Graduate Spanish courses for Fall 2019

Title Instructor Location Time All taxonomy terms Description Section Description Cross Listings Fulfills Registration Notes Syllabus Syllabus URL Course Syllabus URL
SPAN 543-401 Environmental Humanities: Theory, Method, Practice WIGGIN, BETHANY WILLIAMS HALL 741 W 0200PM-0500PM Topics vary. Please see the Spanish Department's website for the current course description: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/hispanic-portuguese-studies/pc Environmental Humanities: Theory, Methods, Practice is a seminar-style course designed to introduce students to the trans- and interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities. Weekly readings and discussions will be complemented by guest speakers from a range of disciplines including ecology, atmospheric science, computing, history of science, medicine, anthropology, literature, and the visual arts. Participants will develop their own research questions and a final project, with special consideration given to building the multi-disciplinary collaborative teams research in the environmental humanities often requires.
    		ALL READINGS AND LECTURES IN ENGLISH; UNDERGRADUATES NEED PERMISSION
    SPAN 606-301 PEDAGOGY ACROSS THE SPANISH CURRICULUM GARCIA-SERRANO, MARIA VICTORIA WILLIAMS HALL 320 R 1200PM-0300PM The aim of this seminar is to prepare graduate students in Hispanic Studies to teach a wide range of courses typically offered at North American universities and colleges--from the elementary Spanish language level to upper-division seminars--while familiarizing themselves with current approaches and methodological trends in foreign language instruction. By designing a content-based syllabus, including selecting and sequencing of reading materials and choosing the appropriate learning outcomes and assessment methods, graduate students will gain a greater awareness of curricular planning and development and acquire skills that will significantly ease their future teaching endeavors such as using a backward design model, incorporating their own research interests into their lessons and courses, or taking advantage of the resources available to language learners on campus. By the end of the course, graduate students will be able to talk about and reflect on their teaching in an effective and professional manner.
      		UNDERGRADUATES NEED PERMISSION
      SPAN 630-401 MEDIEVAL LIT IN ROMANCE-IBERIAN PENINSULA: CASTILIAN, PORTUGUESE & CATALAN PIO, CARLOS
      SOLOMON, MICHAEL       		FISHER-BENNETT HALL 139 W 1200PM-0300PM Topics vary. Please see the Spanish Department's website for the current course description: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/hispanic-portuguese-studies/pc Quiero fer una prosa en romanz paladino, / en qual suele el pueblo fablar con so vezino,/ ca no so tan letrado por fer otro latino: /bien valdra, commo creo, un vaso de bon vino. (Berceo, Vida de santo Domingo) This seminar provides an overview of the major literatures in Romance from the medieval Iberian Peninsula. We begin with early Galician-Portuguese troubadour lyrics followed by a survey of the early Castilian ballads and the rise clerical verse (mester de clerezia). The course ends with an overview of late medieval Catalan prose, including Tirant lo Blanc and Curial and Guelfa. In this seminar we will pay special philological attention to Romance language evolution, the concept of the Iberian interliterary system, and the material conditions of literary transmission—manuscripts. The seminar will also incorporate two guest lecturers on Catalan language and literature, Montserrat Piera (Temple University) and Toni Esposito (University of Pennsylvania--Spanish and Portuguese). The sessions will be conducted in English. For reading purposes, all participants should be able to read at least one Romance language. Evaluation will be based class participation and three take-home exams/worksheets.
        		UNDERGRADUATES NEED PERMISSION
        SPAN 686-301 FORMAS DE VIDA: SUBJETIVIDAD/PRODCN ESTETICA-GRIETAS DEL NEOLIB GLOBAL MORENO CABALLUD, LUIS WILLIAMS HALL 219 M 0400PM-0700PM Topics vary. Please see the Spanish Department's website for the current course description: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/hispanic-portuguese-studies/pc Taking as a point of departure the current ecological, political, and existential crises that are determining the fate of capitalism in Spain and the world, we will study the crucial role of aesthetics in displacing neoliberal subjectivities. Particularly, we will investigate three contemporary literary and artistic lines of flight: an animist line, which displaces the contemporary crisis of experience by questioning the Western dualism between subject and object; a feminist line, which understands the creation of imaginaries as one of the everyday necessary material activities that sustain life; and an equalitarian line, which confronts the privatization of artistic creation and tries to uncover the abundant capabilities that we suppress in ourselves when we enter into the logic of individualist cultural authority.
          		UNDERGRADUATES NEED PERMISSION
          SPAN 697-301 THE GLOBAL PICARESQUE: PRECARITY, EXPLOITATION AND WORLD LITERATURE TELLEZ, JORGE FISHER-BENNETT HALL 24 T 0200PM-0500PM Topics vary. Please see the Spanish Department's website for the current course description: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/hispanic-portuguese-studies/pc
            		UNDERGRADUATES NEED PERMISSION
            SPAN 697-401 LATIN AMERICAN MARXISMS BECKMAN, ERICKA CANCELED Topics vary. Please see the Spanish Department's website for the current course description: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/hispanic-portuguese-studies/pc