Hispanic Studies Must Reform to Stave Off Obsolescence

The opening of preregistration at Connecticut College is often signaled by panicked e-mail messages from my advisees: "There are no courses in Spanish next semester." At naïve moments earlier in my career, I checked course schedules to confirm that there were, indeed, upper-division offerings, but I soon realized that I was missing the point. "There are no courses" means that none of the department offerings — primarily literary — are of interest.

The extent

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