Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:35
The course will introduce students to several key texts from Spain. It will also introduce a key question in contemporary literary and film analysis: how texts may reinforce or challenge the social structures that underlie local and national communities. To this end we will study plays, novels and films that have had a broad impact in the Spanish-speaking world and beyond, investigating how they work to cement the cultural values that bring communities together or, on the contrary, lead readers to question and rebel against prevailing social norms.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 2 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Spanish-speaking cultures are often thought of as having tight-knit and sociable communities, particularly when compared to the Northern European norm. However, all communities are run through with tensions and conflicting points of view about what brings them together or divides them.
In this course we will ask what makes a community at different levels: families, friendship groups and neighbourhoods; villages, towns and cities; regions and nations. We will study how communities have been constructed or challenged in Spanish literature and film from different time periods. We will focus on iconic figures from these texts: insiders and outsiders, conformists and rebels, conservatives and revolutionaries, pragmatists and dreamers. All these individuals have particular ways of engaging with or contesting the communities that have shaped them.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 31 | Feedback Weeks | 34 | |
| Feedback |
Feedback will be provided in writing and orally in class. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Understand, interpret and analyse Spanish-language texts within their cultural and historical contexts. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Carry out in-depth evaluations through essays and class discussion of how literary and film texts reinforce, question and subvert cultural structures based on analysis of primary and secondary sources |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 31 | Feedback Weeks | 34 | |
| Feedback |
Feedback will be provided in the form of comments inserted and general written feedback via Turnitin. |
Word Count | 2000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Analyse | Understand, interpret and analyse Spanish-language texts within their cultural and historical contexts. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Carry out in-depth evaluations through essays and class discussion of how literary and film texts reinforce, question and subvert cultural structures based on analysis of primary and secondary sources |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35 | Feedback Weeks | 25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40 | |
| Feedback |
Feedback will be provided as needed throughout the semester, particularly during the first couple weeks. It will also be provided through MyAberdeen at the end of the semester. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Understand, interpret and analyse Spanish-language texts within their cultural and historical contexts. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Carry out in-depth evaluations through essays and class discussion of how literary and film texts reinforce, question and subvert cultural structures based on analysis of primary and secondary sources |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Feedback will be provided in written form through Turnitin. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Procedural | Evaluate | Carry out in-depth evaluations through essays and class discussion of how literary and film texts reinforce, question and subvert cultural structures based on analysis of primary and secondary sources |
| Conceptual | Analyse | Understand, interpret and analyse Spanish-language texts within their cultural and historical contexts. |
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