Fall 2018 Class Schedule: Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Fall 2018 Class Schedule

Course #	Title	Instructor	Day/Time
Portuguese 101-1	Elementary Portuguese	Check CAESAR	TBA
Portuguese 101-1 Elementary Portuguese Introduction to grammar and development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in Brazilian Portuguese, as well as the history and culture of Portuguese-speaking countries.
Portuguese 115-2	Portuguese for Spanish Speakers	Check CAESAR	TBA
Portuguese 115-2 Portuguese for Spanish Speakers For students proficient in Spanish. Comparative sociolinguistic and interactive approach to communicative competence emphasizing pronunciation, intonation, sentence structure, and patterns of spoken and written Portuguese. Prerequisite: PORT 115-1 or Placement
Portuguese 202-0	Contemporary Brazil: Literature and Film	Check CAESAR	TBA
Portuguese 202-0 Contemporary Brazil: Literature and Film Instruction in reading and writing expository and narrative prose. Emphasis on vocabulary, linguistic skills, and syntax appropriate to formal written Portuguese. Prerequisite: PORT 115-2, PORT 121-3, or sufficient score on placement examination.
Spanish 101-0	Elementary Spanish	Check CAESAR	TBA
Spanish 101-0 Elementary Spanish For students who have studied Spanish less than two years. Communicative method. Development of speaking, listening, conversation, and grammar skills, as well as knowledge of Hispanic culture, through context. Three class meetings a week. Outside online video program twice a week. Prerequisites: None Restrictions: No P/N; Attendance at first class required
Spanish 105-6	First-Year Seminar: Women At The Border: The Marginalization Of Latinas In The U.S.	Check CAESAR	TBA
Spanish 105-6 First-Year Seminar: Women At The Border: The Marginalization Of Latinas In The U.S. Latina immigrants to the U.S. often leave intolerable circumstances and brave life-threatening border crossings in pursuit of the American dream. Yet, those who succeed in crossing the geographic border almost inevitably find that the marginalized existence they hoped to leave behind takes on an equally powerful form in their new world as they confront economic, political, racial, and cultural barriers 'north' of the border. Immigration has become one of the 'hot' buttons of contemporary social and political dialogue. Through the prism of the Latina experience in the United States, this class will explore causes and consequences of global migration in the 21st century, analyze the marginalization of third-world immigrants in first-world society, and seek to develop an understanding of the evolving 'face' of America. Students will further examine how their own ancestral experiences have helped shape their perceptions of this new world order.
Spanish 121-1	Intermediate Spanish	Check CAESAR	TBA
Spanish 121-1 Intermediate Spanish Communicative method. Further development of grammar, vocabulary, speaking, and writing skills through emphasis on cultural content and functional use of Spanish language. Three class meetings a week. Outside online video program twice a week. Prerequisites: SPANISH 101-3, SPANISH 115-2, or Spanish Language Placement Exam Restrictions: No P/N; Attendance at first class required
Spanish 125-0	Accelerated Intermediate Spanish	Check CAESAR	MWF 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm
Spanish 125-0 Accelerated Intermediate Spanish Communicative method. Further development of grammar, vocabulary, speaking, and writing skills through readings and short films. Three class meetings a week. Outside online video. Offered in fall only. Prerequisites: AP score of 3 or Spanish Language Placement Exam. Restrictions: No P/N; Attendance at first class required
Spanish 127-0	Accelerated Intermediate Spanish for Heritage Language Learners	Check CAESAR	TBA
Spanish 127-0 Accelerated Intermediate Spanish for Heritage Language Learners Communicative method. Further development of grammar, vocabulary, speaking, and writing skills through readings and short films. Three class meetings a week. Outside online video. Offered in fall only. Prerequisites: AP score of 3 or Spanish Language Placement Exam Restrictions: No P/N; Attendance at first class required
Spanish 199-0	Language in Context: Contemporary Spain	Check CAESAR	MWF 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm
Spanish 199-0 Language in Context: Contemporary Spain An introduction to the culture and politics of contemporary Spain in the basis for review and further development of some of the most problematic grammatical patterns in Spanish. Prerequisites: SPANISH 121-3, SPANISH 125-0, or AP score of 4 on Spanish Language Placement Exam. Restrictions: No P/N; Attendance at first class required
Spanish 201-0	Conversation on Human Rights: Latin America	Check CAESAR	MWF 9am, 10am
Spanish 201-0 Conversation on Human Rights: Latin America First course of a sequence designed to develop speaking strategies and structures through analysis of modern (20th- and 21st-century) Latin American culture. Emphasis on accurate informal conversation. Three class meetings a week. Prerequisites: SPANISH 199-0 or departmental sufficient Spanish Language Placement Exam. Restrictions: No P/N; Attendance at first class required
Spanish 203-0	Individual and Society through Written Expression	Check CAESAR	MWF 9am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 3pm
Spanish 203-0 Individual and Society through Written Expression First course of a sequence that develops writing skills and structures through examination of the relationship between the individual and society. Emphasis on textual analysis and development of descriptive, narrative, and argumentative essays. Prerequisites: SPANISH 201-0, AP score of 5 on the Spanish Language or Literature Exam, or departmental Spanish Language Placement Exam. Restrictions: No P/N; Attendance at first class required.
