Courses

• CAS LS 457: Twentieth Century Spanish American Literature
  Representative literary works written in Spanish America during the twentieth century. Special attention to the relationship between modernity and identity, and the connection of literature with other cultural expressions, particularly film.
• CAS LS 491: Directed Study: Spanish
  Application form available in the department.
• CAS LS 492: Directed Study: Spanish
  Application form available in the department.
• CAS LS 504: History of the Spanish Language
  Study of the structure of sounds, general concepts of language change, and specific phonological, morphological, and syntactic changes in the history of Spanish. Begins with the modern language and proceeds to successively earlier stages; includes reading of representative medieval and dialectal texts.
• CAS LS 552: Lorca and His Contemporaries
  The lyric poetry of Federico García Lorca in relation to the aesthetic movements in Spain and in Europe during the first third of the twentieth century.
• CAS LS 554: Jorge Luis Borges
  Close readings of essays, stories, and poems from Borges' complete works. Special attention is given to his sense of humor as it serves to define notions of literature, time, and the uncanny.
• CAS LS 561: The Generation of 1898
  Readings of major works from the group of writers including Ramon del Valle-Inclán, Miguel de Unamuno, Pío Baroja, "Azorín," and Antonio Machado. Consideration of their relation to European Modernism.
• CAS LS 564: Spanish Realism
  The novels of Fernán Caballero, Valera, Pardo-Bazán, "Clarín," Galdós, and others. Theoretical and practical perspectives on "Realism" as an aesthetic and a literary form. Relationship of Spanish currents to other currents of European Realism in the nineteenth century.
• CAS LS 565: The Spanish Picaresque Novel
  Development of the Spanish picaresque in relation to social and historical context. Special attention to its place in the evolution of the modern novel. Close study of Lazarillo de Tormes, Estebanillo González, works by Alemán, Cervantes, Quevedo, López de Ubeda.
• CAS LS 566: Spanish Romanticism
  Origins and evolution of the Spanish Romantic movement and its relation to European Romanticism. Readings in theatre, poetry, and prose include Rivas, Espronceda, García Gutiérrez, Hartzenbusch, Zorilla, Larra, Bécquer, and others.
• CAS LS 568: Prose Fiction of the Spanish Middle Ages
  Development of prose fiction in the Middle Ages, from the short story to the novel. Close reading of major works: Don Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor; Diego de San Pedro's Cárcel de amor; and Fernando de Rojas's La Celestina.
• CAS LS 569: Nineteenth-Century Spanish-American Literature
  Major works from the Romantic and Realist/Naturalist periods. Emphasis on Spanish America's quest for cultural independence; relationships with European artistic and literary trends. Authors include Issacs, Palma, Hernández, Blest Gana, Cambaceres, Altamirano, and Martí.
• CAS LS 570: Don Quixote
  Close thematic, stylistic, and structural analysis of Cervantes's masterpiece. Attention to its contributions to the development of the modern novel as well as to its place within the literary context of its day.
• CAS LS 573: Spanish-American Literary Modernismo and Modernization
  Study of Spanish-American modernismo (1880-1910) in its socioeconomic context. Focus on the ambiguity of an art for art's sake movement that was frequently expressed in popular journalism.
• CAS LS 575: Topics in Peninsular Literature
  Topic for Fall 2011: Lives, Letters, and Archives. Letters and personal documents help to capture the lives of modern Spanish-language poets. Fiction about archives, discussion of pertinent issues: secrecy and disclosure, biographers' use of letters, and the cultural politics of what gets included in, and excluded from, literary archives.
• CAS LS 576: Topics in Spanish American Literature
  Topic for Fall 2011: The Fantastic in Literature and Film. We shall study works by Borges, Ocampo, Bioy Casares, Cortázar, and Felisberto Hernández as well as films that question our perceptions of the differences between the real and the impossible.
• CAS LS 578: Spanish Drama of the Golden Age
  Close thematic, stylistic, and structural analysis of works by Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón, and Alarcón. Consideration of the social and historical background that led to the flourishing of the Spanish stage.
• CAS LS 579: Topics in Hispanic Cinemas
  Cinema as a perspective from which to analyze cultural and socio-political developments within the Spanish-speaking world. Topics drawn from the history of specific national cinemas, individual filmmakers or particular "schools," relations between literature and film, and political uses of film.
• CAS LS 580: Mexico City in Literature and Film
  Study of literary and cinematic representations of Mexico City by authors and directors including Gamboa, Fuentes, and Buñuel. Emphasis on the rise of the city as a myth of modernity during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• CAS LT 111: First-Semester Turkish
  Introduction to spoken and written Turkish and fundamentals of Turkish grammar, with oral drills and written exercises.

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