This course is designed for students who wish to reach a basic level in Catalan. By carrying out specific tasks they will be introduced to the present, past and future tenses. The structure of the course focuses particularly on strategies and...
The "four states of Austria" from 1900 to 1945 will be discussed. How did the transitions from one political system to the other affect the country, her citizens, and her arts? We will try to find answers to the problem of an Austrian identity: Did...
This course examines the Andean culture through the study of literature, folklore, media, music, painting, sculpture and crafts popular and traditional of the Andean countries. The students become acquainted with various aspects of the popular...
From 1945, Austria, the country that was left when the borders of Europe were redefined after WW I, tried to (re-)establish itself as a nation. Similar to the problem of German national identity, the Austrian definition of a nation widely uses...
Study of the rich cultural history of Austria from the Celtic and Roman heritage (150 B.C. – 400 A.D.), the Bajuvarian immigration from Southern Germany (starting about 500 A.D.), the Babenberg dynasty (976 – 1246), the Habsburg Empire (1278 – 1918)...
"There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk." - M.F.K. Fischer, The Gastronomical Me
As culinary historian Massimo Montanari argues, everything that has to do with food – from the choices made by primitive...
"There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk." - M.F.K. Fischer, The Gastronomical Me
As culinary historian Massimo Montanari argues, everything that has to do with food – from the choices made by primitive...
In 2010, UNESCO declared that French cuisine met all of the conditions to be considered “a culture recognized and classified in the intangible cultural heritage of humanity.” This course will be an anthropological, cultural, sociological, historic...
Paris is often identified with the roaring twenties. Indeed, between World War I and World War II we observe amazing changes in art, architecture, design, fashion, jewelry and music deeply related to the industrial revolution and the social and...