Romance Studies: Hispanic Language & Literatures

• GRS LS 621: Reading Spanish for Graduate Students
  Designed to prepare graduate students for the Spanish reading exam. Develops a knowledge of the fundamentals of Spanish grammar. Practice in translating passages. No previous knowledge of Spanish required.
• GRS LS 850: Seminar: Topics in Hispanic Literature
  Two topics are offered Fall 2013. Students may take one or both for credit. Section A1: Fortunata y Jacinta ante la critica. Benito Pérez Galdós's 1886/7 novel, Fortunata y Jacinta, one of the masterpieces of the European novel, has proven to be a laboratory for contemporary critical perspectives. Class commentary on the text and representative critical studies of the work. Section B1: El Barroco de Indias.A much discussed seventeenth-century literary and artistic historical moment is studied mainly as a Spanish-American cultural expression that responds to a nascent "criollo" ideology in its conflictive dialogue with the Spanish Peninsular Baroque.
• GRS LS 951: Directed Study in Hispanic Language and Literatures
  Hours arranged.
• GRS LS 952: Directed Study in Hispanic Language and Literatures
  Hours arranged.

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