Introductory Spanish Language
Elements of Spanish grammar. Oral, written and reading practice. Selected readings and multimedia materials.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Note: for students with no background in the language.
Intermediate Spanish Language
Composition and oral practice. Review of Spanish grammar. Introduction to Spanish literature, Latin American and Peninsular culture and topics of current interest.
Lectures/seminar, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one Spanish language credit, two or more years of high school Spanish language or permission of the Department.
Note: for students with some background in Spanish.
Conquest and Colonization
(also offered as INTC 1P95)
Introduction to Ancient American and Iberian civilizations and early Latin America through critical study of European colonialism and contestatory colonial agencies of Africans, Creoles, Native Americans, Mestizos and Europeans.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Note: given in English.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in IBLA (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 IBLA (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 IBLA(PORT) 2P11.
Advanced Intermediate Spanish and Stylistics
Comprehensive grammar review through fiction and nonfiction texts emphasizing further development of speaking, reading, writing skills and critical thinking. Focus on stylistic aspects of the language.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in IBLA 2P19.
Approaches to Literary Texts
Introduction to research methods applied to Hispanic literature and culture. Focus on terminology, critical theory, and general historical survey of literature and culture.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN (IBLA) 2P19 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in IBLA 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 IBLA (PORT) 2P82.
Culture and Nationhood in the Hispanic World
Interrelation of culture(s) and conceptions of nationhood within the framework of Spain-Latin American dynamics. Topics include interactions of European, Creole, Native and African peoples; official and unofficial management of multiethnic and multicultural societies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in IBLA 2P90.
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 IBLA 2V90-2V99.
Contemporary Iberian and Latin American Communities
(also offered as INTC 3P84)
Interdisciplinary survey of Iberian and Latin American communities as expressed in written and/or oral literary texts; art, visual and musical representations. Topics may include the legacy of the diasporas, the role of the other, issues of national identity.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN (IBLA) 2P10 or permission of the 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): SPAN (IBLA) 2P19 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): SPAN (IBLA) 2P19 and 2P20 or permission of the 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 through the study of literary selections and films.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN (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): SPAN (IBLA) 2P19 and 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in IBLA 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): SPAN (IBLA) 2P19 or 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in IBLA 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): SPAN (IBLA) 2P19 and 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in IBLA 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): SPAN (IBLA) 2P19 and 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in IBLA 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): SPAN (IBLA) 2P19 and 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in IBLA 3P99.
Latin American Women's Perspectives
(also offered as WGST 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 relation of power.
Lectures, seminar 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN (IBLA) 2P19; SPAN (IBLA) 2P20, WGST (WISE) 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: given in English.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in IBLA (WISE) 4P01.
Translation: Applications
Lexical, morphological, syntactic and semantic interrelation between source text and target text; application of translation methodologies to a variety of texts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of SPAN (IBLA) 3P92 (SPAN 3Q92), SPAN (IBLA) 3P93, SCLC 3P85 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in IBLA 4P04.
Readings in Medieval Iberian Narrative
Development of narrative traditions through the early 15th century and their historical contexts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN (IBLA) 2P19 and 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in IBLA 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): SPAN (IBLA) 2P19 and 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in IBLA 4P15.
Women in Hispanic Literature: Witches, Vampires and Virgins
(also offered as WGST 4P60)
Depiction of women as monstrous or deviant. Authors include Carmen Boullosa, Alejandra Pizarnik and Rosario Ferré. Feminist literary theory of alterity (otherness).
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): SPAN (IBLA) 2P19 and 2P20, WGST (WISE) 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: given in English.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in SPAN 4V60 and WISE 4P60.
Special Research Topics
Course content may vary, depending on research interests of instructor.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two SPAN (IBLA) credits numbered 3(alpha)00 or above.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade or credit obtained in IBLA 4V60-4V69.
2013-2014: Em/bodying Trauma and Memory through Fiction and Non-Fiction
Examination of the post-testimonial genre in late 20th to 21st century focusing on physical and psychological embodiments of trauma and memory. Authors include Belli, Aguirre and Kozameh, in conjunction with new theoretical underpinnings in the genre.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: permission of instructor.