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Spanish (SPAN)

Chair: Professor Scott D. Carpenter

Professors: Becky J. Boling, Humberto R. Huergo

Associate Professors: José Cerna-Bazán, Silvia L. López

Assistant Professor: Jorge Brioso

Visiting Assistant Professors: Linda Burdell, Michael Kidd

Visiting Instructor: Yansi Y. Perez

Senior Lecturers: María E. Doleman, Diane Pearsall

Language Courses:

Language courses 101, 102, 103, 204 are a sequential series of courses designed to prepare the student in the basic language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) through the study of grammar, literature, and culture, and/or to provide the foundation for pursuing advanced work in language and literature. Spanish 205, 206 and 207 are designed to develop the student's spoken and written mastery of the language through compositions and intensive oral work based on cultural and literary topics. Admission to these courses is determined either by appropriate high school CEEB or Carleton placement test scores or by completion of the previous course in the sequence with a grade of C- or better.

Literature Courses:

We examine literary works for both their aesthetic and human values. Our literature courses have a number of goals: to refine and expand students' linguistic ability, to broaden their cultural understanding, to improve their ability to engage in literary analysis, to enhance their knowledge of literary history and criticism, and to help students better understand themselves and the human condition. In our discussions, we address universal themes and concerns, but we also try to uncover what is peculiarly Hispanic or Latin American about the works.

Requirements for a Major:

Sixty-six credits including one of the following courses (205 or 206) and Literary and Cultural Studies 245, the latter normally taken during the junior year. Courses 101, 102, 103, 204 do not count toward the major and no more than 12 credits in the 205-209 sequence may be applied to the major. Similarly, students may not apply over two 240-290 level literature courses to the major. In addition to 66 credits in the major, 6 credits are required in literature outside the major, read in the original language or in translation. Majors must complete at least three courses in Latin American literature and three courses in Peninsular Literature (Spain) before winter term of the senior year. Students also write an integrative exercise during senior year.

Concentration: See separate section for Latin American Studies Concentration.

Programs Abroad: Participation in a Carleton or in another approved foreign study program is highly recommended for students majoring or concentrating in the above areas. Students interested in study abroad should consult the section on international off-campus programs, and discuss alternatives with faculty in French or Spanish and with the Director of Off-Campus Studies.

Language Houses: Students have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the language by living in the Language House. The Associate is a native speaker, and students organize and participate in numerous cultural activities in the language houses.

Certificate of Advanced Study in Foreign Language and Literature: In order to receive the Certificate of Advanced Study in Spanish, students must fulfill the general requirements (refer to Academic Regulations) in the following course distribution: six courses completed with a grade of C- or better in Spanish beyond 103, including at least two upper-level literature courses (300-395). Although courses for the certificate may be taken on a S/Cr/NC basis, "D" or "CR" level work will not be sufficient to satisfy course requirements. No more than 12 credits from non-Carleton off-campus studies programs may be applied toward the certificate.

Spanish Courses

SPAN 101. Elementary Spanish This course introduces the basic structures of the Spanish language, everyday vocabulary and cultural situations. Students practice all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) in Spanish. Taught five days a week in Spanish. Prerequisite: none (Placement score for students with previous experience in Spanish). 6 cr., ND, FallStaff

SPAN 102. Elementary Spanish This course introduces complex sentences and various tenses and short literary and cultural texts. Students practice all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) in Spanish. Taught five days a week in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 101 or placement score. 6 credits cr., ND, WinterStaff

SPAN 103. Intermediate Spanish This course continues the study of complex sentence patterns and reviews basic patterns in greater depth, partly through the discussion of authentic short stories. Students practice all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) in Spanish. Taught five days a week in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 102 or placement score. 6 credits cr., ND, Winter,SpringStaff

SPAN 204. Intermediate Spanish Through discussion of literary and cultural texts and films, as well as a review of grammar, this course aims to help students acquire greater skill and confidence in both oral and written expression. Taught three days a week in Spanish. Some Spanish 204 sections include a service-learning component, to enrich students' understanding of course material by integrating academic study with public service. The language classes team up with the Northfield public schools to help both Northfield and Carleton students improve their language skills. Prerequisite: Spanish 103 or placement score. 6 credits cr., Fall,SpringStaff

