Undergraduate Course: The Spanish Baroque: Theatre, Literature and Visual Arts in the Golden Age (Ordinary) (ELCH09013)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course studies a selection of Spain's most influential and original writers and artists. The seventeenth century saw the emergence of a distinctly modern mentality as old ideas and beliefs were challenged and overturned. Intense political and intellectual turmoil, social unrest and religious uncertainty forced authors and artists to confront, in startling and often disturbing ways, the paradoxes at the heart of their society: extreme doubt and religious fanaticism, sexual violence and idealized love, rigid order and hierarchy and overwhelming chaos.
No prior knowledge of art is required or assumed. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | In order to be eligible to take 4th Year Options, Visiting Students should have the equivalent of at least two years of study at University level of the appropriate language(s) and culture(s). |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 22,
Summative Assessment Hours 3,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
171 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
70 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
30% coursework (one 1,500-word essay) / 70% exam (one question to be answered in two hours)
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| Exam Information |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
The course has two primary objectives:
(1) to appreciate the various social, intellectual and aesthetic factors which led to the creation of the distinctive and highly influential art and literature (prose, poetry, and theatre) of Spain's Golden Age;
(2) to consider whether there are common thematic and stylistic traits between the art and literature of this period sufficient to group both under a common descriptive term, the Baroque.
These objectives will be achieved via a close and contextualized study of key works of the period, and the course's primary interpretative emphasis is on the non-anachronistic understanding of artistic and literary production and reception.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Jeremy Robbins
Tel: (0131 6)50 3675
Email: Jeremy.Robbins@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr David Warnock
Tel: (0131 6)50 3646
Email: David.Warnock@ed.ac.uk |
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