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

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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.

OBJECTIVE

Examination of Spanish Culture through the formal and thematic study of its most representative artistic manifestations, from ancient times to the present day.

METHODOLOGY

An interdisciplinary teaching style, encouraging the students to participate. Given that this course strives to encompass an important practical character, the theoretical study will be complemented by visits to monuments and museums in Valencia.

PROGRAM

1. Prehistory

2. Ancient Times
Colonization
Iberian culture
Romanization: Roman art in the Peninsula and Paleo-Christian art

3. Middle Ages
The Barbarian invasions and Hispano-Visigothic art
Hispano-Muslim art and “mudejarismo”
Asturian art
The “Camino de Santiago”
Romanic art
Gothic art

4. Modern Age
Renaissance art
Baroque art

5. Contemporary Times
The foundations of contemporary art
19th Century art
20th Century art

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abrantes, R., Fernández, A. y Manzarbeitia, S., Arte español para extranjeros, Honadarribia, Editorial Nerea S.A., 1999.

Bendala Galán, M., Manual del Arte Español: introducción al arte español, Madrid, Sílex, 2003.

Bozal, V., Historia del Arte en España, Madrid, Istmo, 1987.

Espino Nuño, J. Y Morán Turina, M., Historia del Arte español, Madrid, Sgel, 2000.

Moffit, J., Las artes en España, Barcelona, Ediciones Destino, 1999.

EVALUATION

Participation: 30%
Assignments: 30%
Final exam/project: 40%

Attendance is mandatory.