Courses
Spring 2009 (2094)
0001 Elementary Spanish 1: 5 cr.
| 10508 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00237CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10510 | MoTuWeThFr02:00 -02:50 00202CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11418 | MoTuWeThFr10:00 -10:50 00219CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13144 | MoTuWeThFr11:00 -11:50 00229CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 14020 | MoTuWeThFr10:00 -10:50 00229CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 35970 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00219CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10548 | MoTh06:00 -08:30 00318CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
0002 Elementary Spanish 2: 5 cr.
| 10512 | MoTuWeThFr10:00 -10:50 00227CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10514 | MoTuWeThFr09:00 -09:50 00219CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10516 | MoTuWeThFr11:00 -11:50 00318CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10518 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00339CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10520 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00229CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10522 | MoTuWeThFr01:00 -01:50 00227CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10524 | MoTuWeThFr02:00 -02:50 00219CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 12666 | MoTuWeThFr01:00 -01:50 00229CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13422 | MoTuWeThFr11:00 -11:50 00227CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 35968 | MoTuWeThFr01:00 -01:50 00219CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11624 | MoTh06:00 -08:30 00236CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
0003 Intermediate Spanish 3: 3 cr.
| 10526 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 00252CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10528 | MoWeFr01:00 -01:50 00213CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 12820 | MoWeFr10:00 -10:50 00206CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13054 | MoWeFr12:00 -12:50 02318CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13382 | MoWeFr12:00 -12:50 00349CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13684 | MoWeFr01:00 -01:50 0244ACL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 30768 | MoWe06:00 -07:20 00358CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
0004 Intermediate Spanish 4: 3 cr.
| 10530 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 00352CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11388 | MoWeFr01:00-01:50 0208ACL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 12254 | MoWeFr12:00-12:50 00204CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13146 | MoWeFr10:00-10:50 00213CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13866 | MoWeFr10:00-10:50 00352CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 14022 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 00242CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10550 | MoWe06:00-07:15 00242CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
0015 Intensive Elementary Spanish: 5 cr.
| 37586 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00219CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
| 37587 | MoTuWeThFr01:00 -01:50 00219CL |
0020 Conversation: 3 cr.
| 10532 | MoWeFr09:00 -09:50 02321CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
| 10534 | MoWeFr01:00 -01:50 00226CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
| 16190 | TuTh01:00 -02:15 00363CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
| 15080 | MoWe06:00 -07:15 00204CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
0025 Grammer and Composition: 3 cr.
| 11696 | MoWeFr10:00 -10:50 00230CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
| 13420 | MoWeFr12:00 -12:50 02321CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
| 14024 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 0244ACL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
| 30770 | MoWe06:00 -07:20 00213CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
This course reviews Spanish grammar, and in addition, is designed to aid the students in vocabulary building, improving their knowledge of idiomatic usage, and their ability to translate from English to Spanish. This course is offered every term, and counts towards the Spanish major.
This course is offered every term.
0031 Elementary Spanish 1 for MBAs: 1.5 cr.
| 37137 | MoWeTh12:00 -12:50 00313CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 12 |
This is an introductory conversational course specifically designed for business students who do not know Spanish. The students will be presented with the basic structures of the language, as well as the necessary vocabulary to be able to understand simple Spanish and converse on everyday topics. This course, conducted in Spanish, will be relatively fast-paced and will require students to participate actively in a variety of exercises, group activities and exchange of information.
This course is offered least once a year.
0032 Elementary Spanish 2 for MBAs: 1.5 cr.
| 37141 | MoWeTh12:00 -12:50 00239CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 12 |
This is an introductory conversational course specifically designed for business students who do not know Spanish. The student will be presented with the basic structures of the language, as well as the necessary vocabulary to be able to understand simple Spanish and converse on everyday topics. This course, conducted in Spanish, will be relatively fast-paced and will require students to participate actively in a variety of exercises, group activities and exchange of information.
0050 Spanish Civilization: 3 cr.
| 15082 | TuTh09:30 -10:45 00249CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 30 | Gonzalez, Carina |
This course introduces students to the cultural history of the Hispanic World. Starting with the study of Pre-Colombian civilizations and the controversial politics of the Spanish Conquest we will discuss the conflicts involved in the transformation of Latin America. Through a broad variety of texts; chronicles, documentaries, films, fiction and novels, students will learn about the Spanish-speaking world and also explore the complex interactions implied in the process of Colonization, in the foundation of National identities and in the creation of Cultural traditions. We will stress the importance that these social and political tensions have in order to understand the past but also we will analyze its impact in the present.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
0055 Intro Hispanic Literature 1: 3 cr.
| 15086 | Tu06:00-08:30 00363CL | WRIT | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 | Gonzalez, Carina |
This course offers a general introduction to Hispanic literature, while the same time explores various approaches to literary and cultural analysis. We will discuss common categories applied to the study of literature as genres, mythology, historicism, structuralism, cultural studies and postcolonial criticism. It includes also works from representative Latin American writers. As a W course, it will require many writing assignments in Spanish.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
0082 Latin America Today: 3 cr.
| 15092 | MoWeFr10:00 -10:50 0244ACL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 35 |
This courses is an overview of contemporary Latin America and its people and is designed to be an introduction for students who have no previous knowledge of the area. Students will be exposed to several aspects of Latin America. A special attempt will be made to show contemporary social reality as interpreted by some of the region's most gifted filmmakers, artists, writers and intellectuals. Readings, lectures, and class discussions will be conducted in English. This course is offered every fall and spring and fills the General Education requirement and/or CLAS certificate.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
1303 Seminar in Language and Culture: 3 cr.
| 12476 | TuTh01:00 02:15 00340CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 | Beverley, John |
Hispanics are now the largest minority population in the United States and are growing rapidly. It is estimated that by 2076, the three hundredth anniversary of the American revolution, 1 out of 4 residents of the United States will be Hispanic. This course examines the consequences of this demographic shift for the present and future of the United States. In particular, we will look closely a group of narrative texts (novels and memoirs) that deal with the question of Hispanic or Latino identity in the US, and related issues (bilingualism and biculturalism, multi-national citizenship, illegal immigration, the border and border culture, etc.). The focus will be not only on how Latino residents and new immigrants adapt to the US, but also how the US is changing as it becomes more "latinized." Students will be expected to make presentations to the class and write their course paper in Spanish.
This course is offered every term.
1306 Special Topics in Applied Linguistics: 3 cr.
| 30772 | MoWeFr01:00-01:50 00340CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 | Williams,Sarah |
The goal of this course is to further develop the oral proficiency of students through authentic materials including but not limited to interviews, movies, music, newspaper articles and role-playing. Emphasis on fluency and speaking skills, although reading and writing skills will not be ignored. We will review certain grammar points but communicative competence is not measured by grammatical competence alone. Pronunciation, comprehension skills, strategic competence such as paraphrasing skills, and an extensive active vocabulary are all equally important when it comes to becoming proficient in a foreign language. Students will often work in groups and pairs so it is imperative that they be willing to interact with one another and be tolerant of one another's opinions. The instructor will rate students' oral proficiency the beginning and end of the semester based on the ACTFL speaking proficiency guidelines. These guidelines are used nation-wide as an assessment tool to identify an individual's level of speaking competence in a foreign language.
This course is offered least once a year.
1403 Latin American Narrative: 3 cr.
| 30774 | TuTh11:00-12:15 00349CL | Latin American avant garde movements | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 20 | Balderston, Daniel |
This course will look a variety of Latin American avant garde movements (creacionismo, ultrasmo, Brazilian modernismo, estridentismo, etc.) and the Latin American wings of some of the European avant garde movements (most notably surrealism). Particular attention will be given to the avant garde manifesto (especially those collected in Jorge Schwartzs anthology Las vanguardias latinoamericanas, the main text for the course). We will read examples of poetic production, by such writers as Vicente Huidobro, César Vallejo, Jorge Luis Borges and Magda Portal, will be examined (using Mihai Grünfelds anthology of Latin American avant garde poetry), and some examples of avant garde narrative and theater also; oral reports on representative magazines of the period will be required. Course will be taught in Spanish, with some readings in Portuguese (also available in Spanish translation).
This course is offered infrequently.
1404 Latin American Topics: 3 cr.
| 16212 | TuTh02:30-03:45 00349CL | Afro-Hispanic Writers | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 20 | Branche,Jerome Clairmont |
This course offers a survey of Afro-Hispanic writing in the twentieth century (poetry, short stories, novel) in its national and historical context(s). In addition to studying writers from the Hispanic Caribbean and South America, we will also study writers from Ecuatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony in Africa. One of the foci of this course lies in deciding what constitutes the specificity of writing by Hispanic authors of African descent.
This course is offered infrequently.
