ERIKA LINDEMANN, Interim Chair
Martine Antle (45) Twentieth-Century French Literature
Catherine A. Maley (11) Romance Linguistics
James S. Noblitt, Applied Linguistics and Language Learning
Dino Cervigni (44) Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
Fred M. Clark (29) Portuguese Language and Brazilian Literature
Monica P. Rector (43) Portuguese Language and Literature
Marsha S. Collins (42) Golden Age Spanish Literature
Frank A. Domínguez (25) Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature, Ideology and Literature, Computer Applications in the Humanities
Larry D. King (36) Spanish and Romance Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
Rosa Perelmuter (37) Colonial Spanish American Literature, Contemporary Spanish American Narrative
Dominique Fisher (46) Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Hassan Melehy (64) Early Modern French and Comparative Literature, Contemporary Critical Theory, Film
Edward D. Montgomery (9) Romance Philology
Ennio Rao (15) Italian Renaissance
Lucia Binotti (47) Medieval, Renaissance, Golden Age Philology and Linguistic Thought
José Manuel Polo de Bernabé (34) Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spanish Drama and Poetry, Contemporary Critical Theory, Film
Alicia Rivero (38) Contemporary Spanish American Literature, Contemporary Critical Theory, Gender Issues, Literature and Science, Intellectual History
Federico Luisetti (69) Twentieth-Century Italian Literature, Contemporary Critical Theory
Juan Carlos González Espitia (62) Nineteenth-Century Spanish American Literature, Decadentism and Nation Building
Carmen Hsu (51) Golden Age Spanish Literature, Chronicle Literature of the East Indies
Cesáreo Bandera
Pablo Gil Casado
Angel L. Cilveti
Julio Cortés
Yves de la Quérière
Alva V. Ebersole
I. R. Stirling Haig II
Antonio Illiano
Anthony G. Lo Ré
G. Mallary Masters
María A. Salgado
Carol Lynn Sherman
Frederick Wright Vogler
The degree of master of arts is offered with concentrations in French, Italian, or Hispanic literature. The program for the MA degree is open to students holding the bachelor of arts degree or the equivalent, and whose major field of undergraduate study was normally a Romance language and literature. Students are expected to have proficiency in the Romance language and in English upon admission to the program.
The degree of doctor of philosophy is offered with concentrations in: Romance languages and literatures; Romance philology; French, Italian, Spanish American, or Spanish languages and literatures.
Although graduate courses in Portuguese are listed below, they are available only to graduate students currently enrolled in the MA and PhD programs in Portuguese. These graduate programs are no longer admitting new students.
Teaching experience is an essential part of professional training. Therefore, teaching assistance or lecture instruction equivalent to at least three contact hours a week for two semesters, or until teaching competence is acquired, is required of all doctoral candidates.
The Walter Royal Davis Library's Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian collections rank in the top twenty in the nation. Romance philology is supported by the medieval and Renaissance collections in the traditional languages and by significant holdings in Provençal, Catalan, Galician, Romansch, and Rumanian. The Spanish and Spanish American collections are particularly strong in medieval, Golden Age/Colonial, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century holdings. The French collection has similar strengths in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries and is enriched by the Charles Nodier and René Char materials. The Italian collection exhibits strength in the nineteenth century and the Portuguese collection in twentieth-century Brazilian. These strengths are enhanced by extensive holdings in reference, specialized journals, and rare books. Among the latter are a notable gathering of twentieth-century first editions of French writers, a distinguished Spanish drama collection of over 26,000 plays (many of them pre-1830 sueltas), and the Flatow Collection of Latin American Cronistas, consisting of early imprints of the discovery and conquest of the New World. A more complete description of the collections is available in the "Resources" section of the department's Web page at www.unc.edu/depts/roml.
403 [103] ADVANCED COMPOSITION (3). Prerequisite, FREN 300. Review of advanced grammar. Exercises in translation from English into French of literary and critical materials. Free composition and training in the use of stylistic devices. Staff.
504 [104] CULTURAL WARS: FRENCH/U.S. PERSPECTIVES (3). This course examines the limits of universalism in today's "multicultural" France and how the European Union will affect French universalism and French resistance to identity politics. Fisher.
564 [126] HISTORY OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE (LING 564) (3). Prerequisite, FREN 300 or permission of the instructor. The phonology, morphology, and syntax of French are traced from the Latin Foundation to the present. Lectures, readings, discussions, and textual analysis. Spring. (Alternate years.) Staff.
