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Architecture and the city, with a focus on recent currents in the progress of both, such as sustainability, environmentalism and the relationship with nature. Topics underpinned by discussion of theory, and illustrated by a study of the city of Madrid: an example of a hybrid architectural/planning experiential environment that looks to the future with an ambition for modernization.

Intensive sequence integrating language, culture, and geo/sociopolitics of Spain. Emphasis is on achieving advanced proficiency in oral and written discourse, including formal and informal situations, presentational language, and appropriate forms in academic and professional contexts. Prerequisite: one year of college Spanish or 11 or 21B more than two quarters (six months) prior to arriving in Madrid.

Intensive sequence integrating language, culture, and geo/sociopolitics of Spain. Emphasis is on achieving advanced proficiency in oral and written discourse, including formal and informal situations, presentational language, and appropriate forms in academic and professional contexts. Prerequisite: 11 or 21B within two quarters (six months) of arriving in Madrid or 12 or 22B.

Required for all Madrid students. Lectures and activities covering a wide selection of culturally and academically significant topics to understand Spain, as well as its international context. Requirements include orientation, study trip, and language pledge compliance.

Practical instruction. The rhythms and styles of flamenco and the expression of feelings proper to this art form which synthesizes song, music, and dance. Zapateado (footwork), braceo (arm positions and movement technique), and choreographies, including Rumba flamenca and Sevillanas. Enrollment limited. May be repeated for credit.

Hip Hop Culture has become both the most profound and the most perplexing cultural, musical, and linguistic movement of our times. This course, which functions as an exploratory research group, considers how youth in Spain, including immigrant youth from North Africa and South Asia, are creating and consuming Hip Hop cultural texts (spoken word, music, film, video, other forms of visual and media arts). In addition to reading texts and analyzing films, our collective work as a class is to explore Hip Hop in Spain, a vibrant, richly-diverse Hip Hop scene. How are youth in Spain making use of Hip Hop to address contemporary social, political, and economic realities? How are they expressing their concerns and their multifaceted identities (across, race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, citizenship, etc.) through Hip Hop cultural production and consumption? How are local community organizations and Hip Hop activists harnessing the cultural power of Hip Hop for education and social justice? This course will include a field trip to Barcelona to visit with La Llama Rap Colectivo, a group of immigrant youth who produce Hip Hop that speaks to contemporary sociopolitical issues in their neighborhood like police brutality, racism/sexism, religious discrimination, immigration and education. Enrollment limited, instructor permission required. Prerequisite: SPANLANG 13C, 13R or 23B

May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: three years of Spanish at Stanford or placement.

Approaches, techniques, and processes in drawing. Visits to Madrid museums to study paintings and drawings by Goya, Velázquez, Picasso, and Dalí and to explore the experience of drawing. Subject matter: the figure, still life, interiors, landscape, and non-representational drawing. No previous experience required. Enrollment limited.

Concepts and methods for analysis of a country's economy with focus on Spain and the EU. Spain's growth and structural change; evolution of Spain's production sectors, agriculture, industry, and services; institutional factors such as the labor market and public sector; Spain's economic international relations, in particular, development of the EU, institutional framework, economic and monetary union, policies related to the European economic integration process, and U.S.-EU relationship.

Engagement with the real world of Madrid through public service work with NGOs and public service professions such as teaching. Depending on availability, topics relevant to present-day Spain may include: the national health plan, educational system, immigration, prostitution, refugees, youth, and fair trade. Fieldwork, lectures, and research paper. Limited enrollment. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: two years of college level Spanish or equivalent.

Complexity of socio-cultural change in Spain during the last three decades. Topics include: cultural diversity in Iberian world; social structure; family in Mediterranean cultures; ages and generations; political parties and ideologies; communication and consumption; religion; and leisure activities.

The legacy of Sefarad, the Jewish community in Spain. Historical evolution of the Sephardic community, under both Muslim and Christian rule, including the culmination of Anti-Semitism in 1492 with the expulsion of the Jews. Cultural contribution of the Hebrew communities in their condition as a social minority, both in al-Andalus, the peninsular Islamic State, and in the peninsular Christian kingdoms.

Interdisciplinary focus on the relationship between earth systems and human activities. Nature and distribution of natural resources, their uses and exploitation, environmental impacts associated with exploitation, and sustainable development initiatives, including the restoration and rehabilitation of the land affected by extraction activities. Water management: understanding of the resource and its location; the development of efficient tools; an associated regulatory apparatus; and economics.

Relationships and uses of oral discourse, art, and iconography in politics in different countries through history. Case studies from ancient Egypt, the Greek Paideia, Cesar Augustus, medieval Europe, Spanish modern empire, French revolutionary discourse, and proletarian national identity in Russia and China.

Advanced. Writing as craft and process, emphasizing brainstorming, planning, outlining, drafting, revising, style, diction, and editing. Students choose topics related to their studies. Prerequisite: 13, 23B, or equivalent placement.