1407 U.S. Latino Film: cr.
| 30776 | Wed 09:00 11:55 00312CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 | Herlinghaus,Hermann |
This course gives an introduction into and a survey of US Latina/o cinematic imaginaries. The purpose consists in illustrating and analyzing the importance that film and video have acquired for the expression of Latina/o identities in the United States and across the hemispheric border. A fascinating selection of audiovisual material is provided. It covers issues related to migration and border crossing, ethnical and political conflict, language and performance, gender roles, religion, dance, and music. Particular attention is paid to the problematic of Chicano film. In a second part, the class will introduce a series of contemporary Latin American films on the topics of violence, marginality, and globalization.
This course is offered least once a year.
1600 Survery of Spanish Literature: 3 cr.
| 30778 | MoWeFr02:00 -02:50 00335CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 25 | Monasterios, Elizabeth |
This course is designed for Spanish majors who have completed SPAN 0020 and/or SPAN 0025 or can demonstrate an equivalent level of proficiency. The course will provide a broad overview of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present, covering Spanish achievements in the arts as well. Texts, works of art, and films, will be studied particularly in relation to how we can read “Spain” through Spanish art and literature, and to what extent the “idea of Spain” emerges from its own literary culture.
This course is offered least once a year.
FALL 2008 (2091)
| 0001 | Elementary Spanish 1 | 3 cr. | |
| 11538 | MoTuWeThFr08:00 -08:50 00318CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11540 | MoTuWeThFr09:00 -09:50 00318CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11544 | MoTuWeThFr10:00 -10:50 00318CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11548 | MoTuWeThFr11:00 -11:50 00229CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11552 | MoTuWeThFr11:00 -11:50 00228VICTO | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11570 | MoTuWeThFr10:00 -10:50 00229CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11580 | MoTuWeThFr10:00 -10:50 00226CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11582 | MoTuWeThFr02:00 -02:50 00227CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 12666 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00318CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13916 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00206CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 15246 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00229CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 15248 | MoTuWeThFr01:00 -01:50 00229CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 15672 | MoTuWeThFr09:00 -09:50 00339CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11398 | MoTh06:00 -08:30 00235CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11400 | MoTh06:00 -08:30 00249CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
This course is designed to encourage the development of communicative proficiency through an integrated approach to the teaching of all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Grammatical structures; vocabulary and readings are presented as tools for developing good communications skills. The course also aims to foster culture awareness of customs and traditions of the Spanish-speaking world.
This course is offered every term.
| 0002 | Elementary Spanish 2 | 5 cr. | |
| 11602 | MoTuWeThFr09:00 -09:50 00229CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11616 | MoTuWeThFr10:00 -10:50 00249CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11644 | MoTuWeThFr10:00 -10:50 00306CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13424 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00204CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 14258 | MoTuWeThFr02:00 -02:50 00219CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 15238 | MoTuWeThFr01:00 -01:50 00318CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 15240 | MoTuWeThFr01:00 -01:50 00227CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 15242 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00228VICTO | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 30604 | MoTuWeThFr10:00 -10:50 00349CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 30605 | MoTuWeThFr09:00 -09:50 00306CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11402 | MoTh06:00 -08:30 00363CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
A continuation of Spanish 0001, the course builds on the skills acquired in the first term, as students continue to develop their communicative language skills in Spanish. Note:
This course is offered every term.
| 0003 | Intermediate Spanish 3 |
3 cr. |
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| 11362 | MoWeFr01:00 -01:50 00213CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11624 | MoWeFr10:00 -10:50 00G13CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11626 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 02318CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11628 | MoWeFr12:00 -12:50 02318CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13426 | MoWeFr01:00 -01:50 0244ACL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 14260 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 00342CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 14354 | MoWeFr12:00 -12:50 00252CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 14866 | MoWeFr10:00 -10:50 00239CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11404 | MoWe06:00 -07:20 00335CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
The course builds on the skills acquired during the elementary sequence. It includes a functional review of the basic language structures and introduces ever more complex structures. The course has a strong cultural component. .
Pre- or Co-requisite(s): SPAN 0002 with a grade of C- or better.
This course is offered every term.
| 0004 | Intermediate Spanish 4 |
3 cr. | |
| 11630 | MoWeFr10:00 -10:50 00342CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11636 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 00G13CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11946 | MoWeFr12:00 -12:50 00213CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13676 | MoWeFr10:00 -10:50 00216CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 14994 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 00239CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 15244 | MoWeFr01:00 -01:50 00252CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 14262 | MoWe06:00 -07:20 00206CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
A continuation of Spanish 0003. Students continue to refine their language abilities and enhance their vocabulary. The course has a strong cultural component.
This course is offered every term.
| 0020 | Conversation |
3 cr. | |
| 11502 | MoWeFr10:00 -10:50 00213CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 |
| 12080 | TuTh01:00 -02:15 00206CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 |
| 13846 | MoWeFr01:00 -01:50 00321CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 |
| 14644 | MoWeFr10:00 -10:50 00304CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 |
| 14724 | MoWe06:00 -07:15 00313CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 |
The goal of this fifth-semester course is to enhance fluency and the development of oral proficiency in Spanish. Although the emphasis is on speaking and listening skills, reading and writing assignments are an important part of the syllabus. Certain grammar points are reviews (ser/estar, preterite/imperfect, etc.), but communicative competence is not measured by grammatical competence alone. This course helps students to improve their fluency, pronunciation, and strategic competence such as paraphrasing skills, and increase their vocabulary through readings, films, digital recordings and other authentic materials.
This course is offered every term.
| 0025 | Grammar And Composition |
3 cr. | |
| 11646 | MoWeFr10:00 -10:50 00363CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 |
| 13226 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 00306CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 |
| 15250 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 00252CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 |
| 15674 | MoWeFr12:00 -12:50 00249CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 |
| 16680 | MoWe06:00 -07:20 02321CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 |
This course reviews Spanish grammar, and in addition, is designed to aid the students in vocabulary building, improving their knowledge of idiomatic usage, and their ability to translate from English to Spanish.
This course is offered every term.
| 0050 | Spanish Civilization |
3 cr. | ||
14728 |
MoWeFr03:00 -03:50 00321CL |
No recitation. |
Enroll Limit 30 |
Gonzalez, Carina |
This course introduces students to the cultural history of the Hispanic World. Starting with the study of Pre-Colombian civilizations and the controversial politics of the Spanish Conquest we will discuss the conflicts involved in the transformation of Latin America. Through a broad variety of texts; chronicles, documentaries, films, fiction and novels, students will learn about the Spanish-speaking world and also explore the complex interactions implied in the process of Colonization, in the foundation of National identities, and in the creation of Cultural traditions. We will stress the importance that these social and political tensions have in order to understand the past but also we will analyze its impact in the present.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
| 0055 | Intro Hispanic Literature 1 |
W |
3 cr. | ||
| 14628 | TuTh09:30 -10:45 00230CL | WRIT | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 16 | Graff Zivin,Erin Dana |
What is literature? What does the literary do? This course, conducted in Spanish, is designed to introduce students to the study of Hispanic literature, while the same time dealing with concepts which can be applied to all literature. We will analyze Hispanic literature understood in its broadest sense, touching upon the genres of narrative, poetry, short story, essay, music, theater, and film. In addition, we will read several examples of literary theory, or writing about literature, in order to investigate the role or function of the literary within the Hispanic world. Spanish 0055 counts as a departmental W course for the writing requirement.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
| 0055 | Intro Hispanic Literature 1 |
W |
3 cr. | |||||
11648 |
MoWeFr12:00 -12:50 00352CL |
WRIT |
No recitation. |
Enroll Limit 16 |
Gonzalez, Carina |
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This course offers a general introduction to Hispanic literature, while the same time explores various approaches to literary and cultural analysis. We will discuss common categories applied to the study of literature as genres, mythology, historicism, structuralism, cultural studies and postcolonial criticism. It includes also works from representative Latin American writers. As a W course, it will require many writing assignments in Spanish.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
| 0082 | Latin America Today |
IFN REG |
3 cr. | |
| 13180 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 00221CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 35 | Metz, Emily |
This courses is an overview of contemporary Latin America and its people and is designed to be an introduction for students who have no previous knowledge of the area. Students will be exposed to several aspects of Latin America. A special attempt will be made to show contemporary social reality as interpreted by some of the region's most gifted filmmakers, artists, writers and intellectuals. Readings, lectures, and class discussions will be conducted in English.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
| 1302 | Adv Composition And Stylistics | 3 cr. | ||
| 30606 | MoWeFr02:00 -02:50 00237CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 | |
The primary goal of this course is to help students develop their writing skills in Spanish. Attention will be given to creating a more sophisticated discourse that goes beyond the simple subject-verb-object structure. Students will be exposed to a variety of authentic texts of different genres and will be encouraged to explore the different formats and stylistic choices in their own writing. Students will be provided with many opportunities to practice their newly acquired skills and writing strategies. The secondary goal is to help students expand their knowledge of the Spanish language by giving them the opportunity to learn about and practice new vocabulary as well as advanced aspects of Spanish grammar such as prepositions, por/para, the formation and placement of adjectives, the passive voice, etc.