Spanish 204-0	Reading and Writing the Art of Protest	Check CAESAR	TBA
Spanish 204-0 Reading and Writing the Art of Protest Second course of a sequence designed to develop writing skills and structures through analysis of socially-committed art. Emphasis on cultural analysis and development of longer essays. Three class meetings a week. Prerequisites: SPANISH 203-0 or SPANISH 207-0 Restrictions: No P/N; Attendance at first class required.
Spanish 220-0	Introduction to Literary Analysis	Check CAESAR	TBA
Spanish 220-0 Introduction to Literary Analysis Introduction to textual analysis and to topics such as genre, narratology, prosody, and figurative language, aiming to prepare the student to read, discuss, and write analytically in Spanish about literature and culture. Prerequisite: SPANISH 204-0 or AP 5 in Spanish Language AND Literature.
Spanish 231-0	The "New" Latin American Narrative Taught in English	Check CAESAR	TBA
Spanish 231-0 The "New" Latin American Narrative So, what's "new" about the New Latin American Narrative? The course approaches this question by considering several major trends in Latin American literature in the second half of the twentieth century. Focusing on novels, short fiction, and testimonial writing, we will study representative works from the pre-Boom (1940s-1950s), Boom (1960s to early 1970s) and post-Boom (1970s & beyond) decades in Latin American literature. Although the new narrative is often identified with the Boom era--when Latin American literature "exploded" onto the world stage--and with Boom novels, we will take a broader view to consider the diverse types of texts that represent important new currents in the region. Focus on works by writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Rosario Ferre, Carlos Fuentes, Rigoberta Menchu, Manuel Puig, Ana Maria Shua, or Luisa Valenzuela. Prerequisite: None. Reading and discussion in English. This course may count for the major or minor in Spanish; consult with an advisor. No P/NP
Spanish 250-0	Literature in Spain before 1700	Check CAESAR	TBA
Spanish 250-0 Literature in Spain before 1700 This survey course offers an introduction to the most influential Spanish literary and cultural works of the Middle Ages and Golden Age periods. From the first manifestations of the written romance language (Glosas del monasterio de San Millan de la Cogolla, Xth c.) to the mester de juglaría and the Poema del Cid and the mester de clerecia of Gonzalo de Berceo to the poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, this course also studies the origins of Spanish in "vulgar" latin in conjunction with religion and history. Prerequisite: SPANISH 220-0 (Can be taken concurrently), or with teacher permission if 220 hasn't been taken.
Spanish 261-0	Literature in Latin America since 1888	Check CAESAR	TBA
Spanish 261-0 Literature in Latin America since 1888 Survey of the modern period, including modernismo, the historical avant-garde, the "Boom," and recent literary trends. Authors such as Delmira Agustini, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Ruben Dario, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jose Marti, Pablo Neruda, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska. Prerequisite: SPANISH 220-0 (may be taken concurrently).
Spanish 361-0	Latin America: Studies in Culture and Society	Check CAESAR	TBA
Spanish 361-0 Latin America: Studies in Culture and Society Analysis of the history of culture in Latin America with an emphasis on the intersection of politics, society, and literature and on the relationship between literary and visual culture. May be repeated for credit with different topic. Prerequisite: 1 course from SPANISH 220-0
Spanish 395-0-1	ZONAS TRANS _ Trans national, transcultural, transgender	Check CAESAR	TBA
Spanish 395-0-1 ZONAS TRANS _ Trans national, transcultural, transgender In this seminar we will explore the critical potential of aesthetic expressions, practices, and bodies trans. Trans-Zones are those which open up a new kind of space, one that is not inter or intra, in between or inside, but that generates a new territory, "un mas alli de" beyond and thus a new epistemological field. The Trans-Zone we will traverse question and undermines essentialist, oppositional and binary ideas of culture, identity and gender giving expression to a complex lived experience. They also allow us to overcome the fixed, the territorialized, the confined in order to explore the contaminated, porous, adulterated contents, where the limits imposed by certain disciplines disintegrate giving way to transdiciplinarity and the inclusion of new subjects and forms of knowledge emerging from trans-subjectivities. We will initially reflect and conceptualize the notion of Trans, with the aide of feminist critical theory. Then, we will pay especial attention to the trans-expression in contemporary Latin American culture: in art and literature, in social practices and movements, in the self-representations that contests the forms of identity, class, race and gender created by the paradigms of the national and heteronormativity. The course will be taught in Spanish.
