2020-2021 Catalog

SPAN-365 Spanish Cities: An Ongoing Transformation

This course is designed to provide students with a basic knowledge of some Spanish cities from a cultural, economical, and social point of view. Special attention will be paid to Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Malaga, Valencia and Aviles, and how these cities are reacting to gentrification, immigration, local movements, and sustainability. Thus, transforming from industrial to modern cities, from sunny touristic cities to cultural capitals, and from traditional metropolitan centers to young, vintage and gendered urban centers. This course is offered to students from different academic backgrounds under a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Take SPAN-290; Taught in Spanish