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Hispanic and Latin American StudiesCOURSES 101, 102 ELEMENTARY SPANISH I AND II Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week plus one hour of tutorial. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. Prerequisites: for 101 there is no prerequisite. For admission into 102, students must have completed Hispanic Studies 101, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C–. Every semester. (4 credits, each course) 110 ACCELERATED BEGINNING SPANISH Accelerated Spanish 110 meets the goals of Elementary Spanish I and II (101 and 102) in one semester. It covers pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. This course is appropriate for students with significant prior experience in Spanish or another appropriate language and for students who are highly self-motivated and able to learn foreign languages quickly. Successful completion allows enrollment in Intermediate Spanish. Students will not receive credit for this course if they’ve previously taken or been awarded credit for Hispanic Studies 101 and/or 102. Registration in the course is contingent on instructor’s approval. Three class hours a week plus two hours of tutorial. For admission into 203 or 220, students must have completed Hispanic Studies 110, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C. Every semester. (5 credits) 111 ACCELERATED ELEMENTARY PORTUGUESE See listings for Portuguese at the end of this section. 203, 204 INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I AND II Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. Prerequisites: for admission into 203, students must have completed 102, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C–. For admission into 204, students must have completed 203, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C–. Every semester. (4 credits, each course) 220 ACCELERATED INTERMEDIATE SPANISH Accelerated Spanish 220 meets the goals of Intermediate Spanish I and II (203 and 204) in one semester. It extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish, and it introduces the history and culture of Hispanophone countries. This course is appropriate for students with significant prior experience in Spanish and for students who are highly self-motivated and able to learn foreign languages quickly. Successful completion allows enrollment in 300-level courses in Spanish. Students will not receive credit for this course if they’ve previously taken or been awarded credit for 203 and/or 204. Registration in the course is contingent on instructor’s approval. Three class hours per week plus two hours of tutorial. For admission into any Hispanic Studies 300- or 400-level course, students must have completed Hispanic Studies 220, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C. Every semester. (5 credits) 305 VISIONS OF THE HISPANIC WORLD: ORAL AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION This course is the required foundational course for all majors and minors in Hispanic Studies. It is intended to develop critical thought, improve oral communication and strengthen written proficiency in order to prepare students for advanced written and oral assignments in upper-level courses. A variety of readings, film, and other media will be used as the point of departure for conversations and writing assignments. This course includes four formal essays ranging from 2 to 10 pages in length and will be designated to fulfill the General Education writing requirement. Prerequisite: 204, 220, or consent of the instructor. Every semester. (4 credits) 307 INTRODUCTION TO THE ANALYSIS OF HISPANIC TEXTS (Same as Latin American Studies 307) This course presents the student with some basic tools for the systematic analysis of a broad range of topics and forms of cultural production (literature, cinema, art, e-texts...) in the Hispanic world. It also seeks to develop advanced language skills in composition and presentation. Prerequisite: 305. Every semester. (4 credits) 308 LOCATING U.S. LATINO STUDIES: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES By 2003, individuals of Latin American descent living in the United States numbered approximately 38 million, constituting the country’s largest “minority” group. In this course, we will study the interdisciplinary field of contemporary U.S. Latino Studies that has emerged in response to this growing population. Here we will trace the fundamental questions and concerns within Latina/o Studies, ranging from the field’s activist origins in the Chicano and Puerto Rican movements of the 1960s and 70s to its current emphasis on pan-Latino, comparative, and “new Latino” avenues of inquiry. For example, what is a U.S. Latina/o? What is U.S. Latina/o Studies, and how is it different from (and similar to) Latin American Studies? Where does U.S. Latina/o Studies “belong” in institutions of higher learning? In addition to these questions regarding the academic location of U.S. Latina/o Studies, in this class you will learn to describe the main demographic features of the various U.S. Latino communities and compare each group’s unique (im)migration history, settlement patterns, and transnational activities. Finally, we will devote a significant portion of the course to a broader discussion of U.S. Latina/o identity as it relates to questions of class, race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and