565 [145] FRENCH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY (LING 565) (3). Prerequisite, FREN 300 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. The study of sounds as system in modern standard French. Lecture, discussion, and laboratory practice in practical phonetics according to individual needs. Spring. Staff.
566 [146] STRUCTURE OF MODERN FRENCH (LING 566) (3). Prerequisite, FREN 300 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Introduction to phonology, morphology, and syntax of modern standard French. Application of modern linguistic theory to the teaching of French. Fall. Maley.
601 [101X] FRENCH FOR READING I (3). French language for reading. For students with no background in French or those needing a review of grammatical structures and vocabulary in preparation for FREN 602. Fall. Staff.
602 [102X] FRENCH FOR READING II (3). Prerequisite, FREN 601 or equivalent background in French. Focus on reading French in preparation for the reading knowledge exam for graduate degrees. Passing FREN 602 satisfies the requirement for most departments. Spring. Staff.
711 [211] FRENCH NOVELISTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (3). Evolution of the novel in France up to the nineties. Antle, staff.
712 [212] FRENCH POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (3). A study of the poetry of Claudel, Cubist poetry, the major Surrealists, Ponge, and Michaux. Staff.
713 [213] MASTERS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE (3). Studies of a single author, a literary movement, or an aesthetic movement from the Avant-garde to Post-modernism. Staff.
714 [214] FRENCH DRAMA OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (3). Semiotic readings in French and Francophone theater at the crossroads of cultures from the Avant-garde to Post-modernism. Staff.
715 [215] READINGS IN FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE (3). Evolution of Francophone literature from a literary and cultural perspective (Maghreb, Africa, Caribbean Islands, and Canada). Antle, Fisher.
716 [216] READINGS IN CULTURAL STUDIES (3). An examination of national and transnational identity within European culture and recent economic and ethnologic changes in Western Europe and France. Antle, Fisher.
721 [221] OLD FRENCH (3). An introductory course designed to enable students to read medieval texts with rapidity and accuracy. Phonology, morphology, semantics, and syntax. Montgomery.
722 [222] FRENCH STUDIES OF THE ELEVENTH THROUGH THE THIRTEENTH CENTURIES (3). Readings in a variety of medieval texts in light of contemporary literary theory. Montgomery.
726 [225] FRENCH FEMINIST THEORY (WMST 726) (3). An introduction to feminist literary theory, focusing on French feminist writings and their sources in psychoanalysis and post-structuralism. Anglo-American counterparts and adaptations of the French tradition are treated. Staff.
733 [233] THEATRICALITY IN THE MIDDLE AGES (3). Theatrical approaches and techniques in medieval texts. Montgomery, staff.
734 [234] THE FRENCH CLASSICAL THEATRE (3). Readings in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French theater, Crébillon père, and Voltaire. Selection of texts will be announced by the instructor. Fall. Staff.
735 [235] DEVELOPMENTS IN POSTCLASSICAL FRENCH DRAMA (3). A study of the genre from Marivaux to the end of the nineteenth century. Staff.
737 [237] LITERARY AND CULTURAL THEORY IN FRANCE (3). A study of structuralist and post-structuralist methods in poetics, semiotics, psychoanalysis, sociology, and philosophy. Fisher, Melehy.
748 [248] FRENCH LITERATURE OF THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES (3). A study of literary trends of the period, with emphasis on the rise of the prose nouvelle and lyric poetry from Machaut through Villon. Montgomery.
761 [261] STUDIES IN FRENCH RENAISSANCE (3). Interdisciplinary seminar on a cultural topic or a theme through readings in literary and nonliterary texts. Melehy.
771 [271] FRENCH PROSE FICTION OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (3). A study of the development of prose fiction principally through the works of D'Urfé, Cyrano de Bergerac, Sorel, Scarron, Furetière, Perrault, and Mme de Lafayette. Staff.
772 [272] FRENCH POETRY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (3). Poetry from Desportes through Racan emphasizing poésie précieuse et galante, religieuse, pastorale, officielle, libertine, and satirique. Works by Chassignet, Sponde, La Ceppède, Malherbe, Saint-Amant, Théophile de Viau, Maynard, and Régnier. Staff.
774 [274] THE MORALISTS (3). A study of the works of Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Bossuet, La Bruyère, and La Fontaine. Staff.
