History of Spanish Culture

Code:

LLC051

Acronym:

HCE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Cultural Studies - Hispanic

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LLC	13	LLC - Monodisciplinary Study Plan	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Portuguese Studies)	3	-	6	52	162
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Two Foreign Languages)	2	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Spanish
Obs.: Spanish

Objectives

The main purpose of this course unit is to offer students an overview and an overall view of the Spanish history, culture, and civilisation, promoting their approach to the different geographic, historical, linguistic, cultural, and artistic aspects that have shaped the Spain image as a country between the prehistory Era and the beginning of Modern Era.

The syllabus begins with a brief review of Spain history that is intended to provide a general reference framework for students facilitating the understanding of the various civilizational contents that will be taught throughout the semester. “Civilisation” means both the lifestyle and the society (economy, politics, religion, historical nationalities, linguistic variety), and the various forms of artistic expression (painting, architecture, sculpture, philosophy, literature and music).  

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the semester, the students should be able to:

- Recognise the main events and architects of Spain history from the prehistory Era to the beginning of Modern Era.

- Understand the complexity of the historical processes, which led to the shape of Spain as a multinational and multilingual country, rejecting simplifying and deterministic explanations.    

- Interrelate relevant historical episodes with reference artistic-cultural manifestations.

- Identify the several stages of the Spanish language history and the main linguistic phenomena that characterise them.   

- Establish fundamental relationships between the development of the socio-economic structures, the political life, and the mentalities at every stage of the Spain history addressed in the course unit.  

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Bearing in mind that the contents will be taught in Spanish language it is desirable that the students have at least a B1 level of linguistic competence in Spanish.   

Program

Spain, cultures and peoples amalgam: history of Spain from the prehistory Era to the beginning of Modern Era. Civilisations and religious coexistence.

- The three religions and the three cultures that marked the lifestyle in the embryonic Spain: Jewish, Arab, and Christian religions and cultures.

- Regions, nationalities, traditions, symbols, and identities of Spain over the centuries.  

- History of Spanish language: its origin and development. First written manifestations.

- History of the peninsular multilingualism: Galician, Catalan, and Basque: their origin and development;

- Spain through art: cultural manifestations, modernisation, forms of expression, class consciousness, and moral crisis through painting, sculpture, architecture, philosophy, music, and cinema. 

Mandatory literature

García de Cortázar, Fernando; Breve historia de la cultura en España, Planeta, 2010. ISBN: 978-84-08-09032-8
García de Cortázar, Fernando; Historia de España desde el Arte, Planeta, 2007. ISBN: 978-84-08-07458-8
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo; Una historia de España, Alfaguara, 2019. ISBN: 978-84-2043-817-7
Quesada Marco, Sebastián; Historia del pensamiento español, Edelsa, 2016. ISBN: 978-84-9081-804-6
Eslava Galán, Juan; Historia de España contada para escépticos, Planeta, 2005. ISBN: 978-84-08-04475-3
Lapesa, Rafael; Historia de la lengua española, Gredos, 1981. ISBN: 978-84-249-0072-3
Entwistle, William James; Las lenguas de España: castellano, catalán, vasco y gallego-portugués, Istmo, 1995. ISBN: 978-84-709-0018-1

Complementary Bibliography

García de Cortázar, Fernando; Historia de España: de Atapuerca al Estatut, Booket, 2007. ISBN: 978-84-08-07197-6
Vidal, César; Vidal, Lara; Camino hacia la cultura española, Planeta, 2011. ISBN: 978-84-08-10201-4
Etxebarría Arostegui, Maitena; La diversidad de las lenguas en España, Espasa Fórum, 2002. ISBN: 978-84-670-0313-0

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical-practical classes with PowerPoint, Prezi, or similar presentations; various exercises of knowledge understanding, assimilation, and expansion; use of technological tools; reading of textual fragments; brief text comments; visualisation of cultural products (documentaries, films, news, etc.) in audio-visual format; lessons of tutorial orientation;  provision of the theoretical and exercises to the students through the Sigarra platform.

Software

www.rtve.es

keywords

Humanities

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Exame	70,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	73,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho de investigação	35,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

The class attendance is not mandatory for the students enrolled in this class. Nevertheless, the accomplishment of the oral presentation and the written test is compulsory to pass this subject.

Calculation formula of final grade

Written exam: 70%

Written assignment (in pairs of students) with subsequent oral presentation in the classroom: 30%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.

Classification improvement

The improvement of classification is only provided for the written test.

Observations

All information needed to complete this class (methods and assessment procedures)  will be handed in throughout the first class sessions and will be available online.

Students do not need to get a minimum mark in the exam for the mark obtained in the written assigment to be added.