Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISPANIC WOMEN WRITERS ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** Exploration of the ways in which women writers in the 8th through 17th centuries have developed their literary works (prose, poetry, and drama). Emphais on historical, religious, and political contexts. Readings will include Hispanic and Latin American authors: Sor Teresa de Cartagena, Sor Isabel de Villena (15th-century); Santa Teresa de Jesus, Beatriz Bernal (16th-century); and Maria de Zayas and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (17th-century), among others. ***** Also offered as WGST 391 and MDST 391.