Spanish and PortugueseSpanish 110- Elementary Spanish I
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Course Description
Spanish 110 is a first-semester language course that emphasizes the development of foundational listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills while exploring the rich cultural mosaic of the Spanish-speaking world. Through listening activities and videotaped interviews with native speakers, your aural and oral abilities will improve at the same time that you will become familiarized with different varieties of standard spoken Spanish. You will be given ample opportunities to practice orally and in writing so that you can reinforce newly acquired vocabulary and grammatical structures. Reading strategies will facilitate your comprehension of the texts included in the course syllabus. Readings focused on a specific country or region, visual items (such as maps, photos, films) and a class project will advance your knowledge of Hispanic cultural practices and products while increasing your intercultural competence.
Conducted entirely in Spanish, this class will provide you with guided practice before moving to more independent and spontaneous language production. Working in small groups and in pairs, you will participate in class activities that simulate real-life situations that will help you gain confidence communicating in Spanish.
Goals
By the end of this course you can expect to handle a variety of day-to-day situations in a Spanish-speaking setting:
- Greet and introduce people, invite people to events, accept or reject invitations, ask for directions, tell time, shop and order meals in a restaurant
- Talk about yourself, family, and friends regarding physical and emotional states, daily routines, leisure, preferences and plans
- Use the information learned in class about the Hispanic world as an icebreaker to find common ground with people from the countries that we have studied
Prerequisites & Credit Regulation Form
The prerequisites for registering for this course are clearly detailed in this Credit Regulation Form:
SPANISH 110 CRF
Students will have to complete and submit this form during the first week of classes so their instructors can verify that they are enrolled in the appropriate course.
Spanish 112- Elementary Spanish I and II: Accelerated
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Course Description
Spanish 112 is an intensive course designed for students who have already satisfied the language requirement in another language and have not previously studied Spanish. By combining the curriculum of Spanish 110 and 120, Spanish 112 seeks to develop students’ foundational listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills while exploring the rich cultural mosaic of the Spanish-speaking world. Through listening activities and mini documentaries shown in class, students will develop their aural and oral skills at the same time that they will become familiarized with different varieties of standard spoken Spanish. Students will be given ample opportunities to practice orally and in writing so that they can reinforce newly acquired vocabulary and linguistic structures. Readings focused on a specific country or region, visual items (such as maps, photos, and films) and a class project will advance students’ knowledge of Hispanic cultural practices and products while increasing their intercultural competence.
Goals
By the end of this course students can expect to handle a variety of day-to-day situations in a Spanish-speaking setting such as:
- Introduce themselves, use greetings, describe people, places and things, give instructions, tell time, go shopping, order meals in a restaurant, and make travel plans
- Talk about themselves, families, and friends regarding academic life, daily routines, health, work, leisure, and preferences (using the present and past tenses)
- Use the cultural information learned in class as an icebreaker to find common ground with a wide a variety of Spanish speakers
Prerequisites & Credit Regulation Form
The prerequisites for registering for this course are clearly detailed in this Credit Regulation Form. Students will have to complete and submit this form during the first week of classes so their instructors can verify that they are enrolled in the appropriate course.
Spanish 115- Spanish for the Medical Professions, Elementary I
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Course Description
Spanish 115 is a first-semester elementary Medical Spanish Language course and the first in the Spanish for Medical Professions sequence. It is designed for students with no prior coursework in Spanish. This course teaches beginning students the fundamentals of practical Spanish with an emphasis on medical situations and basic medical terminology. In this course, particular attention will be given to developing speaking and listening skills, as well as cultural awareness. It incorporates activities, vocabulary, and readings of particular interest to healthcare practitioners, while adhering to the goals and scope of Spanish 110, the first-semester Spanish language course.
Students who have already taken Spanish 110 will not receive credit for Spanish 115. Although these courses have different numbers, they are at the same level. Students who have already fulfilled the language requirement (AP, SAT II, etc.) or have taken courses at the 200- and 300-level may not take basic level language courses (100-level courses) in the same language. They will not receive credit for this course (Spanish 115).
