Barcelona is a cosmopolitan city, with a great international projection. This course is an introduction to the city of Barcelona by studying its past and also analyzing its present. This course will review the most important moments in the history of Barcelona, and will study the urban development of the city, focusing on the ways those historical events can be seen in the present layout of the city. The course will also analyze the expression of Catalan and Mediterranean identity in its art, its buildings and traditions.
Prerequisites:
None
Attendance policy:
Attendance is mandatory for all IES classes, including field studies. Any exams, tests, presentations, or other work missed due to student absences can only be rescheduled in cases of documented medical or family emergencies. If a student misses more than three classes in any course half a letter grade will be deducted from the final grade for every additional absence. Seven absences in any course will result in a failing grade.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this course students are able to:
• analyze how and to what extent past occurrences have shaped the city of Barcelona;
• identify global phenomena which have impacted the city at a local level;
• explain the idiosyncrasies and peculiarities of the city of Barcelona and of Catalonia as a whole;
• appraise the future prospects of the city of Barcelona in light of its past.
Method of presentation:
Lectures, field studies discussions and class debates
Field study:
Field trips
Students have to complete 6 fieldtrips during the term. Three of them are on-site classes and three of them are self-guided. The on-site classes will be guided by the professor and will be conducted on Sessions 6, 15 and 18. The self-guided ones (Museum of the History of Barcelona, Courtyards of the Eixample and Block of Discord) will happen on students own time.
Required work and form of assessment:
Midterm exam (15%); final exam (15%); class participation (10%); journal (20%); final paper (30%); class presentation of final paper (10%)
• EXAMS: will consist of short and essay-like questions. (Student outcomes 1 and 2).
• CLASS PARTICIPATION: this item will be based on discussion of the readings and participation of class debates or group activities. (Student outcomes 1, 3, 4)
• JOURNAL: personal impressions about the field studies (both on-site classes and self-guided ones)/ One page per entry (handwritten or typed). Due the last day of the term (Student outcomes 1 and 3).
• FINAL PAPER: original research project, 7 to 10 pages long, on a topic to be discussed and agreed upon with the professor and later presented to the class for discussion. Due the last day of the term (Student outcomes 1, 2, 3 or 4 depending on the topic and approach).
Rubrics for all these pieces of assessment available on the Moodle page.
content:
Session 1: General Overview of the course and class assignments and readings. First introduction to Barcelona: the Cosmopolitan city
Session 2: Geography and Demography. “Barcelona Model.”
Required Reading:
The Rossi, Melissa (February 2004). The Barcelona Model, in Newsweek International: 1-3.
Session 3: The creation of the Roman city of Barcino. The urban morphology of the Roman city: the first urban plan. Everyday life in Roman Barcelona.
Required Reading:
Roda de Llanza, Isabel (2002). Barcelona. From its Foundation up to the 4th century AD. In VV.AA, The Archeological Remains of Pla?a del Rei in Barcelona: 22-31. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona.
Beltr?n de Heredia, Julia (2002). Daily life. Domus and material culture. In VV.AA, The Archeological Remains of Pla?a del Rei in Barcelona: 140-146. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona.
Session 4: The collapse of the Roman Empire and the creation of Medieval Barcelona. From the
Counts to the Kings. Civil Institutions: Consell de Cent, Parlament, guilds. The development of
the medieval quarters. Romanesque Barcelona.
Required Reading:
Hughes, Robert (1993). If not, not. In Hughes, Robert, Barcelona: 105-140, 140-159. New York: Vintage Books.
Session 5: The splendor of medieval Barcelona
(I): The splendour of Medieval architecture: the Catalan Gothic. A city by the sea. Medieval society in Barcelona.
Required Reading:
Falcones, Ildefonso (2008). The Cathedral of the Sea: 2-78. London: Dutton
Session 6: The splendor of Medieval Barcelona (II):
Field Study: Walking tour around the Ribera neighbourhood.
Required Reading:
Toibin, Colm (2002). The Gothic Quarter. In Toibin, Colm, Homage to Barcelona: 11-23. London: Simon and Schuster.
Session 7: The Crisis of Medieval Barcelona. The effects of the famines and the Black Death:
Crisis and stagnation. The Catholic Kings and the union of the Spanish kingdoms. The end of the Jewish Community in Barcelona.
Required Reading:
Nirenberg, David (1996).Sex and Violence Between Majority and Minority in, Communities of Violence: 127-165. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Session 8: The integration with Castile and Barcelona: the “Reapers´war” and the “War of Spanish Succession.” Barcelona under the Habsburgs and the Bourbons. Revision for the midterm.
