Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Description: Students develop ability to communicate in Spanish satisfactory in everyday situations. Classes primarily based on student interaction and students are expected to be active participants in process. No prior knowledge of Spanish is necessary. No credit for both SPAN 222 and 101.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Description: Continuation of SPAN 101. Students develop the ability to communicate satisfactorily in everyday situations. Classes based on student interaction and students are active participants in this process. Cannot receive credit for both SPAN 223 and SPAN 102. Recommended Pre-requisite: Result of Placement Test or SPAN 101 or SPAN 222 or Permission of Instructor. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SPAN 102 if student has credit for SPAN 262.

Long Title: ACCELERATED INTRODUCTORY SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Description: Accelerated Introductory Spanish course for students who have previously studied Spanish in high school. Review of SPAN 101 material followed by new material from SPAN 102. Students are active participants in developing abilities to communicate satisfactorily in everyday situations. Recommended Prerequisite: Placement Test or permission of instructor.

Long Title: HISPANIC ESSAY

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Readings in English from major modern Spanish and Latin-American essayists, including Miguel de Unamuno, Jose Ortega y Gassset, Maria Zambrano, Jose Marti, Jose Enrique Rodo, Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, Victoria Ocampo, Fernando Savater, Ariel Dorfman, Roger Bartra, et al. Close reading, discussion and short interpretive papers. Taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 152.

Long Title: DON QUIXOTE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The class will involve close reading and interpretation of Cervantes's immortal novel, "Don Quixote de la Mancha," voted "the best book of all time." Taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 153.

Long Title: MODERN LATIN AMERICAN ART: MEXICO IN THE MODERN AGE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines Latin American Art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the eras of independence and revolution. We will examine such topics as art and nationalist discourse; legitimation/appropriation of the past; gender; art, dictatorship and revolution; surrealism; indigenism and social realism; the politics of muralism; plus modernism and alternative modernisms. Taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 156.

Long Title: DANGEROUS LIAISONS/RELACIONES PELIGROSAS: THE COUNTERPOINT OF THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Team-taught by an historian and a cultural-critic, this seminar explores the exchanges and tensions between the U.S. and Latin America, from the early 19th century to the present day, aiming at connecting diverse narratives and presenting opposing perspectives through the counterpoint of documents, paintings, essays, and movies. Taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 157.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course immerses students into Caribbean and Latin American studies by introducing them to the history, society, politics, and culture of the region, through a cross-disciplinary and a multi-national approach. Taught in English. Open to all students. Cross-list: LASR 158.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 6

Description: Development of sociolinguistic and sociocultural knowledge in Spanish to communicate and interact with speakers of Spanish at a beginning level of competence. The course is based on a student-centered, critical-thinking approach to language analysis/acquisition. No prior knowledge of this language is necessary.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Intermediate level students increase Spanish proficiency and cultural awareness through learner-centered communicative activities and thoughtful processing of authentic materials. Credit may not be received for both SPAN 225 and SPAN 201. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Results of Placement Test or SPAN 102 or SPAN 105 or Permission of Instructor. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SPAN 201 if student has credit for SPAN 263.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This is a continuation of SPAN 201. Classes incorporate proficiency based instruction focused on expanding vocabulary and further developing cultural awareness and communicative skills. Credit may not be received for both SPAN 226 and SPAN 202. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Results of Placement Test or SPAN 201 or SPAN 225 or Permission of Instructor. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SPAN 202 if student has credit for SPAN 264.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I FOR BICULTURAL STUDENTS

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This course is intended for students who have been exposed to Spanish at home, through relatives and/or in the community and who wish to improve their confidence and fluency by expanding their formal knowledge of the language and of Hispanic cultures. Authentic materials such as short stories, poetry, films and articles will be used to develop reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Previous formal instruction is welcomed but not required. Prerequisite: Placement Test or Permission of Instructor.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH FOR BICULTURAL STUDENTS

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is for students who have been exposed to Spanish at home, through relatives and/or in the community and who wish to improve their confidence and intermediate fluency by expanding their formal knowledge of the language and of Hispanic cultures. Authentic materials such as short stories, poetry, films and articles will be used to develop reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Recommended Prerequisite(s): SPAN 201 or SPAN 203 or Placement Test or Permission of Instructor.