SPAN 205. Conversation and Composition A course designed to develop the student's oral and written mastery of Spanish. Advanced study of grammar. Compositions and conversations based on cultural and literary topics. There is also an audio-video component focused on current affairs. Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or proficiency. 6 credits cr., ND, Fall,Winter,SpringJ. Cerna-Bazan, H. Huergo

SPAN 206. Mexico Program: Conversation and Composition This course takes advantage of the native setting in order to expand and develop skills in conversation and composition. In addition, it involves an advanced study of grammar and utilization of on-site resources in order to guide the student toward greater cultural and linguistic fluency. 6 cr., ND, WinterNon-Carleton Faculty

SPAN 207. Exploring Hispanic Culture Designed for the person who wants to develop greater fluency in speaking, writing, and reading Spanish in the context of a broad introduction to Hispanic culture. Short stories, plays, poems, films, and short novels are read with the goal of enhancing awareness of Hispanic diversity and stimulating classroom discussion. Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or proficiency. 6 cr., RAD,ND, WinterJ. Brioso

SPAN 208. Coffee and News An excellent opportunity to brush up your Spanish while learning about current issues in Spain and Latin America. The class meets only once a week for an hour. Class requirements include reading specific sections of Spain's leading newspaper, El País, everyday on the internet (elpais.es), and then meeting once a week to exchange ideas over coffee with a small group of students like yourself. Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or proficiency. 2 credits cr., S/CR/NC, ND, Fall,Winter,SpringJ. Cerna-Bazan

SPAN 209. Madrid Program: Exploring Spanish Culture A survey of Spanish history as reflected in literary texts, or putting it differently, learning history the fun way. 6 cr., ND, FallNon-Carleton Faculty

SPAN 240. Introduction to Spanish Literature This course will examine the uniqueness of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present. What is unique about Spanish literature? The meeting of Arabs, Christians, and Jews; the discovery of the Indies as told by Christopher Columbus; the enormous cultural and ethnic complexity of the conquest of the New World; the creation of the modern novel in the Lazarillo and its destruction in Cervante's Don Quixote; the mystic eroticism of St. Therese and St. John of the Cross; the ruminative poetry of Antonio Machado and the mythical poetry of Lorca.

  6 cr., AL, WinterJ. Brioso

SPAN 242. Introduction to Latin American Literature An introductory course to reading major texts in Spanish provides an historical survey of the literary movements within Latin American literature from the pre-Hispanic to the contemporary period. Recommended as a foundation course for further study. Not open to seniors. Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or proficiency. 6 credits cr., AL,RAD, FallS. Lopez

SPAN 243. Latin American Theater in Translation: Nation, Power, Gender

Introduction to key themes and modes of production in twentieth century theater in Latin America. We will read representative plays from established playwrights such as Rodolfo Usigli, Griselda Gambaro, Manuel Puig, Sabina Berman, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Benedetti, Ariel Dorfman, Susana Torres Molina among others. The course will be organized around themes of national and cultural identity, relations of power, and the (de)construction of gender. Students will be asked to put on scenes and develop areas of research. Spanish 243 is in translation, 342 in Spanish. 6 credits cr., AL, SpringB. Boling

SPAN 245. Hybrid Cultures: Introduction to U.S. Latino Literature The course will focus on the problem of identity in the writings of the four major groups of Latinos in the United States: Mexican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, Dominican-Americans, and Nuyoricans. It will address the diversity of problems that surface depending on whether the writers are immigrants, first generation English speakers, native to the Southwest but marginalized from American culture, urban dwellers or rural pobladores, men or women, gay or straight. Since this course is offered in the Spanish section, an emphasis is placed on the problem of language (bilingualism and translation), its relation to a general American identity (American defined here as belonging to the Americas, not only the United States), and more broadly to what we have to understand as hybrid cultures. Conducted in English. 6 credits cr., AL,RAD, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 246. Puebla Program: Introduction to Mexican Literature: The Twentieth Century

A survey of Mexican literature from Juan Rulfo to Elena Poniatowska. Other authors studied in this course include Carlos Fuentes, Elena Garro, Sergio Pitol, Juan José Arreola, José Emilio Pacheco, and Juan Villoro, among others. 6 cr., AL,RAD, WinterS. Lopez

