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3.00 Credits
Cross Ref: LS 215-216 Prerequisite: SPAN 201-202 or placement First semester: Intended to familiarize students with the specific terminology and techniques of using Spanish for business and commercial purposes. Also intended to help students develop the necessary skills for two-way translation (Spanish to English and English to Spanish). Second semester: Emphasis on the comparative understanding of commercial and economic theories and practices in Spanish-speaking countries.
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Close reading and analysis of selected texts in prose, poetry and drama. The primary objective of the course is to familiarize students with methods of interpretative criticism and with Spanish literary terminology. In Spanish.
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Cross Ref: LS 231-232 Designed to acquaint students with basic characteristics and major trends of Hispanic life, culture and civilization, both in Spain and Latin America. Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S. and their impact on American society are also examined. In English.
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Designed to continue development of reading skills for both majors and non-majors.
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3.00 Credits
Cross Ref: LS 390 For students majoring in Spanish for social and community service. Designed to provide students with the opportunity of working with Spanish-speaking people.
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3.00 Credits
A study of poetry as a genre and the particularities of poetry in Spanish; in-depth analysis of poets and styles of the Renaissance and Baroque periods; study of the connection between poetry and society in the 16th and 17th centuries. Readings include works by Garcilaso de la Vega, Fray Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz, Don Luis de Góngora, Lope de Vega, Francisco de Quevedo.Students will read critical and historical works on different aspects of the poetry studied. In Spanish.
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The course postulates questions around the role of literature during war and during dictatorship, the role of censorship, and the role of literature as a memento of atrocities. Authors include Federico García Lorca, Antonio Machado, Camilo José Cela,Carmen Laforet, Juan Goytisolo, José Luis Zafón, Miguel ángel Asturias, Mario Vargas Llosa, Luisa Valenzuela, Ricardo PigliaIsabel Allende, Carlos Martínez Moreno and Cristina Peri Rossi, as well as testimonies from survivors of Latin America's dirty wars. In Spanish.
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The course will study the premises of romanticism as an artistic movement and the authors and salient works of this period; it will therefore view the different ways in which the conducting ideas were incorporated, rejected or modified by each artistic production. Primary sources could include Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, José de Espronceda, José Zorrilla, Mariano José de LarrRosalía de Castro, Jose Maria Heredia, Esteban Echeverria, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Ricardo Palma, Jorge Isaacs. Critical works include works on historical background and theories on romanticism in Europe, Spain and Latin America, with particular attention to contemporary French theorists, particularly Victor Hugo, whose influence was significant among authors writing in Spanish. In Spanish.
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The course focuses on the development of the Spanish novel and its complexities, primarily the growing use and elaboration of numerous points of view and layers of narrative voices. The course will follow the evolution of the novel reaching to the novelists of the "Generación del 98." Authors include Pedro de Alarcón, José María Pereda, Benito Pérez Galdós, Leopoldo Alas "ClarEmilia Pardo Bazán, Miguel de Unamuno. Students will read critical works and literary manifests of the period by Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Friederich Engels and Guy the Maupassant. In Spanish.
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Cross Ref: LS 315 The course will focus on the Caribbean as the site of the imaginary: how Europeans in the 16th century variously conceived of the area as the site of religious Utopia as well as commercial exploitation; how Cuban and Puerto Rican authors of the 19th century simultaneously sought to achieve independence from Spain as they articulated notions of nationhood. Finally, the course will examine Cuban-American and U.S. Puerto Rican authors. The thread binding these three disparate groups together will be the concept of la nación so ada [the dreamt nation]. Authors may include: Cristóbal Colón, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, GonzaFernández de Oviedo, Fray I igo Abbad y Lasierra, Andree Pierre Ledrú, José Martí, José Gautier Benítez, Cayetano CoToste, Tato Laviera, Esmeralda Santiago, Virgil Suárez and Zoe Valdés. In Spanish or English.
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