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.

Present-day Spain 1975-2001
First Cycle
1. Spain and the transition from Dictatorship to Democracy (1975-1982)
1.1 The political crisis of Franco's regime. The death of Franco and inmobilism. The franquism inheritance and the changes in Spanish society.
1.2 The debate between reform and rupture. The keys to the transition. The birth of the consensus.
1.3 The Suárez government and political reform (1976-7).
1.4 The constituent era. The political parties. The democratic organization. The constitution of 1978.
1.5 Spain and its autonomies. Nationalism and the autonomies.
1.6 Spain's economic crisis of. Differential characteristics. The Moncloa pacts. The dismantlement of the economic-nationalist system of franquism.
1.7 The "UCD" governments. The elections of 1979. The accumulation of tensions. The coup of February 1981.
Second Cycle
2. Spain in the 1980s. Economic and social modernization and the consolidation of the democracy.
2.1 The electoral triumph of "PSOE" in 1982. The idea of change.
2.2 The socialist governments and the absolute majorities. 1982-1993. Political parties and syndicates. The consolidation of freedom.
2.3 Spain in the international context. The incorporation to the ECC. NATO.
2.4 The economic transition. Economic growth and modernization. Economic freedom.
2.5 The modernization of Spanish society. Demographic and social changes. Rules of behavior.
2.6 The culture. The international diffusion.
2.7 Economic and political tensions. The economic recession of 1989 and the internal debates about socialism.