SPAN 397 - Peninsular Seminar

FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275 and SPAN 220.
A seminar focusing on a single period, genre, motif, or writer. The specific topic will be determined jointly according to student interest and departmental approval. Recent topics have included “The Female Voice in Hispanic Literature,” “19th- and 20th-Century Spanish drama,” “Women Writers of the Golden Age,” and “Romanticism and the Generation of ‘98.” May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.

Topic for Fall 2011:

SPAN 397: Las dos Españas: 1898-1936 (3). The concept of the “two Spains” is closely identified with the national crisis of 1898 and the subsequent political polarization that resulted in the Spanish Civil War. This course examines its manifestation as a literary and cultural theme and traces its evolution through a variety of literary genre and some of the principal artistic expressions of the period, including film. Boetsch.