This graduate course introduces an overview of major theories and current issues in second/foreign language acquisition in both classroom and natural/non-instructed settings while providing guidance and practice with their applications to teaching. Students will explore theoretical, investigative, and practical issues of communicative language teaching that will help them develop communicative classroom environments that blend listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The material in this course should encourage students to question assumptions and begin to formulate their own ideas about what goes on in their classrooms and in second language learning in general.

This graduate course introduces an overview of major theories and current issues in heritage language acquisition in both classroom and natural/non-instructed settings while providing guidance and practice with their applications to teaching. The material in this course should encourage students to question assumptions and begin to formalize their own ideas about what goes on in their classrooms and in heritage language learning in general.

This course is a graduate seminar whose primary focus is the literary production of the Spanish Golden Age, which dates from the second half of the sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth. Students will analyze works of various genres - autobiography, prose, drama, poetry and the novel - by the most prominent authors of the time, including Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, Miguel de Cervantes, Baltasar Gracián, Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Félix Lope de Vega, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina and María de Zayas. We will give special attention to the historical, social and cultural context of early modern Spain, and students will gain exposure to the major critical trends and interpretation of Golden Age literature. The authors to be studied confront readers with the complex social fabric of pre-modern Spain and immerse us in the religious and economic realities of the Iberian Peninsula, the Mediterranean world and Europe. Our close reading of the texts will allow us to explore how early modern Spanish writers reflect the spiritual, intellectual and political currents of their time, especially as they shed light upon the network of institutions, practices, and beliefs that constituted Spanish culture.

This course focuses on the various political, ideological, and intellectual trends that have shaped nineteenth-century Spanish literature and emphasizes the aesthetic and cultural influences that made the Spanish literary universe unique. It also takes up the question of the ways in which the literature of nineteenth-century Spain might be compared to that of Latin America and of the Western world generally. It will provide an overview of the key topics, writers, and literary genres of nineteenth-century Spanish literature, with particular emphasis on novels, poetry, folletines, short stories and, to a lesser extent, visual art. We will discuss the complexities of Spanish modernity using current theoretical perspectives in addition to various historical approaches, while emphasizing the way in which these texts offer multiple views of Spanish national identity and the construction of different models of the modern self.

This course is a graduate seminar with a primary focus on theatrical works written in the Spanish Golden Age, which began in the mid-sixteenth century with the dramatist Lope de Rueda and ended in the late seventeenth century with the death of Calderón de la Barca. It combines the study of shorter works, entremeses, and full-length plays, or comedias, written by the most renowned playwrights of early modern Spain, including Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina. Through the reading of these authors, students will explore the themes and social factors which shaped the plays of the Golden Age and will become familiar with the theatrical tradition that impacted Spanish society at all levels. Attention will also be given to the role of gender, religion, and socio-economic status in pre-modern Spanish society. We will use these texts in order to understand the historical context and the main currents of thought in early modern Spain.

This course is a survey of the most prominent authors of the Spanish Golden Age mystics - Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila, and John of the Cross, whose writings reflect the religious, spiritual, and intellectual currents of Counter-Reformation Spain. In the form of an independent study, students will examine the ascetical, mystical, and Illuminist trends of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as the most important themes these writers developed in early modern Iberia: conversion and authority, vice and virtue, penance and pilgrimage, devotion and humor. These themes will be explored in the majors works (primary sources) of these authors, which will be complemented by secondary source readings and each student's independent research. The writers studied in this course and their texts will also be viewed in the context of the greater literary and artistic production of the Spanish Golden Age.

This course is a graduate seminar and its primary focus is the literary masterpiece of Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (1605, 1615). Students will analyze the work that has come to be known as the first modern novel of Europe, and, through a close reading of the text, study the novel in relation to the literary traditions of the Renaissance: novella, the pastoral romance, the romance of chivalry, the humanist dialogue, the picaresque novel, including poetry and the comedia. We will give special attention to the historical, social and cultural context of Cervantes' world, and students will gain exposure to the major critical trends and interpretations surrounding his novel. Cervantes confronts readers with the complex social fabric of early modern Spain, and immerses us in the religious and economic realities of the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean world. Our close reading of Don Quijote will explore its links to the network of institutions, practices, and beliefs that constituted early modern Spanish culture.

A course designed to provide students with the opportunity to make a connection between Hispanic Studies and its praxis in a professional work environment.

This course provides ongoing guidance and supervision, with a view to project completion, for students writing their MA thesis.

This course provides ongoing guidance and supervision, with a view to project completion, for students writing their Masters' essay.