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4.00 Credits
With the guidance and supervision of a faculty member, students must prepare a senior thesis. The thesis must focus on a specific area of Spanish language, Hispanic literature and culture involving detailed research. Offered every semester. Prerequisites: Sr. standing in ML program; EMS placement. Note: Students may choose to take an additional 4000 or 5000 level course instead of completing a senior thesis.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines all of the aspects of Spanish structure from a general linguistics point of view. Expanding upon to Spanish linguistics course, this course will examine large samples of Spanish texts, both written and spoken, to establish the rules of morphology (word formation) and syntax (sentence formation) using the formal and technical vocabulary developed by modern linguistics. Although primarily a content course designed to teach the non-native speaker about the deep structure and surface structure of the language according to the so-called standard Latin American and Iberian linguistic norms, students will be expected to examine linguistic data in Spanish spoken by natives from a wide variety of regional and social backgrounds with a view to identifying both native and non-native speech patterns, error analysis and sociolinguistic variation.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on literary masterpieces from Spain and Latin America, with emphasis on works written from mid-19th century to the end of the 20th century. Topics include: Modernism and Modernity in the poetic expression of Spain and Latin America; major literary movements and representative authors; "Voices of the Masters": Works by (from Spain): Miguel de Unamuno, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Federico Garcia Lorca, Vicente Aleixandre; (from Latin America): Jose Marti, Ruben Dario, Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces teacher candidates to Cervantes and the Spanish Golden Age's major writers, emphasizing their contributions to the development of modern European literature and thought. Close readings and analysis of Don Quixote and the Exemplary Novels will constitute the core of the course. Students will also be guided through critical readings of narrative (the picaresque novel), lyric (Italianate and Baroque poetry from Garcilaso to Sor Juana Ines) and dramatic texts (major plays by Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Alarcon and Calderon). Issues of subjectivity, linguistic perspectivism, humor and irony, gender, and national identity will be discussed. Attention will also be paid to literary and cultural history, as well as questions of critical method.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a historical overview and a theoretical perspective on the subject of colonialism and immigration affecting both the US and Latin America. Major literary works that explore this topic will be examined to trace how migration processes and cultural production affect the formation of national identity. Text selections will include: Octavio Paz, El laberinto de la soledad, Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La frontera.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for teachers of Spanish who are interested in strengthening their language skills via a thorough review of grammar, writing, and conversation in the target language, as well as through an in-depth study of the culture and art of Spain. Participants will take language classes in the morning with prfessors from the USC and an art and culture class with an Old Westbury ML faculty in the afternoon. Students will acquire knowledge of the development of the distinctive features of the arts, culture, and civilization of Spain. They will be able to utilize this hands-on experience and the information acquired-as well as the results of their own research in their own teaching of the Spanish language, art, and culture of Spain.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the arts in Spain and Latin America through a comparative study of artistic movements on both sides of the Atlantic starting at the time of the conquest. Students will become familiarized with the major art movements that have shaped Hispanic art, from the flowering of the baroque, through the Neo-Classical, Romantic, Modernist, Surrealist, and Post-Modern aesthetic expressions. Such issues as the relationship of theater and poetry to painting in the Golden Age, or Goya's role in the shaping of the Romantic vision in literature, or the influence of literary movements on modern masters will be discussed. We will consider decorative arts, as well as painting and fine arts. Guest lectures and study trips to museums will be integrated into this course.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the cinemas of Spain and Latin America (including Brazil) as both a reflection on/and a contribution to Hispanic Cultures. Particular emphasis will be placed on ethnicity, gender, politics, and issues of identity as they are presented on the screen and other texts. Students will be introduced to a variety of readings on film criticism and theory, popular culture, literary theory and literary texts. Some films will be previewed during class and others will be assigned before class- time. Films will vary per semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide a background on the history of slavery, and its social and political impact on Spanish Caribbean societies. We will analyze aesthetic, political and social discourses as presented in the 19th century anti- slavery literary texts. Particular attention will be given to issues of race, gender representation, the formation of criollo society, and nation building.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents a survey of the major civilizations of the Americas who inhabited the territories now occupied by Latin America prior to the Spanish Conquest. Beginning with the three best known civilizations of the Mayas, the Aztecs, and the Inca, and branching off into the exploration of other Mexican and peruvian ancestors, the course will explore the cosmology of the ancient world for its impact on all areas of ancient life in terms of religion and folk beliefs, social structure, scientific achievement, literature, and language. Critical questions to be examined will focus upon issues of import to contemporary indigenous cultures and their impact upon political and social movements and how they fare in the face of globalization. Course readings will include scholarly textbooks; articles selected specific to select topics; early manuscripts; and original texts in Spanish translation; as well as several films.
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