This course introduces students to the vocabulary, methods, and techniques of 
literary analysis of selected Spanish and Spanish-American texts from the five 
literary genres to be studied: poetry, drama, novel, essay and short story.  
Students will learn how to analyze competently a literary text as artistically-
formed content, paying special attention to plot development, characterization, 
theme, structure, poetic rhyme and meter, style, language, rhetorical devices, 
tropes, etc. Students will improve their oral/aural, written, and interpretive 
skills by analyzing representative texts in Spanish. This will be accomplished 
through classroom discussions, written and oral assignments, and exams. This course 
examines Spanish literature and culture in an integrated manner, and does so in the 
target language (Spanish). Therefore, oral communication and writing skills are 
given the same importance as analytical skills. Successful completion of this 
course will enable students to move on to the 4000-level surveys of literature.  
Given in Spanish.

Differences between literature and literary art.  Differences between non-fiction 
and fictional literature.  Terminology associated with the analysis of literature 
as an art form.  Characteristics of poetry in general, its different forms, 
determining meter and rhyme scheme, and methods of analysis.  Characteristics of 
drama and methods of analysis.  Characteristics of the novel and methods of 
analysis.  Characteristics of the essay and methods or analysis.  Characteristics 
of the short story and methods of analysis.