II (1598-1700)
Bourbon Reformism of the XVIII century: from Felipe V to Carlos III (1700-1788)
The end of the century and the crisis of the Absolutist Monarchy

WINTER STUDENTS WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Objective

Throughout the course the student will study the Contemporary History of Spain from the XIX and XX centuries, placing special attention to the events that most stand out like the introduction of the liberal Regimen, the Carlistas wars, the Borbonic restorations, the military dictatorships, the political systems, the societal division, the right and left ideologies, the II Republics proclamation, the culminating crisis of the civil war (1936-1939) and finally, the Francoism.

Program

From the crisis of the Ancient Regimen, to the liberal system (1788-1833)
Isabel II (1833-1874)
The Sexenio Revolutionary (1868-1874)
The Borbonic restorations: Alfonso XII and the regency of María Cristina (1875-1902)
From the parliamentarian monarchy to the Primo de Rivera dictatorship (1902-1931)
The II Republic and the Civil War (1931-1939)
The dictatorship of General Franco (1939-1975)