SPAN 150/FSEM 150 (D-I) Latin American Short Fiction(Freshman Seminar) (Emphasis on Borges and Cortazar)
Readings
of classic works of short fiction by modern Latin American masters,
with special emphasis on the stories of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio
Cortázar. Close reading, interpretation and appreciation of stories (in
English translation) will be the focus of class discussion,
presentations and short interpretive essays. Taught in English. Open to
first-year students only, except by permission of the instructor.
Enrollment limited to 15.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 152/FSEM 152 (D-I)Hispanic Essay Readings (Freshman Seminar)
Readings
in English from modern Spanish and Latin American essayists, including
Miguel de Unamuno, José Martí, José Ortega y Gasset, Victoria Ocampo,
María Zambrano, Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, Fernando Savater,
Ariel Dorfman, Roger Bartra, et al. Close reading, discussion, short
interpretive papers. Taught in English. Open to first-year students
only, except by permission of instructor.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 153/FSEM 153 (D-I) Don Quixote - In English (Freshman Seminar)
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.
Open to first-year students only, except by permission of instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 340 (D-I) Spanish Culture and Civilization
Topics relating to Spain's history and the development of the social,
political and economic institutions form the basis for extensive
conversation, discussion, and composition. Recommended
Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 341 Master-Works of Spanish Art & Literature
Selected masterpieces of Spanish art and literature; emphasis on the
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
Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor;
no prerequisite when course offered in English.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 342 Writing Workshop
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 Pre-requisite(s): Third-year
Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Pérez, J. Bernado 3 credit hours
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SPAN 345 Mapping Latin American Culture
Explores key issues in Latin American culture. Important aspects of
the contemporary situation in Latin America are studied, including
phenomena such as globalization, the rise of mega-cities, migration ,
authoritarianism, the impact of the colonization and the rise of
national states. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 346 Contemporary Mexico
Topics discussed include: the Mexican political system, the
debate on national identity, border culture, urbanization, regionalism,
and indigenous cultures. Uses a wide range of texts to introduce
students to the richness and complexity of contemporary Mexican
culture. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Staff & Gaytan, Raquel 3 credit hours
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SPAN 347 Contemporary Mexico: Study Trip
A one-week study trip to Zacatecas, Mexico intended as a cultural
immersion program. Course objectives are: perfecting effective
communicative skills, learning about the institutions, culture and
traditions of Mexico and doing research and field work in Spanish.
Taught in conjunction with Span 346. Pre-requisite(s): Completion of
Span 346 or 311 or approval of instructor.
Gaytan, Raquel 1 credit hour
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SPAN 350/LING 421 Sociolinguistics of Spanish
Analysis of the modern varieties of Spanish covering
phonetics, vocabulary, morphosyntax, and pragmatics. The course
requires the completion of a research project with an empirical
database. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 365 Spain's Golden Age
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 Pre-requisite(s):
Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 366 (D-I) Golden Age Drama
Emphasis on the birth of the modern Spanish theater and the primary
role played by Lope de Vega. Other dramatists to be studied are
Guillén de Castro, Tirso de Molina, Mira de Amescua, and Ruiz de
Alarcón. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 370 (D-I) Survey of Spanish Literature
A genre-based (poetry, narrative fiction, drama, essay) survey of the
main movements in Spanish literature from medieval times to the
present. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Pérez, J. Bernardo 3 credit hours
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SPAN 372 From El Greco to Picasso: Painting in Spain 1561-1974
This course explores the extraordinary development of the art of
painting in Spain from its emergence as a world power in the 16th
century to its reintegration into the European community in the 20th
century. The course will examine works by El Greco, Zurbarán,
Velázquez, Ribera, Murillo, Goya, Picasso, Gris, Miró, Dalí, Tàpies
among others. Taught in English. Enrollment limited to 30.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 375 The Spanish Civil War
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 Pre-requisite: Third-year Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 376 Poetry and Culture
Study of contemporary poetry and its cultural functions. Students
engage in poetry through analysis and interpretation of selected
Spanish poets. Students also practice writing and translating poems.
