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Required for Madrid students. Spain's historical, physical, and socioculutural diversity. Includes a weekend study trip and other cultural encounters. Linguistic skills and cultural knowledge through museum visits, readings, and writing a paper in Spanish. Study trips: Autumn Quarter to Cantabria-Léon and Basque country; Winter Quarter to Andalusia and Extremadura; Spring Quarter to Catalonia and Galacia.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Tejerina-Canal, S. (PI)
OSPMADRD 15: Flamenco Dance
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.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| UG Reqs: way_ce
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Murcia Canovas, L. (PI)
OSPMADRD 27: The Political and Economic Geography of Cities: Madrid in Comparative Perspective
Variation in urban form across a diverse set of cities: segregation; spatial distribution of income, class, race, and other social groups; suburbanization; transportation technology. Long-term developments in urban form and differential patterns of segregation as they connect to political geography. Implications of urban form for political segregation, and implications of this segregation for electoral politics and representation. Comparison to larger group of Spanish cities as well as some in Europe and N. America. Work with GIS software and low-level census and electoral data.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Rodden, J. (PI)
OSPMADRD 33: Spanish Language Tutorial
May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: three years of Spanish at Stanford or placement.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Camblor Portilla, M. (PI)
OSPMADRD 40: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis in the Spanish World
Technical and cultural vocabulary and methods to examine literary criticism in the literary genres, movements, and history of literature written in Spanish. Skills to consider Spanish texts critically.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Tejerina-Canal, S. (PI)
OSPMADRD 41: Dissidence and Continuity: Spanish Theater, 1907 to the Present
Tradition, transformation, experimentation, rupture, renovation, and innovation in the theater in Spain as a reflection of the artistic, social and historical commotion that led to the Spanish Civil War, Franco, and the present democratic monarchy. Ortega y Gasset, Benavente, Grau, Valle-Inclán, García Lorca, Buero Vallejo, Sastre, Arrabal, Fernán Gómez, Paloma Pedrero, Yolanda Pallín or other playwrights who may be staged in Madrid theaters.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Tejerina-Canal, S. (PI)
OSPMADRD 42: A European Model of Democracy: The Case of Spain
Current Spanish political system, its main judicial and political institutions, outstanding actors' and the political process of the last decade. Historic antecedents; immediate precedents; and the current political system and life. Relation between the elements that constitute a political system; results of the process of democratization; integration to the EU.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
OSPMADRD 43: The Jacobean Star Way and Europe: Society, Politics and Culture
The Saint James' Way as a tool to understand historic dynamics from a global perspective. Its effect on the structures that form a political and institutional system, and its society, economy, and ideology.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Yebra Prada, I. (PI)
OSPMADRD 45: Women in Art: Case Study in the Madrid Museums
Viewing the collections at the Prado Museum through study and analysis of the representations of women. Contemporary literary texts and images that situate paintings in the historical, social, and political conditions that produced the works.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Domenech Lopez, J. (PI)
OSPMADRD 46: Drawing with Four Spanish Masters: Goya, Velazquez, Picasso and Dali
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Sanchez Fuster, O. (PI)
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