Winter 2018
Winter 2018 Undergraduate Course Schedule
*Denotes class taught in English
SPANISH-LANGUAGE COURSES
Spanish 101-2 Elementary Spanish
Course Description: For students who have never studied Spanish or studied Spanish less than two years in high school. Communicative method. Development of speaking, listening, conversation, and grammar skills in a cultural context.
Prerequisites: 101-1
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Course Coordinator: Susan Pechter
Offered: MWF 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm
Instructors: Susan Pechter, Raquel Amorese, Benay Stein, Carlos Halaburda, Alicia Nunez
Spanish 115-1 Accelerated Elementary Spanish
Course Description: For students with some previous experience in Spanish. Communicative method used for development of speaking, listening, conversation, and grammar skills in a cultural context. Offered winter and spring.
Prerequisites: Spanish Language Placement Exam
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: MWF 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm
Coordinator: Heather Colburn
Instructors: Heather Colburn, Nelida Aubeneau, Reyes Moran, Joel Colom-Mena, Maria Teresa Villanueva, Leonardo Gil Gomez, Johan Gotera
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.
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, Zorimar Rivera Montes, Jill Felten, Asha Nagaraj, Tasha Seago-Ramaly, Lidia Aguilera, Raquel Amorese, Nelida Aubeneau, Chyi Chung, Shannon Millikin, Joel Colom-Mena, Catalina Rodriguez, Reyes Moran
Spanish 197-0 Language in Context: Latinos, Language and Culture
Course Description: For heritage learners that introduces the socio-political and linguistic richness of Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. Offered in winter only.
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: Lidia Aguilera
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.
Prerequisites: 121-3, 125-0, AP score of 4, or Spanish Language Placement Exam.
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: MWF 10am, 11am, 2pm
Course Coordinator: Elena Lanza
Instructor: Elena Lanza
Spanish 201-0 Conversation on Human Rights: Latin America
Course Description: First course of 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 12pm, 2pm, 3pm
Course Coordinator: Patricia Nichols
Instructor: Patricia Nichols
Spanish 203-0 Individual and Society through Written Expression
Course Description: First course of 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: 201, AP score of 5, or Spanish Language Placement Exam.
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: MWF 9am, 10am
Course Coordinator: Elisa Baena
Instructor: 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: Anna Diakow
Instructors: Anna Diakow
Spanish 205-0 Spanish for Professions: Health Care
Course Description: Advanced course to develop communication skills in Spanish for health care purposes. Emphasis on language skills for the medical field, specialized terminology and vocabulary, and cultural nuances. Offered in winter only.
Prerequisites: AP score of 5 or Spanish 201-0.
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: MWF 12pm
Instructors: Maria Teresa Villanueva
Spanish 206-0 Spanish for Professions: Business
Course Description: Advanced course for developing communication skills in Spanish for business purposes. Emphasis on language skills for the global marketplace: specialized terminology; writing; comprehension of cultural nuances in the Spanish-speaking business world.
Prerequisites: AP score of 5 or Spanish 201-0.
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: MWF 10am
Instructors: Benay Stein
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 Spanish language. Offered in winter only.
Prerequisite: Span 204 or equivalent
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: MWF 1pm
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. Offered in winter only.
Prerequisite:Span 204 or equivalent
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: MWF 11am
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: Ana Baez, Casey Dorsehn
Course Description: This course is taught in English. Introduction to Don Quijote and other selected works, with attention to the historical and cultural context of the 17th century. Why did Dostoevsky call Don Quixote "the final and greatest utterance of the human mind," and Cervantes "the great poet and seer of the human heart"? Why did George Washington buy a Don Quixote on the same date the U.S. Constitution was approved and keep the book on his library's table? Why has Cervantes impacted film, art, music and language so deeply? How does Don Quixote examine Historical and Religious issues (the sixteenth and seventeenth century struggle between Christianity and Islam), Philosophy (Does human freedom exist?), Politics (What is a Just War?), Economics (Is government intervention in the market beneficial?) and the nature and value of literature? Why has Don Quixote been voted by both critics and novelists as the most important work of fiction ever written? Join teaching-award winner professor Dario Fernandez-Morera to try to answer these and other questions in a course open to all students.
Restrictions: No P/N; First class required
Offered: MWF 10am
Instructors: Dario Fernandez-Morera
Spanish 250-0 Literature in Spain before 1700
Course Description: Survey of the origins of the Spanish language and the development of Spanish literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the end of the Spanish Golden Age. Study of representative figures and major literary developments in conjunction with religious, political, and cultural history.
Prerequisite: Span 220
Offered: MWF 12pm
Instructor: Dario Fernandez-Morera
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: TTh 2pm
Instructor: Nathalie Bouzaglo
Spanish 345-0 Reading the "Boom"
Course Description: In this course we will focus on the Latin American “Boom,” the literary, cultural, and commercial phenomenon of the 1960s and 1970s that internationalized Latin American literature--primarily the “new” Latin American narrative. The Boom inaugurated what some critics called a “revolutionary writing” that not only challenged literary practices from the first half of the 20th century but also generated a parallel boom of critical writing about Latin American literature and writers. Our materials will therefore include both literary works and scholarly essays: Carlos Fuentes’s La muerte de Artemio Cruz (1962) and Manuel Puig’s Boquitas pintadas (1969), which represent different trends in Boom narrative; (selections from) José Donoso’s Historia personal del boom (1972), which presents a Boom author’s behind-the-scenes version of literary events and personal relationships; critical essays about the Boom in general and about Fuentes’s and Puig’s novels specifically. Background materials will include filmed interviews with authors and two feature-length films, one a thematic and technical source for La muerte de Artemio Cruz and the other an adaptation of Boquitas pintadas. Throughout the course we will read texts closely, paying attention to problems of genre and the interconnections between narrative technique and thematic material.
