A survey of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and the Golden Age.
Prerequisites: SPAN 5, 111, 112, or permission. Credit given for this course or SPAN 114, not both. (Formerly SPAN 114, History of Hispanic Literature.)


SPAN 120 Studies in Spanish Culture
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This course focuses on a diversity of culture manifestations in Spain in the 20th Century. The course is organized around historical, political and cultural periods from the 1920s to the present. We will look at the ways in which high and popular cultures illustrate the myths, rituals and obsessions that characterize the different periods in the modern history of Spain. It pays particular attention at the way in which popular culture has been produced and consumed by Spaniards; the ways in which it has been appropriated as a vehicle for resistance, escapism, or social critique. We will study a number of cultural manifestations within the context of history, politics and social movements. Prerequisites: SPAN 5, 111, 112 or permission


SPAN 121: Language and Form in the Commercial World

A combined conversation and writing course: oral-audio skills, with stress on business and professional contexts (telephone and office etiquette, legal interrogation, interviewing and interpreting, etc.), while developing simultaneously techniques of personal and commercial correspondence. Individual practice, oral and written, with fieldwork on the development of topical vocabularies for specific industrial application. All readings and discussion will be in Spanish.


SPAN 128: Spain and Latin America Today

A study of current events and their impact on popular culture and literary representations nation by nation, day by day. The course pays attention to main leaders of the Hispanic world, forces of dissidence and terrorism, sources of crisis, and sources of hope. It also focuses on the integration of popular culture and globalization processes as part of the construction of new identities.
Prerequisites: SPAN 5, 111, 112, or permission.


SPAN 129: Contemporary Spanish Literature

An overview of Spanish literature from 1975 to the present. Covering a variety of genres (novel, poetry, short story, essay), the course will pay attention to the literary and cultural context, as well as to the socio-political background. It will also address questions of gender; nationalism and the culture industry as they relate to literary production. The works studied will represent major trends in the Spanish cultural and literary scene from the emergence of democracy to the present.
Prerequisites: SPAN 5, 111, 112 or permission.


SPLT 57: Gender and Culture: Women through the Lens of Spanish Female Writers

Objectives of the course: Study the representation of gender in the narratives of Spanish female writers. Fictional roles will be used as models for examining said roles in Spanish society in the modern and contemporary periods. The dynamics of gender and power, society and culture will serve as the backdrop for the readings. Interpretation of the readings will be two-fold: the literary critique of characterization and narrative strategies, and the analysis of socio-cultural patterns that inform the writers’ work.


SPAN 205: Studies in the Culture of Spain

A critical study of cultural manifestations of contemporary Spain from the Post-Civil War period to the present day through different forms of artistic expression.


HUHC 12: Culture and Expression

The Social Science component of Culture and Expression has its emphasis on understanding the structures and values of a culture or civilization. These courses give students an informed understanding of culture, through the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, comparative religion, economics, and geography.
Open only to HUHC students. HUHC 11 must be taken concurrently with HUHC 13; HUHC 12 must be taken concurrently with HUHC 14.