Espana: Temas de cultura y civilizacion » (1st Edition)

Luisa Piemontese-Ramos is a native speaker with a doctorate from Yale and a Masters from SUNY. She is the Coordinator of Foreign Language Teaching Certification at SCSU. She has extensive experience teaching and publishing about Peninsular culture, civilization, and literature. Finally, she is an active member and presenter in the language community. Awarded AATSP 2002 National Teacher of the Year Award for College and University.

Carlos Arboleda is a native speaker with a doctorate from Syracuse University. He has been teaching Civilization and Culture at SCSU for over 10 years.

Espa-a: Temas de cultura y civilización uses an innovative approach to present both High C and low C cultures, placing events in context with an eye to culture first and chronology second. Through factual readings and authentic texts, readers are exposed to the diversity of Spain's history, politics, arts, and music, as well as its people, languages and traditions.

Introduccion general. I. ESPAÑA Y LA COMUNIDAD EUROPEA (DEL COMIENZO AL SIGLO XX). Geografia y datos importantes. Gente y personajes ilustres: "Los sefardies en la Peninsula Iberica y Europa." El idioma: "El espanol, lengua romance". El arte y la arquitectura: "El Museo del Prado". Las fiestas y el folclore: "La 'fiesta' del futbol". La gastronomia: "Las tapas". Aspectos sociopoliticos: "Que es la Union Europea?" II. COMUNIDAD DE MADRID. Geograf-a y datos importantes. Gente y personajes ilustres: "La movi