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One unit. This course is a review of basic grammar, practice in conversation, and writing and reading of selected short stories. Materials include newspaper/magazine articles, fi lms, slides, and CD ROM programs. Class sessions are conducted entirely in Spanish and include individual short presentations, role-playing, and group debates. Prerequisite for SP 111: 2-3 years of high school instruction or 2- 3 semesters of collegeSpanish. Prerequisite for SP 112: SP 111 or permission of the instructor. SP 111 offered fall semester; SP 112. Offered spring semester.
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One unit. This is a course in English designed to introduce several masterworks of the Spanish and Latin American literary traditions to students who may or may not be ready to read the texts in the original language. Readings include selections from early peninsular works, such as El Cid and the Quixote, pre- Columbian texts such as the Popol Vuh, poetry from colonial Mexico's Sor Juana and, fi nally, contemporary works from both Latin America (Borges, Cortázar, Allende) and Spain (Matute, García Lorca, Arrabal). Cross-listed w/EN 213. Offered spring semester.
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One unit. This course is designed for students who wish to master complex grammatical structures and broaden their vocabulary as a solid preparation for upper-division classes in Spanish. Special emphasis will be placed on writing, speaking and pronunciation. Written and oral exercises will focus on the art of Latin American and Spanish painters such as Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali, Diego de Rivera, Pablo Picasso, Diego de Velázquez, José Clemente Orozco, Antonio Tàpiesand Remedios Varo. Students will work with CD-ROM programs and engage in virtual tours of museums around the world. This class is open to native speakers of Spanish. Prerequisite: SP 112 or equivalent. Offered fall semester.
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One unit. Students will work on writing and speaking skills at the advanced level. Various forms of written expression such as letters, essays, summaries, textual analyses, and fi lm criticism will be addressed. Students will acquire theoretical vocabulary through weekly newspaper and magazine readings. Class conversations and debates will focus on social, cultural and political topics pertaining to Latin America and/or Spain. This class is open to native speakers of Spanish. Prerequisite: SP 231 or equivalent. Offered spring semester.
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One unit. This course uses translation to help students consolidate complex grammatical structures and further develop their awareness of the particular subtleties of Spanish. Students will be introduced to the history and theory of translation from Spanish to English and English to Spanish through a variety of texts: newspaper and journal articles, legal and medical documents, letters, advertisements, fi lm subtitles, and literary works. The course includes a fi nal service-learning translation project. Prerequisite: Spanish 232 or equivalent. Offered as required.
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One unit. A study of Spanish culture and civilization (fall semester) and Latin American culture and civilization (spring semester) including visual arts, music and literature. Prerequisites: SP 231. Offered as required.
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One unit. This course aims to increase students' ability to think, read, discuss, and write critically about literature from the Spanish speaking world. Latin American, latino and peninsular works will be approached from different analytical perspectives by also taking into account the particular cultural, historical, and philosophical background inherent to each text. Critical models to be covered include reader-response, marxism, feminism, Queer theory, and post-colonialism. Prerequisite: Spanish 232 or equivalent. Offered fall semester.
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One unit. This course presents issues of culture and history from the Spanish-speaking world through close analysis and discussion of fi lms of major directors. Topics will vary by semester and will cover such themes as the Spanish Civil War, visions of rural and urban life, artistic production, poverty and its consequences, fantasy in fi lm, gender, representations on screen etc. The class is writing intensive in Spanish. Prerequisites: SP 310 or permission of the instructor. Offered as required.
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One unit. This course addresses the cultural, social, and political currents that have changed the works of contemporary Hispanic women writers. Feminist concepts are examined in the works of such authors as Carmen Laforet, Ana María Matute, Carmen Martín Gaite, Soledad Puértolas, María Luisa BombaLuisa Valenzuela, and Cristina Peri Rossi. Historical, sociological, and artistic documents will also be examined for what they reveal of the changing consciousness of women in Spain and Latin America. This course may be counted toward the Gender Studies minor. Prerequisite: SP 310 or permission of the instructor. Offered spring semester of even-numbered years.
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One unit. This course offers a chronological survey of Spanish literature and its cultural history from the Middle Ages to present times' focusing on movements such as Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Surrealism, and Post-modernism. Topics to be explored include the role of women in the Middle Ages, courtly love, food and fashion in the Golden Age, underground theater and literary censorship under the Franco regime, and the latest trends in contemporary Spanish narrative. Authors to be studied include María de Zayas, Miguel de Cervantes, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Benito PéreGaldós, Antonio Machado, José Ortega y Gasset, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Carmen Laforet,Almudena Grandes, and Javier Marías. Prerequisite: SP 310 or equivalent. Offered as required.
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