Spanish

This course examines the early linguistic development of the Spanish language, with special emphasis on the sociological and historic elements that have influenced this development. It covers the basics of diachronic linguistics, the evolution from Latin to hispanicized Latin to Romance to Spanish, the Germanic and Arabic substrata of Spanish, medieval Spanish and its linguistic affinity with other Romance languages, modern Spanish including major changes of the 15th to 17th centuries, and contemporary trends and variations in the Spanish language.

This course provides a study of the theoretical and methodological approaches used in teaching and learning comprehension, oral, and written expression skills necessary for the acquisition of Spanish as a second language. It covers linguistic and non-linguistic elements of oral and written communication; the relationship between speaking and writing; conversational, standard, formal and specialized styles. 

This course discusses some of the most representative and foundational texts of the narrative genre from the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, as well as several lesser-known authors who were marginalized within the canon during the boom in Latin American literature. Topics include: the Latin American short narrative of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; an overview of the Latin American short novel-- from the late 1920s to the 1950s; the tensions of the canon and the boom (1950s and 1960s). 

This course provides a study of the poetry, short stories, and novels of Mexican literature from the 1950s onwards. It examines various literary movements, trends, and historical events during and after the Mexican Revolution. It covers the works of authors such as José Revueltas, Agustín Yáñez, Juan Rulfo, Rosario Castellanos, Carlos Fuentes, Juan José Arreola, Josefina Vicens, Inés Arredondo, Salvador Elizondo, Juan Vicente Mello, Juan García Ponce, José Emilio Pacheco, and Luis Zapata.

This course offers a study of the trajectory of the hero and this character's evolution in literature. The course is taught in three units: theory of modernity; theory of history and the novel; archetypes of the modern hero.