Basic business concepts are taught in Spanish and examples of how they apply to Spain are provided. Students also learn about daily commercial activities in Spain and in Madrid in particular, information which will facilitate adjusting to life in Madrid. Specific areas emphasized include banking, marketing, and tourism. This is an interdisciplinary course, focusing on fundamentally important themes in the development of Spanish culture. This course includes field trips, lectures, and visits to the theater and cinema.
Students see live performances in Madrid as well as videos.
The course will cover the first stage of Spain's Golden Age, from the Renaissance poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega through the first part of Don Quixote and the drama of Lope de Vega. Thus, poetry, novel and drama are the genres to be included in a period of time a little over a century that saw the rise of modern lyrical poetry, as well as the birth of the modern novel with Cervantes and of the comedia with Lope de Vega.