Fall 2017
SPANISH-LANGUAGE COURSES
Spanish 101-1 Elementary Spanish
Course Description: 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; First class required
Course Coordinator: Susan Pechter
Offered: MWF 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm
Instructors: Heather Colburn, Benay Stein, and Susan Pechter
Spanish 105-6 First-Year Seminar: Women At The Border: The Marginalization Of Latinas In The U.S.
Course Description: 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, linguistic, and cultural barriers ‘north’ of the border. This course considers these issues through analysis of literature and film and has three thematic divisions: GLOBAL BORDERS includes a brief history of U.S. immigration policy and politics and analyzes its impact on global transmigration in the post- 9/11 world. CROSSING BORDERS explores the reasons for and dangers involved in border crossings by Latinas into the United States. NEW BORDERS reflects on the challenges and triumphs for Latinas once they have reached their new homeland and what it means to cross ‘borders’.
Offered: MWF 2pm
Instructors: Patricia Nichols
Spanish 121-1 Intermediate Spanish
Course Description: 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: 101-3, 115-2, or Spanish Language Placement Exam
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Course Coordinator: Jill Felten
Offered: MWF 8am, 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm
Instructors: Stewart Adams, Asha Nagaraj, Lidia Aguilera Lora, Jill Felten, Tasha Seago-Ramaly, Chyi Chung, Maria Moran, Raquel Amorese, Nelida Aubeneau, Joel Colom-Mena, and Shannon Millikin.
Spanish 125-0 Accelerated Intermediate Spanish
Course Description: 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; First class required
Offered: MWF 8am, 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm
Course Coordinator: Maria Teresa Villanueva
Instructors: Rifka Cook, Stewart Adams, Asha Nagaraj, and Maria Teresa Villanueva
Spanish 127-0 Accelerated Intermediate Spanish for Heritage Language Learners
Course Description: For heritage speakers. Communicative method. Further development of vocabulary, grammar, speaking and writing skills through readings and short films. Three class meetings per week. Offered in fall only.
Prerequisites: AP score of 3 or Spanish Language Placement Exam
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: MWF 1pm
Instructors: Maria Teresa Villanueva
Spanish 199-0 Language in Context: Contemporary Spain
Course Description: An introduction to the culture and sociopolitical issues of contemporary Spain in the basis for review of some problematic grammatical patterns and for skill-building in Spanish. Three class meetings a week.
Prerequisites: 121-3, 125-0, AP score of 4, or Spanish Language Placement Exam.
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: MWF 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm
Course Coordinator: Elena Lanza
Instructor: Heather Colburn, Maria Moran, and Elena Lanza
Spanish 201-0 Conversation on Human Rights: Latin America
Course Description: 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.
Prerequisites: 199 or Spanish Language Placement Exam.
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: MWF 10am
Course Coordinator: Patricia Nichols
Instructor: Patricia Nichols
Spanish 203-0 Individual and Society through Written Expression
Course Description: First course of a sequence that develops writing skills and structures through examination of the relationship between individual and society. Emphasizes textual analysis and development of descriptive, narrative and argumentative essays.
Prerequisites: 201, AP score of 5, or Spanish Language Placement Exam.
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: MWF 9am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 3pm
Course Coordinator: Elisa Baena
Instructor: Elisa Baena and Joel Colom-Mena
Spanish 204-0 Reading and Writing the Art of Protest
Course Description: 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.
Prerequisites: 203 or 207.
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: MWF 9am, 10am, 12pm
Course Coordinator: Denise Bouras
Instructors: Anna Diakow
Spanish 207-0 Spanish for Heritage Speakers
Course Description: For heritage speakers that emphasizes on writing, syntax, and formal modes of the language.
Prerequisites: Consent of department.
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: MWF 11am
Course Coordinator: Lidia Aguilera
Instructors: Lidia Aguilera
COURSES ON LITERATURE & CULTURE
Spanish 220-0 Introduction to Literary Analysis
Course Description: 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: 204 or AP 5 in Spanish Language AND Literature.