This course is offered infrequently.
| 1303 | Seminar In Language & Culture |
3 cr. | ||
14990 |
TuTh02:30 -03:45 00228EBERL |
No recitation. |
Enroll Limit 20 |
Graff Zivin,Erin Dana |
The theme of the Capstone Seminar this semester will be "Torture and Confession in Latin American and Peninsular Literature." Taking as its point of departure Elaine Scarry's contention that "what masquerades as the motive for torture is a fiction," this course will explore the intimate yet uncomfortable rapport between torture and truth, or between pain and representation. We will explore the idea of torture as fiction, as well as the fictions that take torture as its theme, unpacking the interrelated, unavoidably discursive practices of interrogation, torture and confession. This seminar, conducted in Spanish, is a requirement for all majors in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Spanish 1303 is offered every term, but with a different theme.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
| 1400 | Survey Latin Amercn Literature |
3 cr. | ||
| 14992 | We06:00 -08:30 00302CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 25 | Branche,Jerome Clairmont Alan |
This course offers a survey of Afro-Hispanic writing in the twentieth century (poetry, short stories, novel) in its national and historical contexts. Note that in addition to studying writers from the Hispanic Caribbean and South America, we will also be studying writers from Equatorial Guinea, the only location on continental Africa where the official language is Spanish. One of the foci of the course lies in deciding what constitutes the specificity or specificities of writing by Hispanic writers of African descent.
This course is offered least once a year.
| 1404 | Latin American Topics |
3 cr. | ||||
| 15678 | Tu01:00 -03:50 00242CL | The Sixties | No recitation. | Combined w/ ENGLIT1760 | Enroll Limit 18 | Beverley, John |
This course is about the Sixties in (mainly) the United States and Latin America. It has its core a group of films from, or about that era, including Easy Rider, The Battle of Algiers, Apocalypse Now, Woodstock, Memories of Underdevelopment, The Hour of the Furnaces (part 1), Zabriskie Point, Weekend, Weathermen, and Blue Velvet. In connection with the screening and discussion of those films, we will also consider representative written texts, including selections from the work of the Beat writers (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Diane Di Prima), essays by Herbert Marcuse, political manifestos from Che Guevara, Frantz Fanon, Mao, SDS (the Port Huron statement), Malcolm X , Martin Luther King, and the women's movement, examples of the New Journalism (e.g. from Tom Wolfe's book on California acid culture), personal testimonies and documentary materials, and the like. Some attention will be given to Sixties music, especially Free Jazz and psychedelic rock. Requirements: short mid-term paper and longer final paper. This course number is offered every year, however with different content each time.
This course is offered least once a year.
| 1405 | Sem: Latin Amer Lit & Culture |
3 cr. | |||
| 30607 | TuTh11:00 -12:15 00306CL | Social Representation in Literature and Cinema | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 20 | Bruzual, Alejandro |
The impact of the literature on cinema and vice versa could be traced from the earliest Latin America productions. Canonic writers such as Gabriel García Márquez for instance, have played an important and active role in the development of different national cinemas. From Borges, Cortázar, Amado, Vargas Llosa, and Carpentier, and more recently Antonio Skármeta and Isabel Allende have seen many of their works in the screen, produced by numbers of filmmakers, including internationally renowned directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Antonio Bertolucci, and Michelangelo Antonioni. In this interdisciplinary course, students will be introduced to a selection of Latin American writers and to film analysis, emphasizing social and political issues. We will find connections and tensions between texts and films that will lead us to think film as a peculiar interpretation of texts. Students will participate in discussions and group activities, write analytical and critical essays, and give oral presentations. This course will be taught in Spanish.
This course is offered at least once a year.
| 1707 | African Presence in Lat American Lit/Cult |
IFN COM |
3 cr. | ||
| 17156 | MoWeFr01:00 -01:50 00204CL | No recitation. | Combined w/ ENGLIT0573AFRCNA1026 | Enroll Limit 15 | Branche, Jerome |
This course seeks to apprehend some of the facets of black agency in the social, cultural, and political constitution of the colonial and post-colonial Hispanic world, within the current context of change and challenge to received epistemologies constitutive of "Latin" America. Its working corpus will be literary, anthropological, filmic, and historicist. The seminar will be conducted in Spanish and English. This course is offered as needed.
This course is offered infrequently.
SPRING 2009 (2094)
| 0001 | Elementary Spanish 1 |
5 cr. | |
| 10508 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00237CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10510 | MoTuWeThFr02:00 -02:50 00202CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11418 | MoTuWeThFr10:00 -10:50 00219CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13144 | MoTuWeThFr11:00 -11:50 00229CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 14020 | MoTuWeThFr10:00 -10:50 00229CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 35970 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00219CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10548 | MoTh06:00 -08:30 00318CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
This course is designed to develop the students' communicative proficiency through an integrated approach to the teaching of all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Grammatical structures; vocabulary and readings are presented as tools for developing good communications skills. The course also aims to foster cultural awareness of the Spanish-speaking world.
This course is offered every term.
| 0002 | Elementary Spanish 2 |
L 5 cr. |
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| 10512 | MoTuWeThFr10:00 -10:50 00227CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10514 | MoTuWeThFr09:00 -09:50 00219CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10516 | MoTuWeThFr11:00 -11:50 00318CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10518 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00339CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10520 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00229CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10522 | MoTuWeThFr01:00 -01:50 00227CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10524 | MoTuWeThFr02:00 -02:50 00219CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 12666 | MoTuWeThFr01:00 -01:50 00229CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13422 | MoTuWeThFr11:00 -11:50 00227CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 35968 | MoTuWeThFr01:00 -01:50 00219CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11624 | MoTh06:00 -08:30 00236CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
A continuation of Spanish 0001, the course builds on the skills acquired in the first term, as students continue to develop their communicative language skills in Spanish.
This course is offered every term.
| 0003 | Intermediate Spanish 3 |
L 3 cr. |
|
| 10526 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 00252CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10528 | MoWeFr01:00 -01:50 00213CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 12820 | MoWeFr10:00 -10:50 00206CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13054 | MoWeFr12:00 -12:50 02318CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13382 | MoWeFr12:00 -12:50 00349CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13684 | MoWeFr01:00 -01:50 0244ACL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 30768 | MoWe06:00 -07:20 00358CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
The course builds on the skills acquired during the elementary sequence. It includes a functional review of the basic language structures and introduces ever more complex structures. The course has a strong cultural component.
This course is offered every term.
| 0004 | Intermediate Spanish 4 |
3 cr. | |
| 10530 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 00352CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 11388 | MoWeFr01:00-01:50 0208ACL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 12254 | MoWeFr12:00-12:50 00204CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13146 | MoWeFr10:00-10:50 00213CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 13866 | MoWeFr10:00-10:50 00352CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 14022 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 00242CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
| 10550 | MoWe06:00-07:15 00242CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 19 |
A continuation of Spanish 0003. Students continue to refine their language abilities and enhance their vocabulary. The course has a strong cultural component.
This course is offered every term.
| 0015 | Intensive Elementary Spanish |
L 5 cr. |
|
| 37586 | MoTuWeThFr12:00 -12:50 00219CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
| 37587 | MoTuWeThFr01:00 -01:50 00219CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
This is a condensed version of the first two courses of the Spanish language program, and it has been designed for students who have taken least two years of high school Spanish or its equivalent. Spanish 0015 follows a communicative approach: from the first day of class you will interact in Spanish in a meaningful context with your instructor and classmates. By the end of this course you will have a general knowledge of the grammar of the Spanish language and you will be able to communicate effectively in Spanish according to this level. This course satisfies the foreign language requirement.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
| 0020 | Conversation |
3 cr. | |
| 10532 | MoWeFr09:00 -09:50 02321CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
| 10534 | MoWeFr01:00 -01:50 00226CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
| 16190 | TuTh01:00 -02:15 00363CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
| 15080 | MoWe06:00 -07:15 00204CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
The goal of this fifth-semester course is to enhance fluency and the development of oral proficiency in Spanish. Although the emphasis is on speaking and listening skills, reading and writing assignments are an important part of the syllabus. Certain grammar points are reviewed (ser/estar, preterite/imperfect, etc.), but communicative competence is not measured by grammatical competence alone. This course helps students to improve their fluency, pronunciation, and strategic competence such as paraphrasing skills, and increases their vocabulary through readings, films, digital recordings and other authentic materials. This course is offered every term, and counts toward the Spanish Major.
This course is offered every term.
| 0025 | Grammar And Composition |
3 cr. | |
| 11696 | MoWeFr10:00 -10:50 00230CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
| 13420 | MoWeFr12:00 -12:50 02321CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
| 14024 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 0244ACL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
| 30770 | MoWe06:00 -07:20 00213CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 |
This course reviews Spanish grammar, and in addition, is designed to aid the students in vocabulary building, improving their knowledge of idiomatic usage, and their ability to translate from English to Spanish. This course is offered every term, and counts towards the Spanish major.
