The College Catalogue

101 {1101} c. Elementary Spanish I. Every fall. Fall 2012. María Báez Marco.

An introduction to the grammar of Spanish, aiming at comprehension, reading, writing, and simple conversation. Emphasis is on grammar structure, with frequent oral drills. Spanish 101 is primarily open to first- and second-year students, with a limited number of spaces available for juniors and seniors who have had less than one year of high school Spanish.

102 {1102} c. Elementary Spanish II. Every spring. Spring 2013. Genie Wheelwright.

Three class hours per week and weekly conversation sessions with assistant, plus laboratory assignments. An introduction to the grammar of Spanish, aiming at comprehension, reading, writing, and simple conversation. More attention is paid to reading and writing.

Prerequisite: Spanish 101 or the equivalent.

203 {2203} c. Intermediate Spanish I. Every fall. Fall 2012. Genie Wheelwright.

Three class hours per week and one weekly conversation session with the teaching assistant. Grammar fundamentals are reviewed. Class conversation and written assignments are based on readings in modern literature.

Prerequisite: Spanish 102 or placement.

204 {2204} c. Intermediate Spanish II. Fall 2012 and Spring 2013. María Báez Marco.

Three class hours per week and one weekly conversation session with the assistant. Grammar fundamentals are reviewed. Class conversation and written assignments are based on readings in modern literature.

Prerequisite: Spanish 203 or placement.

205 {2305} c. Advanced Spanish. Every semester. Fall 2012. Margaret Boyle and Nadia Celis. Spring 2013. María Báez Marco.

The study of topics in the political and cultural history of the Spanish-speaking world in twentieth century, together with an advanced grammar review. Covers a variety of texts and media and is designed to increase written and oral proficiency, as well as appreciation of the intellectual and artistic traditions of Spain and Latin America. Foundational course for the major. Three class hours per week and one weekly conversation session with assistant. (Same as Latin American Studies 205 {2205}.)

Prerequisite: Spanish 204 or placement.

209 {2409} c - IP. Introduction to Hispanic Studies: Poetry and Theater. Every semester. Fall 2012. Elena Cueto Asín. Spring 2013. Margaret Boyle and Elena Cueto Asín.

A chronological introduction to the cultural production of the Spanish-speaking world from pre-Columbian times to the present, with particular emphasis on the analysis of poetry and theater. Examines major literary works and movements in their historical and cultural context. One weekly workshop with assistant in addition to class time. Conducted in Spanish. (Same as Latin American Studies 209 {2409}.)

Prerequisite: Spanish 205 (same as Latin American Studies 205) or permission of the instructor.

210 {2410} c - IP. Introduction to Hispanic Studies: Essay and Narrative. Every semester. Fall 2012. Carolyn Wolfenzon. Spring 2013. Nadia Celis.

A chronological introduction to the cultural production of the Spanish-speaking world from pre-Columbian times to the present, with particular emphasis on the analysis of essay and narrative. Examines major literary works and movements in their historical and cultural context. (Same as Latin American Studies 210 {2410}.)

Prerequisite: Spanish 205 (same as Latin American Studies 205) or permission of the instructor.

250 {2505} c. The Making of a Race: Latino Fictions. Fall 2012. Nadia V. Celis.

Explores the creation, representation and marketing of U.S. Latino/a identities in American literature and popular culture from the 1960s. Focuses on the experience of artists and writers of Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican origin, their negotiations with notions of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the United States, their role in the struggle for social rights, in cultural translation, and in the marketing of ethnic identities, as portrayed in a variety of works ranging from movies and songs to poetry and narrative. Authors include Pietri, Blades, Álvarez, Hijuelos, Braschi, Ovejas, Díaz, and Quiñones. Readings and writing in English, discussions in Spanish. Spanish speaking skills required. (Same as Latin American Studies 250 {2005}.)

301–309 {3000–3099}. Topics in Hispanic Cultures. Every year. The Department.

Designed to provide advanced students with an understanding of cultural developments and debates in specific regions of the Spanish-speaking world. Conducted in Spanish.

[301 {3001} c. Contemporary Spain: Diversity, Tradition, Change.]

[302 {3002} c. The Idea of Latin America. (Same as Latin American Studies 302 {3202}.)]

[303 {3003} c. Conquest and Resistance in Latin America. (Same as Latin American Studies 303 {3203}.)]

[304 {3004} c. Dress and Body Politics in Latin America. (Same as Latin American Studies 304 {3204}.)]

305 {3005} c. The Making of a Race: Latino Fictions. Fall 2012. Nadia V. Celis.

Explores the creation, representation and marketing of U.S. Latino/a identities in American literature and popular culture from the 1960s. Focuses on the experience of artists and writers of Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican origin, their negotiations with notions of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the United States, their role in the struggle for social rights, in cultural translation, and in the marketing of ethnic identities, as portrayed in a variety of works ranging from movies and songs to poetry and narrative. Authors include Pietri, Blades, Álvarez, Hijuelos, Braschi, Ovejas, Díaz, and Quiñones. Readings in English, discussions and writing in Spanish. (Same as Latin American Studies 305 {3005}.)

Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Spanish 209 (same as Latin American Studies 209) or 210 (same as Latin American Studies 210).

310–349 {3100-3999}. Topics in Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies. Every year. The Department.

