Superior

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses at their home university in the U.S.

60 hours of instruction
This course concentrates on aspects of literary history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that have not been well researched, including: Spanish musicals of the eighteenth century, the eighteenth century Spanish essay, and the theme of North Africa in Spanish literature. The course is divided along topics which include: keys points of the eighteenth century, the origins of Spanish theatre, erotic poetry in the Enlightenment of Spain, origins of Spanish literary journalism, the topic of Spain in the eighteenth century essay, Noches Lugubres by Cadalso and other gothic texts, the nineteenth century: bourgeoisie and literature, new perspectives on Don Juan by Zorrilla, the poetry of Bécquer, the subject of North Africa in the Spanish narrative of the nineteenth century, the novel of the Restoration and religious conflict: Pepita Jiménez by Valera, La Regenta by Clarín and Nazarín by Galdós.