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Winter 2017

Winter 2017 Undergraduate Course Schedule

Spanish-Language Courses

Courses on Literature & Culture 

Spanish 101-2 Elementary Spanish Spanish 220-0 Introduction to Literary Analysis
Spanish 105-6 First-Year Seminar *Spanish 223-0 Cervantes
Spanish 115-1 Accelerated Elementary Spanish Spanish 260-0 Literature in Latin America before 1888
Spanish 121-2 Intermediate Spanish Spanish 261-0 Literature in Latin America since 1888
Spanish 197-0 Language in Context: Latinos, Language and Culture Spanish 277-0 Introduction to Latina/o Literature
Spanish 199-0 Language in Context: Contemporary Spain Spanish 320-0 Golden Age Poetry and Prose

Spanish 201-0 Conversation on Human Rights: Latin America

Spanish 348-0 Readings in Latin American Short Fiction

Spanish 203-0 Individual and Society through Written Expression

Spanish 361-Latin America: Studies in Culture and Society

Spanish 204-0 Reading and Writing the Art of Protest

Spanish 395-0 Topics in Latin American, Latina and Latino, and/or Iberian Cultures

Spanish 205-0 Spanish for Professions: Health Care

Portuguese-Language Courses

 

Spanish 280-0 Introduction to Spanish Linguistics

Portuguese 101-2 Elementary Portuguese

Spanish 302-0 Advanced Grammar

Portuguese 115-1: Portuguese for Spanish Speakers

 Portuguese 121-2 Intermediate Portuguese
Portuguese 201-0 Reading and Speaking Portuguese
*Portuguese 380-0 Contemporary Brazil: Literature and Film

*Denotes class taught in English

SPANISH-LANGUAGE COURSES

Spanish 101-2 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: 101-1

Restrictions: No P/N; First class required

Course Coordinator: Susan Pechter

Offered: MWF 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm

Instructors: Benay Stein and Susan Pechter

Spanish 105-6 First-Year Seminar: 
Course Description: This seminar will examine the cultural legacy of the Jewish inhabitants of Spain. We will take an historical view of the Jews of Spain from the early Roman settlements to the 2014 announcement of citizenship for descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492. Alongside this historical analysis, we will look at the cultural production of the Judeo-Spanish population, including the poetry of Judah Ha-Levi (c. 1075-1141), narratives surrounding the 1492 Expulsion, and contemporary Ladino music.

Offered: TTh 11am-12:20pm

Instructors: Deborah Rosenberg

Spanish 115-1 Accelerated Elementary Spanish
Course DescriptionFor students with some previous experience in Spanish. Communicative method used for development of speaking, listening, conversation, and grammar skills in a cultural context. Three class meetings a week. Outside online video lab twice a week.

Prerequisites: Spanish Language Placement Exam

Restrictions: No P/N; First class required

Offered: MWF 8am, 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm

Coordinator: Heather Colburn

Instructors:  Rifka Cook, Heather Colburn, Reyes Moran, and Maria Teresa Villanueva

Spanish 121-2 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: SPAN 121-1

Restrictions: No P/N; First class required

Offered: MWF 8am, 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm

Course Coordinator: Jill Felten

Instructors: Stewart Adams, Asha Nagaraj, Jill Felten, Anna Diakow, Chyi Chung, Tasha Seago-Ramaly, Maria Moran, and Rachel Amorese

Spanish 197-0 Language in Context: Latinos, Language and Culture
Course Description: For heritage learners with prior formal training in Spanish. Introduction to socio-political and linguistic richness of contemporary Spanish speaking countries. Emphasis on writing, syntax, and formal modes of the language.

Prerequisites: Spanish heritage learners who have completed Spanish 121-3, Spanish 125-0, or Spanish 127-0. AP score of 4, or Spanish Language Placement Exam.

Restrictions: No P/N; First class required

Offered: MWF 1pm

Instructors: Staff

Spanish 199-0 Language in Context: Contemporary Spain
Course Description: 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: 121-3, 125-0, AP score of 4, or Spanish Language Placement Exam.

Restrictions: No P/N; First class required

Offered: MWF 9am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm

Course Coordinator: Elena Lanza

Instructor: 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 9am, 10am, 11am, 2pm

Course Coordinator: Patricia Nichols

Instructor: Patricia Nichols, Maria Moran

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, 12pm, 3pm

Course Coordinator: Elisa Baena

Instructor: Rifka Cook

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, 2pm

Course Coordinator: Denise Bouras

Instructors: Denise Bouras, Anna Diakow

Spanish 205-0 Spanish for Professions: Health Care
Course Description:
 An advanced course for developing communication skills in Spanish for health care purposes. Emphasis on language skills for the medical field, specialized terminology and vocabulary, and cultural nuances in the Spanish-speaking world.

Prerequisites: AP score of 5 or Spanish 201-0.

Restrictions: No P/N; First class required

Offered: MWF 12pm

Instructors: Maria Teresa Villanueva

Spanish 280-0 Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
Course Description: An introductory course designed to present students with an overview of the phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax and sociolinguistic and pragmatic elements specific to the Spanish language.

Prerequisite: Span 204 or equivalent

Restrictions: No P/N; First class required

Offered: MWF 11am

Instructor: Elisa Baena

Spanish 302-0 Advanced Grammar
Course Description: An advanced course designed to polish and improve language usage through in-depth study and development of grammar knowledge and skills, focusing on items most problematic for non-native speakers of Spanish. 

