This course analyzes the situation of Spain throughout Franco’s dictatorship and in the early period of the pacific transition to democracy. We will study the different social, legal and political situations in those periods. Students will approach the course content through graphic, audiovisual, journalistic and bibliographical documents.
Prerequisites:
Intermediate-level Spanish
Learning outcomes:
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
• Know the social, historical and legal context that led to Franco’s dictatorship and that contributed to the pacific transition to democracy.
• Understand the political and social processes that marked the evolution of the regime.
• Analyze the historical events and the sociopolitical context that turned Spain into a democratic state.
Method of presentation:
Lectures, student presentations, class discussions based on readings, videos and works of art, field study activity.
Required work and form of assessment:
• Mid-term exam: 30%.
• Final exam: 30%.
• Research paper: 20%. Students are required to write a paper (7-8 pages) on a relevant aspect of course content. The instructor will help students to choose the topic.
• Class participation, assignments on readings, field study activity: 20%.
content:
Week 1 - Introduction (towards dictatorship): failure of the Second Republic and Spanish Civil War.
- "Las cicatrices de la guerra", an Informe Semanal documentary (1989) with interviews to Spanish Civil War witnesses. http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20101111/informe-semanal-cicatrices- guerra/928224.shtml
- Picasso was asked to paint the Guernica when he was in Paris during the Spanish Civil War. The bombing triggered this masterpiece that has become a symbol of peace. Juan Carlos Ortega reveals the history of this painting. http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20100808/mitad-inviible-guernica-pab... picasso/847454.shtml
- Reading: SARTORIUS, N. AND ALFAYA, J. La memoria insumisa. Sobre la dictadura de Franco. Barcelona: ed. Crítica, 2002. Pp. 11-30.
Week 2 - Establishment of the dictatorial regime. Consequences of the war.
Week 10 – Two different Spains. Autonomy and considerations on ETA.
- Reading: AVILÉS, JUAN. “Democracia y terrorismo en España,” in Transiciones de la dictadura a la democracia: los casos de España y America Latina. Guipúzcoa: Ed. Upv, 2005. Pp. 167-185.
Week 11 – Law for Political Reform, amnesty request. First democratic election (1977). The Constitution of 1978.
• Mid-term exam: 30%.
• Final exam: 30%.
• Research paper: 20%. Students are required to write a paper (7-8 pages) on a relevant aspect of course content. The instructor will help students to choose the topic.
• Class participation, assignments on readings, field study activity: 20%.
Recommended readings:
Cercas, Javier. Anatomía de un instante. Madrid: Literatura Mondadori, 2009.
Juliá, Santos. "Orígenes sociales de la democracia en España," in Ayer, 15 (1994), pp. 165-188.
Preston, Paul. F ran co “C au d i l l o de Españ a” . Barcelona: Grijalbo, 1993.
Serrano, Secundino. Maquis. Madrid: Temas de hoy, 2001.
Tusell, Javier. Historia de España en el siglo XX. IV, La transición democrática y el gobierno socialista. Madrid: Grupo Santillana, 1999.
Tusell, Javier y Álvaro Soto. Historia de la transición, 1975-1986. Madrid: Alianza, 1999.
VV.AA. Historia de España. 2. Edad Contemporánea. Madrid: Taurus, 2001.
This course analyzes the situation of Spain throughout Franco’s dictatorship and in the early period of the pacific transition to democracy. We will study the different social, legal and political situations in those periods. Students will approach the course content through graphic, audiovisual, journalistic and bibliographical documents.
Intermediate-level Spanish
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
• Know the social, historical and legal context that led to Franco’s dictatorship and that contributed to the pacific transition to democracy.
• Understand the political and social processes that marked the evolution of the regime.
• Analyze the historical events and the sociopolitical context that turned Spain into a democratic state.
Lectures, student presentations, class discussions based on readings, videos and works of art, field study activity.
• Mid-term exam: 30%.
• Final exam: 30%.
• Research paper: 20%. Students are required to write a paper (7-8 pages) on a relevant aspect of course content. The instructor will help students to choose the topic.
• Class participation, assignments on readings, field study activity: 20%.
Week 1 - Introduction (towards dictatorship): failure of the Second Republic and Spanish Civil War.
- "Las cicatrices de la guerra", an Informe Semanal documentary (1989) with interviews to Spanish Civil War witnesses. http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20101111/informe-semanal-cicatrices- guerra/928224.shtml
- Picasso was asked to paint the Guernica when he was in Paris during the Spanish Civil War. The bombing triggered this masterpiece that has become a symbol of peace. Juan Carlos Ortega reveals the history of this painting. http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20100808/mitad-inviible-guernica-pab... picasso/847454.shtml
- Reading: SARTORIUS, N. AND ALFAYA, J. La memoria insumisa. Sobre la dictadura de Franco. Barcelona: ed. Crítica, 2002. Pp. 11-30.
Week 2 - Establishment of the dictatorial regime. Consequences of the war.