781 [281] MASTERS OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PROSE FICTION (3). An array of novelists and conteurs such as Prévost, Lesage, Marivaux, Laclos, Crébillon fils, Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, and others. Staff.
783 [283] MASTERS OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (3). Intensive study of a major eighteenth-century writer. Staff.
784 [284] THE "PHILOSOPHES" (3). Intellectual currents (religious, scientific, epistemological) and morals as reflected in such writers as Bayle, la Mettrie, Condillac, Helvétius, d'Holbach, the Encyclopedists, and others. Staff.
791 [291] THE FRENCH ROMANTIC NOVEL (3). A study of major novelists of French Romanticism (Balzac, Hugo, Sand, and Stendhal). Staff.
792 [292] FRENCH ROMANTIC POETS (3). A study of the major poets of French Romanticism (Lamartine, Hugo, Vigny, Musset, and Nerval). Staff.
793 [293] MASTERS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE (3). Intensive study of a single major author of the Romantic or Post-Romantic period. The subject changes from year to year among writers in the different literary genres. Fisher, staff.
794 [294] FRENCH NINETEENTH-CENTURY POST-ROMANTIC POETRY (3). A study of the evolution of poetry and poetics in modernity beginning with Baudelaire. Fisher.
795 [295] THE FRENCH REALISTIC AND NATURALISTIC NOVEL (3). A study of major Realistic and Naturalistic novelists (Flaubert, the Goncourts, Daudet, Zola, Maupassant, and Huysmans). Staff.
796 [296] FRENCH BRIEF FICTION OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND/OR TWENTIETH CENTURY (3). A study of short narrative as a hybrid genre from a literary and cultural perspective. Staff.
830 [330] SEMINAR (3). Staff.
840 [340] SPECIAL READINGS (Var.). (For doctoral students only.) Members of the graduate faculty.
993 [393] MASTER'S THESIS (3). Members of the graduate faculty.
994 [394] DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (3). Research in a special field under the direction of a member of the graduate faculty. Members of the graduate faculty.
503 [103] ADVANCED COMPOSITION FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (3). Review of advanced grammar. Composition on a variety of topics designed to enhance writing proficiency in Italian. Training in the use of stylistic devices. Staff.
511 [111] SURVEY OF ITALIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE I (to 1600) (3). Permission of the instructor for undergraduates; none for graduates. The survey is based on anthologies, with particular attention to authors and texts included in the current departmental reading lists. Rao.
512 [112] SURVEY OF ITALIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE II (1600 to present) (3). Permission of the instructor for undergraduates; none for graduates. See description under ITAL 511.
526 [126] HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE (3). Prerequisite, ITAL 204, 402, or permission of the instructor. The evolution of the Italian language from Vulgar Latin. Substratum theory and the development of the various dialects. Codification of the literary standard during the Renaissance. "Questione della lingua." Rao.
534 [134] PETRARCH AND LYRIC TRADITION (CMPL 534) (3). A reading of Petrarch's Canzoniere within the context of previous lyric tradition and Petrarchism in Europe. Class discussion in English; readings in Italian for majors and in translation for nonmajors. Cervigni.
535 [135] BOCCACCIO AND EUROPEAN NARRATIVE (CMPL 535) (3). Boccaccio's Decameron within the context of previous narrative traditions and the subsequent development of narrative in Europe. Class discussions in English; readings in Italian for majors and in translation for nonmajors. Cervigni.
541 [141] ITALIAN LITERATURE OF THE RENAISSANCE I: THE QUATTROCENTO (3). Prerequisite, ITAL 204, 402, or equivalent. A study of the major figures of Italian Humanism, Latin and vernacular, from Salutati to Poliziano. Rao.
551 [151] ITALIAN LITERATURE OF THE RENAISSANCE II: THE CINQUECENTO (3). Prerequisite, ITAL 204, 402, or equivalent. Brief description of the literary and historical situation in the Cinquecento. Three authors studied in detail are Ariosto, Orlando Furioso; Machiavelli, Il Principe; and Castiglione, Il Cortegiano. Rao.
671 [171] THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES (3). Prerequisite, ITAL 204, 402, or equivalent. The Age of the Baroque, Campanella, the new genres, Tassoni. The literature of Arcadia, the Enlightenment, Goldoni, Parini, and Alfieri. Luisetti.