This course is offered every term.
| 0031 | Elementary Spanish 1 for MBAs |
1.5 cr. | |
| 37137 | MoWeTh12:00 -12:50 00313CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 12 |
This is an introductory conversational course specifically designed for business students who do not know Spanish. The students will be presented with the basic structures of the language, as well as the necessary vocabulary to be able to understand simple Spanish and converse on everyday topics. This course, conducted in Spanish, will be relatively fast-paced and will require students to participate actively in a variety of exercises, group activities and exchange of information.
This course is offered least once a year.
| 0032 | Elementary Spanish 2 for MBAs |
1.5 cr. | |
| 37141 | MoWeTh12:00 -12:50 00239CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 12 |
This is an introductory conversational course specifically designed for business students who do not know Spanish. The student will be presented with the basic structures of the language, as well as the necessary vocabulary to be able to understand simple Spanish and converse on everyday topics. This course, conducted in Spanish, will be relatively fast-paced and will require students to participate actively in a variety of exercises, group activities and exchange of information.
| 0031 | Elementary Spanish 1 for MBAs |
1.5 cr. | |
| 37137 | MoWeTh12:00-12:50 00313CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 12 |
This is an introductory conversational course specifically designed for business students who do not know Spanish. The students will be presented with the basic structures of the language, as well as the necessary vocabulary to be able to understand simple Spanish and converse on everyday topics. This course, conducted in Spanish, will be relatively fast-paced and will require students to participate actively in a variety of exercises, group activities and exchange of information.
This course is offered least once a year.
| 0032 | Elementary Spanish 2 for MBAs |
1.5 | ||
| 37141 | MoWeTh12:00 -12:50 00239CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 12 | |
This is an introductory conversational course specifically designed for business students who do not know Spanish. The student will be presented with the basic structures of the language, as well as the necessary vocabulary to be able to understand simple Spanish and converse on everyday topics. This course, conducted in Spanish, will be relatively fast-paced and will require students to participate actively in a variety of exercises, group activities and exchange of information.
This course is offered least once a year.
| 0050 | Spanish Civilization |
3 cr. | ||
| 15082 | TuTh09:30 -10:45 00249CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 30 | Gonzalez, Carina |
This course introduces students to the cultural history of the Hispanic World. Starting with the study of Pre-Colombian civilizations and the controversial politics of the Spanish Conquest we will discuss the conflicts involved in the transformation of Latin America. Through a broad variety of texts; chronicles, documentaries, films, fiction and novels, students will learn about the Spanish-speaking world and also explore the complex interactions implied in the process of Colonization, in the foundation of National identities and in the creation of Cultural traditions. We will stress the importance that these social and political tensions have in order to understand the past but also we will analyze its impact in the present.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
| 0055 | Intro Hispanic Literature 1 |
W |
3 cr. | ||
| 15086 | Tu06:00-08:30 00363CL | WRIT | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 18 | Gonzalez, Carina |
This course offers a general introduction to Hispanic literature, while the same time explores various approaches to literary and cultural analysis. We will discuss common categories applied to the study of literature as genres, mythology, historicism, structuralism, cultural studies and postcolonial criticism. It includes also works from representative Latin American writers. As a W course, it will require many writing assignments in Spanish.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
| 0082 | Latin America Today |
IFN REG |
3 cr. | |
| 15092 | MoWeFr10:00 -10:50 0244ACL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 35 | |
This courses is an overview of contemporary Latin America and its people and is designed to be an introduction for students who have no previous knowledge of the area. Students will be exposed to several aspects of Latin America. A special attempt will be made to show contemporary social reality as interpreted by some of the region's most gifted filmmakers, artists, writers and intellectuals. Readings, lectures, and class discussions will be conducted in English. This course is offered every fall and spring and fills the General Education requirement and/or CLAS certificate.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
| 1303 | Seminar In Language & Culture |
3 cr. | ||
| 12476 | TuTh01:00 02:15 00340CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 | Beverley, John |
Hispanics are now the largest minority population in the United States and are growing rapidly. It is estimated that by 2076, the three hundredth anniversary of the American revolution, 1 out of 4 residents of the United States will be Hispanic. This course examines the consequences of this demographic shift for the present and future of the United States. In particular, we will look closely a group of narrative texts (novels and memoirs) that deal with the question of Hispanic or Latino identity in the US, and related issues (bilingualism and biculturalism, multi-national citizenship, illegal immigration, the border and border culture, etc.). The focus will be not only on how Latino residents and new immigrants adapt to the US, but also how the US is changing as it becomes more "latinized." Students will be expected to make presentations to the class and write their course paper in Spanish.
This course is offered every term.
| 1306 | Spec Topics Appld Linguistics |
3 cr. | ||
| 30772 | MoWeFr01:00-01:50 00340CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 | Williams,Sarah |
The goal of this course is to further develop the oral proficiency of students through authentic materials including but not limited to interviews, movies, music, newspaper articles and role-playing. Emphasis on fluency and speaking skills, although reading and writing skills will not be ignored. We will review certain grammar points but communicative competence is not measured by grammatical competence alone. Pronunciation, comprehension skills, strategic competence such as paraphrasing skills, and an extensive active vocabulary are all equally important when it comes to becoming proficient in a foreign language. Students will often work in groups and pairs so it is imperative that they be willing to interact with one another and be tolerant of one another's opinions. The instructor will rate students' oral proficiency the beginning and end of the semester based on the ACTFL speaking proficiency guidelines. These guidelines are used nation-wide as an assessment tool to identify an individual's level of speaking competence in a foreign language.
This course is offered least once a year.
| 1403 | Latin American Narrative |
3 cr. | |||
| 30774 | TuTh11:00-12:15 00349CL | Latin American avant garde movements | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 20 | Balderston, Daniel |
This course will look a variety of Latin American avant garde movements (creacionismo, ultrasmo, Brazilian modernismo, estridentismo, etc.) and the Latin American wings of some of the European avant garde movements (most notably surrealism). Particular attention will be given to the avant garde manifesto (especially those collected in Jorge Schwartzs anthology Las vanguardias latinoamericanas, the main text for the course). We will read examples of poetic production, by such writers as Vicente Huidobro, César Vallejo, Jorge Luis Borges and Magda Portal, will be examined (using Mihai Grünfelds anthology of Latin American avant garde poetry), and some examples of avant garde narrative and theater also; oral reports on representative magazines of the period will be required. Course will be taught in Spanish, with some readings in Portuguese (also available in Spanish translation).
This course is offered infrequently.
| 1404 | Latin American Topics |
3 cr. | |||
| 16212 | TuTh02:30-03:45 00349CL | Afro-Hispanic Writers | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 20 | Branche,Jerome Clairmont |
This course offers a survey of Afro-Hispanic writing in the twentieth century (poetry, short stories, novel) in its national and historical context(s). In addition to studying writers from the Hispanic Caribbean and South America, we will also study writers from Ecuatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony in Africa. One of the foci of this course lies in deciding what constitutes the specificity of writing by Hispanic authors of African descent.
This course is offered infrequently.
| 1407 | U.S. Latino Film |
3 cr. | ||
| 30776 | We09:00 11:55 00312CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 | Herlinghaus,Hermann |
This course gives an introduction into and a survey of US Latina/o cinematic imaginaries. The purpose consists in illustrating and analyzing the importance that film and video have acquired for the expression of Latina/o identities in the United States and across the hemispheric border. A fascinating selection of audiovisual material is provided. It covers issues related to migration and border crossing, ethnical and political conflict, language and performance, gender roles, religion, dance, and music. Particular attention is paid to the problematic of Chicano film. In a second part, the class will introduce a series of contemporary Latin American films on the topics of violence, marginality, and globalization.
This course is offered least once a year.
| 1600 | Survey Of Spanish Literature |
3 cr. | ||
| 30778 | MoWeFr02:00 -02:50 00335CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 25 | Monasterios, Elizabeth |
This course is designed for Spanish majors who have completed SPAN 0020 and/or SPAN 0025 or can demonstrate an equivalent level of proficiency. The course will provide a broad overview of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present, covering Spanish achievements in the arts as well. Texts, works of art, and films, will be studied particularly in relation to how we can read “Spain” through Spanish art and literature, and to what extent the “idea of Spain” emerges from its own literary culture.
This course is offered least once a year.
SPRING 2008 (2084)
0001 Elementary Spanish 1: 5 cr.
7 sections.
This course is designed to encourage the development of communicative proficiency through an integrated approach to the teaching of all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Grammatical structures; vocabulary and readings are presented as tools for developing good communications skills. The course also aims to foster culture awareness of customs and traditions of the Spanish-speaking world.
This course is offered every term.
0002 Elementary Spanish 2: 5 cr.
11 sections.
A continuation of Spanish 0001, the course builds on the skills acquired in the first term, as students continue to develop their communicative language skills in Spanish.
This course is offered every term.
0003 Intermediate Spanish 3: 3 cr.
7 sections.
The course builds on the skills acquired during the elementary sequence. It includes a functional review of the basic language structures and introduces ever more complex structures. The course has a strong cultural component.
This course is offered every term.
0004 Intermediate Spanish 4: 3 cr.
7 sections.
A continuation of Spanish 0003. Students continue to refine their language abilities and enhance their vocabulary. The course has a strong cultural component.
