<p>Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 25 or 27, and 119. Exploration of 16th and 17th centuries, with focus on early modern period of Spain and Spanish America. Possible topics include Spanish colonization and indigenous responses, transatlantic literary and visual baroque, race and religion in construction of early modern nation, transatlantic fictions, early modern identities and theatrical representations, literature and historiography, transatlantic poetics and poetry. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

Spanish

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College of Letters and Science

The department is dedicated to the study and teaching of the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Hispanic heritage.

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Topics in Early Modern Studies

SPAN 135

4 units