Romance Studies

• CAS LP 952: Directed Study: Portuguese
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of instructor. - Hours arranged. Consent of instructor and department.
• 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.
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  • 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 2025: Section A1: Intimacy, Urban Speech, and Literary Language. Readings by Roberto Arlt, tango lyricists, Juan Gelman, Aurora Venturini, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Cabrera Infante and others. Section B1: This seminar focuses on Latin American Literary and Cultural production around ecocritical issues. We read chronicles, novels, poems and short stories produced between the nineteenth and the twenty first century alongside ecofeminist and ecocritical theory.
• 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.