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
  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.
• 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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