This course is offered every term.
0020 Conversation: 3 cr.
4 sections.
The goal of this fifth-semester course is to enhance fluency and the development of oral proficiency in Spanish. Although the emphasis is on speaking and listening skills, reading and writing assignments are an important part of the syllabus. Certain grammar points are reviews (ser/estar, preterite/imperfect, etc.), but communicative competence is not measured by grammatical competence alone. This course helps students to improve their fluency, pronunciation, and strategic competence such as paraphrasing skills, and increase their vocabulary through readings, films, digital recordings and other authentic materials.
This course is offered every term.
0025 Grammar And Composition: 3 cr.
4 sections.
This course reviews Spanish grammar, and in addition, is designed to aid the students in vocabulary building, improving their knowledge of idiomatic usage, and their ability to translate from English to Spanish.
This course is offered every term.
0050 Spanish Civilization: 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12766 | TuTh11:00 -12:15 | 00226CL | Bruzual, Alejandro |
This course, conducted in Spanish, is an introduction to the study of the social and cultural histories of Spain and Latin America. Facing such a complex subject, we will review many different texts and authors that can help us to understand the conformation of the Hispanic world as a product of the confrontation of Spain and the native cultures, as well as the almost immediate involvement of African cultures. We will analyze examples of relevant literary, theoretical and historical works, and also reflect on films, visual arts and music. We will also discuss some of the main cultural theories which have suggested well-known approaches to the cultural formation of these societies (transculturation, hybridity, heterogeneity, mestizaje). Two general books from which we will read extensively will be helpful in reaching our goals: Carlos Fuentes' El espejo enterrado, and Charles Chasteen's Born in Blood and Fire. A Concise History of Latin America.
Enrollment Limit 30. No Recitation.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
0055 Intro Hispanic Literature 1: 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12768 | Tu06:00 -08:30 | 00318CL | Lund,Joshua K |
This course is designed to introduce students to the study of Hispanic literature, while the same time dealing with concepts which can be applied to all literature. In discussing the nature of literature as a category of writing, the course will focus on exploring various approaches to the study of literature. While some of the readings will be in English, all course production (lectures, discussions, assignments) will be in Spanish. 0055 counts as a departmental W course for the writing requirement.
W- Writing Credit.
Enrollment Limit 17. No Recitation.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
| 0082 | Latin America Today |
IFN REG |
3 cr. | |
| 12771 | MoWeFr10:00 -10:50 0208ACL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 35 | Gonzalez, Carina |
This course is an overview of contemporary Latin America and its people and is designed to be an introduction for students who have no previous knowledge of the area. Students will be exposed to several aspects of Latin America. A special attempt will be made to show contemporary social reality as interpreted by some of the region's most gifted writers. Readings, lectures, and class discussions will be conducted in English.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
| 1303 | Seminar In Language & Culture |
3 cr. | ||
| 11285 | MoWeFr12:00 -12:50 00349CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 20 | |
A specific topic for this semester remains to be determined.
This course is offered every term.
| 1306 | Spec Topics Appld Linguistics |
3 cr. | ||
| 32829 | MoWeFr01:00 -01:50 00218CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 15 | Williams, Sarah |
The goal of this course is to further develop the oral proficiency of students through authentic materials including but not limited to interviews, movies, music, newspaper articles and role-playing. Emphasis on fluency and speaking skills, although reading and writing skills will not be ignored. We will review certain grammar points but communicative competence is not measured by grammatical competence alone. Pronunciation, comprehension skills, strategic competence such as paraphrasing skills, and an extensive active vocabulary are all equally important when it comes to becoming proficient in a foreign language. Students will often work in groups and pairs so it is imperative that they be willing to interact with one another and be tolerant of one another's opinions. The instructor will rate students' oral proficiency the beginning and end of the semester based on the ACTFL speaking proficiency guidelines. These guidelines are used nation-wide as an assessment tool to identify an individual's level of speaking competence in a foreign language.
This course is offered least once a year.
| 1403 | Latin American Narrative |
3 cr. | |||
| 32830 | TuTh01:00 -02:15 00204CL | Guerrilla narratives in Latin America | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 20 | Duchesne-Winter, Juan |
Will examine narrative texts written by male and female actors of twentieth century guerrilla experiences in Latin America, from the Sandino era to the Chiapas movement, applying various interdisciplinary interpretive tools like discourse analysis, literary criticism and cultural theory. This course will cover the twentieth century only. Short readings on the historical and cultural context of the guerrilla experience, as well as audio visual material will be included. Passive knowledge of Spanish is required (advanced reading and listening skills). Class will be bilingual. Some texts are only available in Spanish, but available full text English versions will be accepted. Spanish will be optional in class participation and writing.
Check with the department on how often this course is offered.
| 1404 | Latin American Topics |
3 cr. | |||
| 13539 | TuTh09:30 -10:45 00335CL | Afro Hispanic Writers | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 20 | Branche, Jerome |
This course offers a survey of Afro-Hispanic writing in the twentieth century (poetry, short stories, novel) in its national and historical contexts. Note that in addition to studying writers from the Hispanic Caribbean and South America, we will also be studying writers from Equatorial Guinea, the only location on continental Africa where the official language is Spanish. One of the foci of the course lies in deciding what constitutes the specificity or specificities of writing by Hispanic writers of African descent.
This course is offered infrequently.
| 1407 | U.S. Latino Film |
3 cr. | ||
| 32831 | We01:00 -03:50 00302CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 20 | Herlinghaus, Hermann |
This course gives an introduction to and a survey of cinematic imaginaries addressing Latina/o culture in the United States and along the hemispheric border. The major purpose is to illustrate and analyze the importance that film and video have acquired for the expression of cultural identity and conflict in today's public life. A fascinating selection of audiovisual material is provided. It covers issues related to migration and border crossing, ethnic and political expression, language and body politics, gender roles, religion, dance, music, fashion, festivities, popular cultural empowerment, and cross cultural fantasies. The course will also look into the problematics of violence, narcotraffic, and the emergence of "narcocultural" artistic forms. Particular attention is paid to the problematic of Chicano film, together with Cuban-American and Nuyorican audiovisual expressions. The class will be taught in Spanish, films are mainly in English or have English subtitles. This course is offered either Fall or Spring.
This course is offered least once a year.
| 1600 | Survey Of Spanish Literature |
3 cr. | ||
| 32832 | MoWeFr02:00 -02:50 00335CL | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 25 | Bruzual, Alejandro |
This course, conducted in Spanish, will provide a broad overview of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present. We will raise many questions to the texts, particularly those related to how we can read "Spain" in Spanish literature, and to what extent the "idea of Spain" emerges from its own writing, changing its configuration to be the literature of the kingdom and of the Empire, to arrive to the 20th Century being the literature of the Republic and the representation of the Civil War. Students will be required to read a selection of works including Poema del Mio Cid, the Cantigas de Alfonso El Sabio, La Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes, Don Quijote, the poetry of the Golden Age, the theater of Calderon, the Generation of 98, and the poets of the Generation of 27, to arrive to Goytisolo and Marias.
This course is offered least once a year.
| 1700 | Comparative Hispanic Topics |
3 cr. | |||
| 32833 | MoWeFr11:00 -11:50 00227CL | Comparative Hispanic Topics: Amerindian, Spanish, and English Narratives of Conquest and Colonization | No recitation. | Enroll Limit 20 | Lamana, Gonzalo |
This course introduces the narratives, epistemologies, and politics prevalent during the emergence of Europe as center of the modern world. The course is organized along three different axes that to some extent follow each other but often overlap. First, the evolution of 16th century Spanish writing, following the moments of discovery/contact, conquest, and colonization. We will examine the tropoi of the master imperial narrative as well as its moments of hesitation and its internal critiques. Second, the emergence of a new mestizo consciousness that expressed itself in the work of Amerindian intellectuals. We will see how their texts contested Spanish claims of mastery, times strategically appropriating elements of critical Spaniards, times deploying alternative epistemologies. Third, the context within which Spaniards and Amerindians produced their contesting texts: the slow emergence of England as a competing colonial power. In particular, we will study the way in which early English colonial narratives struggled to make themselves different from the Spaniards and once superior to Amerindians. Although the course focuses on the 16th and 17th centuries, much of what we'll be discussing has its contemporary echoes, and attempt establishing past/present connections are welcome.
This course is offered least once a year.
Fall 2007 (2081)
0001 Elementary Spanish: 15 cr.
15 sections.
This course is designed to encourage the development of communicative proficiency through an integrated approach to the teaching of all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Grammatical structures; vocabulary and readings are presented as tools for developing good communications skills. The course also aims to foster culture awareness of customs and traditions of the Spanish-speaking world.
Enrollment Limit: 19 This course is offered every term.
0002 Elementary Spanish 2: 5 cr.
10 sections.
A continuation of Spanish 0001, the course builds on the skills acquired in the first term, as students continue to develop their communicative language skills in Spanish. Note:
Enrollment Limit: 19 This course is offered every term.
