| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 2-hour seminars |
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Semester Assessment Seminar participation and performance | 20% |
| Semester Assessment | Semester Assessment 2 x 2,000-word essays (equally weighted, 40% each) | 80% |
| Supplementary Exam | 3 Hours Supplementary Exam 3-hour examination (3 essay questions, equally weighted) if no continuous assessment submitted | 100% |
| Supplementary Exam | 2 Hours Supplementary Exam 2-hour examination (2 essay questions, equally weighted) if continuous assessment submitted | 100% |
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
1. participate in social debates concerning the study of the interactions of 'Memoria historica' and Cinema in Contemporary Spain;
2. show understanding of the historical background of current representations of Franco's Spain and Democratic Spain;
3. show understanding of the current Spanish division between the old generation and the new generation;
4. demonstrate skills in comparative analysis and show familiarity with cinematic and technical vocabulary;
5. engage critically with a variety of scholarly material including monographs and specialised articles;
6. present their findings in a logical, organised and scholarly fashion both orally - through debates and presentations in Spanish - and in written form - through essays and text commentaries written in Spanish.
This course studies the phenomena known as 'Memoria historica' and 'Tiempo perdido' in contemporary Spanish cinema. Through a series of contemporary films the students will put into practice comparative analyses between different representations of main historical events. The period starts with contemporary representations of the Spanish Civil War and will end with the current social cinema. The aim of this course is to consider how these historical events and current events are being portrayed in Spanish cinema. A series of seminars - based around work on cinematic sources - will allow students to explore and debate the views on the 'Memoria historica'.
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | n/a |
| Communication | Students will develop oral communication in seminars; written communication will be developed in assessments and exam, both in Spanish and English. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Students will be able to assess their own progress week by week through their increased understanding of the issues raised and the skills developed. |
| Information Technology | Students will use on-line journals and source collections; delivery of course materials and information via e-learning system. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Students will acquire transferable skills; in-depth acquaintance with Cinema as an academic subject. |
| Problem solving | Students will select appropriate reading material, developing evaluative analysis and critical skills and formulating a detailed argument. |
| Research skills | Students will analyse cinematic representations in their political/historical contexts and synthesize information in an evaluative argument. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Students wil acquire Modern Spanish vocabulary; slang expressions; corrupted grammatical structures, mispronunciations, 'ideolecto', 'fasolecto' and 'sociolecto'. |
| Team work | Students will participate in debates and group presentations in seminars. |
This module is at CQFW Level 5