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

High Intermediate

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

Superior

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

General introduction to the history of Spain
-The Iberian Peninsula from prehistoric times to antiquity: peninsular cultures and Mediterranean colonizations.
-Romans: romanization and christianization. The Spanish-Gothic monarchy
-Islamic Spain: from the Arab conquest to the reign of Granada
-Medieval Spain: the Christian Reign, reconquest and repopulation
-Modern Spain: the Golden Age
-The Spain of the Catholic Rulers. The authoritarian monarchy
-Discovery, conquest and colonization of America
-Spain and the universal empire of Carlos V
-The Hispanic Empire of Felipe II
-The Baroque Spain of the 17th century: wearing out and decadence of the absolute monarchy
-The final crisis of the Hapsburgs: from Westfalia to Utrecht

18th Century
-The Treaty of Utrecht (1713) and the beginning of Bourbon Spain
-The new monarchy (1713-59) and bourbon reformism
-The Illustrated Monarchy: Carlos III (1759-1788)
-Spain and the French revolution: Carlos IV (1788-1808)

19th Century
-The crisis of the old regime: war and revolution (1808-1814)
-Absolutism and liberalism under Fernando VII (1814-1833)
-The independence of Spanish America
-The liberal monarchy of Isabel II (1833-1868)
-The six years of revolution (1868-1874)
-The Restoration, and the parliamentary monarchy (1875-1902)
-The end of the century crisis: the '98 course of spring:

20th Century
-Alfonso XIII (1902-1931) and the parliamentary monarchy
-The dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923-30) and the end of the monarchy (1931)
-The Second Republic
-The Civil War
-The National State
-The democratic monarchy