Professor Carlos Aguirre, Director of the Latin American Studies Program and Professor of History at the University of Oregon, and twice faculty alum of the Oviedo program, led this exciting two-week faculty led program on location in and around Oviedo, Spain in June of 2013.
Professor Aguirre’s intensive 2 week course introduced students to shifting representations of Spain by American visitors during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Students in the course were required to produce a series of written reflections of their gradual “learning” process about Spanish society and peoples. In this way they would be transcribing and discussing their own process of “discovery” of Spanish cultures, peoples, traditions, customs and 
mentalities, and by doing so, would be confronted with (and possibly question) their own assumptions about themselves and “others”. The course, taught in English, consisted of of nine class meetings, several local visits, two evening film screening and discussion sessions, and one weekend excursion to Madrid.
Click here to hear what Professor Aguirre has to say about Oviedo and the Discovering Spain program.