Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

High Intermediate

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of three semesters (or five quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Superior

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Fall Trimester: The Middle Ages

- The Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages.

- From the Jarchas to the Castillian Lyric of Love.

- The epic: Cantar del Mio Cid.

- Ceremonies-rites-theatre.

- Clerical verse of the Middle Ages.

- Libro de buen amor.

- Romancero.

- J. Manrique: Coplas a la muerte de su padre

- From the short story to the prose of fiction.

- La Celestina

Winter Trimester: Golden Age

- Spain in the Golden Age (Siglo de Oro).

- Theatre of the XVI century.

- Poetry of love: Garcilaso de la Vega.

- The literary creation of Fray Luis de León.

- The mystic poetry: San Juan de la Cruz.

- Novels of knighthood. Picaresque novel: Lazarillo de Tormes.

- Cervantes: El Quixote.

- Theatre of century XVII: from Lope de Vega to Calderón de la Barca.

- Luis de Góngora

- Francisco de Quevedo

Spring Trimester: Modern and Contemporary

- Spain in the Modern and Contemporary Epoch

- Literary and cultural panorama of the XVIII century of Spain

- Costumbrismo (customism). Antecedents and manifestations: Larra.

- Romantic poetry from Espronceda to Béquer.

- Romantic drama: Don Juan Tenorio.

- Realist and naturalist novel: Benito Pérez Galdós.

- Writers of 1898.

- Poets of 1927.

- Literary creation until 1936.

- Directions of present day literature.