Long Title: AP/OTH CREDIT IN SPANISH LANGUAGE

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Transfer

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation. Credit may not be received for both SPAN 222 and SPAN 101 or SPAN 141

Long Title: AP/OTH CREDIT IN INTERMEDIAE SPANISH

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Transfer

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation. Credit may not be received for SPAN 226 and SPAN 202.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 6

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 101 OR SPAN 161 OR SPAN 222 or permission of instructor

Description: Development of sociolinguistic and sociocultural knowledge in Spanish to communicate and interact with speakers of Spanish at a low-intermediate level of competence. The course is based on a student-centered, critical-thinking approach to language analysis/acquisition. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SPAN 262 if student has credit for SPAN 102.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 102 OR SPAN 262 or placement test or permission of department

Description: Development of sociolinguistic and sociocultural knowledge in Spanish to communicate and interact with speakers of Spanish at an intermediate level of competence. The course is based on a student-centered, critical-thinking approach to language analysis/acquisition. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SPAN 263 if student has credit for SPAN 201.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE III

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 201 OR SPAN 224 OR SPAN 263 or placement test or permission of department

Description: Development of sociolinguistic and sociocultural knowledge in Spanish to communicate and interact with speakers of Spanish at an upper-intermediate level of competence. The course is based on a student-centered, critical-thinking approach to language analysis/acquisition. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for SPAN 264 if student has credit for SPAN 202.

Long Title: SPANISH LANGUAGE PLACEMENT TEST

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Score to Course Translation

Credit Hours: 0

Description: Students who took the Spanish Placement Test and place into SPAN 300 can register for any Spanish course at the 300 or 400 level EXCEPT SPAN 301 and SPAN 302. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: ADVANCED SPANISH I

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course aims to bring students from an intermediate towards an advanced level of proficiency in Spanish. Students will develop fluency and communicative competence through exposure to literary texts, newspaper and web articles, films and videos, in their cultural context. Emphasis will be on conversation strategies, vocabulary expansion and the writing of essays. Recommended Prerequisite(s) Results of Placement Test or SPAN 202 or SPAN 264 or Permission of Instructor.

Long Title: ADVANCED SPANISH II

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course aims to bring students from an intermediate towards an advanced level of proficiency in Spanish. Students will develop fluency and communicative competence through exposure to literary texts, newspaper and web articles, films and videos, in their cultural context. Emphasis will be on conversation strategies, vocabulary expansion and the writing of essays. Recommended Prerequisite: SPAN 301 or placement test or permission of instructor.

Long Title: ADVANCED SPANISH FOR BI-CULTURAL STUDENTS

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SPAN 303 aims to bring students to advanced proficiency in Spanish, enabling them to interact confidently in a wide variety of contexts, while providing them with cultural insights about the Hispanic world. It is designed for students who come with bi-cultural exposure and at least intermediate proficiency in Spanish. Recommended Prerequisite(s): SPAN 202 or SPAN 204, or SPAN 305, or SPAN 306 or SPAN 307 or SPAN 308 or SPAN 313 or SPAN 314 or Placement Test or Permission of Instructor.

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OF HISPANICS IN THE UNITED STATES

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The aim of this course is to achieve advanced level of proficiency. The course will explore issues of the cultural identity of Spanish speakers by studying Hispanic culture in the U.S. Based on the study of Hispanic culture in the U.S. from three different viewpoints: historical, literary, and sociolinguistic. Recommended Prerquisite(s): SPAN 202 or SPAN 204 or SPAN 303 or SPAN 305 or SPAN 306 or SPAN 307 or SPAN 308 or SPAN 313 or SPAN 314 or Placement Test or Permission of Instructor.

