A survey of the cultural institutions of Spain designated to provide a background for a better understanding of the Spanish people. The Spanish Novel. A study of the outstanding novels of Spain with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. The Spanish-American Novel. The most representative novels in the literary history of Spanish-America.
Major emphasis is placed on syntax, usage and grammatical nomenclature.
Attention is also focused on technical neologisms. 4350 Latin American Novel and Film. Comparative study of the relation- ships between literary texts and their cinematographic counterparts in Latin American novels and their film adaptations. The study of the Hispanic literature of the Southwest in order to have a better understanding of the cultural diversity of the region. 4390 Studies in Spanish Culture, Language, or Literature.