SPAN 215 Spain Through Art, Music and Literature
This innovative and interdisciplinary course takes the student to a cultural and literary journey through Spain by examining the historic, geographic and generational diversity of various Spanish artistic forms from the Middle Ages to modern times. Lectures and class discussion will complement a wide spectrum of audio-visual material that will show the major characteristics of early Iberian iconography, the Renaissance works of Luis de Morales, the mannerism style of El Greco, the baroque portrait artistry of Diego Velázquez, the revolutionary and visionary Rococo expressions of Francisco Goya, the Impressionism and Post-Impressionism of Sorolla, and the major works of the 20th century by Picasso and Dalì. The course will furthermore offer a discussion of the origins of Spanish music and present various samples of the vibrant and long history of music in Spain from the Gregorian chant and the xarchas to flamenco and regional folk music to contemporary pop music. Completing the course will be a reading and textual analysis of key parts of major literary texts, among them the Cid, La Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes, and the more modern works by Galdós, Valera, Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset, and Camilo Josè Cela. Fulfills humanities and literature requirement