Long Title: COMMERCIAL SPANISH I

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 301 OR SPAN 302 OR SPAN 303 OR SPAN 304 OR SPAN 306 OR SPAN 307 OR SPAN 308 OR SPAN 313 OR SPAN 314 OR SPAN 315 OR SPAN 316 or permission of instructor

Description: This course will familiarize students with the world of business in Spanish through activities dealing with current socio-economic events in Latin America and Spain, commercial correspondence, cross cultural awareness and presentations. Supranational organizations in the area will be topic of a final project for the class. Placement Test Recommended.

Long Title: COMMERCIAL SPANISH II

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 301 OR SPAN 302 OR SPAN 303 OR SPAN 304 OR SPAN 307 OR SPAN 308 OR SPAN 313 OR SPAN 314 OR SPAN 315 OR SPAN 316 or permission of instructor

Description: Further development of SPAN 305 goals: vocabulary, concepts, language and cultural skills necessary to communicate successfully in the socio-economic and cultural milieu of contemporary Hispanic countries. A practical case of marketing will be the final project for the class. SPAN 305 is not required for the class. Placement Test Recommended.

Long Title: THE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 302 OR SPAN 303 OR SPAN 304 OR SPAN 305 OR SPAN 306 OR SPAN 313 OR SPAN 314 OR SPAN 315 OR SPAN 316 or permission of instructor

Description: Students will study major organ systems of the human body and learn terminology in Spanish in order to discuss these systems and the diseases that affect them. Students will also explore the differences between Anglo-American and Latin-American cultures of medicine and certain disease states. Placement Test Recommended.

Long Title: THE LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 302 OR SPAN 303 OR SPAN 304 OR SPAN 305 OR SPAN 306 OR SPAN 313 OR SPAN 314 OR SPAN 315 OR SPAN 316 or permission of instructor

Description: Students will continue to study major organ systems of the human body and apply their knowledge to the translation of patient education materials, case reports, and other clinical documents. Students have the opportunity to register for SPAN 310 as concurrent enrollment or after completing SPAN 308. Placement Test Recommended.

Long Title: SPANISH PRACTICAL PHONETICS

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will help students improve their Spanish pronunciation. Students will learn about specific problems that English speakers have in learning to produce Spanish sounds, and the influence of English on the pronunciation of Spanish. We will discuss regional Spanish pronunciation found in different countries. Students will describe Spanish sounds and write phonetic transcriptions of spoken Spanish using the phonetic alphabet. Taught in Spanish. Recommended Prerequisite(s): SPAN 202 or SPAN 301 or SPAN 302 or permission of instructor.

Long Title: THE LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE PRACTICUM

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 307

Description: This is an internship or observership in Clinical Medical interpreting with our partner institutions in the Medical Center. Students are required to volunteer service under the supervision of hospital physicians/staff. 40 clock hours of service earns the 1 academic credit; 80 hours earns 2 credits; 120 hrs earns 3 credits. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE PRACTICUM II

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: This is an internship or observership in Clinical Medical interpreting with our partner academic institutions in the Texas Medical Center and elsewhere. Students are required to give volunteer service under the supervision of hospital physicians and staff. Forty clock-hours of service earns the student one academic credit: Eighty hours earn two credits; One hundred and twenty hours earn three credits. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: INTENSIVE SPANISH WRITING AND COMMUNICATION: CULTURES OF THE HISPANIC WORLD

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course focuses on composition and oral presentation, as it brings students toward a mastery of the structure of Spanish and of complex production skills in scholarly and artistic contexts. Through academic and cultural texts, students will hone their linguistic precision while acquiring basic skills in literary and cultural analysis. Recommended Prerequisite(s): SPAN 302

Long Title: SCIENTIFIC SPANISH I

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 301 OR SPAN 302 OR SPAN 303 OR SPAN 304 OR SPAN 305 OR SPAN 306 OR SPAN 307 OR SPAN 308 OR SPAN 314 OR SPAN 315 OR SPAN 316 or permission of instructor

Description: Content-based course in Spanish in which the student will be familiarized with uses of the language necessary to deal with scientific issues in the Spanish-speaking world. Science background is not required since we mainly work with popular science topics. Placement Test Recommended.

