2022-2023 Graduate Course Catalog 
    
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2022-2023 Graduate Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Religion

  • REL 500 - Selected Topics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  • REL 551 - Ethics and the Health professions

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: PHI 593 
    Ethical theories in professional, organizational, and political-economic fields in health care. Specific issues: assisted suicide, professional codes, ethics of “cost- cutting” and justice with respect to care.
  • REL 552 - Bioethics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: MPH 664 PHI 594  
    Use of ethical theory in thinking about case problems in health care. Moral dilemmas: use of reproductive technologies, abortion, surrogate motherhood, research with humans, refusal and withdrawal of treatment, physician-assisted suicide.
  • REL 557 - Modern Theology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Introduction to major figures and movements in twentieth- century theology. Upper division standing.
  • REL 595 - Religion, Art, and Aesthetics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Intersection between religion, art, and philosophy. Sources culled from Western religious thought and philosophy.
  • REL 600 - Selected Topics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  • REL 601 - Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Introduction to “classic” literature and issues in the field of religion.
  • REL 602 - Gnosticism

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Gnosticism as a structure of religious belief; as sectarian movement within “mainline” traditions of late antiquity (Judaism, Christianity, paganism); as a literary-critical perspective on religious texts and traditions in antiquity and contemporary thinking.
  • REL 603 - Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion II

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Introduction to “classic” twentieth-century literature and issues in the field of religion.
  • REL 605 - Religion and the Body in Late Antiquity

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: WGS 605 
    History of the human body as history of its modes of construction in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Problems that arise when the body becomes a topic for religious inquiry. Readings in ancient texts and contemporary theory.
  • REL 607 - Ancient Religious Rhetoric

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Rhetoric of ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean religious texts, including parts of the Bible; role of persuasion in ancient religion and its effects on literature, power, and on conceptions of knowledge and text in antiquity.
  • REL 610 - Textual Practices in the Study of Religion

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    A theoretical and practical exploration of different textual practices and ways of approaching and interpreting them, focusing on an extended consideration of a single religious text or a single genre of religious texts.
    Repeatable 2 time(s), 9 credits maximum
  • REL 611 - The Idea of Scripture

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    The religious, literary, and political factors that affected the development and canonization of Jewish and Christian scriptures and shaped the idea of authoritative scripture in Western religious traditions.
  • REL 619 - Ritual Theory and Religious Practice

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: ANT 619 
    Survey and evaluation of major ritual theories, tested against a particular set of religious and cultural practices, such as those involving purification and pollutions, or holidays and festivals.
  • REL 620 - Textual Scripts in the Study of Religion

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Theories and descriptions of how texts shape people’s words, actions and experiences, both religious and secular, and how people use and perform texts for spiritual and social effects on religious objects, cultures, traditions and themselves.
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 9 credits maximum
  • REL 621 - Teaching World Religions in Theory and Practice

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    The complexities of teaching introductory courses in world religions, especially in the context of recent debates on comparison as well as the very concept of “religion.” Graduate standing.
  • REL 622 - Sacrifice

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    An investigation of “sacrifice” as a name for ritual and non-ritual practices in contemporary and historical societies and in academic discourse about religions and cultures.
  • REL 625 - Pluralism in Islam

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Historical development of multiple discourses within the Muslim world. Role of Islamic texts, institutions, and contexts on intra-Islamic politics of identity, representation, and religious authority. Hybridity and syncretism of Islams in contemporary local contexts.
  • REL 626 - Beyond the Veil: Gender Politics in Islam

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: MES 626 
    Double Numbered with: REL 465
    Politics of gender, religious identities, and resistance in the Islamic world. Gender scripts in Qur’anic scripture and Shariah laws. Contemporary realities of Muslim women living in different parts of the world. Additional work required of graduate students.
  • REL 627 - Globalization and Religion: Processes and problems

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Sophisticated works in globalization theory emerge from sociology, economics, political history, and contemporary cultural studies with broad significance for the study of religion. Bringing these into conversation with religious studies is the project of this seminar. Graduate standing.
  • REL 628 - Muslim Rituals, Practices, and Performances

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Crosslisted with: ANT 628 
    Historical, cultural, and sociological analysis of pan-Islamic festivals and rituals. Local, culturally-specific, unofficial practices in Islam.
  • REL 629 - Islamic Metaphysics and Epistemology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: PHI 629
    In-depth study of the main epistemological systems and theories of metaphysics developed in Islamic intellectual tradition. Explores the systems of interpretation of the Qur’an and Sunnah developed by legal scholars, mystics and philosophers.
  • REL 630 - Textual Bodies in the Study of Religion

