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  • SPAN 446: The Latin American Essay

    3.00 Credits
    Montclair State University

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SPANISH & ITALIAN Credits: 3.00 Spanish-American Essayists. Start Spring 2010: The Latin American Essay. Prerequisites: SPAN 363. This course examines the Latin American essay from its beginnings in 1900 with Rodo's seminal essay Ariel through contemporary exponents of the genre such as Roberto Schwarz. The essay will be studied as a form in its own right, as a vehicle for charting shifts in theories of identity, and a barometer for trends in Latin American literature from Romanticism through the "boom" and current theories of hybridity and globalization. 3 hours lecture.
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  • SPAN 447: Contemp Spanish- Amer Short Story

    3.00 Credits
    Montclair State University

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SPANISH & ITALIAN Credits: 3.00 Contemporary Spanish-American Short Story. Prerequisites: SPAN 363. Trends in the contemporary short story; the short story as an important genre in Spanish-American letters. 3 hours lecture.
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  • SPAN 448: Contemporary Latin am Poetry

    3.00 Credits
    Montclair State University

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SPANISH & ITALIAN Credits: 3.00 Contemporary Spanish-American Poetry. Start Spring 2010: Contemporary Latin American Poetry. Prerequisites: SPAN 363. This course examines contemporary Latin American poetry and changing poetic movements from the Avant-garde through to the Neo-romantic and Neo-baroque. It explores the role of philosophy, religion, and myth in the elaboration of a poetic language. Students will investigate and approach the intricacies of diverse Latin American poetic strategies in the context of different critical practices. 3 hours lecture.
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  • SPAN 449: Spanish- American Novel

    3.00 Credits
    Montclair State University

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SPANISH & ITALIAN Credits: 3.00 The Spanish-American Novel. Prerequisites: SPAN 363. Development of the Spanish-American novel up to 1945. 3 hours lecture.
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  • SPAN 450: Intro to Interpreting

    3.00 Credits
    Montclair State University

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SPANISH & ITALIAN Credits: 3.00 Introduction to Interpreting. Prerequisites: SPAN 241. Special fee. This course is designed to teach the student the specialized techniques of oral interpreting and to prepare them for a career in the field. Visits to observe professional interpreters at work will be arranged. 3 hours lecture.
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  • SPAN 452: Capstone Course in Translation

    3.00 Credits
    Montclair State University

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SPANISH & ITALIAN Credits: 3.00 Translating III. Start Spring 2010: Capstone Course in Translation. Prerequisites: SPAN 350. Special fee. The aim of this course is to engage the student in an extensive translation project that entails two different aspects: translation and commentary. The first part consists of the translation of a text included in a speacialized translation field (medicine, law, science, advertising, literature, foreign affairs, etc.). The second stage consists of a critical essay about the difficulty students encountered in the translation and the techniques and stragegies used to solve them. The course includes groups work involving students engaged in the translation of similar fields and individual sessions between each student and the professor. 3 hours lecture.
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  • SPAN 460: el Quijote

    3.00 Credits
    Montclair State University

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SPANISH & ITALIAN Credits: 3.00 El Quijote. Prerequisites: SPAN 361. This course examines in debth Miguel de Cervantes's masterpiece. It focuses on such aspects as Cervantes's literary hall of mirrors; his use of narrative techniques that anticipate aspects of the contemporary novel; and his profound view of the human condition and of such themes as madness, the complexities of self and identity, shifting gender norms, challenges to authority, and the transformation of fiction into life and life into fiction. It also examines Cervantes's critique of 16th and early 17th century Spain and the relationship between Cervantes's life and the creation of Don Quijote. Taught in Spanish. 3 hours lecture.
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  • SPAN 466: Contemporary Latin am Theater

    3.00 Credits
    Montclair State University

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SPANISH & ITALIAN Credits: 3.00 Contemporary Spanish-American Theater. Start Spring 2010: Contemporary Latin American Theater. Prerequisites: SPAN 363. Through critical reading of a corpus of works in contemporary Latin American theater, students will examine recurring themes of absolute power versus the quest for social justice, the colonial legacy and the forging of national identity, the power of language and the role of art in theater's trajectory over the course of the twentieth century. Major playwrights such as Rodolfo Usigli, Griselda Gambaro and Luis Rafael Sanchez are studied within the framework of contemporary theories of performance and reception in Latin America. 3 hours lecture.
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  • SPAN 469: Drama of The Golden Age

    3.00 Credits
    Montclair State University

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SPANISH & ITALIAN Credits: 3.00 The Drama of the Golden Age. Prerequisites: SPAN 361. An overall approximation to early modern Spanish theater, this course focuses on text analysis and performance as two fundamental elements in the understanding and appreciation of Spanish comedias. It allows students to access the plays from different angles: 1) as texts that need to be studied analytically; 2) as cultural and historical exponents of a specific period; 3) as objects of literary and theatrical research; 4) as would-be productions waiting to be staged. After an introductory account on early modern Spanish theater and comedia performance then and now, classes are organized around three phases resembling those of theater production: text analysism, pre-production workshop, and staging. 3 hours lecture.
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  • SPAN 470: Senior Seminar

    3.00 Credits
    Montclair State University

    College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: SPANISH & ITALIAN Credits: 3.00 Senior Seminar. Prerequisites: SPAN 361 and 363; Spanish majors only. Selected topics from Spanish and Spanish-American literature acquaint the student with the techniques of literary research. 3 hours seminar.
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