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  • CAS LS 491: Directed Study: Spanish
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of department and CAS Academic Advising, 100 Bay State Rd., Ro om 401. - Application form available in CAS Academic Advising.
  • CAS LS 492: Directed Study: Spanish
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of department and CAS Academic Advising, 100 Bay State Rd., Ro om 401. - Application form available in CAS Academic Advising.
  • CAS LS 507: The Sounds of Spanish
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLX250) AND one LS 300-level language course; or consent of instructor. - 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
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS350) and at least two 400-level LS course. - 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, Góngora, and Quevedo.
  • CAS LS 575: Topics in Peninsular Literature
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS350) and two LS 400-level literature courses or consent of the instructor. - May be repeated for credit as topic varies. Topic for Spring 2024: A review of Madrid, Spain as an emerging urban and cultural center in Europe as conceptualized through the literature, history, and art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  • CAS LS 576: Topics in Spanish American Literature
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS350) and two 400-level LS literature courses; or consent of instructor. - Topic for Fall 2024: Writing the Nation. This course focuses on the intersection between nation-building and “national novels” in nineteenth-century Latin America. We approach novels from different national contexts to uncover the fundamental role of fiction in “writing” the nation.
  • CAS LS 579: Topics in Hispanic Cinemas
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS350) and at least two 400-level LS course. - 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 2024: The Unthinkable – How Latin American Cinema Represents and Produces Reality. This course examines audiovisual works that approach experiences in Latin America that defy representation, such as state violence, memory, posthuman phenomena, physical and affective traumas. It explores how directors deployed aesthetic techniques to represent a reality doomed to be unthinkable. 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
    • Critical Thinking
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • CAS LS 606: Spanish Translation Workshop
    Graduate Prerequisite: Advanced proficiency in Spanish. - Advanced study of the Spanish language through the translation of written texts. Analysis of the theory and practice of translation as a catalyst of cultural transfer. Taught in Spanish.
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
    • Oral and/or Signed Communication
  • CAS 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.
  • CAS LS 850: Seminar: Theories of Literature
    Satisfies department theory requirement. Topic for Fall 2024: Literary Theories & Critical Practices. Traces, explores, and equips students to work with literary theories and critical methodologies, from influential twentieth-century works to the most recent trends in gender and sexuality studies, ecocriticism, disability studies, and critical race studies.
  • CAS LS 860: Seminar: Topics in Hispanic Literature
    May be repeated for credit if topic is different. Topics for Fall 2024: Section A1: Fictions of Authenticity in XXth and XXI Century Latin American Literature. How is voice produced in certain texts? Is there a privileged language to persuade readers, create subjectivity, celebrate truth and understand its betrayals? Are authenticity and truth comparable? Readings include Borges, Donoso, Cortázar, Ocampo, Pizarnik, Puig among others. Section B1: TBA.
  • CAS LS 951: Directed Study in Hispanic Language and Literatures
    Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor and department. - Hours arranged.
  • CAS LS 952: Directed Study in Hispanic Language and Literatures
    Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor and department. - Hours arranged.
  • CAS LT 111: First-Semester Turkish
    Introduction to spoken and written Turkish and fundamentals of Turkish grammar, with oral drills and written exercises. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
    • The Individual in Community
  • CAS LT 112: Second-Semester Turkish
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLT111) or equivalent. - Completes introduction to modern Turkish grammar, with emphasis on development of aural and written comprehension, as well as writing and speaking abilities. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
    • The Individual in Community
  • CAS LT 211: Third-Semester Turkish
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLT112) or equivalent. - Further, intermediate-level, development of Turkish language skills through textbooks and readings including literary works, internet-based exercises, and Turkish audio and visual materials. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
    • The Individual in Community
  • CAS LT 212: Fourth-Semester Turkish
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLT211) or consent of instructor. - Completes presentation of structures of Turkish. Students achieve "intermediate-high" levels of proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community.
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
    • The Individual in Community
  • CAS LT 303: Understanding Modern Turkey through Film and Literature
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLT212) - Exploration of contemporary Turkish culture and society through an examination of the literature, music, film, and cuisine of Republican Turkey. Students will gain a deeper understanding of complex issues faced by Turkish people and society while improving their Turkish language skills. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
    • Oral and/or Signed Communication
  • CAS LT 304: Turkey in the Middle East: A Content-Based Language Course
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLT303) or consent of instructor. - Students develop their linguistic skills and cultural knowledge, especially the ability to discuss topics of Turkish national and international interest, by studying the history and unique aspects of Turkish-Middle Eastern borders. Texts include Turkish media, films, songs, and historical documents.
  • CAS LT 388: World Cities: Istanbul
    An examination of Istanbul in the global imaginary as it transformed from the Capital of the Ottoman Empire to the cultural capital of the Republic of Turkey through critical analysis of visual and literary texts. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy.
    • Digital/Multimedia Expression
    • Historical Consciousness
    • Research and Information Literacy

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