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3.00 Credits
Intensive practice in reading, composition, and conversation, as well as attention to selected grammar problems. The course focuses on discussion through visual presentations and selections of Hispanic literature, art, and culture. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 201. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 22 per section. Normally offered every year. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
This course develops oral fluency and aural acuity as well as reading and writing skills by means of directed and spontaneous classroom activities and regular written assignments. Conversations and compositions are based primarily on readings and films. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 202. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 20 per section. Normally offered every year. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of Spanish 207 with particular emphasis upon analyzing a variety of texts and developing more sophistication in writing. Conversations and compositions are based on both literary and cultural readings. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 202. Recommended background: Spanish 207. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 20 per section. Normally offered every year. F. López, D. George.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of representative Spanish American literary texts. Major emphasis is on reading and discussing texts that relate to specific problems of literary form (such as poetry, theater, and novel), literary movements, and literary periodization. The topics are also discussed in their sociocultural contexts. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 207 or 208. Open to first-year students. [W2] Normally offered every year. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of representative peninsular Spanish texts. Major emphasis is on reading and discussing texts that relate to specific problems of literary form (such as poetry, theater, and novel), literary movements, and literary periodization. The topics are also discussed in their sociocultural contexts. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 207 or 208. Open to first-year students. [W2] Normally offered every year. B. Fra-Molinero, F. López.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the complex relationship between literature and cinema in light of narrative techniques and the mechanical, social, cultural, political, and economic limitations that determine the representative possibilities of both media. Through the study of literary works and their cinematic adaptations from Latin America, Spain, and the United States, students consider the theoretical and practical debates-between writers and directors, publishers and producers, literary critics and film critics, and readers and viewers as consumers-that emerge in the process of transposition from the written word to film. Prerequsite(s): Spanish 207, 208, 215, or 216. C. Aburto Guzmán, D. George.
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3.00 Credits
Since the 1960s, Latin American writers have used el/a travesti, and more recently, transgender characters in their fictional narratives. These works may be read as political allegories, as interventions in national identity construction as well as in existing traditional gender discourses, or as an engagement with contemporary Latin American human rights movements. Students read the original works in Spanish. The theoretical framework may be read in English, although all discussions and written assignments are in Spanish. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 215. C. Aburto Guzmán.
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3.00 Credits
In this course students study different ways of representing the passion of love, from the love of God to loving someone of the same sex. Spanish cities in the Middle Ages and San Francisco, California, are some settings where idealized as well as forbidden forms of love take place in the texts of the Arcipreste de Hita, La Celestina, and gay Mexican American poets. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 215 or 216. [W2] B. Fra-Molinero.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the short story as a genre in Latin America. Attention is given to the genre's definition and to the different trajectories and currents in its development. Students read major works as well as those by less-known writers. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 207 or 208. Open to first-year students. [W2] Normally offered every year. C. Aburto Guzmán.
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3.00 Credits
The first manifestations of the short story as a genre in Spanish date back to the Middle Ages. In this course, students consider the evolution of the genre, from the cultural hybridity that shaped the earliest short stories to contemporary approaches to the literary form. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 207 or 208. Recommended background: Spanish 216. [W2] F. López.
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