Topic 1: Hispanic Literature in Translation. English 349L (Topic: Hispanic Literature in Translation) and Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 1) may not both be counted. Additional prerequisite: For English majors, nine semester hours of lower-division English, including English 316K or the equivalent; for others, upper-division standing or consent of instructor.

Topic 2: Contemporary Spanish American Fiction in Translation. Additional prerequisite: For English majors, Rhetoric and Composition 306 and English 316K or their equivalents, and three additional semester hours of lower-division coursework in either English or rhetoric and composition; for others, upper-division standing or consent of instructor.

Topic 3: Civilization of Spanish America. Survey of the social and cultural evolution of the Spanish American countries. Conducted in Spanish. Three lecture hours and one discussion hour a week for one semester. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 611D, 612, or 312L.

Topic 4: Introduction to Spanish American Literature through Modernism. Main literary trends and principal writers in Spanish America from the sixteenth century through Modernism. Conducted in Spanish. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 611D, 612, or 312L.

Topic 5: Introduction to Spanish American Literature since Modernism. Main literary trends and principal writers in Spanish America since Modernism. Conducted in Spanish. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 611D, 612, or 312L.

Topic 6: Spanish-Language Literature of the Southwest. The study of culturally valuable Chicano literary texts; related readings in Mexican and other Hispanic works. Taught in Spanish. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 612 or 312L.

Topic 7: The Mexican Revolution. Taught in Spanish. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 322K or 328.

Topic 8: Contemporary Spanish American Drama. Taught in Spanish. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 325K, 325L, or the equivalent.

Topic 9: Contemporary Spanish American Poetry. Taught in Spanish. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 325K, 325L, 326K, or 326L.

Topic 10: Contemporary Spanish American Prose. Novels, short stories, and essays from different regions of Hispanic America. Taught in Spanish. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 325K, 325L, 326K, or 326L.

Topic 11: Comparative Structure of English and Spanish. Conducted in Spanish. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 327G, 345L and three additional semester hours of upper-division coursework in Spanish.

Topic 12: Translation Principles and Practice. Conducted in Spanish. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 327G, 345L, and three additional semester hours of upper-division coursework in Spanish.

Topic 13: Essay in Mexican Thought and Culture. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 322K or 328.

Topic 14: Interpretation Principles and Practice. Conducted in Spanish. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 327G, 345L, and three additional semester hours of upper-division coursework in Spanish.

Topic 15: Literary Translation: Analysis and Criticism. Conducted in Spanish. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 327G, 345L, and three additional semester hours of upper-division coursework in Spanish.

Topic 16: Writing the Conquest. The forging of Spanish-American civilization and many of its persistent dilemmas seen through the examination of an exuberant and original body of narrative texts. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 16), Spanish 350 (Topic: Writing the Conquest), 374K (Topic 1). Additional prerequisite: Spanish 325K, 325L, 326K, or 326L.

Topic 17: Indigenous Voices in Latin American Literature. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 17), Spanish 350 (Topic 4), 356 (Topic 1). Additional prerequisite: Spanish 327C (or 327G) and three hours of upper-division coursework in Spanish or Spanish Civilization.

Topic 18: Latin American Civilization: The New World. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 322K or 328.

Topic 19: Business in Hispanic Life and Culture. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 322K or 328.

Topic 20: Mexican and Mexican American Ballads. Examines the corrido genre in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special focus on its pivotal role in the Mexican Revolution and in the collision between cultures in the border zone. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 322K or 328.

Topic 22: The Imagined Andes. Overview of literature and culture of the Andean regions. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic: The Imagined Andes), 370S (Topic 22), Spanish 350 (Topic 12), 356 (Topic 2). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 327C (or 327G) and three hours of upper-division coursework in Spanish or Spanish Civilization.

Topic 23: Violence in Contemporary Mexican Culture. Studies the representation of violence in contemporary literary and cultural production in Mexico in order to understand social, political, and cultural implications of current violence there. Taught in Spanish. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 23), Spanish 355 (Topic 6), Spanish 355F, and Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 20). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: SPN 355F, WGS 340.20 Additional prerequisite: One of the following: Spanish 327C, 327N, 327V (or 327W), 328C, or 330L.

Topic 24: Gender Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema. Studies Latin American cinema as a device of gender system formation and reinforcement, and as criticism of patriarchal hegemony; discusses questions related to sexuality depicted in Latin American films. Subjects covered include: maternity, prostitution, machismo, children's sexuality, homosexuality, heterosexuality, and gender violence in films from the 1930s to present. Conducted in Spanish. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 24), Spanish 350C, 350K (Topic 1), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic 6). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: SPN 350C, WGS 335.6 Additional prerequisite: One of the following: Spanish 327C, 327N, 327V (or 327W), 328C, or 330L.

