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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: A score of 380-624 in the department's Placement Examination, or SPAN W1102, or SPAN W1120. One-term intensive coverage of the contents of SPAN W1201 and SPAN W1202. A student may not receive credit for both SPAN W1220 and the sequence SPAN W1201-SPAN W1202 or SPAN BC1203-SPAN BC1204.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
underlying every single grammar decision in the use of language.
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4.00 Credits
The course aims to offer an overview of Latin American cultures that emphasizes specific social and intellectual movements through an analysis of representative historical and literary texts, as well as visual sources, covering Pre-columbian, colonial and independence periods. Selected materials are essential documents of their times and provide a comprehensive view of the origins and construction of Latin American cultures and identities. We read and analyze the selected sources as essential documents that are also often influential statements about Latin American histories. Global Core.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the history and culture of Latin America, from the advent of modernity to the present, that is, after the foundational period of nation formation. The course will begin by addressing the phenomenon of modernity in a peripheral context in order to understand the specificity of cultural production in Latin America. The relationship between metropolitan discourses and their creative transformation in Latin America will provide a fertile ground for the study of the continent's history and cultural movements. The overarching concern will be to study how notions of Latin American culture were negotiated at certain historical turning points by different agents such as writers, artists, and politicians. Among the themes and topics examined will be positivism and cosmopolitanism, the close and contentious relationship between art and political engagement during the Mexican and the Cuban revolutions, the Boom of Latin American literature in the 1960s, the military dictatorships of the 1970s, and the migrations that have characterized the new global realities. Students are encouraged, but are not required, to take Latin American Humanities I. This course is on the "A list" of courses for the Major Cultures Core requirement. It is recommended that students take Latin American Humanities I before taking this course. Students with knowledge of Spanish may read the works in the original language. This course may count toward the major or concentration in Hispanic Studies and the concentration in Portuguese Studies. Global Core.
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3.00 Credits
Miguel de Cervantes' El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha has been credited with giving rise to a genre (the novel), a national identity (imagine a Spain without the Quijote), and two archetypal figures who immediately leapt from Cervantes' pages into the popular and literary imaginary. It has been read as parody, satire, social critique, allegory, realist novel, psychological novel, and postmodern novel. It is always found on any list of "Great Works" yet unlike most of its neighbors on those lists, it has also been adapted into cartoons, comic books, and a Broadway musical. It is comic, it is tragic; it is erudite, it is simple; it is a picture of 17th century Spain, it is a timeless tale of the human spirit. During the course of this class, students will be able to come to their own decisions about some of these issues. Rather than attempt to abridge the work or squeeze it into part of a larger survey, we will dedicate almost our entire semester to a close reading of the work. As a supplement to the text, I will provide critical material the on literary and historical traditions which inform the work as a whole or particular episodes, but the main focus of class discussion will be the text itself. In the last weeks of the semester, we will focus on the different ways that Don Quijote has been interpreted and adapted in the centuries since its publication-by authors, visual artists, cinematographers, and philosophers--reflecting on what these interpretations say both about the work and the moment of interpretation.
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3.00 Credits
Just a few years after its arrival, that newly circus attraction called cinema became a mass phenomenon of unprecedented influence in the social and cultural Spanish context. Writers, artists, politicians reacted with fascination, enthusiasm or fear. The new media was the focus of a complex debate in which historical transformations were being perceived and thought as mediated by the new apparatus. Literature, painting and other artistic forms got inspired and radically transformed by the newcomer but the same could be said about an audience whose collective conscience and image of itself were now conditioned by film spectatorship. If the nation was now something like a film audience, considering what would appear in the screen and its potential for subjection or liberation, was the focus of a rich collective dialogue, not only in newspapers and the public sphere but also in a multiplicity of artistic media.
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