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Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

At the end of the course the student will be able to identify, analyze, and locate in their socio-cultural context, Mexican and Latin American texts of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Some of the themes to be discussed in this class are: American poetry during the 16th century, the first American theater, the American Baroque influence in the diverse arts and literature, the diversity of American society: Spanish, Criollos, Indians, Mestizos, Neoclassicism and the Enlightment, the Bourbon Reforms.