Required Reading:
Elliott, John (1984). The Revolt of the Catalans: 1-48. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Hughes, Robert (1999). Under the Citadel. In Hughes, Robert, Barcelona: 185-194. New York: Vintage Books.
Session 9.The industrial city: The basis of the Industrial Revolution. Economic expansion and social conflicts. Physical changes in the city.
Required Reading:
Hughes, Robert (1999). Under the Citadel. In Hughes, Robert, Barcelona: 228-237. New York: Vintage Books
Session 10. Midterm Exam
Session 11. A new city plan: The design of the “Eixample.” Ildelfons Cerd? as the first modern city planer.
Required Reading:
Epps, Brad (2001). Modern Spaces: Building Barcelona. In Resina, Joan Ramon, Iberian Cities: 164-177. London: Routledge
Session 12. City of marvels (1880-1936) (I): The international Image of the New Barcelona. The International Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929.
Bosch Pascual, Lluis(October 2005). Modernism and the 1888 Exposition of Barcelona. Historical Lab (1): 12-19
Hughes, Robert (1999). Selections from Blind with a Love for a Language and Going to the Fair: 289- 306, 323-34, 354-373 in Barcelona. New York: Vintage Books.
Session 13. City Of Marvels (1880-1936) (II): Renaixen?a and the beginning of Catalanism. Modernism: Antoni Gaud?, Dom?nech i Muntaner and Puig i Cadafalch.
Required Reading:
Toibin, Colm (2002). A Dream of Gaud?. In Toibin, Colm, Homage to Barcelona: 50-63. London: Simon and Schuster.
Hughes, Robert (1999). Selections from The Feast of Modernity: 374-411, 425-448. In, Barcelona. New York: Vintage Books.
Session 14 .City Of Marvels (1880-1936) (III): The Making of the Revolutionary City. The Tragic
Week, Anarchism and Pistolerism. The Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. Barcelona during the Republican period.
Required Reading:
Conversi, Daniel (2000). Founding of Catalan nationalism to the Civil War. In Conversi, Daniel, The Basques, the Catalans and Spain: 33-43. London: Hurst and Company.
Ealham, Chris (2004). The Making of the Divided City and Mapping the Working Class City: 1-53 in Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937. London: Rouletge
Session 15. Barcelona During The Civil War: Field Study: Walking tour to the Civil War sites in Barcelona.
Required Reading:
Toibin, Colm (2002). The Civil War. In Toibin, Colm, Homage to Barcelona: 107-130. London: Simon and Schuster.
Eaude, Michael (2006). Strange and Valuable: the Spanish Revolution. In Eaude, Michael, Barcelona: 54-72. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications.
Session 16: Barcelona Under Franco: The decades of hunger, fear and repression. The politics of cultural assimilation.
Required Reading: Conversi, Daniel (200). Catalonia under Franco. In Conversi, Daniel, The Basques, the Catalans and Spain: 109-140. London: Hurst and
Company.
Session 17. The New Barcelona (I): The return of the democratic institutions. Cleaning up the city.
The “Barcelona posa´t guapa” campaign. The project and effects of the Olympic games.
Required Reading: Eaude, Michael (2006). The Jewel of the Crown? In Eaude, Michael Barcelona: 262-279. Notingham:the Five Leaves Press.
Marshal, Tim (2004). Transforming Barcelona. The Renewal of a European Metropolis. New York: Routledge: 205-218.
Session 18. The New Barcelona (II): Field study: Montjuic and the Olympics Stadium
Required Reading:
Eaude, Michael (2006). The Greatest Show on Earth. In, Eaude, Michael, Barcelona: 247-262.
Session 19. The New Barcelona (III): Barcelona and the Catalan identity in its international projection: the opening ceremony of Barcelona´s Olympic Games.
Session 20. The New Barcelona (IV): The latest urban renovation projects: the 22@ project,
Poble Nou and the Forum of Cultures.
Required Reading:
Eaude, Michael (2006). The shore. In Eaude, Michael, Barcelona: 279-301. Notingham: Five Leaves Publications.
Session 21. The Barcelona Model and its Critics
Required Reading:
Luna, Antoni (2008). Just Another Coffee. Milking the Barcelona Model, Marketing a Global Image, and the Resistance of Local Identities: 143-160 in Cronin, Anne and Hetherington, Kevin, Consuming the Entreprenurial City: Image, Memory, Spectacle. London: Rouletdge.
Session 22. Barcelona now. Current challenges. Students will bring to class articles about the current situation of the city.
Session 23. Students Class Presentations
Session 24. Students Class Presentation
Final Exam
Required readings:
BELTRAN DE HEREDIA, Julia (2002). Daily life. Domus and material culture. In VV.AA, The Archeological Remains of Pla?a del Rei in Barcelona: 140-146. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona.
