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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Texts from the Aztec, Inca, and Maya civilizations as expressions of their society, religion, and relationship with nature, as well as reflections of a highly developed aesthetic sensibility.
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4.00 Credits
Close readings of the principal prose works, particularly Don Quijote and/or the Novelas ejemplares, supplemented by critical and historical readings. Special attention paid to questions of madness and desire, authorship, the seductions and the dangers of reading, the status of representation, the relation between history and truth, the Inquisition, Spanish imperialism, the New World, the Morisco expulsion, and more.
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4.00 Credits
Readings and discussions of contemporary Hispanic texts and review of the main grammatical concepts of Spanish. Completion of this course fulfills the MAP foreign language requirement.
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4.00 Credits
Selected texts from Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries (traditionally considered the Golden Age of Spanish art and literature), read in the context of Counter-Reformation culture and Spain's changing place in early modern Europe. Authors include Garcilaso, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón de la Barca, Quevedo, and Góngora. The course may be taught with a focus on theatre or poetry (or both).
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4.00 Credits
Survey of the major artists, movements, and institutions that shaped Spanish art from the end of the 19th century to the end of the 20th, including Antoni GaudÃ, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Luis Buñuel, Salvador DalÃ, Antoni Tà pies, Equipo Crónica, and Pedro Almodóvar. Themes include the reception of the European avant-garde; the debate between "pure" and "social" art; the use of history and myth in the construction of national artistic styles; center and periphery; and the role of academies, galleries, exhibitions, and cafés in the formation of artistic identities. See It, Read It: Photography and Discourse in
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4.00 Credits
An analysis of photography in relation to writing. The course explores the inherent tension in the photograph between its role as historical document or as artistic work through a study of the history of Latin American photography, and explores the impact of photography on writing through key texts that take photography as their main concern (but where no photographs appear) and texts that play on the page with the relationship between image and word.
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4.00 Credits
Offered periodically. 4 points. Compares Cortázar’s work with that of his contemporaries, establishing connections and influences among them, while at the same time studying the author’s manipulation of high and low culture through his involvement with photography, painting, jazz, boxing, almanacs, and music.
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4.00 Credits
Recent topics include New Borderlands in Latin America and Spain, Cultures of the Mexican Revolution, Myth and Literature, Hispanic Cities, Latin American Film, Intimacy and Precarity, Performance and Human Rights in Latin America, Literature and Animality, and Is Spanish One Language? Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures
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4.00 Credits
Offered every other year.
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4.00 Credits
Using an interdisciplinary, multimedia, and comparative approach, the course examines various cities in the Spanish-speaking world and their physical, spatial, literary, musical, and imaginary constructions. Cities covered may include Mexico City, Havana, Lima, Buenos Aires, San Juan, Madrid, Barcelona, and New York.
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