681 [181] ITALIAN ROMANTICISM (3). Prerequisite, ITAL 204, 402, or equivalent. Preromanticism; Alfieri; the lyrics and novels of Foscolo, Leopardi, Manzoni; the Romantic drama from Pindemonte to Niccolini. Luisetti.
682 [182] ITALIAN LITERATURE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (3). Prerequisite, ITAL 204, 402, or equivalent. The major literary forms in the second half of the century with particular regard to Verismo, Verga, Carducci, Pascoli, Scapigliatura, and Decadentismo. Staff.
684 [194] MODERN ITALIAN POETRY (3). Prerequisite, ITAL 204, 402, or equivalent. The major poets and trends of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Decadenti, Crepuscolari, Futuristi, Ermetici. Luisetti.
695 [195] MODERN ITALIAN FICTION (3). Prerequisite, ITAL 204, 402, or equivalent. D'Annunzio, Svevo, Moravia, Pavese, Vittorini, Calvino, etc. Luisetti.
696 [196] MODERN ITALIAN DRAMA (3). Grotteschi, Pirandello, Italian drama after World War II, Eduardo de Filippo, etc. Luisetti.
631 [231] DANTE I (3). Prerequisite, graduate standing or permission of the instructor. Brief presentation of Dante's life and works, and study of the Divine Comedy in the original (Inferno and first six cantos of Purgatorio). Cervigni.
632 [232] DANTE II (3). Prerequisite, graduate standing or permission of the instructor. Completes critical reading of the Divine Comedy, starting with Purgatorio. Under satisfactory conditions Dante I will not be a prerequisite for Dante II. Cervigni.
706 [206] PROSEMINAR (3). An introduction to modern Italian criticism and to current methods of research and scholarship. Bibliographic survey of basic tools and secondary literature. Guidance in preparation of papers, theses, and dissertations. Staff.
830 [330] SEMINAR (3). Special study and research in set topics; e.g., Seicento and Baroque, autobiography, Renaissance theater, literature and film. Staff.
840 [340] SPECIAL READINGS (Var.). A tutorial on a topic agreed upon by the student and a member of the graduate faculty. Members of the graduate faculty.
993 [393] MASTER'S THESIS (3). Research in a special field under the direction of a member of the graduate faculty. Members of the graduate faculty.
994 [394] DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (3). Research in a special field under the direction of a member of the graduate faculty. Members of the graduate faculty.
501 [101] SURVEY OF PORTUGUESE LITERATURE I (3). Prerequisite, PORT 204, 402, or equivalent. An introduction to Portuguese literature from its origin through the eighteenth century. Rector.
502 [102] SURVEY OF PORTUGUESE LITERATURE II (3). Prerequisite, PORT 204, 205, 402, or equivalent. A survey of Portuguese literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rector.
503 [103] SURVEY OF BRAZILIAN LITERATURE I (3). Prerequisite, PORT 204, 205, 402, or equivalent. A survey of Brazilian literature of the colonial period and nineteenth century. Clark.
504 [104] SURVEY OF BRAZILIAN LITERATURE II (3). Prerequisite, PORT 204, 205, 402, or equivalent. A study of major writers of twentieth-century Brazilian literature. Clark.
526 [126] HISTORY OF THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE (3). Prerequisite, PORT 402 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Survey of the history of Portuguese, with emphasis on the characteristics of Brazilian Portuguese and the factors underlying them. Rector.
535 [135] BRAZILIAN DRAMA (3). Prerequisite, PORT 402 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. A study of representative Brazilian plays of the twentieth century, with a review of the development of the theatre in Brazil. Clark.
703 [203] ADVANCED COMPOSITION FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (3). Advanced grammar with exercises in translation from English into Portuguese. Free composition and training in the use of stylistic devices. (On demand.) Clark, Rector.
704 [206] LUSO-BRAZILIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY AND METHODOLOGY (3). An introduction to bibliography and methodology in Luso-Brazilian literary and linguistic research. (On demand.) Clark, Rector.
710 [210] THE PORTUGUESE NOVEL (3). A study of prose fiction, particularly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special emphasis on Camilo Castelo Branco, Eça de Queirós, Aquilino Ribeiro, Ferreira de Castro, and the neo-realistas. Rector.
712 [212] THE BRAZILIAN NOVEL (3). Extensive reading of representative Brazilian novels from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present. Clark.
