SPAN 145 A-Z - (LT) Journeys through the Spanish-speaking World

Semester Hours: 3

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SPAN 145D - (LT) Poetry of the 17th Century

In Oro y Ardor, we will review the brilliant way in which the best minds of the Spanish 17th century reduced the universe to poetry. We will carefully read a short poem per class, and through it, we will understand the Early Modern period, in which the world as we think about it today was conceived. All classes and readings are in Spanish.

SPAN 145E - Death and the Soul in Spanish Literature

This course focuses on death, the afterlife, and the soul in Spanish literature throughout history. While every period of Spanish literature will be represented, we will focus mainly on literary works written in Spain during the 19th and 20th centuries. However, we will also refer directly or indirectly to literary works written in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Students will learn how the topics of death and the soul relate to different philosophical, religious, and artistic ideas of the historical periods in which they were written. Moreover, we will learn how the different treatments of the topics of death and the soul favored some social groups over others and were, therefore, deeply political. This course, as all courses with the SPAN prefix, is taught in Spanish. This course fulfills the (LT) distribution course requirement.

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