High Advanced

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

FIRST SEMESTER [FALL]

Middle Ages

The epic and the lyrical tradition. "Canto del mío Cid." The 13th century. Alfonso X el Sabio. Berceo. El Arcipreste de Hita. Prose in the 14th century. Don Juan Manuel. The romances and their present day literary presence. 15th century literature. Marqués de Santillana and Juan de Mena. "Las Coplas" by Jorge Manrique. "La Celestina." The beginning of Spanish theater.

The Golden Age

Renaissance and Europe. Boscán and Garcilaso. The idealist novel. "El Lazarillo," the first great modern novel. The picaresque novel. The period of Felipe II. Fray Luis de León. Fernando de Herrera. Mysticism and aesthetics. Santa Teresa de Jesús. San Juan de la Cruz.
Cervantes
"El Quijote." "Novelas Ejemplares." Cervantino theater. "Persiles." Cervantes the poet.
Poetry
Góngora, Quevedo. National theater: Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón. Calderón. Gracián, end of the age

SECOND SEMESTER [WINTER]

18th Century

General characteristics of the 18th century in Spain. Prose and lyrical poetry. Theater: Moratín.

19th Century

Romanticism. Theater: el Duque de Rivas y Zorrilla. Poetry: Espronceda and Bécquer. The novel in the last decades of the 18th century: Alarcón, Valera, Clarín, Benito Pérez Galdós, Pardo Bazán.

20th Century (I)

From the Generation of '98 to the Spanish Civil War. Generation of '98 and modernism. The writers of the Generation of '98: Unamuno, Azorín, Baroja, and Antonio Machado.

20th Century (II)

The Poetic Generation of '27.

20th Century (III)

From the Spanish Civil War to modern day. Poetry, the novel and theater from 1939 until 1975. Contemporary literature.

The students will read various literary works as examples of different periods and authors.