Long Title: SCIENTIFIC SPANISH II

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 301 OR SPAN 302 OR SPAN 303 OR SPAN 304 OR SPAN 305 OR SPAN 306 OR SPAN 313 OR SPAN 315 OR SPAN 316 OR SPAN 307 OR SPAN 308 or permission of instructor

Description: Continuation of SPAN 313. Content-based course in Spanish dealing with vocabulary and scientific issues in the Spanish-speaking world. Science background is not required since we mainly work with popular science topics. SPAN 313 is not a required pre-requisite for this class. Placement Test Recommended.

Long Title: THE ART AND MECHANICS OF TRANSLATION I

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 301 OR SPAN 302 OR SPAN 303 OR SPAN 304 OR SPAN 305 OR SPAN 306 OR SPAN 307 OR SPAN 308 OR SPAN 313 OR SPAN 314 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: Working with various types of texts in English and Spanish, students will begin to acquire the theoretical, linguistic, and research tools to solve common translation problems. This course will improve Spanish proficiency and broaden cross-cultural understanding. Placement Test Recommended.

Long Title: THE ART AND MECHANICS OF TRANSLATION II

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 302 OR SPAN 303 OR SPAN 304 OR SPAN 305 OR SPAN 306 OR SPAN 307 OR SPAN 308 OR SPAN 313 OR SPAN 314 OR SPAN 315 or permission of instructor

Description: Continuing the aims and methods of SPAN 315, students will refine their understanding of textual strategies in specific contexts such as commercial, legal, medical and others; and acquire practical analytical tools for specialized translation. This course will expand and refine Spanish proficiency and further broaden cross-cultural understanding. Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 315. Placement Test Recommended.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS: ADVANCED SPANISH I

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 202 OR SPAN 264 OR SPAN 301 OR SPAN 302 or permission of department

Description: This course helps students develop an advanced level of proficiency in Spanish through the analysis and use of the target language in the context of specific topics of interest that will vary.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS: ADVANCED SPANISH II

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 321 OR SPAN 301 OR SPAN 302 or permission of department

Description: This is a continuation of SPAN 321. This course helps students develop an advanced level of proficiency in Spanish through the analysis and use of the target language in the context of specific topics of interest that will vary.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS: ADVANCED SPANISH INTERNSHIP

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 322 or permission of department

Description: This hybrid course combines internship hours and course hours for students who are interested in using their Spanish-language skills in professional settings. Course meets on campus on Wednesdays; and on location during internship working hours, to be determined between student and instructor.

Long Title: ADVANCED SPANISH THROUGH THEATRE

Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class is designed to help students attain an advanced level of proficiency in Spanish through close readings, discussions and partial productions of Latin America contemporary drama and plays. The course will focus in the language/dialects of these countries while dynamically transitioning students into more abstract cultural concepts. Theatre experience is not required. Prerequisite: Placement Test or Permission of Instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPANISH CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics relating to Spain's history and the development of social, political and economic institutions form the basis for extensive conversation, discussion, and composition. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor.

Long Title: MASTER WORKS OF SPANISH ART AND LITERATURE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Selected masterpieces of Spanish art and literature; emphasis on specific aesthetic achievement of each work in its European and Spanish contexts, and on how the work reflects important cultural, social, and ideological issues of its times. Exemplary pairs (an author and an artist) from key historical moments will be studied. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor; no prerequisite when course offered in English.

Long Title: WRITING WORKSHOP

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course designed to develop students' competence in written expression through close readings of poems, short stories, plays and newspaper articles. Students will learn the functions and strategies of different writing styles. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: ART IN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores important moments in the history of Latin American European and North American Art by reading literary works that dramatize the transformations of several key artistic movements. 19th century landscape painting, Post-impressionism, Surrealism, Muralism, and 1960s experimental art will be studied through the novels and poems of important Latin American authors. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor.