713 [213] MACHADO DE ASSIS (3). A study of the prose fiction, drama, poetry, and criticism of Machado de Assis, with reference to other major writers of the second half of the nineteenth century. Clark, Rector.
714 [214] MODERN BRAZILIAN SHORT FICTION AND ESSAYS (3). A study of Brazilian short stories, novelas, and essays of the twentieth century. Clark, Rector.
721 [221] OLD PORTUGUESE (3). A study of Portuguese historical phonology and morphology with readings from medieval verse and prose. Rector.
731 [231] CAMÕES (3). The works of Camões (epic, lyric poetry, and drama) are studied with reference to the contemporary Iberian historical and literary background. Rector.
791 [291] PORTUGUESE OVERSEAS LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (3). A survey of the use and characteristics of Portuguese as used in Africa and Asia (especially Cape Verde creole) and readings from contemporary African authors using Portuguese. Staff.
830 [330] SEMINAR IN PORTUGUESE LITERATURE (3). Rector.
833 [333] SEMINAR IN LUSO-BRAZILIAN LINGUISTICS (3). Rector.
835 [335] SEMINAR IN BRAZILIAN LITERATURE (3). Clark, Rector.
840 [340] SPECIAL READINGS (Var.). Members of the graduate faculty.
993 [393] MASTER'S THESIS (3). Members of the graduate faculty.
994 [394] DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (3). Members of the graduate faculty.
604 [104] VIOLENCE AND RELIGION IN LITERATURE FROM EPIC TO NOVEL (PWAD 604) (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. The sacred character of epic violence and its historical decline through a process of religious desacralization associated with the emergence of the modern novel. Staff.
670 [170] ROMANCE SOCIOLINGUISTICS (3). Study of language in its social context: language variation, multilingualism, social dialects, the role of culture, language, and sex. Includes individual work on a specific language. King.
700 [200] THEORIES AND TECHNIQUES OF TEACHING (3). Required of all new graduate instructors. Exploration of theoretical issues in teaching Romance languages with their practical applications, including the integration of technology. Fall. Jarausch/Cowell.
751 [201] INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL STUDIES (3). Interdisciplinary course to introduce graduate students to the sources, methods, and approaches of Medieval Studies. Staff.
755 [205] WORKSHOP ON LITERARY THEORY AND RESEARCH METHODS (1.5). An introduction to contemporary theoretical positions to acquaint the student with issues posed by formalism, Marxism, feminism, and deconstruction. Orientation to Romance bibliography and research methods. Staff.
820 [220] VULGAR LATIN (3). An investigation of the development of the sermo plebeius from its earliest manifestations to its fragmentation into the Romance vernaculars. Montgomery.
824 [324] ROMANCE PALEOGRAPHY (3). Study of the development of medieval romance book hands and diplomatics from their origins to the advent of printing; with practical exercises. Montgomery.
825 [225] PROVENÇAL (3). Linguistic analysis of the langue d'oc and investigation of medieval Provençal literature. Montgomery.
830 [330] SEMINAR IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES (3). Staff.
840 [340] SPECIAL READINGS (Var.). Members of the graduate faculty.
870 [370] MINOR ROMANCE TONGUES (3). Introduction to the historical development of Catalan, Rhaeto-Romance, and Rumanian. Readings in period texts. Montgomery.
993 [393] MASTER'S THESIS (3). Members of the graduate faculty.
994 [394] DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (3). Members of the graduate faculty.
403 [103] ADVANCED COMPOSITION (3). Prerequisite, SPAN 300. Review of advanced grammar. Compositions on a variety of topics designed to enhance writing proficiency in Spanish. Training in the use of stylistic devices. Staff.
405 [105] SPANISH FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS (3). Prerequisite, SPAN 102 or equivalent. Distance course requiring access to computer with DVD drive. Focuses on improving communication within the context of Latino/a immigrant culture in health care settings. Staff.
610 [110] THE GENERATION OF 1898 (3). Prerequisite, SPAN 371, 372, or 373. Study of innovative literary forms and techniques of the Generation of 1898 as seen through representative authors such as Azorín, Baroja, Machado, and Valle-Inclán. Casado, Polo de Bernabé.
613 [113] COLONIAL AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE (3). Prerequisites, SPAN 371, 372, or 373. An advanced survey of the literary works written in Spanish America from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, with emphasis on their rhetorical foundations and historical, political, and aesthetic connections. Perelmuter.
