SPAN 550 MEDIEVAL and VERY EARLY MODERN SPANISH LITERATURE (3 credits)
Mr. Gerli

The course will deal with the "canonical" works of the Iberian Middle Ages and provide an overview of current thinking regarding their nature and origin, while at the same time seeking to interrogate many of the prevailing assumptions and received ideas of Spanish literary historiography. Works and topics to be addressed are: the medieval Iberian lyric in its Pan-European context plus its problematic connection to Arabic muwashahat (i.e., the kharjas); the Castilian epic, especially the Poema de Mio Cid, in relation to the Romance epic in general; clerical poetry and the rise of literacy (Berceo, the so-called mester de clerecía, and the Libro de buen amor); the institutional rise and uses of vernacular prose (Alfonso X and the discourses of cultural authority: historiography, law, and science); the advent of imaginative prose and the class interests of the aristocracy (Don Juan Manuel and El conde Lucanor); medieval quest, sentimental, and etiological romance (Libro del cavallero Zifar, Cárcel de Amor, Estoria de la linda Melusina); and, finally, humanistic comedy (Celestina) and courtly culture.

SPAN 580 LATIN AMERICA COLONIAL LITERATURE (3 credits)
Ms. Hill

Prerequisites: Span 330 and Span 343 or equivalent.
This is a crash course in colonial Spanish-American literature for M.A. candidates and Distinguished Majors in Spanish. Our readings will include poems by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juan del Valle y Caviedes and Bernardo Balbuena; theatre by Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo and Santiago de Pita; selections by Hernán Cortés and Christopher Columbus. Evaluation based on individual and group participation, research paper, final exam.

SPAN 582 LATIN AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE (3 credits)
Mr. Haberly

SPAN 727 LATIN AMERICA POST BOOM & NEW TENDENCIES
(3 credits)
Mr. Giardinelli, visiting professor, Argentina

SPAN 730 HISTORY of the LANGUAGE (3 credits)
Mr. Rini

This course is intended to provide the student with an introduction to the history of the Spanish language and to familiarize the student with the structure of Old Spanish in order to facilitate the reading of Old Spanish texts. The point of departure for class lectures and discussions will be selected texts, most of which come directly from the M.A. reading list. The grade will be based on several in-class exams.

SPAN 755 GOLDEN AGE POETRY (3 credits)
Mr. Padrón

This course will be devoted to the study of the major lyric poets of the Renaissance and Baroque periods of Spanish literature - Garcilaso de la Vega, Fernando de Herrera, San Juan de la Cruz, Luis de Góngora and Francisco de Quevedo. The course will be devoted primarily to close readings of individual poetic texts, linked together through a consideration of the theory and practice of poetic imitation. The course will emphasize issues of subjectivity and gender, as well as of national and poetic identity. Some consideration will be given to the poetic theories of the time. Course requirements will include several short writing assignments and a term paper.

SPAN 770 SPANISH POETRY FROM 1898 TO 1936: TRENDS AND TRANSITIONS (3 credits)
Mr. Anderson

This course will focus on the numerous different styles of poetry produced between 1898 and 1936 in Spain and attempt to account for the shifts in orientation that occurred over these years. Taking as a starting-point Spanish "modernismo" and the Generation of '98, we shall examine the issue of the influence of Latin American "modernismo" on Spain (e.g. Salvador Rueda), and the evolution of poets out of "modernismo" into the Generation of '98 (e.g. Antonio Machado) or into a unique, independent voice (e.g. Juan Ramón Jiménez). Subsequently, we shall consider the arrival and impact in Spain of the European avant-garde (Ultra, Buñuel, Dalí, etc.), and the emergence and consolidation of the Generation of '27 (Guillén, Salinas, Lorca, etc.). Later in the semester we shall trace the diverging paths of Generation of '27 authors and the influence of new social and political pressures (Alberti, Prados, etc.) in the years before the outbreak of the Civil War. A number of brief class presentations and a substantial end-of-semester research paper will be required.

SPAN 778 MODERN NOVEL: MARGINALITY and MODERNITY
Mr. Pope

This seminar will study imagination, memory, and marginality as fundamental elements of the recent Spanish novel. Authors studied will be Miguel Delibes, Carmen Martín Gaite, Juan Marsé, Juan Goytisolo, and Antonio Muñoz Molina. Class presentations, essay, and final exam.

SPAN 786 WOMEN and WRITING in LATIN AMERICA (3 credits)
Ms. Lagos

This course will focus on the analysis of texts by Latin American women published in the second half of the twentieth century, especially in the last decades. Topics such as growing up female, women in relationships, love and power, women in politics, and strategies of literary representation will be examined. We will read works by Rosario Castellanos, Elena Garro, Sylvia Molloy, Luisa Valenzuela, Rosario Ferré, Griselda Gambaro, Diamela Eltit, and also narratives by young writers. Readings will include theoretical texts dealing with gender theory. The final grade will be based on class participation, one class presentation, one take home exam and a term paper.

SPAN 821 PRACTICUM in TEACHING (2 credits)
Ms. Scida

A required course for all new teaching assistants in Spanish. Topics include methods, and approaches of teaching languages, teaching culture and the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing), language testing. Theories of second language acquisition are considered as well as confronting practical issues that arise in the classroom.