Learning Outcomes:

The module’s focus on the development of both transferrable skills and subject-specific knowledge is strategically aligned to the core UCD Graduate Attributes: academic excellence, intellectual flexibility, cultural literacy, and global engagement.

On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
- locate and handle primary and secondary material required for the successful completion of a given task.
- summarise material effectively and synthesise arguments to make clear points.
- work in teams, share work fairly and meet the obligations set by the group.
- reflect on appropriate learning strategies and use such reflection to improve their own self-directed and autonomous learning skills.
- demonstrate familiarity with a range of social, political and cultural aspects of Spanish society from the twentieth century to today.
- recognize to what extent Spanish societies are still responding to historical experiences.
- empathise with and appreciate a variety of viewpoints regarding the challenges these societies have faced over the past decades.

Indicative Module Content:

This is for information purposes only and is provisional and subject to change.

Indicative Lecture Schedule
Week 1: No class for first year students
Week 2: Introduction to the module and ‘las dos Españas’
Week 3: Spain Under Franco: ¡Una, Grande y Libre!
Week 4: 1977’s Ley de amnistía and Spain’s Memory Debates
Week 5 “Franco is Dead”: Popular Subcultures and the Transition to Democracy
Week 6 Reading Week (Submission of individual project 45%)
Week 7: Mexican Society and Culture
Week 8: Chicano Art and Activism
Week 9: Chilean Society and Culture
Week 10 Cuban Society and Culture
Week 11 Preparation of group projects
Week 12 No class (Submission of group project 40%)

Student Effort Type	Hours
Lectures	12
Small Group	12
Specified Learning Activities	36
Autonomous Student Learning	50
Total	110

Not applicable to this module.

Equivalents:
Intro to Hispanic Studies I (SPAN10030), Intro to Hisp Stds I (Beg) (SPAN10040), Exploring Hispanic Cultures (SPAN10100)


 

Assessment Strategy  

Description	Timing		Component Scale		% of Final Grade
Assignment: 1000 - Word Essay	Week 6	n/a	Graded	No	50
Group Project: Final group project based on material examined throughout the module	Coursework (End of Trimester)	n/a	Graded	No	50

 

Resit In	Terminal Exam
Spring	No

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment • Group/class feedback, post-assessment

Selected Reading List on Hispanic Societies

Black, S. (2010). Spain since 1939, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Fowler, W. (2002). Latin America 1800-2000: Modern History for Modern Languages. London and New York: Arnold.
Gies, D. (1999). The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Graham, H. & Labanyi, J. (1995). Spanish Cultural Studies: An introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hamilton, N. et al. (1986). Modern Mexico: State, Economy and Social Conflict. London: Sage Publications.
Hooper, J. (1995). The New Spaniards, London: Penguin.
Jackson, C.F. (2009). Chicana and Chicano Art: Protestarte (Mexican American Experience).
Jordan, B. & Morgan-Tamosunas R. (2000). Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies, London: Arnold).
Joseph, G.M. and Henderson T.J. (2002). The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics, Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press.
Knippers, Black, J (2011). Latin America: Its Problems and Its Promise, Philadelphia: Westview.
King, John (ed.) (2007) The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Lawlor, T. et al. (1998). Contemporary Spain, London: Longman.
Levy, D. et al. (1983). Mexico: Paradoxes of Stability and Change. Philadelphia: Westview
Marchak, P.M. and Marchak, W. (1999) God’s Assassins: State Terrorism in Argentina in the 1970s. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Montaldo, G and Nouzeilles, G (eds.) (2002). The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Chapel Hill: Duke University Press
Pelusi, V.C. (2014) Race and Ethnicity in Latin American History, London: Routledge
Preston, P. (1986). The Triumph of Democracy in Spain, London: Methuen.
Richardson, B. (2001). Spanish Studies, London: Arnold.
Rosales, F.A (1997). Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, Houston: Arte Público Press.
Ross, C. J. (1997). Contemporary Spain, London: Arnold.
Skidmore, T. E. et al. (2010). Modern Latin America, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Name	Role
Dr Pascale Baker	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Diana Battaglia	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Eva Bru-Dominguez	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Mary Farrelly	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Monica Galindo Gonzalez	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Ruben Gonzalez Vallejo	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Miss Katherine Gosling	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Assoc Professor Philip Johnston	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Paul McAleer	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Tara Plunkett	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Ms Nuria de Cos Lara	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer

Autumn
Lecture	Offering 1	Week(s) - 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12	Fri 13:00 - 13:50
Lecture	Offering 1	Week(s) - 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12	Thurs 13:00 - 13:50
Autumn