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Religious Studies - BUR 533
Madeline Sutherland-Meier
Associate Professor — Ph.D.-Spanish Literature, University of California, San Diego
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
E-mail: madelinesm@austin.utexas.edu
Office: BEN 4.134
Office Hours: Fall 2018: Monday and Wednesday 1:00 - 2:30 and by appointment
Campus Mail Code: B3700
The Romancero, Medieval, Golden Age and eighteenth-century literature, the Spanish periodical press, disability studies
Madeline Sutherland-Meier specializes in Spanish literature particularly the Spanish Ballad or Romancero and Spanish periodicals. She is the author of Mass Culture in the Age of Enlightenment: The Blindman's Ballads of Eighteenth-Century Spain and co-editor of Leo Spitzer: Representative Essays. Her current research focuses on the Semanario Erudito, a late eighteenth-century periodical, and on the history of disability in Spain. She has collected ballads in the pueblos of Spain and has published on the modern oral tradition, including the Judeo-Spanish tradition. She is also interested in the relationship between high culture and mass culture in early modern Spain. Her teaching includes general courses on Spanish literature and culture, as well as more specialized graduate courses on medieval and Golden Age literature, the Romancero, the three cultures of Spain, Spain's early women writers, and eighteenth-century Spanish literature. She chaired the Department of Spanish and Portuguese from 1993 to 2001, and from 2008 to 2009.
LAS 370S • Intro To Literature/Culs-Wb
GC	(also listed as SPN 328C)
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Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM
SPN 327C • Adv Gram & Writing In Contx-Wb
Meets MWF 3:00PM-4:00PM
GCWr
Study and practice of Spanish grammar that includes reading exercises and guided composition designed to develop writing skills across styles. Students will be exposed to various topics in Spanish language, literature, and culture.
SPN 328C • Intro To Literatures/Culs-Wb
Overview of Iberian and/or Latin American literatures and cultures, including the arts and popular expressions, from a multidisciplinary perspective. Among the regions studied are Spain; North, Central, and South America; the Caribbean; and related areas in Africa.
LAS 370S • Intro To Literatures/Culs
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM MEZ 1.120
SPN 328C • Intro To Literatures/Culs
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 302
SPN 357 • Disease/Disability/Medicine
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM PAR 210
In this course we will study how disease, disability, and medicine are represented in Spanish literature, art, and film from the Middle Ages to the present day. We will look at works of fiction as well as personal accounts of illness and/or disability. We will also study how artists such as Velázquez (1559-1660) and Goya (1746-1828) portrayed the ill and disabled and, in Goya's case, how he portrayed his own illness and the doctors who attended him. Film portrayals of disability will also be considered.
In art as well as in literature, disease and disability are often used as metaphors. They appear this way in miracle tales from the Middle Ages, for example, where they may also occur as divine punishments. In addition to the primary texts, we will read and discuss articles by literary critics.
Topics we will cover and texts we will read during the semester:
Wounded Storytellers and Misfits: Ramón Sampedro, Cartas desde el infierno; Teresa de Cartagena, Arboleda de los enfermos; Alejandro Amenábar, Mar adentro.
Representations of Blindness: Lazarillo de Tormes, "Primer Tratado." In addition, I will share some of my own research on blindness with you.
Disability in Medieval Miracle Collections: Berceo, Milagros de Nuestra Señora and Alfonso el Sabio, Cantigas de Santa María (selections)
The Health of Children in 18th Century Spain: Padre Sarmiento, "Discurso … primera educación"
Representations of disease, disability and medicine in Spanish art
Two exams 30%
Two papers 30%
Group project on an art work 10%
Reports on critical readings 10%
Homework 10%
Attendance 10%
This course uses plus-minus grading.
Meets MWF 4:00PM-5:00PM BEN 1.122
Catalog Description: Overview of Iberian and/or Latin American literatures and cultures, including the arts and popular expressions, from a multidisciplinary perspective.