SPAN 247. Madrid Program: Spanish Art from El Greco to Picasso This course is a survey of Spanish art from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Classes will meet at some of the finest museums in Madrid, including the Prado Museum and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Museum of Modern Art). Art lectures will be supplemented by field trips to Toledo, Barcelona, and Seville. 4 cr., AL, FallNon-Carleton Faculty

SPAN 248. Morelia Program: Drama and Performance in Latin America Study of contemporary Latin American Theater as a field of experimentation. The course intends to familiarize the student with major trends in theater from Expressionism to Teatro colectivo. The discussions of representative modern plays reveals their multiple nature as spectacle and literature. For this reason, another facet of this study will be the actual theatrical experience. Depending on the season, students will have ample opportunity to attend performances of several plays in Morelia, Mexico. 6 cr., AL,RAD, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 250. Spanish Cinema This course will study Spanish film from 1950s to the present. Through the study of the social and political processes involved in the conception of time and memory we will discuss the work of internationally recognized filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel, Luis García Berlanga, Mario Camus, Carlos Saura, Victor Erice and Pedro Almodóvar. Prerequisites: Spanish 204 or proficiency. 6 credits cr., AL, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 252. Telling Stories: The Short Story in Latin America We will study collections of short stories by well-known Latin American authors such as Juan Rulfo, Cristina Peri Rossi, Isabel Allende, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, and Gabriel García Márquez. How does the short story differ from other narratives? What possibilities of form and content does the short story provide? We will explore how this genre represents contemporary issues in Latin America even as it gives shape to the desire to tell a good story. We will tell and write our own short stories to better understand the genre. Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or proficiency. 6 credits cr., AL,RAD, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 253. History and Subjectivity in Latin American Poetry Cross-listed with SPAN 353. In this course we will examine this poetic experimentation in relation to the major political and ideological trends that have shaped Spanish American societies and cultures in that period. While focusing on the work of one major figure, we will read it in relationship to the poetry of other authors. Some authors included will be Pablo Neruda, Csar Vallejo, Gabriela Mistral, Nicanor Parra, Octavio Paz, Enrique Lihn, Ernesto Cardenal, Blanca Varela and Alejandra Pizarnik. Prerequisite: Spanish 205 or equivalent. 6 credits cr., AL, SpringJ. Cerna-Bazan

SPAN 255. Women Dramatists in Latin America: Staging Conflicts This course will examine contemporary plays written by Latin American and U.S. Latina women from a woman centered perspective. Issues will range from women and political repression to a critique of gender roles. As we read the plays, we will consider both the literary qualities of dramatic texts and the semiotics of staging and its potential for public advocacy. Dramatists that may be included are Luisa Josefina Hernández, Elena Garro, Griselda Gambaro, Sabina Berman, Maruxa Vilalta, Marcela del Río, Albalucía Angel, Aida Bortnik and U.S. Latina playwrights María Irene Fornes and Margarita Tavera Rivera. Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or proficiency. 6 credits cr., AL,RAD, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 256. Lorca, Bunuel, and Dali: Poetry, Film, and Painting in Spain A Poetics of Objects: The Films of Luis Buñuel. This course will provide a panoramic study of Luis Buñuel's films from various phases in his career: the Mexican, the French and the Spanish periods. We will watch and analyze films in relation to various European avant-garde movements such as Surrealism. We will also put these films in dialogue with a broader Spanish cultural tradition, particularly with the paintings of Goya and with the picaresque novel. 1st five weeks, 3 credits, J. Brioso Lorca, Bunuel, and Dali: Poetry, Film, and Painting in Spain. Lorca, Buñuel, and Dalí attended the same college in Madrid. It was the 1920s and the young were truly young and almost everything was possible. Soon Lorca became Dalí's secret lover and muse, inspiring many of his early paintings and launching his career in the artistic circles of Barcelona and Madrid. At the same time, Dalí collaborated with Buñuel in two landmarks of experimental cinema­The Andalusian Dog and The Golden Age. This course examines the friendship between the three artists and their place in the history to twentieth-century art, film, and literature. Prerequisite: Spanish 205 or permission of the instructor. 2nd five weeks, 3 credits, H. Huergo 3 credits each cr., AL, FallH. Huergo and J. Brioso