Prerequisites & Credit Regulation Form
The prerequisites for registering for this course are clearly detailed in this Credit Regulation Form:
SPANISH 115 CRF
Students will have to complete and submit this form during the first week of classes so their instructors can verify that they are enrolled in the appropriate course.
Spanish 121 Elementary Spanish
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Course Description
Spanish 121 is designed for students who have some prior experience in Spanish. It is an intensive elementary-level language course that in one semester covers the material studied over two semesters in our Spanish 110 and Spanish 120. The course provides a quick-paced review of material normally covered in a first semester Spanish course and then proceeds to introduce new material so students will be prepared to take Spanish 130 during the subsequent semester. As in other Spanish courses, Spanish 121 emphasizes the development of foundational listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills while exploring the rich cultural mosaic of the Spanish-speaking world. Through listening activities and mini documentaries shown in class, students will develop their aural and oral skills at the same time that they will become familiarized with different varieties of standard spoken Spanish. Students will be given ample opportunities to practice orally and in writing so that they can reinforce newly acquired vocabulary and linguistic structures. Readings focused on a specific country or region, visual items (such as maps, photos, and films) and a class project will advance students’ knowledge of Hispanic cultural practices and products while increasing their intercultural competence.
Conducted entirely in Spanish, this class will provide you with guided practice before moving to more independent and spontaneous language production. You will participate in paired, small-group and whole-class activities that simulate real-life situations that will help you gain confidence communicating in Spanish.
Goals
By the end of this course students can expect to handle a variety of day-to-day situations in a Spanish-speaking setting such as:
- Introduce themselves, use greetings, describe people, places and things, give instructions, tell time, go shopping, order meals in a restaurant, and make travel plans
- Talk about themselves, families, and friends regarding academic life, daily routines, health, work, leisure, and preferences (using the present and past tenses)
- Use the cultural information learned in class as an icebreaker to find common ground with a wide a variety of Spanish speakers
Prerequisites & Credit Regulation Form
The prerequisites for registering for this course are clearly detailed in this Credit Regulation Form:
SPANISH 121 CRF
Students will have to complete and submit this form during the first week of classes so their instructors can verify that they are enrolled in the appropriate course.
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Intermediate Language Courses
Spanish 130 Intermediate Spanish I
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Course Description
Spanish 130, a first-semester intermediate-level course, emphasizes students’ acquisition of new vocabulary and linguistic structures in a cultural and communicative context while building on their previous speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills. A substantial amount of the course is devoted to learning and using the past tenses. As in other Spanish courses, students will take part in a wide range of activities including video blogging, role-plays, film viewings, listening to music, and class discussions of current social and cultural topics. Unique to this course is the creation of a “cultural journal” throughout the semester in which students pursue their own interests in the Spanish-speaking world while taking advantage of some of the rich resources within Philadelphia’s own Hispanic community.
Goals
By the end of this course students can expect to handle a variety of common situations in a Spanish-speaking setting such as:
- Narrate past actions, ranging from personal anecdotes to historical events
- Give advice, recommendations, and commands to people
- Express their feelings and doubts when reacting to what others have said
- Talk about their future expectations and wishes
- Demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of Hispanic cultural practices and products
Prerequisites & Credit Regulation Form
The prerequisites for registering for this course are clearly detailed in this Credit Regulation Form:
SPANISH 130 CRF
Students will have to complete and submit this form during the first week of classes so their instructors can verify that they are enrolled in the appropriate course.
Spanish 135- Spanish for the Medical Professions, Intermediate I
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Course Description
Spanish 135 is a first-semester intermediate-level language course that emphasizes the development of the four basic skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) and the acquisition of medical terminology. Students will be expected to participate in classroom activities such as role-plays based on everyday situations that they may encounter at work settings such as doctors’ offices, clinics, hospitals, and emergency rooms in order to develop meaningful and accurate communication skills in the target language. Students will also review and acquire other essential tools of communication in the target language applicable both within and outside the medical field. Major course goals include: the acquisition of intermediate-level vocabulary, the controlled use of the past tense, and the development of writing skills at a paragraph level with transitions.
Students who have already taken Spanish 130 will not receive credit for Spanish 135. Although these courses have different numbers, they are at the same level. Students who have already fulfilled the language requirement (AP, SAT II, etc.) or have taken courses at the 200- and 300-level may not take basic level language courses (100-level courses) in the same language. They will not receive credit for this course (Spanish 135).