In this section of the course, we will study literature from Spain and Spanish America from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. The readings are organized chronologically and focus on three major themes: love and passion, death, and the unknown. This course is designed to introduce students to the wealth and breadth of the literature of Spain and Spanish America, help them develop a vocabulary for talking about literature, and provide them with opportunities to advance their proficiency in Spanish in five basic areas: reading, writing, speaking, listening, and comprehension. In addition, students will work in groups to prepare a presentation on a work of art from the Blanton Museum. The work chosen should express one of the three themes of the course (love and passion, death, or the unknown) and should be by an Hispanic artist.
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM BEN 1.102
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM MEZ 1.202
In this course we will study how disease, disability, and medicine are represented in Spanish literature, art, and film from the Middle Ages to the present day. We will look at works of fiction, such as the picaresque novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), which features probably the most well-known disabled figure in Spanish literature, well as personal accounts of illness and/or disability, such as Teresa de Cartagena's Arboleda de los enfermos (c. 1450). We will also study how artists such as Velázquez (1559-1660) and Goya (1746-1828) portrayed the ill and disabled and, in Goya's case, how he portrayed his own illness and the doctors who attended him. Film portrayals of disability--Mar adentro (2004)--will also be considered.
In art as well as in literature, disease and disability are often used as metaphors. They appear this way in miracle tales from the Middle Ages, where they may also occur as divine punishments. Of course, disease and disability are employed to other ends as well. We will talk about the madness of the main character in Cervantes's El licenciado Vidriera and read an historical drama by Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916-2000), El concierto de San Ovidio, which is based on an event from the 18th century. We will also read articles by literary critics and excerpts from The Wounded Storyteller by Arthur Franks and Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor. We will make at least one trip to the Blanton Museum to see engravings by Goya.
Meets MWF 12:00PM-1:00PM MEZ 1.216
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MEZ 1.120
Taught in Spanish. Overview of Iberian and/or Latin American literatures and cultures, including the arts and popular expressions, from a multidisciplinary perspective. Among the regions studied are Spain; North, Central, and South America; the Caribbean; and related areas in Africa.
May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Taught in Spanish. Overview of Iberian and/or Latin American literatures and cultures, including the arts and popular expressions, from a multidisciplinary perspective. Among the regions studied are Spain; North, Central, and South America; the Caribbean; and related areas in Africa.
SPN 357 • Culs In Cntct Medievl Spain
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BEN 1.104
Study of important themes or issues in the cultural production of the Iberian world. Subjects include various cultural expressions and their relevance in specific political and historical contexts.
Topic 1: Hispanic Chivalry. Study of the origins of chivalry with mounted warriors in feudal and crusading warfare. Emphasis on how knights became either the goons and enforcers, robbers of barons, or heroes and protectors of the people with the end of the crusading and Reconquest eras.
Topic 2: Cultures in Contact in Medieval Spain. Focus on the works of literature that reflect the three cultures which coexisted and flourished for almost eight centuries in medieval Spain: the Islamic, the Jewish, and the Christian.
Topic 3: Space in Contemporary Iberian Literatures and Cultures. Studies the representation of space in contemporary Spanish literature, with an emphasis on questions of gender, sexuality, memory, class, and artistic imagination.
Topic 4: Violence and Identity in Early Modern Spain. Examines the tensions between individual and society, between self and other, in the dramatic literature of early modern Spain, focusing on the themes of war, conquest, race, sex, and gender.
Meets MWF 1:00PM-2:00PM MEZ 1.120
SPN 357 • Spain In 18th Century
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM BEN 1.104
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM BEN 1.126
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM PAR 301
Taught in Spanish. Overview of Iberian and/or Latin American literatures and cultures, including the arts and popular expressions, from a multidisciplinary perspective. Among the regions studied are Spain; North, Central, and South America; the Caribbean; and related areas in Africa. Latin American Studies 322 and 370S may not both be counted unless the topics vary. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 27), Spanish 328, 328C. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 3), 370S (Topic 27), Spanish 322K, 328C.
The general description of SPN 357 found in the catalog reads as follows: "Study of important themes or issues in the cultural production of the Iberian world. Subjects include various cultural expressions and their relevance in specific political and historical contexts." In this course, the context is Spain in the eighteenth century. Often referred to as El Siglo de las Luces, the eighteenth century was a period of reform and change as progressive thinkers struggled—not always successfully—to move Spain out of the past and into the modern age. During the semester we will study prose, poetry, and theater as well as paintings and etchings by Goya, which show both the "light" and the "dark" sides of this interesting and complex period.