SPAN 258. Topics in Hispanic Literature: The Spanish Civil War This course will examine the impact of the Spanish Civil War on Spanish literature and history through a variety of mediums-poetry, novels, films, documentaries, and the graphic arts. Topics of discussion include: the bombing of Madrid, Picasso's Guernica the role of the international brigades, the appeal of Fascism, the French concentration camps, Hemingway's coverage of the war, the impact of the war on Latin American poets such as Neruda and Vallejo, the Spanish exile, Franco's Spain, and the eventual transition to democracy. Recommended for History and Latin American Studies majors with an interest in Spain. Prerequisite: Spanish 205 or equivalent. 6 credits cr., AL, WinterH. Huergo

SPAN 260. Topics in Hispanic Literature: Forces of Nature This course examines nature and its relationship to Latin American identity across the last 200 years, but with emphasis on the twentieth century. Paradise regained and lost, monster or endangered habitat, nature plays a central role in Latin American development and its literature. Its literary image has varied greatly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, at times suggesting the lost Garden of Eden, at other times mirroring human cruelty, and recently coming center stage in the ecological novel. Among the authors studied in this course are Sarmiento, Quiroga, Gallegos, Rulfo, Seplveda, Belli, and Montero. Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or proficiency. 6 credits cr., AL,RAD, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 290. Madrid Program: Directed Reading This independent reading course fcuses on Mexican history, politics, and culture and is completed during winter break. 2 cr., S/CR/NC, ND, FallJ. Brioso

SPAN 290. Puebla Program: Directed Reading 4 credits cr., ND, WinterS. Lopez

SPAN 310. Melancholy in Literature and Art One of the saddest by products of Modernity is, no doubt, the denial of sadness. Starting with the classical theories of melancholy and moving across the seventeenth century to Freud and the Modernist movements in the early twentieth century, this course will examine the role of melancholy in Spanish literature and art within a broader European context. Authors examined include Aristotle, Ficino, Dürer, Velázquez, Calderón, Milton, Goya, Freud, Chirico, and Dalí. Discussion topics include genius and melancholy, the role of inanimate objects in art, ruins and uninhabited places, and Modernity and the concept of "boredom." Prerequisite: One term of art history and Spanish 205 or above. This course will be relevant to Art History. 6 credits cr., AL, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 322. The Novel in Spain This course will focus on Spanish novel in the post-Franco era. Through concepts such as tragedy, myth, mourning, the city, intimacy, haunting, infancy, hope, we are going to develop a poetic of the Spanish contemporary novel. We will use these novels as an introduction to the mains problematic in the contemporary Spain: immigration (xenophobia), terrorism, civil war trauma, the relationship between the Christian tradition and the Jewish and Muslim heritage, the battle of the languages (Castellano vs Catalán, Vasco y Gallego) gender troubles in the contemporary Spanish society. Prerequisite Spanish 205 or above. 6 credits cr., AL, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 324. Lyric and Modernity: The Prose Poem in Spain A Romantic invention, the prose poem emerged in the nineteenth century and since then it has served as an arena where poets test the limits of poetry and its relationship with society. In this course we will look at some of the main practioners of the prose poem in Spain­Juan Ramón Jiménez, Machado, Cernuda, Valente, and others­in order to determine what makes this genre distinctively "modern." Prerequisite: Spanish 205 or above. 6 credits cr., AL, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 326. Writers in Exile Two countries and four writers will be the protagonists of our course: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, a refugee from the Cuban revolution living in London while trying to recover his lost city Habana through his writing; Reinaldo Arenas, another Cuban refugee dying of AIDS in New York while writing about his illness and exile; Spanish novelist Jorge Semprún, a deportee and survivor of a concentration camp established in Paris and writing in French; and Juan Goytisolo, a Spanish expatriated in Morocco, writing in Spanish and Arabic about his own country and the Muslim world. Prerequisite: Spanish 205 or equivalent. 6 credits cr., AL, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 328. Topics in Hispanic Literature: The Avant-Garde in Spain, 1910-1930 The term Avant-Garde (frontline) refers to the various artistic movements that shook Latin America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century: Picasso's Busim, Surrealism, Functionalism, Abstraction, etc. This course examines the impact of the Avant-Garde in Spain by looking at the works of some of the movement's most prominent figures, including Buñuel (cinema), Dalí (painting), Lorca (poetry and drama), Moreno Villa (criticism and poetry), and Ortega y Gasset's aesthetic theory. Topics of discussion include early twentieth century literature, art, music and cinema. Occasional movie screenings. Prerequisite: Spanish 205 or above. 6 credits cr., AL, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 330. The Invention of the Modern Novel: Cervantes' Don Quijote Among other things, Don Quijote is a "remake," an adaptation of several literary models popular at the time the picaresque novel, the chivalry novel, the sentimental novel, the Byzantine novel, the Italian novella, etc. This course will examine the ways in which Cervantes transformed these models to create what is considered by many the first "modern" novel in European history. Prerequisite: Spanish 205 or above. 6 credits cr., AL, SpringJ. Brioso

