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 will look at the following topics:
1. Expansion and agression of Iberian Feudalism: conquest and colonization.
2. Fundamental characteristics of Christian societies: demographic and economic increase,.
3. The borders and the cultural changes: informal aculturation and new forms of religosity.
4. Constiutional developments of the Iberian reigns: forms of political organization.
5. The structural crisis of Feudalism: agrarian crisis and social conflict.
6. Feudal reaction: forms of escape from crisis and the development of Spanish Monarchic Absolutism.