Prerequisite: 1 course from 250, 251, 260, or 261.
Offered: TTh 11am
Instructor: Lucille Kerr
Spanish 361-0 Latin America: Studies in Culture and Society
Section 1
Course Description: Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History
One of the most engaging ways to explore the complex relationship between national and global culture is through the medium of film. This course offers students a comparative cultural history of Latin American cinema, focusing on key moments from the early 20th-century to the present. We will be paying close attention to how film production in Latin America has historically responded to the tension between the construction of national identities on the one hand, and on the other, the significant--at times overwhelming--influence of Hollywood and European art films. During the first half of the quarter, we will be analyzing silent films, musicals, film noir, surrealist cinema, and adventure films; in the second half, we will study contemporary films from Mexico and the Southern Cone. However, while we will be focusing on these regions, throughout the quarter we will also be referencing influential non-Latin American films in order to better understand how, from the 1920s to the present day, Latin American filmmakers (and their audiences) engaged with and selectively appropriated elements from Hollywood and European cinematic productions.
Prerequisite: 220
Offered: MWF 2:00pm
Instructor: Casey Drosehn
Section 2
Course Description: Contemporary Art and Visual Culture of the Caribbean
This seminar course on contemporary art and visual culture of the Hispanic Caribbean explores how the region has been represented and imagined from the early twentieth century to the present. Interdisciplinary in nature, this course pays particular attention to the role of certain political and historical events in shaping visual production and effecting the dissemination of certain types of images. We will explore visual, literary, political and historical texts such as the artwork by Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera and films such as Arte de hacer ruinas (Cuba), La ciudad perdida (Puerto Rico), En el tiempo de las mariposas (Dominican Republic) and Memorias del subdesarrollo (Cuba). From this course students can expect to gain an understanding of how the Caribbean has been represented in contemporary art and visual culture and how a more nuanced approach to these representations can help us gage their social contributions.
Prerequisite: 220
Offered: TTh 12:30pm
Instructor: Ana Baez
Spanish 397-0 Topics in Latin American, Latina and Latino, and/or Iberian Cultures
Course Description:The Crisis of Marriage in Brazilian, Portuguese and Lusophone African Fiction. In this course, we will look at representations of marriage, adultery and polygamy in literary works, movies, and photographs from Lusophone countries from the 19th to the 21st century. Starting with a discussion of Gustave Flaubert’s classic novel of adultery Madame Bovary (1856), we will raise several questions: how did writers associate reading and cheating? How did letters become an important agent in the keeping and revealing of secrets and forbidden affairs? How did the institution of marriage change in response to the growing demands for women’s rights? Finally, how does literature create and criticize fantasies of love, desire and consumption? To answer these questions, we will read novels by Eça de Queiroz, Machado de Assis, and Paulina Chiziane. Other writers may include Clarice Lispector, Mia Couto, Jorge Amado, Sophia de Mello, and Rubem Fonseca. The course will move from a specific focus on the impact of Madame Bovary in different cultures, particularly on how writers from countries such as Portugal and Brazil responded to the classic novel, to larger questions about representations of women, marriage, and sexuality in literature. Students will practice close reading and interdisciplinary methodologies, exercising comparative approaches between texts or different media. All the assigned readings will be in English, but students with familiarity with other languages, such as French and Portuguese, are encouraged to read the texts in their original languages.
Offered: TTh 9:30
Instructor: Cintia Vezzani
PORTUGUESE-LANGUAGE COURSES
Portuguese 101-2 Elementary Portuguese
Course Description: Development of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and grammar skills in Brazilian Portuguese, as well as the history and culture of Portuguese-speaking countries.
Offered: MWF 11am
Instructor: Ana Thome Williams
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 4 or equivalent on the Spanish Language Placement Exam.
Offered: MWF 1pm
Instructor: Ana Thome Williams
Portuguese 121-2 Elementary Portuguese
Course Description: Based on the communicative approach, Port 121 course helps students to achieve the intermediate language level of proficiency through furthering development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Emphasis will be given to linguistic functions. 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
Portuguese 396-0 Topics in Lusophone Cultures
Course Description: The Crisis of Marriage in Brazilian, Portuguese and Lusophone African Fiction In this course, we will look at representations of marriage, adultery and polygamy in literary works, movies, and photographs from Lusophone countries from the 19th to the 21st century. Starting with a discussion of Gustave Flaubert's classic novel of adultery Madame Bovary (1856), we will raise several questions: how did writers associate reading and cheating? How did letters become an important agent in the keeping and revealing of secrets and forbidden affairs? How did the institution of marriage change in response to the growing demands for women's rights? Finally, how does literature create and criticize fantasies of love, desire and consumption? To answer these questions, we will read novels by Eça de Queiroz, Machado de Assis, and Paulina Chiziane. Other writers may include Clarice Lispector, Mia Couto, Jorge Amado, Sophia de Mello, and Rubem Fonseca. The course will move from a specific focus on the impact of Madame Bovary in different cultures, particularly on how writers from countries such as Portugal and Brazil responded to the classic novel, to larger questions about representations of women, marriage, and sexuality in literature. Students will practice close reading and interdisciplinary methodologies, exercising comparative approaches between texts or different media. All the assigned readings will be in English, but students with familiarity with other languages, such as French and Portuguese, are encouraged to read the texts in their original languages.
Offered: TTh 9:30am
Instructor: Cintia Vezzani