Study Abroad | Seville
Fall 2023: Academics

Course Code: GA-21: Superior

Instruction Language: Spanish

The course syllabus is structured around the history of the gastronomy of the Spanish culture from the kitchen of the first settlers to today, studying the influence of Mediterranean and American cultures, the Mediterranean triad (olive oil, wine, and bread) and the importance of the Mediterranean diet as a way to lead a healthy life. It is essential that the student has a sufficient degree of knowledge of Spanish to be able to understand the classes which are taught in that language. It also requires a basic knowledge of history. This course is for students of any program. The course objectives are that the student knows the history of a kitchen and an ancient culture, and that this knowledge will be beneficial to your health.

Course Code: GA-20: Superior

Instruction Language: Spanish

Provides students with an initial understanding of the complexity of the Spain of today within the framework of the European Union, while paying particular attention to key aspects related to the Economy, Society and the Environment.

Course Code: FS-06

Instruction Language: English

Explores gender representations (ranging from feminist perspectives, gender performances, or the theory and practice of female writing, to questions of sexual identity, patterns of masculinity and queer theory) within the Spanish literature and cinema produced during the last three decades. Besides analyzing a selection of works by the most representative authors who form part of the contemporary literary panorama in Spain, students will also examine the different critical paradigms and theories within the field of gender and sexuality studies and how they are formulated within a range of cultural texts and contexts.

Course Code: GS-06

Instruction Language: English

This course is designed as an introduction to the diversity of Spain’s cuisine. It is not intended to cover all aspects of Spanish cooking, but rather as an appetizer which will seduce you with its appearance, aromas and tastes, making you hungry to learn more about Spain´s gastronomic achievements. The course will consist of two distinct parts. A theoretical part in which we will study the origins and development of some products and “processes of transformation” of food in Spain. The other part will be practical, and will consist in cooking a series of recipes that belong to the Spanish cuisine, tradition, and culture.

Course Code: GA-22: Superior

Instruction Language: Spanish

Enables students to become knowledgeable about wine, one of Spain’s most culturally important and economically relevant elements, by means of the study of its history, the range of types it has and their modes of production, the key wine-producing regions, its impact on the Spanish economy in regional and national terms, and the recent evolution in tourist-based activities that have developed around it.

Course Code: FA-37: Advanced

Instruction Language: Spanish

Understand the city of Seville and its artistic heritage combining the literature of Seville with the practical art of painting. To have a profound knowledge of a city and its heritage requires a very careful study of its most emblematic places. We choose different techniques: pencil, charcoal, watercolor, and ink, etc. The students pass enjoyable sessions in the parks, plazas, streets and monuments of Seville, the Guadalquivir River, the Alcázar, the Barrio Santa Cruz, taking time to study their subject, its form and history. They will get to know the city, its hidden places and architecture like no other student can hope to do.

Course Code: GS-03

Instruction Language: English

The course analyzes the principal trends in Spanish Art during the twentieth century. During the first half of the century, developments in Spanish Art were determined by a particular set of historical circumstances. After the arrival of democracy it is clear that Spanish artists become more integrated into the worldwide art movement. We have chosen those artists who are representative of certain developments in a key way and through whom, in general terms, Spanish art in the 20th century may be explored.

Course Code: FA-22: Superior

Instruction Language: Spanish

The fundamental aim of the course is to address the issue of persuasion and manipulation as strategies by which the media can "enter into" our minds and direct our behavior. Moreover, what will also be undertaken is a brief diachronic review of the historical forms assumed by persuasive discourse types and, fundamentally, by advertising and propaganda. In addition to theoretical classes, their practical counterpart will always be sought, and in every possible form: class-based assignments, viewing and commenting on video and movie material, the reading of ad hoc texts linked with sessions of commentary and debate, as well as reviews of a further range of texts and items that will be brought into use.

Course Code: FA-19: Superior

Instruction Language: Spanish

Provides students with a route-map through those Spanish movies, as well as those from other countries, which deal with the image of Spain from different perspectives. There have been times when that same image has become distorted for reasons which are not, strictly speaking, cinematographic in character. Bringing to the fore the key aspects of that distortion, while analyzing a range of discourse types in film, can help to bring into focus the role of Cinema as a generator of cultural stereotypes. Keeping visiting students in mind, this course spans a wide range of cultural perspectives, thus taking it beyond the confines of the cinematic and the historical sensu stricto.

Course Code: FA-11 (HispStudies-Sup)

Instruction Language: Spanish

This subject aims to develop the students’ grammatical skills by helping them to analyze, practice and consider the formal content dealt with at this level.

