Introduction to grammar and development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in Brazilian Portuguese, as well as the history and culture of Portuguese-speaking countries.
Prerequisite for 101-2: 101-1 or sufficient score on placement test; for 101-3: 101-2 or sufficient score on placement test.
Based on the communicative approach, Port 121 helps students achieve an intermediate language level of proficiency through furthering development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of Brazilian Portuguese will continue to be developed through meaningful cultural contexts. The course also offers insights into the history and culture of the Portuguese speaking countries in Europe, Africa and America.
This course is designed to expand mastery in reading and speaking Brazilian Portuguese through select cultural videos, readings of literary cronicas, periodicals, and the Internet.
Prerequisite: 111-3/112-3, 115-2, 121-3 or sufficient score on placement examination.
For students who have studied Spanish less than two years. Communicative method. Development of speaking, listening, conversation, and grammar skills, as well as knowledge of Hispanic culture, through context. Three class meetings a week. Outside online video program twice a week.
Spanish 105-6 First-Year Seminar: Women At The Border: The Marginalization Of Latinas In The U.S.
Latina immigrants to the U.S. often leave intolerable circumstances and brave life-threatening border crossings in pursuit of the American dream. Yet, those who succeed in crossing the geographic border almost inevitably find that the marginalized existence they hoped to leave behind takes on an equally powerful form in their new world as they confront economic, political, racial, linguistic, and cultural barriers 'north' of the border. This course considers these issues through analysis of literature and film and has three thematic divisions: GLOBAL BORDERS includes a brief history of U.S. immigration policy and politics and analyzes its impact on global transmigration in the post- 9/11 world. CROSSING BORDERS explores the reasons for and dangers involved in border crossings by Latinas into the United States. NEW BORDERS reflects on the challenges and triumphs for Latinas once they have reached their new homeland and what it means to cross 'borders'.
Communicative method. Further development of grammar, vocabulary, speaking, and writing skills through emphasis on cultural content and functional use of Spanish language. Three class meetings a week. Outside online video program twice a week.
Prerequisite: 101-3, 115-2, or Spanish Language Placement Exam.
Communicative method. Further development of grammar, vocabulary, speaking, and writing skills through readings and short films. Three class meetings a week. Outside online video. Offered in fall only.
Prerequisite: AP score of 3 or Spanish Language Placement Exam.
Spanish 127-0 Accelerated Intermediate Spanish for heritage learners
Communicative method. Further development of grammar, vocabulary, speaking, and writing skills through readings and short films. Three class meetings a week. Outside online video. Offered in fall only.
Prerequisite: AP score of 3 or Spanish Language Placement Exam
Spanish 199-0 Language in Context: Contemporary Spain
An introduction to the culture and politics of contemporary Spain in the basis for review and further development of some of the most problematic grammatical patterns in Spanish.
Prerequisite: 121-3, 125-0, AP score of 4, or Spanish Language Placement Exam.
Spanish 201-0 Conversation on Human Rights: Latin America
First course of a sequence designed to develop speaking strategies and structures through analysis of modern (20th- and 21st-century) Latin American culture. Emphasis on accurate informal conversation.
Prerequisite: 199 or Spanish Language Placement Exam.
Spanish 203-0 Individual and Society through Written Expression
First course of a sequence that develops writing skills and structures through examination of the relationship between individual and society. Emphasizes textual analysis and development of descriptive, narrative and argumentative essays.
Prerequisiste: 201, AP score of 5, or Spanish Language Placement Exam.
Spanish 204-0 Reading and Writing in the Art of Protest
Second course of a sequence designed to develop writing skills and structures through analysis of socially committed art. Emphasis on cultural analysis and development of longer essays.
Introduction to textual analysis and to topics such as genre, narratology, prosody, and figurative language, aiming to prepare the student to read, discuss, and write analytically in Spanish about literature and culture.
Prerequisites:204 or AP 5 in Spanish Language AND Literature.
Survey of literature in Spain from the 18th to the 20th century. Study of representative figures and major literary developments in conjunction with political and cultural history.
Spanish 261-0 Literature in Latin America since 1888
Survey of the modern period, including modernismo, the historical avant-garde, the "Boom," and recent literary trends. Authors such as Delmira Agustini, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Ruben Dario, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jose Marti, Pablo Neruda, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska.
Spanish 331-0 Realism in Spain: The Problem of Representation
Theories and practices of realist authors in modern Spanish literature. Issues of literary representation and mimesis. Aesthetic and ideological foundations of realism in the 19th century and in 20th-century variants such as social realism, antirealism, and postmodern documentarism.
Prerequisite: 1 course from 250, 251, 260, or 261.
Spanish 348-0 Readings in Latin American Short Fiction
Theory and practice of Latin American short fiction. Close readings of texts by authors such as Reinaldo Arenas, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortazar, Rosario Ferre, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Augusto Monterroso, Elena Poniatowaska, and others.
