Spain

This course explores literature and thought in the Spanish enlightenment. Topics include: conditions and limits of the enlightenment as a form of critical regerationism in 18th century Spain; aesthetics of the enlightenment and the role of neoclassicism; enlightenment reformism in the Spain of Charles III and Charles IV; reformism theater; evolution of narrative forms throughout the 18th century.

This course is designed to develop the written and oral language skills for students at the B1.2 level (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). The course has four specific objectives and employs a variety of assignments to meet them. The first objective is to develop the students' capacity to reflect on their language use, improving and personalizing the learning process. The second is to increase the ability to report on events in a clear and detailed manner while widening their knowledge of contemporary culture and geography. The third is to enhance the students' ability to extract information from news sources and to formulate hypotheses based on their reading. The fourth objective is to strengthen the students' ability to compose complex arguments of a political nature and to debate these items in open discussions.

The course presents a practical and theoretical study of radio production, broadcasting, and recording. It examines radio as a communication medium and the technical components to develop radio programming. Principal topics include the fundamentals of radio broadcasting; technical and operational components; reading and writing; the functions of a producer; scripts; radio genres (fact, fiction, and opinion); types of stations and programming; target audiences; commercials; and selling air-time.

This course explores key social science concepts like integration and cooperation of particular relevance for analyzing specific development problems in Latin America and Iberia such as poverty, inequality, unemployment, rural stagnation, and regional relations among different Latin American countries, integration politics, panamericanism, and globalization.

The course examines the collective nature of social, cultural, psychological, and historical processes. Topics include: social psychology, research, and psychosocial intervention; identity; social interaction: aggression, altruism, and interpersonal attraction; attitude; influence, conformity, and obedience; groups, social movements, and social institutions.

This course focuses on common and useful Spanish vocabulary to follow the development of classes at Complutense. It discusses uncertainties students have about Spanish with an emphasis on achieving a better degree of fluency in the spoken language and the ability to produce texts written in Spanish.

This course provides a study of twentieth-century Latin American literature. Topics include: modernism and post-modernism (José Martí, Rubén Darío, Delmira Agustini y Leopoldo Lugones); avant-garde literature (Vicente Huidobro, Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Oliverio Girondo, Alejandra Pizarnik); thought, creation, and criticism (Jorge Luis Borges); Simon Bolivar in literature; novels of the Mexican Revolution; the Latin American Boom; post-modern fiction (Rosario Ferré, Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Juan José Saer, Fernando Vallejo).