Course Code: GS-02

Instruction Language: English

Spain is comprised of an absolutely fascinating set of diverse places, inhabited by intriguingly diverse people, traditions and landscapes consequence of its rich history, cultural heritage and complex geography. The focus of this course is on learning about the country, regions and the people. In a context marked by economic crisis, the pressures from sectors such as construction, tourism, transport, energy and agriculture, high densities and pressures in coastal areas and islands determines that Spain faces important challenges in economic, social and environmental issues. The teachers will try to provide an open, critical and diverse overview of contemporary Spain using press releases, videos, reports and presentations.

Course Code: GS-04

Instruction Language: English

This course will provide students with the theoretical framework necessary to help them think critically about transatlantic relations at many different, yet inter-related levels: political, military, security-based, cultural, and economic. The first part of the course will focus on the historical context of this key network. The second part of the course will examine the institutions linked to the transatlantic agenda: of a political, security- based, and economic kind. The third and last part of the course will focus on cultural issues, including public opinion and anti-Americanism.

Course Code: GA-09: Superior

Instruction Language: Spanish

Explore the role played by Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the creation of Medieval Spain from the time of the Islamic Invasion of 711, through the emergence of the Frontier and its territorial evolution, to the period of the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, including the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the End of Tolerance, and the Conquest of the Kingdom of Granada in 1492. Likewise, an analysis will be carried out of the fundamental characteristics of the coexistence of these three civilizations in terms of the problems derived therefrom, and in terms of the socio-cultural relations and different mindsets affecting everyday life.

Course Code: GA-15: Superior

Instruction Language: Spanish

A quarter of a century has gone by since the process of democratization in Spain first got under way. There is no doubting the fact that the process of democratization in Spain has aroused a great deal of interest outside the country. Not only has it acted as a reference in the case of Latin American countries such as Guatemala and Chile, but has also come to be a subject of analysis and observation on the part of developed Western countries.

Course Code: GS-01

Instruction Language: English

The main goal of this course is to give students an overview of Spain’s Classical heritage. The course pays special attention to Phoenician, Greek and Roman presence in Spain, not only from a historical point of view, but also taking into account the mythological construction of Spain´s past and key cultural traditions. The course also explores Spain’s religious background, mainly the long process of Christianization of Southern Spain. The course is divided in classes and field trips that will be key elements in helping the student to have a clearer perception of each historical period.

Course Code: FA-27: Superior

Instruction Language: Spanish

Provides an approach to the first modern novel, Don Quixote (The Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quijote of La Mancha), to the figure of its author, Miguel de Cervantes, as well as to the historical and literary context in which it was created and published: the Golden Age. A further aim is to promote the city of Seville as a Cervantine and Quixote-based scenario.

Course Code: FA-08: Advanced

Instruction Language: Spanish

Provides students with a general overview of Spanish American literature including Modernism in Spanish America: characteristics and evolution; Fin-de-siècle Culture and Society: links with Spanish Literature; The Renovation of Literary Language : Poetry and Prose; García Márquez and Magic Realism.

Course Code: GS-05

Instruction Language: English

The overall objective of the course is to introduce students to the marketing decisions within an organization, from a global perspective. With this aim in mind, we will train participants to apply the basic concepts and techniques in marketing, so that they become familiar with the duties of a marketing manager. More specifically, students will be exposed to the development, evaluation, and implementation of marketing management in a global business environment.

Course Code: GA-01: Advanced

Instruction Language: Spanish

Examines Spain’s cultural plurality, while analyzing the reasons for this diversity, as well as for the prolific range of manifestations through which it is expressed. An initial approach to, and further explanation of, certain key concepts from an anthropological perspective: Culture, Society, Social Classes, Enculturation, Socialization, Ethnic Identity, Nation, State, Ethnocentrism.

Course Code: GA-07: Advanced

Instruction Language: Spanish

Flamenco will be broached as a cultural phenomenon in its widest sense; i.e., taking into account the dimensions that links it with music, social interaction, and communication, as well as its displaying of itself as lyricism, while not forgetting its links with contexts related to work, ritual, and festive occasions. Flamenco is viewed as a manifestation which goes beyond the strictly artistic, while possessing the capacity to generate social identity, in the case of Andalucía, on the basis of ethnic factors, but not exclusively so. Students will learn about the key features of Flamenco thus enabling them to appreciate it as a musical language and as a communicative model with its own specific characteristics. An exploration will be made of the characteristics of Flamenco as an expression of social interaction and as a communicative model, while its current validity in contemporary society within diverse social and festive contexts is scrutinized, together with the key characteristics of its lyrics as a manifestation of poetic art.

Course Code: FA-12: Superior

Instruction Language: Spanish

Offers students an overall grasp of how Spanish is structured at an expressional level, while studying, from a synchronically present-day perspective, both its substance (Phonetics) and its form or representation (Phonology). Standard Spanish will be used as a point of departure while, when necessary, on a contrastive basis, account will be taken of social and dialectal variants, together with other languages, especially English.

