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

High Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of five semesters (or seven 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.

OBJECTIVES
This Course offers students the possibility of studying the famous novel by Cervantes within the context of the author’s own evolution and its interaction with the Spain of his time.

METHODOLOGY
Specific attention will be paid to Don Quixote, which, from the outset, will be read in terms of the other aspects of syllabus content.

SYLLABUS
1. Miguel de Cervantes and the Spain of his Epoch. The Life of Cervantes.
2. The Works of Cervantes. His Theory of Literature. Theory of the Novel.
3. El Quijote (Don Quixote). Content, Structure, Process of Construction.
4. El Quijote from 1605 to 1615. El Quijote by Avellanada.
5. A Study of Certain Themes and Key Episodes.
6. The Work’s Transmission and Projection.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
CERVANTES, M. de. Don Quijote de la Mancha. Ed. de M. de Riquer. Barcelona: Planeta, varias eds.
MADARIAGA, S. de. Guía del lector del Quijote. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1976 (varias eds.).
MORENO BÁEZ, E. Reflexiones sobre el Quijote. Madrid: Prensa Española, 1968.
RIQUER, M. de. Aproximación al Quijote. Madrid: Salvat-Alianza, 1970.
NABOKOV, V. Curso sobre el Quijote. Barcelona: Ediciones B, 1977.
MÁRQUEZ VILLANUEVA, F. Fuentes literarias cervantinas. Madrid: Gredos, 1973.
-----. Personajes y temas del Quijote. Madrid: Taurus, 1975.

ASSESSMENT
Students will be expected to sit two exams, one mid-way through the semester and the other at its close, besides carrying out the different reading tests that will be organized as the Course develops.