Spanish

This course is divided into three parts and offers a comparative study of Spanish literature and its relationship with performing arts, film, and painting. Each of the three parts compares Spanish literature to another art form over the course of several centuries and various art movements or styles.

Through this course students learn the varieties and uses of spoken Spanish in different communicative situations. Students analyze the proper characteristics of oral language in comparison to the written language, and colloquial register is specifically studied. 

This course provides a study of romantic, modern, and regionalist Latin American literature. Topics include: romanticism in America; costumbrismo (traditional and comedy); MARTIN FIERRO and "gauchoesque" literature; realism and naturalism; modernism ; post-modernist poetry; regional narrative; fantasy novels and stories.

This course offers a study of the Spanish language, including the historical and cultural contexts for language development and evolution, from Latin to medieval and classical Spanish, and finally to Contemporary Spanish.

Using a variety of texts and genres as case studies (including the short story, novel, theater, and poetry), this course explores the way in which 20th-century writers in the Hispanic world have reflected upon their social and cultural realities. Through an examination of new aesthetic trends and new treatments of stock themes such as religion, politics, and love, it appraises the very characteristics of modern Latin American and Peninsular Spanish cultures.

This intensive language course prepares students for daily life in Spain by emphasizing their level of Spanish in communication and interactions in everyday settings. This course focuses on Spanish language at the intermediate level with special emphasis on grammar, vocabulary, conversation and composition as well as basic Catalan. It includes organized visits to cultural areas in Barcelona (La Pedrera, Sagrada Familia, Park Güell, Cathedral of Barcelona, and the Jewish Quarter). Assessment: Class participation, weekly assignments, final exam.