High Advanced

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

FIRST SEMESTER [FALL]

1. Introduction. The geography of Spain. Ethnic elements. The major periods of historical development in Spain.

2. Prehistory and Protohistory. Pre-roman Spain.
Races, cultures, and colonies. Iberians, Celts and Celt Iberians. Phoenicians, Greeks, and Carthaginians.

3. Roman Spain. Resistance and conquest. Romanization. Hispano-Roman culture. Christianity.

4. The Visigoths. Invasions and migrations. Romanism and germanism. Tolosa to Toledo. The culture and political boundaries of the Visigoths.

5. Muslim Spain. The conquest and its causes. Dependent emirate. Independent Emirate. Califato. Taifas. Invasions. The Hispano-Muslim civilization. Historical significance of Spanish Islam.

6. The Reconquest. Its significance. Geographic and chronological frame. The Christian Kings. Institutions, economy, society and culture of medieval Spain.

7. The Catholic Kings. The creation of a national unity. The modern state. Spain in Europe. The New World.

8. The Spanish Hegemony. Carlos and the Emperor. National and international politics. Felipe II. The great rivalries in Spain. Spaniards in Spain and Latin America.

9. 17th Century. The ruling periods of Felipe III, Felipe V, and Carlos II. Spain's political domination crisis. The colonization of the Americas.

10. 18th Century. The Spanish War of Succession. The new structure of the monarchy. National and international politics. The Spanish Enlightenment.

SECOND SEMESTER [WINTER]

11. 19th Century. The War of Independence.

12. Constitutionalism. Liberalism and traditionalism. The civil wars.

13. The First Republic.

14. The Restoration.

15. Independence of America.

16. '98

17. 20th Century. Alfonso XIII.

18. Second Republic.

19. The Spanish Civil War.

20. Post-war period and modern-day Spain.