Prerequisites & Credit Regulation Form
The prerequisites for registering for this course are clearly detailed in this Credit Regulation Form:
SPANISH 135 CRF
Students will have to complete and submit this form during the first week of classes so their instructors can verify that they are enrolled in the appropriate course.
Spanish 140 Intermediate Spanish II
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Course Description
Spanish 140 is a fourth-semester language course that both reinforces and enhances the communicative skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) previously acquired while exploring the rich cultural mosaic of the Spanish-speaking world. Class activities are designed so that students can build up these four skills in order to function at an intermediate language level. Readings focused on contemporary social and political issues of the Hispanic world will advance your knowledge of Hispanic cultural practices while increasing your intercultural competence. Unique to this course is the preparation of an oral presentation on a topic related to the Hispanic world throughout the semester and presented during the last days of classes. The purpose of this task is to help students develop their presentational competence in Spanish.
Conducted entirely in Spanish, this class will provide students with ample opportunities to work in small groups and in pairs while gaining confidence communicating in Spanish. This course satisfies the language requirement at Penn.
Goals
By the end of this course students can expect to handle a variety of situations in a Spanish-speaking setting such as:
- Express their opinions on a variety of contemporary events and issues
- Defend their position when presented with a hypothetical situation
- Deliver short presentations on a chosen subject after thorough preparation
- Demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of Hispanic cultural practices and products
Prerequisites & Credit Regulation Form
The prerequisites for registering for this course are clearly detailed in this Credit Regulation Form:
SPANISH 140 CRF
Students will have to complete and submit this form during the first week of classes so their instructors can verify that they are enrolled in the appropriate course.
Spanish 145 Spanish for the Medical Professions, Intermediate II
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Course Description
Spanish 145, the continuation of Spanish 135, is an intermediate-level integrated skills language course. It emphasizes the development of reading, writing, listening, and speaking abilities. Students will be expected to participate actively in classroom activities such as communicative activities, role-playing based on typical doctor/patient interactions as well as other medical situations. Students will also review and learn other essential tools of communication applicable both inside and outside the medical field. Students who have already taken Spanish 140 will not receive credit for Spanish 145. Although these courses have different numbers, they are at the same level.
Students who have already fulfilled the language requirement (AP, SAT II, etc.) or have taken courses at the 200- and 300-level may not take basic level language courses (100-level courses) in the same language. They will not receive credit for this course (Spanish 145).
Prerequisite & Credit Regulation Form
The prerequisites for registering for this course are clearly detailed in this Credit Regulation Form:
SPANISH 145 CRF
Students will have to complete and submit this form during the first week of classes so their instructors can verify that they are enrolled in the appropriate course.
Spanish 180 Spanish Conversation
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La casa hispánica residents only.
Spanish 202 Advanced Spanish
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Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of Spanish 140 or equivalent.
The purpose of this course is twofold: (a) to develop students' communicative abilities in Spanish, that is, speaking, listening, reading and writing, and (b) to increase their awareness and understanding of Hispanic cultures and societies. Homework and classroom activities are designed to help students build their oral proficiency, expand and perfect their knowledge of vocabulary and grammatical structures, improve their reading and writing skills, and develop their critical thinking abilities. The material for this class includes short stories, newspaper articles, poems, songs, cartoons, video clips and a novel, such as César Aira’s La villa. At the completion of this course students will feel confident discussing and debating a variety of contemporary issues (cultural and religious practices, family relationships, gender stereotypes, political events, immigration to the USA, etc.).
Any questions about placement should be addressed to the directors of the Spanish language program.
Spanish 208 Business Spanish I
Prof. Lebaudy
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Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of Spanish 140 or equivalent.
Spanish for Business I provides advanced-level language students with technical vocabulary and communicative skills covering business concepts as they apply to the corporate dynamics of the Spanish-speaking world, with a special emphasis on Latin America. Through readings, presentations, discussions, and video materials, we shall analyze those cultural aspects that characterize the business environment in the region as well as focus on economies and markets in light of their history, politics, resources and pressing international concerns.