SPN 326K • Intro To Spn Lit Before 1700
This survey course introduces students to the wealth and breadth of the literary tradition of medieval and Golden Age Spain. In addition to reading texts, we will talk about literary analysis and learn critical terminology for talking about literature. Class discussions will give students the opportunity to practice their spoken Spanish; writing assignments will provide an opportunity to work on composition skills. There will also be regular homework assignments.
SPN 326L • Intro To Spn Lit Since 1700
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM MEZ 1.122
Course Description: This survey course introduces students to the wealth and breadth of the literary tradition of 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century Spain. In addition to reading texts, we will talk about literary analysis and learn critical terminology for talking about literature. Class discussions will give students the opportunity to practice their spoken Spanish; writing assignments (both in-class writing and papers written outside of class) will provide an opportunity to work on composition skills. There will also be regular homework assignments.
SPN 328 • Spanish Civilization
47300-47315 • Fall 2013
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM BUR 136
Spanish Civilization provides an overview of the geography, history, art, architecture, music, and literature of Spain. The course is structured chronologically. We begin with the pre-history of the Iberian Peninsula (the Cave of Altamira) and end with present-day Spain. Special topics we will study over the course of the semester include convivencia, the watershed events that took place in 1492 (the conquest of Granada and the completion of the Reconquest, the expulsion of the Jews, and the first voyage of Columbus), the Spanish Missions in Texas, the Spanish Civil War, and the multiple crises facing Spain today.
This survey course introduces students to the wealth and breadth of the literary tradition of medieval and Golden Age Spain. In addition to reading texts, we will talk about literary analysis and learn critical terminology for talking about literature. Class discussions will give students the opportunity to practice their spoken Spanish; writing assignments (both in-class writing and papers written outside of class) will provide an opportunity to work on composition skills. There will also be regular homework assignments. Readings include selections from the following works: Poema de Mío Cid, Milagros de Nuestra Señora, Conde Lucanor, Lazarillo de Tormes, Don Quijote, Fuenteovejuna. Poetry includes kharjas and cantigas de amigo, romances, and poems by Jorge Manrique, Florencia Pinar, Garcilaso de la Vega, Góngora and Quevedo.
SPN 327G • Adv Grammar And Composition I
Study and practice of Spanish grammar, focusing on grammar points of particular concern to English speakers. Includes oral exercises and guided composition.
Meets MWF 12:00PM-1:00PM BEN 1.106
This survey course introduces students to the wealth and breadth of the literary tradition of medieval and Golden Age Spain. In addition to reading texts, we will talk about literary analysis and learn critical terminology for talking about literature. Class discussions and oral reports will give students the opportunity to practice their spoken Spanish; writing assignments will provide an opportunity to work on composition skills. There will also be regular homework assignments.
Spanish Civilization provides an overview of the geography, history, art, architecture, music, and literature of Spain. The course is structured chronologically. We begin with the pre-history of the Iberian Peninsula (the Cave of Altamira) and end with present-day Spain. Special topics we will study over the course of the semester include convivencia, the watershed events that took place in 1492 (the conquest of Granada and the completion of the Reconquest, the expulsion of the Jews, and the first voyage of Columbus), the Spanish Missions in Texas, and the Spanish Civil War.
: This survey course introduces students to the wealth and breadth of the literary tradition of medieval and Golden Age Spain. In addition to reading texts, we will talk about literary analysis and learn critical terminology for talking about literature. Class discussions and oral reports will give students the opportunity to practice their spoken Spanish; writing assignments will provide an opportunity to work on composition skills. There will also be regular homework assignments.
