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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes early modern women's writings (both secular and religious) by considering sociohistoric context, genre studies (autobiography, convent narratives, short prose fiction, poetry, and theater) and feminist criticism. Critical approaches included consider issues of self-representation and subjectivity, performance, mysticism, life writing, feminist and lesbian utopias, cross-dressing, the body and spirituality, and the role of the Inquisition and confessors in the collaborative process of confessional writing. Class conducted in English. Spanish majors do the readings and papers in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
Study of language and structures used in conducting business in the Hispanic world. Actual materials from various businesses-advertising, marketing, real estate, accounting-used. Particular stress on speaking and writing. Prerequisite: Span 308D or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Designed for future medical professionals, this course provides students with a complete vocabulary and cultural sensitivity necessary for treating Spanish-speaking patients. While the main focus is oral/aural, written exams, varied reading, and some research are required. Volunteer work recommended for enrolled students. Advanced students are given priority. Prerequisite: Span 307D.
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with current issues of cultural, social, political, and literary importance related to the Southern Cone. We study selected texts from Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay as well as contemporary films and drama productions. This course seeks to determine what specifically can be expressed about national identity, globalization, and the environment as these countries face the 21st century. Course requirements include four short essays and a final exam. This course is taught in Santiago, Chile, as part of the Washington University Chile Program. May be repeated for credit. Conducted in Spanish.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Taught through the Humanidades program of Carlos III University. Topics vary each semester. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: approval of Washington University's Madrid Program director and Carlos III.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Taught through the Humanidades program of Carlos III University. Topics vary each semester. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: approval of Washington University's Madrid Program director and Carlos III.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the scientific study of the Spanish language, this course focuses on each of the major linguistic subsystems, including the sound system (phonetics and phonology), word formation (morphology), formation of phrases and sentences (syntax), and the use of the language to convey meaning (semantics and pragmatics). At each level of analysis, selected comparisons are made between Spanish and English and between Spanish and other languages. The course also examines different historical, regional, and social varieties of Spanish and situations of Spanish in contact with other languages.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys cultures in specific contexts (Latin America and Spain) and in different historical periods, from the Middle Ages to the present. The course provides students with critical and methodological tools in order to carry out an articulate and informed cultural analysis. Prerequisites: Span 307D; concurrent registration in Span 308D is recommended. In Spanish. Topics vary from semester to semester. See section description for current offering.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
The first part of a two-semester course sequence in reading and translating Spanish. For graduate students in the humanities and social and natural sciences. Nongraduate students may enroll with permission of the department. Must be followed by Span 401.
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