Producción Oral y Escrita (Speaking and Writing Skills for Beginner - Advanced Speakers)
At the basic levels (A1, A2, and A2+) students learn basic resources to be able to speak of life and understand and convey basic information to others, especially those related to likes and dislikes. Higher level (B1.1-B1.2 and B2.1) students learn to understand and express themselves in many situations not necessarily familiar to them and will learn to exchange information and their own opinions using complex language structures. Those academic year students who elect to move to the Hispanic Studies program in the spring will be required to continue this course at the next level up.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
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Nociones de Gramática Español (Beginning-Advanced Spanish Grammar)
The basic levels aim to consolidate and extend student´s previous knowledge and help students communicate in basic situations in their daily lives. At the higher levels, the purpose of the course is to equip students with the necessary tools to communicate in Spanish with a notable degree of fluidity while reflecting on the fundamental problems of the Spanish grammar. Course contents vary per level.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
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Internships in Educational Institutions (Programa de Prácticas en Centros Educativos)
The Internship Program in Educational Centres is designed for university students and professionals interested in broadening their studies through professional internships in a wide range of educational centers. Student participation in the Internship Program in educational centers has a double objective: to learn how the Spanish educational institution works, benefiting from interaction with the teaching teams and the center’s pupils, and the centers benefit from the collaboration and involvement of these interns in the classes taught in the corresponding foreign language.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Internships in NGOs/Volunteer Work (Programa de Prácticas de Voluntario)
The Internship Program with NGO’s or Service Learning and Community Service Internship Program is designed for university students and professionals interested in broadening their experience through the participation with the Spanish NGO “Solidarios” in a wide range of areas (minors, elderly people, Asperger Syndrome, handicapped, homeless, immigrants, etc.).
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Civilización y cultura españolas (Spanish Civilization and Culture)
This course provides students with a global vision and perspective on Spain's diverse cultures. The class covers a variety of topics including an introduction to Spanish culture; distinct cultural expressions in the autonomous regions; universal archetypal human Spanish figures, such as Don Quixtote and Don Juan, the Romani of Spain, bullfighting: the popular Spanish festival throughout history; Flamenco as cultural expression; popular music, gastronomy, sports, handicrafts, etc., of the 20th century; the cinema viewed through time up to the present day; socio-cultural expressions in Spain today (the institution of the family, infancy, the elderly, religion, unemployment, economic crisis, the role of intellectuals in culture, and the means of communication and their enormous impact on socio-culture), and a debate over Spanish culture at the end of the millennium.
Language of Instruction: English, Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Cultura Islámica en España (Islamic Culture in Spain)
The main objective of this subject is to give the students an overall view of the Arab-Islamic world through its history and culture. The program is divided into five chapters that include Arab-Islamic history from its beginning to the present time, rendering special attention to the Islam as a fundamentally religious and cultural phenomenon in Arab history, as well as to the socio-political development of al-Andalus.
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Civilización y cultura hispanoamericanas (Latin American Civilization and Culture)
This course covers the following topics: beginnings of the presence of Spain in America; the geographical environment; the first Mesoamerican and Andean cultures; the pre-Hispanic cities; the pre-Hispanic architecture; the pre-Hispanic sculpture; the pre-Hispanic decorative arts; contact with the European world; the beginnings of transculturation; the colonial city; convent and conversion architecture; the great cathedrals and civil architecture; mozarabic in America; Baroque in Latin-America; the plastic arts in the XVI to XVIII centuries; Latin-American art from the XIX and XX centuries; Latin-America and the XXI century.
Language of Instruction: English, Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Sistema Político en España y en la Unión Europea (The Political Systems of Spain and the European Union)
The aim of this course is to teach the basics of contemporary politics and history in Spain while also describing the main elements of the political system of the European Union. Students will learn to interpret the political reality and understand the current workings of both Spain and the European Union as a whole.
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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El Mundo Årabe y Occidente: pasado y futuro (The Arab World and the West: Past and Future)
In the first section of the course, students will analyze the history of the Arab world from the emergence of Islam to the Iraq war, including the crusades, the Ottoman Empire, the western colonization, etc. During the 2nd part of the course, students focus on the main challenges of the relations between the Arab world and the West. This course covers topics such as the long-term impact of the penetration of Europe into the Islamic World, Orientalism, and Occidentalism, Islamic immigration into western societies, the impact of 9-11 and the Iraq war, and the role of oil and the Middle East conflict.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Canción Tradicional y Sociedad Española: Flamenco, Folclor y Canción Sefardí (Traditional Song and Spanish Society: Flamenco, Folklore, and Sephardic Song)
Through the study of a significant number of songs, articles, and documentary and cinematic material, this course will explore the importance of the old, traditional song in our society. Special attention will be given to the poetic language of the lyrics; the student will be provided with the basic tools to handle this rich material and we will analyze the links between song and society that is its origin and at the same time its end.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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La España Actual en los Medios de Comunicación (Contemporary Spain in the Media)
This course attempts to offer a general picture of the political, social and cultural aspects of Spanish reality today. The idea is that students will be able to contrast the different trends when presenting information and become fully aware of the audience each communication channel receives. The final aim is to learn about the different social groups that define contemporary Spain.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Marketing Internacional (International Marketing)
This subject will lead the student to become familiar with the characteristics of the following: process of internationalization, the market entry strategies in the international markets, the process of selections of the target international markets, the process of segmentation and positioning in the international, markets, and the decisions regarding the standardization and adaptation for the international marketing-mix.
