Undergraduate Catalogue - UPRM

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
LITE 4045. RENAISSANCE LITERATURE.
Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: LITE 3025.
Consideration of the historical and cultural
significance of the Renaissance as seen in
representative works of Erasmus, Montaigne,
Rabelais and the Italian neo-Platonists and neo-
Aristotelians.
LITE 4051-4052. COMPARATIVE POETRY.
Three credit hours per semester. Three hours of
lecture per week each semester. Corequisite: LITE
3025.
A study of the Western lyric in its most important
phases and manifestations. Original texts in
Spanish and English, and translations of Provencial,
French, German, Italian and Portuguese will be
used.
LITE 4075. LITERARY CRITICISM. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: LITE 3041 or ESPA 3212 or ESPA
3022.
A study of literary criticism and its influence on the
development of Western literature from the
ancients to our time.
LITE 4081-4082. ROMANTICISM IN
LITERATURE. Three credit hours per semester.
Three hours of lecture per week each semester.
Prerequisite: LITE 4022; two years of language.
Analysis of the European romantic movement by
means of a comparative study of its several sources
and literary expressions.
LITE 4091. UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH I.
One credit hour. Three hours of research per week.
Prerequisites: Twenty four (24) credits in
Comparative Literature.
Research, presentation, and discussion of a specific
topic in comparative literature. A written proposal
is required. This course is designed for honor
students.
LITE 4093. UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH II.
Two credit hours. Two three-hour periods of
research per week. Prerequisite: LITE 4091.
Application of research techniques to the writing of
an undergraduate thesis on a topic previously
selected in LITE 4091.
LITE 4115. CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES IN
LITERATURE. Three credit hours. Three hours
of lecture per week.
Cultural theory as manifested in the literary text:
interrelationships among the social sciences,
history, and literature.
LITE 4118. THE MODERN SHORT STORY.
Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per
week.
Comparative study of the theories, themes, and
formal characteristics of the short story as a modern
narrative genre from its origins in the 19th century
to the present in Europe and the Americas.
LITE 4990. SPECIAL TOPICS IN
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE. One to three
credit hours. One to three hours of lecture or
seminar per week. Prerequisite: Authorization of
the Director of the Department.
Selected topics, authors, genres, or literary
movements.
LITE 4996. WORKSHOP IN COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE. One to three credit hours. One to
three workshop periods per week of two hours
each.
Workshop on topics related to comparative
literature.
Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate
Courses
LITE 5001/FILO 5001. LITERATURE AND
PHILOSOPHY I. Three credit hours. Three hours
of lecture per week .
Critical examination of the major philosophical
theories of literary genres; analysis of the
epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical meaning
of literary texts from the ancient Greeks to the early
Spanish Golden Age.
LITE 5002/ FILO 5002. LITERATURE AND
PHILOSOPHY II. Three credit hours. Three hours
of lecture per week.
Critical examination of the major philosophical
theories of literary genres; analysis of the
epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical meaning
of literary texts from the end of the Spanish Golden
Age to the present.
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