Spanish

This course is divided into two parts. Part one examines Spanish narrative prose of the 19th and 20th centuries, taking as thematic reference the city of Barcelona and its writers. Part two explores Latin American culture through representative artistic works (music, writing, painting, and film) and their socio-cultural and artistic framework.

This is the second half of the course "Spanish of the Americas" (ESPANYOL D'AMERICA) which explores the linguistic varieties of Spanish language in Latin America and the United States. It examines dialectal divisions; sociolinguistic aspects of communication; influence from other languages in the Americas; and Spanish in the United States.

This course explores poets and poetry of Latin America with a focus on vanguard poets and lesser-known poets of the 20th century. Topics include: vanguard poets; poetry and militancy; poetry and neurodivergence; women as poetic and political speakers in contemporary Latin American poetry; poetry of dissent; poetry, race, migration, and trans-territoriality.

This course examines the parts of speech and meanings presented in literature and mass media. Weekly topics include: the factors and functions of semiotics, poetry and rhetoric; verbal versification; meaning, reference, context, situation, and theme; verbal and visual morphology; types of speech and strategy; narration and the effects of narration; manipulations in media, meaning, and speech; figures of speech.

This course examines the Spanish short story from the Middle Ages to through the 20th century, discussing the historical context of authors and works.