BOSCH, Pascual, Lluis (October 2005). Modernism and the 1888 Exposition of Barcelona. Historical Lab (1): 12-19.
CONVERSI, Daniel (2000). Founding of Catalan nationalism to the Civil War. In Conversi, Daniel, The Basques, the Catalans and Spain: 33-43, 109-140. London: Hurst and Company.
EALHAM, Chris (2004). The Making of the Divided City and Mapping the Working Class City: 1-53 in Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937. London: Rouletge
ElLLIOTT, John (1984). The Revolt of the Catalans: 1-48. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
EPPS, Brad (2001). Modern Spaces: Building Barcelona. In Resina, Joan Ramon, Iberian Cities: 164-177. London, Routledge.
FALCONES, Ildefonso (2008). The Cathedral of the Sea: 2-78. London: Dutton.
HUGHES, Robert (1999). If not, not. In Hughes, Robert, Barcelona: 105-140, 140-159, 185-194, 228-237, 289-306, 323-334, 354-373, 374-411, 425-448. New York: Vintage Books.
LUNA, Antoni (2008). Just Another Coffee. Milking the Barcelona Model, Marketing a Global Image, and the Resistance of Local Identities: 143-160 in Cronin, Anne and Hetherington, Kevin, Consuming the Entreprenurial City: Image, Memory, Spectacle. London: Rouletdge.
MARSHAL, Tim (2004). Transforming Barcelona. The Renewal of a European Metropolis. New York: Routledge: 205-218.
NIRENBERG, David (1996).Sex and Violence Between Majority and Minority in, Communities of Violence: 127-165. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
RODA DE LLANZA, Isabel (2002). Barcelona. From its Foundation up to the 4th century AD. In VV.AA, The Archeological Remains of Pla?a del Rei in Barcelona: 22-31. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona.
ROSSI, Melissa (February 2004). The Barcelona Model, in Newsweek International: 1-3.
TOIBIN, Colm (2002). Homage to Barcelona: 11-23, 50-63, 107-130. London: Simon and Schuster.
Notes:
This course is offered during the regular semester and in the summer. For summer sections, the course schedule is condensed, but the content, learning outcomes, and contact hours are the same.
Barcelona is a cosmopolitan city, with a great international projection. This course is an introduction to the city of Barcelona by studying its past and also analyzing its present. This course will review the most important moments in the history of Barcelona, and will study the urban development of the city, focusing on the ways those historical events can be seen in the present layout of the city. The course will also analyze the expression of Catalan and Mediterranean identity in its art, its buildings and traditions.
None
Attendance is mandatory for all IES classes, including field studies. Any exams, tests, presentations, or other work missed due to student absences can only be rescheduled in cases of documented medical or family emergencies. If a student misses more than three classes in any course half a letter grade will be deducted from the final grade for every additional absence. Seven absences in any course will result in a failing grade.
By the end of this course students are able to:
• analyze how and to what extent past occurrences have shaped the city of Barcelona;
• identify global phenomena which have impacted the city at a local level;
• explain the idiosyncrasies and peculiarities of the city of Barcelona and of Catalonia as a whole;
• appraise the future prospects of the city of Barcelona in light of its past.
Lectures, field studies discussions and class debates
Field trips
Students have to complete 6 fieldtrips during the term. Three of them are on-site classes and three of them are self-guided. The on-site classes will be guided by the professor and will be conducted on Sessions 6, 15 and 18. The self-guided ones (Museum of the History of Barcelona, Courtyards of the Eixample and Block of Discord) will happen on students own time.
Midterm exam (15%); final exam (15%); class participation (10%); journal (20%); final paper (30%); class presentation of final paper (10%)
• EXAMS: will consist of short and essay-like questions. (Student outcomes 1 and 2).
• CLASS PARTICIPATION: this item will be based on discussion of the readings and participation of class debates or group activities. (Student outcomes 1, 3, 4)
• JOURNAL: personal impressions about the field studies (both on-site classes and self-guided ones)/ One page per entry (handwritten or typed). Due the last day of the term (Student outcomes 1 and 3).
• FINAL PAPER: original research project, 7 to 10 pages long, on a topic to be discussed and agreed upon with the professor and later presented to the class for discussion. Due the last day of the term (Student outcomes 1, 2, 3 or 4 depending on the topic and approach).
Rubrics for all these pieces of assessment available on the Moodle page.
Session 1: General Overview of the course and class assignments and readings. First introduction to Barcelona: the Cosmopolitan city
Session 2: Geography and Demography. “Barcelona Model.”
