Offers a basic level of Spanish understanding, speaking, reading and writing for students who have no knowledge of Spanish whatsoever.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at the Bader International Studies Centre, Herstmonceux (Learning Hours may vary).
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36L;12O;72P).

The continuation of SPAN 111. Also for students entering the University who have some knowledge of Spanish but have not completed 4U Spanish or equivalent. For these students an assessment exam or interview with an academic adviser is required before registration. Contact the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures for details.
NOTE Also offered at the Bader International Studies Centre, Herstmonceux (Learning Hours may vary).
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36L;6O;78P).

A review of the fundamentals of Spanish, in cultural contexts, designed to develop aural, oral, reading and writing skills.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36L;84P).

An advanced treatment of the written and spoken language, involving a study of syntax and style, written composition, translation into Spanish and oral discussions of cultural topics.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36L;84P).

This course is an intermediate conversation course designed to advance skills in oral communication and cultural competence, supported by grammar review and written assignments. Students will engage with different media sources, including Spanish-language film, news items, cultural readings, music and literary texts.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36L;84P).

This course provides a comprehensive review of the most difficult aspects of Spanish grammar through advanced exercises in reading, composition, and conversation.  The goal of the course is to consolidate and perfect the student's written and oral skills.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36L;84P).

This course provides a comprehensive review of the most difficult aspects of Spanish grammar through advanced exercises in reading, composition, and conversation. The goal of the course is to consolidate and perfect the student's written and oral skills.

Intensive practice in advanced grammar with a focus on Spanish for business, technical, administrative and related cultural purposes.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36L;84P).

Intensive practice in advanced grammar with a focus on Spanish for business, technical, administrative and related cultural purposes.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36L;84P).

A study of selected works by Spanish American writers such as Horacio Quiroga, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortázar and Reinaldo Arenas.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36L;84P).

The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) culminated in the military overthrow of the Republican government and the beginning of Francisco Franco's long dictatorship. This course examines artistic representations of the war in film (both documentary and fictional) and in other visual media (paintings, photography, posters), as well as in the written works of both Spanish and foreign authors such as Orwell, Hemingway, Neruda, Sender and Rodoreda.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36S;84P).

A study of Don Quijote I and a selection of his short theatrical Interludes. The course will consider the socio-economic and historical context and the literary implications of these works to provide a better understanding of 17th century Spain and the significance Cervantes' works still hold today.
NOTE Taught in English together with LLCU 330. Students concentrating in Spanish submit written assignments, tests and examinations in Spanish.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36S;84P).

A study of Don Quijote II and a selection of novellas from Cervantes' Exemplary Novels. The course will consider the socio-economic and historical context and the literary implications of the continuation of Don Quijote I to provide a better understanding of 17th century Spain and the significance Cervantes' works hold today.
NOTE Taught in English with LLCU 331. Written work and examinations are in Spanish. Readings are in translation.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36S;84P).

Short theatre played an important role in the theatre of Spanish Golden Age. In this course students will study the literary particularities of the genre and the social ramifications of the themes present in short theatre (gender, battle of the sexes, diversity, authority amongst others) and their historical and contemporary relevance.
NOTE Taught in English with LLCU 332. Written work and examinations are in Spanish. Readings are in translation.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36S;84P).

Baroque playwrights took full advantage of the actor Juan Rana's well-known queerness to subvert implicitly and explicitly the social norms of sexual and gender identity still questioned today. Course will examine Spanish Baroque short theatre in general and historically contextualize its subversion of social, sexual, gender, and patriarchal norms.
NOTE Taught in English with LLCU 333. Students concentrating in Spanish submit written assignments, tests, and examinations in Spanish.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36L;84P).

A study of changes in Spanish society as reflected in film and/or literature.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36S;84P).

A survey of the major authors and works of Latin American literature from 1492 to the end of the 19th century. Readings will include texts from all genres and will illustrate the main cultural and historical trends and movements.

A survey of the major authors and works of Latin American literature from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Readings will include texts from all genres and will illustrate the main cultural and historical trends and movements.

