Courses

• CAS LS 450: Contemporary Spanish Literature
  Topic for Spring 2018: Recent Spanish Fiction: Memory and the Civil War. A reading of recent Spanish works, dealing with the topic of the Spanish Civil War and its presence in contemporary Spain. Authors included are: Francisco Ayala, Javier Cercas, Isaac Rosa, Almudena Grandes.
• CAS LS 452: Topics in Latin America Literature and Culture
  Two topics are offered Spring 2019. Section A1: Between Politics and Fiction. Latin American narratives of violence and upheaval. Section B1: The Discourse of Human Rights in Latin America. Exploration of changing concepts of human rights in Latin America from the colonial encounter of Europeans and Amerindians in the sixteenth century to the globalized present.
• CAS LS 454: Survey of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish Literature
  Representative texts of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literature, including poetry, drama and the novel, as explorations of the place of the individual within the rhythms of Spain's changing cultural identity. Authors include: Larra, Galdos, Unamuno, Lorca, Vazquez Montalban.
• 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
  A linguistic approach to medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque writers. Dynamic interaction between literature and the development of the Spanish language. Focus on crucial moments in Spain's cultural and linguistic history.
• 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 CAS Academic Advising.
• CAS LS 492: Directed Study: Spanish
  Application form available in CAS Academic Advising.
• 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 383 and GRS LX 683.
• 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 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, Gongora, and Quevedo.
• 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 575: Topics in Peninsular Literature
  Topic for Fall 2018: Lives and Letters. The letter as art form and source of biography. Literary, political and ethical dimensions of the letter from the Renaissance to the present. Individual archival research projects using correspondence of Spanish-language authors from Garcilaso to Garcia Lorca.
• CAS LS 576: Topics in Spanish American Literature
  Topic for Fall 2018: Women Writers and Artists in Latin America. The politics of love, self- styling, childhood, intimacy and the construction of gender identification are addressed through Lispector, Ocampo, Venturini, Eltit, Bombal, Garro and Martel among others.
• CAS LS 578: Spanish Drama of the Golden Age
  Close thematic, stylistic, and structural analysis of works by Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderon, and Alarcon. Consideration of the social and historical background that led to the flourishing of the Spanish stage.
• 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. Topic for Spring 2018: Cuban Experimental and Revolutionary Cinema. Overview of Cuban cinema after the revolution of 1959. Focusses particularly on the forging of a new cinematic language from the Third World. Filmmakers studied: Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Nicolas Guillen Landrian, Sara Gomez, among others
• 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.

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