Long Title: MAPPING LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explores key issues in Latin American culture. Important aspects of the contemporary situation in Latin America are also studied, including phenomena such as globalization, the rise of mega-cites, migration, authoritarianism, the impact of colonization and the rise of national states. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: BRAZILIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course focuses on critical readings of key texts of the 20th century. Materials drawn from Brazilian literature in translation as well as other cultural productions such as film and art. Some of the topics will include questions of national identity, social-racial relations, gender representations, and urban life. Taught in English.

Long Title: THE MEXICAN RENAISSANCE: ART, LITERATURE AND THE REVOLUTION OF 1910

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the history of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the cultural production that accompanied and was inspired by the political events and social transformations that marked the era. Literature (poetry, novels, short stories, essays), painting (murals), photography and other cultural manifestations (magazines, manifestos, and posters) of the first revolution of the 20th century will be studied. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: DIALECTS IN CONTACT: SEARCHING FOR THE "INTERNATIONAL" FORM OF SPANISH

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will analyze the essence of language against the essence of dialects to determine (i) the logical and linguistic rationale behind judgments about language, (ii) social and political factors that lead to various decisions, and (iii) the role of popular beliefs on traditional views of proper language use. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: SPAIN'S GOLDEN AGE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will deal with the history, politics, culture, art, and literature which justify the use of the term Golden Age for the period of the Hapsburg Dynasty (1517-1700). Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: GOLDEN AGE DRAMA

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Emphasis on the birth of the modern Spanish theater and the primary role played by Lope de Vega. Other dramatists to be studied are Guillen de Castro, Tirso de Molina, Mira de Amescua, and Ruiz de Alarcon. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: SURVEY OF SPANISH LITERATURE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A genre-based (poetry, narrative fiction, drama, essay) survey of the main movements in Spanish literature from medieval times to the present. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: SURVEY OF MEXICAN LITERATURE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this introduction to Mexican Literature we will sample genres, historical and geographical settings and points of view characteristic of works written by Mexican authors from pre-Columbian times to the 20th century. Topics include Mesoamerican, colonial, nineteenth and twentieth century poetry, short stories, novels and essays. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor.

Long Title: TWENTIETH CENTURY MEXICAN NOVEL

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to major Mexican novels of the Twentieth Century, including works by Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Garro, Jose Emilio Pacheco, Elena Poniatowska, Jorge Volpi and Cristina Rivera Garza. We will examine these works through a variety of methods including historical biographical analysis as well as through formalist approaches. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor.

Long Title: BRAZILIAN MUSIC AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will consider the social dimensions of various musical genres such as Bossa Nova, Tropicalia, and Hip-Hop. Through an interdisciplinary approach, will discuss music as a contextualized social activity and examine Brazilian social movements through the lens of music. Taught in English.

Long Title: THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Prelude to World War II and culmination of perennial struggles between the so-called "two Spains," the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) is a watershed moment in modern Spanish and European history. Interdisciplinary, multi-media approach: the war seen through Spanish and foreign novels, poetry, film, painting, journalism, songs, and posters. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: POETRY AND CULTURE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of contemporary poetry and its cultural functions. Students engage with poetry through analysis and interpretation of selected Spanish poets. Students also practice writing and translating poems. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: THE SPANISH AVANT-GARDE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This cross-genre, multimedia course examines the contributions of major figures (Picasso, Gris, Dali, Diego, Alberti, Lorca, Bunuel, Gomez de la Serna) to the Spanish avant-garde in the 20th century. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: CURRENT ISSUES IN SPAIN

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of diverse cultural aspects of today's Spain through films and newspaper articles. The topics discussed will serve as a springboard for further development of writing skills. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: LITERARY TRANSLATION

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Overview of modern theories of literary translation, and practice in Spanish-English (and limited English-Spanish) literary translation, using examples from diverse genres of Spanish and Latin American literature. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or equivalent.

