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"Civilization and Barbarism" is a defining binary dualism in Latin America, one that we will both study and challenge. We examine the theoretical foundations of these concepts, and their relationship to the continent's problematic modernization. Finally, we consider the contemporary emergence of "new barbarians" in cities like Buenos Aires, Mexico D.F. and Rio de Janeiro. Readings include Montaigne, Freud, Sarmiento, da Cunha, Gallegos, Fonseca, and Aira. Films by Meirelles and Gonzalez Inarritu.
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Continues to reinforce the practice of oral and written communication in Spanish through topics in contemporary cultural materials from Spain and Latin America. Students will focus on improving accuracy, refining pronunciation and developing vocabulary. In addition to in-class discussions, course work involves grammar review and practice in writing. Consult course website for current semester topics.
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Continues to reinforce the practice of oral and written communication in Spanish through topics in contemporary cultural materials from Spain and Latin America. Students will focus on improving accuracy, refining pronunciation and developing vocabulary. In addition to in-class discussions, course work involves grammar review and practice in writing. Consult course website for current semester topics.
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An advanced language and culture class that further develops linguistic competence using a region or regions of the Hispanic world as a focus for class discussion, grammar review, and an introduction to Hispanic social contexts and texts. Course materials may also include films, interviews, painting, photography, music, selections from the press, as well as literary or historical readings. Frequent written and oral assignments, and a thorough review of grammar.
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An advanced language and culture class that further develops linguistic competence using a region or regions of the Hispanic world as a focus for class discussion, grammar review, and an introduction to Hispanic social contexts and texts. Course materials may also include films, interviews, painting, photography, music, selections from the press, as well as literary or historical readings. Frequent written and oral assignments, and a thorough review of grammar.
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Examines the variegated relations between Spain and its "forgotten" colonial endeavors in Morocco, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea as represented in novels, political essays, film. Authors/artists: Cadalso, Alarcon, Fortuny, Perez Galdos, Unamuno, Azorin, Carmen de Burgos, Sender, Franco, Juan Goytisolo, Donato Ndongo, others.
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In many Latin American texts, the topic of identity appears with a strong sense of urgency. We consider the main trends of Latin America's search for its own distinctive character, and the role of literature in this specific quest. Emphasis on the literary construction and performance of national, cultural, gender and racial identities. Readings by Marti, Dario, Agustini, Rodo, Borges, Castellanos, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Fuguet and Aira.
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Examines the construction, expansion, and transformation of Barcelona as cultural capital of Catalonia and as site of political and aesthetic experimentation from the mid-19th century to the present. Drawing on literature, criticism, visual arts, architecture, urban planning, film, and music, we explore national identity, nationalism, and language; bilingualism and multiculturalism; and the relations between art and economics, political conformity and resistance.
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A basic beginning semester course for students with no previous study of Spanish. Emphasis on speaking, while developing all four language skills. Hispanic culture will be introduced throughout and computer, video and film materials will be used.
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A basic beginning semester course for students with no previous study of Spanish. Emphasis on speaking, while developing all four language skills. Hispanic culture will be introduced throughout and computer, video and film materials will be used.
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For students with the equivalent of one semester previous study of Spanish. Emphasis on speaking, reading and writing while including Hispanic culture through contemporary texts and using computer, video and film materials. After Spanish Aa and Ab, students should be able to engage in everyday conversation with native speakers, and read straightforward texts, both fiction and non-fiction, with relative ease.
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For students with the equivalent of one semester previous study of Spanish. Emphasis on speaking, reading and writing while including Hispanic culture through contemporary texts and using computer, video and film materials. After Spanish Aa and Ab, students should be able to engage in everyday conversation with native speakers, and read straightforward texts, both fiction and non-fiction, with relative ease.
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For heritage speakers and advanced language students, Latino literature, in the forms of poetry, narrative, theater, and film, will be the focus of an in-depth review of grammar and style in Spanish, as well as the uses of Spanish alongside English language arts. A range of artists from Latin American origins will be featured, including those with ties to the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America.
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Cervantes' masterpiece as imaginative response to developments in European literature and aesthetic theory, the conflicted politics of race and religion, 16th-century historiography (serious and burlesque) and the discursive practices of imperial Spain. Close reading of Don Quijote in relation to its models, reception history and contemporary criticism and theory.
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Is there a history of voice? What is the nature of the materiality of voice recorded by mimetic apparatuses (gramaphones, alphabet, iconic scripts, film)? Particular attention will be placed on objects from the indigenous Americas.
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An overview of literary and cultural production in the Americas before and after the Spanish invasion. Topics include pre-Columbian visual and verbal expressions; discovery, invention, conquest, and resistance; the historiography of the New World; native depictions of the colonial world.
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Drawing on literature, art, and film, this course offers an intensive introduction to the interplays of nationality and modernity in Spanish culture from the XIXth to the XXIst centuries, with special attention to debates on unity and diversity, regionalism and nationalism (Catalonia, Euskadi, Galicia, etc.), (post)-colonialism and immigration. Figures include Cadalso, Larra, Goya, Blanco White, Valera, Pardo Bazan, Gaudi, Unamuno, Carmen de Burgos, Rusinol, Arana, Garcia Lorca, Bunuel, Dali, Berlanga, Erice, Almodovar, Goytisolo, Tapies.
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How have Latin American literature and film of the past three decades articulated the many forms of violence in a region facing complex social conflicts, wars deployed around the drug trade, and diverse forms of political unrest? We will investigate how contemporary texts reflect on linguistic, ethical and social dimensions of subjectivity in times of crisis and provide productive analytical frameworks to examine violence, history and memory in the region.
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Through novels that helped to consolidate nation-states in Latin America, explores modernity as personal and public lessons in laissez-faire. Sequels in film, telenovelas, performances show tenacity of genre. Links between creativity and citizenship. Theorists include Anderson, Foucault, Arendt, Lukacs, Flaubert.
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Ruy Diaz de Vivar, "el Cid," and other Rodrigos; Santiago "Matamoros"; the bawd Celestina; picaro Lazarillo de Tormes; conquistador Hernan Cortes; Don Quijote and Don Juan in the medieval and Early Modern texts and contexts which produced these enduring cultural icons. Emphasis on critical reading and writing.
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Introduction to the study of premodern Spanish literature from its origins through the 15th century. Close reading of representative works framed in historical context: Cantar de Mio Cid, Milagros de Nuestra Senora, Libro de buen amor, Conde Lucanor, Laberinto de Fortuna, Coplas a la muerte de de su padre, Carcel de amor and La Celestina. Attention to critical approaches and themes in medieval literary studies (e.g. orality and poetics, historicism, folklore and narratology).
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Introduccion a la historia de la lengua espanola desde sus origenes hasta el presente. Escarceos en linguistica historica en el marco de la historia literaria y el estudio comparado de la lenguas romanicas. Acercamiento interdisciplinario.
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Historia publica y privada en La muerte de Artemio Cruz, Carlos Fuentes; Santa Evita, Tomas Eloy Martinez; Palacio Quemado, Edmundo Paz Soldan; Abril Rojo, Santiago Roncagliolo; Historia Secreta de Costaguana, Juan Gabriel Vasquez.
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