UGC NET स्पेनिश सिलेबस दिसंबर 2026

इकाई 1 Grammatical Aspects, Linguistics, Methodology, and Translation

• i) Modes, Tenses, Use of the past ii) Prepositions and other grammatical categories iii) Language as a System of Systems iv) Methods of Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language v) Problems of Translation in Practice

इकाई 2 Advanced Use of Spanish Language

• i) Use of Proverbs and Refrains ii) Modismos and Idiomatic Expressions iii) Synonyms/Antonyms iv) Metaphors and Similes v) Text Analysis

इकाई 3 Spain: Pre-history and Medieval Literature and Culture

i) Making of Iberia, Greek and Roman Colonizations and their

Contributions ii) Visigoths and the Advent of Christianity iii) Political and Cultural Mosaic of Al Andalus iv) The reconquista and the Cultural Efflorescence of Christian Kingdoms v) The Formation of Spanish Language and Early Literary Manifestations (epic, lyric, popular, religious verse) Page 1 of 4

इकाई 4 Early Modern Spain

i) Catholic Kings and the Spanish Empire, the Habsburgs and the Bourbons ii) Inquisition, Expulsion of Jews and Moriscos and the Making of a Homogenous Spain, Honour Code iii) Art, Literature and Culture during the Transition to the Renaissance iv) Renaissance and Baroque in Art, Literature and Culture v) Golden Age Literature

इकाई 5 18th and 19th Century Spain: Between Modernity and Tradition

i) Enlightenment: el despotismo ilustrado and 18th Century Cultural

Manifestations ii) Historic Panorama of 19th Century: Spanish War of Independence, Constitution of Cádiz, Carlist Wars, Restoration iii) 19th Century Art and Culture iv) Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism v) Generation of 1898 and Modernism

इकाई 6 20th and 21st Century: Contemporary Spain

i) The Second Republic, the Popular Front and the Spanish Civil War

Fascism, Anarchism and Socialism ii) Vanguard movements and the Generation of 1927 iii) Post-war and Contemporary Spanish Literature, Art and Culture iv) Transition to Democracy, Constitution of 1978, Spain and the European Union, Spanish Economic Miracle and Crisis v) Cinema, Performing Arts and Sports Page 2 of 4

इकाई 7 Latin America: from Pre-Hispanic to Colonial Period

i) Aztecs, Mayas, Incas and others: Religion, Cults, Monuments ii) Knowledge Systems of Indigenous Civilizations iii) Beginnings of European Invasions and Conquest iv) Colonization of America and Mestizaje, Viceroyalties and Economic Structure of Empire v) Literary and artistic expressions (Códices, crónicas, cartas and diarios, Epic and Baroque in the Americas)

इकाई 8 Independence, Formation of Nation States, Caudillos and Caciques

i) Liberators and 19th Century Statesmen of Latin America ii) Romanticism and the Novel of the Nation iii) The Mexican Revolution and Foreign Interventions in Latin America (19th and 20th Century) iv) Modernism, Latin American Identity Construction through Essays v) Regionalist, Indigenous and Gaucho Literature

इकाई 9 20th Century Latin America

i) Revolutions, Dictatorships and the Return to Democracy ii) The New Latin American Novel, the Boom and After iii) Women’s writing, Testimonio, la nueva canción and subaltern voices iv) Artistic and Literary Vanguards and Latin American Poetic Movements v) Cinema, Performing Arts and Sports Page 3 of 4

इकाई 10 Contemporary Latin America

i) Internationalisation, Regional Integration, Indigenous Assertion and New Social Movements, De-colonial Thought ii) De-anchoring of Latin American Writing. Border and Exile Literatures iii) Experimental Texts (the Merger of Performance, Cinema and Literature) iv) Non-Fiction Writing, the nueva crónica, the Detective Novel and the New Historical Novel v) Cinema, Performing Arts and Sports Page 4 of 4