Hispanic Studies FLEAP: Spain 2022

These courses focus on the understanding of culture, and also on the production of digital culture. How do we process culture, or process our cultural experiences, using digital devices and applications? - Professor Covadonga Lamar Prieto

Enjoy your next summer in Spain visiting Madrid, Córdoba, Seville, Mérida, Toledo, Segovia, Medina del Campo, León, Oviedo, Bilbao, Colombres and Gijón, while you study the culture and civilization of a millenary country. This is a hands-on experience: you will touch a Roman aqueduct, roam around a medieval city and understand the light of a cathedral from looking through its windows. You will sit in the same theater that Roman citizens built in 15 B.C. and, on the next week, you will be staring at the Guernica, Picasso's masterpiece about Nazi bombings in Spain in 1937. 

This program is designed for speakers of Spanish who might benefit from a deeper understanding of the Spanish culture, but also for those interested in the field of Digital Humanities. The students work on a collaborative digital production about their experience.

UCR Faculty: Professor Covadonga Lamar Prieto

Program dates - UCR Summer Session A: June 20 - July 23, 2022

Two courses for undergraduate students:

• SPN 103 Spanish Culture and Civilization in Spain (4 units)
• SPN 130 Digital Dialectology (4 units) 

Two courses for graduate students:

• SPN 290 Directed Studies (6 units)
• SPN 291 Individual Studies in Coordinated Areas (2 units)

Why Spain?

A class in Spanish culture and civilization would be better served if taught in Spain. This program is conceived with the idea of acquiring not only academic knowledge about Spain, but also to understand the culture by means of immersion. The local site visits aim to cover the different moments in history and diverse cultures that have contributed to the definition of Contemporary Spain, as we understand it today.