national origins. Prerequisite: 305. Every semester. (4 credits) 309 INTRODUCTION TO HISPANIC LINGUISTICS (Same as Linguistics 309) A linguistic survey of the Spanish language aimed at improving pronunciation and increasing comprehension of the structure of the language, deepening students’ understanding of the sound system, word formation, grammar and meaning. Study will emphasize phonetics and provide an introduction to transcription, phonology, morphology and syntax, as well as provide an overview of linguistic change and geographic variation. Prerequisite: 305. Every semester. (4 credits) 331 LUSO-BRAZILIAN VOICES: CONVERSATION AND COMPOSITION See listings for Portuguese at the end of this section. Area 1: Origins and Beginnings 414 HERE AND THERE: SUPERANDO LÍMITES/CROSSING BOUNDARIES Living an identity that is multipositional is a familiar reality for many people in the 21st century. The seventeenth century in the Hispanic world reveals surprisingly diverse and complex societies in which literature—and sometimes life itself—provided a space for trying on different social clothes, so to speak, in an exploration of early modern identity. This course will allow students to enjoy prose, drama, poetry and historiography from both Spain and Spanish America and to witness how writers from both sides of the Atlantic were pushing aesthetic and societal limits of religion, ethnicity and gender in their writing. We will be viewing Baroque art from Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and colonial Mexico and Peru, and will also read some pertinent critical perspectives that will help enrich our readings of the literature. To bring the plays to life, students will select fragments of dramas to “rescript” and perform for their classmates. Prerequisite: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 415 CULTURAL RESISTANCE AND SURVIVAL: INDIGENOUS AND AFRICAN PEOPLES IN EARLY SPANISH AMERICA (Same as Latin American Studies 415) In the Old World, Spain defined its national identity by locating its “others” in Jews, conversos, Muslims, moriscos, Turks, gypsies, pirates and Protestants. In the New World, Spaniards employed many of the same discursive and legal tactics—along with brute force—to subject Amerindian and African peoples to their will and their cultural norms. But indigenous and African populations in the Americas actively countered colonization. They rejected slavery and cultural imposition through physical rebellion, the use of strategies of cultural preservation and the appropriation of phonetic writing, which they in turn wielded against European hegemony. We will examine a fascinating corpus of indigenous pictographic codexes, architecture, myths, and histories and letters of resistance, along with a rich spectrum of texts in which peoples of African descent affirm their own subjectivity in opposition to slavery and cultural violence. What will emerge for students is a complex, heterogeneous vision of the conquest and early colonization in which non-European voices speak loudly on their own behalf. Prerequisite: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 416 MAPPING THE NEW WORLD: EXPLORATION, ENCOUNTERS AND DISASTERS (Same as Latin American Studies 416) Europeans were by no means the first peoples to explore new territories and human populations. Renaissance scientific methodology, however, led European travelers to meticulously document each New World encounter in writing and develop new tools with which to navigate and represent space, devices that subsequently became weapons of colonial domination. But as Nature and indigenous populations refused to be subjected to European epistemology, failure and disaster were frequent events: shipwrecks left Old World survivors stranded among unknown lands and peoples in the Americas; Amerindians rejected the imposition of a foreign culture and religion, murdering colonists and missionaries; Africans rebelled against slavery and escaped to mountains and jungles to form autonomous communities. An examination of maps, exploration logs, missionary histories, travel literature, historiography and colonial documents will provide the foundation for this course on the ambivalent reality of the Old World’s encounter with the Americas, in which Europeans were often the losers. Prerequisite: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 417 EL QUIJOTE AS TIMELESS TEXT Miguel de Cervante’s El ingenioso Don Quijote de la Mancha is one of the most beloved and influential literary texts in all of world literature. In this course, students will not only engage in a careful and delightful reading of the entire text, but will also examine limitations and literary creations inspired through time by the classic. In order to understand how Quijote was received according to historical moment, we will explore critical perspectives on the text from across the centuries. Students will enjoy myriad artistic representations of Don Quijote and view and critique contemporary musical and filmic productions inspired by the text. Prerequisite: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 418 ACTING OUT: THE COMEDIA ACROSS THE ATLANTIC As Spain was experiencing its Golden age in literature and art, the Spanish American colonies were undertaking their own artistic flourishing in architecture, literature and the visual arts in what