For students proficient in Spanish. Comparative sociolinguistic and interactive approach to communicative competence emphasizing pronunciation, intonation, sentence structure, and patterns of spoken and written Portuguese.
Prerequisite: AP 4 or equivalent on the Spanish Language Placement Exam.
Portuguese 202-0 Contemporary Brazil: Literature and Film
Instruction in reading and writing expository and narrative prose. Emphasis on vocabulary, linguistic skills, and syntax appropriate to formal written Portuguese.
Prerequisite:PORT 115-2, PORT 121-3, or sufficient score on placement examination.
Portuguese 396-0 x Spanish 397-0-2 x Comp Lit 305-0
MWF 9am-9:50am, 10am-10:50am, 11am-11:50am, 12pm-12:50pm, 1pm-1:50pm, 2pm-2:50pm, and 3pm-3:50pm
Spanish 101-0 Elementary Spanish
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.
Prerequisites: None
Restrictions: No P/N; Attendance at first class required
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.
Prerequisites: SPANISH 101-3, SPANISH 115-2, or Spanish Language Placement Exam
Restrictions: No P/N; Attendance at first class required
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.
Prerequisites: AP score of 3 or Spanish Language Placement Exam
Restrictions: No P/N; Attendance at first class required
Spanish 127-0 Accelerated Intermediate Spanish for Heritage Language 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.
Prerequisites: AP score of 3 or Spanish Language Placement Exam
Restrictions: No P/N; Attendance at first class required
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.
Prerequisites: SPANISH 121-3, SPANISH 125-0, or AP score of 4 on Spanish Language Placement Exam. No P/N. Attendance at first class required
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. Three class meetings a week.
Prerequisites: SPANISH 199-0 or departmental Spanish Language Placement Exam. No P/N. Attendance at first class required.
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 the individual and society. Emphasis on textual analysis and development of descriptive, narrative, and argumentative essays. Three class meetings a week.
Prerequisites: SPANISH 201-0, AP score of 5 on the Spanish Language or Literature Exam, or departmental Spanish Language Placement Exam. No P/N. Attendance at first class required
Spanish 204-0 Reading and Writing 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. Three class meetings a week.
Prerequisites: SPANISH 203-0 or SPANISH 207-0. No P/N. Attendance at first class required.
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.
Prerequisite: SPANISH 204-0 or AP 5 in Spanish Language AND Literature
Spanish 260-0 Literature in Latin America before 1888
The course provides an overview of Latin American literature and culture before the modernismo movement of the late nineteenth century. We will study a range of historical contexts and perspectives to consider how early literary texts and narratives shaped the formation of the so-called New World. Our readings will cover topics including colonization, class, gender, and race and will grapple with questions surrounding the problematic meanings of discovery, conquest, and identity. Together, we will consider not only the history of knowledge production in Latin America but also how that history highlights the limits of representation. With this goal in mind, we will explore distinct narrative forms, including but not limited to chronicles, letters, poems, illustrations, and forms of record keeping.
Prerequisite: SPANISH 220-0 (May be taken concurrently.)
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 Cortázar, Pablo Neruda, and Cristina Peri Rossi.
Prerequisite: SPANISH 220-0 (may be taken concurrently)
This course offers an overview of early 20th century avant-garde movements in Latin America and the historical contexts in which they emerged. In particular, it focuses on the main urban centers of vanguard practices in the region, including Buenos Aires, Mexico City, São Paulo, Havana, and Lima. We will pay special attention to how avant-gardist artists and writers negotiated foreign influence and local conditions, and how these movements conceived themselves as profoundly regional while speaking in an international idiom. We will emphasize the engagement with problematics in their local and global varieties, including race, gender, capitalism, imperialism and modernity.
This course aims at exploring the ways in which Latin American artists incorporated concerns, techniques, and methodologies of conceptualism into their practices since the early 1960s. We will look at the connections with mainstream (US-Western Europe) conceptual art, but we will concentrate on the differences to address issues of political activism, pedagogy, and art theory. Paying particular attention to the transition from art as craft to art as idea, we will inquire into how the studied works present a specific idea of the artist and its role in Latin American societies. The class will be in close dialogue with the exhibition Pop América, on view at the Block Museum during the Fall Quarter.
Spanish 397-0 Topics in Latin American, Latina and Latino, and Iberian Literatures and Cultures
Aspects of the literatures and cultures of Latin America and Spain. Possible topics include postcolonial criticism and its reception in Hispanic cultures, notions of translation, theories of poetics, orality and oral culture, the memoir, and travel writing. May be repeated for credit with different topic.
Spanish 397-0-2 x Portuguese 396-0 x Comp Lit 305-0
Spanish 397-0-2 x Portuguese 396-0 x Comp Lit 305-0 “Where Memory Dwells”: The Memory Debate within Contemporary Latin America
This class will introduce students to the various roles that memory, as a concept, has played in twentieth and twenty-first century Latin American politics and society. To consider such roles, this class will address a range of sociopolitical contexts, such as Argentina’s and Brazil’s authoritarian regimes and Guatemala’s civil war. At the same time, it will not be limited to instances of state-sponsored violence but will interrogate broader systems of repression to explore how memory is constructed and what its limits are. While this class will focus on a range of primary sources, it will focus primarily on feature films, novels, and sites of memory.
This course will provide students with a nuanced understanding of topics of fin-de-siecle Latin American culture related to the market, aesthetics, and politics. We will explore the relationship between nineteenth-century cultural productions and material objects, focusing on the circulation and textual description of these objects. The idea is to understand how certain objects-including but not limited to gloves, watches, umbrellas, books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, albums, cloth, brooms and irons-and parts of the body-including hands, feet, and anuses-revealed an urgent new sensibility regarding material culture and a subsequent reorientation toward objects.
SpanPort 480-0 Seeing, Saying, Witnessing: Latin American Testimonial Figures
The course will focus on how Latin American testimonial narratives theorize as well as dramatize witness figures and scenes of witnessing that exceed the critical concepts and proposals brought to bear on such works; how specific testimonial texts not only construct but also interrogate their own witnesses. Reading and discussion will be anchored in close reading.
The class will be conducted in English. Advanced reading knowledge of Spanish required (English translations of required Spanish originals will also be available, as needed).