Recommended Pre-requisite: Third-year Spanish or permission of the
instructor.
Pérez, J. Bernardo 3 credit hours
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SPAN 377 The Spanish Avant-Garde
This cross-genre, multimedia course examines the contributions of major
figures (Picasso, Gris, Dalí, Diego, Alberti,Lorca, Buñuel, Gómez de la
Serna) to the Spanish avant-garde in the 20th century. Recommended
Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the
instructor.
Pérez, J. Bernardo 3 credit hours
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SPAN 378 Current Issues in Spain
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
Pre-requisite: Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Pérez, J. Bernardo 3 credit hours
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SPAN 379 Literary Translation
Overview of modern theories of translation, evaluation of and practice
in Spanish-English (and limited English-Spanish) literary translation;
examples from diverse genres of Spanish and Latin-American literature.
Recommended Pre-requisite: Third-year Spanish or equivalent.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 380/LING 424 The Evolution of Spanish
This course provides an introduction to (1) major historical changes
that led to the evolution of Proto-Romance (Vulgar Latin) to the
Castillian dialect of Spanish (español or castellano), and (2) current
developments and expected changes in the future of the various
representatives of former Castillian dialect. Recommended
Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 381/LING 314 Theories of L2 Development
This course surveys and critiques various theories of second language
acquisition. Major topics are: analysis of linguistic, cognitive and
social processes in the development of second languages, formal
hypotheses of non-academic and classroom L2 learning, analysis of
various SLA research methodologies, and interpretation of findings from
SLA research. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 382/LING 418 The Acquisition of L2 Spanish
This course reviews the available research on the acquisition of the
phonology, vocabulary, morphosyntactic and discursive-pragmatic
features of Spanish as a second language. Aims to provide students
with a thorough understanding of second language acquisition processes
that are specific to Spanish but generalizable to other languages as
well. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 383 Spanish Creative Writing
This course will explore Spanish creative writings through an
aesthetic experience. Recommended Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Third
year Spanish or permission of instructor.
Heffes, Gisela 3 credit hours
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SPAN 384 Literatures of the Southern Cone
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
Pre-requisite(s): Third year Spanish or permisssion of instructor.
Heffes, Gisela 3 credit hours
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SPAN 385 (D-I) Foundations of Spanish American Literature
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 Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish
or permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 386 Culture and Power in Latin America
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 Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the
instructor.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 387 Her Short Story: Culture of Latino-American Women
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 Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 388 The Latin American Short Story
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 Cortázar, Borges, Monterroso,
Rulfo, Fuentes, García Márquez, Elena Garro, Ana Lydia Vega, Clarice
Lispector, Benedetti, Uslar Pietri, Massiani, Lemebel, Asis, and
Carpentier. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 389 Latin American Testimonio
Explores a diverse range of literary and cultural forms in
which minority or subaltern groups use autobiographical story-telling
in order to express a communal identity. Examines how testimonial
literature gives a voice to groups that have been silenced by the
dominant culture. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 390 / SWGS 390 Hispanic Cinema
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. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 391 Caribbean Literature
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 Topic for
Spring '10: Music and Literature. Recommended Pre-requisite(s):
Third year Spanish or permisssion of instructor.
Duno-Gottberg, Luis 3 credit hours
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SPAN 392 Mexican Avant-Garde Narrative
This course looks at two key moments in the history of the Mexican
avant-garde. We will begin by looking at the "historical" avant-garde
of the 1920s and 30s, focusing on the estridentistas and on the
Contemporáneos group, and reading works by Arqueles Vela, Xavier Icaza,
Salvador Novo, Xavier Villaurrutia and Gilberto Owen. We will also
study the emergence of a second avant-garde, represented by works such
as La semana de colores by Elena Garro and ¿Aguila o sol? by Octavio
Paz. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission
of the instructor.
