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CIEE Study Center Syllabi
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SPAN 2501 SELS
Intensive Intermediate Spanish
Designed for intermediate language students, the objective of this course is to help them improve their ability to understand written and oral materials, so that they can communicate successfully in Spanish and face the regular semester courses with confidence.
SPAN 3501 SELS
Intensive Advanced Spanish
Designed for more advanced language students, the objective of this course is to help them improve their ability to understand written and oral materials so that they can communicate successfully in Spanish, and face the regular semester courses with confidence.
Required CIEE Language Courses—Regular Session
SPAN 3101 SELS
Advanced Grammar and Composition I
Students in SPAN 2501 SELS continue in this class for the regular session. This course is designed to give students more independence and greater control over their use of the language. The emphasis of the course is on developing writing skills. Students are assigned to a particular section according to their performance in the intensive language course.
SPAN 3102 SELS
Advanced Grammar and Composition II
Students from SPAN 3501 SELS continue in this class for the regular session. This course is designed to give students more independence and greater control over their use of the language. The emphasis of the course is on developing writing skills. Students are assigned to a particular section according to their performance in the intensive language course.
SPAN 3106 SELS
Advanced Language Skills and Conversation I
Students from SPAN 2501 SELS continue in this class. This course is designed to broaden oral communicative competence through conversation and discussion in the target language. Students are assigned to a particular section according to their performance in the intensive language course. Special emphasis is placed on understanding contemporary Spain.
SPAN 3107 SELS
Advanced Language Skills and Conversation II
Students from SPAN 3501 SELS continue in this class for the regular session. This course is designed to broaden oral communicative competence through conversation and discussion in the target language. Students are assigned to a particular section according to their performance in the intensive language course. Special emphasis is placed on understanding contemporary Spain.
CIEE Content Courses
AHIS 3101 SELS
Survey of Spanish Artistic Movements
Students become acquainted with the cultural and artistic development of Spain and its relationship to the Western world through the study of Spanish art, architecture, and sculpture. This is carried out through lectures, slide shows, and visits to monuments and museums in Seville, Granada, Córdoba, and the surrounding areas.
HISP 3101 SELS
Spanish Culture and Civilization
This class helps students understand the plurality of Spanish society within a historical, sociological, economic, and political context. Through active discussion and writing assignments, the class examines the following important themes that characterize Spanish culture: historical cultural legacy, urban vs. rural, women’s issues, the Church, popular fiestas, social classes, regionalism, and Spain in the European Union.
ANTH 3001 SELS/SOCI 3001 SELS
Gastronomy of Spain
This class studies how Spain's long, interesting history and distinctive social, cultural, linguistic, geographic, political, and economic factors has influenced its gastronomic melting pot. Special emphasis is placed on Andalusia with its Roman, Arab, Jewish, and New World food influences which are still important in the present day. This interactive and practical class includes cooking classes, guest lecturers, and visits to organic farms, oil producing factories, vineyards, and other places of interest in Spain´s culinary world.
CLST 3001 SELS
Seminar on Living and Learning in Seville
The CIEE Seminar on Living and Learning in Seville is designed to improve students’ intercultural communication and competence while studying abroad by considering how Spaniards are different from, and similar to, themselves and others. The course offers opportunities, both in and outside the classroom, to develop insights and the skills necessary to interact effectively and appropriately, and to gain a better understanding and appreciation of the cultural richness of Spain. Contact hours: 25. Recommended credit: 2 semester hours/3 quarter hours.
Cursos para Extranjeros—Universidad de Sevilla
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Fall
Philology
Spanish American Literature
This course is an introductory survey of contemporary Latin American literature. It covers the development of Latin American literature from Modernism to the present. Major emphasis is given to genre and movements in the literature of Latin America.
Contemporary Spanish Cinema
This class examines the Spanish film industry, including its infancy during the Spanish Civil War, its use under the Franco regime, and current trends. The student is given a panoramic introduction to the field. The approach here is aesthetic (film as art).
The Art of Flamenco as a Process of Communication in the 21st Century:
An Interdisciplinary Approach and the Aesthetics of Music
The course brings students to an understanding of one of the most important oral and linguistic expressions of Andalusian culture. It uses the socio-linguistic approach to the study of Flamenco in all its dimensions, from the poetry to the ritual, in an attempt to integrate and explain completely Flamenco as a phenomenon of the Andalusian people.