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Cambios Sociales y Demográficos en la Geografía Española (Social and Demographic Changes in Spain)
This course aims to address the study of physical, economic, political, social and regional contemporary Spain. After an introductory theme dedicated to acquainting students with the vocabulary of this specific matter, the course will start with the physical study of the Iberian Peninsula. The following themes will analyze the evolution of the Spanish population in the recent century, the natality behavior of the Spanish and the most significant changes, structural characteristics, migration and the recent phenomenon of immigration. Other themes include the current economic policies, features of the different economic sectors, and the significance of Spain as a member of the European Union.
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Historia de España (The History of Spain)
The most important political, economic, social and cultural aspects of Spanish History are studied: Prehistory and Ancient History in the Iberian Peninsula, the fallen of the Roman Empire, the Visigoth Kingdom, Al-Andalus, the ‘Reconquista’, the Catholic Kings and the Habsburg dynasty, the crisis of Spanish empire and the Bourbon Reformism. Students also learn about late Spanish modern history: the crisis of the Ancient Regime, the Liberal Revolution, the Restoration, the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship, the II Republic, the Civil War, Francoçs years and the Transition to Democracy.
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Historia del Arte en España (History of Art in Spain)
The course introduces students to the discipline of Spanish art history. Particular attention is paid to the artistic and historic monuments in Granada and the surrounding areas in order to allow students to more closely appreciate the history of Spanish art as a whole.
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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La diversidad del español en el mundo (The Diversity of Spanish in the World)
The goal of this course is to acquaint the foreign student with the peculiarities of the different dialects, sociolects, and registers which constitute the Spanish language. Through both historical and contemporary perspectives, the class describes the principal tendencies and linguistic phenomena in the different varieties of the language.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Introducción al Español de los Negocios (An Introduction to Business Spanish)
Students learn about the process related to the creation of SMEs. This course is geared to those students who wish to have a general vision of the topics that encompass business, as well as those who wish to acquire the necessary skills to face the working world. The syllabus for this course consists of three different areas: the world of business, business correspondence, and vocabulary.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Literatura Española (hasta S.XVIII) (Spanish Literature (Pre-19th Century)
The basic objective of the course is to provide students an approach to Spanish literature from its origins to modernity, analyzing movements, authors and works of each period and the historical and social context in which those where produced. Some of the texts to be analyzed are El Cantar del Mio Cid, La Celestina, El Lazarillo de Tormes, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de La Mancha and the 17th Century poetry and theater.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Literatura Española del Siglo XIX a la Actualidad (Spanish Literature from the 19th Century to the Present)
This course covers the highlights of Spanish Literature in the last two centuries, using a social, historical and literary approach: a general introduction to Spanish literature. Romanticism, Realism, Modernism and the Generation of La Vanguardia, literature in the post-war years (1940-1950), literature in the 60s and 70s, the latest literary movements.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Literatura Española (Spanish Literature)
The basic goal of this course is to offer a general perspective of Spanish literature from its origins until the present day. Students will study different periods, as well as the most significant authors and works. Different literary texts are analyzed, and complementary visual materials are used.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
El desarrollo de la competencia en ciencias, tecnología, ingeniería y matemática (STEM) (Developing Competence in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM))
["What does being competent in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics mean? Does it make sense to consider a unique competence covering four different areas? This course aims to introduce and give examples of actions and tasks that provide opportunities to develop STEM competence in students. We will explore, in detail, problems of modeling and some aspects of scientific inquiry","as well as discuss the use of technology to gather data from surroundings and thus propose contextualized and authentic tasks."]
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
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Ciencias de la Salud y Salud Pública en España (Health Sciences and Public Health in Spain)
This course provides students with a greater knowledge of the Spanish Health system and medicine in Spain. Among other topics, students study the Spanish sanitary system, the future role of Spanish medicine, cancer, infectious diseases, the economic development, public health and new therapies of the 21st century. The course includes practical field work and visits that complement the theoretical components studies.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Course Level: Upper Division
Sostenibilidad en el Mediterráneo: acercamiento al desarrollo auto-sostenible local (Sustainability in the Mediterranean: An Approach to local Self-Sustainable Development)
Through revising bibliographic references and local case studies, students will understand the basics of traditional and innovative local self-sustainable projects in the Mediterranean context. Students will also identify and compare the community practices and local governance in the Mediterranean region, contrasting the city and rural landscape configurations in the Mediterranean region, especially those related to the local self-sustainable development. They also will identify and explain in situ the processes and resistances that are influencing the local sustainability of Granada and its surroundings.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Política ambiental de la Unión Europea (Environmental Policy of the European Union)
This course is designed to present the current situation and the challenges of the Environmental Policy of the European Union, particularly problems of enforcement due to the different national interests and commitments of EU Member States. The EU goals and approaches for environmental protection are compared with those of the USA and/or other countries, through discussions and seminars.
Language of Instruction: English
Course Level: Upper Division
Recommended US semester credits: 3
Course Level: Upper Division
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Economía de españa y américa latina (Economy of Spain and Latin America)
This course is aimed at students of intermediate level. It will examine the basis of the economic sectors that make up the economy of Spain. It will also examine the economies of Latin American countries with a marked economic potential.
Language of Instruction: English Spanish
Feminism through Cinema in the Mediterranean Basin
There are many filmmakers who wanted to reflect in their work the situation of women in their country, in this course we will analyze the role of women in these cultures through the eyes of Berber, Tunisian, Lebanese, Spanish, French and Italian feminists filmmakers and their work that in many cases contains large doses of humor. The objective in this case will be for the student to discover elements and factors that affect women within these cultures through cinema. We will also compare the different scenarios of the Mediterranean and we will echo the different festivals that host this cinema.
Language of Instruction: English
Recommended US semester credits: 3
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