Fall 2017  |  SPAN 3211 Section 001: Interpreting Imperial Spain, 1492-1800 (14302)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 317
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Novels, places, poems, aphorisms, emblems, letters, and political treatises. Questions of ethnicity, gender, class, colonization, early mass culture, and subjectivity. prereq: 3015, [3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or instr consent]
Class Notes:
The Department requires students meet the prerequisites required of the course which is Span 3015W AND Span 3104W.
Class Description:
This course will examine a series of brief texts from Spain's early-modern period, especially the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, also known as the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Presentations and discussions will cover a broad range of materials ranging from writing on the so-called "New World" to representations of issues and topics such as poverty, honor and lineage, history and fiction, love, marriage, subjectivity, and so on. These discussions will be organized around canonical texts such as Fernando de Rojas' La Celestina; the anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes ; brief sections of Cervantes's Don Quijote, well-known poems by major Golden Age writers, and two well-known plays . A detailed syllabus will be made available to students on the first day of classes.
Grading:
30% Midterm Exam
40% Final Exam
15% In-class Presentations
15% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Mid-semester and Final take-home examinations dealing with literary/cultural issues raised in the course; questions provided at least ten days prior to respective due dates .
Class Format:
50% Lecture
40% Discussion
10% Student Presentations
(Oral presentation of a literary work in a round-table format)
Workload:
50-60 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
1 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: All lectures and discussions are conducted in Spanish, and all written essays, papers and examinations will be submitted in Spanish.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14302/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 May 2011

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