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.

Fall:

Spanish art until the 17th century
-The roots of Spanish art, the first examples of medieval art:
Pre-roman art, romanesque art: the road to Santiago. Spanish-Muslim art: la Mezquita de Córdoba. The Nazarí period: the Alhambra
Gothic art of Granada: the monastery of El Escorial, colored sculpture
-Renaissance painting: general characters and periods
-El Greco: life and periods
-El Greco: works

Winter:

The great century of Spanish painting
-Aesthetics of baroque painting
-The Golden Age of Spanish painting. Characteristics, genres and stages.
-Spanish painting in the first half of the 17th century. Naturalism. Valencia: Ribalta, Ribera
-Sevilla: Francisco de Zurbarán
-Diego Velásquez: life and sevillana period
-Velásquez: court painter
-Spanish painting in the second half of the 17th century. The Madrid school: Antonio de Pereda.
-Sevilla: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Characteristics and stages.
-Murillo: his works
-Valdés Leal

Spring:

Spanish art from the 18th to the 20th century
-Francisco de Goya: education and periods
-Goya: his works
-Panorama of the 20th century
-Modernism
-Antonio Gaudí
-Sculpture of the first quarter of the century: Mariano Benlliure. Classicism: Vitorio Macho. Abstract art: Pablo Gargallo, Julio González, Pablo Serrano y Eduardo Chillida
-Painting from the beginning of the century. Impressionism: Sorolla
-Expressionist tendencies: Isidro Nonell, J. Gutiérrez Solana
-Pablo Picasso and cubism
-Dalí and Miró. Abstract art