Masterpieces of Spanish Literature (1200-1500)
This course is designed to enable students to take their first basic steps in the study of Medieval
Spanish Literature. The course begins with songs telling of heroic deeds and moves through to La Celestina (The Matchmaker Woman), a work which served as the gateway to Spanish Literature of the Renaissance.
Masterpieces of Spanish Literature II (1500-1650)
The fundamental aim of this course is to provide students with a wide-ranging overview of Spanish
Literature of the Golden Age via some of the period’s key texts.
Literature and Cuisine: Read, Write, Cook, and Eat
This course is designed as a way to approach the world of cooking and food through literature in different periods throughout history. It is not intended to cover all aspects of Spanish cooking, but rather as a humble appetizer that should whet the appetite for the great banquet of literature in its relation to food, cooking, and gastronomy.
Marketing and Society
The aim of this course is to offer students an approach to marketing and its impact upon society.
Geography and History
Culture and Society in Present-Day Spain
This course begins with an introduction to the concepts of society and culture from the point of view of the anthropologist. It examines Spain as a cultural area by looking at the different periods and regions of Spain, rural and urban; social classes; mobility; age; relations between the sexes; the Church; popular culture; and the effects on EU membership on Spanish culture.
The Art of Andalusia in the Golden Age
The objective of this course is to help students understand the art of the region where they are studying, Andalusia. The program covers art from the Spanish Golden Age, 16th and 17th centuries, and ends with the applied and industrial arts in the Golden Age.
Physical Geography and Environment of Spain
This course will provide students with an awareness of the characteristics and distinguishing features of Spain’s physical configuration, as well as its environmental set-up. With this aim in mind, the course will be geared to introducing students to Spain’s territorial diversity, as well as to the key historical turning points and major topics related to Spain’s physical geography, while also giving consideration to their interaction with the phenomenon of the environment.
Cultural Anthropology of Latin America
This course covers three broad areas of interest—uniformity and diversity in Latin America; methods and instruments of investigation and research into the question of the ethnic national reality of Latin America; and ethnicity/nationalism in Latin America.
The Political Construction of the European Union
This class examines the key historical events leading to the founding of the European Union and how the EU developed with a special emphasis on institutions and relations with Spain.
Flamenco: Cultural Expression of Andalusiaa
This class helps students understand the cultural and anthropological aspects of flamenco in the Andalusian culture. The emphasis is on history, anthropology, art, and culture. By looking at the cultural and anthropological aspects of Flamenco, students will understand Flamenco as a phenomenon of the Andalusian people. NOTE: This class is for non-Spanish majors, and history, anthropology, or sociology majors.
Cinema and History: Greeks and Romans
This class uses the medium of movies as a way to help students understand life in the Classical world, focusing on politics, war, leadership, male/female relations, society, and economics.
Women in American History
This course aims to explore the presence of women within the political, economic, and cultural processes involved in the history of Latin America. The suggestion is that it has become essential to analyze in greater depth the female Latin-American universe conceived of as a multi-ethnic reality. Personal and family honor, sexuality, and zones of public action conquered by women throughout history constitute the subject-matter which will be dealt with. Syllabus content will be distributed thematically so as to facilitate a chronologically-based overview stretching from colonization to the present day, while considering the role of women in the home, within the economy, as well as within the scenarios of politics and culture.
Spring
Philology
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel
Students study the origin and development of the Latin American novel up to modern times. They look at issues that have produced this genre of novel, including Romanticism, realism and regionalism, politics and narration, the Indian novel and its development, and the Latin American novel, including themes of rebellion, liberation, and natives.
Contemporary Spanish Cinema
This class examines the Spanish film industry, including its infancy during the Spanish Civil War, its use under the Franco regime, and current trends. The student is given a panoramic introduction to the field. The approach here is aesthetic (film as art).
The Art of Flamenco as a Communication Process in the 21st Century:
An Interdisciplinary Approach and the Aesthetics of Music
The class examines the roots of Flamenco from its origins to present day. Special attention is paid to the different styles and rhythmic and melodic structures. It looks at music, art, literature, dance, and philosophy.
Masterpieces of Spanish Literature III (1800-1936)
This course aims to provide a general overview of Spanish Literature from the 19th century through to the first third of the 20th. In order to do so two main objectives have been set down—first, to acquaint students with the conceptual keystones related to each stage under study, and, second, to apply this same knowledge to the exploration of four literary works by representative authors of the period being covered in the course.
