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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary study of the performance of US Latino/a identity through the study of literature, music, visual arts. and media arts in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will examine literary texts, music, musicals, films, visual arts, and TV shows and other media arts by major US Latino/a and non-US Latino/a figures such as Hector Tobar, Gloria Anzaldúa, Esmeralda Santiago, Oscar Hijuelos, Sandra Cisneros, Amparo Escandón, Celia Cruz, Selena, Rubén Blades, Ritchie Valens, Gregory Nava, Luiz Valdés, Lin-Manuel Miranda, George Lopez, José Antonio Burciaga, Yreina Cervantez,among others. This course fulfills literature and humanities distribution requirements; it will be conducted in English.
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3.00 Credits
This innovative and interdisciplinary course takes the student to a cultural and literary journey through Spain by examining the historic, geographic and generational diversity of various Spanish artistic forms from the Middle Ages to modern times. Lectures and class discussion will complement a wide spectrum of audio-visual material that will show the major characteristics of early Iberian iconography, the Renaissance works of Luis de Morales, the mannerism style of El Greco, the baroque portrait artistry of Diego Velázquez, the revolutionary and visionary Rococo expressions of Francisco Goya, the Impressionism and Post-Impressionism of Sorolla, and the major works of the 20th century by Picasso and DalÃ. The course will furthermore offer a discussion of the origins of Spanish music and present various samples of the vibrant and long history of music in Spain from the Gregorian chant and the xarchas to flamenco and regional folk music to contemporary pop music. Completing the course will be a reading and textual analysis of key parts of major literary texts, among them the Cid, La Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes, and the more modern works by Galdós, Valera, Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset, and Camilo José Cela.
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3.00 Credits
Provides an overview of traditional and innovative strategies for written and sight translation of different kinds of texts and basic concepts of translation theory. Interpretation and analysis focus on texts dealing with contemporary economic, political, social, environmental, and cultural considerations. Prerequisites: 204 or 211.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces more difficult and complex translation projects that may involve trade or technical language, with emphasis on translation needs in the professional sector. Topics and tasks are concentrated in fields with high demand for translators. Prerequisites: 320 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
In this Class the outstanding novels and short stories of Modern Spain will be studied: Matute, MartÃn Gaite, Sender, Cela, Tusquets, Rodoreda, and others. Prerequisite: 300 or 310.
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3.00 Credits
Have Muslims, Christians and Jews ever lived together in harmony? The question is obviously of enormous relevance to modern times, for to be able to answer it in the affirmative would provide some rebuttal to those who assert that the conflict is intractable. Given the long and complex shared history of the three Abrahamic faiths in Spain, one can find many examples of tensions, violence and war. Yet at the same time, Spain also offers fascinating examples of interreligious cooperation, collaboration and tolerance. This course will examine Islamic Spain and its myriad depictions in an interdisciplinary fashion. We will begin by looking at the controversies surrounding the historiography of the period, examining early Arabic and Christian sources, as well as modern histories. The course will then turn to the religious and intellectual traditions, exploring how theologians, philosophers and mystics from all three faith groups attempted to reconcile religion and philosophy. We will also study various aspects of culture in these groups, from architecture, storytelling, music and poetry to culinary traditions. Class will be conducted in English. Students who wish to count the course towards the Spanish (or SIS) major or minor, will meet weekly for an additional hour of discussion in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the major works of medieval Spain from the earliest vernacular works to the fifteenth century. Also provides an introduction to Old Spanish, paleography, and codicology. Taught completely in Spanish. Readings include selections from Poema del mio Cid, Galician-Portuguese lyric, Libro del cauallero de dios, Libro de buen amor, El conde Lucanor, and Amadis de Gaula. Prerequisite: 300 or 310.
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary study of modern and contemporary Latin American popular song repertoires and their relationship to socio-political movements. It examines songs from the New Song, Mexican corridos, salsa, norteña music, reggaeton, tango, rock, among others. Prerequisite: Span 204 or 211.
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3.00 Credits
This course will consider the literature, art and film of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) in a cultural context. It will include representative works of literature by such writers as Lorca, Cela, Matute, Rivas, Martin Gaite, M. Hernandez, Delibes, Machado, Alberti, and others. The art of Picasso will be studied in the framework of the war, as will propaganda art, posters and music from the Nationalists and the Republicans. A variety of films concerning various aspects of the war years will be integrated into the course.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of trends and some of the more representative twentieth-century writers from the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. Explores cultural convergences and divergences and introduces students to the variety and richness of modern/contemporary literature being written in Spanish and Portuguese. Authors read may include Clarice Lispector, Isabel Allende, Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Cortazar, Elena Poniatowska, C. Martin Gaite, Merce Rodoreda, E. Mendoza, and Jose Saramago. Taught in English.
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