The main objective is to provide the student with knowledge of the conceptual bases of the discipline.Certain basic concepts and a perspective of epistemological development of Human Geography are accordingly introduced.Keys aspects of the contents will be: the evolution of Geography (from Geographical Societies to the current profession of geographer); demographic growth and world urbanisation; the population and migrations; economic activity and spatial organisation; power and territory.
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Bbasic |
6.00 |
A |
2second semester |
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2second semester |
The subject studies the concept of myth and its fundamental types appearing in classical Greek and Roman antiquity, as well as the origin and development of the iconographic programmes of Christianity and all their representation.The subject area proposes analyses, through these two great cultural stages of humanity in the West, of the basic elements making up its artistic production through knowledge of the various pagan and Christian languages and their expression in the arts.At the same time, these contents serve as reference framework for approaching the instrumental learning of iconography as a method of History of Art intended for identifying and interpreting the meaning of images, starting from the study of the subject.The course is based on two main goals: firstly, acquiring theoretical knowledge relating to fundamental issues of classical mythology and Christianity, and secondly, learning the skills of classical mythology and Christianity and being able to comment on then, basic skills that are applied to professional practice in
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Bbasic |
6.00 |
A |
1first semester |
Issues and reflections on architecture and urban planning, especially on nature and the urban-planning transformations and architectural creations in the realm of the city as a setting of western culture through the main examples from antiquity to the present day.The subject puts the emphasis on issues relating to the concepts of city and urban space and teaches students how to distinguish the typologies, developments, languages and changing proposals through information research and the study and application of theoretical and real models.Students will acquire a series of competencies that will be of great use to them in the professional practice of History of Art, given the important presence of contents on history of architecture and its authors and in the theoretical debate and its application within the framework of cities and societies.
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Bbasic |
6.00 |
A |
2second semester |
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2second semester |
Study of al-Andalus, from the conquest to the time of the taifa kingdoms, and of the Christian kingdoms of the north of the Iberian Peninsula, from the 8th to the 13th century. The political, religious, social and economic dynamics are analysed, with a particular focus on the written, archaeological and artistic sources of the different political areas.
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
A |
1first semester |
Analysis of the social, political and economic changes affecting pre-Spanish American societies following the European conquest, with particular emphasis on Hispanic societies, and the subsequent organisation and consolidation of colonial societies.
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
A |
1first semester |
Overview of Spain’s historical evolution, from the War of Independence (1808) to the democratic transition (1982). The main events in political, economic, social and cultural history will be addressed in light of the main historiographical debates.
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
A |
2second semester |
Introduction to the modern history of Spain, from the reign of the Catholic Monarchs to the death of Charles III of Bourbon. Study of its historical evolution, establishing the political-institutional, socio-economic and cultural characteristics of the period.
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
A |
2second semester |
Introduction to the most significant artistic expressions in the Hispanic territories during the 7th to 15th centuries, covering the High Middle Ages (Visigothic, Asutrian, Leonese), Al-Andalus (from the emirate, the caliphate, the taifas and the Almohad and Nasrid eras), the Romanesque and Gothic periods in the domains of the Navarrese monarchy, the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon, with a significant impact on the Catalan sphere. For each of them, we will analyse a series of key works and creators from multiple, complementary perspectives that question the processes and factors involved in artistic creation.The course will combine different pathways for observing and analysing the trajectory of works of major historical and cultural significance, the role of patrons and the most disruptive artists, as well as the processes of meaning formation and the transfer and re-interpretation of spatial forms and structures for ecclesiastical and civil use. Students will acquire an essential, relevant and always contextualised foundation for understanding and working with the medieval artistic heritage of their geographical and cultural environment.
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
A |
1first semester |
General study of the history of the Western music, musical styles and the contexts in which it has been produced and consumed. The course offers a chronological approach to the history of Western music, from the Baroque era to 1900. Organised around three major musical and cultural periods (Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism), we will study the shift from modality to tonality, the history of instruments, the history of different styles and genre, the concept of virtuosity, the evolution of orchestras and audition spaces, and musicians’ role in society. This foundational approach, covering major composers and their works, helps students recognise and understand the aesthetic and cultural contexts that have shaped the history of Western music. The educational activities make it possible to acquire skills that can be applied to professional careers and gain a comprehensive understanding of art that integrates visual and musical arts and provides students with the critical thinking capacity they need to analyse works.
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
A |
1first semester |
This course will focus on analysing and producing the discourses about art from its origins to the present day. Based on theoretical foundations and reading and commenting on texts, we will establish, from a critical standpoint, the main perspectives used in the past and present to write about the history of art: temporal and cultural, symbolic and iconographic, social and political, post-colonial, gender and LGBTIQ+ perspectives, and more. We will examine basic methods such as attributional, philological, formalist, historicist, iconographic, sociological, psychological and structuralist methods, as well as other current trends. Making efficient use of information and sources relating to the history of art in general and its historical and theoretical foundations in particular, the course will enable students to recognise, analyse and produce texts and understand the development of discourses on art as more than a set of methodologies with variable orientations and objectives, in a tradition rooted in leading names such as Winckelmann, Berenson, Von Schlosser, Riegl, Burckhardt, Warburg, Hauser, Arnheim, Von Weinberg, Butler, Didi-Huberman, Paglia, etc.
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
A |
1first semester |
Analysis and understanding, from a historical perspective, of the main aesthetic categories for reflecting on works of art, paying special attention to the relationship between theoretical texts in which these categories were theorised and the works of art or artistic practices from the periods in which these theories were developed. Specifically, we will analyse the historical development of aesthetic ideas of beauty, ugliness, the sublime, the sinister and the banal, not only in the period and cultural context in which they appeared, but also with special attention to their variations over time. In this regard, the course will address a theoretical dimension in the philosophical reflection of these ideas through texts, but also an applied dimension in order to articulate the relationship between these ideas and the artistic practises of each period, within the methodological framework of a cultural history of mentalities. This education will equip students to explore philosophically complex texts, as well as to establish connections between the artistic works of their time and the cultural context in which they find appropriate meaning.
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
A |
2second semester |
Introduction to the visual arts and architecture from the 16th to 18th centuries in Spain.The most important artistic centres, ideas and authors will be shown, examining them in their historical and cultural context. The course will focus on observing the slow transformation of the Gothic paradigm in the Renaissance; on the relationship between peninsular artistic phenomena and Europeans, observing the channels for the exchange and transmission of ideas, forms and motifs in the arts; in the analysis of the differences between the manifest artistic behaviour promoted in power centres (political, economic or religious) and the form that characterised the most distant territories of these and the avant-garde formulae; and, finally, in the episodes of artistic collecting.The objects, ideas and authors will be analysed from a broad methodological and critical range with the aim of enriching students’ decision-making competencies for history of art: historiography, analysis of techniques, languages, subjects, genders, functions, reception, visual culture and comparative readings.
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
A |
2second semester |