Offered: MWF 10am, 1pm
Instructor: Lucille Kerr and Casey Drosehn
Spanish 251-0 Literature in Spain since 1700
Course Description: This course surveys modern Spanish cultural production from 1700 to the present. We will study key literary and cinematic texts and place them in the context of larger aesthetic, social and political trends. Beyond an acquaintance with canonical works, our goal will be to explore how different writers and artists have sought to define the intellectual's role in society and Spain's place in the wider world.
Prerequisite: Span 220.
Offered: MWF 11am
Instructor: Elisa Marti-Lopez
Spanish 261-0 Literature in Latin America since 1888
Course Description: 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 Cortázar, Rubén Darío, Gabriel García Márquez, José Martí, Pablo Neruda, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska.
Prerequisite: Span 220.
Offered: MWF 12pm, TTh 12:30
Instructor: Casey Drosehn and Nathalie Bouzaglou
Spanish 321-0 Golden Age Drama
Course Description:This course offers a general panorama of drama during Spain’s sixteenth and seventeenth century Golden Age period. Throughout the course we will cover the plays of canonical dramatists who defined the “comedia nueva.” In reading the theatrical works of dramatists such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Calderón de la Barca, discussed will be the major themes during this era: the pastoral, the religious, the epic, and the myth of Don Juan.
Prerequisite: 1 course taken before or concurrently from 250, 251, 260, or 261.
Offered: TTh 11am
Instructor: Ana Baez
Spanish 331-0 Realism in Spain: The Problem of Representation
Course Description: Theories and practices of realist authors in modern Spanish and Catalan literature. Issues of literary representation and mimesis. Aesthetic and ideological foundations of realism in the 19th century and in 20th-century variants such as social realism, neorealism, surrealism, postmodern realism and documentarism.
Offered: MWF 2pm
Prerequisite: 1 course from 250, 251, 260, or 261.
Instructor: Elisa Marti-Lopez
Spanish 348-0 Readings in Latin American Short Fiction
Course Description: Some critics have suggested that the Latin American short story in the twentieth century might have made an even more significant contribution to world literature than the celebrated novels of the Boom (1960s- 1970s). For example, the argument goes, it is Jorge Luis Borges's short fiction that actually initiates the "new" narrative currents with which Latin American literature has become identified since the sixties. Likewise, one might argue that it is Julio Cortázar's short fiction--even more than his "revolutionary" novels--that will stand the test of time. Indeed, these and other well-known writers associated with the "género fantástico" (e.g., Horacio Quiroga, Luisa Valenzuela, Rosario Ferré) are among the "masters" of the Latin American short story who have taught us new ways to read and think about narrative more generally. Within the context of the Latin American tradition, we will focus on the short story as it has been written and theorized by Latin American writers, considering as well proposals from beyond the region and reading models offered by literary critics and theorists. Emphasis will be on close reading and analysis throughout the course.
Offered: TTh 9:30am
Prerequisite: 1 course from 250, 251, 260, or 261.
Instructor: Staff
PORTUGUESE-LANGUAGE COURSES
Portuguese 101-1 Elementary Portuguese
Course Description: Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese. Communicative approach. Development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, as well as the history and culture of Portuguese-speaking countries. Three class meetings a week.
Offered: MWF 11am,
Instructor: Ana Thome Williams
Portuguese 121-1 Intermediate Portuguese
Course Description: Based on the communicative approach, Port 121 helps students achieve an intermediate language level of proficiency through furthering development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of Brazilian Portuguese will continue to be developed through meaningful cultural contexts. The course also offers insights into the history and culture of the Portuguese speaking countries in Europe, Africa and America.
Offered: MWF 12pm
Instructor: Ana Thome Williams
Portuguese 201-0 Reading and Speaking
Course Description: This intermediate course is designed to expand mastery in reading and speaking Brazilian Portuguese through select cultural videos, readings of literary “crônicas", periodicals, and the Internet. This course counts toward the minor in Portuguese.
Prerequisite: PORT 111-3/112-3 (currently not offered), PORT 115-2, PORT 121-3 or placement test
Offered: MWF 2pm
Instructor: Ana Thome Williams