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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on understanding and analyzing short prose forms by authors from Spain and Latin America. The stories feature an array of thematic and formal elements that include language, culture, religion, politics, gender, and economic conditions, while the studied authors represent a diversity of cultural, ethnic, and literary backgrounds. Students learn to analyze narrative techniques through theoretical and practical criticism of the genre while continuing to refine their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Prerequisites: SPAN 302 or consent of the instructor. 3 semester hours
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An introduction to the literature of Spain from its inception in the jarchas to 1700. Readings include selections from epic and lyric poetry, ballads, drama, and prose forms. Coursework focuses on the ability to read and to discuss literature critically. 3 semester hours
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This course continues the exploration of Spanish literature from 1700 to the present with the writings of representative authors and movements including Romanticism, the Generation of '98, the Generation of '27, and literature of post-Civil War Spain. Coursework emphasizes critical evaluation and appreciation of the Peninsular literary tradition. 3 semester hours
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This course surveys the major works of Latin American literature written between approximately 1492 and 1810. The course begins with an examination of the chronicles that document the first European encounters with the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Students read selections by major writers of the colonial period that feature the prominent themes of identity, class, race, gender, violence, miscegenation, and an emergent Latin American consciousness. These works are interpreted according to the artistic and ideological requirements of the Renaissance, baroque, and neoclassical periods. This course is required for students seeking secondary education certification in Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 302 or permission of instructor. 3 semester hours
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This course surveys the major works of Latin American literature since 1810, when the first independent Latin American republics were founded. Students will learn the characteristics of the romantic, realist, naturalist, and modernist literary periods, and who the major exponents of these periods were. As the course moves further into the 20th century, students continue to read works of poetry, drama, essay, and narrative, and study the literary and commercial phenomenon known as the "Boom."This section of the course focuses on the function of literature within contemporary society by contrasting the artistic and ideological objectives of the magical and social realist genres. This course is required for students seeking secondary education certification in Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 302 or permission of instructor. 3 semester hours
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A detailed discussion and analysis of the Quijote, with reference to the novelas ejemplares and the entremeses. 3 semester hours
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An introduction to the Golden Age Theater with special emphasis on the drama of Lope de Vega and the influence of his Arte nuevo de hacer comedias on other major dramatists, including Tirso de Molina, Ruiz de Alarcón and Calderón de la Barca. 3semester hours
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The development of modern Spanish drama from Romanticism to the works of Paso, Sastre, and Buero Vallejo is taught. Given in alternate years. 3 semester hours
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Topics vary but can include pre-Columbian works, early chronicles, and literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to modern Latin American fiction with particular emphasis on literature beginning with the 1940s. Novels as well as short fiction are read and analyzed. Writers such as García Márquez, Fuentes, Borges, Vargas Llosa,María Luisa Bombal, Isabel Allende, and others will be discussed. 3 semester hours
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