Contemporary Spanish and Latin-American Cultures
Code
711111113
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Espanhóis, Franceses e Italianos
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Pedro Santa María
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Spanish
Objectives
a) To improve knowledge of Spanish and Latin American cultures.
b) Improving knowledge of their historical, social, literary and artistic contexts.
c) To develop reading skills of essays and literary texts of and about that period.
d) Developing skills on finding, selecting and interpreting significant information, textual and non-textual, through transdisciplinary perspectives, regarding the proposed subjects.
d) To learn how to search, select and interpret significant information (textual and non-textual), through transdisciplinary perspectives, regarding the proposed subjects.
e) To stimulate students to read and analyse the texts to be studied and to formulate autonomous opinions about them.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
The student will be stimulated to acquire a broad and integrated knowledge of Spanish and Latin American cultural realities, by means of a transdisciplinar dialogue between History, Art and Literature. The programme begins in 1898, a landmark in the independence process of the last Spanish colonies. It covers the first decades of the XXth century (social movements, political convulsions, artistic and literary modernism, ideological questions) in both geographical areas and focuses on the varied interaction between Spain and its former territories. The Spanish Civil War and the post-WWII dictatorships, followed by the late 20th century democratic processes, will allow reflections on this relevant and recent period of Universal History.
Bibliography
Cortázar, F. & Gónzález Vesga, J. M. (2009). Breve Historia de España. Madrid: Alianza.
Volpi, J. (2009). El insomnio de Bolívar. Madrid: Debate.
Halperin Donghi, T. (1998). Historia contemporánea de América Latina, Madrid: Alianza.
Mainer, J.-C. (1981). La Edad de Plata (1902-1939). Madrid: Cátedra.
Pires, M. L. B. (2006). Teorias da Cultura. Porto: Universidade Católica.
Teaching method
Presentation of the various topics by the lecturer; reading and discussion of a selection of texts covering the topics outlined in the syllabus; Tutorial supervision of the research work related to the final paper chosen by the student.
Evaluation method
final paper and two written tests in class.