Approaches to Spanish Culture and Society
Overview
- Credit value: 30 credits at Level 5
- Convenor: to be confirmed
- Assessment: to be confirmed
Module description
In this module we study Spanish culture and society from the early nineteenth century to the present, conceived as a reflection on the development of modernity in the country. You will become familiar with:
- cultural movements and phenomena such as the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, Avant-garde, popular and mass culture, 'la Movida' or postmodernity
- political forms and actors such as the Catholic Church, liberalism, Republic, monarchy, dictatorship and democracy
- historical events such as civil war, crisis of 1898, transition.
The material studied on this module will be diverse, ranging from literature to visual culture.