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Course Criteria
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
State terrorism and revolution in S. America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay) from 1980 to 2008 through testimonies, literary and history texts, and documentary films. GER:DB-Hum 3-5 units, Spr (Ruffinelli, J)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Fifty years of Cuban cinema, with an emphasis on the social and political changes inside the Cuban revolution and its reflections and consequences in film production. Films which deal the role of women in society ( Retrato de Teresa), migration ( Memorias del subdesarrollo, Lejanía), history (La última cena, Lucia) , youth( Personal Belongings, El telón de azúcar) , including films made byCubans in the U.S. (El super). 3-5 units, Win (Ruffinelli, J)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Cervantes' representation of a new world characterized by geographical, social and cultural plurality. Topics include: the Baroque space (Deleuze); the fascination of alterity; the imperative of honor and the hermeneutic of defaud and disappointment; the theatralization of the environment and the new rhetoric; the language of the body and women as protagonist; neoplatonism; a new conciousness of authorship. Texts by Cervantes, Mraraval, and Villari. GER:DB-Hum 3-5 units, Spr (Sanchez, J)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Tthe relationship between love and power through representative literary texts from the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics: romanticism and the nation; modernism and postmodernism; affinities and kinship; love and desire; and gender, sexualities, and revolution. Authors: Isaacs, Bombal, Girondo, Vallejo, Neruda, García Marquéz, Córtazar, Valenzuela, Lispector. Film adaptations : El besode la mujer ara a, La virgen de los sicarios, Dona Flor e Seus dois maridos. May be repeated for credit. 3-5 units, Win (Briceno, X)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as COMPLIT 233, ENGLISH 233.) The literary, cultural, and political implications of the 17th-century phenomenon formed in response to the conditions of the 16th century including humanism, absolutism, and early capitalism, and dispersed through Europe, the Americas, and Asia. If the Baroque is a universal code of this period, how do its vehicles, such as tragic drama, Ciceronian prose, and metaphysical poetry, converse with one another The neobaroque as a complex reaction to the remains of the baroque in Latin American cultures, with attention to the mode in recent Brazilian literary theory and Mexican poetry. 5 units, Win (Greene, R)
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1.00 - 12.00 Credits
Open to department advanced undergraduates or graduate students by consent of professor. May be repeated for credit. 1-12 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Focus is on the works of directors and films that employ the expressive resorts of fiction cinema to delve into the dramaturgy of the real. The trend in Spanish documentary cinema that has formalized an original filmic way of writing to create a new type of dramatic emotion in dialogue with the ups and downs of history, culture, society, and politics. 3-5 units, Aut (Ballo, J)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as HUMNTIES 323.) Focus is on this period as it records the impact of major historical forces: the advent of printing; the reappropriation of classical thought; the expansion of trade; revolutions in religion; the exploration of uncharted realms of the self, the world, and the heavens; and the rise of historiography. Authors: Attar, de Pizan, Pico della Mirandola, Columbus, De Las Casas, Machiavelli, Luther, Montaigne, Marlowe, Donne, Shakespeare, and Galileo. 3-5 units, Spr (Barletta, V)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Major works written in Catalan from the 15th century. Authors and texts may include: Jordi de Sant Jordi; Ausiàs March; Jaume Roig; Joan Roís de Corella; Curial e Güelfa; and Tirant lo Blanc. 3-5 units, Win (Barletta, V)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Aira's fiction as a prism on contemporary society, emphasizing phenomena such as consumerism, escapism, globalization, and the crossroads between visuality and the political. Topics include: Aira's place within and against the Argentine and Latin American traditions; dialogues with theoretical discourses of Jameson, Debord, and Derrida; novelitas as interventions; genre and gender; body politics; nonsequitur as narrative structure; utopia; science fiction as high culture; and relations to contemporary art. 3-5 units, Aut (Hoyos, H)
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