An intensive survey of the English speaking world's most influential writer. This is a capstone course which provides English majors with the opportunity to do original research and demonstrate acquired knowledge and skills. Includes individual conferences with the instructor. Many opportunities to work independently and with the instructor. Spanish or romance languages.
Spanish majors study in depth the literature, history, and culture of Spain and Spanish America.
Graduates with a degree in either of these majors can pursue postgraduate work in the humanities or social sciences, and they are prepared for diverse fields where good writing, general communication skills, and a knowledge of history are essential. Among the careers modern language majors might enter are law, translation, trade and finance, and education. St. Thomas also offers a teacher certification program for students who wish to teach Spanish in grades 7-12. This course involves a careful reading and interpretation of the first modern novel and one of the masterpieces of world literature, viewed in the context of its author's innovative vision of the role of fiction and against the background of a weakening world power. In this course, major works by Unamuno Azorin, Machado, Valle-Inclan, Baroja, and Ortega y Gasset are studied and interpreted, and the contributions of this generation are evaluated.