Spanish 395-0-2	Ways of Lying: Fiction and Parafiction in Contemporary Latin America	Check CAESAR	TBA
Spanish 395-0-2 Ways of Lying: Fiction and Parafiction in Contemporary Latin America In 2009, Carrie Lambert-Beatty coined the term “parafiction” to talk about artistic practices that had an act of deception at its core. As a consequence, the products of these practices (objects, projects, situations, subjects) were experienced as real and, often, unrelated to art. This course studies the phenomenon in contemporary Latin America and explores the specificities of lying, through art, in the region. Is there a particular Latin American relationship to deception? In which ways can fiction alter what we experience as real? How does art complicate the boundaries between fiction and reality and why is that complication productive? We will analyze an eclectic group of artists including, among others, Roberto Jacoby, Mario Bellatin, Pablo Helguera, Pedro Manrique Figueroa, Coco Fusco, and Guillermo Gómez Peña.
Spanish 397-0	Sexual Dissidence & Activism in Latin America: AIDS as Critique Taught in English	Check CAESAR	TBA
Spanish 397-0 Sexual Dissidence & Activism in Latin America: AIDS as Critique The AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s produced a new body and subjectivity. While the Global North experienced loss, mourning and activism for retroviral therapy, in the Global South too there was an emergency for viral knowledge and political recognition/inclusion. This course looks to situate the AIDS epidemic in the Latin American historical context while, at the same time, introducing its aesthetic manifestations.
SPANPORT 450	Topics in Cultural Studies: Dangerous Bodies in Turn-of-the-Century Latin America	Nathalie Bouzaglou	W 2pm-4:50pm
SPANPORT 450 Topics in Cultural Studies: Dangerous Bodies in Turn-of-the-Century Latin America Analyzes representations of different sexualities in Latin American fictions and visual culture from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, exploring the ways that these texts and images use the body to reveal the contradictions and complexities in the construction of the national culture. Graduate seminar (taught in Spanish).
SPANPORT 455	Comparative Studies in Latin American Cultures: Comparative Studies in Latin American Cultures Literatura and Anthropology: Brazil and France	Cesar Braga-Pinto	Th 2pm-4:50pm
SPANPORT 455 Comparative Studies in Latin American Cultures: Comparative Studies in Latin American Cultures Literatura and Anthropology: Brazil and France In his Tristes Tropiques (1955), Claude Levi-Strauss refers to Jean de Lery\'s History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (1578) as the "breviary of the anthropologist." Since then, accounts of the native cultures of Brazil (often nostalgic and melancholic) have played a central role in Western epistemologies, as well as in the construction of the modern Brazilian nation and aesthetics. This course is intended as both a thematic survey of Brazilian lettered culture and an investigation of the development of modern ethnography (largely in France). Firstly, we will discuss the role of European accounts of encounters with the Brazilian landscape and indigenous peoples in the development of modern ethnography; then we will analyze how the Brazilian lettered elite responded to the image of Brazil that was constructed by Europeans as an exotic space, and how they incorporated it into their projects of nation building (from 19th-century Romanticism, to Modernist avant-gardes and beyond). Finally, we will discuss how indigenous cultures remain a heterogeneous space in the national and global imagination, and the political consequences of this contradiction in contemporary societies. Readings will include travel narratives, novels, poems, essays, ethnographic accounts and films. Essays by Montaigne, Levi-Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Frank Lestringant, Michel de Certeau, Silviano Santiago, James Clifford, Krupat, Walter Mignolo, V. Crapanzano, Vincent Debaene, Viveiros de Castro, among others. NOTE: Reading knowledge of Portuguese, Spanish and/or French desired but not required
SPANPORT 496-0	Dissertation Prospectus Writing Workshop	Laura Leon Llerena	T 2pm-4:50pm
SPANPORT 496-0 Dissertation Prospectus Writing Workshop This course seeks to impart to students the knowledge necessary to answer the questions: what is a dissertation, and how do I write one? In the spirit of a workshop, we will work as a group to foster and cultivate the skill sets necessary to formulate and articulate an organizing question adequate to the charge of a significant, independent, multi-year research project. We will call this first stage the prospectus, and we will figure out what it is and how best to write it. We will try to distill multiple and often conflicting statements, expectations, and/or fears about what the dissertation is so we can effectively undertake its preparation and writing.