Introductory Portuguese
Listening, reading, writing and speaking emphasizing a communicative approach to learning a language.
Lectures, tutorial, 4 hours per week.
Note: for students with little or no background in Portuguese.
Intermediate Portuguese
Review of Portuguese grammar emphasizing written and oral practice. Introduction to Portuguese and Brazilian literary and cultural readings, as well as to topics of current interest.
Lectures, tutorial, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PORT 1F00 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
Conquest and Colonization
(also offered as SPAN 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 SPAN 2P10)
Survey of social history through texts and images; pre-Columbian cultures; cultural hybridization and colonization to the present day.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: given in English. Spanish majors complete written assignments and exams in Spanish.
Iberian Culture
(also offered as SPAN 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: given in English. Spanish majors complete written assignments and exams in Spanish.
Latin American and Iberian Film
(also offered as FILM 2P82 and SPAN 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, seminars 3 hours per week, plus weekly film lab.
Note: Spanish and Portuguese language films with English subtitles. Given in English. Spanish majors complete written assignments and exams in Spanish.
Iberian Narrative
(also offered as SPAN 3P94)
Development of Spanish and Portuguese narrative from postwar social realism to the present. Authors may include Cela, Matute, Montero, Nemésio, Saramago and others.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.