Approaches to Spanish Culture and Society

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 5

This course is a survey of Spanish culture and society from the early nineteenth century to the present, conceived as a reflection on the development of modernity in the country. The course will make you familiar with cultural movements and phenomena such as the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, Avant-garde, popular and mass culture, 'la Movida' or postmodernity; political forms and actors such as the Catholic Church, liberalism, Republic, monarchy, dictatorship and democracy; and historical events such as civil war, crisis of 1898, transition.

The material studied on this course will be diverse, ranging from literature to visual culture.