printer friendly pageOSPMADRD 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: 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:
Larranaga Zulueta, M. (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)
OSPMADRD 48: Spain: From Emigration to Immigration or Vice Versa?
Dimensions of recent migratory phenomena in Spain. Changes in past decades from a country of emigration to one of immigration, and vice versa. North Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe on the one side and the rest of Europe on the other. Social concern and public debate resulting from these changes.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
OSPMADRD 50: Flirting with Spanish Metafiction: Cervantes, Velázquez, Fuentes, Almodóvar
Literary theory and critical analysis of peninsular and Latin American texts. Emphasis is on the origins and development of self-conscious fiction (metafiction). Works by Cervantes, Velázquez, Unamuno, Borges, Fuentes, Torrente Ballester, and Almodóvar. Attendance at music, art, cinema, and Spanish novelist events. In Spanish.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Tejerina-Canal, S. (PI)
OSPMADRD 53: Of Dice and Men: Chance, Evidence and Data in an uncertain world
Introduction to statistical ideas and thinking through examples. Heuristics and biases that can lead to inaccurate conclusions. Examples (drawn from Kahneman¿s Thinking Fast and Slow): the law of small numbers, availability biases, representativeness, base rates and Bayes¿ rule, regression to the mean. Also, a not-too-technical treatment of some important statistical ideas in medicine, public health and social statistics such as: trials of life (randomization), Simpson¿s paradox and hidden confounders. Some examples taken from the Spanish media as appropriate.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
Instructors:
Johnstone, I. (PI)
OSPMADRD 54: Contemporary Spanish Economy and the European Union
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Bunuel, M. (PI)
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