|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
1.50 Credits
Staff New York has always been a destination for travelers, expatriates, immigrant, and others in search of adventure, a new life, or a temporary home. This course explores place, identity, and diaspora in the literature of the Hispanic and Latino/Latina experiences in new York from the late 19th century to the present. Includes writers from Latin America (MartÃ, Burgos, Sánchez,)Spain (Jiménez, Lorca) and the United States (Pietri, Pi ero, Prida) and a variety of genres and media. Prerequisite: Spanish 101. Offered occasionally.
-
1.50 Credits
Staff Topics vary each year. In 2008-2009, the topic will be and will be taught by Professor Castro-Sethness. This interdisciplinary course examines literary and artistic representations of Madrid since the 16th century to the present time. The course will focus on interrelationships between trends in art, social traditions, and literature. Readings will include works by Ramón de la Cruz, Emilia Pardo Bazán,Mesonero Romanos, Galdós, Alberti, y Rosa Chacel. We will also study selected paintings by Manuel de la Cruz, Goya, Gutierrez Solana and Antonio López. Prerequisite: Spanish 101 or equivalent.
-
1.50 Credits
Skinner After the Wars of Independence (1810-1824) in Spanish America, writers and intellectuals in the new Spanish American nations had to confront the problem of defining and articulating their national identities. In this course we read some of the most important texts (novels, short stories, poetry, and essays) that treat the topic of national identity, with particular focus on gender, race and ethnicity, regionalism, and social class. We also put literary works in their cultural and historical contexts. Prerequisite: Spanish 100 or above, or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
-
1.50 Credits
Staff This course will examine major literary and cultural trends demonstrated in Latin American short fiction. We focus on writings from the 19th and 20th centuries and follow the construction of nations in the post independence era and the issues of national identities in present day Latin America. We study Realist and Regionalist trends, the role of experimentation and innovation in Fantastic and Existentialist texts and the role of the past in recent short stories from a continent looking towards the future. Prerequisite: Spanish 100 or above. Offered every other year.
-
1.50 Credits
Staff Study of selected masterpieces of the Boom and post- Boom, including novels by GarcÃa Márquez, SkármetaPuig, and Ferré. Themes such as myth and history, language and power, gender and social status are explored, while we study pertinent literary techniques and recent writerly trends. Attendance of at least two films mandatory. Prerequisite: Spanish 100 or above. Offered every other year.
-
1.50 Credits
Santana The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) cast a long shadow over Spanish culture. The novel of the Franco years (1939- 75) is haunted by the conflict. This course examines the effects of the war in novels by Camilo José Cela, Carmen Laforet, Mercé Rodoreda, Francisco Ayala, Ramón Sender,and Juan Marsé. Prerequisite: Spanish 101 or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
-
1.50 Credits
Santana Explores the avatars of Spanish realism throughout the 20th century and its more recent manifestations in literature and film. The surveyed trajectory spans late 19th century Realismo, Surrealismo ( 1920's and 1930's), Realismo social/Neorealismo ( 1950's-60's), an d Realismosucio ( 1990's). The course will address the ways in which Spanish writers have dialogued with French, Italian and United States' traditions of realism. Prerequisite: Spanish 101 or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
-
1.50 Credits
Velazco Traces the development of Latin American cinema from the formative years of the 1960's through the 1990's. Examines both films and theoretical writings of pioneering filmmakers, paying special attention to the emergence of a new women's cinema in the '80's an'90's. Prerequisite: Spanish 100 or above, or permissionof instructor. Offered every third year.
-
1.50 Credits
Santana. Explores the transition from realism to modernism, focusing on the crisis caused by Spain's loss of its last colonies and the internal conflicts that lead to the Spanish Civil War. We will read works by AzorÃn, PÃoBaroja, Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset, Antonio Machado, Valle-Inclán, as well as Latin American writers who address "el problema de Espa a." Prerequisite: Spanish101 or permission of instructor. Offered every other year.
-
1.50 Credits
Velazco During the 1990's, many Latin American nations moved towards fully democratic political systems despite years of caudillismo, military dictatorships, revolutions and coups d'etat. This course will analyze the representations of Latin America's new political reality in its literature and cinema. Prerequisite: Spanish 100 or above, or permission of instructor. Offered every third year.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|