Course Information
Course title
當代西班牙文化二
Spanish Contemporary Culture (Ⅱ) 
Semester
111-2 
Designated for
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS  DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES  
Instructor
鮑曉鷗 
Curriculum Number
FL5105 
Curriculum Identity Number
122 U2350 
Class
 
Credits
2.0 
Full/Half
Yr.
Half 
Required/
Elective
Required 
Time
Thursday 3,4(10:20~12:10) 
Room
共402 
Remarks
Restriction: juniors and beyond
The upper limit of the number of students: 12. 
 
Course introduction video
 
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Course Syllabus
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Course Description

The course will consist in four lessons given by the teacher helped with audiovisual aid. In the first two lessons the student will be introduced in the “-isms”: Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Dadaism, etc. Also, a special study will be made on one of the most representative paintings of the 20th century: the Guernica of Picasso. The second part of the semester will focus on the irruption of the new images (i.e., Almodóvar), and of the technology in architecture (Calatrava) and the reshaping of old urban models, like the case of Bilbao.
The student will make two presentations. The first one will be related to paintings of Picasso or Dalí using the terms and method learned in class. In the second one the student will introduce a modern artistic work of Taiwan, preferable a representative building or an urban sculpture, applying everything learned in the course.
 

Course Objective
This course is a course of language; nevertheless, the main aim of the course is to present the two most famous contemporary Spanish painters (Picasso and Dalí) in the context of art (Cubism and Surrealism) interacting with war (Spanish Civil War and Second World War), and secondly some of the latest Spanish artistic manifestations of film, painting, sculpture, architecture and urbanism. As a result, the student will be introduced in the concepts of Contemporary Art, acquiring a tool for its appreciation.  
Course Requirement
To have studied at least Spanish II in NTU, or to have a good command of Spanish similar to the level B1 of the European Common Frame of Reference, regardless how it was acquired. It is recommendable to have studied the course Spanish Contemporary Culture (I). 
Student Workload (expected study time outside of class per week)
 
Office Hours
Note: Thursdays, 3:30-4:40 pm 
Designated reading
The main material is a fully illustrated dossier titled "Cultura contemporánea española (II)", which will be given by the teacher the first day of class. This material is updated every year and it is complemented in class with PowerPoint presentations.  
References
Ades, Dawn (2004). Dali, the centenary retrospective, London, Thames & Hudson,.
Hatcher, Jeffrey (2006). Picasso, New York, Dramatists Play Service.
Solà-Morales Rubió, Ignasi (1996). Present i futurs. Arquitectura a les ciutats, XIX Congrés de la Unió Internacional d'Arquitectes, Colegio de Arquitectos de Cataluña.
Holguín, Antonio (2006). Pedro Almodóvar, Madrid, Cátedra. 
Grading
 
No.
Item
%
Explanations for the conditions
1. 
Mid term exam 
35% 
Lessons 1, 2 
2. 
Final exam 
35% 
Lessons 3, 4 
3. 
First presentation  
10% 
Some works of Picasso or Dalí 
4. 
Second presentation  
15% 
Appling concepts to Taiwan architecture 
5. 
Attitude 
5% 
questions, homework, attendance, etc.) 
 
Progress
Week
Date
Topic
第1週
  1.1 The beginning of a painter: Picasso, Blue and Rose epochs 
第2週
  1.2 Beyond the third dimension: Picasso and the cubism  
第3週
  1.3 Art and War: Picasso and the Guernica 
第4週
  1.4 Picasso and his women: The inheritance of the artist. 
第5週
  Movie: Mi vida con Picasso 
第6週
  2.1 Psychoanalysis and Surrealism: The First Dalí 
第7週
  2.2 Business and Art: The second Dalí 
第8週
  Students’ first presentation (1) 
第9週
  Students’ first presentation (2) 
第10週
  Mid-term Exam (1-2) 
第11週
  3.1 Spanish Cinema and Almodóvar 
第12週
  3.2 Script (guion) of Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios 
第13週
  4.1 Form vs color in the abstraction: Chillida and Barcelò 
第14週
  4.2 Engineering vs aesthetics in architecture: Calatrava and Moneo 
第15週
  4.3 Two models of changing a city: Public Art and the Bilbao Effect 
第16週
  Students’ second presentation (1) 
第17週
  Students’ second presentation (2) 
第18週
  Final exam (3-4)