Long Title: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: LINGUISTIC, COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL DIMENSIONS

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Second language acquisition seeks to describe the development of a second language. It also attempts to provide an explanatory account of the internal and external factors that guide this process. This course surveys various theoretical approaches to the analysis of second language (L2) acquisition. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: SPANISH CREATIVE WRITING

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore Spanish creative writings through an aesthetic experience. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Third year Spanish or permission of instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LITERATURES FROM THE SOUTHERN CONE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the literature of the region known as "Cono Sur." Often considered the national literature of Argentina and Uruguay, the "gaucho literature" encompasses a wide variety of texts, from traditional ballads to novels, plays and poetry. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Third Year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: FOUNDATIONS OF SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How did Spanish American literature acquire an identity of its own? This course attempts to answer this question by analyzing a number of foundational works of Spanish American literature in conjunction with later works that revise and rewrite key themes in the continent's literary tradition. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: CULTURE AND POWER IN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course uses a variety of materials and sources to examine the epistemologies of coloniality in Latin America, with a focus on their European and Western origins. Explores various aspects of the discourses of coloniality and subalternity in a range of cultural productions (cinema, poetry, narrative, salsa, Latin rock music). Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: HER SHORT STORY: CULTURE OF LATINO-AMERICAN WOMEN

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will review the short narrative fiction of Latino-American women, in Spanish and English. Also their works in film, art and photography. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor.

Long Title: THE LATIN AMERICAN SHORT STORY

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Latin American writers have achieved great distinction in the genre of the short story. This course studies texts by some of the continent's best-known short-story writers, such as Cortazar, Borges, Monterroso, Rulfo, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Elena Garro, Ana Lydia Vega, Clarice Lispector, Benedetti, Uslar Pietri, Massiani, Lemebel, Asis, and Carpentier. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN SHORT FICTION

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines important Mexican short story writers from modernism, in the late nineteenth century, to the present. The works of Juan Rulfo, Juan Jose Arreola, Carols Fuentes, Elena Garro, Juan Garcia Ponce, Elena Poniatowska, Jose Emilio Pacheco will be explored in a comparative context with other great writers of the genre. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor.

Long Title: HISPANIC CINEMA

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the ways in which films in both Spain and Latin America have represented the cultural contexts of their countries. Focus is on the theme of power, and the consequences on social and individual lives. Cross-list: SWGS 390. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: CARIBBEAN LITERATURE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will introduce you to major writers and theories of Caribbean literature, by focusing on the representation of places, peoples, and practices. Close attention will be paid to historical and cultural contexts, while conducting an in-depth analysis of literary texts from different genres. Taught in Spanish. Topics vary. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Third year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: A REVOLUTION FROM WITHIN: TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY CUBAN CULTURE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This research seminar will explore contemporary trends in Cuban culture through literary texts, films, music and works of art. We will examine the ways in which politics and the practices of artistic representation intersect in post-revolutionary Cuba. A research trip to Cuba has been organized as part of this seminar. Course taught in Spanish. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: FILM 339, HART 304. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Third year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: COLONIALISM AND REVOLUTION IN THE CARIBBEAN

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In spite of the region's political fragmentation and linguistic diversity, the Caribbean in many ways constitutes a unified literary region. This course examines differences and commonalities in the responses to the distinctive features of Caribbean history and geography in works by English-, Spanish-, French-, and Dutch-speaking authors. Authors studied include Alejo Carpentier, Reinaldo Arenas, Rosario Ferre, V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Cristina Garcia, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Frank Marinus Arion. Taught in English.

Long Title: DIALOGUE OF THE AMERICAS

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The history of Latin America since the nineteenth century has been profoundly shaped by its relationship to the "North" (the United States of America), as a model either to be imitated or rejected. This course examines both positions (emulation and detraction) as reflected in literature, painting, film, and political texts. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: CHICANO/A LITERATURE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A mixed-genre course focusing on the Chicano movement, the Chicano renaissance, and alternative literary and mythic traditions associated with them. Cross-list: ENGL 371, SWGS 354.