SPN 385M • Stds In Spanish Lit Since 1700
Meets T 1:00PM-4:00PM BEN 1.118
COURSE TITLE: The Eighteenth Century
In this course we will look at literature and art of the long eighteenth century in Spain. I have three goals in mind:
1. To introduce the students to literature they might not read in a standard, survey-type class on the eighteenth century, texts which were popular with the eighteenth-century reading and theater-going public but are not necessarily part of the canon today
2. To look at how writers responded to two significant historical events during the long eighteenth century: the motín de Esquilache in 1766 and the War of Spanish Independence (1808-1814)
3. To take students into some of the archives at the University (the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the Benson Latin American Collection and the Blanton Museum of Art) and give them an opportunity to work with eighteenth-century chapbooks, periodicals, books and other publications
Topics and representative texts to be covered in the course follow:
• The Continuity of the Baroque and the Divisions of Culture in the 18th Century
Romances de ciego and other mass culture genres (coplas, relaciones, etc.) printed in pliegos sueltos
• The Comedia de Magia
Antonio Zamora, El hechizado por fuerza
Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor, El mágico de Eriván
• The Comedia Lacrimosa
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, El delincuente honrado
Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor, El vinatero de Madrid
• The Periodical Press
Selections from El Censor, El Semanario Erudito and other periodicals
• The Motin de Esquilache
Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor , "Verdadera y gloriosa relación . . . "
Décimas and other verses against Esquilache which circulated in Madrid at the time
Antonio Buero Vallejo, Un soñador para un pueblo
• The Spanish War of Independence in Art and Literature
Goya's Desastres de la guerra
Felix Enciso Castrillón, El sermón sin fruto o sea Josef Botellas en el Ayuntamiento de Logroño
Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor, El gran triunfo de España en los campos de Vitoria
Gaspar de Zavala y Zamora, El templo de la gloria and La clemencia de Tito.
SPN 352 • Lit Of Spain Of Three Cultures
In this course, our focus will be on works of literature that reflect the three cultures which co-existed and flourished for almost eight centuries in medieval Spain—the Islamic, the Jewish and the Christian. For the most part, our readings will be literary and historical texts from the medieval period, but we will also study works from the Golden Age that show the interactions of the three cultures.
SPN 387 • Spain's Early Women Writers
Meets MW 11:00AM-12:30PM UTC 3.120
In this course we will read works by Spain's first women writers. We will also look at two genres which, although not composed by women, feature a female voice and express the emotions and point of view of women: the Mozarabic jarchas and the Galician-Portuguese cantigas de amigo.
The course will be structured chronologically, so the jarchas and the cantigas de amigo will be the first texts we will study. Our first writer, Leonor López de Córdoba, will take us back to the fratricidal conflict between Pedro I of Castile and his half-brother, Enrique de Trastámara. López (b. 1362/1363) and her family suffered in prison during Enrique's reign and her father was executed at his command. She recalls all of this (and more) in her Memorias, which were coposed early in the 15th century. Teresa de Cartagena (b. 1420-1435), who came from an important intellectual converso family, is one of the better-known writers on the list. She is the author of two works, both of which we will read: Arboleda de los enfermos (a book of consolation) and Admiracion operum Dey (a work she wrote in defense of herself after it was discovered that the author of the Arboleda was a woman). We will also works by medieval women poets, most notably Florencia Pinar, as well as works by religosas such as Madre Juana de la Cruz.
We will end with selections from the Novelas amorosas y ejemplares of María de Zayas y Sotomayor and a play by Ana Caro Mallén de Soto.
Students will present informes on a regular basis. During the first half of the semester they will write three short (2-4 pages) reports; a final paper (10-12 pages) will be due at the end of the semester.
Main literary trends and principal writers from the Middle Ages through the Golden Age.
A survey of the social, political, and cultural history of Spain.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
SPN 326K: Introduction to Spanish Literature Before 1700
Professor Madeline Sutherland-Meier Fall 2009
Office: Benedict Hall 4.134 Unique Number 48015
Phone and Voice Mail: 232-4513 Class meetings: MWF 1-2
E-mail: madelinesm@austin.utexas.edu BEN 1.102
Office Hours:Wednesdays 2:00 – 3:30
Thursdays 2:30 – 4:00 and by appointment
This survey course introduces students to the wealth and breadth of the literary tradition of medieval and Golden Age Spain. It is designed for students who have had four semesters of college Spanish.
Prerequisite SPN 612 or 312L.
