Spanish: Language, Literature, Culture (including courses in English)

• 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.

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