Courses

• 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
  The evolution from Latin to Spanish including developments due to external factors such as foreign invasions, contacts with France, and the conquest of America. Analysis of the historical and cultural contexts in which this evolution occurred.
• CAS LS 505: Topics in Spanish Linguistics
  Topics vary.
• CAS LS 507: 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. Conducted in Spanish. Also offered as CAS LX 507.
• CAS LS 508: 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. Conducted in Spanish. Also offered as CAS LX 508.
• CAS LS 554: Jorge Luis Borges
  Hoaxes, plagiarism, rumors, gossip turned into fact, characters and plots emerging from sources as diverse as Cervantes, Poe, Kafka, Emerson, and Macedonio are some of the elements of this kaleidoscopic consideration of the poetry and prose of Jorge Luis Borges. Also offered as CAS XL 470 C1.
• 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 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 572: The Spanish American Colonial Experience: Early Texts, New Interpretations
  Analysis of early texts that contributed to Europe's perception of the American continent and of modern literary works from Spanish America that re-examine the European view. Authors include Columbus, Cabeza de Vaca, Balboa, Carpentier, Posse, and Saer.
• CAS LS 575: Topics in Peninsular Literature
  Topic for Fall 2014: Spanish Poetry through Translation. How poems "mean" across languages. Writing about translation from Octavio Paz and Ortega y Gasset to Lawrence Venuti and Efraín Kristal. Exercises in translation, imitation, and annotation; projects; critique of written work. Spanish and English.
• CAS LS 576: Topics in Spanish American Literature
  Topic for Spring 2015: TBA.
• 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
  This course explores urban experience in Mexico City from the literary, the cinematic and the theoretical perspective. Focus on literary and filmic discourses about this city during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Authors include Gutierrez Najera, Bunuel, and Ripstein.
• CAS LT 111: First-Semester Turkish
  Introduction to spoken and written Turkish and fundamentals of Turkish grammar, with oral drills and written exercises.
• CAS LT 112: Second-Semester Turkish
  Completes introduction to modern Turkish grammar, with emphasis on development of aural and written comprehension, as well as writing and speaking abilities.
• CAS LT 211: Third-Semester Turkish
  Further, intermediate-level, development of Turkish language skills through textbooks, authentic readings including literary works, internet-based exercises, and the use of Turkish audio and visual materials.
• CAS LT 212: Fourth-Semester Turkish
  Completes presentation of structures of Turkish, to "intermediate-high" levels of proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
• CAS LT 303: Advanced Turkish I
  Advanced Turkish, concentrating on all four communicative skills, diverse registers, and idioms. Exposure to literature, media and other cultural materials.
• CAS LT 491: Ds Turkish
  

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