Staff 3 credits
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SPAN 393 (D-1 effective Fall '09) Colonialism and Revolution in the Caribbean
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 Ferré, V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Cristina
García, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Frank Martinus Arion. Taught in
English.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 394 Transnational Caribbean Cultures
Explores a wide range of Caribbean cultural products,
including literature, cinema, music, visual arts, and historiography.
Focuses on the hybrid and diasporic nature of Caribbean culture,
tracing its roots in Europe, Africa and the indigenous past, as well as
its recent migration to the United States. Recommended
Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 395 Dialogue of the Americas
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
Pre-requisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 396 /ENGL 371 / SWGS 354 Chicano/a Literature
A mixed-genre course focusing on the Chicano movement, the Chicano
renaissance, and alternative literary and mythic tradition associated
with them.
Aranda, Jose 4 credit hours (for Spring 2008 semester; after S'08 variable credit)
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SPAN 401 Literary Theory/Hispanic Texts
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 Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish
or permission of the instructor.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 402 The City in Latin America
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.
Recommeneded Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the
instructor.
Heffes, Gisela 3 credit hours
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SPAN 405 Latin American Literature in the Movies
This course analyzes the relation between literary texts and the
movies, and establishes connections and adaptations of both.
Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the
instructor. Limit: 20.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 406 Latin American Cinema
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
Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Duno-Gottberg, Luis 4 credit hours
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SPAN 410 The Picaresque Novel
This course will deal with the relationships connecting the picaresque
genre with the Libros de caballerías, the Novela pastoril, and Don
Quijote. Among the principal texts: Lazarillo de Tormes, Guzmán de Alfarache, El buscón, Gil Blas de Santillana, and Nuevas andanzas de Lazarillo. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 412 Don Quijote
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 Pre-requisite(s): Advanced
Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 414 Calderon's Theatre
This course will cover the principal dramatic works which have earned
for Calderón the distinction of being the most important philosophical
and religious dramatist of the Golden Age. Among other dramatists to
be studied are Moreto and Rojas Zorrilla. Recommended
Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 416 The Don Juan Theme
Studies the impressive trajectory of one of the world's most
popular and intriguing legends. Works by Tirso de Molina, Moliere,
Mozart, Lord Byron, George Bernard Shaw, and others. Several film
versions of the Don Juan story will also be shown. Taught in English,
Spring 2008 only.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 420 The Disputed Generation of 1898
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
Generación del 98 since it was invented (separately, by Ortega y Gasset
and Azorón, and with differing referents!) in 1913? Recommended
Pre-requisite: Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 422 Unamuno and Ortega
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 Pre-requisite: Advanced Spanish or permission
of the instructor.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 424 (D-1, effective Fall 2009) 1898 in Transatlantic Perspective
This course will consider 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 in several media : literature,
journalism, historiography, graphic arts. Emphasis and examples may
vary each time the course is taught. Recommended Pre-requisite(s):
Advanced Spanish or instructor's permisson.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 428 Contemporary Spanish Literature
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. Topic for Fall
2007: One hundred years of poetry. Recommended Pre-requisite(s):
Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Pérez, J. Bernardo 3 credit hours
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SPAN 430 20th-Century Spanish Novel
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 Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Pérez, J. Bernardo 3 credit hours
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SPAN 435 (D-I) The Modern Spanish Essay
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
Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 440/LING 419 Bilingualism
This course analyzes bilingualism from a variety of perspectives
including cognitive, linguistic, and sociocultural viewpoints. Topics
to be covered include conceptual representations of the lexicon,
sentence parsing, levels of activation of bilingual modes, lexical,
phonological, syntactic and pragmatic interference, code-switching,
cultural identity, bilingual education, language and thought, etc.
Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the
instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 442/LING 420 Cognition and L2 Acquisition
This course provides an in-depth analysis of general cognitive
processes in second language development and cognitive-based theories
of second language acquisition. Some of the issues to be discussed in
detail are perception, attention, memory, automaticity, restructuring,
sentence processing, learnability theories, language and intelligence,
critical periods for language acquisition, etc. Recommended
Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 444 / LING 422 Tense and Aspect in L2 Acquisition
This course provides an introduction to (1) the morphosyntactic
analysis of tense-aspect systems, (2) the development of inflectional
morphology among first and second language learners, (3) the sequence
and rate of development of aspectual contrasts, (4) the differences
between natural and academic learning settings, and (5) the impact of
pedagogical manipulations. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Advanced
Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 446 Origin and Evolution of Castilian Spanish
The Romance languages come from the
language spoken by the populace of Rome at the time of the Empire. This
spoken language, known as Vulgar Latin, began to be used in
Spain around 197 A.D. The objective of this course is to analyze the
development of the reconstructed form of spoken Latin into
Hispano-Romance and into present-day Castilian The importance of the
Arabic contribution will be studied. Samples of literary texts will be
discussed as linguistic documents. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 450 Civilization and Barbarism
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 this ideological representation of Latin
America. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 452 (Un)Disciplined Bodies
This course studies nineteenth-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
Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 453 Border Narratives
This course will analyze certain types of cultural
productions (fiction, movies, etc.) produced in georgraphical contact
zones, that generate hybrid languages and genres. . Recommended
Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the
instructor.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 454 Macho Culture in Latin America
This course examines the workings 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 Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 456 / SWGS 466 Latin American Women's Culture
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. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 458 Mexico and the United States: Literary and Cultural Relations
Examines U.S. representations of Mexico and Mexican
representations of the U.S.; parallels and differences between
intellectual debates in the two nations, for example, around the
question of nation building in a racially diverse society; cultural
transformations taking place on the U.S.-Mexico border. Discussion of
a wide range of sources, including novels, short stories, essays,
journalism, travel literature, and film. Recommended
Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 460 Europe and Latin America
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 Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 462 Modern Spanish American Novel
Works by Asturias, Carpentier, Rulfo, Onetti, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar,
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
Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 465 Trends in Latin American Thought
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
Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Duno-Gottberg, Luis 3 credit hours
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SPAN 466 Twentieth Century Mexican Narrative
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 Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 468 Octavio Paz
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 Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 470 Latin American Cultural Theory
This course analyzes the main theoretical positions within
contemporary cultural criticism. We will also study the relection of
these theories in fiction and film. Recommended Pre-requisite(s):
Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 474 Spanish American Poetry and the Experience of the Limit
Spanish American Poetry and the Experience of the Limit
Examines twentieth-century Spanish American poetry from the perspective
of the poet‚s struggle to articulate experiences that exist at the
limit of the inexpressible. Poets studied include César Vallejo,
Vicente Huidobro, Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Olga
Orozco, Raúl Zurita, Carmen Boullosa, Marosa di Giorgio and Francisco
Hernández. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish or
permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credits
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SPAN 490 Independent Study
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. Recommended Pre-requisite(s):
Advanced Spanish and permission of the instructor. Repeatable for
credit.
Staff Variable 1-4 credit hours
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SPAN 495 Honors Thesis
Independent research projects by outstanding Spanish majors leading to
a substanial honors essay, undertaken in close cooperation with a
departmental faculty member, who must first approve the thesis
proposal. Recommended Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Spanish
and permission of the instructor.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 501 Literary Theory/Hispanic Texts
Graduate version of Span 401. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 502 The City in Latin America
Graduate version of Span 402. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Heffes, Gisela 3 credit hours
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SPAN 505 Latin American Literature in the Movies
Graduate version of Span 405. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 506 Latin American Cinema
Graduate verison of Span 406. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Duno-Gottberg, Luis 4 credit hours
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SPAN 507 Teaching College Spanish (Practicum)
Study of pedagogical principles applicable to the teaching of Spanish.
