SPAN 320 - Don Quijote

FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2015 and every third year

Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. Close reading and discussion of this Early Modern novel. May include close reading and discussion of additional narrative and poetic genres of the Golden Age, as represented in or contributing to the Cervantine work

Winter 2015:

SPANISH 320: Digital Don Quijote (3). Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and 275. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of this timeless work by Miguel de Cervantes – the first modern novel and source of such current expressions as “tilting at windmills” – students work individually and collaboratively on a Don Quijote website that allows us to better capture the nuances of the text and understand its enduring appeal. While close reading and discussion of the novel itself (and additional narrative and poetic genres of the Golden Age, represented in the work) is the basis of the course, the digital humanities component (the website) constitutes much of the assessed components of the course, instead of more traditional graded assignments. (HL) Campbell.