Four topics are offered 2014/2015. Students may take one, two, three, or four for credit. Fall 2014 Section A1: Africa and the Avant-garde. African art and religions influenced defining figures of Western culture from visual arts to literature and music, producing a phenomenon that touches diverse fields of knowledge such as history, anthropology, political science, cinema, philosophy, urbanism, literary criticism, ethnomusicology, and folklore. Fall 2014 Section B1: Sentimental Romance and Celestina. Explores the development of a new narrative form, the Sentimental Romance, which was one of the most innovative genres of the late Middle Ages. A study also of its parody in one of Spain's masterpieces, La Celestina. Spring 2015 Section A1: TBA. Spring 2015 Section B1: TBA.