Critical reading of Don Quixote as a canonical text for the novel and other narrative forms, including historical metafiction, the short story, and fictional autobiography. Comparative discussion of Quixotic fictions by modern authors, such as Machado de Assis, Borges, Nabokov, García Márquez, Junot Díaz. Lectures and readings in English.

A survey of Hispanic Culture, with attention to central issues in history, politics, and popular traditions. Course will be taught in English.

Introduction to university literary studies in Spanish and information literacy. Representative selection of Spanish and Spanish American prose, poetry, and drama, with focus on critical terminology and methods of literary analysis. Required for a program degree. Taught in Spanish.

Forms of cultural expression in Spain, Latin America and Spanish-speaking North America, with study of representative media, including literature, journalism, film, visual art, and the urban environment. Introduction to methods of cultural analysis. (Offered in alternate years).

This online course examines the social, political, and cultural contexts of recent Latin American Hispanic cinema. Topics include race and indigeneity; poverty, precarity, and inequality; gender and sexuality; and memory and trauma. The representation of these themes in Latin American cinema of the 21st century has contributed to an increase in its transnational and cosmopolitan reception. Lectures in English. Students choose tutorials in Spanish or English.

Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-opportunities-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

The course develops students’ ability to interact in culturally appropriate ways with native speakers of Spanish, negotiate situations that require problem solving, exchange detailed descriptions and comparisons about authentic materials from the Spanish-speaking world. The course is the fifth course of the six-semester sequence in the Spanish Language Sequence. It is designed for students who a) have successfully completed SPA202H1, or b) have placed into the course via the Spanish placement exam offered by our unit. By the end of the semester, students can expect to have reached the Advanced Low level of the ACTFL scale. Taught in Spanish.

This course expands students’ ability to interact in culturally appropriate ways with native Spanish speakers. Students will participate in informal and some formal exchanges on a variety of topics, contextualize and analyze more complex stories (novels) and films, and exchange detailed descriptions and interpretations about authentic materials. This is the final course of the six-semester Spanish Language Sequence. It is designed for students who a) have successfully completed SPA301H1, or b) have placed into the course via the Spanish placement exam offered by our unit. By the end of the semester, students will reach the Advanced Mid level of the ACTFL scale. Taught in Spanish.

For native (heritage) speakers who have had exposure to spoken Spanish in an informal context (i.e., living in a Spanish-speaking country; or growing in a Spanish-speaking family), and have been introduced to Spanish writing and basic grammar. Students will develop their vocabulary, deepen their understanding of the Spanish grammar, and become familiar with the use of Spanish in a range of contexts, including academic levels of speaking and writing. Taught in Spanish.

The basic concepts and analytic tools of linguistics applied to the study of Spanish, with a focus on the Spanish phonological, morphological, and syntactic systems. Theoretical discussion and practical exercises in analytic techniques. Taught in Spanish.

Practical uses of spoken and written Spanish for business contexts, with an emphasis on culturally appropriate ways of communication in a Spanish-language work environment. This course builds on grammar and vocabulary knowledge already acquired at the intermediate level. As a part of the course, students will participate in an internship with Spanish-speaking businesses and institutions in the Toronto area. The placements are designed to deepen linguistic, cultural, and analytical skills acquired in the classroom in work-related environments, promote intercultural competency, and foster links to the community. Taught in Spanish.

Spanish bilingualism from three different perspectives: linguistic, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic. Analysis of typical language contact phenomena with materials from Spanish. Case studies of Spanish in contact and discussion of the psychological consequences of bilingualism. Introduction to survey methods in sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics, and basic techniques for conducting language interviews. Taught in Spanish. (Offered in alternate years)

This course aims at exposing students to different varieties of Latin American Spanish. Lexical, morpho-syntactic and phonological variation will be discussed and theoretical descriptions will be illustrated by using samples from contemporary cinema and television. Taught in Spanish. (Offered in alternate years)

Study of Catalan language through an overview of grammatical structures and exercises in proficiency skills, complemented by readings in Catalan history and society to attain interdisciplinary cultural literacy. Taught in English and Catalan. (Offered every three years)

