Includes reading either selected works by Cervantes (dramas, novellas, and part of Don Quixote) or the Quixote in its entirety. Attention to the Roman and/or Arab conquests of Spain, Spanish relations with Algeria, England, Italy, and the Americas, the obsession with “limpieza de sangre” and the fate of Spain’s “morisco” population. Prerequisite: Spanish 332, 333, 334 or 335. Instructor: Staff. One course.