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4.00 Credits
Designed for the non-native speaker, this course will provide intensive oral practice based on different topics related to Hispanic culture, as well as focus on current events of particular interest to students. A variety of readings and short writing assignments will help to amplify and develop vocabulary and strengthen the ability to express ideas. Offered every fall. Prerequisite: ML3230 or permission of M.L. faculty.
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4.00 Credits
Designed for the non-native Spanish speaker who has mastered the first advanced level of Spanish grammar, composition and conversation, and would like to acquire higher-level skills in speaking and writing the language. The course may include viewing and discussion of films. Offered every spring. Prerequisite: ML4220 or permission of M.L. faculty .
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4.00 Credits
Creative Writing in Spanish: The Short Story or Memoir Taught in Spanish. A writing-intensive course designed to introduce students to reading, writing, and thinking critically about Spanish- language short stories or memoirs. It explores the formal elements of the genre, as well as the political and theoretical context of the selected readings. Students will write, revise, and discuss one short-story or short- memoir of their own. Offered periodically. Prerequisites: ML3500 and ML3600 or permission of Instructor
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4.00 Credits
Taught in Spanish. Selected plays by a variety of Spanish-speaking dramatists will be read and examined critically and analytically. The plays will represent a broad range of styles and subject matter, and touch upon the philosophical, social, and cultural issues that have preoccupied Spanish and Latin American playwrights in modern times. Works by Arrabal, Dragun, Garro, Triana, Paz, Fuentes, and Vargas Llosa may be included, as well as recent performance pieces by Latino playwrights. A focal point of the course will be the preparation of dramatic readings of selected scenes. Offered periodically. Prerequisites: ML3500 or ML3600
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4.00 Credits
Recurrent Themes in Latin American Painting and Literature Taught in Spanish. This course explores the importance of art and literature in the construction of national, cultural, and social discourses in Latin America. Representations of Latin American by European engravers of the 16th and 17th centuries will be analyzed alongside excerps from colonial literary texts concerned in explaining the newly "discovered" lands to their European sponsors. We will look at the nationalistic discourses as presented by the Mexican Muralish movement and writings by Octavio Paz. We will also examine the Hispanic Caribbean painters' and writers' projects to develop a new artistic vocabulary and their (dis)illusions with their countries' social and political conditions. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: ML3500 and ML3600 or permission of Instructor .
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4.00 Credits
Open to Hispanic students who need to improve their ability to write in Spanish and to expand their overall vocabulary and knowledge of the language. Focus is on the development of reading and writing skills through class discussions, written exercises and compositions. Offered every spring. Prerequisite: Permission of M.L. faculty.
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4.00 Credits
Taught in Spanish. Designed for the student who has mastered the Spanish communication skills at the advanced level and is now interested in undertaking a study of the principal literary genres (poetry, drama, the essay, narrative). Works of noted Hispanic authors will be read and analyzed with regard to form and content. Students will be helped in developing both research skills and the requisite skills for writing effective essays and term papers in Spanish. Offered every semester. Prerequisites: ML4320, ML4362; or permission of M.L. faculty.
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4.00 Credits
Taught in Spanish. A close reading and analysis of major works of fiction and poetry by Hispanic women. Students will be introduced to signifiacant pre-20th century authors; however the main focus of the course will be on contemporary texts. Selected writers from different areas, such as Emelia Pardo Bazan, Maria Luisa Bomba, Julia de Burgos, Rosario Ferre, Elena Poniatowska, Gabriela Mistral, Isabel Allende, et al., will give students a sense of the diversity and range of Hipanic women's writing. We will examine these writers' response to "machismo" and the limited role of women in traditional societies. Questions concerning the feminine literary tradition, such as how the female experience is represented in texts written by women, and whether there is a specifically "female" writing will also be discussed. Offered every third semester. Prerequisite: ML4400 or permission of ML faculty.
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4.00 Credits
Taught in Spanish. A study of the culture and literature of Spain through representative works, beginning with the epic poem "El Cid", Spain's first recorded literary work, and continuing through the 18th century. Students will examine the concepts of honor, religious duty, love, conquest, and the nation as represented in the Spanish tradition. Offered every third semester. Prerequisite: ML3500 or permission of ML faculty.
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4.00 Credits
Taught in Spanish. This course will provide students with an introduction to the culture and civilization of Spain. We will start with a brief overview of key events in Spanish history but emphasis will be placed more specifically on contemporary Spain. Analysis and discussion of literary works, films, music, and art will help students understand and appreciate the role played by Spain in modern European history and her contributions in the arts as well as in popular culture. Themes for discussion and research may include: the image of human experience in the Spanish novel; pluralism; unity and the Spanish identity; post-modern cinema; the Civil War and the Franco era; Spain as Romantic myth and tourist heaven, etc
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