printer friendly pageOSPMADRD 11: Directed Reading on Spanish Language
Expand knowledge of Spanish language by doing research on a specific linguistic topic from any perspective (e.g. grammar, phonology, history, sociolinguistics, dialectology, etc.). A Directed Reading Proposal must be submitted to the Overseas Studies Office and to the Program Director at least two months prior to the quarter of intended study. A directed reading may be taken only in addition to twelve units of regular coursework offered directly by the Center. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite:
SPANLANG 102 or equivalent placement. Approval of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
Instructors:
Camblor Portilla, M. (PI)
OSPMADRD 12M: Accelerated Second-Year Spanish I
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, or equivalent placement.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Camblor Portilla, M. (PI)
OSPMADRD 13M: Accelerated Second-Year Spanish II
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, or equivalent placement.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Camblor Portilla, M. (PI)
OSPMADRD 14: Introduction to Spanish Culture
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.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Perez Leal, P. (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. May be repeated for credit. Enrollment is limited.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, way_ce
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Murcia Canovas, L. (PI)
OSPMADRD 17: Directed Reading on Catalan, Galizian, or Basque Languages
For students interested in studying one of the languages spoken in Spain other than Spanish. A Directed Reading Proposal must be submitted to the Overseas Studies Office and to the Program Director at least two months prior to the quarter of intended study. This directed reading may be taken only in addition to twelve units of regular coursework offered directly by the Center.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 15 units total)
Instructors:
Perez Leal, P. (PI)
OSPMADRD 26: Understanding the Factors that Lead to Pandemics and Their Impact on Spanish and World History
Infectious diseases have had a massive impact on the course of world history. Such diseases can range from local, yet devastating, outbreaks that are geographically contained, like Ebola, to large-scale pandemics that reach near global proportions. Instances of such pandemics include the great plagues of medieval times, the sweeps of sleeping sickness, measles and smallpox, brought on by European colonization of Africa and the Americas, the emergence of HIV-AIDS in the late twentieth century and, most recently, COVID-19 and its truly global disruption in modern day.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Boothroyd, J. (PI)
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. Enrollment limited.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Reyes, O. (PI)
OSPMADRD 47: Cultural Relations between Spain and the United States:Historical Perceptions and Influences, 1776-2
Critical historical thinking about international cultural relations, using Spain and U.S. as case studies examples, with references to Atlantic world contexts, from 1776 to the present. Insights into the continuing social and political relevance of their contested legacies. interpretive perspectives grounded in different ideologies, interests and collective identities within both societies. Introduction to pertinent social scientific theory regarding identity formation, self-image, and perceptions of and interactions with ethnic and cultural otherness. Differences between history, historiography and memory through consideration of diverse forms of expression and vehicles of transmission of collective memory.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Hilton, S. (PI)
OSPMADRD 55: Latin Americans in Spain: Cultural Identities, Social Practices, and Migratory Experience
Shift in recent decades from Spain being a country of emigration to one attractive for immigration, especially for people coming from Latin America. Transnational processes of interculturality, integration and assimilation as illustrated by the different ways that immigrant Spaniards relate to Spanish society in Spain.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Perez Galan, B. (PI)
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