Spanish: Language, Literature, Culture (including courses in English)

• CAS LS 507: The Sounds of Spanish
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLX250) AND one LS 300-level language course; or consent of instructor. - Introduction to Spanish phonetics and phonology. Covers articulatory, acoustic, and auditory phonetics, focusing on techniques for visualizing speech sounds. Examines the phonemic inventory and phonological organization of Spanish from several perspectives, including generative and articulatory phonology as well as sociolinguistics. Conducted in Spanish. Also offered as CAS LX 383 and GRS LX 683.
• CAS LS 557: Poetry of the Spanish Golden Age
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS350) and at least two 400-level LS course. - The development of lyric poetry during the Renaissance and the baroque period. Emphasis on close thematic, stylistic, and structural analysis of individual poems by major figures including Garcilaso, Fray Luis, San Juan de la Cruz, Góngora, and Quevedo.
• CAS LS 575: Topics in Peninsular Literature
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS350) and two LS 400-level literature courses or consent of the instructor. - May be repeated for credit as topic varies. Topic for Spring 2024: A review of Madrid, Spain as an emerging urban and cultural center in Europe as conceptualized through the literature, history, and art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• CAS LS 576: Topics in Spanish American Literature
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS350) and two 400-level LS literature courses; or consent of instructor. - Topic for Fall 2024: Writing the Nation. This course focuses on the intersection between nation-building and “national novels” in nineteenth-century Latin America. We approach novels from different national contexts to uncover the fundamental role of fiction in “writing” the nation.
• CAS LS 579: Topics in Hispanic Cinemas
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS350) and at least two 400-level LS course. - Cinema as a perspective from which to analyze cultural and socio-political developments within the Spanish- speaking world. Topics drawn from the history of specific national cinemas, individual filmmakers or particular "schools," relations between literature and film, and political uses of film. Topic for Spring 2024: The Unthinkable – How Latin American Cinema Represents and Produces Reality. This course examines audiovisual works that approach experiences in Latin America that defy representation, such as state violence, memory, posthuman phenomena, physical and affective traumas. It explores how directors deployed aesthetic techniques to represent a reality doomed to be unthinkable. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking
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  • Aesthetic Exploration
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