Includes practice teaching and performance reviews, design of
pedagogical activities and peer observation.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 510 The Picaresque Novel
Graduate version of 410. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 512 Don Quijote
Graduate version of Span 412. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 514 Calderon's Theatre
Graduate version of Span 414. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 516 The Don Juan Theme
Graduate version of Span 416. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 520 The Disputed Generation of 1898
Graduate version of Span 420. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 522 Unamuno and Ortega
Graduate version of Span 422. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 524 1898 in Transatlantic Perspective
Graduate version of Span 424. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 528 Contemporary Spanish Literature
Graduate version of Span 428. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Pérez, J. Bernardo 3 credit hours
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SPAN 530 20th-Century Spanish Novel
Graduate version of Span 430. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Pérez, J. Bernardo 3 credit hours
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SPAN 535 The Modern Spanish Essay
Graduate version of Span 435. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Kauffmann, R. Lane 3 credit hours
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SPAN 540 Bilingualism
Graduate version of Span 440. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 542 Cognition and L2 Acquisition
Graduate version of Span 442. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 544 Tense and Aspect in L2 Acquisition
Graduate version of Span 444. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 546 Origin and Evolution of Castilian Spanish
Graduate version of Span 446. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 550 Civilization and Barbarism
Graduate level of Span 450. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 552 (Un)Disciplined Bodies
Graduate version of Span 452. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 553 Border Narratives
Graduate version of Span 453. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 554 Macho Culture in Latin America
Graduate version of Span 454. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 556 Latin American Women's Culture
Graduate version of Span 456. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 558 Mexico and the United States: Literary and Cultural Relations
Graduate version of 458. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 560 Europe and Latin America
Graduate version of 460. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 562 Modern Spanish American Novel
Graduate version of 462. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 565 Trends in Latin American Thought
Graduate version of 465. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Duno-Gottberg, Luis 3 credit hours
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SPAN 566 Twentieth Century Mexican Narrative
Graduate version of 466. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 568 Octavio Paz
Graduate version of 468. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 570 Latin American Cultural Theory
Graduate version of 470. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Gonzalez-Stephan, Beatriz 3 credit hours
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SPAN 574 Spanish American Poetry and the Experience of the Limit
Graduate version of 474. Additional readings and assignments will be given to graduate students.
Staff 3 credit hours
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SPAN 591 Fall Independent Study
Research in Hispanic literature, Hispanic linguistics, and Hispanic
culture and civilization. Open to graduate students interested in a
topic not covered in other courses. Prereq-Permission of department.
Staff variable (1-9 hrs)
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SPAN 592 Spring Independent Study
Research in Hispanic literature, Hispanic linguistics, and Hispanic
culture and civilization. Open to graduate students interested in a
topic not covered in other courses. Prereq-Permission of department.
Staff variable (1-9 hrs)
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SPAN 700 Summer Graduate Research
Research leading to candidacy.
Staff variable (1-9 hrs)
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SPAN 701 Fall Research Leading to Candidacy
Topics in Spanish and Latin American Literary theory and Spanish
Linguistics. To be taken after a student has completed departmental
course requirements for the Masters, and before being admitted to
candidacy.
Staff variable (1-9 hrs)
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SPAN 702 Spring Research Leading to Candidacy
To be taken after a student has completed departmental course
requirements for the Master's degree, but before being admitted to
candidacy.
Staff variable (1-9 hrs)
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SPAN 800 Thesis Research
Research and thesis.
Staff variable (1-9 hrs)
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SPAN 801 Fall Research and Thesis
Research for the M.A. thesis. (Taken after approved for candidacy.)
Staff variable (1-9 hrs)
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SPAN 802 Spring Research for M.A.
Thesis
Course may be repeated for credit.
Staff variable (1-9 hrs)
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