La letra y las lecciones: Education in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Educational systems, both formal and informal, often transmit and reproduce the cultural values of a nation. At the same time, however, these systems may question and challenge those same values. This course will explore this dynamic relationship between education and cultural values and the construction of national identity in modern Spain from the Enlightenment to the present. Through an analysis of essays, fiction, and film we will examine how education, teachers, students, and the act of learning itself are represented in modern Spain and how these writings reflect broader cultural, political, and social contexts. Taught in Spanish.