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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course endeavors to study writings created in New Mexico from different sources: personal journals, historical accounts, newspaper articles, and cultural and literary renditions in all genres. Special attention will be devoted to the poetry of the Penitentes and the Oral Tradition of New Mexico's Religious Theater during the 19th century. This course will be taught in Spanish. Prerequisite: Span 325 and Span 400.
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3.00 Credits
Topic to be selected by instructor. Prerequisite: Span 201, Span 202, and Span 325.
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3.00 Credits
The principal purpose of the course is to study the Nobel Prize Laureates from Spain and/or Spanish America to ascertain their literary greatness within the genre each one represents in Europe and the Western Hemisphere. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Span 201, Span 202, and Span 325.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines in depth literature written in Spain and in Spanish speaking America prior to and during Latin America's colonial period, which would, by geographical extension, include the American Southwest. Texts will include European works which influenced the conquistadors' ideology, and poetry, letters, diaries, and historical chronicles of Latin America and the Southwest from 1492 until the beginning of the 19th century. Prerequisite: Span 201, Span 202, and Span 325.
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3.00 Credits
A study of Hispanic southwestern literature written in English and in Spanish. The origins and evolution of this literature are discussed, from the early Spanish exploration, with Gaspar Perez de Villagra's Historia de la Nueva Mexico, to the most recent manifestations of the novel. Prerequisite: Span 201, Span 202, and Span 325.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the different genres of New Mexican and southwestern folklore along with the analysis of their popular, cultural, and literary values. Prerequi site: Span 201, Span 202, and Span 325.
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the role and contributions of Hispanic women from colonial times to the present. The common-ordinary woman, as well as the well-to-do will be studied from a social, cultural, political, and educational perspective. Prerequisite: Span 325, 400, and 433.
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the development of the Spanish language from Latin to the present. It analyzes the cultural, literary and historical factors that have contributed to its evolution. The transformations that the language undergoes in a different linguistic settings are studied in a section on sociolinguistics issues of the U.S. southwest Spanish. This course will be taught in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
A study of major novelists who spearheaded this genre. This includes premier novelists ranging from the pioneers Tomas Rivera, Rolando Hinojosa Smith, Rudolfo Anaya, Ron Arias, Raymond Barrio, Nash Candelaria and Orlando Romero to highly acclaimed female novelists, among them Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Helena Maria Viramontes, Mary Helen Ponce, and Demetria Martinez. Prerequisite: Span 202, Span 325, and Span 433.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the literary production of Hispanic women in the U.S. Gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic issues are analyzed. Through their writings these women are active in developing new categories of knowledge and creative expression, which demonstrate how Hispanic women position themselves and are positioned within the contexts of history, culture, and society. Prerequisite: Span 201, Span 202, and Span 325.
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