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    An exploration of the intersections of texts and bodies within religious cultures texts as bodies (from literary corpus to material object), bodies as texts (inscribed and read), and above all bodies in texts.
    Repeatable 2 time(s), 9 credits maximum
  • REL 640 - The Philosphical Foundations of Religion

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Philosophic and religious heritage highlighted by Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, and Aquinas. Focus varies from year to year.
    Repeatable
  • REL 642 - Critical Issues in the Study of Native Americans

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: ANT 691 
    Methodological issues related to studies of indigenous traditions and develops interpretive strategies for using literature about Native American religions.
  • REL 644 - Feminist Theology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: WGS 644 
    Feminist theology as a global religious movement from its roots in U.S. feminism to its current political and philosophical battles.
  • REL 650 - Themes in 19th Century Religious Thought

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Religious thought in 19thcentury Europe and America. Themes may include God, freedom, and selfhood; Romanticism and religion; and religion, freedom, and slavery. Figures examined may include Kierkegaard, Kant, Douglass, Emerson, and others.
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
  • REL 651 - Classics in the Sociology of Religion and Morals

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: ANT 651 , SOC 651 
    Classical sociological writings of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber and their contemporary significance.
  • REL 652 - Psychoanalysis and Religious Ethics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Psychoanalysis and its implications for religious ethics.
  • REL 653 - Postmodern Ethics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Selected philosophical and religious perspectives on postmodern ethics. Readings from Rorty, Stout, Kristeva, Wyschogrod, MacIntyre, Nussbaum, and others.
  • REL 654 - Religious Corporealities

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Ways in which corporealities are shaped by and shape religious texts and traditions, philosophically and practically. Potential topics include nudity, body, flesh, skin, and sensuality, with attention to sexuality and biopolitics.
  • REL 656 - Christianity and the Enlightenment

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Theological responses of representative thinkers to the challenges of the new science, natural religion, Deism, and the philosophies of the European Enlightenment.
  • REL 658 - The Other in Ethics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    The significance of the Other in contemporary religious and philosophical ethics. Readings in Levinas, Lacan, Derrida, Kristeva, Critchley, Caputo.
  • REL 659 - Kierkegaard Seminar

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This seminar examines a wide array of themes and issues in Kierkegaard’s religious thought which may include Kierkegaard and Romanticism; Kierkegaard on Love, God and Selfhood; Kierkegaard and Politics; Kierkegaard’s Existential Aesthetics.
    Repeatable 2 time(s), 9 credits maximum
  • REL 660 - Continental Philosophy of Religion

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Crosslisted with: PHI 640 
    Continental philosophers such as Husseri, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Irigaray, and Marion. Their influence on theology, religious theory. Topics include overcoming onto-theology; phenomenology, deconstruction and theology; return of religion.
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
  • REL 661 - Self, Body, Transcendence

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: WGS 661 
    Examines Continental and American feminist and gender theory for intersections between religion, subjectivity, and bodily practice.
  • REL 662 - Marx and Foucault

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Texts from Marx and Foucault are read for their implications for Religion scholars.
  • REL 663 - Religion and Revolution

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Texts from theology and political theory that examine their mutual terms, themes, and concerns.
  • REL 665 - Religion and Mass Culture

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Twentieth-century theories of mass culture are read for their use and implications for religion scholars. [Effective spring 2009]
  • REL 667 - Postmodern Theology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Philosophical background of postmodernism and its theological and cultural expressions. Content varies.
    Repeatable
  • REL 668 - Critical Theory in Theology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Theories of discourse formation and textual production in theology in relationship to the critique of ideologies of theory.
  • REL 671 - Religion and Post-Freudian Depth Psychologies

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Contemporary psychoanalytic theories and their implications for interpreting religious phenomena: Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, D.W. Winnicott, Erick Erickson, Hans Leowald, Heinz Kohut, Christopher Bollas, and others.
  • REL 676 - Religion and Jewish Literature

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: JSP 676 
    Readings in Jewish literature, with emphasis on allegorical, hasidic, neohasidic, and anti-hasidic writing by Nahman of Bratslav, Joseph Perl, I.L. Peretz, Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel, and S. Y. Agnon.
  • REL 680 - Textual Archives in the Study of Religion

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Historical research into religions, including archival research, and also theories and examples of how archives, scriptures, oral traditions and academic histories function as repositories of collective memory and religious identity.
    Repeatable 3 time(s), 9 credits maximum
  • REL 685 - Buddhism, Culture, Modernity

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Explores the diversity of adaptations by Buddhist adherents to the global condition of modernity and the ways in which modernity has created what we think of as Buddhism today.
  • REL 686 - Zen Master Dogen

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Selected writings of the thirteenth-century Japanese Zen master dogen Zenji. Related Mahayana Buddhist texts.
  • REL 687 - Global Hinduism