614 [114] MODERNIST AND CONTEMPORARY SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE (3). Prerequisites, SPAN 371, 372, or 373. An advanced survey of the literary works written in Spanish America from the 1880s through the present, with emphasis on their rhetorical foundations and historical, cultural, political, and aesthetic connections. Perelmuter, Rivero.
617 [117] CERVANTES (3). Prerequisite, SPAN 371, 372, or 373. The works of Cervantes, stressing the Quijote and the novelas ejemplares, with consideration of the background of Renaissance prose (the romance of chivalry, pastoral, picaresque novel). Collins, staff.
620 [120] WOMEN IN HISPANIC LITERATURE (WMST 620) (3). The image of woman in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Hispanic literature. A study of texts by Spanish and Spanish American authors. Readings in Spanish or in English translation. Lectures in English. Perelmuter.
635 [135] MODERN SPANISH DRAMA (3). Prerequisite, SPAN 370, 371, or 373. A study of plays by principal Spanish dramatists of the twentieth century. Polo de Bernabé.
650 [150] THE SPANISH COMEDIA OF THE GOLDEN AGE (3). A comprehensive study of the Golden Age Spanish theater from its Renaissance beginnings through the seventeenth century. Collins, staff.
601 [101X] SPANISH FOR READING I (3). For students with no background in Spanish or those needing a review of grammatical structures and vocabulary in preparation for SPAN 602. Fall. Staff.
602 [102X] SPANISH FOR READING II (3). Prerequisite, SPAN 601 or equivalent background in Spanish. Focus on Spanish for the reading knowledge exam for graduate degrees. SPAN 602 satisfies the requirement for most departments. Spring. Staff.
701 [201] BEGINNINGS OF CASTILIAN HEGEMONY TO 1369 (3). Early medieval romance period (eleventh century to 1369). The establishment of Castilian hegemony studied through a variety of texts (chronicles, miracles, collections of law and exempla, fueros, epic and lyric poems). Domínguez.
702 [202] THE TRASTAMARA DYNASTY: 1369 TO 1504/1516 (3). The final shaping of Castile, the beginning of nationhood, and American expansion studied through a variety of texts (chronicles, books of chivalry, lyric and narrative poems, sentimental novels, and travel narratives). Domínguez.
707 [207] THE HISPANIC FILM: THEORY/CULTURE/LITERATURE (3). A study of Spanish and Spanish American film, with special attention to problems of an aesthetic and ideological nature and to the relationships between literature, culture, and film. Polo de Bernabé.
709 [209] NONFICTION PROSE OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES (3). An examination of the histories, chronicles, and other documents written in Spain and Spanish American, with special emphasis on the literature of exploration. Perelmuter.
710 [210] NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH NOVEL (3). A study of the development of Romanticism, Costumbrismo, Realism, and Naturalism, principally through the novels of Gil y Carrasco, Pereda, Valera, Pérez Galdós, Pardo Bazán, Clarín, and Blasco Ibañez. Casado.
711 [211] TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPANISH NOVEL TO 1936 (3). Major novelists associated with the Generation of 1898, Modernism, the Generation of 1914, and the Generation of 1927; principally Unamuno, Baroja, Valle-Inclán, Miró, Pérez de Ayala, Gómez de la Serna, Chacel, and Sender. Casado.
712 [212] SPANISH CONTEMPORARY NOVEL (3). A study of major novelists from the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to the present time, with emphasis on Ayala, Cela, García Hortelano, Goytisolo, Benet, and others. Casado.
714 [214] GOLDEN AGE POETRY (3). Selected poetic works from Garcilaso through Quevedo. Collins.
715 [215] SPANISH POETRY AND DRAMA OF THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY (3). Study of Spanish dramatists and poets of the period in the context of the nineteenth-century aesthetics and literary movements such as romanticism, post-romanticism, symbolism, and modernism. Polo de Bernabé.
716 [216] CONTEMPORARY LYRIC POETRY (3). Major poets from the Generation of 1927 to the present. Polo de Bernabé.
721 [221] SPANISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS (3). Provides a detailed and comprehensive survey of the Spanish language, tracking its development from its Indo-European ancestors to modern usage and examining its phonology, morpho-syntax, verbal dynamics, lexis, and semantics. Binotti.