Aug 26 Organizational Meeting, go over syllabus, discuss course
Aug 28 Introduction to the Middle Ages, Women's Voices in Early Lyric Poetry
Siglo XI: Las Jarchas
Sánchez-Romeralo 3-4, 7-11
Aug 31 Women's Voices in al-Andalus and Christian Spain
Jarchas, Sánchez-Romeralo 11 and Cantigas de amigo (Blackboard)
Sept 2 Siglo XII: Cantar de Mio Cid
Cantar primero, Sánchez-Romeralo 12-24
Homework #1 due
Sept 4 Cantar de Mio Cid
Cantar segundo, Sánchez-Romeralo 24-29
Sept 7 Labor Day Holiday
Cantar tercero, Sánchez-Romeralo 30-37
Sept 11 Siglo XIII: Gonzalo de Berceo, Milagros de Nuestra Señora
Sánchez-Romeralo 38-41; Introducción; El ladrón devoto (Blackboard)
Sept 14 Gonzalo de Berceo, Milagros de Nuestra Señora
El sacristán impúdico, Sánchez-Romeralo 41-43
Writing Assignment #1 due
Sept 16 Siglo XIV: Don Juan Manuel, El Conde Lucanor
Sánchez-Romeralo 44-47; Prólogo (Blackboard); Ejemplo XXXV: De lo
que aconteció a un mancebo . . . , Sánchez-Romeralo 50-52
Sept 18 Don Juan Manuel, El Conde Lucanor
Ejemplo XI: De lo que aconteció a un Deán de Santiago con don Illán, el mago de Toledo, Sánchez-Romeralo 47-49
Sept 21 Review for Exam #1
Sept 23 Exam #1
Sept 25 El Romancero
Sánchez-Romeralo 80-84; El prisionero, Conde Arnaldos, Sánchez-Romeralo
Romances del rey Rodrigo, Romances del Cid, Sánchez-Romeralo 84-86 and
Abenámar y el rey don Juan, La pérdida de Alhama, Sánchez-Romeralo 92-95
Oct 2 El Romancero
El conde Niño, El enamorado y la Muerte, Sánchez-Romeralo 105-107
Oct 5 Jorge Manrique, Coplas por la muerte de su padre
Sánchez-Romeralo 107-112 (coplas 1-13)
Sánchez-Romeralo 112-116 (coplas 14-40)
Oct 9 Fernando de Rojas, Celestina
Acto primero, Sánchez-Romeralo 117-135
Oct 12 Fernando de Rojas, Celestina
Actos II-XII, Sánchez-Romeralo 135-147
Actos XIII-XXI, Sánchez-Romeralo 147-156
Oct 16 Review for Exam #2
Oct 19 Exam #2
Oct 21 Siglo de Oro: Poesía
El Siglo de Oro, Sánchez-Romeralo 159-164
Analysis of poetry, Lope de Vega, Soneto de repente (Blackboard),
Garcilaso de la Vega, Soneto X, Soneto XXIII, Sánchez-Romeralo 165-167, 174
Fray Luis de León, Oda I: Vida retirada, Sánchez-Romeralo 174-177
Oct 26 Lazarillo de Tormes
Tratado primero, Sánchez-Romeralo 189-199
Tratado segundo, Sánchez-Romeralo 199-205
Tratado tercero, Sánchez-Romeralo 205-214
Writing Assignment #3
Nov 2 Lazarillo de Tormes
Tratados cuarto, quinto, sexto, séptimo, Sánchez-Romeralo 214-219
Final discussion
Homework #8
Nov 6 Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote
Part I: 1, Sánchez-Romeralo 219-228
Part I: 2, 3, 7, Sánchez-Romeralo 228-237
Nov 11 Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote
Part I: 8, 16, 17, Sánchez-Romeralo 237-247
Part I: 22, Part II: 74, Sánchez-Romeralo 247-253, 289-292
Nov 16 Lope de Vega, Fuenteovejuna
Acto segundo, Sánchez-Romeralo 313-329
Acto tercero, Sánchez-Romeralo 329-346
Nov 23 Baroque Poetry
Góngora, Mientras por competir con tu cabello, Sánchez-Romeralo 347-350, Sor Juana, A su retrato (Blackboard)
Homework #10 due
Quevedo, Miré los muros de la patria mía, and Cerrar podrá mis ojos, Sánchez- Romeralo 362-363, 365-367
Nov 27 Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov 30 Catch Up Day
Course Instructor Survey
Dec 2 Review for Exam #3
Dec 4 Exam #3
Textbook: Antonio Sánchez-Romeralo and Fernando Ibarra. Antología de Autores Españoles Antiguos y Modernos. Vol. I: Antiguos
Additional short readings will be posted on Blackboard.
