SPAN 114/Spanish Literature in Translation: Don Quixote and the Discourse of Fiction (4)
SYLLABUS
Close reading and discussion of the novel by Miguel de Cervantes as a compendium of traditional Spanish and European literary forms and of the ways in which he produced them from what many consider the first modern novel.

SPAN 108B/Spanish in Performance: Spanish Theater (2)
Reading, discussion and bench performance of comic and serious short plays in Spanish. Attention will be on improving pronunciation, intonation and dramatic expression and may include writing and performing of an original skit. Plays by authors such as Paloma Pedrero, García Lorca, Cervantes, Julio Mata. No prior experience in theater is required.

SPAN 108A/Spanish in Performance: Hispanic Film and Society (2)
A study of Spanish and Latin-American films concentrating on contemporary issues of their cultures and societies. Some text-based materials such as screen plays, fiction, and reviews, as well as screenings of films, provide the basis for discussion of themes relevant to film as industry and as artistic production. Will include films by directors such as Buñuel, Berlanga, Almodóvar, Rodríguez.

SPAN 135/Constructing Spain: Conquest, Reconquest and the Inquisition (4)
SYLLABUS
A study of ethnic diversity in early Spain representing Arabic, Jewish and Christian cultures and of the Inquisition as a form of resistance to a pluralistic national identity. Readings will include particular expressions of ethnicity such as Mozarabic poetry, Sephardic narratives, epic poetry and ballads as well as documents of and responses to the Inquisition.

SPAN 137/Love, Sex, and Spirituality in Early Modern Spain (4)
SYLLABUS
This course will study the theme of love--both human and divine--in poetry, drama, and narrative from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. This period coincides with Spain's unification and its imperial enterprises in the New World and Europe, as well as the Counter Reformation. In poetry, drama and fictional narrative the love of wo(man) and of God found simultaneous expression in this tumultuous historical context of earthly and spiritual concerns. Authors may include Fernando de Rojas, Garcilaso de la Vega, Fray Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz, Santa Teresa, María de Zayas, Cervantes.

SPAN 138/Contextualizing Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain (4)
SYLLABUS
A study of gender roles and their permutations in Spanish literature and other cultural productions from the Romantic period to the turn of the century. Works to be read may include plays such as Don Juan Tenorio, and the fiction of Pérez Galdós and Emilia Pardo Bazán.

SPAN 139/War and Imagination: The Spanish Civil War in Literature and Art (4)
SYLLABUS
The defining event of 20th-century Spain and a prelude to Europe's 2nd World War, the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), captured world attention and the imagination of writers. Course will study the artistic production (literature, art and music) in Spain and Spanish America which show the rhetoric of war and propaganda. Authors may include Manuel and Antonio Machado, Neruda, Vallejo, and Alberti.