Courses

• CAS LS 305: Topics in Language and Culture
  (Students who have completed CAS LS 304 or a more advanced college-level language course may not receive credit for CAS LS 305.) No more than one section of LS305 can be taken for credit. Topics for Fall 2012: Section A1: Spanish through Film and Literature. Develops written and oral skills by looking at different cultural aspects of the history of Spain through the reading of extracts of two contemporary Spanish novels and their film adaptations as well as an analysis of three other films. Section B1: TBA
• CAS LS 309: Composition for Native Speakers of Spanish
  Emphasis on written and oral skills. Contemporary literary and cultural texts used as the basis for class discussions and written exercises.
• CAS LS 350: Introduction to Analysis of Hispanic Texts
  Development of techniques for reading and interpreting Hispanic literary texts; reading of lyric poetry, drama, and fictional narrative. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS LS 401: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS LS 402: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS LS 452: Topics in Latin America Literature and Culture
  Two topics are offered 2011/2012. Students may take one or both for credit. Topic for Fall 2011: Leaving Home. Why have some leading Latin American writers such as Cortázar, Vargas Llosa, Arenas and Puig left their countries? Cultural, political, and literary realms are explored to understand the impact of forced and voluntary exile in Latin America. Topic for Spring 2012: U.S. Latino Literature. Survey course on the literature of Latinos in the U.S. from the Spanish colonial period to the present, with special attention to thematics and aesthetics of texts from different genres: memoir, essay, poetry, drama, prose fiction.
• CAS LS 454: Survey of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish Literature
  A chronological survey of Spanish literature of the last two centuries, including romanticism, realism, modernism, and contemporary Spanish literature. Readings from Larra, Zorrilla, Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Galdós, Unamuno, Lorca, Sastre, Cela, Celaya, de Otero, Rosa Montero.
• CAS LS 455: Spanish American Literature Through the Nineteenth Century
  A close reading of representative texts of Spanish American literature from early writings of discovery and conquest through the nineteenth century. Emphasis on the development of the modern novel and on Spanish America's quest for a cultural identity.
• CAS LS 456: Spanish Medieval and Golden Age Literature
  Major works from the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods. Attention to development of different genres: epic and lyric poetry, drama, and the novel. Issues of Spain's cultural history. Authors include Fernando de Rojas, Cervantes, Góngora, Lope, Quevedo, and Calderón.
• 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 505: Topics in Spanish Linguistics
  Two topics are offered 2012/2013. Students may register for one or both for credit. Fall 2012: The Sounds of Spanish. Introduction to Spanish phonetics and phonology. Covers articulatory, acoustic, and auditory phonetics, focusing on techniques for visualizing speech sounds. Examines the phonemic inventory and phonological organization of Spanish from several perspectives, including generative and articulatory phonology as well as sociolinguistics. Spring 2013: The Structure of Spanish. Introduction to Spanish morphology and syntax. Explores the structure of Spanish words, phrases, and sentences from multiple perspectives with a focus on natural language data. Examines Generative, Usage-Based, and Lexical-Functional approaches to the analysis of grammatical structure. Taught in Spanish.
• 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 557: Poetry of the Spanish Golden Age
  The development of lyric poetry during the Renaissance and the baroque period. Emphasis on close thematic, stylistic, and structural analysis of individual poems by major figures including Garcilaso, Fray Luis, San Juan de la Cruz, Góngora, and Quevedo.
• 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.

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