School of Modern Languages & Cultures Department of Hispanic Studies

Introduction to Hispanic Studies 2008-09 Michaelmas term

Spain: programme and online resources

Lectures	Seminars
1. Introduction: culture, identity, ideology ~ Ideas of Spain, Catholicism and empire ~ Advertising Spain (link doesn't always work - try again if you get an error message) ~ Ideology: A Brief Guide
2. Origins: nations and languages ~ Chronology and map of language spread	1. Spanish myths and icons ~ The Cervantes Project - texts, translations, bibliography, biography of Cervantes, images of Don Quijote ~ El Cid, Celestina, Sª Teresa, Don Juan, Colón
3. Spain's Golden Age ~ Key issues and chronology
4. Two Spains: the civil war ~ Chronology ~ Guernica: Testimony of War (Treasures of the World)	2. Painting the Golden Age ~ El Greco and Velázquez seminar ~ The Reluctant Disciple (article by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian about El Greco) ~ Of Misfits and Kings (article by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian about Velázquez) ~ Council of Trent, 25^th Session (decrees concerning purgatory, the representation of saints and sacred images, patronage, payment of tithes, the authority of the Apostolic See, etc.)
5. Turning back the clock: Francoism ~ Franco’s Spain: links (Casahistoria) ~ Ley de Memoria Histórica: full text in Spanish
6. Contemporary Spain: roles for women ~ Chronology 1939-2008 and other resources ~ Women and Gender Studies Web Sites ~ Instituto de la Mujer: statistics relating to women in Spain, campaigns, sexist advertising	3. Images of the civil war ~ Propaganda posters seminar
7. Contemporary Spain: social trends ~ Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas: public opinion surveys
8. Multicultural Iberia ~ ArabesQ: Islamic/Spanish History	4. Gender in contemporary Spain ~ Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
9. Nationalisms: the case of Catalonia ~ Comunidades Autónomas ~ What is nationalism?	.

Other resources for this module

Spanish Department links page
General information about Spain (CIA World Factbook)
Country Studies: Spain (US Library of Congress)
The Economist Country Briefings: Spain (summaries of recent economic and political developments; access to some recent articles requires a subscription )
Inside Spain: Authoritative, up-to-date newsletters by William Chislett covering recent political, economic and social developments in Spain
Stanley G. Payne, A History of Spain and Portugal (1973)
Online edition by LIBRO: Vol. 1 Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century. Vol. 2 Eighteenth Century to Franco
The Spanish Constitution (in various languages, together with contextual information)

Past exam papers (Word documents): 2000 ~ 2001 ~ 2002 ~ 2004 ~ 2006
Note: in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2008 the exam was on Latin American topics, since the summative assessment for the Spanish part of the module was by coursework in those years.

M.P. Thompson
Updated September 2008