Topic 25: Latin American Film and Culture. Overview of Latin American cinema from the silent era to present, with an emphasis on the last forty years. Subjects covered include: the development of the film industry (particularly in Argentina and Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s); the "New Wave" of Latin American cinema in the 1960s; and contemporary trends. Taught in Spanish. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 25), Spanish 350 (Topic: Latin American Film and Culture), 350K (Topic 3). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Additional prerequisite: Spanish 325K, 325L, 326K, or 326L.

Topic 26: Latin American Literature and Film. Studies, in a broad sense, the connections between Latin American cinema and literature, through extensive readings and in-class movie exhibitions. A number of renowned literary works by Latin American authors and their film versions will be analyzed with a comparative approach. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 26), Spanish 350 (Topic: Latin American Literature and Film), 350K (Topic 4), 352 (Topic: Literature and Cinema in Spanish America). Additional prerequisite: Spanish 325K, 325L, 326K, or 326L.

Topic 27: Introduction to Literatures and Cultures. Overview of Iberian and/or Latin American literatures and cultures, including the arts and popular expressions, from a multidisciplinary perspective. Among the regions studied are Spain; North, Central, and South America; the Caribbean; and related areas in Africa. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 27), Spanish 328, 328C. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 3), 370S (Topic 27), Spanish 322K, 328C. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: SPN 328C Additional prerequisite: Spanish 311 and 314, 611D, or 311J and 314J (or 612 or 312L).

Topic 28: Mediascapes: Literature and Media in the Caribbean. Analyzes the relationship between literature and media technologies in contemporary Caribbean cultures. Examination of the notion and uses of Caribbean mediascapes; in other words, the uses of media technologies derived from film, television, the internet and YouTube, and the ways they are used and read in the Spanish Caribbean. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 328 (Topic 5), 370S (Topic 28), Spanish 350K (Topic 5), Spanish Civilization 320C (Topic 2).

Topic 29: Indigenous Voices: From Nezahualcoyotl to Radio. Examines how Indigenous writers, intellectuals, and cultural producers have creatively established their own voices through writing and other forms of media. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic: Indigenous Voices), 370S (Topic 29), Spanish 350 (Topic: Indigenous Voices), 350K (Topic 6).

Topic 30: Fantastic Fiction from Latin America. Analysis of short stories by Latin American writers that in some way represent an alternative to realism. Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 30) and Spanish 355 (Topic 1) may not both be counted.

Topic 31: Nonfiction Narratives from Latin America. Study of nonfiction works written in contemporary Latin America as experimental narrative forms that offer insight about current political, social, and economic problems of the region. Examination of these realities through readings and careful analysis of the works of popular nonfiction Latin American writers.

Topic 32: Jewish Voices from Latin America. Overview of popular Jewish writers from Brazil and Spanish America, with special emphasis on those who portray in their work the situation of the Jewish communities of their respective cities and countries. Conducted in Spanish. Only one of the following may be counted: Jewish Studies 363 (Topic 15), 363E, Latin American Studies 328 (Topic 4), 370S (Topic 32), Spanish 355 (Topic 3), 355D, Spanish Civilization 320C (Topic 1). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: J S 363E, SPN 355D Additional prerequisite: One of the following: Spanish 327C, 327N, 327V (or 327W), 328C, or 330L.

Topic 33: Sex and Sexuality in Latin America. Examines different representations of sex, sexuality, and eroticism in the various cultures of Latin America. These concepts do not refer to explicit or provocative texts or images in books, films, or photographs alone. On the contrary, they include a vast gamut of life, love, pain, and social conflict. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic: Sexo/Sexualidad en Latinoamerica), 370S (Topic 33), Spanish 352 (Topic: Sexo/Sexualidad en Latinoamerica), 355 (Topic 4).

Topic 34: Revolutionary Imagination in Latin American Cultures. Explores literary expressions in Latin America that reflect a dissident or transgressive imaginary published during the revolutionary period (1960-1990). Examination of how different sociohistorical experiences require new narrative forms, and innovative ways of exploring and codifying collective community identities. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic: Revolutionary Imagination in Latin American Literature), 370S (Topic 34), Spanish 352 (Topic: Revolutionary Imagination in Latin American Literature), 355 (Topic 5).

Topic 35: Literature and Exile in the Spanish Caribbean. Explore literary texts (e.g., poetry, chronicles, narratives, and short stories) that describe exile as a trope. Examine themes, such as literature, culture and colonialism, nationality and belonging (i.e., nation, transnation, and post-nation), nature, the sensorial and subjectivity, identity politics (i.e., race, gender, and sexuality), and the ethics of writing. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 35), Spanish 354C, 377C (Topic: Lit/Exile in Span Caribbean). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: SPN 354C Additional prerequisite: Spanish 327C, 327N, 327V (or 327W), 328C, or 330L.

Topic 36: East/West/New World Encounters. Survey of works mostly in the Latin American and Hispanic literary tradition in which images or themes related to the East (Asia, Eastern Africa, the Middle East) are developed. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic: Visions of the East in Latin American Writing), 370S (Topic 36), Spanish 352 (Topic: Visions of the East in Latin American Writing), 355 (Topic 7).