SPAN 334. Texts and Nations: Nineteenth Century Latin America This course will focus on the literature written in the period following Latin American independence in the nineteenth century all the way to the Mexican revolution. The central organizing concept will be that of the nation as an imagined community that is created discursively and is intimately bound to the functioning of the state, the creation of a national identity, and ultimately the invention of the people (with all its gender and ethnic inflections). We will examine closely different kinds of primary texts: fiction, essays, poetry, newspaper articles, manifestoes. All primary and theoretical texts will be in Spanish. Selections from: Sarmiento, Bello, Echeverría, Hernández, Martí, Darío, del Casal, Rodó, Gómez de Avellaneda, Matto de Turner, Machado de Assis. Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or proficiency. 6 credits cr., AL,RAD, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 336. Genealogies of the Modern: Turn of the Century Latin America In this course we will examine what the literary tradition has come to name "modernismo." We will cover the period between 1870 and 1910. We will study it in the context of the experience of modernity, that is the configuration of emergent cities, urban culture, mass media, technological innovation and the modernization of the figure of the writer. Particular attention will be given to the understanding of the modern in a non-European context and its relation to what we know today as modern Latin American identity. Selections from: Martí, Darío, Rodó, González Prada, Gutiérrez Nájera, Lugones, Agustini. Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or proficiency. 6 credits cr., AL,RAD, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 338. Images of the Indian in Spanish American Literature After a historical survey of the relationship between national projects of social organization and the indigenous populations of the area, this course focuses on Indigenismo as a set of social discourses attempting to represent "the Indian", and on key works by Icaza (Ecuador), Asturias (Guatemala), Arguedas (Peru), and Castellanos (Mexico). While considering the specific literary quality of this writing, we will contrast its representation of "the Indian" with indigenous self-representation in oral-popular tradition and through intellectuals like Domitila Barrios, Rigoberta Menchú, Bernabe Condori and others, to better understand the relationship between official culture and its Other. Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or proficiency. 6 credits cr., AL, WinterJ. Cerna-Bazan

SPAN 340. Latin American Prose: Dictatorships and Revolution in the Latin American Narrative This course briefly examines the origins and development of the Latin American narrative and then focuses on the literary reaction to dictatorship and revolution. It stresses a critical reading and discussion of major works by Azuela, Castellanos, and Fuentes (Mexico), Asturias (Guatemala), and Allende (Chile). The emphasis is on Mexico and the literary interpretation of the Revolution of 1910 and the society that grew out of it. Prerequisite: a 240 level literature course is strongly recommended. 6 credits cr., AL,RAD, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 342. Latin American Theater: Nation, Power, Gender

Introduction to key themes and modes of production in twentieth century theater in Latin America. We will read representative plays from established playwrights such as Rodolfo Usigli, Griselda Gambaro, Manuel Puig, Sabina Berman, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Benedetti, Ariel Dorfman, Susana Torres Molina among others. The course will be organized around themes of national and cultural identity, relations of power, and the (de)construction of gender. Students will be asked to put on scenes and develop areas of research. Spanish 243 is in translation, 342 in Spanish. 6 credits cr., AL, SpringB. Boling

