SPAN 2113 - Contemporary Spain

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2023

Taught through the Department of European Languages, and Linguistics, this course provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Spain through the prisms of history, politics, society, and culture. It is designed to contribute to your understanding of how a modern Spanish citizen thinks and feels in the twentieth-first century. Taught in Spanish at the intermediate level, the course provides opportunities for students to improve their language skills in the areas of speaking, writing, listening and reading. Through this course you will develop: 1) an understanding of some of the most important issues currently facing Spain; 2) an awareness of Spain?s place in the world, and 3) an appreciation of Spain?s diverse and dynamic culture. For students enrolling through Spanish Studies, this course will investigate the history/construction of Contemporary Spain through the lenses of film, narrative, poetry and non-fictional discourses, providing students with the opportunities to acquire cultural knowledge as well as sociolinguistic and sociocultural competence. Special emphasis will be placed on Spanish modernisation through the lens on an enforced single-citizenship identity. Applying pressure to this identity, we will explore the diversity of national and cultural identities (e.g. Catalan, Vasco, Euskadi) that continue to make their presence known in contemporary Spain, and which call for the acknowledgment of an intercultural Spain. The range of topics also includes the traditional role that translation has played (in the First Modernity: 1492-1800) in the construction/emergence of ?Europe? as center. Lectures and seminars will be in Spanish.

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Course Details

Course Code	SPAN 2113
Course	Contemporary Spain
Coordinating Unit	Spanish Studies
Term	Semester 2
Level	Undergraduate
Location/s	North Terrace Campus
Units	3
Contact	Up to 3 hours
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange	N
Prerequisites	SPAN 1004
Assessment	Quizzes/Comprehension tests/Oral Presentation/Abstract for Mini Conference/Essay

Course Staff

Course Coordinator: Dr Paula Plastic

Course Timetable

The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.

Learning Outcomes

Course Learning Outcomes

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University Graduate Attributes

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Learning Resources

Required Resources

- The Spanish Civil War (Granada)- 6 video Episodes

- España contemporánea by Cristina López
Learning & Teaching Activities

Learning & Teaching Modes

This course is completely taught face-to-face (in the classroom).

The teaching of the course is split ito two components:

- One one-hour lecture
- One two-hour tutorial

Workload

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Learning Activities Summary

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Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
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Assessment must maintain academic standards.

Assessment Summary

-Participation ................................10%
-Oral presentation ........................ 20%
-Mid-term test ............................. 30%
-Final test ....................................40%

Assessment Detail

- Participation: Students are required to actively participate in all discussions on the material covered in class and to show that they have watched all videos and read all sections o fthe textbook.
- Oral presentation: The course coordinator will allocate research topics to all students, which will be the basis for a fifteen-minute oral presentation on one aspect of Spanish society of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
- Mid-term test: the test will include questions on all the material covered in weeks 1 to 6 of the semester.
- Final test: the test will include questions on all the material covered in weeks 7 to 12 of the semester.

Submission

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Course Grading

Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
Grade	Mark	Description
FNS		Fail No Submission
F	1-49	Fail
P	50-64	Pass
C	65-74	Credit
D	75-84	Distinction
HD	85-100	High Distinction
CN		Continuing
NFE		No Formal Examination
RP		Result Pending

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