DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE

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.

Prerequisite: Port 101-3 or Placement

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.

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.

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.

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.

An advanced course for developing communication skills in Spanish for health care purposes. Emphasis on language skills for the medical field, specialized terminology and vocabulary, and cultural nuances in the Spanish-speaking world.

Prerequisite: AP score of 5 or Spanish 201-0.

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 the origins of the Spanish language and the development of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the end of the Spanish Golden Age. Study of representative figures and major literary developments in conjunction with political and cultural history.

Prerequisite: 220.

An introductory course designed to present students with an overview of the phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax and sociolinguistic and pragmatic elements specific to the Spanish language.

Prerequisite: Span 204 or equivalent

Historical, literary, and cultural characteristics of the "Boom" in the 1960s and 1970s and the development of the "new" narrative in Latin America. Readings include novels, short fiction, and essays by authors such as Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Julio Cortazar, Jose Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Manuel Puig, Juan Rulfo, and Mario Vargas Llosa.

Prerequisite: 1 course from 250, 251, 260, or 261.

In this course, we will look at representations of marriage, adultery and polygamy in literary works, movies, and photographs from Lusophone countries from the 19th to the 21st century. Starting with a discussion of Gustave Flaubert's classic novel of adultery Madame Bovary (1856), we will raise several questions: how did writers associate reading and cheating? How did letters become an important agent in the keeping and revealing of secrets and forbidden affairs? How did the institution of marriage change in response to the growing demands for women's rights? Finally, how does literature create and criticize fantasies of love, desire and consumption? To answer these questions, we will read novels by Eca de Queiroz, Machado de Assis, and Paulina Chiziane. Other writers may include Clarice Lispector, Mia Couto, Jorge Amado, Sophia de Mello, and Rubem Fonseca. The course will move from a specific focus on the impact of Madame Bovary in different cultures, particularly on how writers from countries such as Portugal and Brazil responded to the classic novel, to larger questions about representations of women, marriage, and sexuality in literature. Students will practice close reading and interdisciplinary methodologies, exercising comparative approaches between texts or different media. All the assigned readings will be in English, but students with familiarity with other languages, such as French and Portuguese, are encouraged to read the texts in their original languages.

In this course, we will discuss the anxieties created by notions of "imitation" at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century in Brazil, and the debates they created not only in the field of aesthetics, but also in the pseudoscientific discourse of sexology, criminology and psychopathology. We will be particularly interested in understanding how these debates on modernity and imitation of French culture evolved through the post-1922 Modernism avant-gardes, and the anthropophagic movement in particular, and the extent to which the latter represented a solution for the anxieties and aspirations of the writers of the period. We will focus on fictional works by Brazilian writers ranging from the abolition of slavery (1888) and the proclamation of the Republic (1889), to the 1920's avant-garde movements. We will also engage with contemporary theories of imitation and repletion Reading knowledge of Portuguese or Spanish is helpful, but not required.

Primary works will include: Raul Pompeia's O Ateneu (1888) [Trans. The Atheneum, ISBN: 0810130793); Aluizio de Azevedo's O Cortico (1890) [trans. The Slum, ISBN-10: 0195121872]; Machado de Assis' Dom Casmurro (1899) trans. Dom Casmurro: a novel ISBN-13: 978-0374523039; Joao do Rio's Vertiginous Life (1911); Oswald de Andrade (TBD); Mario de Andrade's Macunaima (1928).

Theoretical works may include works by Antonio Candido and Roberto Schwarz, Viveiros de Castro (Cannibal Metaphysics), Gabriel Tarde, Harold Bloom, Gilles Delleuze, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Rene Girard