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.

OBJECTIVES
Offered for liberal arts students. A unique look at historical occurrences during the Middle Age with special attention to the culture of Western Europe and the fall of the Roman Empire up to the discovery of the New World. The class will explore these events through social, economic, and cultural ways in order to bring out a different idea, focusing on the construction of a new Europe.

PROGRAM
Topic 1: Overview of the Middle Age and its stages.
Topic 2: The fall of the Roman Empire in the West: The Bárbaros Reign.
Topic 3: The formation of Europe: The Carolingian Empire and its failure.
Topic 4: The economic development of Western Europe: agrarian expansion, reappearance of cities and the Commercial Revolution.
Topic 5: The configuration of European Medieval society and its imaginary representations.
Topic 6: The construction of European political positions: universal powers, feudal monarchies, and nationals.
Topic 7: The cultural and religious renovation of Europe: Universities, beggars, and heresies.
Topic 8: Crisis and transformations of the European rural and urban world.
Topic 9: The European political dynamic: the configuration of the modern State.
Topic 10: The church crisis: the new religious and cultural currents of Europe: from the scholastic to the humanistic aspect.