200

Prerequisite: SPAN 102 or satisfactory performance in placement examination or permission of the instructor. Credit by exam. Further development of language skills with emphasis on reading and oral participation.

Prerequisite: SPAN 201 or permission of department chair. Credit by exam. Continuation of SPAN 201.

Prerequisite: SPAN 202 or satisfactory performance on placement examination or permission of the department chair. Credit by exam. Concentration on writing, conversation and structural difficulties. Reading and discussion of cultural materials of an interdisciplinary nature. Weekly written compositions.

Prerequisite: SPAN 203 or permission of the department chair. Introduction to Spanish civilization: study of the cultural features of the Spanish language and the social, cultural and intellectual life of the Spanish people. Discussion and weekly written assignments.

Prerequisite: SPAN 203 or satisfactory performance on placement examination or permission of the department chair. An introductory course that examines texts by major Spanish writers from the Middle Ages to the Siglo de Oro. Illustrated lectures, films and selected documents of and on the period will provide the cultural background required to understand the issues found in the texts and will connect them to social, philosophical and aesthetic movements.

Prerequisite: SPAN 203 or permission of the department chair. An introductory course that analyzes literary genres and examines major Spanish texts from the Siglo de Oro through the 19th century. Illustrated lectures, films and selected documents of the period will provide the cultural background required to understand the issues found in the texts and will connect them to social, philosophical and aesthetic movements.

Prerequisite: SPAN 203 or satisfactory performance on placement examination or permission of the department chair. A selection of films and documentaries from Latin America, Spain and the United States will be discussed as social texts that articulate through different genres and époques, crucial issues of national identity, violence, repression, north/south relations, gender and memory as a collective reconstruction of the past. Directors may vary.

Prerequisites: SPAN 203 or permission of the instructor. The region of Latin America is seen through the lens of aesthetic, historical and cultural paradigms that helped shape the region. From past to present, students will be able to comprehend the significance of the colonial ties to contemporary Latin America.

Prerequisite: SPAN 203 or satisfactory performance on placement examination or permission of the department chair. 

A survey of the main trends in literary and popular culture from the 20th century. A close reading of the foundational texts of literary historiography from Modernism to Postmodernism. Discussion of the region’s key concepts: transculturation, “magical realism/marvelous real,” “Boom and Postboom,” “testimonio” and the new historical novel.