High Advanced

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of five semesters (or seven quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

SYLLABUS

1.The Ancien Régime as a Western System.
o Social Structure.
o Economic Structure.
o Political Power.

2. The System of Justifications: Mind-Set and Outlook.
o The Idea of Universal Hierarchy.
o Theory of Power and State.

3. The Defiant Liberal Project: 1.
o Criticism of the Ancien Régime’s Economy: Physiocracy and Anti-mercantilism.
o Economic Liberalism and the Manchester School.

4. The Liberal Project: 2.
o Criticism of Social Structure: Privilege as Grievance.
o The Concept of a Natural Society.
o Social Engines: Happiness, Utility, Reason.

5. The Liberal Project: 3.
o Criticism in Politics: Authority and Liberty.
o The Division of Powers.
o Theory of the Social Contract.

6. Enlightenment Philosophy as Synthesis.
o Reason. Nature and God.
o Models and Society.
o Rationalism and Empiricism.

7. From Project to System. Liberalism and Revolution.
o The French Revolution of 1789 and its Significance.
o People, Nation, and State during the Revolution.

8. The New Anti-Liberal Projects. Utopian Socialism.
o Principles, Themes and Values.
o The French Schools of Thought.
o The English Schools of Thought.

9. The New Anti-Liberal Projects:
o Scientific Socialism. German Socialism.
o Historical and Dialectical Materialism, the Political Project of Marxism.

10. Repercussions within the Socio-political Environment.
o Working-Class Movements and their Range.
o The First International.

11. From Socialist Project to System: The Revolution of 1917.

o The Socio-political Basis of Nineteenth-Century Russia.
o The Revolution of 1905.
o The Revolution 1917.

12. Crisis in Mature Liberalism.
o Nationalism.
o Imperialism and Colonialism.
o The First World War.

13. The New Anti-Liberal Project: Totalitarianism.
o Ideological Origins.
o Determining Factors within Society.
o Western Models.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• P. GOUBERT: El Antiguo Régimen: La sociedad. Vol. 1. Los poderes. Vol. 2.
• J. GODECHOT: La era de las revoluciones. Ed. Nueva Clio. Labor.
• N. HAMPSON: Historia social de la revolución francesa. Ed. Alianza.
• G. LICHTEIN: Breve historia del socialismo. Ed. Alianza.
• G.D.H. COLE: Historia del pensamiento socialista.
• M. FERRO: La revolución de 1977. Ed. Laia.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Final grades will be based upon an exam to be held at the end of the semester. As a further contribution to the raising of the final grade a compulsory assignment will be set, consisting of a report on readings carried out during the Course.