Winter semester Spanish philology courses offered to
Erasmus/exchange students (all taught in Spanish)
Asignaturas de filologia española enseñadas en el
semestre de invierno que puedan ser de interés para
los estudiantes de Erasmus (dictadas en español)
Course
KRS/LI19S 19th Century Spanish Literature
KRS/L20S1 20th Century Spanish Literature
KRS/KLITS Chapters on Spanish Literature
Course description
The aim of this course is to obtain the fundamental overview
of Spanish literature in the 19h century. The reading of eight
books(at least for in Spanish) is required. The basic topics
are: romanticism, romantic theater and poetry, costumbrism,
post-romanticism (A. Bécquer, R. de Castro), transition to
realism F. Caballero, La Gaviota), realism (Pereda, Alarcón,
Valera), naturalisms (Clarín, E. Pardo Bazán, V. Blasco
Ibánez), Galdós. Part of the seminar is dedicated to the
translations of the texts written by the most important
representatives.
These topics will be studied: Generation of '98 and their most
significant representatives: Unamuno Azorín, Baroja, Maeztu,
Generation of so-called sons and grandsons of that
generation(Ortega y Gasset), Modernism in Spanish
literature, Generation of '27 and their avant-garde poetry,
literature of the civil war 1936-39, drama( Lorca, Casona a
Maxem Aub) and contemporary poetry and drama. The
lecture is accompanied with the seminar in which original
texts are read and commented and the most important
books are analyzed according to the recommended
literature.
Facultative lecture for all students is dedicated to
enlarge the knowledge of significant kinds and
characters of Spanish literature: especially romancero
esp., cuento medieval, drama del Siglo de Oro,
Calderón de la Barca, Galdós, Unamuno, Delibes.
Taught in Spanish. Selected chapters could be
conceived according to the students interests or
significant actualization. For example anniversaries of
famous literary personalities (e.g. Federico García
Lorca, Francisco Ayala, Luis de Góngora and the their
influence on the literary production of following
generation of Spanish poets) or generation (e.g.
Generation of 27, Generation of 98 and their
influence on novel production after Spanish civil war.
KRS/L19HA Latin American Literature 1
KRS/HAL2 Latin American Literature 2
KRS/HAL3 Latin American Literature 3
The theme of the course is the development of the SpanishAmerican literary tradition from the first contact with the
indigenous pre-Columbian cultures with Spanish culture
(hence European) in the late 15th century to the turn of the
19th and 20th century. The aim of the lectures / seminars will
be to present literary works in close relation with the
dynamics of historical, cultural and social events of the
period and detect the way in which these events reflect the
choice of genre and literary language of the studied works.
After a period of military and religious subjugation of the
American continent, which is reflected in the chronicles of
the 16th and early 17th century, the course focuses on the
colonial period represented in the 17th century in Baroque
poetry by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. The following period of
struggles for independence and the formation of new
Spanish-American states is analyzed mainly in connection
with great Argentinean theme of the 19th century - a clash
between civilization and barbarism. This theme is also
reflected in gaucho poetry. Turn of the 19th and 20th
century, coupled with the collapse of the last remnants of
Spanish colonial rule in Latin America forms the historical
context for analysis of Spanish-American modernism, when
the Spanish-language literature on the American continent
breaks out from Europe's literary influence and, on the
contrary, it alone affects Spanish / European literature.
This course is focused on the literary and extra-literary
aspects of magical realism and the literature of the Latin
American BOOM. Short stories and novels by authors as
Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García
Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes and Julio
Cortázar are analysed.
The course familiarizes students with main trends in Hispanic
American literature from 70s to 90s of the 20th century. The
goal is to cover important part of Hispanic American
literature and define it in key components: postboom,
postmodernism, political novel, new historical novel. The
main stress is put on the political aspect of contemporary
novel which is related with situations in particular regions of
Hispanic America. In extra-literary terms we will be focused
on the relation of literature and politics, in other words, the
problem of freedom (both citizen and artistic)and the level of
engagement of Hispanic American writers in the context of
imported ideologies across the political spectrum, all that
with the background of the most important political Hispanic
American battlegrounds of the late 20th century, especially
in Argentina (problem of peronism, military junta), in Chile (S.
Allende vs. A. Pinochet) and in Cuba (Castro's revolution and
its influence on Latin American events). In literary terms, we
will delimit literary context in which all the analyzed works
were written. Our interpretation will be based on the tight
relation of politics and literature with an attempt to prove
that political events in the region influenced narrative
strategies and discourse modes.
