A course designed for the student who has had some prior exposure to Spanish or who has excellent command of another Romance language. All the major topics in grammar will be covered, and the course will provide intensive practice in the four skills (speaking, comprehension, reading and writing). We will be using a new textbook specially designed to provide a streamlined review of basic topics in grammar and provide more detail and exercises for advanced topics. The textbook will be supplemented with authentic video material from Spain and Latin America. One additional hour per week of practice with the Spanish tutor and a substantial amount of work in the language resource center will also be required. The course will prepare the student for summer language programs abroad or Spanish 201 the following semester.

This course is designed for students who have been exposed to Spanish at home and wish to achieve confidence and polish in their speaking, writing and reading of the language. Grammar will be covered in a way that capitalizes on students' prior contact with the language, allowing students to progress much more rapidly than in a standard setting. Frequent papers will stress the use of the language for both creative and academic expression. Readings will include works by Latin American and Spanish authors, mainly from the 20^th century and will feature García Márquez,' Cien años de soledad.

For students who have completed Spanish 101-102. This course is designed to perfect the student's command of all four language skills (speaking, aural comprehension, reading, and writing). This will be achieved through an intensive grammar review, conversational practice, reading of modern Spanish texts, writing simple compositions, and language lab work.

This course continues refining and perfecting the student's mastery of speaking, reading, comprehending and writing Spanish. The textbook, which focuses on advanced topics in syntax as well as building vocabulary and idiomatic expressions, is supplemented by a variety of authentic readings, including several full-length modern novels. We will also be working with audio and video materials from Spain and Latin America. The course also serves to expand the student's understanding of the richness and variety of Hispanic cultures in Latin America, Spain and in the United States.

Prerequisites: Spanish 201 or consent of instructor.

See above.

This course will trace the development of brief narrative forms from the Modernista period at the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Expanding the boundaries of the traditional short story, we will examine the prose vignettes of Juan Jose Arreola, the ficciones of Jorge Luis Borges, and short novels by Juan Rulfo and Elena Poniatowska. In addition to these authors, we will read works by Horacio Quiroga, Ernesto Sábato, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Marquez, Ana Lydia Vega, and Rosario Castellanos. Critical theory of the narrative as well as relevant historical and cultural issues will be part of class discussion. Conducted in Spanish.

This course will trace the development of poetry in Latin America from the Colonial period to the present day. Certain early figures such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Mexico) will be examined in some depth. However, the majority of the course will focus on twentieth-century poetry from the work of José Martí (Cuba), to that of Alejandra Pizarnik (Argentina). Class discussions, while emphasizing a close reading of the primary text, will also attempt to locate those texts within historical, social, and political contexts. Conducted in Spanish.

This course will examine the social, political and philosophical struggles of Latin America as reflected in its essay writing from the XVI century onward. Major themes to be explored are the European "invention of America," the emergence of independence movements, the ideologies around social and racial diversity, formation of national identities, international relations, theories of education, gender construction, and the conceptualization of "otherness." Some of the authors included are El Inca Garcilaso, Andrés Bello, José Martí, José E. Rodó, José C. Mariátegui, Victoria Ocampo, Rosario Castellanos, Octavio Paz, and Julio Cortázar. Conducted in Spanish.

In spite of popular opinion, Spain, far from being marginal to the major currents of contemporary world history and culture has taken a leading role in some of the most important dilemmas and crises of our time. This course will explore some of these crucial phenomena such as the loss of colonial empire, social and political revolution, modern war and totalitarian versus democratic ideology. These events and trends have coincided with and left their traces on Spanish arts and letters, in the productions of renowned artists such as Picasso, Miro, Dali, and Lorca, the literature of the Generations of 1898 and 1927 and the work of Nobel laureates such as Camilo Jose Cela and of major historians and philosophers like Ortega y Gasset, Salvador de Madariaga and Miguel de Unamuno who have reflected and expressed the temporary and cosmopolitan character of Spanish culture and its contributions and impact on the world of the 20th century. The course's readings will consist of some of the works of these intellectuals, artists and historians. Permission of the instructor required.