Spanish Courses
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Fall 2024▲
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Elementary Spanish I
SPAN 111 - Kuettner, Paul R. (Dick)
Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing.
Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 161 - Bailey, Matthew J.
Intensive, concentrated course in review grammar and reading, with practice in listening and speaking.
Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 161 - Reyes, Antonio
Intensive, concentrated course in review grammar and reading, with practice in listening and speaking.
Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 161 - Dominicci-Buzo, Jose R.
Intensive, concentrated course in review grammar and reading, with practice in listening and speaking.
Advanced Intermediate Spanish
SPAN 164 - Nery Mora, Aroldo
Emphasis on reading and composition skills, with extensive practice in speaking and listening through class discussion. Some grammar review.
Advanced Intermediate Spanish
SPAN 164 - Botta, Monica B.
Emphasis on reading and composition skills, with extensive practice in speaking and listening through class discussion. Some grammar review.
Advanced Intermediate Spanish
SPAN 164 - Konstantinova, Iana
Emphasis on reading and composition skills, with extensive practice in speaking and listening through class discussion. Some grammar review.
Conversational Skills
SPAN 204 - Michelson, Seth R.
Development of speaking skills for communication in Spanish. Acquisition and use of practical vocabulary and development of pronunciation skills.
Conversational Skills
SPAN 204 - Reyes, Antonio
Development of speaking skills for communication in Spanish. Acquisition and use of practical vocabulary and development of pronunciation skills.
Introducción a la literatura española
SPAN 220 - Mayock, Ellen C.
Spanish literary masterpieces from the Poema del Cid through the present. Readings and discussions are primarily in Spanish.
Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana
SPAN 240 - Michelson, Seth R.
Spanish-American literary masterpieces from colonial times through the present. Readings and discussions are primarily in Spanish.
El Cid in History and Legend
SPAN 333 - Bailey, Matthew J.
A study of the most significant portrayals of the Castilian warrior Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid (1045-1099), from his 12th-century biography Historia Roderici to the Hollywood blockbuster El Cid . Epic poems, late medieval ballads, and Renaissance drama all recreate the legendary life of El Cid. This course examines the relevant narratives in an effort to determine the heroic values and attributes recreated by authors and their audiences for nearly a thousand years.
Seminar: Let Her Will Be Done: Women in Golden Age Iberia
SPAN 397C - Dominicci-Buzo, Jose R.
This course immerses students into the literary representations of women in Spain from the 15th to the 17th centuries. Through a panoramic and chronological journey that encompasses examples ("exemplum"), poetry, dialogues, prose, and theater, it explores how the socio-cultural context of the time influenced the creation of female characters in literature. A wide range of representative models of women is analyzed, including daughters, wives, widows, lovers, nuns, queens, and courtesans, paying special attention to the various and passionate discourses, both in favor of and against female participation in society and its corresponding literary representation. The course particularly focuses on the diverse and passionate debates surrounding women's involvement in society and how their image is portrayed in literary fiction. The first part of the course exposes students to religious, philosophical, and medical debates surrounding the juxtaposition between "the good woman" and "the bold woman," which emerged during the medieval era, to contextualize the origins of the early Modernity mindset. The second part of the course delves into the Renaissance mindset, exploring the short stories of Miguel de Cervantes and María de Zayas, the dialogued novel of Francisco Delicado, the poetry of the Songbooks, the female picaresque of Alonso Gerónimo de Barbadillo, and the Baroque theater of Ana Caro Mallén and Félix Lope de Vega.
Spanish-American Seminar: The Poetics of Wetlands in Latin America
SPAN 398F - Nery Mora, Aroldo
Since the drainage of Mexico-Tenochtitlan from the sixteenth century onwards to the recent intermittent fires around the Paraná River Delta in the twenty-first century, wetlands, swamps, fens and bogs have challenged hegemonic narratives of progress. This course examines how these amphibious locales inform social and material relations through Latin American and Caribbean literature, fine arts, photography, podcasts, and audiovisual narratives. The objective of the course is to examine modes of socio-ecological coexistence enabled by this ecosystem, which has been the subject of debates in and outside academia that call attention to how communities are defined. We will situate wetlands in a broader Latin American literary tradition in comparison to, for example, “the jungle novel”. By doing so we will also analyze the narrative strategies that place wetlands at the core of our current environmental crisis. Class will be conducted in Spanish.
Spring 2024▲
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Contemporary Spain in Context: (Re)searching Spanish Identity and Culture in the 21st Century
SPAN 214 - Reyes, Antonio
This course examines contemporary social issues in Spain through lectures and interviews with local subjects in Spain. Lectures provide a formal understanding of contemporary Spanish society, while interviews of local subjects provide data for further analysis by the students that may challenge, complement or further develop their understanding of current social issues.
Winter 2024▲
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Elementary Spanish II
SPAN 112 - Yoza Mitsuishi, Katia Mariela (Katia)
Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing.
Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 162 - Bailey, Matthew J.
Intensive, concentrated course in review grammar and reading, with practice in listening and speaking.
Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 162 - Barnett, Jeffrey C. (Jeff)
Intensive, concentrated course in review grammar and reading, with practice in listening and speaking.
Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 162 - Reino, Jayne E.
Intensive, concentrated course in review grammar and reading, with practice in listening and speaking.
Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 162 - Xavier Franca, Barbara
Intensive, concentrated course in review grammar and reading, with practice in listening and speaking.
Advanced Intermediate Spanish
SPAN 164 - Konstantinova, Iana
Emphasis on reading and composition skills, with extensive practice in speaking and listening through class discussion. Some grammar review.
Conversational Skills
SPAN 204 - Reyes, Antonio
Development of speaking skills for communication in Spanish. Acquisition and use of practical vocabulary and development of pronunciation skills.
Spanish Civilization and Culture
SPAN 211 - Mayock, Ellen C.
A survey of significant developments in Spanish civilization. The course addresses Spanish heritage and the present-day cultural patterns formed by its legacies. Readings, discussions and papers, primarily in Spanish, for further development of communication skills.
Introducción a la literatura española
SPAN 220 - Mayock, Ellen C.
Spanish literary masterpieces from the Poema del Cid through the present. Readings and discussions are primarily in Spanish.
Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana
SPAN 240 - Nery Mora, Aroldo
Spanish-American literary masterpieces from colonial times through the present. Readings and discussions are primarily in Spanish.
Introducción al análisis literario
SPAN 275 - Michelson, Seth R.
Preparation for analysis of Hispanic literature. Composition develops style and method for analyzing prose, poetry, and drama in Spanish. Conversation continues vocabulary building and concentrates on discussion of literary themes.
Power and Ideology: (Critical) Discourse Perspectives
SPAN 308 - Reyes, Antonio
This course explores different theoretical approaches to account for the relationship between language and power, and therefore the relationship between language use and social processes. In particular, it observes how meaning is constructed and reconstructed in the discourse manifested in different settings and platforms ranging from social media to institutional and official communication (political discourse, media discourse, academic discourse, etc.).
Spanish-American Seminar: Extractivism through Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Production
SPAN 398D - Nery Mora, Aroldo
This course understands extractivism as a noun that refers to nature extraction as a mode of inhabiting the planet. Considering that signings of Trade Agreements in the latter part of the 20th Century relocate Latin America in the dynamics of a revamped extractivism, recent cultural production from the Southern Cone to Mexico considers the effects of the transition from agriculture to agribusiness in daily life, reflects on the impacts of the mining industry on the environment and society, and examines how communities face climate change. The course thus aims to historicize extractivism through cultural production (literature, film, photography, digital archives, podcasts) foregrounding the role of the environment in various types of discourse. The first part of the course will give students access to canonical and official texts from which we will discuss, among other points, the relation between the environment and texts that aim at projecting a national/continental identity, reflecting on the implications of considering the environment not only as a resource for economic wealth, but also as a resource for articulating a collective discourse. The second part deals with contemporary cultural production, focusing on agribusiness, mining, water shortages, and ecofeminism. We will collectively question conventional premises about the dynamics between the human and the non-human amid environmental struggles and will engage critically with the narrative strategies summoned by cultural products to portray the tensions between extractive economies and extractive practices. In addition, we will inquire about the collective imaginary these objects contribute to, how they discuss extractive policies, and what they say about 21st Century environmental activism. Class will be conducted in Spanish.
Spanish-American Seminar: Amazonian and Andean Indigenous Knowledge Today: A Cultural and Environmental Approach
SPAN 398E - Yoza Mitsuishi, Katia Mariela (Katia)
How are indigenous peoples from the Andes and the Amazon passing their knowledge today? How are their narratives and cosmologies related to current environmental concerns? This course looks at Amazonian and Andean indigenous peoples’ presence and environmental concerns in the region’s cultural manifestations. Indigenous communities offer models for reimagining our relationship with nature in the present and future. However, indigenous peoples’ rights are menaced by the State, and the continuity of their territories and cultures has been impacted by modernity, globalization, and environmental changes. In this context, they are developing new ways to transmit their knowledge in innovative formats and, in many cases, through collaborations with non-indigenous agents. These alliances result in a synergy that reaches broader global audiences that facilitate the outreach of indigenous peoples’ ecological knowledge. While exploring environmental and gender issues, students will develop analytical skills and critical thinking engaged with social justice. We will study and discuss Amazonian and Andean indigenous poetry, narratives, films, visual arts, and digital archives that deal with environmental topics and question the current political order, such as oralituras (indigenous poetry) Mapuche in Spanish, Dina Ananco’s poems in Wampis/Spanish, Amazonian textual narratives, films such as “El abrazo de la serpiente” and “Hija de la laguna,” Amazonarte urban murals, and paintings of Paris, London and Miami by Bora-Huitoto artist Brus Rubio. Class will be conducted in Spanish.
Directed Individual Study: Extractivism Through Latin American Cultural Production
SPAN 403A - Nery Mora, Aroldo
This course considers the effects of the transition from agriculture to agribusiness in daily life in Latin America, reflects on the impacts of the mining industry on the environment and society, and examines how communities face climate change. The course aims to historicize extractivism through cultural production (literature, film, photography, digital archives, podcasts) foregrounding the role of the environment in various types of discourse.