Prerequisite:Span 204 or equivalent

Restrictions: No P/N; First class required

Offered: MWF 1pm

Instructor: Elisa Baena

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 11am, TTh 2pm
Instructor: Nathalie Bouzaglou and Casey Drosehn

Spanish 223-0 Cervantes
Course Description: Taught in English. Introduction to Don Quixote and other selected works with attention to their impact on literature, the arts, film, and music.
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: 10am
Instructors: Dario Fernandez-Morera

Spanish 260-0 Literature in Spain before 1888
Course Description: Survey of pre-Hispanic, colonial, and romantic traditions in Latin America. Focus on authors and texts such as Popul Vuh, Cristóbal Colón, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and Martín Fierro.
Prerequisite: Span 220.
Offered: TTh 9:30am
Instructor: Casey Drosehn

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 10am
Instructor: Jorge Coronado

Spanish 277-0 Introduction to Latina/o Literature
Course Description: Survey of major writers and movements from Spanish colonial era to the present, covering a range of genres and ethnicities.
Prerequisite: None
Offered: TTh 11am
Instructor: Frances Aparicio

Spanish 320-0 Golden Age Poetry and Prose
Course Description: Major authors of the 17th century, including Garcilaso de la Vega, Fray Luis de León, and Santa Teresa de Jesús. Works by Cervantes other than Don Quixote.
Prerequisite: 1 course from 250, 251, 260, or 261.
Offered: MWF 12pm
Instructor: Dario Fernandez Morera

Spanish 348-0 Readings in Latin American Short Fiction
Course Description: If the short story since Poe has been the genre most closely tied to the fantastic, it is also the one most firmly rooted in the land, the one that draws most deeply from popular tradition and rural experience. In Latin America these two tendencies converge in the mid-twentieth century, when the short story becomes a privileged vehicle for representing an American reality assumed to be not uncontroversiallymagical or marvelous. In this course we will examine Latin American short fiction from the last century to study how it combines the fantastic with the earthly, history with myth, irony with critique. In particular we will explore how a text's narrative perspective individual, collective, unreliable, omniscient, etc. might complicate its aesthetic or ideological orientation. Readings include Borges, García Márquez, Rulfo, Poniatowska, Quiroga, Cortázar, Lydia Cabrera, David Toscana, César Aira and others.
Prerequisite: 1 course from 250, 251, 260, or 261.
Offered: TTh 11am
Instructor: Lucille Kerr

Spanish 361-0 Latin America: Stuides in Culture and Society
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 (e.g., Poe) and reading models offered by literary critics and theorists of narrative fiction and the fantastic. Where possible, film adaptations of works will be incorporated into discussion. Emphasis will be on close reading and analysis throughout the course.
Prerequisite: 220
Offered: TTh 12:30pm
Instructor: Dierdra Reber

Spanish 395-0 Topics in Latin American, Latina and Latino, and/or Iberian Cultures
Course Description: BODY FICTIONS in Latin American Culture. This seminar explores diverse representations of the body in Latin American Culture with a focus on the present moment. We will use fictional and theoretical texts, films, videos, music, cartoons, and visual artworks to examine different bodies, both canonical and marginalized, in direct relationship to their class, race, and sexuality. Goals of the course include: interrogating these bodies in a way that does not take the binary opposition of sex as fixed; questioning their mobility and materiality; and revealing the metaphors at work within them.
Prerequisite: 1 course from 250, 251, 260, or 261.
Offered: MWF 2pm
Instructor: Nathalie Bouzaglou

PORTUGUESE-LANGUAGE COURSES

Portuguese 101-2 Elementary Portuguese
Course Description: 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.
Offered: MWF 12pm
Instructor: Raquel Amorese

Portuguese 115-1: Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
Course Description: 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: AP 5 or equivalent on the Spanish Language Placement Exam.
Offered: MWF 11am, 1pm
Instructor: Ana Thome Williams

Portuguese 121-2 Elementary 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 10am
InstructorAna Thome Williams

Portuguese 201-0 Reading and Speaking Portuguese
Course Description: This course is designed to expand mastery in reading and speaking Brazilian Portuguese through select cultural videos, readings of literary cronicas, periodicals, and the Internet. 
Offered: MWF 2pm
InstructorAna Thome Williams

Portuguese 380-0 Contemporary Brazil: Literature and Film
Course Description: Taught in English. 
Brazil’s film history is one of the richest in Latin America; in this course, we will follow its interwoven threads of experimental film, comedy, documentary social cinema, and narrative film, tracing their persistent thematic links that define nation, politics, and culture from the early twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries.  Working through the decades, we will begin with silent film of the 1930s and the chanchada (slapstick comedy) that would become prolific in the 1940s, moving into the 1950s as a liminal space between this early entertainment-oriented cinematic production and the more political Cinema Nôvo of the 1960s in which foreign influence is particularly salient in the form of Italian Neorealism, the French “Nouvelle Vague” (“New Wave”), and a European gaze on Brazilian culture.  As we will see, Cinema Nôvo portrays Brazilian poverty and social injustice in epic archetypal terms; in the following years, filmmakers focus increasingly on the gritty realities of the street, first in the narrative form of avant-garde Cinema da Boca do Lixo (“garbage” film), followed by a surge in documentary attention to homelessness, indigence, violence, and crime.  The so-called “Retomada” of the 1990s put Brazilian film back on the international festival circuit, with thematics that blend narrative drama and documentary social realism.  We will focus especially on how the tendency toward social diagnostics is a constant of Brazilian film from its earliest years through to the present moment; we will frame our analysis throughout the course with the culturally canonical ideas articulated in legendary modernist writer Oswald de Andrade’s “manifesto antropófago” (cannibalist manifesto; 1928) and iconic Cinema Nôvo director Glauber Rocha’s “estética da fome” (aesthetics of hunger; 1965), complementing our own direct critical engagement with the films with essays by Randal Johnson, Robert Stam, Franthiesco Ballerini, and Peter Rist, among other prominent Brazilian film critics. 
Offered: TTh 3:30pm
Instructor: Dierdra Reber