Required Reading:
The Rossi, Melissa (February 2004). The Barcelona Model, in Newsweek International: 1-3.
Session 3: The creation of the Roman city of Barcino. The urban morphology of the Roman city: the first urban plan. Everyday life in Roman Barcelona.
Required Reading:
Roda de Llanza, Isabel (2002). Barcelona. From its Foundation up to the 4th century AD. In VV.AA, The Archeological Remains of Pla?a del Rei in Barcelona: 22-31. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona.
Beltr?n de Heredia, Julia (2002). Daily life. Domus and material culture. In VV.AA, The Archeological Remains of Pla?a del Rei in Barcelona: 140-146. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona.
Session 4: The collapse of the Roman Empire and the creation of Medieval Barcelona. From the
Counts to the Kings. Civil Institutions: Consell de Cent, Parlament, guilds. The development of
the medieval quarters. Romanesque Barcelona.
Required Reading:
Hughes, Robert (1993). If not, not. In Hughes, Robert, Barcelona: 105-140, 140-159. New York: Vintage Books.
Session 5: The splendor of medieval Barcelona
(I): The splendour of Medieval architecture: the Catalan Gothic. A city by the sea. Medieval society in Barcelona.
Required Reading:
Falcones, Ildefonso (2008). The Cathedral of the Sea: 2-78. London: Dutton
Session 6: The splendor of Medieval Barcelona (II):
Field Study: Walking tour around the Ribera neighbourhood.
Required Reading:
Toibin, Colm (2002). The Gothic Quarter. In Toibin, Colm, Homage to Barcelona: 11-23. London: Simon and Schuster.
Session 7: The Crisis of Medieval Barcelona. The effects of the famines and the Black Death:
Crisis and stagnation. The Catholic Kings and the union of the Spanish kingdoms. The end of the Jewish Community in Barcelona.
Required Reading:
Nirenberg, David (1996).Sex and Violence Between Majority and Minority in, Communities of Violence: 127-165. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Session 8: The integration with Castile and Barcelona: the “Reapers´war” and the “War of Spanish Succession.” Barcelona under the Habsburgs and the Bourbons. Revision for the midterm.
Required Reading:
Elliott, John (1984). The Revolt of the Catalans: 1-48. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Hughes, Robert (1999). Under the Citadel. In Hughes, Robert, Barcelona: 185-194. New York: Vintage Books.
Session 9.The industrial city: The basis of the Industrial Revolution. Economic expansion and social conflicts. Physical changes in the city.
Required Reading:
Hughes, Robert (1999). Under the Citadel. In Hughes, Robert, Barcelona: 228-237. New York: Vintage Books
Session 10. Midterm Exam
Session 11. A new city plan: The design of the “Eixample.” Ildelfons Cerd? as the first modern city planer.
Required Reading:
Epps, Brad (2001). Modern Spaces: Building Barcelona. In Resina, Joan Ramon, Iberian Cities: 164-177. London: Routledge
Session 12. City of marvels (1880-1936) (I): The international Image of the New Barcelona. The International Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929.
Bosch Pascual, Lluis(October 2005). Modernism and the 1888 Exposition of Barcelona. Historical Lab (1): 12-19
Hughes, Robert (1999). Selections from Blind with a Love for a Language and Going to the Fair: 289- 306, 323-34, 354-373 in Barcelona. New York: Vintage Books.
Session 13. City Of Marvels (1880-1936) (II): Renaixen?a and the beginning of Catalanism. Modernism: Antoni Gaud?, Dom?nech i Muntaner and Puig i Cadafalch.
Required Reading:
Toibin, Colm (2002). A Dream of Gaud?. In Toibin, Colm, Homage to Barcelona: 50-63. London: Simon and Schuster.
Hughes, Robert (1999). Selections from The Feast of Modernity: 374-411, 425-448. In, Barcelona. New York: Vintage Books.
Session 14 .City Of Marvels (1880-1936) (III): The Making of the Revolutionary City. The Tragic
Week, Anarchism and Pistolerism. The Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. Barcelona during the Republican period.
Required Reading:
Conversi, Daniel (2000). Founding of Catalan nationalism to the Civil War. In Conversi, Daniel, The Basques, the Catalans and Spain: 33-43. London: Hurst and Company.
Ealham, Chris (2004). The Making of the Divided City and Mapping the Working Class City: 1-53 in Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937. London: Rouletge
Session 15. Barcelona During The Civil War: Field Study: Walking tour to the Civil War sites in Barcelona.
Required Reading:
Toibin, Colm (2002). The Civil War. In Toibin, Colm, Homage to Barcelona: 107-130. London: Simon and Schuster.
