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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. A comparison of the contemporary fiction of Spanish America and Brazil. Topics vary, but may include: the short story; race, gender and nationalism; the regionalist novel; experimental fiction; fiction and popular culture. Among the selected authors are Julio Cortázar, Guimarães Rosa, Fonseca, Borges, Clarice Lispector, Rulfo, Donoso, Icaza, Ramos, Rivera. Reading competence in Spanish and Portuguese to be established by previous course work or judgment of instructor. (Same as PORT 671.)
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. This course satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. A study of the literature of the emerging nations in Spanish America, with special attention to new genres such as the anti-slavery novel, gauchesque poetry, and the indigenist novel. Authors include BolÃvar, Bello, Gómez de Avellaneda, Manzano, Sarmiento, Hernández, Isaacs, Galván, and Matto de Turner.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Bass, Prof. Dangler, Prof. Davis, Prof. Pavlovic. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. This course covers literature by women authors from the Middle Ages through the twentieth-century. Examination of the poetic, prose, dramatic, and cinematic works by women in Spain from a theoretical perspective that considers how the writers studied, communicate their experiences as women and authors in various historical, political, social, and artistic contexts.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. A literary analysis of prose, poetry, and theatre by Latin American women tracing the development of intellectual thought in various Latin American societies. Cinematic works included. Special attention to the evolution of gender roles in conjunction with the development of a race, class, and ethnic consciousness as reflected in the literature of women. Authors include: Sor Juana, Gómez de Avellaneda, Matto de Turner, Storni, Agustini, Parra, Castellanos, Ferré, Allende, Eltit, Poniatowska.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. Explores contemporary border theory from an historical perspective in the context of the Americas. Examines postmodern/postcolonial notions of racial and cultural difference and otherness as they play out in nineteenth-century literature. Looks at border culture along the US-Mexican border as well as in other Latin American contexts.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar, Prof. Gómez, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera-DÃaz. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. The course is an intensive survey of Latin American cultural studies. Topics to be studied include: interactions among popular, erudite, and mass cultures; debates on modernity and postmodernity; relations between alphabetic and non-alphabetic writing systems in colonial and post colonial contexts; emergence and development of Latin American concepts such as mestizaje, hybridity, transculturation, heterogeneity; relations between culture and the state; issues of class, race, and gender in the study of Latin American culture. Theorists to be studies include Néstor GarcÃa Canclini, José MartÃn Barbero, Beatriz Sarlo, Nelly Richard, Roberto Schwarz, Silviano Santiago.
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Prof. Dangler. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. This course satisfies the pre-twentieth-century requirement. A study of the literatures and cultures of medieval Iberia through the fifteenth century, with a focus on topics that may include Andalusi poetry, love in the Libro de buen amor, or medieval manuscript culture.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. This course is a seminar on major authors of the Hispanic literary tradition from both Spain and Latin America. Note: Open only to graduating seniors. Satisfies: Capstone requirement for majors.
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3.00 Credits
Denise Weiss Principles of audience analysis, speech composition, and delivery. Special attention is given to persuasive techniques Note: Credit will not be given for both COMM 121 and USPC 140.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the impact of social, psychological, emotional and environmental factors on the small-group decision-making process. Emphasis is on the study and application of current problem-solving theories and techniques. (Satisfies humanities requirement for SCS students.)
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