Survey of Hispanic Literature and Culture

Catalog description

This course covers literature from the 8th century on in the Peninsular context and/or from the times of the pre-Conquest in Latin America to the present. It focuses on short stories, poetry, essays and films as well as different critical and theoretical analyses of culture. Its purpose is to familiarize graduate students with Latin American and/or Peninsular literature and culture and to provide a foundation for the other course offerings in literature/culture in the graduate program. It can be taught as a survey of Peninsular or Latin American literature or both.