SPANISH 3210 Survey of Spanish Literature: 18th-20th C. (3 Credits)
This course is a basic close-up to 19th-20th C. Spanish Literature, dealing with aesthetic and literary movements, beginning with Romanticism, also studying specific authors belonging to those movements, from a practical point of view through their texts.
Prerequisite: 4 semesters of college-level Spanish.
SPANISH 3250 Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature (3 Credits)
This course gives a general overview of the twentieth century, starting with a chronological division by aesthetic and literary movements, expanding later the information on authors and their texts. These texts will show the different literary genres most used in this period of time. The different movements and authors will be tied in together with most important historical events of Spanish History: 1898 Crisis, the Civil War, Franco´s Dictatorship.
Prerequisite: 5 semesters of college-level Spanish.
SPANISH 3280 Women in Spanish Literature (3 Credits)
This course focuses on the analysis of works written by Spanish women from the Golden Age to the present day, putting emphasis on the progressive change in the women's role in literature and in Spanish society today.
Prerequisite: 5 semesters of college-level Spanish.
SPANISH 4270 Cervantes (3 Credits)
This course could be considered a monographic study about the author, not only as author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, but also as author of other important works that are relevant to Spanish literature. We will connect his personal life as the prototype of a Spanish renaissance man and the realization of his work.
Prerequisite: 5 semesters of college-level Spanish.