Spring 2008
SPN 328 • Spanish Civilization
| Unique | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
| 48215 to 48230 | Multiple Sections |
|
HARNEY | |
Course Description
This course distinguishes between Spanish Culture and Spanish Civilization. The former implies both ethnographic cohesion and collective aesthetic production. This course is mostly not about that. It's about the second term. And CIVILIZATION mainly implies social, political, and economic history, nation-state history, and the expansions and contractions of a given national community which is self-defined as "civilized". This entity is in confrontation, competition, or collaboration with other analogous national entities.
This course is about a particular specimen of one of these civilization-entities: the one founded in and operating out of the Iberian Peninsula, and known to history as "Spain" and "Spanish Civilization."
Grading Policy
Worksheets (10%) 2 quizzes @ 2.5% each (5%) Midterm (15%) Prospectus to final paper (250 words) (5%) 8-page (2000-word) final paper (25%) Final exam (40%)
Texts
Civilización y cultura de España. Vicente Cantarino. Prentice Hall, 1999 Handouts, lists, etc., distributed in class or as e-mail attachments.