is known as the Barroco de Indias. In this course, students will learn about Baroque poetics and aesthetics through an exploration of verse as well as the visual, artistic representation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Once these foundational pieces are in place, we will become comediantes, or an acting troupe, reading and analyzing select comedias, or plays, from both sides of the Atlantic and acting them out in what we as a group deem the most appropriate representation of the dramatic piece. We will design/invent our own costumes and sets—at times in minimalist, symbolic ways—and rescript dialogue to create meaning for a contemporary audience. In our contemplation of performance and society, we will discuss the cultural and political implications of theater for contemporary Hispanic populations. If our performances are up to snuff, we may take one “on the road” for the Mac community. Prerequisites: 307 or permission of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 419 “NEITHER SAINTS NOR SINNERS”: WOMEN WRITERS OF THE EARLY MODERN HISPANIC WORLD Sixteenth and seventeenth century women writers were in constant dialogue with their male counterparts and dedicated much of their energy to debunking myths of female purity, passivity and ignorance. To this end, they created female protagonists of great strength and integrity. Exploring themes such as life in the convent, the mujer varonil and the mujer vestida de hombre, we will look at many peninsular as well as New World women authors who were busy challenging both social and aesthetic norms in their writing. Prerequisites: 307 or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) AREA 2: Modern Hispanic Voices 420 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PLENITUDE: MODERN AND POSTMODERN HISPANIC FICTION The rise of modern fiction produced a series of remarkable novels in Latin America and Spain all throughout the 20th century and into the present. The course will focus primarily on the Latin American “Boom” from the 1960s on. We will also study the appearance and enduring presence of postmodernism in Hispanic fiction. The course refines the analysis of literary works from a variety of perspectives (historical, political, social, ethical, aesthetic, etc.) and provides a comprehensive view of the evolution of Hispanic narrative from the dawn of modernity to the present. It targets those students who enjoy literature and believe in the pleasure of the text. Prerequisite: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 421 ROMANTICS, MODERNS AND AVANT-GARDISTS The course offers a panorama of Spanish culture from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the Civil War in 1936. It focuses on the evolution of literature and the arts during the periods of Romanticism, Realism, Modernism and the Avant-Garde, in an attempt to describe the faces of modernity in Spain. Authors that are usually studied include José Zorrilla, Rosalía de Castro, Benito Pérez Galdós, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Miguel de Unamuno, Ramón María del Valle Includeán, José Ortega y Gasset, Luis Buñuel, and Federico García Lorca. Prerequisite: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 422 MODERN HISPANIC NOVEL AND THE VISUAL ARTS The course offers an interdisciplinary approach to narrative that focuses on the cooperation between the written and the visual text. One example of this cooperation is how nineteenth-century painting influenced the novel. Another example deals with cinematic adaptations of narratives. We also consider the perennial dilemma of literal versus personal interpretation. Prerequisite: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 423 CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN THEATER A study of representative plays from diverse authors and periods of contemporary Latin American theater, including student production and performance. Students read the scripts of plays alert for how they convey emotion, thought and meaning, and for how they might look and sound on a real stage with live actors, costumes, sets, props, lights, and sounds. Prerequisite: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 424 HISPANIC POETRY AND SONG For centuries poetry has been used across all levels of Hispanic societies to explore the power of words to shape individual and national consciousness. The course examines the tradition of Hispanic poetry including the poetic tendencies from Modernism, to the Avant-Garde, to the poetry of social protest. Prerequisite: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 425 DICTATORS, REVOLUTIONS AND INSURRECTIONS The course explores modern Hispanic cultural production in response to dictators, revolutions, and socio-political repression. Students read a variety of contemporary authors and analyze how they represent social realities in discourse that reflects and informs societal changes. Prerequisite: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 426 PARODY IN THE POSTMODERN HISPANIC WORLD Western societies and literary traditions use parody to measure, shape, and change cultural values and identities. Parody is considered to be an amorphous genre that adapts itself and evolves in time, along with the cultural environments in which it exists. This course offers students the opportunity to examine the concept of parody and its application to