Course Description
Students develop advanced reading, writing, and research skills in Spanish by pondering the earliest writings from the Americas both by Europeans and native Americans. Given in Spanish.
Athena Title
Cultures in Contact After 1492
Prerequisite
SPAN 3030 or SPAN 3030E or SPAN 3030H
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
To familiarize upper-division undergraduate students with the major texts and literary movements in Spanish America from the Colonial period through the Independence period. Emphasis will be placed onreading a variety of texts and situating those texts within their cultural, historical and linguistic context. Reading assignments will be complemented by written and oral assignments, as well as exams. Students will be expected to develop their reading skills as well as the analytical and research techniques necessary to understand, discuss and develop coherent arguments about literary texts.
Topical Outline
The impact of and the responses to Columbus' encounter of the New World; mapping the New World--epostles, diaries and chronicles; aspects of "otherness"; epic and chronicle; Enlightenment aesthetics in Spanish America; aspectss of "civilization" and "barbarism"; the female voice; the concept of "national" literature; revolution in literature.
Syllabus