Grading System:
Four Writing Assignments (10% each) 40%
Three one-hour exams (15% each) 45%
Attendance and Participation 5%
Plus-Minus grading will be used in this course.
Writing Assignments: Over the course of the semester students will have the opportunity to develop their writing skills through short (2-3 page) writing assignments. Homework assignments will also give students a chance to write, although some of the homework will be more objective in nature. I will distribute topics for the writing assignments, though students are also free to write on topics of their choice. If you choose your own topic, it must 1) focus on the texts that are our objects of study at the time and 2) be such that it can be developed successfully in 2-3 pages. While content will, of course, be important in the grading of the writing assignments, grammar, accents and correctness of expression in Spanish will count heavily. Write and proofread with care!
Exams: There will be three one-hour exams during the semester, approximately one every five weeks. They will consist of brief identifications, short answers, and brief essays. Correct content will be my major concern when grading the exams.
Homework: Students are also responsible for turning in regular homework assignments. These assignments will be posted on Blackboard. Homework assignments are due in class on the dates indicated on the syllabus.
Attendance: Attendance will be taken daily. Students are expected ot come to class, to be prepared, and to participate in the discussion.
Use of Spanish or Aquí se habla español: The tests, writing assignments and homework are to be written in Spanish. The class will be conducted primarily in Spanish and class discussions will provide an opportunity for students to practice their spoken Spanish.
Blackboard and E-mail: I will be using Blackboard to post announcements, reading guides, homework, and other class materials. You should check Blackboard and e-mail at least once a day, especially if you miss class.
Academic Dishonesty: Cheating, plagiarism, turning in someone else's work as your own are serious offenses and will result in a grade of zero for the assignment in question.
Make-Up and Extension Policy: If you cannot make it to class the day of a test or the day an assignment is due and have a valid reason (for example, illness, family emergency, religious holiday) then you may take a make-up or receive an extension. Please call my office (232-4513) or send me an e-mail as soon as you realize you will not be able to come to class.
Students with Disabilities: For students with disabilities, I am available to discuss any appropriate academic accommodations that might be necessary for this course. Before course accommodations are made, a student may be required to provide documentation to the Office of the Dean of Students--Services for Students with Disabilities.
About the Instructor: Madeline Sutherland-Meier is an Associate Professor of Spanish and former Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She holds a PhD in Spanish Literature from the University of California, San Diego. Her main research interest is the Spanish Ballad or Romancero and she has written a book and a number of articles on a particular ballad genre known as the romance de ciego. She is currently working on a book-length project on the Semanario Erudito, an eighteenth-century Spanish periodical. She has taught at UT since 1986.
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM UTC 3.110
Spanish 328: Spanish Civilization
Office: Benedict Hall 4.134 Unique Numbers: 48120, 48125, 48130, 48135
Phone: 232-4513 Lecture: MWF 10 - 11 UTC 3.110
E-mail: madelinesm@austin.utexas.edu Section Meetings: F 12-1 OR 1-2
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00 - 3:30, Unique # of my section _________________
Thursdays 2:30 – 4:0 and by appointment My section meets at ____ in ____________
T.A. ________________________________
Office: ______________________________
Office hours: _________________________
Spanish Civilization provides an overview of the geography, history, art, architecture, music, and literature of Spain.
Prerequisite: SPN 612 or SPN 312L.
August 26 Organizational Meeting
Introduction to the course, review syllabus, hand out map exercise for Friday,
see Rick Steve's Europe: The Majesty of Madrid
August 28 The Geography of Spain
Read Kattán-Ibarra, Chapter 1
Review map exercise
Discussion Sections will meet.