A study of recent contributions to Latin American cultural production by women, including an overview of gender issues and the role women have played in their nations' history. The course will also explore the variety of voices that make up the cultural production of women in Latin America in terms of class, ethnicity, race and sexual orientation.
NOTE Taught in English with LLCU 354. Student concentrating in Spanish submit written assignments, tests and examinations in Spanish.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36S;84P).

An introduction to the major authors and works of the literature of Spain from its beginnings to the end of the 17th Century. Through study and analysis students will obtain a general understanding of the main cultural, historical, and societal trends and movements during these periods.

An introduction to the major authors and works of the literature of Spain from the Enlightenment to the present. Through study and analysis students will obtain a general understanding of the main cultural and historical and societal trends and movements during these eras.

This course aims to perfect the students' ability to write and speak in Spanish, with intensive practice of advanced Spanish grammatical structures through translation exercises, as well as compositions and oral work.

This course aims to perfect the students' ability to write and speak in Spanish, with intensive practice of advanced Spanish grammatical structures through translation exercises, as well as compositions and oral work.

An introduction to contemporary literary theories and the analysis of Hispanic texts from reader-, structural- and author-oriented perspectives.
NOTE Taught in English together with LLCU 316/3.0. Students concentrating in Spanish submit written assignments, tests, and examination in Spanish. Normally they will read Hispanic texts in the original.

Students will view and analyze a selection of Almodóvar's films within the context of Spain and other countries. The study of gender, sexual, cultural and societal identity and other fundamentals of contemporary theory will be central to this course.
NOTE Taught in English together with LLCU 208/3.0. Students concentrating in Spanish submit written assignments, tests, and examination in Spanish.

This course will explore major themes of development in relation to gender in Latin America through its manifestation in film. Films will be chosen from all regions of Latin America, including Brazil.
NOTE Taught in English together with LLCU 328/3.0. Students concentrating in Spanish submit written assignments, tests and examinations in Spanish.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36L;84P)

This course will examine critically a variety of representative Latin American films from a historical and filmic perspective. Beginning with the Peron era in the 1940s and 50s, and continuing through the dictatorship years of 1976 to 1983 and its aftermaths, we will examine how Argentine filmmakers express national reality and identity.
NOTE Taught in English with LLCU 358. Students concentrating in Spanish submit written assignments, tests and examinations in Spanish.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36L;84P).

Seminar courses on topics in Spanish literature. Course details to be announced on website.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36S;84P).

Seminar courses on topics in Spanish American literature. Course details to be announced on website.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36S;84P).

Seminar courses on topics in Spanish literature. Course details to be announced on website.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (36S;84P).

Reading courses in selected fields of Peninsular literature to meet the needs of advanced students for whom a seminar course is not available. Course details to be announced on website.
LEARNING HOURS 120 (120P).

Reading courses in selected fields of Spanish American literature to meet the needs of advanced students for whom a seminar course is not available. Course details to be announced on website.

An intensive study for students of Hispanic literature of the contemporary theoretical standpoints from which literary texts' production, structures and reception are understood and explained. Three term-hours; Fall.  D.F. Chamberlain.  

This course starts from the standpoint of phenomenological hermeneutics in order to offer a detailed study of the character and structure of narrative perspective as well as the role it plays in interpretation. Texts for interpretation will include selections from the works of Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Rulfo, Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges and Reinaldo Arenas. 

A study of the Hispanic oral narrative tradition with special focus on the Mexican corrido. Students examine audio, cinematographic, documentary, and written productions in order to explore the role oral narrative plays in the development of identities in local, regional, national, and international contexts. Readings will cover attempts to define oral narrative from sociological, archetypical, historical, and structural perspectives. Students will be asked to consider how the inclusion of an oral narrative tradition comes to bear on configurations of literary history and theory. 

The quality and quantity of plays written and staged during the Spanish Golden Age make it one of the most important and prolific periods in the history of Western theatre.  This course introduces students to the main concepts and themes of Spanish Gold Age Theatre and provides a comprehensive understanding of this complex and tumultuous historical period.  The course includes works by Lope de Rueda, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón de la Barca and other representative playwrights. 