0003 Intermediate Spanish 3: 3 cr.
9 sections.
The course builds on the skills acquired during the elementary sequence. It includes a functional review of the basic language structures and introduces ever more complex structures. The course has a strong cultural component.
Enrollment Limit: 19
This course is offered every term.
0004 Intermediate Spanish 4: 3 cr.
7 sections.
A continuation of Spanish 0003. Students continue to refine their language abilities and enhance their vocabulary. The course has a strong cultural component.
Enrollment Limit: 19 This course is offered every term.
0020 Conversation: 3 cr.
5 sections.
The goal of this fifth-semester course is to enhance fluency and the development of oral proficiency in Spanish. Although the emphasis is on speaking and listening skills, reading and writing assignments are an important part of the syllabus. Certain grammar points are reviews (ser/estar, preterite/imperfect, etc.), but communicative compentence is not measured by grammatical competence alone. This course helps students to improve their fluency, pronunciation, and strategic competence such as paraphrasing skills, and increase their vocabulary through readings, films, digital recordings and other authentic materials.
Enrollment Limit: 15 This course is offered every term.
0025 Grammar And Composition: 3 cr.
5 sections.
This course reviews Spanish grammar, and in addition, is designed to aid the students in vocabulary building, improving their knowledge of idiomatic usage, and their ability to translate from English to Spanish.
Enrollment Limit: 15 This course is offered every term.
0050 Hispanic Civilization: 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12487 | TuTh01:00 -02:15 | Lamana, Gonzalo |
The primary goal of this course is to introduce students to the cultural history of the Hispanic world. Through a multidisciplinary approach, we will study the interaction of social, political, ethnic, racial, and gender dynamics, and the resulting transformations in Latin America, past and present. After a study of pre-contact Iberian and Amerindian societies, we will critically examine the ensuing conflicts that characterized the three centuries of contested colonial rule in Latin America. We will then focus on the different national projects and revolutions that shaped the current geopolitical landscape through both cultural manifestations as well as discourses of national identity and calls for patriotic behavior. We will close with an overview of some of the challenges actors across Latin America face the turn of the millennium. Throughout the semester, the goal will be both to learn about the Hispanic World and about how it has been thought by its past and present scholars, tracing differences and continuities.
Enrollment Limit: 30 This course is offered every fall and spring.
0055 Intro Hispanic Literature 1: 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10843 | MWF12:00 -12:50 | Lund, Joshua |
This course is designed to introduce students to the study of Hispanic literature, while the same time dealing with concepts which can be applied to all literature. In discussing the nature of literature as a category of writing, the course will focus on exploring various approaches to the study of literature. While some of the readings will be in English, all course production (lectures, discussions, roblematic) will be in Spanish. 0055 counts as a departmental W course for the writing requirement.
W - Writing Credit
Enrollment Limit: 16 This course is offered every fall and spring.
0055 Intro Hispanic Literature 1: 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12427 | TuTh09:30 -10:45 | Duchesne-Winter, Juan |
The crossing of populist and avant grade poetics Critical readings of twentieth century poetry where the popular and the avant garde meet. Will include poetical links with popular music and song, as well as extracts from the Latin American blog scene.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 0020 and/or/0025.
No recitation.
Enrollment Limit: 18
W - Writing Credit.
This course is offered every fall and spring.
0082 Latin America Today: 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11633 | MWF11:00 -11:50 |
This course is an overview of contemporary Latin America and its people and id designed to be an introduction for students who have no previous knowledge of the area. Students will be exposed to several aspects of Latin America. A special attempt will be made to show contemporary social reality as interpreted by some of the region’s most gifted writers. Readings, lectures, and class discussions will be conducted in English.
Prerequisite(s): none
No recitation.
Enrollment Limit: 35
IFN REG
This course is offered every fall and spring.
1303 Seminar In Language & Culture: 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12643 | MWF11:00 -11:50 |
This seminar is a requirement for all majors in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. A specific topic for Fall 07-08 remains to be determined. (The seminar will be given by the new faculty hire).
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 0025
No recitation.
Enrollment Limit: 20
This course is offered every term.
1305 Spanish Applied Linguistics: 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13115 | MWF01:00 -01:50 | Williams,Sarah A |
In this course students will explore in depth certain grammar points covered in previous Spanish language courses albeit to a lesser degree. Topics covered will include ser, estar, and haber, the preterite and imperfect, subjunctive versus indicative, the passive voice, the se impersonal, etc. The goal of this course to enable students to arrive certain linguistic generalizations about Spanish grammar from the point of view of learners of Spanish, be they heritage learners or non-native speakers. The practical knowledge that students gain in this course is particularly useful for future careers in teaching Spanish and translation. The textbook used in this course is a linguistics book written in Spanish (Investigación de gramática, by Lunn and DeCesaris). It is not a Spanish language textbook such as those used in Spanish 1-4 and Span 0025.
Enrollment Limit: 15 This course is offered least once a year.
1400 Survey Latin Amercn Literature: 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12644 | Tu06:00 -08:30 | Branche,Jerome Clairmont Alan |
This course offers you a broad overview of Latin American Literature from colonial times to the present. It will focus on building your skills in close reading, and attempt to enhance your sensitivity to the figurative language of texts (these texts’use of simile, synesthesia, metaphor, etc., their deployment of rhythm and rhyme, their use of rhetoric). It will also stress awareness of the socio-cultural contexts, and the genre- related and historiographic peculiarities of the material being studied.
Enrollment Limit: 25 This course is offered least once a year.
1404 Latin
American Topics: 3 cr.
First Contact
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13116 | TuTh02:30 -03:45 | Lamana,Gonzalo |
This course studies a wide range of cultural encounters between Western and non-Western societies across time and space-e.g., from the Spanish conquest of the Incas in 16th century Peru, to the engagement between captain Cook and Hawaiians in 1778, to native Americans in millennial US society. It examines issues of perception, improvisation and performance in each case, and through a comparative work analyze how these elements both question and sustain past and present stereotypes of civilization and its Others. To that end, on the one hand, it gives constant attention to the complex methodologies involved in producing narratives of events across deep cultural and political divides. On the other hand, it studies the role of power asymmetries that result in given subject positions, and how those positions are sustained and subverted. The overall goal is to bring to consciousness the complex politics of difference that permeate and condition any discussion of cross-cultural dynamics-journalistic, academic or otherwise.
Enrollment Limit: 21 This course is offered infrequently.
1407 U.S. Latino Film: 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19477 | W01:00 -03:50 | 00249CL | Herlinghaus, Hermann |
This course gives an introduction to and a survey of cinematic imaginaries addressing Latina/o culture in the United States and along the hemispheric border. The major purpose is to illustrate and analyze the importance that film and video have acquired for the expression of cultural identity and conflict in today’s public life. A fascinating selection of audiovisual material is provided. It covers issues related to migration and border crossing, ethnic and political expression, language and body politics, gender roles, religion, dance, music, fashion, festivities, popular cultural empowerment, and cross cultural fantasies. The course will also look into the roblematic of violence, narcotraffic, and the emergence of a “narcocultural” artistic forms. Particular attention is paid to the problematic of Chicano film, together with Cuban-American and Nuyorican audiovisual expressions. The class will be taught in Spanish, films are mainly in English or have English subtitles.
Enrollment Limit: 21 This course is offered every term.
1707 Afrcn Prsen Lat Amern Lit/Cult: 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20583 | TuTh11:00 -12:15 | Branche, Jerome |
Combined with ENGLIT0573 and AFRCNA1026
IFN COM
The primary objective of this course is to provide students with a concrete frame of reference for the African presence in Latin America. It aims also to foster an appreciation for the meaning, significance, and widespread influence of the African diaspora, by way of a general introduction to the human and cultural elements of African origin in the Spanish-, Portuguese-, and French-speaking countries in the region. Where necessary and/or appropriate, the course will compare and contrast the social and racial dynamic of the United States with these other countries in the hemisphere to foster an appreciation for the specificity and universality of the experiences of Latin Americans of African descent.
Enrollment Limit: 15 This course is offered least once a year.
Spring 2007 (2074)
0001 Elementary Spanish 1: 5 cr
8 sections.
This course is designed to encourage the development of communicative proficiency through an integrated approach to the teaching of all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Grammatical structures; vocabulary and readings are presented as tools for developing good communication skills. The course also aims to foster cultural awareness of customs and traditions of the Spanish-speaking world.
Enrollment Limit: 19 This course is offered every term.
0002 Elementary Spanish 2: 5 cr.
13 secons.
A continuation of Spanish 0001, the course builds on the skills acquired in the first term, as students continue to develop their communicative language skills in Spanish. Enrollment Limit: 19 This course is offered every term.
0003: Intermediate Spanish 3: 3 cr.
6 sections.
The course builds on the skills acquired during the elementary sequence. It includes a functional review of the basic language structures and introduces ever more complex structures. The course has a strong cultural component
Enrollment Limit: 19 This course is offered every term.
0004 Intermediate Spanish 4: 3 cr.
7 sections.
