Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Intermediate

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of two semesters (or three 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.

1) Spanish art approaching the twenty-first century.
a) How to appreciate a work of art.
b) How to appreciate a work of architecture.
c) The most common artistic terms.
d) The rhetoric of the most important styles in Spanish art.
e) The artistic form and style.
f) Keys to understanding Spanish art.

2) A plural country: the works of art and their context.
a) Mérida and Segovia: two legacies of Roman architecture.
b) The mark of Arabic architecture in the Alhambra in Granada and the Mosque in Córdoba.
c) The Roman route: a stop along the way: Santiago de Compostela.
d) Toledo and the spirituality of El Greco.
e) A visit through Baroque Salamanca.
f) La Sagrada Familia as compared to Gaudí's other works in Barcelona.

3) Artistic works as a reflection of reality.
a) Romanesque and Gothic sculpture: a way of understanding religion.
b) El Escorial as a reflection of Spain during Felipe II's reign.
c) Goya and Los Fusilamientos of May 3rd: the French invasion.
d) El Guernica by Picasso and the Spanish Civil War.

There will be field trips to monuments and museums. Class participation is required. There will be a mid-term and final exam.