This course is conceived to develop Spanish communicative skills in the field of health sciences. In this course, thus, language training is combined with practical work in a professional environment. The course is divided into two parts, one of preparation and consolidation in the classroom and another of tutored practices in hospitals with a final presentation summarizing the training process. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Literary and artistic movements in Spain from 1890 to 1940, with special attention to the convergence and mutual mediation of politics and art. Materials to be studied include novels, poetry, the urban environment, graphic art, literary journals and manifestos, and some early Hispanic film. Taught in Spanish. (Offered every three years)

Pushing back against the primacy of vision, this course approaches modern Spain from the perspective of our other senses. How does the Spanish state and its concomitant nations smell, feel, taste and sound? What do these other forms of knowing tell us about cultural phenomena? In this course we will consider both primary and secondary source texts; that is, we will be touching, smelling, tasting and listening as well as analyzing the textual manifestations of sensory experience. Taught in Spanish. Offered in alternate years.

Analysis of the development of Spanish Cinema within its social and political contexts. Directors studied include Buñuel, Bardem, Erice, Saura, Almodóvar and Bigas Luna. Taught in Spanish. (Offered every three years).

Representative fiction by Galdós, the principal Spanish novelist of the nineteenth century. Detailed study of such texts as Marianela, Doña Perfecta, La desheredada, Realidad, La incógnita, in relation to modernity of realist fiction and contemporary issues in politics, social relations and individual psychology. Taught in Spanish. (Offered every three years)

Through the lens of visual arts, this course will examine the evolution of complex medieval societies in the Middle Ages. We will analyse films, painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramic, images, literature, and architecture as a primary source to explain and study the past. This investigation of visual art allows us an in-depth look at medieval daily life, with a specific focus on family, violence, marriage, childhood, crimes, punishments, markets, towns, and village. Taught in Spanish. (Offered every three years)

Representative texts (such as ballads, popular and courtly lyric; chivalry, pastoral and picaresque prose, theater) from the early modern period, studied in relation to the history and society of imperial Spain. Discussion of literary texts as codes of social conduct; issues of urbanization, court culture, social order and disorder, and cultural discourses of identity and difference. Reading from modern authors (Sender, Borges) to illustrate the continuity of court and country in the Hispanic tradition. Taught in Spanish. (Offered every three years)

Parody and comedy as interrelated literary forms that create humour through conventional character types, the play of language, self-conscious imitation, and the relationship of parodic works to canonical intertexts. Considerations of humour as a response to social anxieties in early modern Spain. Analysis of poems, plays and short prose narratives by representative authors; Garcilaso, Góngora, Quevedo, Tirso de Molina, Cervantes. Taught in Spanish. (Offered every three years)

This interdisciplinary approach considers broad cultural consequences resulting from the contact of Spanish with the American indigenous languages. Current cultural and linguistic theories on language contact are used to analyze sixteenth to eighteenth-century Spanish texts, and invite reflection on language, power, and the emergence of new cultural expressions. Taught in Spanish. (Offered every three years)

The 70s and 80s represent a period of armed struggle, civil war, and revolution in most of Central America. Through the study of specific novels, short stories, and films, this course analyzes the representation of violence, and the political repression generated by military conflicts. Taught in Spanish. (Offered every three years)

The end of civil and military conflicts in the last decade of the 20th century reshapes the political landscape of Central America. Through selected readings of novels and short stories from representative writers, issues of immigration, displacement, and globalization are discussed to understand these changes in the region. Taught in Spanish. (Offered every three years)

Analysis of poetry, short stories, essays, and graphic art in the context of nation-building and the question of identity during the nineteenth century. Taught in Spanish. (Offered every three years)

Study of different creative expressions by women in Spanish America from the colonial period to the present; analysis of selected works of visual art, film, essays, poetry, and fiction. Taught in Spanish. (Offered every three years)

This course approaches literary, visual, and multi-media texts of twentieth-century and contemporary Spanish America, focusing on the body as site of multiple differences, lived experience, exploitation, and creative expression. We will consider the roles of disability through cultural production and activism, particularly in the Mexican context, the histories that have shaped ongoing inequalities, and relationships between disability, gender, and race in these histories. Taught in Spanish. (Offered alternate years)

Study of representative works of major artistic and literary movements in 20th and 21st century Spanish America: avant-garde poetry, theatre of the absurd, surrealist art, neo-realism, postmodernism. Taught in Spanish. (Offered every three years)

Detailed study of key moments and texts in Spanish American culture from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on such topics as the creation of new nations, indigenismo, Caribbean anti-slavery literature, and the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions. Taught in Spanish. (Offered every three years)