KRS/DKS1 Spanish History and Culture 1
The aim of this course is: a) to learn a general knowledge
about Spanish history, geography and culture, b) to develop
attitudes and skills on how to work and think as historian (in
the field of philology), c) to understand the process of change
and continuity in the Spanish society. Description and
analysis of the development of Spanish society from the first
societies till the 16th century. The emphasis is put on the
political economical and social factors and on the culture,
traditions and art.
KRS/KDS1 Chapters on Spanish History 1
This course reinforces the knowledge of specific and essential
terms to the Spanish studies, as history, politics, economy,
tourism, art and culture. Above all it reinforces the
knowledge of history and certain chapters of the Spanish
history that can explain the Spain of today, and thus to help
the student to project the knowledge to their thesis, or to
their professional future in the field of teaching, tourism,
diplomacy or translation.
KRS/DKLA1 History and Culture of Latin
America 1
The course is dedicated to the following topics:
- The first inhabitants of the American continent and their
first culture (Olmec, Teotihuacan, Tiahuanaco, Chavin, Nazca,
Moche).
- Large pre-Columbian cultures (Mayans, Aztecs, Incas).
- Meeting-conflict of Old and New World: discovery and
Conquest (destruction of the pre-Columbian cultures, the
emergence of Western civilization and its consequences).
- Colonies: a process called mestizaje, cultural syncretism,
colonial architecture, art, and literature).
- The fight for independence: conflict between the Creoles
and so called peninsulares, their political, economic, social
and cultural consequences.
- The birth of Latin American countries: complex and
complicated emergence of new political, economic, social
and cultural structures, construction of new national
identities of the emerging state units.
KRS/VJSPJ History of Spanish Language
The course deals with attention to the following topics:
development of vocals and consonants (palatalization,
lenization), the effect of iod and wau on the consonants and
vocals, the development of the verb, the disappearance of
lat. declination, the emergence of artical and changes in the
system of pronouns. Much attention is devoted to medieval
Spanish (phonological and grammatical differences from
modern languages) and comments of medieval texts.
KRS/VKSJ1 Chapters on Spanish Language
1. Sociolinguistics, its origins and development, related
disciplines (linguistic anthropology/ethnolinguistics,
psycholinguistics, sociology of language), the relationship
with dialectology, the most important sociolinguists in the
Spanish-speaking world.
2. Object of study of sociolinguistics and sociology of
language. Sociological classification of languages.
3. Basic concepts of sociolinguistics. Language and speech
communities. Social stratification of languages.
4. Variation in language. Linguistic variables.
5. Social variables (age, gender, socio-cultural factors,
ethnicity, origin, social networks).
6. Language attitudes. Language prestige.
7. Bilingualism and diglossia. Bilingual education. Examples
from the Hispanic world.
8. Language maintanance, language shift, language death.
Linguistic identity. Examples from the Hispanic world.
9. Languages in contact. The effects of language contact on
individual varieties of Spanish.
10. Pidgins, creole and mixed languages in the Hispanic area.
11. Language planning. Language policies in the Hispanic area
12. Methods of sociolinguistic research.
KRS/LESP Spanish lexicology
The course focuses on the following topics: the formation of
words in Spanish, anglicism, phraseology (types of
phraseological units, their common characteristics and
differences), the metaphorical nature of vocabulary and
phraseology, the analysis of metaphors used in political
discourse, lexical system from the perspective of cognitive
linguistics, the foundations of Lexicography (macrostructure
and microstructure of dictionaries, typology, ideology in
dictionaries), the theory of semantic fields, and its modern
development. During the semester, students develop a series
of separate tasks in the field of word formation and anglicism
on the basis of electronic language corpus CREA and CORDE.
Independent work with media texts is often used when
examining the metaphors.
KRS/FOS Phraseology and the Image of
the World
The following thematic sections will be covered in the course:
1. Phraseology and its historical development
2. Image of the world and its historical development
3. Basics and theory of phraseology by the principles of
cognitive linguistics (and cognitive grammar)
4. How and to what extent is the image of the world of
speakers of a particular language reflected in phraseology
(comparative analysis of Czech, Spanish, English and German)
5. Contributions of this discipline to practical studies, such as
teaching of foreign languages, translations, international
relations, etc.
6. Comparative phraseological study of particular semantic
areas (such as parts of body, animals, plants, feelings of hot
or cold, etc.) according to the languages the students
participating in the seminar know
KRS/AD1 Discourse analysis 1
The following thematic sections will be covered in the course:
1. Phraseology and its historical development
2. Image of the world and its historical development
3. Basics and theory of phraseology by the principles of
cognitive linguistics (and cognitive grammar)
4. How and to what extent is the image of the world of
speakers of a particular language reflected in phraseology
(comparative analysis of Czech, Spanish, English and German)
5. Contributions of this discipline to practical studies, such as
teaching of foreign languages, translations, international
relations, etc.
