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.

-Culture and philosophy
-Meaning and Scope of the Spanish philosophy
-History and thought
-Sénica and Senequismo
-The meeting of the three cultures
-The awakening of reason in the West: Averroes y Maimónides
-The transmission of knowledge: the School of Translators in Toledo
-The beginning of Modernity in Spain: the School of Salamanca
-The practice of Humanism: Juan Luis Vivcs
-F. De Vitoria: human rights and the limits of power
-International rights. Peace and war.
-Agreement and state in Francisco Suárez***
-Humanist doctors: Juan Huarte de San Juan
-Critical knowledge of Baltasar Gracián
-Enlightened thought: B.J. Feijoo
-Philosophic traditionalism: J. Balmes and Donoso Cortés