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3.00 Credits
(Writing-intensive course) Emphasis on written expression in Spanish through frequent assignments emphasizing difficult grammatical structures or idiomatic usages, sentence and paragraph structure, making smooth transitions, writing the short essay, writing descriptions, engaging in personal or business correspondence, analyzing texts, doing library research, and dra?ing and completing research papers. Students will comment on each other's work in the classroom and/or via the use of email orWeb sites and will practice techniques of self-editing and self-criticism. Meets language requirement; does not meet a distribution requirement N. Romero-Diaz, M. Monet-Viera, The department Prereq. Spanish 201; 4 credits
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(Speaking-intensive course) The course offers students the possibility of learning and putting into practice the advanced oral skills necessary to be able to handle oral exposition and discussion in a well-organized and rhetorically correct Spanish. The class will focus on such skills as debating, interviewing, and role-playing, among others. Topics will cover current cultural, political, and socioeconomic issues in the Hispanic world. Meets language requirement; does not meet a distribution requirement E. Garcia-Frasier, C. Gundermann Prereq. Spanish 201, 209, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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This course will equip students of Spanish with a variety of skills that prepare them for upper-division courses. Specific areas of study will include introduction to literary genres and movements; practice in critical reading and writing; study of figures of speech, rhetoric, and style; presentation of oral reports; use of library resources. In addition, students acquire basic knowledge of the geography, history, and culture of the Hispanic world. Meets either language requirement or Humanities I-A requirement C. Gundermann, D. Mosby, R. Mi?na Prereq. Spanish 209 or 210, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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The main objectives of this course are to consolidate students' knowledge of the language and help both nonnative and native speakers understand and explain how Spanish works as a linguistic system for communication. Topics will range from review of general goals and methods in linguistics, to phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, semantics, and language variation within the Spanish-speaking world. Meets Humanities I-A requirement E. Castro Prereq. Spanish 209 or higher; 4 credits
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4.00 Credits
(Taught in English) A?er centuries of invisibility and marginalization, Latino culture and literature exploded on the American scene in the 60s. Chicanos, Cubans, Nuyoricans, and lately Dominicans and Central Americans have all contributed to create a diversified body of literature characterized by its bilingualism, biculturalism, and hybridity. This course will center on how U.S. Latino/a literature bears witness to identity formation, self-representation, and celebration of Latino culture and its people. It will explore a series of critical issues that define "latinidad" in theU.S. Meets Humanities I-A requirement The department 4 credits
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(Speaking- and writing-intensive course; Same as Film Studies 203) This course offers a broad introduction to the history, politics and aesthetics of Latin American and Spanish cinema in the context of, and in contrast with, cinemas from other regions, especially hegemonic Hollywood aesthetics. This course will also focus specifically on introducing students to the basic terminology and methodologies of film analysis, thus preparing them for the department's film seminar (Spanish 320) and other advanced courses in film studies. Meets multicultural requirement; meets either language requirement or Humanities I-A requirement C. Gundermann Prereq. Spanish 212 or permission by the instructor; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the diversity of cultures and writings of Latin America, from pre- Columbian indigenous texts through the nineteenth century. Readings will include the Popol Vuh, Chronicles, the works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Ricardo Palma, and JoséMartí, among others. Class discussions and assigned papers based on literary analysis and research. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement D. Mosby Prereq. Spanish 212 or permission of department; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to Latin American texts from modernismo to the present. Different cultural movements and their sociopolitical contexts are examined through representative works. Class discussions and assigned papers are based on literary analysis and research. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement D. Mosby Prereq. Spanish 212 or permission of department; 4 credits
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An introduction to art, history, and literature from pre-1800 Spain. Materials may include medieval music such as the Cantigas, Arab architecture like the Cordoban Mosque, and literary texts such as the Poema de Mio Cid or Don Quijote. Class discussion and assigned papers based on literary analysis and research. Meets Humanities I-A requirement R. Mi?na Prereq. Spanish 212 or permission of department; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Spain's visual culture, intellectual history, and literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Aesthetic and philosophical movements will be studied against a backdrop of social history. Materials to be studied will include, among others, paintings by Francisco de Goya and Salvador Dalí, poems by Federico García Lorca, and films by Luis Bu?el and Pedro Almodóvar. Classdiscussions and assigned papers based on analysis and research. Meets Humanities I-A requirement J. Crumbaugh Prereq. Spanish 212 or permission of department; 4 credits
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