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Double Numbered with: REL 487
    Exploring how mobile middle-class Hindus re-create and re-define religion in new urban and global environments as a context for rethinking the place of religion(s) within rapid world-wide urbanization, migration, globalization, and increasing cultural (dis)integration. Additional work required of graduate students.
  • REL 689 - Memory, Culture, Religion

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: ANT 689 
    Collective memory and constructions of the past as cultural phenomena; the roles religious identities, values, and institutions play as individuals, communities, and nations recollect particular moments, eras, crises, and localities.
  • REL 691 - Approaches to the Study of Religion

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Introduction to classic texts, methods and approaches used in the field of religion and in this department. Must be enrolled in the Religion Department M.A. or Ph.D. programs.
  • REL 692 - Other People’s Religions

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Explores the ways that Western studies of non- Western religions have dealt with difference. Central aim is to understand the politics of knowledge and the arts of interpretation involved in research and writing about other people’s religious traditions.
  • REL 693 - Materiality of Religion

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Methodological issues related to the interpretation of diverse religious phenomena including architecture, the body, and land.
  • REL 696 - Gender and Religion: Theory and Practice

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Focus on the intertwining of gender and religion; emphasis on gendered visions of power in mythic, symbolic, and ritual phenomena. Readings in feminist and anthropological theory as well as cultural cases in ethnography and history of religions.
  • REL 698 - Anthropology of Religion

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Surveys contributions to theories by anthropologists on the role of religion in societies from the founding of the discipline to the present day.
  • REL 699 - Writing Religions and Cultures: Ethnographic Practice

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: ANT 699 
    A range of aims and strategies for writing ethnographies of religion in the multiple contexts of culture, history, and politics.
  • REL 719 - Research and Writing in the History and Thought of the New Testament

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3-6 credit(s) Every semester
  • REL 739 - Research and Writing in the History and Thought of Israel

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3-6 credit(s) Every semester
  • REL 749 - Research and Writing in Religion and Society

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Repeatable
  • REL 759 - Research and Writing in Religious History and Thought

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3-6 credit(s) Every semester
  • REL 769 - Research and Writing in Philosophy of Religion and Theology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Repeatable
  • REL 779 - Research and Writing in Religion and Culture

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3-6 credit(s) Every semester
  • REL 789 - Research and Writing in History of Religions

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3-6 credit(s) Every semester
  • REL 799 - Research and Writing in Methodology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3-6 credit(s) Every semester
  • REL 997 - Master’s Thesis

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Repeatable
  • REL 999 - Dissertation

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-15 credit(s) Every semester
    Repeatable

Russian

  • RUS 620 - Language Training in Preparation for Research Using Russian

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Language training to prepare students to conduct research in areas that require knowledge of Russian.
    Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum

Science Teaching

  • SCI 544 - Teaching of College Science

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Current approaches. Analysis of teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, evaluation, use of institutional technology, individualized instruction. Supervised teaching experiences to aid self-improvement as a college science teacher.
  • SCI 670 - Experience Credit

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s)
    Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.
    Repeatable
  • SCI 701 - General Science Comprehensive Paper

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Comprehensive science paper required for the M.S. degree in general science. Topic selected by student and advisor. Given in cooperation with the various science departments.
  • SCI 990 - Independent Study

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s)
    Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
    Repeatable
  • SCI 999 - Dissertation

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3-15 credit(s)
    Repeatable

Sociology

  • SOC 513 - Statistics for Social Science

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Designed for first-year graduate students and sociology majors considering graduate study. Measures of central tendency and dispersion, hypothesis testing, and indices of association between variables. Application of statistics to social science data.
  • SOC 672 - Topics in Sociolinguistics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Crosslisted with: LIN 674, ANT 674
    Double Numbered with: ANT 374, LIN 374, SOC 372
    Functions of language in society. Geographical, socioeconomic, and male-female differentiation. Functions of various types of speech events. Requirements include a research project.
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum

Spanish

  • SPA 601 - Literary Theory and Research Methods

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Reading in semiotics and research theory concerning literary texts.
  • SPA 620 - Language Training in Preparation for Research Using Spanish

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Language training to prepare students to conduct research in areas that require knowledge of Spanish.
    Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum
  • SPA 635 - Spanish Phonetics and Phonology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Double Numbered with: SPA 435
    Introduction to formal linguistic analysis of the Spanish sound system. Survey of dialectal variation. Additional work required of graduate students.
  • SPA 636 - The Structure of Spanish

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Double Numbered with: SPA 436
    Introduction to the formal linguistic analysis of the structure of Spanish sentences. Additional work required of graduate students.
  • SPA 637 - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Double Numbered with: SPA 437
    Formal linguistic analysis of the Spanish language: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and language variation (sociolinguistics and dialectology). Taught entirely in Spanish. Additional work required of graduate students.
  • SPA 638 - History of the Spanish Language