SPAN 344. Women Writers in Latin America: Challenging Gender and Genre The course will study texts (written by women) that deal critically with issues of gender, challenging implicit and explicit patriarchal values. Emphasis will also be placed on how these women have experimented with narrative and poetic genres to express their personal concerns and to deconstruct orthodox structures. Authors usually included: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Storni, Agustini, Castellanos, Poniatowska, Molloy, Valenzuela, Ferré, Garro, Peri Rossi, Allende. Prerequisite: Spanish 240 or a 300 level literature course is recommended. 6 credits cr., AL,RAD, FallB. Boling

SPAN 350. Recent Trends in Latin American Narrative: Pop Culture and Testimony Postboom narratives question the nature of telling stories, from Rigoberta Menchú's testimony to Tomás Eloy Martínez's novelistic history of Eva Perón's embalmed body. Galeano, Alegría, Puig, Vega, and Esquivel combine fiction and reportage or recontextualize the romance and detective novels. Emerging with these narratives is the ecological novel which refashions the standard Latin American theme of "civilización y barbarie." What makes these texts literature? How has the craft of author changed, and what constitutes a postmodern narrative discourse? Prerequisite: Spanish 240 or a 300 level literature course is recommended. 6 credits cr., AL,RAD, Not offered in 2005-2006.

SPAN 351. Madrid Program: Spanish Film and the City

This course will study Spanish film produced from the 1950s until the present. This course examines the relationship that exists between cinematographic images and the life styles that cities generate. We will study how the representation of the city landscape changes and evolves in movies produced by directors such as Almodóvar, Buñuel, Erice, Guerin, etc. There will be screenings each week and there will be occasional guest speakers. Prerequisite: Spanish 205. 6 cr., AL, FallJ. Brioso

SPAN 353. History and Subjectivity in Latin American Poetry Cross-listed with SPAN 253.

In this course we will examine this poetic experimentation in relation to the major political and ideological trends that have shaped Spanish American societies and cultures in that period. While focusing on the work of one major figure, we will read it in relationship to the poetry of other authors. Some authors included will be Pablo Neruda, Csar Vallejo, Gabriela Mistral, Nicanor Parra, Octavio Paz, Enrique Lihn, Ernesto Cardenal, Blanca Varela and Alejandra Pizarnik. Prerequisite: Spanish 205 or equivalent. 6 credits cr., AL, SpringJ. Cerna-Bazán

SPAN 356. Lorca, Bunuel, and Dali: Poetry, Film, and Painting in Spain A Poetics of Objects: The Films of Luis Buñuel. This course will provide a panoramic study of Luis Buñuel's films from various phases in his career: the Mexican, the French and the Spanish periods. We will watch and analyze films in relation to various European avant-garde movements such as Surrealism. We will also put these films in dialogue with a broader Spanish cultural tradition, particularly with the paintings of Goya and with the picaresque novel. 1st five weeks, 3 credits, J. Brioso Lorca, Bunuel, and Dali: Poetry, Film, and Painting in Spain. Lorca, Buñuel, and Dalí attended the same college in Madrid. It was the 1920s and the young were truly young and almost everything was possible. Soon Lorca became Dalí's secret lover and muse, inspiring many of his early paintings and launching his career in the artistic circles of Barcelona and Madrid. At the same time, Dalí collaborated with Buñuel in two landmarks of experimental cinema­The Andalusian Dog and The Golden Age. This course examines the friendship between the three artists and their place in the history to twentieth-century art, film, and literature. Prerequisite: Spanish 205 or permission of the instructor. 2nd five weeks, 3 credits, H. Huergo 3 credits each cr., AL, FallH. Huergo and J Brioso

SPAN 358. Topics in Hispanic Literature: The Spanish Civil War

This course will examine the impact of the Spanish Civil War on Spanish literature and history through a variety of mediums-poetry, novels, films, documentaries, and the graphic arts. Topics of discussion include: the bombing of Madrid, Picasso's Guernica, the role of the international brigades, the appeal of Fascism, the French concentration camps, Hemingway's coverage of the war, the impact of the war on Latin American poets such as Neruda and Vallejo, the Spanish exile, Franco's Spain, and the eventual transition to democracy. Recommended for History and Latin American Studies majors with an interest in Spain. Prerequisite: Spanish 205 or equivalent.

  6 credits cr., AL, WinterH. Huergo

SPAN 400. Integrative Exercise 6 credits cr., S/NC, ND, Fall,Winter,SpringStaff