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

• 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 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 2022: Writers' Archives. Uses of public and private archives, with a focus on those of authors writing in Spanish from the 19th century to the present. Research projects in digital and local archives. Issues of literary biography, privacy and celebrity, historical memory.
• CAS LS 576: Topics in Spanish American Literature
  Topic for Fall 2022: How Do Multilingualism and Translation Drive Creativity? Reading contemporary authors from Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, USA, we explore post-monolingual paradigms through themes including migration, friendship, self-translation, language justice. Experimental translations from Spanish and/or Portuguese. Taught in English.
• 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.
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  • Aesthetic Exploration
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • Critical Thinking

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