Spanish

The course offers a panoramic approach to knowledge and beliefs of the Middle Ages with an emphasis on Spanish Literature. It explores various cultural expressions, particularly those closely tied to literary production, knowledge, and the quest for understanding in the medieval period. 

This course introduces the history of Spanish literature and the evolution of literary genres throughout Spanish literature. It discusses classical foundations of literature and the evolution of rhetorical and poetic tradition; as well as genre theory, its classical foundations, and its later contributions. Topics include culture and society in Baroque Spain; the picaresque novel; the short novel; trends, poetic theories, and genres in baroque poetry; love poetry, satirical prose, and emblematic literature.

This course examines the complexity of Hispanic culture across two continents. The course is about learning to speak, read and write Spanish by using the medium of culture. Vocabulary and grammatical structures are presented in the context of culturally relevant topics.

This course focuses on various Chilean poets during the dictatorship and post-dictatorship. It connects censorship, gender identity, and different aspects of Chilean culture to rhetorical devices utilized in the poetry. 

This course analyzes Latin American literature from the avant-garde era to the present. It focuses on the Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, the Post- Boom novel, poetry after the first avant-garde movement, and the essay in the twentieth century. 

The course focuses on issues, historical contexts, and social aspects of Spanish culture. Emphasis is placed on socio-cultural issues related to culture and the critical tools necessary for contextualizing, analyzing, and commenting on texts and documents in order to relate them to the most significant transformations in the areas of language reference. The course focuses on the analysis of excerpts of a selection of literary texts as well as documentaries of the time. Specific course topics vary each term. Access the University of Bologna Online Course Catalog for the most up to date topic for the course. The topic for Fall 2023 is the Re-elaborations and Cultural Transformations through the 20th Century and the Contemporary World. Specific topics covered include the Second Republic; the Civil War and the Francoist Repression; and the transition to democracy. The course focuses on how to retell history from realism to postmodernism and neo-modernity, and how historical memory is presented through different genres including theater and literature. The course also focuses on debates regarding ethical questions including collective memory, forgetting and recognition, reparation and post-memory, individual rights, and mass education. The analysis is based on images, sound documents, fragments of historical and philosophical essays, newspapers, and documentaries of the period.

This course is designed for UCEAP students at the intermediate (B1) level to improve, consolidate, and expand their grammatical knowledge of the Spanish language. Class meetings are supplemented with practical experiences where students visit emblematic locations in Madrid to practice Spanish communication in real-time.

This course focuses on practicing, expanding, and improving Spanish language oral production in everyday contexts as well as improving pronunciation of Spanish through listening and articulation practice.

This course offers study of Spanish spoken in everyday situations. Topics include: multi-culturalism in Barcelona; eating at a restaurant; clothing; public transit; health care; and travel.