Madrid 2013 Course Descriptions
MORNING COURSES
Spanish 2002
Maritza Bell-Corrales (Macon)
This course is designed to continue listening, speaking, reading and writing in Spanish with further study of the culture of Spain’s speaking regions. Basic pronunciation, conversation, and structure are stressed. This course is a continuation of Spanish 1001or is appropriate for students who have two years of high school Spanish or the equivalent.
Spanish 2001
Dr. Dolores Rangel (GSU)
Continued listening, speaking, reading and writing, in Spanish with further study of the culture of Spanish-speaking regions.
Spanish Civil War Literature
Dr. Robert Costomiris (GSU)
Students from the United States are usually familiar with the civil war between the states
that occurred in the 1860s. But in the 1930s, Spain also had a civil war that became a
lightning rod for fascist and socialist movements around t}le world and drew combatants to
Spain liom Europe and the Americas. We will use our setting in Madrid, site of some of the
fiercest battles, to understand the broad outlines of the war and then to read some of the
famous writing it evoked in British, American, and Spanish authors. Field trips to museums
and archives will deepen our understanding and appreciation of this crucial period in
modern European history.
Intro to Sociology
Dr. Sandra Godwin (GCSU)
Are you interested in “making a difference”? Would you like to develop research skills? If you want to be a teacher, civic leader, social worker, non-profit practitioner, or if you are “undecided” or simply interested in self-learning, this course is for you. You will learn how to use sociological research methods to improve your skills of observation and self-reflection. All fieldtrips and interactions with others will serve as data that we will analyze through a sociological lens. We will explore the experience of being in an unfamiliar place to help us understand what we take for granted and how our experience differs from others’, and why. Ideally, these interactions will include interviews and informal conversations with students from other parts of the United States as well as English-speaking students from other parts of the world.
Intro to Poli Sci (LD)
Dr. Richard Pacelle
Think of something you did today (and keep it clean) that government had no involvement in. It is almost impossible. Government affects our lives directly and indirectly in any number of ways. That begs an important question: How do we understand government and political phenomena? This course invites students to consider the aims and approaches of political science and how it explains political phenomena. What better place to study politics than Europe and Spain? Many of the great ideas that have been borrowed by scholars, philosophers, and nation builders came from the continent during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.
Museums and Artists in Spain (UD)
Professor Carlos Herrera (GCSU)
Through lectures, discussions, PowerPoint presentations, videos and field trips to museums, students will learn about the history of museums, galleries, and artists in Madrid, and throughout Spain. Students will learn how museums developed in Spain, learn about the museum's mission and diverse collections, about artists and artwork in the collections, examine the museum's exhibition programming, and learn about the organizational structure within a museum. This course includes a survey of historical and contemporary examples of museums, galleries, and artists with a specific focus on museums in Madrid, Spain.
World Religions (LD)
Cristobal Serran-Pagan y Fuentes (VSU)
Knock out your Gen. Ed. or Core Curriculum requirement in World Religions while you spend 5 weeks in Spain! The Madrid Program offers a great opportunity for students to study world's religious traditions in the European continent. Students will learn first hand about religious diversity in Spain by visiting churches, cathedrals, mosques, synagogues, modern temples, ecumenical and interfaith centers, and museums. Students will have plenty of time to travel around the Iberian Peninsula and to experience first hand the Spanish culture through visits to Toledo, Ávila, Segovia, El Escorial and Madrid. Get immersed in the Madrid program.
AFTERNOON COURSES
Spanish 1002
Maritza Bell-Corrales (Macon)
This course is designed to continue listening, speaking, reading and writing in Spanish with further study of the culture of Spain’s speaking regions. Basic pronunciation, conversation, and structure are stressed. This course is a continuation of Spanish 1001or is appropriate for students who have two years of high school Spanish or the equivalent.
Spanish Conversation & Composition
Dr. Dolores Rangel (GSU)
Provides practice in listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, with a focus upon writing, using authentic cultural materials.
World Lit I (LD)
Dr. Robert Costomiris (GSU)
Taking World Literature I (part of Core Curriculum Area C) in Spain is a great way to deepen
your summer experience in Spain. Reading Virgil's Aeneid in the countrythat the Romans called
"Hispania" will come to life when we visit the ruins Roman Segobriga and see the aqueduct in
Segovia. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Spain continued to be a cultural crossroad and
intellectual powerhouse. Muslim, Christian, and Jewish traditions coexisted until the fifteenth
century and their sometimes violent confluence is apparent in the famous poems we'll read
called El Cid, and The Song of Roland. Finally, Spain's region called "La Mancha" just to the
south of Madrid, was home to one of the greatest figures in all of literature, Cevantes' Don
Quixote, whose literary adventures will be a fitting counterpart to your own.
Gender & Sexual Identity in the Films of Pedro Almodovar
Sandra Godwin (GCSU)
This course explores the fluidity of gender and sexual identity as portrayed in several of the films of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. His provocative and sometimes controversial portrayals of love and sexual desire are excellent material for the examination of gender and sexuality as socially constructed. Almodóvar developed his filmmaking skills in Madrid, and the city and its people are often featured. We will view four films: Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980), What Have I Done To Deserve This? (1983), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), and The Skin I Live In (2011).
Arts & Politics (UD)
Dr. Richard Pacelle (GSU)
The world of art is constantly intersecting with the world of politics. We should not be surprised by this because the artist and the audience live in both worlds. The Renaissance was called the beginning of the modern age. The crumbling of medieval civilization led to the rebirth of the human spirit, and art and literature became a vital force in European culture. We will examine how art, understood in its various forms, and politics used one another to advance certain visions of humanity and God, sometimes for expedient political ends and sometimes for sheer delight or glory.
Spanish Mysticism (UD)
Cristobal Serran-Pagan y Fuentes (VSU)
Did you know that Spain has a long history of Jews, Muslims and Christians living together in a peaceful way for centuries? Even though there were some tensions and conflicts among different ethnic and religious groups the so-called period of "convivencia" (or coexistence) has shown an alternative to Hungtinton's model of "a clash of civilizations." The Spanish mystics understood that one cannot solve human problems by using the sword alone. Rather these mystics showed us an alternative path, that of following God's Will, by using their pen and their words. These mystics of action built a more just, compassionate and everlasting peace in the midst of suffering.
Art Appreciation (LD)
Professor Carlos Herrera (GCSU)
This course seeks to provide the student with a range of skills in perception, comprehension, and a basic vocabulary of words and concepts to enable the student to acquire basic skills in comprehending visual art forms.
Intro to Anthropology (LD)
Dr. Karen Young (Clayton)
An exploration of races and cultures of our world and the intergroup relations that emerge from ethnic, religious, cultural, class, gender and other differences are considered basic to developing an understanding of our society. Our ability to observe different cultural entities in Spain such as the architecture, Spanish festivals, theater, the arts and food, daily life, symbolic bullfighting, religious practices, and ties that connect marriage, family and kinship, will help us to understand concepts such as ethnocentrism, cultural relativity, and participant observation. As we broaden our awareness and knowledge of other group’s experiences and perspectives, we will gain tools for more effective intercultural communications, strengthen our ability to interact and work with others unlike ourselves, and be given a mirror in which to see our own cultural group more clearly. Join us as we explore the city of Madrid, and the natural surrounding countryside, people, and culture of Spain!
**All students must take a mandatory 1 hour culture course**