Eaude, Michael (2006). Strange and Valuable: the Spanish Revolution. In Eaude, Michael, Barcelona: 54-72. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications.
Session 16: Barcelona Under Franco: The decades of hunger, fear and repression. The politics of cultural assimilation.
Required Reading: Conversi, Daniel (200). Catalonia under Franco. In Conversi, Daniel, The Basques, the Catalans and Spain: 109-140. London: Hurst and
Company.
Session 17. The New Barcelona (I): The return of the democratic institutions. Cleaning up the city.
The “Barcelona posa´t guapa” campaign. The project and effects of the Olympic games.
Required Reading: Eaude, Michael (2006). The Jewel of the Crown? In Eaude, Michael Barcelona: 262-279. Notingham:the Five Leaves Press.
Marshal, Tim (2004). Transforming Barcelona. The Renewal of a European Metropolis. New York: Routledge: 205-218.
Session 18. The New Barcelona (II): Field study: Montjuic and the Olympics Stadium
Required Reading:
Eaude, Michael (2006). The Greatest Show on Earth. In, Eaude, Michael, Barcelona: 247-262.
Session 19. The New Barcelona (III): Barcelona and the Catalan identity in its international projection: the opening ceremony of Barcelona´s Olympic Games.
Session 20. The New Barcelona (IV): The latest urban renovation projects: the 22@ project,
Poble Nou and the Forum of Cultures.
Required Reading:
Eaude, Michael (2006). The shore. In Eaude, Michael, Barcelona: 279-301. Notingham: Five Leaves Publications.
Session 21. The Barcelona Model and its Critics
Required Reading:
Luna, Antoni (2008). Just Another Coffee. Milking the Barcelona Model, Marketing a Global Image, and the Resistance of Local Identities: 143-160 in Cronin, Anne and Hetherington, Kevin, Consuming the Entreprenurial City: Image, Memory, Spectacle. London: Rouletdge.
Session 22. Barcelona now. Current challenges. Students will bring to class articles about the current situation of the city.
Session 23. Students Class Presentations
Session 24. Students Class Presentation
Final Exam
BELTRAN DE HEREDIA, Julia (2002). Daily life. Domus and material culture. In VV.AA, The Archeological Remains of Pla?a del Rei in Barcelona: 140-146. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona.
BOSCH, Pascual, Lluis (October 2005). Modernism and the 1888 Exposition of Barcelona. Historical Lab (1): 12-19.
CONVERSI, Daniel (2000). Founding of Catalan nationalism to the Civil War. In Conversi, Daniel, The Basques, the Catalans and Spain: 33-43, 109-140. London: Hurst and Company.
EALHAM, Chris (2004). The Making of the Divided City and Mapping the Working Class City: 1-53 in Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937. London: Rouletge
EAUDE, Michael. (2006). Barcelona: 54-72, 262-279, 247-262, 279-301. Nottingham: Five Leaves Press.
ElLLIOTT, John (1984). The Revolt of the Catalans: 1-48. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
EPPS, Brad (2001). Modern Spaces: Building Barcelona. In Resina, Joan Ramon, Iberian Cities: 164-177. London, Routledge.
FALCONES, Ildefonso (2008). The Cathedral of the Sea: 2-78. London: Dutton.
HUGHES, Robert (1999). If not, not. In Hughes, Robert, Barcelona: 105-140, 140-159, 185-194, 228-237, 289-306, 323-334, 354-373, 374-411, 425-448. New York: Vintage Books.
LUNA, Antoni (2008). Just Another Coffee. Milking the Barcelona Model, Marketing a Global Image, and the Resistance of Local Identities: 143-160 in Cronin, Anne and Hetherington, Kevin, Consuming the Entreprenurial City: Image, Memory, Spectacle. London: Rouletdge.
MARSHAL, Tim (2004). Transforming Barcelona. The Renewal of a European Metropolis. New York: Routledge: 205-218.
NIRENBERG, David (1996).Sex and Violence Between Majority and Minority in, Communities of Violence: 127-165. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
RODA DE LLANZA, Isabel (2002). Barcelona. From its Foundation up to the 4th century AD. In VV.AA, The Archeological Remains of Pla?a del Rei in Barcelona: 22-31. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona.
ROSSI, Melissa (February 2004). The Barcelona Model, in Newsweek International: 1-3.
TOIBIN, Colm (2002). Homage to Barcelona: 11-23, 50-63, 107-130. London: Simon and Schuster.
This course is offered during the regular semester and in the summer. For summer sections, the course schedule is condensed, but the content, learning outcomes, and contact hours are the same.