Any questions about placement should be directed to the directors of the Spanish language program.
Spanish 209- Business Spanish II (Advanced Spanish in the Business World)
Prof. Lebaudy
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Pre-requisite(s): Departmental permission required.
This course is specifically designed for advanced speakers of Spanish (i.e., native speakers, high-level heritage speakers, and students who have studied in a Spanish-speaking country for at least one semester). Students will take an in-depth look at the corporate dynamics of a number of countries in Latin America, focusing on their economies and markets, as well as on the cultural and business protocols of each region. Through the creation of an entrepreneurial project and the writing of a business plan, students will enhance their business and language skills.
Any questions about placement should be addressed to the directors of the Spanish language program.
Spanish 212 Advanced Spanish II: Grammar and Composition
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Prerequisite(s): Spanish 202 or equivalent
Spanish 212 is an advanced-level language course that emphasizes the acquisition of the tools necessary for successful written expression in Spanish. These tools include a solid knowledge of the major points of Spanish grammar, an ample vocabulary, control of the mechanics of the language (spelling, punctuation, etc.), and a thorough understanding of the writing process. Throughout the semester students will use these tools to analyze authentic texts and to produce a variety of written assignments. By the end of the course students will have developed their awareness of the norms of standard Spanish and learned to incorporate these features into their own writing. The class will be conducted in Spanish and students are expected to speak in Spanish at all times.
Any questions about placement should be addressed to the directors of the Spanish language program.
Spanish 219 Hispanic Texts and Contexts
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Prerequisite(s): Spanish 202 or Spanish 212.
The primary aim of this course is to develop students' knowledge of the geographical, historical and cultural contexts in those regions where Spanish is used. At the same time that they are introduced to research techniques and materials available in Spanish, students strengthen their language skills through readings, class discussions, and frequent writing assignments. This course is designed to give students a broad understanding of Hispanic culture that will prepare them for upper-level course work and study abroad.
Spanish 223 Introduction to Literary Analysis
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Prerequisite(s): Spanish 202 or Spanish 212.
Literature from Spain and Latin America contains a wealth of information about language, history and culture. The goal of this course is to help students develop skills to carefully read Spanish literary works while preparing them for upper-level courses and study abroad. We begin reviewing the main characteristics of various literary movements and of the four genres (narrative, poetry, theater and essay). During the second part of the semester students become familiarized with a wide variety of theoretical approaches to the study of literature with the purpose of applying them to their own analytical writing. In the last part of the course students produce their own essays on a text chosen by them and based on research. Sample essays written by other students and included in the textbook will serve as models. Throughout the course students will have ample opportunities to hone their skills through the close reading and class discussion of varied and stimulating works by Miguel de Cervantes, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Roberto Bolaño, etc.
Spanish 319 History of the Spanish Language
Prof. Esposito
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Prerequisites: Spanish 219 or 223.
This course will explore two main currents:
(1) The external history of the Spanish language: How do linguists read history? What cultural and historical events are important for the development of the Spanish language? As linguistic historians, we shall follow a canonical chronology that will examine pre-Roman influences, Iberian Latinities, the linguistic fragmentation of the Peninsula, the emergence of written Spanish and early attempts at standardization, the rise of the Academy, and the linguistic revival of the Autonomías. As critical readers, we shall interpret these linguistic cultures in light of their foundational ideologies and how they contribute towards the creation of a national philological imaginary.
(2) The internal history of the Spanish language: We will focus on major sound changes to explore how spoken Latin became Spanish. Can the purported cause of a sound change be innocent and free of ideological meaning? What linguistic features make Spanish unique in comparison to the other Ibero-Romance languages? To what end do we make such claims of uniqueness?
Spanish 348-301 Don Quijote Then & Now
Prof. Solomon
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Prerequisites: Spanish 219 or 223.
In celebration of the 400-year anniversary of Cervantes death, this course combines a careful reading of Don Quixote with an examination of visual “Quijotismo,” defined for our purposes as the production and dissemination of illustrations, cinematic adaptations, and other artifacts related to Cervantes’ novel. The course lectures, discussions, and secondary readings will help students understand the way Don Quixote was read in the early 17th century while we explore the attempts to illustrate key moments in the novel during the following four centuries. Course requirements include three exams and a short final project.
