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Through the study of both popular and classic Hispanic songs, the course will exercise memory, phonetic pronunciation and cultural immersion while also developing a sense of rhythm, melodic intonation, and a love of music and singing. Open to all students; no previous musical experience required, only a willingness to learn and enjoy singing. Choral exchange with a local choir and a final performance. Repertoire focus on learning and interpreting Hispanic folklore, and may include compositions in Castilian, Catalan, Galician, or Basque, and possibly Latin, Quechua or Aymara.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
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.
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.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Camblor Portilla, M. (PI)
OSPMADRD 14: Introduction to Spanish Culture
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 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 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: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
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 52: Revolution and Reconciliation in Film
Using the Spanish political experience in the 20th Century as a starting point, focus on the human and social effects of the numerous political upheavals in the transitions from democracy to authoritarianism and back again. Films about revolutionary change in several different societies treated as the 'texts' to motivate thinking; examination of both the process of social breakdown during periods of civil strife and the role of reconciliation in the reconstruction of societies. Multiple elements of social consequences in political transitions, including gender, children, non-violent resistance, racism, social class, and the role of the United States.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Segura, G. (PI)
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