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3.00 Credits
Prof. Bass, Prof. Charles, Prof. Dangler, Prof. Miller, Prof. T. Soufas, Prof. Sullivan. Pre-requisite: SPAN 327, 328, 329, or 330. SPAN 404 is an introduction to the literature and critical issues of early Hispanic cultures until 1700. Students acquire fundamental skills in literary and critical analysis, as well as a basic understanding of key cultural topics, such as medieval convivencia, the social order in early modern Spain, and indigenous concerns in colonial Latin America. Note: For majors in Spanish 404 and 405 are prerequisites for all other courses at the 400 level and above. These two courses may be taken in any order or concurrently. Once you have completed one you can register simultaneously for the second required course and another 400 level course of your choice.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar, Prof. Davis, Prof. Gómez, Prof. Miller, Prof. Pavlovic, Prof. Shea, Prof. C. Soufas, Prof. Rivera-DÃaz. Pre-requisite: SPAN 327, 328, 329, or 330. SPAN 405 is an introduction to the literature and critical issues of modern Hispanic cultures from 1700 to the present. Students acquire fundamental skills in literary and critical analysis, as well as a basic understanding of key cultural topics, such as nation-building, immigration, and women in Hispanic societies. Note: For majors in Spanish 404 and 405 are prerequisites for all other courses at the 400 level and above. These two courses may be taken in any order or concurrently. Once you have completed one you can register simultaneously for the second required course and another 400 level course of your choice.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar, Prof. Bass, Prof. Dangler, Prof. Miller, Prof. Pavlovic, Prof. Shea. This course focuses on issues of gender and sexuality in Spain and/or Latin America with emphasis on one area or the other depending of the staffing in a given year. It includes consideration of literary and other texts, including popular music, art, and cinema.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar, Prof. Gómez, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera-DÃaz. Major authors of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries, including MartÃ, DarÃo, Vallejo, Alfonso Reyes, Borges, Rulfo, Paz, and Carpentier.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar, Prof. Charles, Prof. Gómez, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera-DÃaz. The chief problems of Latin American society as reflected in poetry, short fiction, essay, and theatre. Representative works concerning the Mexican revolution; the social status of women, Indians and blacks; the life of urban and rural working classes; tyranny and political repression. Offered: Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar, Prof. Charles, Prof. Gómez, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera-DÃaz. Readings in Spanish American stories, essays, and poems, focusing on a topic of historical and cultural importance. Some themes: women in Spanish American literature, regionalism and indigenismo, Afro-Latin American writing, testimonio. The precise topic varies from year to year.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Charles. This course satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. Introduction to the literary monuments and cultural history of colonial Spanish America (1492-1815), with special focus on the relationship between first-person narration and Spanish legal traditions. Cultural icons of the colonial period to be studied include Hernán Cortés, Ã
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Davis, Prof. Pavlovic, Prof. C. Soufas. Selections from the writings in all genres from the Generation of 1898 to the present.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Dunn, Prof. Miller. This course examines history, literature, and culture of Afro-Latin Americans from the colonial period up to the present. Throughout the course, students read articles concerning slavery, race relations, Afro-Atlantic religions, music, and Black political movements in Latin America. These readings provide socio-cultural context from the analysis of selected literary texts.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Pavlovic. The development of the cinema in Spain from its origins to the present. Contextual topics such as the effects of civil war and censorship are discussed. Emphasis on a theoretical approach to the medium, with close analysis of individual films by directors such as Buñuel, Saura, Erice, and Almodóvar, among others.
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