Long Title: EXPLORING LATIN AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Readings of intimate, first person fictions (short stories, novels, and some film) by 20th and 21st century Latin American writers. Critical approaches will include anthropological, feminist, and post-modern readings. Close reading, interpretation and appreciation of (fictional) autobiography, in original Spanish, will be the focus of class discussion, presentations and critical essays. Taught in Spanish. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Ability to read and speak fluent Spanish.

Long Title: MAPPING LATINA/O ART

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar examines the history of Latino art in the United States since 1945 with special emphasis on artistic cultures of Chicanos, Cuban-Americans and Puerto Ricans. Discussion and debate of "Latino art;" how to map its logic given differences in place, California, Texas, Florida or New York, of these communities. Taught in English.

Long Title: LITERARY THEORY/HISPANIC TEXTS

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Overview of major schools in contemporary literary theory (e.g., Formalist, Structuralist, Post-structuralist, Marxist, Feminist, Neo-historicist), including Hispanic contributions to and adaptations of such theory where relevant, using texts from Spain and Latin America as study examples. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: THE CITY IN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore representations of the city in both new Latin American writings and films, with a special focus on the changing urban landscape, the representation of poverty and the excluded from the new global economy, environmental issues and biopolitics, as well as hybrid cultures and multicultural identities. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course aims to offer students a systematic contact with a representative sample of the literature and scholarship about the mutual relationships between human societies and their natural environments, particularly but not exclusively in Latin America. Taught in Spanish. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE MOVIES

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course analyzes the relation between literary texts and the movies, and establishes connections and adaptations of both. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This course explores the national cinemas of various regions of Latin America. Special attention is given to the different periods of its development, to the close relationship between political contexts and filmmaking, to the understanding of Latin American cinema from cultural studies views, and to the current shaping of Latin America in light of globalization. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: BRAZILIAN VISUAL CULTURE: FILM AND ART

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course we will study Brazilian cinema and visual arts in the 20th century. We will discuss Brazilian history and how filmmakers and artists responded to the changing national culture from dictatorship to democracy, and including issues of class, geography, and race. The course will be taught in English. Cross-list: HART 411.

Long Title: THE PICARESQUE NOVEL

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will deal with the relationships connecting the picaresque genre with the Libros de caballerias, the Novela pastoril, and "Don Quijote". Among the principal texts: "Lazarillo de Tormes", "Guzman de Alfarache", "El buscon", "Gil Blas de Santillana", and "Nuevas andanzas de Lazarillo". Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: DON QUIJOTE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Cervantes's masterpiece is studied in its relationship to the books of knight errantry, and to the picaresque and pastoral novels, with emphasis on the innovative techniques of Cervantes which contribute to the birth of the modern novel. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: THE DISPUTED GENERATION OF 1898

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The origins and fortunes of the Generation of 1898 as a historiographic concept. What have been the conceptual and historiographic gains and losses, and the main ideological functions of the concept of the Generacion del 98 since it was invented (separately, by Ortega y Gasset and Azorin, and with differing referents!) in 1913? Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: UNAMUNO AND ORTEGA

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Intellectual relations and mutual influences of two figures whose confrontation played a crucial role in defining the situation of Spain from 1900-1936. Reception of their thought by major writers of their time and ours (A. Machado, M. Zambrano, F. Ayala, J.L. Borges, O. Paz, L. Zea). Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: 1898 IN TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course considers the 1898 war between Spain and the United States from diverse perspectives in Spain and the Americas (e.g., U.S., Cuba, Puerto Rico) and several genres and media: literature, journalism, historiography, graphic arts. Emphasis and examples vary. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or instructor permission.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY SPANISH LITERATURE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course considers in detail specific problems, figures, movements, works, or literary genres. Examples: Torrente's trilogies; Poets of 1927; Social Conscience in Literature. Topics Vary. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY SPANISH NOVEL

