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3.00 Credits
Through the use of audio-visual materials, visits to museums and readings, students explore the development of Latin American civilization through artistic production. The course focuses on: the major pre-Columbian civilizations and the Indian legacy; the period of conquest and the colonial administration for three centuries; the revolutionary period and the efforts made by the different countries in order to assert the political independence and solve the present economical problems. The course is structured from an interdisciplinary perspective that emphasizes Latin American art, and includes history, geography and culture. ( Fall) (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
From a comparative point of view and using literary readings, audiovisual materials and visits to museums, this course explores the historical and cultural development of Spain not as a unity but as a multiplicity of heritages. The first part of the course focuses on modern and contemporary Spain, analyzing the evolution of the political regimes (monarchy, republic, dictatorship) that led to the tragedy of the Civil War, and the new democracy of present day Spain. The second part surveys, from a historical perspective, some of the major topics of Spanish culture as reflected in the arts. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys some of the most important novels of the 19th and 20th centuries, from realistic and naturalistic masterpieces of Galdos and Clarin, to the postmodern authors of the recent decades. Each novel will be studied in relation to its historical and cultural background. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
The aim of this course is to present the work of some outstanding women writers from Spain from a non-traditional perspective. Carefully selected narratives and poems from these writers allow the student to search for a diversity of voices in the realm of the feminine and the other. Using recent feminist theory we analyze the different discourse that unfolds in their works, opening new meanings in the study of literature. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the global vision - cultural, social and aesthetic - of black literature in Latin America presented by writers such as Cirilo Villaverde, Luis Palés Matos, NicolásGuillén and Alejo Carpentier. (Fall) (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
Through feminist and critical perspectives, this course focuses on a selection of fiction and poetry by outstanding women authors from colonial times to the present. Students will discover the different female worlds in accord with the times their works were written. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the development of dramatic genres in Spain from their early manifestations to the present avant-garde experimental plays of authors such as F. G. Lorca and F. Arrabal. We frame the works in their social and historical context, analyzing the evolution in the history of the stage and spectatorship. Visits to a Spanish theatre performance and screenings of films are included. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the close relationship between literature and political ideas in Latin America. Topics include political romanticism in nineteenth century Argentina, the Peruvian Indianista and indigenista novel, the novel of the Mexican revolution, and debates on gender issues and ideological ideas in works by Asturias, Arguedas, Scorza, Cardenal, Carpentier, Benedetti, Roa Bastos and Garcia Marquez. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on the growing body of literature written by Latinos in recent years. Explores Latino cultural identity through analysis of narrative and poetic works. Guest Latino writers will speak in two of the class sections. ( Fall) (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
A view of the genesis, development and characteristics of this literary movement in Latin American letters with special emphasis on its most representative "modernista" writers: Jos/artí, Rubén Darío, José Asunción Silva, e tc. (Spri
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