España Hoy

Grant Details

Amount: $9,330

Project Start Date: 07/01/06

Status: In Progress (under development)

Project Type:
Campus Based

Languages: Spanish

Project Level:
Intermediate

Project Skills:
Cultural Awareness
Speaking
Listening
Reading
Writing

Institutions Involved:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Primary Contact:
Margarita Ribas Groeger (mgroeger@mit.edu)

14N-220
M.I.T.
Cambridge , MA 02139
Phone: 617-253-4778

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Secondary Contact:
Solivia Márquez
smarquez@mit.edu
14N-222 Foreign Languages and Literatures M.I.T. Cambridge, MA 02139

España Hoy is a Web-based unit that examines life and culture in today’s Spain, building on and updating our 1998 Consortium project, España de cerca . España Hoy consists of a new set of video interviews with a variety of people in different regions of Spain talking about life, society and culture in today’s Spain. These interviews will be edited, annotated and cross-referenced. Additional contextual materials, (newspaper and magazine articles, surveys, advertisements, public service campaigns ads, songs, radio reports, photographs, maps, additional digital video and other web links) will be added to provide a more general perspective to the personal viewpoints expressed by the interviewees. While this project aims to bring up to date many of the basic topics that formed the core of España de cerca, it will also address other issues confronting Spanish society today, such as growing immigration, international terrorism, rapid urbanization and its ecological consequences.

Project Materials