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

High Advanced

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

OBJECTIVES
a) To contribute to the improvement of students’ linguistic skills regarding their use of a more cultured form of Spanish by means of their reading and analysis of works of Literature.
b) To broaden students’ awareness of Spanish society and its culture.
c) To become familiar with, to comprehend, and to appreciate literary works by key authors. d) To reflect, in a considered way, upon Contemporary Spanish Drama and certain of its most representative plays.

METHODOLOGY
a) Lectures of a theoretical character.
b) Class debates involving students and lecturers.
c) The reading of texts (a first individual reading, with the use of a dictionary would be required, followed by a reading with commentary in class sessions, a third individual reading also being recommended.)

SYLLABUS
1.- The Historical Development of Drama: a Brief Overview from its Origins to the Present Day. Drama: between Literature and Theatrical Performance.
2.- Contemporary Theater in Crisis: Evolution, Revolution, or a Museum.
3.- Drama Theories and Manifestoes in Twentieth-Century Spain.
4.- The Evolution of Drama in Twentieth-Century Spain: Between Tradition and Vanguardism. Historical Outline and Key Playwrights.

SET READINGS
Jacinto Benavente: Los intereses creados (Alianza)
Manuel y Antonio Machado: Desdichas de la fortuna o Julianillo Valcárcel (Austral)
Manuel y Antonio Machado, Las adelfas (Austral)
Agustín de Foxá: Cui-Ping-Sing (xerox)
Miguel Mihura: Tres sombreros de copa (Cátedra)
Federico García Lorca: Bodas de sangre (Cátedra)

BIBLIOGRAPHY
a) The ‘Introductions’ to each specific edition.
b) Francisco Ruiz Ramón: Historia del teatro español: siglo XX (Madrid: Cátedra)
c) Javier Huerta Calvo: Historia del teatro español (vol. II, Madrid: Gredos, 2003)

COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES
a) Attendance at a theatrical performance in Sevilla.
b) A viewing of the movie version of Bodas de sangre, directed by Carlos Saura.

ASSESSMENT
a) Two exams will be set, one mid-way through the Course (which will offer the opportunity of passing half the syllabus), and the other at its close.
b) The written exams will be based on the use of limited-space answers or an objective reading-test format.
c) An optional essay-based question will also be included.
d) Regular attendance at class sessions and active participation will also be taken into