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Double Numbered with: SPA 438
    The evolution of modern Spanish. The causes of linguistic change, the development of the phonological and morphosyntactic systems, the semantic/lexical development of the language. Additional work required of graduate students.
  • SPA 639 - Community Outreach: Language in Action

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: SPA 439
    Language immersion in the Spanish-speaking community in the Syracuse area. Emphasis on improving spoken and written Spanish through a service learning component. Additional work required of graduate students.
  • SPA 641 - Medieval and Golden Age Literature

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Critical reading of significant literary works drawn from the Middle Ages and the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • SPA 643 - Cervantes

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Don Quixote, with selections from other representative works by Cervantes.
  • SPA 652 - Spanish Enlightenment to Modernism: Aesthetics and Power

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Through a diverse theoretical approach, analyzes the construction of the following notions: literature, nation, identity, and gender. Representations of women in literary and cinematic texts.
  • SPA 653 - Sinner and Saints in 19th and 20th Century Spanish Literature and Film

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Crosslisted with: WGS 653 
    Representations of women in novel, poetry, theater, and film through diverse theoretical approaches. Issues of power, sex, hierarchy, and institution.
  • SPA 655 - Caribbean Spaces

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    This course explores visions of urban imaginaries in Caribbean and U.S. Caribbean cultures. It analyzes the intersections between urban spaces and the formation of local/global subjectivities.
  • SPA 656 - Reality and Desire: Theater and Poetry (20th Century)

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    A diachronic study of the Spanish theater and poetry. Literary works will include texts by Valle-Inclán, Machado, Garcia Lorca, Aleixandre, Cernuda, Sastre, Buero Vallejo, among others.
  • SPA 658 - Narrative and Film in Spain (1940 to the Present)

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Diachronic study of the “art of adaptation” in Spain. Exploration of the language of translation. Exchange between literature and film during and after Franco.
  • SPA 662 - Latin American Colonial Literature

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Literature written during the Colonial period and contemporary criticism and theory about that period.
  • SPA 663 - Latin American Theater

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Inclusive instructional strategies for students with disabilities, with particular focus on students with autism. Collaborative teaching approaches, IEP implementation, positive behavior supports, fostering communication and adaptations to access enriching curricula. Implementation during field experience. Effective Fall 2010
  • SPA 664 - Nineteenth Century Latin American Literature

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Narratives and poetry written during the 19th century in Latin America. Analyzed in relation to literary movements such as costumbrism, romanticism, realism, naturalism, and the gaucho trend.
  • SPA 665 - Performance and Postmodernism in Latin America

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Latin American theater written or performed from 1990 to the present alongside theories on performance and postmodernism related to Latin America and its theater.
  • SPA 671 - Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Crosslisted with: WGS 671 
    Includes reading and critical discussion of novels by 20th-century Latin American women writers and an introduction to feminist theory as it pertains to Latin America.
  • SPA 672 - Gay and Lesbian Hispanic Caribbean Literature

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Caribbean poetry and fiction in homosexual literature. Includes literary theories and social, political, cultural, and religious values related to homosexuality.
  • SPA 673 - Afro-Hispanic Literature of the Caribbean

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Evolution of the African culture within the Cuban Literature of the 20th century. The relationship of Santeria/Revolution is especially emphasized.
  • SPA 674 - Cuban Neo-Baroque

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Analysis of three contemporary Cuban writers: Alejo Carpentier, José Lezama Lima, and Severo Sarduy. Literary theories of novel, poetry, and lectures.
  • SPA 678 - Latin American Literature in the New Millenium

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    This course will trace the major developments in Latin American literature and cultural phenomena that followed the Boom, with emphasis on the production of the 21st century.
  • SPA 679 - Contemporary Trends In Latin American Literature, Culture and Film

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Cultural debates, literary developments and film in contemporary Latin America.
  • SPA 681 - U.S. Latina/o Literature

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Literary texts written by Latina/os in Spanish from the 17th century to present. Focus from late 19th century to the present; examining socio-historic, cultural and literary contexts.
  • SPA 685 - Contemporary Spanish-American Literature

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Precursors, modernists, and postmodernists
  • SPA 686 - Thinking/Writing the Nation

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    An introduction to texts within the variety of discursive modernity models of 19th century Latin America. From Independence Era to the end of that century.
  • SPA 687 - Revisiting Foundational Fictions

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    A discussion of Anderson’s Imagined Communities and Sommer’s Foundational Fictions, to determine how helpful they are today in the study and mapping of 19th century Latin American narrative texts.
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