Spanish

This course offers a study of Spanish spoken in everyday situations. Topics include: shopping; Spanish and Latin American gastronomy; popular festivals and holidays; Barcelona neighborhoods; public transport; activities on a night out; activities for a weekend in Barcelona; colloquial expressions.

This political geography course covers the following five themes: space and power; the hegemonic political space of modernity-- state and nation; the space of interstate disorder-- geopolitics; the space of legitimacy-- electoral geography; place and social movements.

This course offers a study of world history in the twentieth century. It explores secular problems of Europe, how to address them, and assesses democracy as a form of government. Topics include: Cold War; golden years and welfare state; political changes in Europe and the US; social changes; youth revolt and women's liberation.

This course examines some fundamental events in Latin American history during the 19th and 20th centuries. It analyzes cases that include the main milestones in the relations between Latin America and the United States between the years 1823 and 1989, the existence of nationalist and populist trends such as the Peronist movement in Argentina, and the emergence and development of guerrilla movements such as Sendero Luminoso in Peru. 

This course examines the fundamental elements to distinguish the cultural biography of Mexican archaeology, its history, evolution, and relationship with the modern world through nationalism and the construction of collective imagination, popular stereotypes, and representations in tourism.

This course focuses on Spanish Baroque art of the 17th and 18th centuries through the analysis of works of art, the artists, and their relationships to their patrons and contemporary culture.

This course studies linguistic variation in the Spanish language, specifically, diachronic and synchronic differences in the Spanish of Spain. It also examines linguistic geography and provides an analysis of dialectal variations of Spanish both inside and outside of Spain. Topics covered include: concepts of language and dialect; dialectology and aural geography, regional atlases, isoglosses; linguistic variation in Spanish, Hispanic languages and dialects, Spanish in America, Africa, and Asia, Judeo-Spanish; history and dialectal divisions dialect spoken in Spain, principle phonetic, morphosyntactic and lexical traits of each.