SPAN 145 A-Z - (LT) Journeys through the Spanish-speaking WorldSemester Hours: 3
Periodically
Conducted in Spanish, this special-topics course focuses on specific themes related to the Spanish-speaking world’s literary, historical, and cultural traditions. Topics vary each time, and students can take the course for credit more than once under a different theme. This course, as all courses with the SPAN prefix, is taught in Spanish.
Current Special Topics
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.
SPAN 145F - Film and Fiction in Contemporary Latin America
Throughout the semester, students in this course will examine ten contemporary Latin American and Caribbean films that engage with the following issues: migration and displacement, the impact of neoliberal economic policies, the legacies of past dictatorships and revolutions, European colonization, indigenous resistances, and gender and race politics. These feature films and documentaries come from countries as diverse as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Perú, Guatemala, Panama, Mexico, and Cuba. Through an approach of critical analysis, we will explore how the films address these political and historical issues, and the use they make of both fiction and a variety of film genres.
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