Introductory Spanish
For students with no knowledge of Spanish. Elements of Spanish grammar. Oral, written and reading practice. Selected readings, multimedia materials.
Lectures, tutorial, 4 hours per week.
Intermediate Spanish
Review of Spanish grammar. Composition and oral practice. Introduction to Spanish literature, Latin American and Peninsular Culture and topics of current interest.
Lectures, tutorial, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPAN 1F00 or two or more years of high school Spanish or permission of the instructor.
Business Spanish
Introduction to commercial, industrial and technical Spanish. Practical writing skills for business in the Spanish-speaking world emphasizing Latin America.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPAN 1F00 or permission of the instructor.
Conquest and Colonization
(also offered as PORT 1P95)
Creation of a new culture founded on Amerindian, Iberian and African traditions; visual arts, architecture, literature and music; disparity between cultural identity and economic and political identity, utopian ideals, alienation through imitation, rediscovery of autochthonous cultural models.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: given in English.
Latin American Culture
(also offered as PORT 2P10)
Survey of social history through text and images; Pre-Columbian cultures; cultural hybridization and colonization to the present day.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: guided readings in English and Spanish.
Iberian Culture
(also offered as PORT 2P11)
Social, political and cultural history of Portugal and Spain through historical and literary texts, film and other visual arts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: guided readings in English and Spanish.
Research Methods and Textual Analysis I
Introduction to research methods applied to Spanish literature, terminology, critical theory and general historical survey of genres in Hispanic literature. Practical skills of criticism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPAN 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Research Methods and Textual Analysis II
Further study in research methods applied to Spanish literature, terminology, critical theory and general historical survey of genres in Hispanic literature. Practical and critical skills of criticism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPAN 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
Latin American and Iberian Film
(also offered as FILM 2P82 and PORT 2P82)
Spanish and Latin American representations of identity crises involving issues of nationality, ethnicity, gender and politics. Pastiche, parody and camp aesthetics, and the envisioning of new possibilities of solidarity leading to social transformations.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly film lab.
Prerequisite: SPAN 1F90.
Note: Spanish and Portuguese language films with English subtitles.
Culture in a Spanish-Speaking Region
Culture of a country or region in its geographical context. Background preparation research preceding an intensive study period on location.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: given in English. Students are responsible for travel, accommodation and other expenses.
Caribbean Narratives
Social and cultural history of Caribbean writing and art. Key concepts relating to political crises, search for independence and identity in the works of Carpentier, Guillén, Ferré, García Márquez and others.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.
Iberian Narrative
(also offered as PORT 3P94)
Development of Spanish and Portuguese narrative from postwar social realism to the present. Authors may include Cela, Matute, Puértolas, MuZoz Molina, Montero and Saramago.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.
Contemporary Latin American Narrative
Multidisciplinary approach (historical, sociological, psychological, mythical) to the study of texts from different cultures and genres Authors may include Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, Jorge Amado, Peri Rossi, Lispector, Castellanos and Mastreta.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or or permission of the instructor.
Modern Spanish Literature: Romanticism to Realism
Crises of national identity in poetry and narrative; literary theories dealing with genre, conventions of romanticism, naturalism, realism in context of Iberian culture. Authors may include Bécquer, Pardo Bazán, Pérez Galdós, Generation of 98.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.
Contemporary Chronicle and Testimonial Writing
Historiography, collective memory versus official history, relation of past to future, oral history and its transcription into testimonial literature. Texts may include the chronicles of Poniatowska, Monsiváis, Galeano, Zapatista Liberation Army.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.
Golden Age
Themes and trends in 16th- and 17th-century Spanish drama, prose and poetry; evolution of a national theatre, picaresque, and birth of the modern novel. Film adaptations of key texts to aid comprehension and to consider performative culture.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SPAN 3P92 and 3P93.
Advanced Grammar and Communication I
Syntactic analysis and principles. Concepts of semantics and style. Applications to advanced writing and oral practice of the Spanish language.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SPAN 3P90.
Advanced Grammar and Communication II
Further studies in syntactic analysis and principles. Concepts of semantics and style. Further applications to advanced writing and oral practice of the Spanish language.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPAN 3Q92 or permission of the instructor.
Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolution
(also offered as HIST 3P94)
Social, economic and intellectual roots of revolutions in Mexico, Bolivia, Guatemala, Cuba and Nicaragua. The seminal role of the Mexican Revolution.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: given in English.
Latin American Women's Perspectives
(also offered as WISE 4P01)
Cultural production of Latin American women and their impact on society; wide selection of media including testimonial writing, oral history, narrative, drama, poetry, visual arts, music. Innovations in popular and literary culture allowing women to rearticulate relationships of power. Authors may include Poniatowska, Kahlo, Menchú, Lispector, Novaro and Parra.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one of SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10), WISE 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: given in English. Spanish majors complete written assignments and exams in Spanish.
Translation: Applications
Lexical, morphological, syntactic and semantic interrelationships between source text and target text; application of translation methodologies to a variety of texts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: MLLC 3P94 or permission of the instructor.
2003-2004: Women in Hispanic Literature: Witches, Vampires and Virgins
Depiction of women as monstrous or deviant. Authors include Carmen Boullosa, Alejandra Pizarnik and Rosario Ferré. Feminist literary theory of alterity (otherness).
Prerequisite: one SPAN credit numbered 3(alpha)00 or above.
Special Research Topics in Spanish Literature
Course content will vary, depending upon the interests of instructors and students.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two SPAN credits numbered 3(alpha)00 or above.
2003-2004: Chicano/Latino Culture
Interdisciplinary approach to Chicano and Latino culture based on critical readings and film. Issues relating to identity, politics and artistic representation in borderland culture of the United States.
Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.
Note: Given in English.