Topic 37: Memory and Writing in Caribbean Culture. Studies literary works from the greater Caribbean basin (with a focus on Cuba and Puerto Rico) in which the act of remembering is emphatically dramatized and described. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic: Writing and Memory in Caribbean Literature), 370S (Topic 37), Spanish 355 (Topic 8), 375 (Topic: Writing and Memory in Caribbean Literature).

Topic 38: Literary Figurations in the Multimedia Age. Focuses on the figurations of sounds and images in literary language in the context of the multimedia environment of modern and contemporary Latin America. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic: Literary Figurations in the Multimedia Age), 370S (Topic 38), Spanish 352 (Topic: Literary Figurations in the Multimedia Age), 355 (Topic 9).

Topic 39: Journalism and Human Rights in Latin America. Explore the traditional definitions of Human Rights and the way those definitions have taken shape in the last two decades in Latin America. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 39), Spanish 353C, 377C (Topic: Journalism/Human Rights Am Lat). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: SPN 353C Additional prerequisite: Spanish 327C, 327N, 327V (or 327W), 328C, or 330L.

Topic 41: Contemporary Mesoamerican Indigenous Literatures. Examines the early Mesoamerican mythological narrative, Popol Wuj, as well as twentieth-century Central American texts. Explores ethnicity, class, gender, and traditional cultures as main factors in regional negotiations of identity constructions. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic: Contemporary Indigenous Literature), 370S (Topic 41), Spanish 352 (Topic: Contemporary Indigenous Literature), 356 (Topic 3).

Topic 42: African Diasporas. Analysis of the sociocultural contexts of the African diaspora in the Americas with particular focus on the Caribbean and Brazil. Focuses on the contributions of the African diasporic populations and the stylistic strategies through which they constructed their social, political, and cultural agency. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic: African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean), 370S (Topic 42), Spanish 358 (Topic 1), 375 (Topic: African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean).

Topic 43: United States Latino Literatures and Cultures in Context. Examines the United States Latino literary and cultural production from multidisciplinary perspectives, such as literature, film, music, and performance. Analysis of the literatures and experiences of United States Latino writers and artists in their historical and cultural specificities. Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 43) and Spanish 359 may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: SPN 359 Additional prerequisite: One of the following: Spanish 327C, 327N, 327V (or 327W), 328C, or 330L.

Topic 44: Contemporary Caribbean Literature. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic: Contemporary Caribbean Literature), 370S (Topic 44), Spanish 352 (Topic: Contemporary Caribbean Literature), 352 (Topic 4). Additional prerequisite: Spanish 611D, 612, or 312L.

Topic 45: Brevity in Spanish-Language Literature and Film. Explore the work of Spanish and Spanish American filmmakers, prose writers, and poets who have accepted the challenge of expressing themselves in a brief span of time. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic: Short Films/Stories/Poems), 370S (Topic 45), Spanish 355 (Topic: Short Films/Stories/Poems), 358C, 377C (Topic: Short Films/Stories/Poems). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: SPN 358C Additional prerequisite: One of the following: Spanish 327C, 327N, 327V (or 327W), 328C, or 330L.

Topic 46: Latin American Film and Culture. Review Latin American cinema from the silent era to present, with an emphasis on the last forty years. Discuss the development of the film industry (particularly in Argentina and Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s), the "New Wave" of Latin American cinema in the 1960s, and contemporary trends. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 25), 370S (Topic 46), Spanish 350D, 350K (Topic 3). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: SPN 350D Additional prerequisite: One of the following: Spanish 327C, 327N, 327V (or 327W), 328C, or 330L.

Topic 47: Latin American Literary and Artistic Environmental Activism. Explore literary and artistic works that engage in questions of environmental care and justice in the context of twentieth- and twenty-first century Latin America. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic: Environmental Engagements), 370S (Topic 47), Spanish 350I, 355 (Topic: Environmental Engagements). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: SPN 350I Additional prerequisite: Spanish 327C, 327N, 327V (or 327W), 328C, or 330L.

Topic 48: Migrations and Exiles in Latin American Literature and the Arts. Explore how internal and international displacement and migration have been represented in Latin American arts. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 48), Spanish 355I, 377C (Topic: Migrations/Exiles In Lat Am). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: SPN 355I Additional prerequisite: Spanish 327C, 327N, 327V (or 327W), 328C, or 330L.

Topic 49: The Imagined Andes. Examine the ways in which the cultural, social, and geographical space of the Andes has been "imagined" through literary texts, visual and audiovisual artworks by writers and artists from Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and Peru. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370S (Topic 49), Spanish 377C (Topic: The Imagined Andes), 358F. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: SPN 358F Additional prerequisite: Spanish 327C, 327N, 327V (or 327W), 328C, or 330L.