Course Requirements
Students whose level of proficiency allows them to begin studying Spanish at DePaul in SPN 202 or higher may substitute 300-level language courses for three 200-level language courses. Heritage speakers of Spanish should take:
Spanish Literature Categories
Category I: Spanish Literature from Middle Ages through Golden Age
Category II: Spanish Literature from Enlightenment to present
Category III: Latin American Literature from origins through Romanticism
Category IV: Latin American Literature from Modernism to present
Open Electives
Open elective credit also is required to meet the minimum graduation requirement of 192 hours.
SPN 201
ADVANCED GRAMMAR AND COMMUNICATION
A systematic study and review of grammar points that typically cause difficulty for students of Spanish as a foreign language. Developing appropriate speech and writing through the study and discussion of films and various types of written documents within a cultural context.
SPN 202
ADVANCED COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION
Continued study of grammar, speech and writing with emphasis on the development of an effective prose style.
SPN 203
ADVANCED CONVERSATION I
Developing a more sophisticated spoken fluency; backup support provided through written texts and exercises.
SPN 204
ADVANCED CONVERSATION II
Refinement of advanced speaking skills.
SPN 352
SPANISH PHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS
An in-depth study of the language's sound system and intensive pronunciation practice.
SPN 220
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY ANALYSIS IN SPANISH
Introduction to the vocabulary and methods of literary criticism. Study of various genres and periods.
SPN 205
ADVANCED GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS I
For native speakers of Spanish to be taken in lieu of 201.
SPN 206
ADVANCED GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS II
For native speakers of Spanish to be taken in lieu of 202.
SPN 207
ADVANCED CONVERSATION FOR THE HERITAGE SPEAKER
For Heritage Language Speakers of Spanish to be taken in lieu of 203 or 204.
SPN 301
SPANISH LITERATURE I : MIDDLE AGES THROUGH THE GOLDEN AGE
Middle Ages through the Golden Age.
SPN 308
MEDIEVAL SPANISH LITERATURE
El Cid, La Celestina, El Conde Lucanor, Libro de Buen Amor.
SPN 309
SPANISH BALLAD
Origins, kinds, readings and interpretations.
SPN 310
THE GOLDEN AGE
Topics include: Lyric poetry, theater.
SPN 311
CERVANTES
This course focuses on Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quijote. It examines how this "first modern novel" responds critically to developments in Renaissance literature, religious and political thinking, and theories of fictional and non-fictional representation.
SPN 324
THE BIRTH OF THE NOVEL IN SPAIN
Prose fiction from the romances of chivalry to Cervantes.
SPN 333
GOLDEN AGE THEATER
Spanish theater of the seventeenth century, with a focus on the comedia, a new popular art form that appealed to audiences across social classes.
SPN 411
CERVANTES
This course focuses on Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quijote. It examines how this "first modern novel" responds critically to developments in Renaissance literature, religious and political thinking, and theories of fictional and non-fictional representation.
SPN 302
SPANISH LITERATURE II: THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE PRESENT
The Enlightenment to the present.
SPN 312
THE SPANISH NOVEL
Topics include: the picaresque novel; 19th-century novel; 20th-century novel.
SPN 313
THE GENERATION OF 1898
Azorin, Baroja, Ganivet, Machado, Unamuno, Valle-Inclan.
SPN 332
NINETEENTH CENTURY SPANISH NOVEL
This course is based on the reading, discussion and critique of major representative works in the novel of Spain of the 19th century.
SPN 339
THE GENERATION OF 1927
This course examines the peninsular Spanish "Generation of 1927" in considerable depth with emphasis on the best known literary figure in the group, Federico Garcia Lorca.
SPN 432
NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH NOVEL
This course is based on the reading, discussion and critique of major representative works in the novel of Spain of the 19th century.
SPN 303
LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE & CULTURE I
From the discovery of America to Romanticism.
SPN 374
LITERATURE OF THE CONQUEST
This course explores the early encounters between Europe and the Americas. Analysis of letters, reports, histories, and political tracts from European, Amerindian, and Mestizo sources.
SPN 375
LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM INDEPENDENCE TO MODERNISM
General introduction to the most important literary movements in Hispanic American countries, beginning with the wars of independence from Spain until the last part of 19th century.
SPN 376
SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ
This advanced course in literature is dedicated to study Mexican writer Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695), the leading poet and intellectual figure of the Colonial Period.
SPN 378
FOUNDATIONAL FICTIONS
This course explores the relationship between national consolidation and romantic novels. It is based on the reading, discussion, and analysis of major representative "Foundational Fictions" in 19th-century Latin American Literature. SPN 220 highly recommended. SPN 106/SPN 116 or equivalent, and SPN 201-203 or SPN 205-207, recommended.
SPN 304
LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE II
From Modernism to the present.
SPN 305
LATIN AMERICAN NOVEL
Topics include: contemporary, testimonial novel.
SPN 306
HISPANIC LITERATURE OF THE CARIBBEAN
Topics include Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Afro-Caribbean.
SPN 315
MEXICAN LITERATURE
Representative texts from different periods and genres.
SPN 321
U.S. LATINO/A WRITERS
Topics include Chicano literature, Puerto Rican literature, the literature of exile.
SPN 323
REVOLUTION IN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Topics include: The Mexican Revolution, the Cuban Revolution, Revolutions in Central America, and a Survey of Revolutionary Movements.
SPN 328
MODERN LATIN AMERICAN THEATRE
Study of representative drama from the "revolutionary" period in modern Latin American theatre, 1960s-1970s.
SPN 329
LATINO GAY AND LESBIAN LITERATURE
Representative texts of Latino and Hispanic gay and lesbian authors.
SPN 335
U.S. LATINA WRITERS
Survey of literature by modern Latina women writers from the United States, focusing on the social, cultural and political development of Latinas and their affirmation and reaffirmation of identity through their literature in today's society.