specific narrative texts produced in the Hispanic world during its postmodern era. Texts examined include fiction and non-fiction, cinematic, and other multimedia arts. Prerequisite: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) AREA 3: Language, Linguistics and Community 430 ADVANCED SPANISH GRAMMAR: MEANING AND COMMUNICATION An overview of the intricacies of advanced Spanish grammar, providing extensive oral and written practice to improve students’ grammatical accuracy as well as their overall understanding of the structure of the language. Prerequisite: 305 or 309 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 431 SPANISH IN THE WORKPLACE The course provides the student with a working knowledge of the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures as related to the bilingual workplace in the United States and abroad. Emphasis is placed on such fields as health care and medicine, legal matters and law enforcement, social services, and business. Students pursue individual interests in specific career areas with a service learning component. Prerequisite: 305 or 309 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 433 TRANSLATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE This discussion/writing course explores certain contemporary translation theories that guide the practice of translation of various kinds of texts, including, but not limited to, literature, film, propaganda, advertising, and commerce. The primary goal, however, is to produce high quality translations of a wide variety of texts. Students work in Spanish and/or Portuguese and English. Prerequisite: 305 or 309 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 435 HISTORY OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE (Same as Linguistics 435) An overview of Modern Spanish as it has developed over time. Course will trace the historical evolution of the most salient phonological, morpho-syntactic and lexical traits of Modern Spanish and will include study of the origins of American Spanish. Students will also be introduced to some of the principal theories of language change. Prerequisite: 309 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 436 SPANISH DIALECTOLOGY (Same as Linguistics 436 and Latin American Studies 436) A survey of modern dialectal variations of Spanish that includes examination of American Spanish dialects as well as those of the Iberian Peninsula. Sociolinguistic issues and historical aspects of dialect variation and study will be addressed, along with other extralinguistic factors. Through this course, students will be provided an introduction to theories of language change, as well as the history of the language, and will gain a broad understanding of the different varieties of Modern Spanish. Prerequisite: 309 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 437 APPLIED LINGUISTICS: SPANISH SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (Same as Linguistics 437) An overview of research projects on the acquisition of Spanish as a second language. Students will learn about the theoretical approaches used in these studies as well as the effects of various pedagogical approaches on the development of Spanish interlanguage systems. While the focus of the course is on the acquisition of Spanish as a second language, students will gain a broad and useful understanding of different pedagogical issues directly related to the acquisition/learning process(es) of other second languages. Prerequisite: 309 or consent of instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) AREA 4: Hispanic Peoples and Cultures: Interdisciplinary Approaches 440 THEORIZING CONTEMPORARY U.S. LATINO POPULAR CULTURE Via critical analysis of select musical and media texts, students investigate the primary approaches to the study of U.S. Latino popular expression and identity. A broad range of contemporary Cultural Studies theory is included in this analysis of the historical, socio-political, and artistic uses of popular culture within various U.S. Latino communities. Prerequisite: 308 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 441 HISPANIC FILM AND OTHER MEDIA The course views feature films, documentaries, and other media from Spain, Latin America, and the U.S. from cultural, political, and linguistic perspectives. We will examine various strategies of film analysis through lectures, discussions, projects, and presentations. Themes include political struggles, human rights, race, class, gender, family, and identity. Prerequisite: 307 or 308 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 442 NATION AND IDENTITY IN THE HISPANIC WORLD An examination of the origins and issues surrounding the formation and the evolution of nation-building in Spain, Latin America, and the U.S. Past and current movements and allegiances are seen through the writings of key political, social, and philosophical authors. Such issues as regional autonomy in Spain, indigenous initiatives in Latin America, the Chicano movement in the U.S., trade agreements, etc., are considered from early colonization through imperial expansion to present-day globalization. Prerequisite: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 443 THE REALITY OF CONTEMPORARY SPAIN: CHALLENGES AND DILEMMAS This course presents an overview of the evolution of life in Spain since the death of Franco, through the socialist period and