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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on grammar, elementary composition, practice in conversation, and reading of easy modern prose. It is taught by the intensive oral method.
Prerequisite:
This course is for students who have studied less than two years of Spanish in secondary school
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on grammar, elementary composition, practice in conversation, and reading of easy modern prose. It is taught by the intensive oral method.
Prerequisite:
Spanish 101; this course is for students who have studied less than two years of Spanish in secondary school
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of Spanish 101-102. It is designed to help students improve their proficiency in each of the major skill-groups (listening, speaking, reading and writing) while providing an introduction to the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. Classroom activities and homework are designed to increase vocabulary and improve your ability to handle daily life in a Spanish-speaking country, to express your views on complex subjects such as art and politics, and to increase your knowledge of the cultural traditions of Latin America and Spain. Film screenings and readings in Hispanic literature, culture and politics will provide material for in-class discussion and some writing assignments. This course provides the linguistic and cultural training that is necessary to engage the diverse Spanish-speaking communities of Latin America,Spain and the US; it will help to prepare students for further literary and cultural studies as well as provide skills that are increasingly essential in fields such as medicine, law, and education. Conducted in Spanish.
Prerequisite:
Spanish 101-102 or placement exam results
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of Spanish 103. It focuses on the review of grammar as well as on refining writing and speaking skills. Films and reading selections will enable students to deepen their understanding of Hispanic cultures.
Prerequisite:
Spanish 103 or the results of the Williams College placement exam
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3.00 Credits
This course involves intensive practice in speaking and writing. Students are also expected to participate actively in daily conversations based on the study of our grammar book,as well as selected short stories by Latin American and Peninsular writers. In addition, they will write frequent compositions and perform regular,written grammar exercises.Conducted in Spanish. Students who successfully complete this course with a grade of B - or above may not take 106, inasmuch as the grammatical content of 106 is very similar to 105. Such students should now enroll in a 200-level class if they wish to continue studying Spanish.
Prerequisite:
Spanish 103, Spanish 104 or results of the Williams College placement exam
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3.00 Credits
This course is not a continuation of RLSP 105, and there is no need to take it if the student has successfully completed 105 with a grade of B- or above. Written and oral work will be based on selected short stories by Latin-American writers. weekly compositions, plus regular exercises in the language laboratory.
Prerequisite:
Spanish 103, Spanish 104 or results of the Williams College placement exam
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3.00 Credits
Linguistically, culturally, and historically, Spain is a composite of the groups that have inhabited the peninsula from the past to the present. Our course examines Spain's pluricultural history and the literature, art, architecture, music, and film that result from its diversity. We begin our course with the cultural products of the period of convivencia between Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Civilizations, marked by waves of both tolerance and conflict, during which the first texts were written in Castilian Spanish. From there we will consider the development of national consciousness in Spain and its autonomous regions, including the Basque County, Catalonia, and Galicia, and its implications on language use and artistic production. Finally, we examine the most recent thought on local identity in the context of globalization and the influx of immigrants into Spain from North Africa, Latin America, and elsewhere. Secondary texts will be provided for historical and socio-political background and reference. Conducted in Spanish.
Prerequisite:
Spanish 105, permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of Latin American culture and politics by focusing on some of the most recognizable names and faces from the continent's turbulent history: Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortes and Malintzin, Simon Bolivar, Jose Marti, Pancho Villa, Eva Peron, Frida Kahlo, Che Guevara, Rigoberta Menchu and Hugo Chavez. In addition to exploring the controversies surrounding each figure and her or his influence within a specific historical context, we'll also unpack some of the overarching issues of Latin American culture and politics: How are nations and nationalism constructed through processes of representation, and what roles do specific iconic figures play in that process? How can popular culture challenge elite representations of the nation and its heroes/heroines, and how durable are the images it produces as expressions of collective will? What opportunities are available to women and sexual minorities in a political culture that has been historically dominated by macho military types? This course fulfills the EDI requirement by enabling students to appreciate the figures that have influenced generations of Latin American women and men and their sense of what is politically possible, while challenging the class to identify the operations of power at work in the construction of the figures themselves. Conducted in Spanish.
Prerequisite:
Spanish 105 or 106 or the equivalent
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3.00 Credits
This lecture and discussion course focuses on the acquisition and improvement of critical communication and analytical skills in Spanish for use both in and outside of the United States. We address all four of the primary language skills (listening, reading, writing, and speaking), with particular attention to the unique needs of students who have received a majority of their exposure to the Spanish language in an informal/domestic environment. Through the use of materials and vocabulary taken from a variety of real-life contexts, but with primary emphasis on the diverse U.S. Latina/o communities, this course aims to sharpen heritage speakers'--sociolinguistic competency and ability to interpret musical, cinematic, and literary texts in Spanish.
Prerequisite:
However, students who have completed the majority of their formal education in a Spanish-speaking country are not permitted to enroll in this course without prior permission of the instructor
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3.00 Credits
From the early twentieth century to the present day, the radical changes in the lives of Spanish women have clearly reflected the tug of war between progress and tradition in recent Spanish history. The dramatic upheavals in Spanish politics have marked and transformed the lives of women to such a great extent that one can often gauge the political and social climate of any given historical moment by considering how the role of women was defined by the law, the Catholic church, education, and other social and political institutions. Using literary and historical texts as well as films and graphic materials, this course will look at the transformations in the public and private lives of Spanish women during the following periods: the turn of the century, the Second Republic, the Spanish Civil War, the Franco years, and the transition to democracy.
Prerequisite:
Spanish 201, permission of the instructor, or acceptable results of the Williams College Placement Exam
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