August 31 From the Earliest Inhabitants to the Romans
Kattán-Ibarra, Chapter 2: 19-30
Homework #1: Temas p. 35 #2
September 2 From the Earliest Inhabitants to the Romans
Continue discussion of Kattán-Ibarra
Homework #2: Cuestionario p. 34 "La cultura en la España romana"
September 4 The Visigoths
Kattán-Ibarra, Chapter 2: 30-32, Romances del Rey Rodrigo (Blackboard)
Homework #3: Cuestionario pp. 34-35 "La cultura en el reino visigodo"
September 7 Labor Day Holiday
September 9 Islamic Spain
Homework #4: Cuestionario pp. 60-61 "La España musulmana" 1, 2, 5, 7, 9
September 11 Islamic Spain
Continue discussion of reading in Kattán-Ibarra
Begin Cities of Light
Homework #5: Cuestionario p. 61 "La cultura en la España musulmana" 1, 3, 6, 7, 8,
Discussion Sections: Finish Cities of Light
Romances fronterizos (Blackboard)
September 16 The Christian Kingdoms and the Reconquest
Kattán-Ibarra, Chapter 3: 49-55, Marín, "El desarrollo de los reinos
cristianos" (Blackboard)
Homework #6: Questions on romances (posted on Blackboard)
September 18 Wrap up and review for Exam #1
September 21 Exam #1
September 23 Medieval Society and Culture
Homework #7: Cuestionario p. 61 "Los reinos cristianos" 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
Selections from Poema de Mío Cid (Blackboard)
Homework #8: Cuestionario pp. 61-62 "La cultura en los reinos cristianos"
September 28 Medieval Music
Jarchas, Cantigas de amigo, Romances, Cantigas de Santa María (handout)
Homework #9: Questions on Poema de Mío Cid (posted on Blackboard)
September 30 1492: Ferdinand and Isabella, The Conquest of Granada
Marín, "La época de los Reyes Católicos" (Blackboard)
Homework #10: Práctica p. 64 #5
October 2 1492: The Expulsion of the Jews
Jackson, Selection from The Making of Medieval Spain, Edict of Expulsion (both on Blackboard)
Discussion Sections: See Timeline: The Conquest of Granada
October 5 1492: The Voyage of Columbus
Selections from Columbus's Diario de abordo (Blackboard)
Homework #12: Cuestionario p. 91 "Cristobal Colón" 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
October 7 The Age of Empire: Carlos V and Felipe II
Kattán-Ibarra, Chapter 5: 97-105,
Homework #13: Práctica p. 125 #3
October 9 El Greco
Selections from Lazarillo de Tormes (Blackboard) for discussion section
Kattán-Ibarra Chapter 5: 105-08
October 12 Sixteenth-Century Architecture: The Plateresque, El Escorial Homework #14: Questions on Lazarillo (posted on Blackboard)
October 14 Review for Exam #2
October 16 Exam #2
Discussion sections will not meet.
October 19 The Seventeeth Century: Felipe III, Felipe IV, Carlos II
Kattán-Ibarra Chapter 5: 108-117
October 21 The Golden Age (continued)
Continue discussion of readings for October 19
Homework #15: Questions on Cervantes and Don Quijote (posted on
Blackboard)
October 23 Velázquez
Selections from Don Quijote (Blackboard) for discussion section
October 26 Spain in the New World
Homework #16: Cuestionario p. 91 "Otros exploradores"
October 28 Spanish Exploration and Missions in the American Southwest
Las misiones de San Antonio and Spanish Colonial Missions (Blackboard)
Homework #17: The Missions (posted on Blackboard)
October 30 The Eighteenth Century
Kattán-Ibarra, Chapter 6: 127-138; poems by Iriarte (packet)
Homework #18: Cuestionario p. 151 "El advenimiento de los Borbones" 1-4
November 2 Goya and the Reign of Charles IV
Kattán-Ibarra, Chapter 6: 138-150
Homework #19: Cuestionario pp. 152-153 "La Ilustración y la creación artística" 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11
November 4 Continue Goya, review for Exam #3
November 6 Exam #3
November 9 The Nineteenth Century: Historical Overview
Homework #20: Cuestionario pp. 180-181 "Fernando VII" 4, "Isabel II" 4,
"Seis años" 3, "Restauración" 4, "María Cristina" 1, 2
November 11 Nineteenth-Century Literature
Kattán-Ibarra, Chapter 7: 174-179; poems by Espronceda, Bécquer (Blackboard)
Homework #21: Cuestionario p. 182 "La cultura en el siglo XIX"
November 13 Nineteenth-Century Literature (continued)
Homework #22: Questions on poetry (posted on Blackboard)
November 16 The Twentieth Century: Historical Overview
November 18 The Spanish Civil War
Homework #23: Cuestionario p. 226 "Las dos Españas"
November 20 Picasso's Guernica
Readings will be posted on Blackboard
Begin Simon Schama's The Power of Art
Discussion Sections: Finish The Power of Art
November 23 Twentieth-Century Art and Literature
Kattán-Ibarra, Chapter 8: 206-212, 220-224; poems by Machado and Lorca
(Blackboard)
November 25 Recovering the History of the Civil War and the Franco Years
"Looking for Lorca" and "Lorca's Bones" (Blackboard)
November 27 Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30 Spain Under Franco
Homework #24: Cuestionario pp. 226-227 "El régimen de Franco"
December 2 Democratic Spain
Kattán-Ibarra, Chapter 9: 231-43
Homework #25: Cuestionario p. 254 "El régimen político español" 1-8
December 4 Review for final exam
Final Exam: December 15, 2009 9:00 am –12:00 noon
Textbook: Juan Kattán-Ibarra, Perspectivas culturales de España, Second edition
Readings as well as lecture notes and other materials will be posted on Blackboard.
