SPAN 312 Topics in Spanish Peninsular Culture

A study of various topics in Spanish culture that shaped or represented national, regional, and European identities in Spain. Topics may include the political, religious, literary, and artistic expression in Spain during the Arab occupation, the reconquest and unification, the colonization of the Americas, the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasties, the crisis of 1898, the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the Civil War, the Franco regime, and post-Franco Spain.