Superior

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses at their home university in the U.S.

This course covers the entire twentieth century dividing the years into blocks in order analyze different crisis, movements, and events of each time period. The course is organized according to the following topics: I 1900-1919 The Rupture of Power Equilibrium: world expansion of capitalism and its consequences, the failure of pacifism and WWI, the Russian revolution and the construction of the socialist state. II 1919-1945 Europe of the "between war"period and New Tensions: The Reconstruction of Europe, the crisis of parliamentary democracies, the fascist European movement, WWII. III 1945-1989 A Bipolar World : the formation of power blocks, the cold war, The Bandung Conference, Descolonization and Neo-colonialism, the European Community, the communist block. IV The present world: Europe of the 80s, the Gorbachov era, the fall of the Berlin Wall and Communism, new socio-economic inequalities.