The interlude holds an important place in the history of Spanish Golden Age theatre. First performed on the streets, this short play genre eventually became an integrative part of main stage productions and royal performances. Embracing a carnavalesque topsy-turvy view of the world, it questions and subverts the norms of society. This course will cover the literary, social and historical ramifications of this theatre genre and highlight their relevance to our contemporary world. 0.5 credits. Three term-hours. To be offered in alternate years.

A detailed reading of Don Quijote with particular consideration given to Cervantes' originality, the special problems of the art of fiction and the Cervantine solutions provided in this masterpiece.  Three term hours; Winter term. P. Thompson.

A structural and thematic approach to the most important examples of the Spanish picaresque novel. Special attention will be given to dominant trends in recent critical and literary-historical treatment of picaresque fiction.

In this course, students will study the second part of Don Quijote and other later works by Cervantes, including Las Novelas ejemplares, Viaje al Parnaso and Ochoentremeses y ocho comedias.  The course will consider the social and historical context and the literary implications of this important continuation of Cervantes I.

A study of the three periods constituting contemporary Spanish theater: Pre-Spanish Civil War, Franco and Post-Franco. Special attention will be given to García Lorcas Andalusian tragedies from the first period, to works of  the realist generation of Buero Vallejo, Recuerda, Olmo, and Rodríguez Méndez written under the constraints of Franco, and, finally to plays focusing on the problems of modern life within a democratic society written by Alonso de Santos, Cabal and Pedredo in the third period. The study of these playwrights and others will facilitate a better understanding of contemporary Spain and its theater.  Three term hours; Fall term. P. Novell.

This course examines Spanish poetic production during the twentieth century, with special attention given to the aesthetic transformations during the three historical/political moments that best characterize this period: the Republic, Franco¿s dictatorship, and democracy. Authors belonging to the "Generación del 27,"  the "Poesía del exilio," and the "Poesía de la experiencia" will be studied among others.  

This course offers a theoretical reflection on autobiography that will consider the genre¿s principal forms as well as subgenres such as memoirs, diaries, self portraits and letters. It will offer an overview of the genre¿s theoretical status quo as well as an examination of recent challenges to traditional theoretical positions. Three term- hours. To be offered in alternate years.

An analysis of the evolution of Cuba¿s cultural field and its production during and after the Revolution centering on the dialogue established between key literary texts, visual art, and specific historical events. Cuba in the Caribbean and Latin American context, the cultural field post-1959, iconic revolutionary figures, issues of race and gender, and other pertinent subject matter is examined.

A seminar devoted to special topics on the development and theory of women's literary and cultural production in Latin America from the Colonial period to the present. The course will cover a variety of fundamental writers, such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Gabriela Mistral, Alfonsina Storni, Delmira Agustini, Rosario Castellanos, Elena Poniatowska, Rigoberta Menchú and others.

A seminar devoted to special topics on the theory and development of narratives whose discourse centers on the notions of power and dictatorship in Latin America, beginning with the key novel, Tirano Banderas by Ramón del Valle Inclán. Other works will include novels and short stories by writers such as Miguel Angel Asturias, Gabriel García Márquez, Augusto Roa Bastos, Alejo Carpentier, Marta Traba, Luisa Valenzuela and others. 

A seminar devoted to the theory and development of film in Latin America, with special focus on the importance of the theoretical concepts of Third Cinema. Attention will also be paid to film as a cultural manifestation of historical or political movements, and the relationship between film and literature. The seminar will focus on the film production in specific regions or countries in different years. Films to be examined may include Memorias del subdesarrollo, Fresa y chocolate, La vida es silbar, La historia oficial, Tangos: El exilio de Gardel, Camila among others. 

A course of selected readings exemplifying a period, theoretical issue or genre in Peninsular or Spanish American Literature, as may be needed by individual students. By arrangement with the Head of Department. 

A seminar on specific themes, theoretical issues or problems in Peninsular or Spanish American literature, as may serve the special research desires of individual students. In recent years, specific themes treated in this course have centered on La epopeya castellana and on La novela de la violencia en Colombia. By arrangement with the Head of Department. Three term-hours; Winter term. V. Garibotto.