A continuation of Spanish 0003. Students continue to refine their language abilities and enhance their vocabulary. The course has a strong cultural component.
Enrollment Limit: 19 This course is offered every term.
0020 Conversation: 3 cr.
4 sections.
The goal of this fifth-semester course is to enhance fluency and the development of oral proficiency in Spanish. Although the emphasis is on speaking and listening skills, reading and writing assignments are an important part of the syllabus. Certain grammar points are reviews (ser/estar, preterite/imperfect, etc.), but communicative competence is not measured by grammatical competence alone. This course helps students to improve their fluency, pronunciation, and strategic competence such as paraphrasing skills, and increase their vocabulary through readings, films, digital recordings and other authentic materials.
Enrollment Limit: 15 This course is offered every term.
0025 Grammar And Composition: 3 cr.
3 sections.
This course reviews Spanish grammar, and in addition, is designed to aid the students in vocabulary building, improving their knowledge of idiomatic usage, and their ability to translate from English into Spanish.
This course is offered every term.
0050 Hispanic Civilization: 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13558 | MWF12:00 -12:50 | 00218CL | Lamana,Gonzalo |
The primary goal of this course is to introduce students to the cultural history of the Hispanic world. Through a multidisciplinary approach, we will study the interaction of social, political, ethnic, racial, and gender dynamics, and the resulting transformations in Latin America, past and present. After a study of pre-contact Iberian and Amerindian societies, we will critically examine the ensuing conflicts that characterized the three centuries of contested colonial rule in Latin America. We will then focus on the different national projects and revolutions that shaped the current geopolitical landscape through both cultural manifestations as well as discourses of national identity and calls for patriotic behavior. We will close with an overview of some of the challenges actors across Latin America face the turn of the millennium. Throughout the semester, the goal will be both to learn about the Hispanic World and about how it has been thought by its past and present scholars, tracing differences and continuities.
Enrollment Limit: 20 This course is offered every term.
0050 Hispanic Civilization - 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14019 | MWF12:00 -12:50 | 00313CL |
The course provides a general, panoramic, cultural history of Latin America, Spain and their relations. Students will take an interdisciplinary approach toward examining an array of cultural artifacts (texts, films, songs, etc.) from and about the Spanish-speaking world. Particular attention will be placed on the ways in which these artifacts speak to the political and social tensions that arise through process of colonization, nation-building, and identity formation
Enrollment Limit: 20 This course is offered every fall and spring.
0055 Intro Hispanic Literature 1: 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13561 | MWF09:00 -09:50 | 00227CL | Lund,Joshua K |
This course is designed to introduce students to the study of Hispanic literature, while the same time dealing with concepts which can be applied to all literature. In discussing the nature of literature as a category of writing, the course will focus on exploring various approaches to the study of literature. While some of the readings will be in English, all course production (lectures, discussions, assignments) will be in Spanish. 0055 counts as a departmental W course for the writing requirement.
Enrollment Limit: 15 This course is offered every fall and spring.
0082 Latin America Today: 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13566 | TuTh09:30 -10:45 | 0208ACL |
This course is an overview of contemporary Latin America and its people and is designed to be an introduction for students who have no previous knowledge of the area. Students will be exposed to several aspects of Latin America. A special attempt will be made to show contemporary social reality as interpreted by some of the region’s most gifted filmmakers, artists, writers and intellectuals. Readings, lectures, and class discussions will be conducted in English.
Enrollment Limit: 35 This course is offered every fall and spring.
1020 Advanced Conversation - 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13568 | MWF11:00 -11:50 | 00404IS | Williams,Sarah A |
The goal of this course is to further develop the oral proficiency of students through authentic materials including but not limited to interviews, movies, music, newspaper articles and role-playing. Emphasis is on fluency and speaking skills, although reading and writing skills will not be ignored. We will review certain grammar points but communicative competence is not measured by grammatical competence alone. Pronunciation, comprehension skills, strategic competence such as paraphrasing skills, and an extensive active vocabulary are all equally important when it comes to becoming proficient in a foreign language. Students will often work in groups and pairs so it is imperative that they be willing to interact with one another and be tolerant of one another’s opinions. The instructor will rate students’ oral proficiency the beginning and end of the semester based on the ACTFL speaking proficiency guidelines. These guidelines are used nation-wide as an assessment tool to identify an individual’s level of speaking competence in a foreign language.
Enrollment Limit: 15 This course is offered least once a year.
1303 Seminar In Language & Culture: 3 cr.
Orality, Writing and Image
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11711 | TuTh11:00 -12:15 | 00213CL | Silvia Rivera
Cusicanqu, Ana Rebeca Prada, and Luis Tapia |
Bolivia has been very much the center of current developments in Latin America. The undergraduate senior seminar this term offers a unique opportunity to work with three of the best known figures in the Bolivian intellectual life, whose work crosses between disciplines and between the academy as such and actual contemporary social movements. Ana Rebeca Prada’s field is modern Latin American literature; Luis Tapia is a sociologist who specializes in new, multiethnic social/political movements, like the one that brought the government of Evo Morales to power in Bolivia recently; and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is an internationally acclaimed cultural anthropologist who has done path breaking work indigenous and mestizo cultures of resistance in the Andean world. The seminar will be divided into three parts, each of which will be taught by one of them. The focus will be on literary and non-literary forms of representation that emerge from or concern directly the popular sectors in Latin American (and particularly Andean) societies: e.g. oral culture, audio-visual forms of cultural expression, forms of “border” writing that locate themselves the edge between literature and oral culture, dominant and minority languages, etc. The emphasis will be on multicultural and transdisciplinary ways of understanding Latin American culture and its relation with the social and political field. This course is offered every term with a different topic.
Enrollment Limit: 20 This course is offered every term.
1321 Business Spanish 1 - 3 cr.
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20122 | >W06:00 -08:30 | 00229CL | DeAngelis,Beatrice R |
This course provides an introduction to the language skills required in Spanish business correspondence and related commercial activities. The course is designed, in addition to provide a solid basis for communication in commercial interactions and to develop students’ abilities to read professional texts. Practical application will be through role-play, dialogues, letter, summary and resume writing. The course will also familiarize students with the customs and the cultural and behavioral differences which are important to know in dealing with the Hispanic business world. Students are expected to have a good knowledge of Spanish. This course is offered every two years.
Enrollment Limit: 20 This course is offered infrequently.
1404 Latin
American Topics: 3 cr.
Extemporary Scenes in Contemporary Latin American
Narrative
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20129 | TuTh01:00 -02:15 | 00236CL | Duchesne-Winter,Juan |
We will examine short stories, short novels and films that respond to transformations of contemporary life by presenting scenes, events, exchanges, or situations which depart from modern and postmodern rationalities and values. Works by Carlos Reygada, Jodorowsky, Cortázar, Piñera, Felisberto Hernández, Bellatin, Gorodischer and others.
Enrollment Limit: 15 This course is offered infrequently.
1405 Sem: Latin Amer Lit &
Culture: 3 cr.
The Challenges of Latin American Feminism
| CRN | Time | Loc | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13578 | MWF10:00 -10:50 | 00218CL | Monasterios,Elizabeth |
In this course students will be exposed to forms of Latin American women’s movements and cultural interventions that challenge structures of women’s power in contemporary societies as well as established literary and academic canonicity. Increasingly, women are claiming a provocative voice by addressing issues of social inequalities, human rights, national identity, debates about sexuality and roblematic, campaigns around violence, and the body and poetry as sites of resistance. Students will concentrate in the study of a selection of writers, thinkers, activists and historical figures that include but are not limited to: Malinche, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Delmira Agustini, Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, Magda Portal, Frida Kahlo, Rosario Castellanos, Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Rigoberta Menchú, and Mujeres Creando.
Enrollment Limit: 25 This course is offered infrequently.
Fall 2006 (2071)
0001 Elementary Spanish 1: 5 cr.
15 sections
This course is designed to encourage the development of communicative proficiency through an integrated approach to the teaching of all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Grammatical structures, vocabulary and readings are presented as tools for developing good communication skills. The course also aims to foster cultural awareness of customs and traditions of the Spanish-speaking world.
Enrollment Limit: 19 This course is offered every term.
0002 Elementary Spanish 2: 5 cr.
10 sections
A continuation of Spanish 0001, the course builds on the skills acquired in the first term, as students continue to develop their communicative language skills in Spanish. Note:
Enrollment Limit: 19 This course is offered every term.
0003 Intermediate Spanish 3: 3 cr.
9 sections.
The course builds on the skills acquired during the elementary sequence. It includes a functional review of the basic language structures and introduces ever more complex structures. The course has a strong cultural component.
Enrollment Limit: 19 This course is offered every term.
0004 Intermediate Spanish 4- 3 cr.
7 sections
A continuation of Spanish 0003. Students continue to refine their language abilities, and enhance their vocabulary. The course has a strong cultural component.
Enrollment Limit: 19 This course is offered every term.