The Civil War and Present-Day Spanish Literature
The aim of this course is to explore the interaction of History and Literature, using as a point of departure an historical event which has had wide-ranging effects upon Spanish literary output—the Civil War of 1936. An overview of the cultural and literary context of the 1930s will be provided, as well as of the evolution of the Civil War and its consequences for Spanish Literature between the 1940s and the present day. In this way, what will be sought after is a clearer understanding of the contemporary literary scenario via its development during the second half of the 20th century.
Literature and Cuisine: Read, Write, Cook, Eat
This course is designed as a way to approach the world of cooking and food through literature in different periods throughout history. It is not intended to cover all aspects of Spanish cooking, but rather as a humble appetizer that should whet the appetite for the great banquet of literature in its relation to food, cooking, and gastronomy.
Marketing and Society
The aim of this Course is to offer students an approach to marketing and its impact upon society.
The Contemporary Arab-Islamic World
This Course consists of an Introduction to the historical and political reality of the Arab-Islamic world, while underlining the importance of international relations with regard to its historical development. The aim of the course is to provide students with an understanding of the processes which have determined the recent history of these countries and which have lead them to their presentday situation. Specific attention will be paid to those countries wherein the conflicts affecting them have acquired significant transcendence in international terms. Among non-Arab countries, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan will be dealt with.
Geography and History
An Introduction to the Contemporary History of Spain
This course deals primarily with the political history of Spain in the following areas: political liberalism and the system of Restoration; the regeneracionismo, the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the Second Republic; Franco’s dictatorship; and the transition to democracy.
The Territorial Ciphers of Present-Day Spain: Society, Economy, and the Environment
This course focuses on the human geography of Spain. Students look at how changes in geographical forces affect humans, as well as the effects humans have had on the environment.
Economy and Society in Contemporary Spain
This class studies the economic development of Spain from the agrarian reform of the 19th century and its failure, to industrialization and the economic environment under Franco’s regime, ending with an examination of the current economic climate and the limits placed on its growth.
Cultural Anthropology of Andalusia
This course gives the student a fuller understanding of society and culture specific to the region.
An Introduction to Western and Spanish Music
This is an introductory class designed for non-music majors. The objective of the class is to provide students the theoretical and practical information necessary to appreciate and understand Western classical music, with special emphasis on Spanish music.
Cultural Anthropology of the Mediterranean
This course focuses on the Mediterranean region from the anthropological point of view. Emphasis is placed on the diversity of the region and the mechanisms that have configured that diversity. Students analyze the way in which the region uses this diversity to its advantage in different contexts.
Spanish Art in the 20th Century
This course provides a systematic and thorough approach to the developments during the 20th century in Spain within architecture, painting, sculpture, as well as in terms of more groundbreaking contemporary artistic manifestations (happenings, performance art). Key artists, as well as trends and artistic movements, are explored.
America´s Historical Memory: Books and Documents
This course involves the interpretation and reading of documents associated with the Discovery of America, with the figure of Christopher Columbus, Conquistadors, and historical figures connected with the Indies. Visits will also be organized to the General Archive of the Indies (Archivo General de Indias), University of Sevilla’s Historical Archive, as well as Sevilla’s Municipal Archive, while participants in the course will be given first-time guidance in the use of research instruments which enable access to their resources.
Flamenco: Cultural Expression of Andalusia
This class helps students understand the cultural and anthropological aspects of flamenco in the Andalusian culture. The emphasis is on history, anthropology, art, and culture. By looking at the cultural and anthropological aspects of Flamenco, the objective is to help students understand Flamenco as a phenomenon of the Andalusian people.
An Introduction to the Modern History of Spain
This course is a survey of Spanish history from the re-conquest of Granada through the fall of the ancient regime under Charles IV. Students start with an introduction to Spain at the beginning of modern times. This class covers the rise of the empire and factors that led to its demise.
Regional Policy, Economic Resources, and the European Union’s Commercial Relations
Students study the geographic makeup of the European Union and how this influences and creates the differences among the members of the European Union, ranging from economic resources, agriculture, industry, energy, transport, communication issues, to regional politics and the place of the Union in the world.
Europe and the Atlantic Scenario during the Modern Age (from the 15th to the 18th Centuries)
The aim of this course is to provide a broad overview of colonial expansionism in the Atlantic between the initial phase of this same process (the mid-15th century) and the independence of overseas colonies during the final third of the 18th century and beginnings of the 19th.
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