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Seminar: Latin America Childhood Fiction & Human Rights

By engaging with children’s literature written in Latin America, we often get involved with many other modes and media, not just writing and print alone. We need to analyze the Read More

Spanish Reading & Composition

This course places major emphasis on the development of reading, writing and analytical skills while studying literary selections from Spain and Latin America. In this course the student has the Read More

Tomás McCone

Tomás McCone is Director of the Language Resource Center and Assistant Professor of Spanish with the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures whose area of interest is the use of Read More

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Apocalypse Now? Theory and the Middle Ages

This course engages in truly apocalyptic levels of analyses, which stem from the integration of modern theoretical frameworks onto the culture and literature of the Iberian Middle Ages. Works in Read More

Human Rights and the Culture of Pain

Human Rights in Latin American literature are expressed in major novels, poetry, and film. These forms of literary and cultural expression address contemporary Latin American political and social struggles. This Read More

Contemporary Hispanic Fiction by Women

This course explores outstanding contemporary fiction by women writers from Spain and Latin America. From a gender-bending short story to a supernatural memoir to a gripping war novel, these works Read More

Latin American Capstone: La Canción de protesta: Music, Religion and Revolution in Lat. Am

What is the contribution of music to the process of shaping political and social identities in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean during the second half of the 20th century? Read More

Media Savy Populism: From Che to Chavez: Discourse and Politics in Contemporary Lat. Am

From the Cuban revolution til the presidency of Hugo Chavez (and others in present-day Latin America), populist political movements have used multiple media in their attempts to revolutionize the life Read More

Graphic Transgressions

This course examines the breakthrough movements that have transgressed traditional boundaries in Latin American art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on literary and poetic breakthroughs and Read More

Masters of the Latin American Short Story

This course will consist of an in-depth study of four major short story writers of Latin America: Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and Gabriel García Márquez; we will Read More