Spanish 350-301 Reality & Appearance in Golden Age Spain
Prof. Guadalupe
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Prerequisites: Spanish 219 or 223.
Spanish Golden Age was a period of extraordinary cultural flowering, and the innovations and originality of writers are remarkable. The aim of the course is to acquaint students with some of the most influential works by outstanding playwrights, poets, and novelists from the Renaissance and Baroque periods (1580-1680, approximately), while providing an opportunity to study the literary culture of Spain in an age when it had become the foremost power in the world. These works will be evaluated as literary artefacts in their own right, and also as texts that reflect the dominant values of society as well as the conflicts it sought to resolve. We will explore key moral, religious and gender issues of the early modern period as we get acquainted with influential literary figures—the pícaro, Don Juan, the shepherd, the mystic, the mujer altiva, the Quixote— in order to gain an appreciation of how these figures continue to shape the modern literary and philosophical imagination. Thematically we will focus on one of Spain’s major contributions to both European Baroque and postmodern thought: the interplay between appearances and reality, which lead to disillusionment (desengaño) and/or self-knowledge. In Golden Age Spain, literary and dramatic works are replete with characters who change their appearance in order to transgress boundaries of gender, race and social class in order to evade authority, confound social hierarchies and achieve their desires. Readings will include Fuenteovejuna and El perro del hortelano by Lope de Vega, “El retablo de las maravillas” and “El viejo celoso” by Cervantes, El burlador de Sevilla by Tirso de Molina, and La vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca, a selection of poems by Garcilaso de la Vega, San Juan de la Cruz, Francisco de Quevedo, and Luis de Góngora, as well as narrative texts such as Lazarillo de Tormes and selections from Don Quixote.
Spanish 388-401 Crossing Borders in Latin American Cinema
Prof. Caballo Márquez
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Prerequisites: Spanish 219 or 223.
Through the lens of border crossing this course will explore various current topics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema such as immigration, exile and travel narratives, gender crossing, social and political transgressions, transnationalism, and co-productions. The concept of the border will be fluid and central to the course, and through it we will reflect upon what separates and unites people at an individual, sexual, social, cultural, political, national, and geographical level. This focus will help us explore a wide variety of “movements”, negotiations, and transgressions taking place in the Latin American Cinema of the last three decades. The film selection for this course will include the works of directors such as Karim Aïnouz, Simón Brand, Cary Fukunaga, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Claudia Llosa, Lucrecia Martel, Lucía Puenzo, and Alex Rivera, among others. The course will be conducted in Spanish, but some of the movies will be in Portuguese with English subtitles.
Spanish 390-401 Telling It All: Women as Storytellers in Hispanic Fiction
Prof. Garcia Serrano
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Prerequisites: Spanish 219 or 223.
Regardless of how controversial, painful or trivial an issue might seem women writers from Latin America and Spain have not shunned away from practically any of them. It should be no surprise, then, the wide and eclectic array of topics explored in their tales: from political oppression and other social ills to the drudgery of cleaning, cooking and caring, or from intricate family relationships (between mothers and daughters, spouses, or siblings) to the pleasures of the flesh and of the word, among many others. Using contemporary literary theory and criticism (narratology, feminism, psychoanalysis…), in this course students will ascertain the mastery of women writers as storytellers as well as the new and exceptional perspectives they bring to light. Short stories written by Lydia Cabrera, Clarice Lispector, Rosario Ferré, Inés Arredondo, Imma Monsó, Guadalupe Nettel, and Samanta Schweblin will be part of the reading list.
Spanish 390-402 Coming of Age in Latin America
Prof. Knight
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Prerequisites: Spanish 219 or 223.
This course examines contemporary narratives of childhood and adolescence from Latin America. These stories critique the forces that shape young people as they attempt to define themselves in societies marked by racial, ethnic, gender, and class divisions. Texts for the course will be drawn from different geographical regions and will include novels, short stories, and films from the second half of the twentieth century through the present.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219 or Spanish 223.
Spanish 390-403 Latin American Women Writers
Prof. Escalante
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Prerequisites: Spanish 219 or 223.