- Photographic gallery of the conflict: http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/fotos/20090317/final-guerra-civil-imagenes/...
- The great parade of victory in Madrid: http://www.rtve.es/rtve/20090316/anos-del-final-guerra-civil/249091.shtml
- Reading: MUNIESA, B. Dictadura y monarquía en España. Ed. Ariel Historia, 1996. Pp. 5-19.
Week 3 - Repression, hunger and exile. Cultural Diaspora. Exile to American land.
- http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20101122/documentos-tv-diaspora-cult...
- Reading: MUNIESA, B. Dictadura y monarquía en España. Ed. Ariel Historia, 1996. Pp. 24-38.
Week 4 - Society, family and women in Franco’s Spain. The role of the Church.
- Women and family:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjMXK6-ClNM&feature=related http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20110127/ninos-robados-madres-enganadas-busc...
- The Church, the other pillar of the regime:
Reading: SARTORIUS, N. AND ALFAYA, J. La memoria insumisa. Sobre la dictadura de Franco. Barcelona: ed. Crítica, 2002. Pp. 117-146.
Week 5 – Evolution of the dictatorship from 1960 to 1969: from immobilism to early reforms. Economic situation.
- Reading: MUNIESA, B. Dictadura y monarquía en España. Ed. Ariel Historia, 1996. Pp. 84-105.
- 1973: a great blow to Franco’s regime. Assassination of Carrero Blanco. http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20100406/transicion-capitulo-1/73814...
Week 6 - 1975: International condemnation, internal division. Death of Franco.
- http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20100406/transicion-capitulo-6/73816...
- Reading: MUNIESA, B. Dictadura y monarquía en España. Ed. Ariel Historia, 1996. Pp. 146-150.
- Mid-term exam
Week 7 – November 1975: neither breaking with the past nor keeping the same political system. Proclamation of the King before Las Cortes.
- Reading: KHENKIN, SERGÉI. “El papel de la monarquía en la Transición española,” in España. Los resultados del período de la transición. VVAA. Pp. 39-48.
- http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20100407/transicion-capitulo-7/73918...
- Photographic gallery of the transition: http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/fotos/20100420/pueblo- protagonista-transicion/50394.shtml
- Field study activity
Week 8 – Transition, appointment of Suárez, Moncloa pacts and pre-autonomies.
- Reading: KHENKIN, SERGÉI. “El papel de la monarquía en la Transición española,” in España. Los resultados del período de la transición. VVAA. Pp. 14-37.
- http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20100416/transicion-capitulo-10/7472...
Week 9 – Legalization of political parties. Statements by representative politicians.
- http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20100416/transicion-capitulo-11/7471...
- Reading: DE MIÑÓN, MIGUEL HERRERO (Coord.) La transición democrática en España. Vol. I. Bilbao: 1999. Pp.33-38, 47-66.
Week 10 – Two different Spains. Autonomy and considerations on ETA.
- Reading: AVILÉS, JUAN. “Democracia y terrorismo en España,” in Transiciones de la dictadura a la democracia: los casos de España y America Latina. Guipúzcoa: Ed. Upv, 2005. Pp. 167-185.
Week 11 – Law for Political Reform, amnesty request. First democratic election (1977). The Constitution of 1978.
- http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20100423/transicion-capitulo-12/7530...
- Legacy of Franco’s regime and the transition: interviews to Spaniards on this topic followed by student presentations.
Week 12 – Law for Amnesty and Law for Historical Memory. Legacy of the transition.
- Law 46/1977 for Amnesty: http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Penal/l46-1977.html
- Interesting documents: http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20081126/memoria-historica-red/34931...
- Associations, early disinterments: http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20101024/diez-anos- recuperacion-memoria historica/910356.shtml
- Role of associationism and Judicial Power: http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20100412/dos- asociaciones-memoria-historica-se-querellan-contra-dos-jueces-del-supremo/743104.shtml
• Mid-term exam: 30%.
• Final exam: 30%.
• Research paper: 20%. Students are required to write a paper (7-8 pages) on a relevant aspect of course content. The instructor will help students to choose the topic.
• Class participation, assignments on readings, field study activity: 20%.
Cercas, Javier. Anatomía de un instante. Madrid: Literatura Mondadori, 2009.
Juliá, Santos. "Orígenes sociales de la democracia en España," in Ayer, 15 (1994), pp. 165-188.
Preston, Paul. F ran co “C au d i l l o de Españ a” . Barcelona: Grijalbo, 1993.
Serrano, Secundino. Maquis. Madrid: Temas de hoy, 2001.
Tusell, Javier. Historia de España en el siglo XX. IV, La transición democrática y el gobierno socialista. Madrid: Grupo Santillana, 1999.
Tusell, Javier y Álvaro Soto. Historia de la transición, 1975-1986. Madrid: Alianza, 1999.
VV.AA. Historia de España. 2. Edad Contemporánea. Madrid: Taurus, 2001.