722 [222] THE HISTORY OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE (3). Traces the development of the Spanish language from Latin to the present, focusing upon cultural, literary, and historical factors that have contributed to its evolution. Binotti.
725 [225] GOLDEN AGE PROSE (3). The major prose works of the Golden Age, excluding those of Cervantes. Hsu, staff.
737 [237] TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY LITERARY AND CULTURAL THEORY (CMPL 737) (3). Study of major topics in modern theory such as identities, time, space, history, nation, language, text, and image, from modernity to post-modernity and beyond. Polo de Bernabé.
738 [238] SPANISH INTELLECTUAL HISTORY (3). The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the basic ideology (philosophical, aesthetic, religious, political, economic) underlying Spanish peninsular literature from its origins to the end of the seventeenth century. Binotti.
750 [250] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IN SPAIN (3). Readings from eighteenth-century authors in various genres. Casado.
890 [330] SEMINAR (3). Staff.
891 [332] SEMINAR IN MODERN SPANISH LITERATURE (3). Staff.
892 [233] SEMINAR IN SIXTEENTH- AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (3). A thorough study of a scholarly topic not covered in any other Golden Age course. Representative topics include the sense of tragedy in the Comedia, Calderón's sacramental plays, and others. Staff.
840 [340] SPECIAL READINGS (Var.). (Doctoral students only). Members of the graduate faculty.
993 [393] MASTER'S THESIS (3). Members of the graduate faculty.
994 [394] DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (3). Members of the graduate faculty.
613 [113] COLONIAL AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE (3). Prerequisite, SPAN 371, 372, or 373. An advanced survey of the literary works written in Spanish America from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, with emphasis on their rhetorical foundations and historical, political, and aesthetic connections. Perelmuter, González Espitia.
614 [114] MODERNIST AND CONTEMPORARY SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE (3). Prerequisite, SPAN 371, 372, or 373. An advanced survey of the literary works written in Spanish America from the 1880s through the present, with emphasis on their rhetorical foundations and historical, political, and aesthetic connections. Perelmuter, Rivero, González Espitia.
620 [120] WOMEN IN HISPANIC LITERATURE (WMST 620) (3). The image of woman in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Hispanic literature. A study of texts by Spanish and Spanish American authors. Readings in Spanish or in English translation. Lectures in English. Perelmuter.
709 [209] NONFICTION PROSE OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES (3). An examination of the histories, chronicles, and other documents written in Spain and Spanish America, with special emphasis on the literature of exploration. Perelmuter.
741 [241] THE ESSAY AND SHORT STORY (CMPL 741) (3). Theory and practice of the essay and short story. Topics include masters of the Spanish American and international essay and short story, the evolutions of both genres, gender, and cultural studies. Perelmuter, Rivero, González Espitia,.
742 [242] POIESIS IN SPANISH AMERICA (3). Theories and practices of literary creation across genres and periods. González Espitia.
743 [243] TOPICS IN SPANISH AMERICAN PERFORMANCE STUDIES (3). A thorough grounding in contemporary plays in the Spanish-speaking Americas. Topics include performing class, ethnicity, and gender; parody; staging nations; politics of metatheatre; post-modern agency; and the performance of everyday life. Staff.
744 [244] THE AESTHETICS OF THE BAROQUE IN SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE (3). The origin, development, and persistence of a baroque aesthetic in Spanish American literature through an examination of diverse theories of baroque and close readings of representative texts. Perelmuter.
745 [245] THE VANGUARDS (CMPL 745) (3). The theory and practice of innovative writing, especially since the nineteenth century. Topics include the historical Spanish American and Anglo-European vanguards, experimental literature, modernismo's literary rebellion, gender, and cultural studies. Rivero, González-Espitia.
746 [246] THE NOVEL IN SPANISH AMERICA (3). The novel to 1960. The course examines Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and the new national literatures through such authors as Avellaneda, Blest Gana, Silva, Asturias, Carpentier, Rulfo, Bombal, and Vargas Llosa. González-Espitia.
747 [247] THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL (CMPL 747) (3). The theory and practice of the novel since the 1960s. Topics include the Spanish American "Boom" of the 1960s and 1970s, major international trends and writers, gender, and cultural studies. Rivero, González-Espitia.
835 [335] SEMINAR IN SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE (3). The focus of this seminar will vary, according to the instructor. Staff.