6. Comparative phraseological study of particular semantic
areas.
Summer semester Spanish philology courses offered
to Erasmus/exchange students (all taught in Spanish)
Asignaturas de filologia española enseñadas en el
semestre de verano que puedan ser de interés para
los estudiantes de Erasmus (dictadas en español)
Course
Course description
KRS/SLSTOld Spanish Literature 1 (Medieval
Period)
This course is focused on Spanish literature from the
12th to the 15th century. The seminar is based on
commented reading of medieval texts in original
version.
KRS/SLZV Old Spanish Literature 2 (the
Golden Age)
The course is dedicated to the so called Golden Age of
Spanish literature. Special attention is paid to the
political, cultural and literary context of Humanism,
Renaissance and Baroque. Supreme artistic concepts of
culteranism and conceptism are analyzed.
KRS/HAL1 Latin American Literature1
The course is focused on Latin American literature of
the first half of 20th century: Modernism, new
structure tendencies of realistic novels and short
stories, and special attention is dedicated to the
vanguard of Jorge Luis Borges.
KRS/SALITContemporary Argentinean
Literature
KRS/SMLITContemporary Mexican
Literature
The course is dedicated to the 20th century
Argentinean literature. Special attention is given
to the period from the 1970s to the 1990s which
was strongly affected by the return of Peronism,
by the bloody dictatorship of the military juntas
(1976-1983) and by the political, economical and
cultural development after the onset of the
democracy. Analysis will be oriented on narrative
strategies or poetics of the most important
authors of the period, who were faced with
forced or voluntary exile and censure.
The course is focused on the relationship between
fiction and history in the contemporary Mexican prose
(short story, novel, essay, chronicle, testimony). On
extra-literary level, the students discuss the most
important conditions that affect the Mexican literary
production in the second half of the 20th century, i.e.
the key moments of Mexican history, socio-economic
changes, cultural development in Mexico and the role
of Mexican intellectuals in this context (mainly in the
period of the Mexican Revolution, the Cristero wars,
the post-revolutionary cultural nationalism and the
period of strong economic growth in the 1950s-1960s).
On literary level, students familiarize themselves with
the overall renewal of the Latin American novel by the
middle of the century (genres, narrative modes and
choice of literary language) and with the importance of
the search for national identity reflected in the studied
works.
KRS/LCHChicana/o Literature
The goal of the course is to familiarize students with
the the basic literary texts and historical, social and
cultural context of the Chicana/o and Latina/o
literature.
KRS/DKS2 Spanish History and Culture 2
Description and analysis of the development of Spanish
society from 19th century till today.
KRS/SSPIContemporary Spain and Spanish
Identity
The goal of this course is to obtain cultural, historical a
geographical overview of the Spanish society. It will
make students acquainted with the way of life,
traditions, art, myths, social problems and conflicts, and
many secrets hidden and rooted into the Spanish
culture.
KRS/DKLA2 History and Culture of Latin
America 2
Description and analysis of the development of Latin
American society from the mid 19th century to the
present day. Besides the political, economic and social
factors, attention is paid to culture as well. Discussion is
focused on the Mexican revolution, the Cuban
revolution, the Student movement of 1968 in Mexico
and Peronism and military juntas in Argentina.
KRS/IJLAMIndian Languages of Latin
America
The course objective is to expand knowledge of the
linguistic diversity of Latin America, of the influence
indigenous languages have on local varieties of Spanish,
and of the linguistic theories with introduction to
typologically different languages. Attention is also paid
to the current status of indigenous languages and
language policies in different Latin American countries.
KRS/DIALDialectology of Spain and Latin
America
The course is focused on the phonetic, morphological,
syntactic and lexical differences between different
regional varieties of Spanish in Spain and Latin America,
on other language varieties originating from vulgar
Latin in Spain, and on their current situation and
language policies related to them.
KRS/UKL
The course familiarizes the students with the basics, the
development and the contemporary situation of the
cognitive linguistics. This linguistic discipline, which
emerged in the USA at the end of the 1970s, is
currently widely studied not only in this country but
also in many other research centres and universities
across Europe.
KRS/AD2 Discourse analysis 2
The course is focused on the use of discourse analysis
and some of the originally linguistic and literary
concepts such as text, lexical unit selection, modality,
metaphor, intertextuality and interdiscursivity to
analyze society and politics. The students will
familiarize themselves with relevant social theories.
During the course, emphasis will be placed on
understanding the role of language in creating and
maintaining social inequalities, identities and power
relations. Language is understood not as a system but
as a kind of social action (practice). In specific terms,
the students will get familiar with the issues of
international migration in the Spanish-speaking
environment and how the self-concept and image of
immigrant communities in Western societies are
formed in the internet media.