Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction to the course  
2 Lazarillo de Tormes  
3 Discuss: Lazarillo de Tormes  
4 Les Liaisons dangereuses  
5 Discuss: Les Liaisons dangereuses  
6 Discuss: Les Liaisons dangereuses Work on first version of short essay
7 Discuss: Les Liaisons dangereuses  
8 Discuss film: Dangerous Liaisons First version of first essay due
9

Discuss film: Cruel Intentions

Compare two movie versions

 
10 Thérèse Raquin Final version of first essay due
11 Discuss: Thérèse Raquin  
12 Finish: Thérèse Raquin  
13 Dom Casmurro Work on second short essay
14

Discuss: Doña Flor and Her Two Husbands

Finish discussion of Dom Casmurro

 
15 Death in Venice Second short essay due
16 Discuss: Death in Venice  
17

Discuss film: Death in Venice

Finish discussion of Death in Venice

Presentation on film
18

Discuss: Kiss of the Spider Woman to Ch. 11

Presentation on the dirty war of the 70s in Argentina
19 Finish discussion of Kiss, the novel  
20 Discuss film: Kiss of the Spider Woman Third short essay due three days after Session 20
21 Discuss: Short stories by Juan Rulfo Guest lecturer: Joaquín Terrones
22

Discuss: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Final discussion

Fourth essay due three days after Session 22