Explores the relationship between literature and film. Students will explore Spanish novels, short stories, and plays and their cinematic adaptations as well as be introduced to film, language and theory. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.

Seminars: Modern Spanish Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Italian.

Studies advanced grammar through analysis of texts; includes extensive practice in composition and topical conversation. Prerequisite: PORT 2120 or by permission.

This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisites: SPAN 1016 , 1026 and 2016 or equivalent.

This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisites: SPAN 1016 & 1026 or equivalent.

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement; instructor permission.

This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics within the subject of Spanish. Prerequisite:SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.

This course considers representations of sex, gender and racial identities in Italian films, television, advertisements and other forms of visual culture. With a focus on the contemporary Italian context, students will explore issues of intersectionality from a global perspective. What can Italian critically acclaimed and more mainstream works tell us about diversity and inclusion in the worldwide context?

This course focuses on the potential narratives have to convey messages that are relevant to our ethical and environmental awareness, and to help us imagine alternatives to existing systems of knowledge and distributions of power. We shall learn about the origins and general objectives of ecocriticism, its relevant theories and methodologies, and various approaches to the notion of sustainability.