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3.00 Credits
The development of literature from colonial through modern times, stressing significant zwriters and trends.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores Iberian and Latin American readings on the visual arts, cinema, architecture and music. A variety of texts, such as essays, scholarly articles, film, opera, songs, poetry, and autobiographic prose created on both sides of the Atlantic will serve as a starting point for an exploration of the plastic and performing arts on the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America from the prehistoric times to the present. Reading, classroom discussions and writing assignments are designed to improve students' speaking and writing skills in Spanish. This course explores Iberian and Latin American readings on the visual arts, cinema, architecture and music. A variety of texts, such as essays, scholarly articles, film, opera, songs, poetry, and autobiographic prose created on both sides of the Atlantic will serve as a starting point for an exploration of the plastic and performing arts on the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America from the prehistoric times to the present. Reading, classroom discussions and writing assignments are designed to improve students' speaking and writing skills in Spanish. Prerequisite: two 200-level courses in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
How is gender imagined in cultural production What role has feminism played in transforming women's writing How is sexuality represented in film and literature What is the relationship between gender and ethnicity in articulating subjectivity We will consider these questions and many others in our exploration of the construction of gender and sexuality in texts by men and women in Spanish America. How is gender imagined in cultural production What role has feminism played in transforming womens' writing How is sexuality represented in film and literature What is the relationship between gender and ethnicity in articulating subjectivity We will consider these questions and many others in our exploration of the construction of gender and sexuality in texts by men and women in Spanish America. Prerequisite: two 200-level courses in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores literary works, themes, genres and movements that emerged from or accompanied a series of popular uprisings and revolutions (e.g., the Mexican Revolution) during the twentieth century. We will also study literary responses to repression during dictatorships and redemocratization. This course explores literary works, themes, genres, and movements that emerged from or accompanied a series of popular uprisings and revolutions (e.g., the Mexican Revolution) during the twentieth century. We will also study literary responses to repression during dictatorships and redemocratization. Prerequisite: two 200-level courses in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the development of colonial discourse and ideology from the time of colonization and conquest of the Americas. We will explore Indigenous expression, European mercantilist writing, and the rise of Creole and Mestizo forms of American consciousness. Special attention will be devoted to the ways in which the various ideological and discursive forms generated in that period survive in the present. This course examines the development of colonial discourse and ideology from the time of colonization and conquest of the Americas. We will explore Indigenous expression, European mercantilist writing and the rise of Creole and Mestizo forms of American consciousness. Special attention will be devoted to the ways in which the various ideological and discursive forms generated in that period survive in the present. Prerequisite: two 200-level courses in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores exemplary texts written by Latina/ Latino authors and examines them in relation to their representation of issues such as gender and sexualities, diasporic identities, and bilingualism. We will consider a diversity of Chicana/o and Latina/o literature (poetry, narrative, theater, and film) in our analysis of topics such as transculturation, (im)migration, feminist consciousness, exile, mythology and liguistic identity. This course explores exemplary texts written by Latina/ Latino authors and examines them in relation to their representation of issues such as gender and sexualities, diasporic identities, and bilingualism. We will consider a diversity of Chicana/o and Latina/o literature (poetry, narrative, theater and film) in our analysis of topics such as transculturation, (im)migration, feminist consciousness, exile, mythology and liguistic identity. Prerequisite: two 200-level courses in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines cultural production from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico in relation to national and pan-Caribbean identities. We will specifically focus on issues of race, gender, sexuality, and migration as they relate to cultural identity. This course examines cultural production from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico in relation to national and pan-Caribbean identities. We will specifically focus on issues of race, gender, sexuality, and migration as they relate to cultural identity. Prerequisite: two 200-level courses in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines issues concerning picaresque literature , its historical development, its relationship to issues of gender definition, and its definition of the figure of the rogue, "picaro" or "picara" as anti-hero in Spanish and Latin-American literature. This course examines issues concerning picaresque literature , its historical development, its relationship to issues of gender definition, and its definition of the figure of the rogue, "picaro" or "picara" as anti-hero in Spanish and Latin-American literature. Prerequisite: two 200-level courses in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of linguistic theory and method. Application of linguistic principle to learning and teaching of foreign languages. Basic principles of the phoneme, morpheme and constituent analysis. Survey of grammatical theory, with special emphasis on contrasive grammar in the target language of the student.
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30.00 Credits
Participants in this intensive language and culture immersion program will increase oral proficiency and deepen cross-cultural competencies through Spanish language immersion and intercultural exchange taught by WCSU faculty in Spanish. The first week of the course will focus on arts appreciation and creative inquiry, the enviroment and social change, and cultural knowledge related to the social and political history of the region through lectures and discussion with faculty from WCSU in partnership with faculty from an institution of higher education abroad. In addition to the study of language and culture, this seminar will provide teacher training and professional development for current and future teachers with more than 30 hours of classroom observations in schools, opportunitites to participate in teaching lessons, and instructional technology final projects. Participants in this intensive language and culture immersion program will increase oral proficiency and deepen cross-cultural competencies through Spanish language immersion and intercultural exchange taught by WCSU faculty in Spanish. The first week of the course will focus on art appreciation and creative inquiry, the enviroment and social change, and cultural knowledge related to the social and political history of the region through lectures and discussion with faculty from WCSU, in partnership with faculty from an institution of higher education abroad. In addition to the study of language and culture, this seminar will provide teacher training and professional development for current and future teachers with more than 30 hours of classroom observations in schools, opportunitites to participate in teaching lessons, and instructional technology final projects. Prerequisite/Corequisite: one semester of Spanish study or placement examination by oral preficiency examination.
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