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

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  • 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 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 568: Prose Fiction of the Spanish Middle Ages
    Explores the development of medieval Iberian prose traditions in Castilian, Latin, Arabic and Hebrew through oral storytelling, translation, and manuscript culture. Readings in genres such as framed narratives and chronicles in the context of religious, linguistic, and gender difference. Exact texts vary by semester. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • 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 Spring 2021: Poesia y politica: Unamuno, Machado, Jimenez. Readings from the poetry -- and writing about poetry -- of three modernists who dreamed of reforming Spanish life, language, and letters, public and private: Miguel de Unamuno, Antonio Machado, and Juan Ramon Jimenez.
  • CAS LS 576: Topics in Spanish American Literature
    Topic for Spring 2021: After the Conquest: Literatures of Afro-Indo-Latin- America. Surveys the literary production of Colonial Latin America privileging the under-represented voices and discursive practices that contributed decisively to the formation of the region's unique culture
  • 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 Fall 2021: An examination of politics, gender, history and culture in Latin America through recent and historical documentary films, including some by the lecturer. A particular focus on the construction of memory in the aftermath of brutal military dictatorships. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
    • Critical Thinking

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