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Former students who participated in the program
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The city of Barcelona offers a unique
site to study the twentieth century, in both the Spanish and the global
context. In the historical arena, the city has gone from political upheaval
and anarchistic rebellions early in the century, to the fight against
fascism in the middle years, and finally to the struggle for nationhood
and the "joussaince" of democracy at the end of the century.
In art and culture, a walk-physical and textual-through Barcelona presents
a mixture of vernacular and international aesthetic modernity hard to
find anywhere else. Students will learn about modernity and modernization
in Spain in general and Barcelona in particular with special attention
to Gaudí, Picasso, Miró, Mies van der Rohe, Sert and Dalí
in the historical, aesthetic, and philosophic context that inspired their
works.
Knowledge of Spanish at the level
of one course beyond the Span 241/242 is required. Language
and Literature or Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, and Video distribution
credit
will be given. This course is worth 0.5 credit.
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