Tour of Spain

Islamic and Mudejar

March 10 – 18, 2011
Spring Break
3 Credits
Professors Jaime Correa and Oscar Machado

The course is an introduction to the hybridization of culture in Southern Spain. The topic will be studied by direct contact with material artifacts and traces left by the Muslim Empire in the architecture, urbanism, landscape, and art of Seville, Cadiz, and Granada – with an optional face-to-face encounter with the architecture and urbanism of Tangier, in Northern Morocco. It will also introduce the students to issues of social, cultural, political, religious, and economic importance as well as to their various representations of Islamic and Catholic cosmologies. The course is an attempt to reconcile the relationship between philosophical ideas and the built environment. For more information, please contact or at the School of Architecture. Travel cost is estimated at $2,995 double-occupancy – all travel arrangements and accommodations in Spain shall be made by individual students and coordinated with the Course Directors.

Financial Aid is available. For more information, visit the Office of Student Financial Assistance Services.