In this course, we are going to study literary works written by women from the end of the 19th century to the present. We are going to analyze how these texts are a testimony to women's subaltern position in society and discuss women’s attempt to criticize or subvert the rigid rules of the traditional and patriarchal societies of Latin America. Other topics include the representation of desire, sentimentality, and body image. Some of the authors we will read include Flora Tristán, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Delmira Agustini, María Luisa Bombal, Alejandra Pizarnick, and Cristina Peri Rossi.
Spanish 396-401 Gender, Sexuality, and Identity- Contemporary Caribbean Cultural Production
Prof. Feliciano Arroy
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Prerequisites: Spanish 219 or 223
This course will cultivate a critical understanding of the intersection between gender, sexuality, race, class, and national identifications in the contemporary Hispanic Caribbean. Drawing on literature, film, music, and the visual arts, the course will touch upon topics such as imaginaries of gender, ways of negotiating identities, the weight of representation on bodies, and the link between art and social praxis. At the core of the course is a postcolonial, feminist, and queer understanding of these issues.
Readings will likely include works from Rita Indiana Hernández, Ana Lydia Vega, Virgilio Piñera, and René Marqués.
Spanish 396-402 Rural Modernity in Latin America
Prof. Beckman
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Prerequisites: Spanish 219 or 223.
Spanish 396-403 Travel Writing in Latin American Literature
Prof. Escalante
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Prerequisites: Spanish 219 or 223.
This course will study the relation between travel and the notions of subjectivity, identity, temporality, memory, ideology, race and gender in Latin American Literature. We are going to start our course analyzing the first chronicles that describe the discovery of America, then we are going to study nineteenth century texts and we will end our course reading contemporary travel writing. This chronological order will give us the opportunity to study the diversity of ways in which travel was conceived, imagined and represented throughout Latin American history. Some of the authors we will read include Cristóbal Colón, Hernán Cortés, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Gómez Carrillo, Rubén Darío, Horacio Quiroga, Octavio Paz, Mario Vargas Llosa.
Spanish 397-401 Between Fact & Fiction: Chronicle in Latin America From Spanish Conquest to 21st Century
Prof. Tellez
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Prerequisites: Spanish 219 or 223.
In this course we will explore the chronicle as an intersecting device between a literary drive and the journalistic responsibility to inform. We will also reflect on how different formats of the genre, from printed to digital, determine not only the content of the text but also the strategies to deal with the relation between facts and fiction. This course aims to propose a path from early modern letters and accounts of the Spanish Conquest, 18th and 19th century newspapers, 20th century books and magazines, to contemporary audio-visual formats such as blogs, video blogs, podcasts and social media platforms in Latin America.
Spanish 400-301 Images of the Sovereign in Latin American Literature: Dictators, Narcos, & Writers
Prof. Montoya
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This course is built at the intersection of three disciplines: political philosophy, literature, and aesthetics. The idea that links all of them is the concept of sovereignty, a key word in the political history of the contemporary world —directly associated with the consolidation, but also with the crisis, of the National State. One of the particular features of Latin American literature has been its interdependence with the idea of national spaces and cultures. But, paradoxically, the idea of sovereignty has also inspired the artistic and literary searches for autonomy of political and ethical demands. In this course, we will analyze this double articulation —aesthetic and legal political— of the concept, as it is developed in literary works. The course will provide students with a double reading of Latin American literature and culture. On the one hand, it will offer them a historical approach, since we will start our inquiry in the 1970s with the traditional novel of dictatorship; and we will end it with the contemporary images of the narco and the new politicians. On the other hand, it will deliver a cultural approach as well, since we will be reading novels and short stories by writers from different areas of the continent —but with a special emphasis on Colombian history and literature.
Spanish 400-302 Fictions of the Past: The Latin American Historical Novel
Prof. Tellez
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In this course we will reflect on the relationship between history and literature by studying historical fiction in Latin America. Relevant questions about the subject include: How contemporary Latin American writers have dealt with their past? What are the most relevant subjects and periods that novels unfold? How can we read historical fiction as a genre and what are its literary devices? This course aims to explore the cultural significance of fictional rewritings of Latin American history and how these interpretations of the past lead to new forms of cultural identification, social criticism, parody, and post colonialism.