This course addresses the first part of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quijote de la Mancha, which consists of 52 chapters. In order to win the Palmerín de Inglaterra medal you must accumulate points by successfully completing the course activities. You will contemplate Cervantes’s representations of universal values by analyzing dynamic visual scenarios and discussing a wide range of literary aspects of the novel, such as its themes, characters, metaphors, plots, and symbols.

Latest episodes of the podcast UFM Don Quijote Part I - Chapters 29 - 52

• Lesson 1: Dorotea becomes Princess Micomicona
• Lesson 2: Sancho the slaver
• Lesson 3: The great kingdom of Micomicón
• Lesson 4: Sanchos's embassy
• Lesson 5: Andrés disillusions Don Quijote
• Lesson 6: The beauty of the novels of chivalry
• Lesson 7: The literary debate between the innkeeper and the priest
• Lesson 8: The Novel of the Curious Impertinent
• Lesson 9: Anselmo discovers Lontario's betrayal
• Lesson 10: “Camila surrendered, surrender did Camila...”
• Lesson 11: Camila's performance
• Lesson 12: “I was the author of my own disgrace”
• Lesson 13: The four horsemen
• Lesson 14: Anagnorisis
• Lesson 15: The metamorphosis of Princess Micomicona
• Lesson 16: The arrival of the Captive and Zoraida-Mary
• Lesson 17: Don Quijote’s discourse on arms and letters
• Lesson 18: The Captive’s Tale
• Lesson 19: The new knight
• Lesson 20: A chance at freedom
• Lesson 21: Zoraida-María, renegade Mooress
• Lesson 22: Escape from Algiers
• Lesson 23: Arrival in Spain
• Lesson 24: The inn: a place of magical encounters
• Lesson 25: Mule-boy or “Mariner of Love”
• Lesson 26: Maritornes's trap
• Lesson 27: Don Quijote, the innkeeper, and two guests
• Lesson 28: The debate over the “bashelmet”
• Lesson 29: Andalusian labyrinth
• Lesson 30: Sancho's ass finally reappears
• Lesson 31: The prophecy
• Lesson 32: Don Quijote's cage
• Lesson 33: The enchantment of Don Quijote
• Lesson 34: "a certain temptation to write a book of chivalry"
• Lesson 35: Don Quijote and the canon of Toledo
• Lesson 36: “The Pass of Honor”
• Lesson 37: “The Adventure of the Knight of the Lake”
• Lesson 38: “The spotted she-goat”
• Lesson 39: Eugenio, Anselmo, Vicente, and Leandra
• Lesson 40: Don Quijote attacks the penitents
• Lesson 41
• Lesson 42