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the evolution of the Spanish novel as a work of art while exploring how cultural issues are incorporated into fictional worlds. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: THE MODERN SPANISH ESSAY

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Readings from representative essayists who attempt to define Spain's situation in response to the challenges of European modernity. Spanish "Europeanizers" vs. defenders of Spain's "differences" from Europe, scientific vs. anti-scientific rhetorical models, hierarchies of gender and genre, interpretations of Spanish landscape. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: THE MEXICAN ESSAY

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines important Mexican essayists from the late nineteenth century through to contemporary authors. The essays of canonical figures such as Alfonso Reyes, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuetes, Carlos Monsivais, Rosario Castellanos, Margo Glantz, will be studied along with the works of younger essayists. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.

Long Title: CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Since the Conquest, Latin America has been viewed by the European imagination as an "empty" continent, lacking in culture and history. This image of a "savage" continent has been interiorized by Latin America's own intellectuals. This course examines and deconstructs various manifestations of these ideological representations of Latin America. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: (UN) DISCIPLINED BODIES

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course studies nineteenth-century and twentieth-century texts that contributed to nation-building in Latin America by developing images of the model citizen, in his/her manners, physical appearance, behavior, health, and ethnic identity. These texts also offer representations of those citizens regarded as undesirable. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: BORDER NARRATIVES

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will analyze certain types of cultural productions (fiction, movies, etc.) produced in geographical contact zones, that generate hybrid languages and genres. These are products of migrations and nomadic people. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.

Long Title: MACHO CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the works of patriarchal ideology in a variety of cultural forms (literature, film, painting, photography). Studies the ways in which this ideology, which manifests itself in works by both men and women, defines male and female roles in Latin American culture. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN'S CULTURE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Studies the cultural production (literary, artistic, cinematic) of intellectual women in Latin America. Examines the struggles for interpretive power in works by women from the colonial period to the present. Cross-list: SWGS 466. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Definitions of Latin American literature and culture often take as their point of departure a consideration of the continent's relationship to Europe. This course examines works-essays, stories, and novels-that analyze and exemplify diverse aspects of this relationship. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: BOOM-BOOM-CRACK: LATIN AMERICAN NOVEL

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Works by Asturias, Carpentier, Rulfo, Onetti, Vargas Llosa, Cortazar, Fuentes, and others. Examines how Spanish American novelists from the 1940s onward appropriated the techniques of European modernist literature and infused them with new cultural content. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: TRENDS IN LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar proposes a journey through key moments in the intellectual production of Latin America and the Caribbean in the twentieth Century. This is an invitation to reflect upon the importance of a heterogeneous and complex map of discourses that challenges colonized epistemologies and ethnocentric approaches to theory. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY MEXICAN NARRATIVE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines the innovations in narrative form developed by twentieth-century Mexican novelists and short-story writers, as well as the social and political subjects with which they grappled in their work. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: OCTAVIO PAZ

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Studies the literary and intellectual career of Nobel prize- winning Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz. Topics to be covered include: poetry and modernity; literature and national identity; art and the avant-garde; Paz's role in political debates in Mexico; the reception of his work at home and abroad. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL THEORY

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course analyzes the main theoretical positions within contemporary cultural criticism. We will also study the reflection of these theories in fiction and film. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: STUDIES IN CHICANO/A LITERATURE

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of Chicano/a literature and culture gained earlier in the curriculum. Past topics have included the Chicano/a novel, and Transistions and Translations Chicano/a Autobiography. Cross-list: ENGL 471. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Research in Hispanic literature, Hispanic linguistics, Hispanic culture and civilization. Open to qualified juniors and seniors interested in a topic not covered in other courses. Instructor Permission Required. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish and permission of instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HONORS THESIS

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Independent research projects by outstanding Hispanic Studies majors leading to a substantial honors essay, undertaken in close cooperation with a departmental faculty member, who must first approve the thesis proposal. Instructor Permission Required. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish and permission of instructor.