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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: permission of chairperson. This course is a survey of representative works from pre-Colombian times to the present day, and an introduction to literary genres and defining themes in Latin American literature. It is taught in Spanish. Outcome: Students will be able to understand the principal works, movements, and genres in Latin American literature.
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3.00 Credits
A comparative study of 20th century Spanish and Latin American women writers who practice a variety of genres: autobiography, memoir, novel, short story, poetry, and testimonio. Outcome: Students will be able to recognize the major concerns of 20th century Hispanic women's writing.
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3.00 Credits
This course challenges the usual view of feminism in Hispanic societies - that it played a minimal role in the revolutionary movements of the 20th century - through the reading of a series of works from the colonial period to the present, that chart the Hispanic woman's struggle to achieve liberation and self-realization. Outcome: Students will be able to trace the true history of Hispanic feminism, beginning with Sor Juanna Ines de la Cruz, and ending with such contemporary feminist writers as Rosario Ferre, Rosario Castellanos, Montserrat Roig, and Rosa Montero.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the poetry and prose of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the central figures in 20th century Latin American literature, and one of the major writers of modern times. Outcome: Students will be able to recognize the major themes and forms of Borges, as well as appreciate his seminal role in the creation of the so-called literature of the "boom" in Latin America.
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3.00 Credits
This advanced Spanish course will induce students to acquire more sophisticated tools for conversational management and oral expression, and in enlarging their vocabulary through structured practice. Outcome: Students will gain more sophisticated skills and fluency in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
Spanish film from early Surrealistic cinema to contemporary pastiche: Bunuel, Berlanga, Erice, Borau, Saura, Aranda, Almadovar, etc. Outcome: Students will gain an understanding of the development of cinema in Spanish society, and how it incorporated old genres such as comedy or melodrama.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to sociolinguistics. Outcome: Students will gain a rudimentary knowledge of the linguistic sciences (semantics, phonology, syntax, language acquisition) with a focus mainly on linguistic issues of great relevance in contemporary United States: Ebonics, Spanglish, language in the media, language and gender, and language in politics, and the 'English only' movement.
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3.00 Credits
The course will examine XVII century literature, including poetry, drama and prose of the periods in Spain and Latin- America, and will study the works of Quevedo, Gongora, Maria de Zayas, Lope de Vega, Calderon, Sor Juana, Carpentier, Sarduy. Outcome: Students will understand the aspects of XVII century literature that relate to visual and spatial contexts, and the transformation that literature into a new style.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: permission of chairperson. Panoramic view of Latin American poetry with special emphasis on modernism, the avant-garde, and the post-World War II period. Selected authors include Gabriela Mistral, Delmira Agustini, César Vallejo, Vicente Huidobro, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, and Gio Outcome: Students will understand the principle forms, trends, themes and movements in Latin American verse through the work of poets from Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to Ernesto Cardenal.
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