Notes regarding credits...

This course consists of 40 hours of instruction. However, students may earn 45 hours by attending supplemental sessions and completing additional coursework. Please check with your home university to find out whether you need 40 or 45 hours to earn course equivalents.

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

High Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of five semesters (or seven 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.

1. Introduction
The objective of this course is to provide foreign students with an approximate vision, although basic and fundamental, of the major artistic manifestations that have occurred on the Iberian Peninsula throughout these two historical periods, keeping in mind the historical, social, political, economic, and religious factors that influence these manifestations.
2. Program
1.General introduction. Spanish art within the context of European art.
2. Essays on early art. –Paleolithic Art. –Mesolithic Art. – Neolithic Art.- Copper Art.- Bronze Art.
3. Art from the epoch of colonization. The Iron Era and the hegemony of metallurgy.- Traces of the Phoenicians.- Traces of the Greeks.- Tartessians. The first great indigenous experience.- The Iberians.- The Celts.- The Celti-Iberians.
4. Roman Art.- Architecture and engineering projects.- The Plastic arts: sculpture and painting.- Mosaic.- Ceramics.
5. The first Spanish art: the Visigoths.- Architecture.- Sculpture.- Goldsmithery.
6. Muslim Spain.- The first Muslim art: the caliph. Introduction to Muslim art in Spain. Caliphal architecture. Sculpture, painting, and the decorative arts.- Taifa art.- Mozarabic art.-Almohad art.- Nazarí or native art from Granada. Architecture. Plastic and decorative arts.
7. Christian Spain: pre-roman Spanish.- Asturian art.- Mozarabic art.
8. Roman art.- Architecture.- Plastic arts.- Decorative arts.
9. Gothic art.- Architecture.- Plastic arts.- Decorative arts.
10. The Renaissance. Spain in the XVI Century.- Architecture.- Plastic arts. Decorative arts.- The first Hispano-American manifestations.

3. Activities
According to the course design, trips may be planned to local museums, urban centers, and monuments of interest (Itálica in Seville, Museum of Archeology n Granada, Museum of Archeology in Jaén, Mosque in Cordoba, Historical Center in Granada, Alhambra in Granada).

4. Evaluation
Besides quizzes there will be a final exam covering theory and application. Additionally, class attendance, class participation, and personal comments on some of the books assigned for homework will be evaluated.

5. Bibliography
BOZAL, V., Historia del Arte en España, 2 vols. Madrid, Itsmo, 1972.CALVO CASTELLÃ"N, A., Historia del Arte Español, Madrid, Edelsa, 1987.
The volumes corresponding to Spain in Historia General del Arte, from the Editorial Historia 16, Madrid, 1993-96.
Historia del Arte Hispánico, volumns I, II, III y IV, Madrid, Editorial Alhambra, 1987.
FATAS, G y BORRAS, G., Diccionario de términos de arte y arqueología, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1980.
REVILLA, F., Diccionario de iconografía, Madrid, Cátedra, 1990.