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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Students in this course learn to translate from Spanish into correct, clear, and fluent English.The course assumes a solid command of both languages.Practice includes translation of newspaper and magazine articles, commercial announcements, chapters from guidebooks, and literary selections.The broad range of materials provides exposure to different styles and levels of written Spanish.The course requires numerous short papers and one long project.Three credits.
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This course examines and analyzes film by Spanish and Latin-American directors (Bu uel, Saura, Littin, Sanjines, etc.).Students initially study films as an independent genre using specific structural form as the means of analysis (close-up, soundtrack, frame, etc.).Students then begin to formulate interpretations that move between the formal, technical composition of films and the concrete socio-historic and cultural reality to which each film refers.Course activities include screening of films, discussion of articles that deal with literary theory and analysis of film, and writing short papers.This course meets the world diversity requirement.(Prerequisite: SP 221 or permission of the instructor) Three credits.
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This course, open to juniors and seniors only, presents a thematic view of Spanish literature from its origins to the end of the 18th century.When possible, students analyze and discuss complete works in class.Students are advised to complete SP 245 or a course similar to the content of SP 245 prior to enrolling in SP 301.(Prerequisite: permission of instructor) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This critical study of the principal authors and works from European contact with indigenous cultures to the end of the 19th-century provides students with an understanding of the origins and some of the preoccupations of Spanish-American literature through critical analysis of documents of travel, discovery, descriptions of the struggles for independence, rural versus urban life, and modernismo.The course may require critical papers and oral reports.Open to juniors and seniors only.Students are advised to complete SP 245 or complete a study abroad course similar to the content of SP 245 prior to enrolling in SP 303.(Prerequisite: permission of the instructor) Three credits.
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This course examines the interaction among mass, elite, traditional, and indigenous art forms, their relationship with the dynamics of national/cultural identity in Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries, and globalization.Forms of expression include oral poetry and narrative; the folletin (19th-century melodramas by installment) to 20th-century "fotonovelas," "radionovelas," and "telenovelas"; broadsides; comics; musical and political movements such as neo-folklore, new song, Nueva Troba, and Rock Latino; artistic movements such as Mexican muralist; traditional and popular crafts; cooking; popular dance; and film.Open to juniors and seniors only.(Prerequisites: SP 253 and permission of the instructor) Three cred
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This course studies the most important literary manifestations of the 16th- and 17th- centuries' Golden Age Spanish culture, with emphasis on Cervantes, Tirso de Molina, Lope de Vega, Quevedo, Góngora, and Calderón de la Barca.Open to juniors and seniors only.(Prerequisite: permission of the instructor) Three credits
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Students study and analyze representative works of the romantic and realist movements.The course emphasizes theatre and poetry, or the novel, depending on students' needs.Juniors and seniors only.(Prerequisite: permission of the instructor) Three credits.
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This course examines works and literary movements from the early part of the 20th century (Generation of '98) to present times.Representative authors include Unamuno, Baroja, Valle-Inclán, GarcÃa Lorca, J.R.Jiménez, Cela, Laforet, Delibes, and Matute.Open to juniors and seniors only.(Prerequisite: permission of the instructor) Three credit
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3.00 Credits
This critical analysis and discussion of key words of the narrative genre emphasizes the 20th-century development of the novel and short story.Authors include Azuela, Quiroga, Borges, Bombal, Somers,Cortázar, GarcÃa Márquez, Fuentes, Ferré, and Allende.The course also considers experimental writing, the short story of fantasy, testimonio, and others, and requires critical papers and oral reports.Open to juniors and seniors only.(Prerequisite: permission of the instructor) Three credit
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This course explores the development of short prose fiction in Spain from translations of Hindu fables in the beginnings of the Middle Ages to the Golden Age (Cervantes' Novelas ejemplares) and through its full development in the 19th and 20th centuries.Open to juniors and seniors only.(Prerequisite: permission of the instructor) Three credits.
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