Department News
SUMMER SCHOOL
SUMMER CLASSES IN PORTUGUESE! Check out our Smilebox presentation about Portuguese classes this summer! http://secure.smilebox.com/
Complete look at summer course offerings are here
http://www.scs.northwestern.edu/summernu/courses
TAKE SPANISH THIS SUMMER!
Whether you are a student who needs to complete your school's language requirement, or someone who loves to learn languages, taking Spanish at SCS this summer session will be a great opportunity to meet your goals.
If you have never taken Spanish, register in Spanish 101; if you have taken Spanish 101 at NU, or a placement exam placed you in second year Spanish, register in Spanish 121. You will start on June 18th and you'll be finished with a year of Spanish by August 17th, while taking advantage of a near-immersion experience!
For more information on the different Spanish language courses offered this summer through SCS, please visit the web page below:
http://www.scs.northwestern.edu/summernu/courses/
Congratulations to Penny Nichols, Senior Lecturer, who won a 2012 Weinberg Teaching Award for Outstanding Freshman Advising! Penny has been teaching Freshman Seminars for the last half dozen years, and the Award is a reflection of her commitment to the College's students across Freshman Seminars and indeed all her courses.
Congratulations to Nathalie Bouzaglo, Assistant Professor in Spanish and Portuguese, who has been awarded and has accepted a Junior Fellowship at the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities for 2012-13. She will work on her book manuscript "Adulterated Nation: Illicit Passions in the Venezuelan Fin de Siècle" and participate in the intellectual life of the Institute.
Yet another reason to study Spanish:
Bilingualism Fine-Tunes Hearing, Enhances Attention. Read about it in NU's News Center: http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2012/04/kraus-bilingualism-music.html?utm_campaign=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=enews
Bilinguals are Smarter! Read about the benefits of bilingualism in a recent article titled Why Bilinguals are Smarter!:
Introducing NU Heights. NU Heights is a Department of Spanish and Portugese-sponsored initiative entirely run and organized by Northwestern students. Around 60 Northwestern students will be making weekly trips to Pierce Elementary in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood to tutor grade-school kids. Read about this in Northwestern's News Network
Tutoring: Did you know the Dept of Spanish & Portuguese offers Spanish Tutoring Services?
Northwestern University is pleased to announce the new Graduate Program in Spanish & Portuguese.
See the Daily Northwestern’s article about the Spanish Department’s informal conversation opportunities!
Important Notice
Department of Spanish & Portuguese 2012-2013 Yearly Course Planner
Department End of Year Party! Join us, Wednesday 5/30!
Upcoming Events
5/29/2012 - 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Welcome to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Our department blends a community of scholars, whose strong research interests range across Spanish, Latin American and Brazilian literatures and cultures, and a community of instructors, who are dedicated to teaching a strong culture-based language program. Our faculty offers a rich array of courses in Spanish, Portuguese, and English in an effort to serve not only majors and minors but also a variety of students from Weinberg College and other schools who may take only one of two classes.
Our goal is to convey a liberating variety of approaches to learning, a wide sweep of content, and a broad range of texts so that students may gain a thorough understanding of the languages, the literatures, and the cultures of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. We believe that it is essential to understand contemporary novels by reading Cervantes, modern poetry by appreciating Paz, today’s film by watching Salles. And we believe that with command of Spanish and Portuguese, two of the most commonly spoken languages on Earth, our students are well prepared for the world of the 21st century. Read more
