Complutense University of Madrid

This course outlines the main developments of Hispano-American poetry in the twentieth century. It involves the reading and critical assessment of the work of many authors and themes: exhausted modernism and postmodernism (Dario, Lugones, Gonzalez Martinez, Agustini, Storni, Ibarbouru, Tabalda, and Lopez Velarde); introduction to two vanguardisms (Huidobro, Vallejo, Borges, Girondo, and Neruda); post-vanguardism (Borges, Lezama Lima, Paz, Molina, Rojas, and Varela); on the trails of Rubén Dario (Coronel Urtecho, Cuadra, Martinez Rivas, Cardenal, and Belli); anti-poetry (Parra); Octavio Paz and Nicanor Parra (critical poetry, visions from America, secret realism).

This course is divided into three parts and offers a comparative study of Spanish literature and its relationship with performing arts, film, and painting. Each of the three parts compares Spanish literature to another art form over the course of several centuries and various art movements or styles.

This course provides a study of romantic, modern, and regionalist Latin American literature. Topics include: romanticism in America; costumbrismo (traditional and comedy); MARTIN FIERRO and "gauchoesque" literature; realism and naturalism; modernism ; post-modernist poetry; regional narrative; fantasy novels and stories.

This course discusses disorders or alterations that may appear throughout development-- from childhood to adolescence--, the instruments used to evaluate the symptomatology, and methods for designing disorder-specific interventions.

This course discusses the Spanish economy, its current state and recent developments in different areas such as economic growth, productive structure, economic institutions, labor and capital markets, macroeconomic policies, and external sector.

The course studies the goals and tools of public policy in the economic sector. Topics covered include: economic policy theory; economic well-being; Keynesian economics; schools of economic policy; institutionalism; public choice theory; monetarism and new classic macroeconomics; price equilibrium and employment; growth, rent distribution, and quality of life; monetary policy; fiscal policy; and supply policy. Previous study of micro- and macroeconomics is recommended.

This course offers an introduction to the various forms of territorial organization in contemporary societies. Topics include: the Industrial Revolution and the new European map; colonization of Africa and Asia; world conflicts and totalitarianism; the Cold War; de-colonization and the third world; political transformations in Latin America; the European Union; the current geopolitical framework.