Course Code: FA-09: Advanced

Instruction Language: Spanish

This course spans a wide range of cultural perspectives, thus taking it beyond the limits of the cinematic and the historical. Movies are perceived as audiovisual works, approachable as texts, as the artistic expression of an author and, at the same time, as being determined by circumstances involving their social, historical, linguistic, and literary contextualization.

Course Code: FA-02: Advanced

Instruction Language: Spanish

In this course we will carry out a systematic comparison between English and Spanish. The emphasis will be on practical exercises that will help the student overcome the difficulties that Spanish presents for English speakers. The instructor recommends that only students with at least three semesters of Spanish at their home University take this class.

Course Code: FS-02

Instruction Language: Spanish

For students who speak American English and who have no prior knowledge of Spanish. Develops students’ capacity to express themselves orally and in written form, within routine sociolinguistic contexts, so that they can come to terms with them and cope adequately with them, the contrast with their mother tongue acting as a point of reference. Enables students to initiate and keep up a conversation using limited vocabulary content, to produce phrases and basic conversational routines in a spontaneous way, to narrate and describe routine social situations, as well as to draft basic written forms, while keeping in mind orthographic, lexical and syntactic correctness, as well as pragmatic appositeness.

Course Code: FA-03: Advanced

Instruction Language: Spanish

This course, both theoretically and practically based, is designed to help students improve on, and take better advantage of, their communication skills (comprehension and production) during oral performance in Spanish. Attention will be paid to the most challenging kinds of issues in phonetics they may encounter, especially within the context of their own performance, as in the case of conversation practice sessions which will include informal talks, explicative segments, and lectures, as well as video-based performances, etc.

Course Code: FA-30: Superior

Instruction Language: Spanish

Aims to present the basic principles of translation between English and Spanish, for which a number of basic concepts will be explained to understand the process of translation. The process will be done in a practical way so that the student acquires an understanding of the phases and practical tools currently used by translators. Two key concepts will be explained through translation: linguistic competence and cultural competence.

Course Code: FA-38: Advanced

Instruction Language: Spanish

Language, literature, as well as culture in general, constitute the key aspects of the identity of peoples; it is for this reason that, in order to learn a foreign language, having knowledge of the culture associated with it also gains relevance: knowing who, what, when and why (in terms of political, religious, education-related, historical, geographical, etc. issues), knowing about (events, developments, and social concerns), as well as knowing how (that same society acts, speaks, and manifests itself).

Course Code: FA-25: Advanced

Instruction Language: Spanish

This course is designed as a way of approaching the world of cuisine and food through literature in different periods and throughout history. It is not intended to be either exhaustive nor all-embracing, but rather a humble hors d’oeuvre that aims to whet the appetite for the great banquet of literature in its relations with food, cuisine, eating habits, and gastronomy.

Course Code: FA-31: Advanced

Instruction Language: Spanish

Aimed at English-speaking students who already have a basic knowledge of Spanish. Its key objective is to improve their communication skills by means of the consolidation of their grammar competence and of the introduction of practical vocabulary so as to enable them to cope with the usual communication situations of everyday life. On the one hand, teaching methodology will be based on the assimilation of grammatical rules and their practical application via specific activities and, on the other hand, will involve the gradual and progressive use of Spanish as a vehicle for communication within the classroom.

Course Code: FA-43: Superior

Instruction Language: Spanish

Offers a theoretical and practical approach to the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) to Spanish-speaking students. Classroom practice will be fostered which includes activities in the class, activities outside the class under the supervision of a tutor and the opportunity to take part of the course in a Spanish school with Spanish students in the city of Seville. This way, not only theoretical content but also the cultural aspects which are involved in the practice of teaching English as a foreign language will be dealt with.

Course Code: FB-37: Superior

Instruction Language: Spanish

Examines the literary richness of Seville through the photographic lens. We will learn about how to better control our cameras, fundamental photographic techniques and the history of photography and apply this knowledge to the myths and stories based here. We will also explore the city and its surroundings during field trips and learn to look at images critically and critique them in a group setting.

Course Code: GS-07

Instruction Language: English

This unit combines a theoretical and practical approach to contemporary photography, paying special attention to Spanish photography. Using slide presentations and group discussion, we will outline an itinerary throughout the main movements in the history of the medium and its evolution until today. There will be practical exercises about each of the genres discussed. The tutor will supervise and co-edit during the course every single student final project.

Course Code: GA-19: Advanced

Instruction Language: Spanish

Students will learn how to read photographs and their meaning in the present; develop technical photographic skills; understand the possibilities of photography as a way of expression and information; develop a knowledge of the History of Photography; improve social skills and group work.