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Major Requirements

A major in Spanish is a program of study of Hispanic language and literature. It consists of a minimum of eight courses at the 300 and 400 levels. It must include SPAN 361, and five 400-level literature courses. The 400-level courses are divided into the following categories: Spanish: Pre-1900 (category 1) and Post-1900 (category 2).

Independent study courses are permitted only when the above distribution requirements are met. SPAN 490 is open only to candidates who are studying independently for honors. Majors who qualify are strongly encouraged to participate in the Madrid Study Group.

Pre-1900 (category 1)

Spanish majors must take at least two courses from category 1.

• SPAN 459 - 'Nuns Having Fun' in Colonial Latin America
• SPAN 460 - Spanish Renaissance and Baroque Poetry
• SPAN 461 - Theater of the Golden Age
• SPAN 462 - Cervantes' Don Quijote
• SPAN 467 - Latin American Romanticism
• SPAN 468 - Visions and Re-visions of the Spanish Conquest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
• SPAN 476 - Linguistic History of Spain
• SPAN 481 - Major Hispanic Authors
• SPAN 483 - Spanish American Modernismo: Spleen, Femme Fatales, Artificial Paradises

Post-1900 (category 2)

• SPAN 470 - Subject and the City: Imagined and Real
• SPAN 473 - Women and Censorship in Contemporary Spanish Novels
• SPAN 474 - Short Fiction in Contemporary Spain
• SPAN 475 - Spanish as a Global Language
• SPAN 478 - Literature of the Caribbean
• SPAN 479 - Contemporary Latin American Literature
• SPAN 482 - Major Hispanic Authors
• SPAN 483 - Spanish American Modernismo: Spleen, Femme Fatales, Artificial Paradises
• SPAN 485 - Latin American Novels Before the Boom (1910-1950)
• SPAN 486 - Latin American Dictatorship Theater