Spanish Culture

Code: LLT10856L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Literature

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

Introduction to Spanish culture and its diversity, through the study of geography, living habits, institutions and artistic manifestations.

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

To provide students with the basic elements for a critical analysis of the most relevant aspects of Spanish culture, in its diachronic and synchronic perspectives, as well as the influence of Spanish literature and thought in it.

-- Geographical and political structure of Spain.
- Lifestyle and habits: music and folkore.
- Contemporary film making and mass media.
- Spanish literature: main periods and authors.
- History of Spain:
- From pre-Roman Spain to the Catholic Monarchs.
- The Spanish Empire and its evolution during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
- Contemporary Spain: the 19th and 20th centuries.

Teaching Methods

--Lectures
- Reading and critical review of texts
- Discussion with the students
Assessment follows the norms of the University and the Department Regulations. It is preferably continuous (2 tests or 1 test and project/essay in any situation each is worth 50%). Students can also sit exam 100%.
To follow continuous assessment 8 is the minimum compulsory mark in any of the moments.
The pass mark is 10 in both regimes.