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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)
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. Student must pass 110 with a minimum grade of C for admission into 203 or 220. Three class hours a week plus two hours of tutorial. Every semester. (5 credits)
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 in the Portuguese language course 331. Three class hours a week plus tutorial. Fall semester. (4 credits)
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)
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. Student must pass 220 with a minimum grade of C for admission into any 300- or 400-level course. Three class hours per week plus two hours of tutorial. Every semester. (5 credits)
Primarily designed to improve oral communication and to strengthen the student's written proficiency and his or her awareness of grammar intricacies in relation to writing, it serves as a bridge to upper-level courses. Conversations and compositions are based on cultural and literary topics. Class activities vary according to the instructor but usually include five to fifteen minute presentations, interviews with native speakers, commentary on videos and movies, short stories, plays and short novels, writing strategies, and self-correction exercises. It often involves extensive reading appropriate to the level. Prerequisite: 204, 220, or consent of the instructor. Every semester. (4 credits)
(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 or consent of the instructor. Every semester. (4 credits)
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 or consent of instructor. Fall. (4 credits)
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 or consent of instructor. Every year. (4 credits)
NOTE: This course is cross-listed with Linguistics and is classified in Area 3 of the Hispanic Studies major.
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)
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 Jos\ae Zorrilla, Rosal\aia de Castro, Benito P\aerez Gald\aos, Emilia Pardo Baz\aan, Miguel de Unamuno, Ram\aon Mar\aia del Valle Include\aan, Jos\ae Ortega y Gasset, Luis Bu\tnuel, and Federico Garc\aia Lorca. Prerequisite: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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: 307 or consent of the instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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)
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Can a generation of writers raised on MTV and McDonald’s instead of Cien años de soledad speak about Latin American culture in an adequate manner? In this course we will discuss how present day Latin American cultural production, specifically the literature of the so-called McOndo Generation and of contemporary Brazilian writers, represents and, at the same time, interrogates traditional conceptions of national culture in Latin America. We will examine how globalization, neoliberalism and consumer culture have affected recent Latin American literary and cinematic productions and how these phenomena are resulting in a paradigm change in the articulations of cultural identities in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil and Mexico. In light of this, we will read recent fiction from several Latin American countries that no longer posit national belonging in terms of the utopian projects, which have prevailed in Latin America’s cultural discourse since colonial times, but rather as rituals of consumption and practices of postmodern tribalism. At the same time, we will also view films that portray the direct and indirect changes/challenges that globalization is creating in Latin America.
All the Brazilian texts will be read in English (or Spanish) translations. The Brazilian films will have English (or Spanish) subtitles. Texts in Portuguese will also be available in the original for students interested in reading them in Portuguese.
The class will also read theoretical texts that will complement the primary reading. Some of the main topics of study/discussion of this course will be:
Consumption and culture.
Globalization and culture.
Globalization and the transformation of civil society.
Globalization and the changing of the nation state.
Globalization/consumption and social inequality (and ensuing practices of violence).
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