SPAN20330

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this modules students will:

1.Have become familiar with the notion of Catalan identity.
2. Demonstrate an awareness of social, political and cultural issues related to Catalonia and the Catalan Speaking Territories.
3. Be able to analyse and interpret historical processes, visual and written texts; and social practices.
4. Produce original, theory-informed and context sensitive critical analysis of Catalan cultural production.

Indicative Module Content:

Block 1: Cultural identity

Week 1: Defining Cultural Identity

Week 2: Early history of Catalonia

Week 3: Political & Cultural Revival - La Renaixença

Block 2: The nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Week 4: Painting - 'Modernisme'

Week 5: Installation Art - Metamorphisis by Olga Diego

Week 6: Visual Arts - Noucentisme

Week 7: Posters, photography & documentary - The Spanish Civil War & Dictatorship

Block 3: Contemporary Catalonia

Week 9: Literature - Eva Baltasar's Permafrost

Week 10: Performing Identity - Festivals & Dance - Roser López Espinosa's 'Trama'

Week 11: Memory and Ruin - Francesc Torres' installation art

Week 12: Cinefòrum: film TBC

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

This module will be delivered face-to-face through two lectures, seminars, or workshops per week. Students will be expected to prepare questions or read secondary sources for seminars and to participate actively in discussions. Formative work and activities will be set as practice for assessments, with feedback provided by the module coordinator.

Generative AI cannot be used for assessments. This corresponds to red on the traffic light system: https://www.ucd.ie/artshumanities/study/aifutures/trafficlightsystem/

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback is provided via Brightspace and face-to-face during office hours.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.