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Fall 2018 | SPAN 3211 Section 001: Interpreting Imperial Spain, 1492-1800 (17406)
- 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
Tue,
Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 317
- Enrollment Status:
Open (17 of 20 seats filled)
- 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: SPAN 3104W or SPAN 3104V or TLDO 3104W or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105W or SPAN 3105V or VENZ 3512 or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- If you cannot register please put your name on the waitlist. The Department requires students meet the prerequisites required of the course which is Span 3015W AND either Span 3104W or SPAN 3105W.
- 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/17406/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 May 2011
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