LAPI 928 (PITC*306) Franco’s Spain: An Open Wound

Division of Liberal Arts

3 credits 45.0 hours
900 level undergraduate course

Spanish history from 1700 to the present, focusing most heavily on the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975). Students learn about the War of Spanish Succession (1702-1713), the Bourbon Monarchy and Eighteenth Century Reforms (1700-1808), the Peninsular War (1808-1814), the turbulent 19th century, the First Republic (1873-74), the military dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923-1930), the Second Republic (1831-36), the transition to democracy (1975-1978), and Spain since the death of Franco. Students also discuss Spanish poetry (Miguel de Unamuno), art (Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, and Pablo Picasso), novels and plays (Hemingway’s ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ and Lora’s ‘Yerma’), and memoirs about the Spanish Civil War (George Orwell’s ‘Homage to Catalonia’).

Prerequisites LACR*210 or one HUMS course

This course is not repeatable for credit.