Spain’s entry into the European Union until today. Art, music, literature and film will serve as the basis for lectures and discussions of some of Spain’s current challenges and achievements, namely unemployment, immigration, language and identity, terrorism, and the impact of the Euro on the economy and on everyday life. Prerequisite: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 444 THE FAMILY AS HISTORY: THE STORIES OF U.S. LATINOS (Same as American Studies 444 and Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies 444) The course will examine and compare the stories of Latinas/os in the U.S. as told by themselves. Students will read authors of Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and Mexican-American origin. We will place a special emphasis on practices and values held both here and in the cultures of origin. The course will cover such subjects as family, social and economic struggles, individual aspirations and spiritual needs. The course will highlight language issues and use film to complement the readings. Prerequisite: 307 or 308 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits) 445 LATINOS IN/AND THE MEDIA As scholars of U.S. Latinos Studies have long noted, the media plays a key role in the construction of transnational identity. As such, this interdisciplinary course will examine the following: How do Latinos construct identity (and have their identity/ies constructed for them) through the media? How are Latino community practices shaped by the media, and vice versa? What research methodologies best capture the complex relationship between consumer, producer, and media text? Where do issues of consumer agency come into play? Do local and global media provide the possibility for meaningful social change? If so, how? In keeping with Latino Studies’ emphasis on collaborative and community-based learning processes, this 4-credit course requires an additional 2-credit internship with the St. Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN), an organization aimed at providing access to television and video facilities for area residents engaged in community-oriented projects. During their SPNN internship, student teams will be involved in creating Spanish-language programming serving the Twin Cities Latino population. Course meetings outside of SPNN will be conducted in Spanish (6 credits total). Prerequisite: 308 or permission of the instructor. Alternate years. Uncategorized Courses 488 CAPSTONE SEMINAR The capstone seminar is a course that explores in depth a shifting field of topics. It helps students relate the subjects they have studied in their major field and assists students in demonstrating their familiarity with Hispanic cultures and in methods of analysis and presentation, culminating in the preparation and presentation of a major research project. It is primarily a discussion course that relies heavily on individual as well as collective effort. Required for Hispanic Studies majors. Category varies. Prerequisite: 307 plus at least two 400-level courses offered in the department of Hispanic Studies or consent of the instructor. Every spring. (4 credits) 604 TUTORIAL Category varies. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. (1–4 credits) 614 INDEPENDENT PROJECT Category varies. Not available to substitute regularly offered courses. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. (1–4 credits) 624 INTERNSHIP Category 3. Prerequisites: four courses in Hispanic studies numbered 204 or above and consultation with the instructor. (1–4 credits) 634 PRECEPTORSHIP Preceptorships give students the opportunity to observe and practice teaching skills. Available to highly accomplished students. Most require some background reading and training in foreign language teaching. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. (1–4 credits) Portuguese Courses 111 ACCELERATED PORTUGUESE Intensive instruction in speaking, understanding, reading, and writing Portuguese. Brazilian usage emphasized. This course is appropriate for students who are highly self-motivated and able to learn foreign languages quickly. These students must have high intermediate to advanced skills in Spanish or another Romance language or previous work in Portuguese. Exceptions to these guidelines may be made with the instructor’s approval. Successful completion allows enrollment in the Portuguese language course 331. Three class hours a week plus tutorial. Every semester. (4 credits) 331 LUSO-BRAZILIAN VOICES: CONVERSATION AND COMPOSITION Contemporary Brazil and Portugal are sites of profound and exciting cultural expression and social change. Luso-Brazilian Voices explores some of the socio-political pressures that have led to a modern renaissance in writing, popular music, cinema, as well as the fusion of genres made possible by today’s digital technologies. A systematic review of these cultural expressions provides the context for students to practice and refine their oral and written Portuguese skills. Taught in Portuguese. Successful completion of this course satisfies the Macalester College two-year foreign language requirement and can be applied toward the major/minor in Hispanic Studies. Prerequisite: either 111 or its equivalent and instructor’s permission. Three class hours per week plus tutorial. Every year. (4 credits)
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