0020 Conversation: 3 cr.
5 sections
The goal of this fifth-semester course is to enhance fluency and the development of oral proficiency in Spanish. Although the emphasis is on speaking and listening skills, reading and writing assignments are an important part of the syllabus. Certain grammar points are reviewed (ser/estar, preterite/imperfect, etc.), but communicative competence is not measured by grammatical competence alone. This course helps students to improve their fluency, pronunciation, and strategic competence such as paraphrasing skills, and increase their vocabulary through readings, films, digital recordings and other authentic materials.
Enrollment Limit: 15 This course is offered every term.
0025 Grammar And Composition: 3 cr.
5 sections
This course reviews Spanish grammar, and in addition, is designed to aid the students in vocabulary building, improving their knowledge of idiomatic usage, and their ability to translate from English into Spanish.
Enrollment Limit: 15 This course is offered every term.
0050 Hispanic Civilization: 3 cr.
| CRN | Faculty |
|---|---|
| 12709 | Monasterios, Elizabeth |
| 18233 | Faculty |
The aim of this course is to introduce you to a multidisciplinary, post-traditional study of Hispanic civilizations. Although these civilizations tend to be studied separately we will address them simultaneously, in an effort to bring together all the social, cultural and political conflict involved in their clash of interests and differences. We will begin with a critical discussion of the Spanish and Portuguese “encounter” with the Amerindian worlds, which resulted in three centuries of slavery and colonial rule. In a second approach, and paying attention to historical writing, literature, and art, we will study the unfolding political events and social transformations that formed today’s Spain and today’s “Latin American and the Caribbean”. Finally, we will discuss the different challenges that the Spanish speaking countries and peoples, including US Latinos, face in the new millennium.
Enrollment Limit: 20 This course is offered every fall and spring.
0055 Intro Hispanic Literature: 3 cr.
| CRN | Writing | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
| 10874 | W | Branche, Jerome |
| 12625 | W | Lund, Joshua |
This course offers a general introduction to Hispanic literature. It covers the genres of poetry, prose, and the essay from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period, and includes representative writers and works from Peninsular Spain and Spanish America. Its main objectives are to provide the student with tools for literary and cultural analysis and give them a grounding in the Hispanic literary tradition. As a W course, it will also build skills in Spanish writing.
Enrollment Limit: 18 This course is offered every fall and spring.
0082 Latin America Today: 3 cr.
| CRN | Faculty |
|---|---|
| 11722 | Faculty |
This course is an overview of contemporary Latin America and its people and is designed to be an introduction for students who have no previous knowledge of the area. Students will be exposed to several aspects of Latin America. A special attempt will be made to show contemporary social reality as interpreted by some of the region’s most gifted filmmakers, artists, writers and intellectuals. Readings, lectures, and class discussions will be conducted in English.
Enrollment Limit: 45 This course is offered every fall and spring.
1303 Seminar In Language & Culture: 3 cr.
| CRN | Faculty |
|---|---|
| 12910 | Faculty |
This seminar is a requirement for all majors in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. A specific topic for Fall 06-07 remains to be determined. (The seminar will be given by the new faculty hire).
Enrollment Limit: 15 This course is offered every term.
1305 Special Topics In Applied Linguistics: 3 cr.
| CRN | Faculty |
|---|---|
| 18236 | Williams, Sarah |
In this course students will explore in depth certain grammar points covered in previous Spanish language courses albeit to a lesser degree. Topics covered will include ser, estar and haber, the preterite and imperfect, subjunctive versus indicative, the passive voice, the se impersonal, etc. The goal of this course is to enable students to arrive certain linguistic generalizations about Spanish grammar from the point of view of learners of Spanish, be they heritage learners or non-native speakers. The practical knowledge that students gain in this course is particularly useful for future careers in teaching Spanish and translation. The textbook used in this course is a linguistics book written in Spanish (Investigaciòn de gramàtica, by Lunn and DeCesaris). It is not a Spanish language textbook such as those used in Spanish 1-4 and Span 0025.
Enrollment Limit: 15 This course is offered least once a year.
1400 Survey Latin Amercn Literature: 3 cr.
| CRN | Faculty |
|---|---|
| 12911 | Branche, Jerome |
The course deals with the major periods and figures in the development of Spanish American literature from the Conquest to the present. It fulfills a requirement for students planning to undertake a major in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. It is also recommended to students in other departments and candidates for the Latin American Studies Certificate who have a reading knowledge of Spanish and may require a survey of Latin American literature and culture. Lectures and discussions in Spanish; readings in Spanish from the anthology Voces de hispanoamerica.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 0025 or equivalent.
No recitation.
Enrollment Limit: 25 This course is offered least once a year.
1404 Latin American
Topics: 3 cr.
Magic, Race and Religion in Latin America
| CRN | Faculty |
|---|---|
| 18237 | Lamana, Gonzalo |
The starting point of this course is to undo conceptions of magic as something that is opposed to reality- i.e., as an illusion that happens in stories. We will examine the idea of magic as being constitutive of reality, and how it relates to racial inequalities, religious beliefs, and political practices of different actors in Latin America, past and present. The course will move back and forth between theory and ethnography. On the one hand, we will read attempts from different critical traditions turning magic into a category of analysis that speaks both of ordinary people’s lives and of acts of those in power. We will examine sympathetic magic, magical realism, fetishism, the royal touch, and truth effect. On the other hand, we will read several ethnographic, historical and literary accounts in which race, religion, and magic intertwine. The cases will range from accounts of colonial foundations and encounters with western literacy to the dirty war in Argentina, from inquisitional trials in colonial times to current religious and racial beliefs and practices, and from Colombia’s One Hundred Years of Solitude to contemporary studies of the state in Venezuela. The readings will be from anthropology, history and literature, either in Spanish or English, as also will be the classes and papers.
Enrollment Limit: 35 This course is offered infrequently.
1405 Sem: Latin Amer Lit & Culture: 3 cr.
Latino Theatre in the U. S.
| CRN | Faculty | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 18238 | Muneroni, Stefano |
||
Cross-listed with THEA1390
Through the reading of relevant Latino plays and selected criticism, “Latino Theatre in the U.S.” focuses on how Latino people shape, negotiate, and sustain their composite identity within their own community, and how this ongoing process reflects and affects both political and cultural discourses in this country. This course will take into account notions of race and ethnicity as viable tools in mapping the way Latinos interact within their own communities and with the American culture large. It will also examine the interactions between dominant and subaltern cultures, and will draw on TV news, newspapers, movies and music in the attempt to document and illustrate the increasingly visible presence of Latino culture in the U.S. What are the political and cultural values of community-based theatre and performance? How does theatre help construct collective identities? How does it critique and undermine those same identities by fostering individuality? How do Latino plays help us rethink our own stereotypes and cultural assumptions? Ultimately, what does Latino theatre tell us about our own world and society? Those are some of the questions the course will address. This is the first time this course is being offered.
Enrollment Limit: 30 This course is offered infrequently.
1600 Survey Of Spanish Literature: 3 cr.
| CRN | Faculty | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 13186 | Graff Zivin, Erin |
||
This course, conducted in Spanish, will provide a broad overview of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present, engaging the cultural and religious ‘others’ that have been involved in the formation of aesthetic and national identities. Did medieval Spain really exemplify a “culture of tolerance”, as Marìa Rosa Menocal suggests? To what degree was the expulsion of Jews and Moors a necessary step in the consolidation of national identity? How did Spanish culture deal with the large numbers of lterity or New Christians, the hidden difference that remained within the national body? In what way was this anxiety towards difference displaced onto the Americas? Students will be required lterit selections of a number of major lter, including Poema de Mio Cid, Libro de buen amor, La Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes, “El Retablo de las Maravillas”, Don Àlvaro o la fuerza del sino and Poeta en Nueva York.
Enrollment Limit: 25 This course is offered at least once a year.
1705
Seminar:
Hispanic Lit & Culture: 3 cr.
Racial, Sexual and Cultural Difference in 20th Century Literature and Film
| CRN | Faculty | |
|---|---|---|
| UHC | Graff Zivin, Erin |
|
As the global political landscape becomes increasingly conflictive, and ideological, national, religious and cultural groups grow more polarized each day, it is crucial that we reflect upon the ways in which we perceive, define, imagine and represent difference. Does the attempt to represent the other aid in our understanding of diverse experiences and subject positions, or does it violate the uniqueness of this other? How do artists attempt to speak about, for, or as the other? Does literary or cinematic language objectify, or thematize difference, or can it create a unique space for what philosopher Emmanuel Levinas calls the face of the other? Is representation possible? This theoretically rigorous course will investigate diverse constructions of racial, sexual, and cultural difference by reading texts and viewing films that attempt to articulate some version of lterity. It will be our job as scholars to deconstruct these works, examining the ways in which difference is constituted in 20th century literature and film from Latin America, Europe, and the United States. We will consider aesthetic representations of concepts ranging from blackness to Jewishness, motherhood to homosexuality, slavery to the Holocaust, North Africa to the Amazonian machigüenga tribe.
Enrollment Limit: 15 To register for a UHC course students must obtain a special permission form from the University Honors College, 3600 Cathedral of Learning.