UC San Diego Global Seminars: Madrid - Spain in the Modern World

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  • Location(s): Madrid, Spain
  • Program Type(s): Study Abroad
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The location of Madrid, Spain will serve as an ideal site to introduce students to the process of building the modern nation-state, one of the key themes of both courses. This program will integrate the geography, museums and monuments of the vibr... read more

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Overall, I learned to open up to others, that Spain offers many perspectives different from those in the United States, and that as global citizens, we must take on the many issues that face our world with careful study, consideration, and action. - University of California - San Diego / UCSD View Entire Review
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Be a free person all the time. It was definitely worth all the cost. - University of California - San Diego / UCSD View Entire Review
I gained better understanding of the general attitudes and beliefs in Spanish culture. I learned about some fun things like cooking and dancing. I also learned important aspects of creating and maintaining a democracy. It was all worthwhile. - University of California - San Diego / UCSD View Entire Review

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The location of Madrid, Spain will serve as an ideal site to introduce students to the process of building the modern nation-state, one of the key themes of both courses. This program will integrate the geography, museums and monuments of the vibrant city of Madrid into the participants' educational experience. Viewing this process from Madrid also opens the door to a broader discussion of what we might call the “center/periphery” divide in modern global history. The divide between the wealthy and poor regions of the world, or what we would now loosely call the global north and south, began to widen dramatically from the early 19th century, accelerating in the 20th. All the way up to the last quarter of the 20th century, Spain occupied an intermediate space between “center” and “periphery”, on the periphery of a Western Europe it was always trying to catch up with, but leading the way, both economically and politically, for other less developed nations in the 20th century. In Spain’s troubled and tumultuous modernization over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, we can trace many of the paradoxes, conundrums and obstacles faced by the many new and struggling nations in the 20th century global order.

Program Type(s):
Study Abroad
Program Length(s):
  • Summer
Instruction Language(s):
  • English
Relevant Study Subject(s):
  • History
Minimum GPA:
2.0
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