Conquest and Colonization
(also offered as INTC 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, 3 hours per week.
Note: given in English.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN (PORT) 1P95.
Latin American Cultures since Independence
(also offered as INTC 2P10)
Social, political and cultural history of the Latin American nations through text and images. Topics include cultural hybridization and identity.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Note: given in English.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN (INTL/PORT) 2P10.
Iberian Culture
(also offered as INTC 2P11)
Social, political and cultural history of Portugal and Spain through historical and literary texts, film and other visual arts.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Note: given in English.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN (INTL/PORT) 2P11.
Spanish Grammar and Composition
Grammar review emphasizing further development of writing and reading skills.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 1F90 or permission of instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 2P19 and 2P21.
Analysis and Approaches to Literary Texts
Introduction to research methods applied to Hispanic literature, terminology, critical theory and general historical survey of genres in Hispanic literature. Practical skills of criticism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA (SPAN) 2P19 (2P21) or permission of instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 2P20.
Latin American and Iberian Film
Spanish and Latin American representations of identity crises involving issues of nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion and politics. Pastiche, parody and camp aesthetics, and the envisioning of new possibilities of solidarity leading to social transformations.
Lectures, 3 hours per week; plus weekly film lab.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: Spanish and Portuguese language films with English subtitles. Given in English.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN (PORT) 2P82.
Race and Ethnicity in Modern Latin American Narrative
How race and ethnicity have shaped Latin American societies and cultures in the 20th century. Topics include interactions of Iberian, European, Native and African peoples; official and unofficial management of multiethnic and multicultural societies. Authors may include Carpentier, Freyre and Ferré.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 1F90 or permission of instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 2P90.
Theatre in Translation
(also offered as DART 2P93)
Introduction to Hispanic dramatic literature and performative culture from Spain and Latin America. Discussion of social and cultural background of each play; play analysis; creative and critical thinking.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of SPAN 1F90, DART 1F93, 1F95, DART 1P97 and 1P99 (1F99).
Note: the assignments are designed to adapt to the student's major. Given in English.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 2P93.
Culture in Spanish-and Portuguese-Speaking Regions
Culture of a country or region in its geographical context. Background preparation research preceding an intensive study period on location. Course content will vary, depending on research interest of instructor.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 2V90-2V99.
Law and Censorship
Approaches to the relation between law and literature and the censorship of books banned from a range of Latin American and Iberian historical contexts. Topics may include sexual, racial and civic politics.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA (SPAN) 2P19 (2P21) and 2P20 or permission of instructor.
Brazil since Independence
Cultural and social conditions in Brazil. Topics include the legacy of the African Diaspora, issues of national identity, visual, literary and musical cultures.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA 2P10 or permission of instructor.
Note: given in English.
Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
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.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA (SPAN) 2P19 (2P21) and 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 3Q90.
Grammatical Structures: Theory and Practice I
Systematic study of complex grammatical structures. Syntactic analysis and principles. Concepts of semantics and style.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA (SPAN) 2P19 (2P21) and 2P20 or permission of instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 3Q92.
Grammatical Structures: Theory and Practice II
Further study of complex grammatical structures.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA 3P92 (SPAN 3Q92) or permission of the instructor.
Iberian Narrative
Themes and narrative techniques that characterize the works of major 20th-century authors as well as contemporary Spanish and Portuguese authors.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA 2P19 and 2P20 or permission of instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 3P94.
Contemporary Latin American Narrative
Multidisciplinary approach (historical, sociological, psychological, mythical) to the study of texts from different cultures and genres.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA 2P19 and 2P20 or permission of instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 3P95.
Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
Crises of national identity in poetry and narrative; literary theories dealing with genre, conventions of romanticism, naturalism, realism in context of Iberian culture.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA (SPAN) 2P19 (2P21) and 2P20 or permission of instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 3P97.
Chronicle and Testimonial Writing
Historiography, collective memory versus official history, relation of past to future, oral history and its transcription into testimonial literature.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA 2P19 and 2P20 or permission of instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 3P98.
Hispanic Linguistics
Overview of major trends and issues in Hispanic linguistics. Topics may include language variation and change, language contact, dialectology, sociolinguistics, text linguistics. Issues of research methodology for the various areas.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA 2P19 and 2P20 or permission of instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 3P99.
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.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA (SPAN) 2P19 (2P21); IBLA (SPAN) 2P20, WISE 1F90 or permission of instructor.
Note: given in English.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 4P01.
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(s): IBLA 3P92 (SPAN 3Q92) and SCLC 3P85 or permission of instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 4P04.
Readings in Medieval Iberian Narrative
Development of narrative traditions through the early fifteenth century and their historical contexts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA 2P19 and 2P20 or permission of instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 4P10.
Imagining Identity in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Religious, political and cultural discourses employed in the construction of identities in the Hispanic world. May include gendered identities, definitions of Spanish Christian identity, Creole identities and counter identities, such as Converso, Morisco and Mestizo.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA 2P19 (2P21) and 2P20 or permission of instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 4P15.
Women in Hispanic Literature: Witches, Vampires and Virgins
(also offered as WISE 4P60)
Depiction of women as monstrous or deviant. Authors include Carmen Boullosa, Alejandra Pizarnick and Rosario Ferré.Feminist literary theory of alterity (otherness).
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): IBLA (SPAN) 2P19 (2P21) and 2P20, WISE 1F90 or permission of instructor.
Note: given in English.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 4V60.
Special Research Topics
Course content will vary, depending on research interests of instructors
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two IBLA credits numbered 3(alpha)00 or above.