ANT380.1 Conservation of Archaeological Heritage (at UAM)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. This course covers the political international, economic, cultural and social aspects of the history of Latin America. Topics include:

• Latin America in the present time.
• National security coups and dictatorships in the Southern Cone. Civil Wars and guerillas in Central America. The Sandinista Revolution.
• Latin America and the Second Cold War.
• The Lost Decade. Political transitions, democratic change and social crisis.
• Opening, neo-liberalism and economic reforms. Washington’s consensus and the model for development. Argentina and Peru.
• Post-Cold War Latin America. Peace processes in Central America. Open integration and regionalism.
• Artistic culture and creation in Latin America Cuba. The survival of the revolution.
• Social movements and citizen construction.
• The new Left. Political models and processes. Neo-populism (Venezuela, Ecuador), multinational state (Bolivia), democratic depth (Brazil, Uruguay, Chile). The Mexican reality.
• Latin America in the Global Era. Identity and Bicentennial. Brazil as an emerging power.

Meets with LAS 380.1.

(16949, América Latina Actual (desde 1973))

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. This course studies sexual differences as constructed in modern Western history between the 16th and 17th centuries, in relation to social, economic, cultural and political changes of the time. From the perspectives opened by new historiographical trends, particularly women’s history and cultural history, it takes a modern approach that addresses the complexity and diversity of experiences and the interaction between context and individual and collective strategies.

(19027, Historia y Género en la Época Moderna)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. Topics of this course include:

• World War I
• The global economy during the period between wars
• Social and cultural transformations
• The Russian revolution and the communist movement
• The democratic states: Dynamic politics and corporatism
• Fascism and Authoritarianism
• Construction of the State and anti-imperialism in the peripheries
• The crisis of the Restoration and Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera
• The Second Republic and the Civil War
• Origins and characteristics of World War II

(16892, Historia Contemporánea III)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. Topics include:

History of the East and Egypt

• Introduction: Sources, geographical context and chronology
• Near East and Egypt to the late 3rd millennium BCE: Predynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt, Sumer, Akkad, Ebla and Ur III
• The first half of the 2nd millennium BCE in the East and Egypt: The Middle Kingdom in Egypt
• The second half of the 2nd millennium BCE in the East and Egypt: The Egyptian New Kingdom, the kingdom of Mitanni, Hittite New Kingdom, Assyrian Middle Kingdom and Babylonian house
• The First millennium in the Middle East and Egypt: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian kingdoms

History of Greece

• Environment and culture of the Mediterranean
• The beginnings of Greek civilization: Crete and the Mycenaean world
• Greece in the Dark Ages
• Archaic Greece
• The splendor of Greek civilization: the 5th century BCE
• Greece in the 4th century BCE: the rise of Macedonia

(19013, Historia de Grecia Antigua)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish.

Students will gain a basic knowledge of archaeological techniques and their application to the prehistory and early history. Topics include:

• Origin and chronology of human settlement in the Iberian Peninsula, habitat, livelihood strategies and land occupation of Pre-Neanderthals and Neanderthals
• Post-glacial climate and environmental changes during the Epipaleolithic and Mesolithic Eras
• Origins of farming during the Neolithic Era
• The Bronze Age’s consolidation of metallurgy, trade and information
• The first complex societies of the Chalcolithic Era
• The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age
• Ethic and non-Iberian groups of the Second Iron Age

(16889, Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Península Ibérica)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. Students will gain a general knowledge of modern history of Europe and of Spain from the end of the 18^th century until 1848. Topics include:

European History

• Europe during the end of the 18th Century
• The liberal revolutions
• Industrial Revolution and Industrialization
• Loyalist Europe and Post-Revolutionary Liberalism
• The new working world

History of Spain

• War and revolution in Spain
• The transition into liberalism during the Regency era
• Society and economy

Meets with SPA 380.2.

(16883 , Historia Contemporánea I)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. From the territory to the Court: agents, ambassadors and provincial legacies in Spain’s royal court. Topics include:

• Negotiation in the court: the instances of power. The king, the State council and territorial councils, and other paths to political influence. The networks of relationships, patronage and political friendship
• The government of kingdoms and the territorial dimension of the monarchy of Spain
• Viceroys and general governors
• Supreme courts in the kingdoms, audiences and magistrates, the ministerial career, and fiscal and military structure of the kingdoms
• The representation of the realms and the management of cities
• Political society of the kingdoms: nobility, clergy and urban elites

Meets with SPA 480.8.

(19026, Monarquía y Territorios en la España Moderna)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. Topics include:

• Theme 1. Introduction to Prehistoric Art. The concept of art and its evolution. Discovery of prehistoric art. Other artistic manifestations.
• Theme 2. Paleolithic Art, support and distribution. The art furniture. Geography of Paleolithic art according to its supporters. Supporting material of furniture art. Themes, techniques and conventions.
• Theme 3. Wall and cave art. Techniques and themes. The techniques for wall and cave art. Thematic groups. Conventions and aspects that compose it.
• Theme 4. Chronology and interpretation of Paleolithic art. Systems for dating and artistic cycles. The origins of art and its evolution during the Paleolithic. Interpretations.
• Theme 5. The great combinations of Paleolithic Art. Principal combinations of parietal art, cave and furniture in Europe. Paleolithic art in other continents: Africa, Asia, Australia, America.
• Theme 6. Tardiglaciar art and the beginnings of the Holocene. From tardiglaciar art to the epipaleolithic: V style and aziliense art. Other European combinations in the Near East.
• Theme 7. Macro-schematic art and Levantine art. Distribution and combination. Levantine and macro-schematic art, concept and principal combinations. The development of macro-schematic art and its chronology: cave and vascular art.
• Theme 8. Levantine art. Techniques and themes. Chronology. Techniques and themes, scenes and compositional aspects. The chronological discussion and its relationship with economic, social and territorial aspects. The art of North Africa and the Sahara.
• Theme 9. Schematic art. Techniques, themes and styles. Concept of schematic art. Paint and graven. Principal themes and its variations.
• Theme 10. Chronologies and principal schematic art groups in Europe. Geographic distribution and chronology of schematic art. Furnishing art.
• Theme 11. Megalithic art: cave, furnishing and vascular art. The birth of architecture. Concept of megalithic art. Techniques, thematic motives and principal supporters. Architectonic combination: megalithic and temples. Geographic distribution and chronology.
• Theme 12. The art of the Atlantic world. Wall art from Scandinavia and the Canaries.
• Theme 13. Towards the complex societies of the first millennium. The trail of the final Bronze and its context. Other artistic combinations
  Theme 14. Conservation of prehistoric art and its placement as patrimonial value. Prehistoric artistic patrimony. Furnished and unfurnished property. Its conservation, documentation and diffusion. Prehistoric art in museums.

(16904, Arte Prehistórico y Su Simbología)