Spanish

From the perspective of the humanities, this course explores some of the main authors who have reflected on the impact of human life on the planet and the current global environmental crisis.

This course offers a study of Latin American literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It analyzes the literature in its historical and cultural context.

This course offers practical application of linguistic, grammatical, and discursive knowledge of Spanish in oral and written expression, especially in activities directly related to the needs of academic communication. 

This course offers a study of the different literary movements, genres, and authors of 18th century Spain. 

The course provides a historical and critical analysis of 20th century Spanish literature. It examines tradition and originality in literary texts throughout history; the classical foundations of literature; the evolution of rhetorical and poetic tradition; and genre theory. Topics include the modernist revolution, the new art of the novel, the war novel and novelists of exile, the rehabilitation of realism, novel and memoir, literature and experimentation, novel and democracy, and thinking through novels.

This course examines European and Spanish culture from the Middle Ages to the Golden Age through the study of a selected set of representative literary works. It analyzes the literary texts in light of their corresponding historical, cultural, and literary contexts.

This course presents a critical analysis of Spanish Romanticism literary texts, the evolution of rhetorical and poetic tradition, and genre theory. Topics include: history, ideology, and poetics; theater and historical drama; journalism and literature; narrative prose; poetry.

This course offers 40 hours of intermediate study of Spanish language for students at a B1.1 to B2.2 level, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

This course offers a study of the poetry of Spanish-speaking Latin America from pre-Hispanic times to the beginning of the 20th century.

This course introduces the language and culture of the Hispanic world. This course is designed to help students develop the four linguistic skills in Spanish as well as to expand their cultural competency. The course focuses on the acquisition of basic structures in present tense, which is developed and reinforced in subsequent courses. This course is meant for students with no prior knowledge of the target language.