Spanish

This course examines literature from the Spanish Golden Age with an emphasis on the playwrights and plays that originated during this time. Topics include theory and dramatic scenery in the 16th and 17th century; drama genres of the Renaissance; the theater of Miguel de Cervantes; Lope de Vega's New Comedy; Calderon de la Barca; the birth of the Baroque feast; myths of classical Spanish theater. 

The course offers a theoretical and practical introduction to translation and translation studies. It discusses seminal theorists on the topic of translation including Jakobson, Benjamin, Schleiermacher, and Tymoczko. This course examines key translation concepts such as fidelity, loyalty, equivalence, and types of translation. 

This course seeks to develop verbal and written skills at the advanced level. By the end of the course, students will be able to communicate freely with native speakers. Textual analysis and formal academic writing are required. Various aspects of Chilean culture are also examined. * Units reduced to correspond with UC quarter units for comparable course work.

This course offers an overview of Spanish-language literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, including peninsular and Latin American literature. Topics include: post-Renaissance and Baroque literature; Spanish Golden Age theater; Conceptism and Gongorism; the essay genre; the epistolary genre and social criticism; the fabulist genre in the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism; the dramatic genre.

The course focuses on five prominent Chilean authors who write fiction based on historical Chilean women. It explores the relationship between literature and historical reality, with writers assuming very different ways of understanding that relationship. Topics include: the new historical novel in Chilean literature; representation of the female historical subject in the current Chilean novel; the concepts of popular consciousness, memory, and transtextuality; the relationship between history and memory.

This course is broadly equivalent to A1 Basic User, Breakthrough Level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

This course examines characteristics of Mexican literature in the first half of the 19th century, between the beginning of Independence to the Restored Republic, relating literary discourse and trends with political events and the cultural panorama. Topics covered include: "encyclopedist thinking" and neoclassical rhetoric; the neoclassicists and romanticists (origins, characteristics of nationalistic poetry, the Academy of Letran); life in Mexico; prose. Authors covered may include: J. J. Fernández de Lizardi, Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza, Ignacio Rodríguez Galván and Fernando Calderón; Guillermo Prieto; Vicente Riva Palacio; Luis G. Inclán; Manuel Payno; Ignacio Manuel Altamirano; José Joaquín Pesado; José Justo Gómez.