Grading Criteria:
Three one-hour exams 45%
Comprehensive final exam 25%
Discussion Section 10%
Plus-Minus grading will be used in this class.
Exams: Exams will be made up of brief identifications, short answers, matching, fill-in-the-blank and short essays. No exam grades will be dropped. The format of the final exam will be the same as that of the one-hour exams. Please note, the final exam is comprehensive --it takes in all course material.
Homework: The homework assignments will count for 10% of the final grade. Questions should be answered in complete sentences and in your own words. Homework is due in class on the date specified in the syllabus. Late work will not be accepted without a valid reason.
Attendance: Attendance will be taken at each class meeting. Absences for valid reasons (for example, illness, family emergency, religious holiday) will be excused.
Discussion Section: Students are expected to attend the weekly discussion sections, to come to section well-prepared and to participate in the discussion. If you are ill or for some other reason cannot make it to section, please call or e-mail your TA to let him/her know.
Make-Up Policy: If you cannot make it to class the day of an exam and have a valid reason (for example, illness, family emergency, religious holiday) then you may take a make-up. Please call or e-mail the professor or your TA if you are unable to come to class on an exam day.
Academic Dishonesty: Academic dishonesty--cheating, plagiarism, turning in work done by someone else--will not be tolerated and will result in a grade of zero for the test/assignment in question.
Students with Disabilities: am available to discuss any appropriate academic accommodations that might be necessary for this course. Before course accommodations are made, a student may be required to provide documentation to the Office of the Dean of Students--Services for Students with Disabilities.
About Blackboard: This course uses Blackboard. You are responsible for checking the Blackboard site regularly (once a day) for announcements, lecture notes, readings, etc.
SPN 328 Website: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spn328/
Major writers and works of Spanish and Spanish American literature.
Topic 1: Spain in 1492.
Topic 2: Literature of the Spanish Civil War.
Topic 3: The Latin American Short Story. Examination of the most representative Latin American authors as a course of study in the art of storytelling, literary history, individual poetics, and narrative theories.
Topic 4: Contemporary Caribbean Literature.
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM BEN 1.102
SPN S328 • Spanish Civilization
89070-89075 • Summer 2004
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:30AM PAR 306
Spanish Civilization provides an overview of the geography, history, art, architecture, music, and literature of Spain. The course is structured chronologically. We begin with the pre-history of the Iberian Peninsula (the Cave of Altamira) and end with present-day Spain. Special topics we will study over the course of the semester includeconvivencia, the watershed events that took place in 1492 (the conquest of Granada and the completion of the Reconquest, the expulsion of the Jews, and the first voyage of Columbus), the Spanish Missions in Texas, and the Spanish Civil War.
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM BAT 104
Meets MWF 1:00PM-2:00PM BAT 307
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM BAT 307
Meets MWF 12:00PM-1:00PM BAT 318
43735-43750 • Spring 2001
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM UTC 3.110
SPN 352 • Spain In 1492
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BEN 212