Designed to provide advanced students with the opportunity to deepen the study of specific aspects of the cultural production from the Spanish-speaking world with particular emphasis on literary analysis. Conducted in Spanish.

318 {3218} c. A Journey around Macondo: García Márquez and His Contemporaries. Spring 2013. Nadia V. Celis.

Studies the main topics, techniques, and contributions of Colombian Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez as presented in One Hundred Years of Solitude. Explores the actual locations, social, cultural, and literary trends that inspired the creation of Macondo, the so-called “village of the world” where the novel takes place, and the universal themes to which this imaginary town relates. Contemporary authors include Fuenmayor, Cepeda Samudio, and Rojas Herazo. (Same as Latin American Studies 318 {3218}.)

Prerequisite: Two of the following: Spanish 209 (same as Latin American Studies 209), 210 (same as Latin American Studies 210), 310 or higher; or permission of the instructor.

[320 {3220} c. Beyond the Postcard: The Hispanic Caribbean. (Same as Africana Studies 320 {3320} and Latin American Studies 320 {3220}.)]

321 {3201} c. Andean Modernities. Fall 2012. Carolyn Wolfenzon.

Through the discussion of essays, novels, short stories, and films, explores the different ways in which Andean nations have dealt with processes of social, political, and cultural modernization. Focuses on how literature and the arts have represented, responded, and contributed to those processes, since the late nineteenth century until the present day, through local reelaborations of modernist, avant-garde, and postmodernist aesthetics. Readings include works by Peruvian authors Clorinda Matto de Turner, César Vallejo, and Mario Vargas Llosa; Bolivians like Hilda Mundy and Jaime Sáenz; and Ecuadorians like Pablo Palacio and Jorge Enrique Adoum. Addresses the issue of migration and the reconfigurations of Andean identities in the United States, through the works of Bolivian author Edmundo Paz Soldán and the Ecuadorian-American writer Ernesto Quiñonez. (Same as Latin American Studies 330 {3201}.)

Prerequisite: Two of the following: Spanish 209 (same as Latin American Studies 209), 210 (same as Latin American Studies 210), 310 or higher; or permission of the instructor.

324 {3224} c. Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater. Fall 2012. Elena Cueto Asín.

Examines works by Spanish playwrights of the twentieth century in light of the innovations of the Avant-Garde movements of the 1920s and 1930s, the limitations imposed by censorship under the Franco dictatorship, and the plurality of voices that emerges during the present democratic period. The study of plays by García Lorca, Buero Vallejo, Arrabal, Diosdado, and others tracks the evolution of the experimental qualities of the theater, as well as gives special attention to the ways in which political and historical discourses are adapted for the stage. Part of the course includes recitation of scenes.

Prerequisite: Two of the following: Spanish 209 (same as Latin American Studies 209), 210 (same as Latin American Studies 210), 310 or higher; or permission of the instructor.

327 {3127} c. Reading Spanish Film. Spring 2013. Elena Cueto Asín.

A panoramic study of the film traditions of Spain from their origins in 1896 to the most recent trends, including directors from Luis Buñuel to Pedro Almodóvar. Narrative notions of film semiotics applied to read Spanish film as literary and artistic manifestations of tendencies such as surrealism, social realism, tremendism, etc., and in connection with political and social phases of modern history of Spain (the Republic, the Civil War, the Franco regime, and the transition to democracy). Attendance at weekly film screenings required.

Prerequisite: Two of the following: Spanish 209 (same as Latin American Studies 209), 210 (same as Latin American Studies 210), 310 or higher; or permission of the instructor.

[328 {3228} c. Don Quijote.]

[329 {3229} c. Short Cuts: The Latin American Nouvelle. (Same as Latin American Studies 329 {3229}.)]

[332 {3232} c. Poetry and Social Activism in Latin America. (Same as Latin American Studies 332 {3232}.)]

[336 {3236} c. Reading Images: Intersections of Art, Film, and Literature in Contemporary Latin America. (Same as Latin American Studies 336 {3236}.)]

[337 {3237} c. Hispanic Short Story. (Same as Latin American Studies 337 {3237}.)]

[339 {3239} c. Borges and the Borgesian. (Same as Latin American Studies 339 {3239}.)]

[341 {3241} c. Colonial Experience and Post-colonial Perspectives. (Same as Latin American Studies 341 {3241}.)]

[343 {3243} c. Imaginary Cities/Real Cities in Latin America. (Same as Latin American Studies 343 {3243}.)]

[345 {3245} c. Ecological Thought in Latin American Literature. (Same as Environmental Studies 285 {2485} and Latin American Studies 345 {3245}.)]

347 {3247} c. Translating Cultures. Fall 2012. Janice Jaffe.

Far beyond the linguistic exercise of converting words from one language to another, translation is an art that engages the practitioner in cultural, political and aesthetic questions. How does translation influence national identity? What are the limits of translation? Can culture be translated? How does gender affect translation? Students explore these questions and develop strategies and techniques through translating texts from a variety of cultural contexts and literary and non-literary genres. Also explores ethics and techniques of interpreting between Spanish and English in different fields. (Same as Latin American Studies 347 {3247}.)

Prerequisite: Two of the following: Spanish 209 (same as Latin American Studies 209), 210 (same as Latin American Studies 210), 310 or higher; or permission of the instructor.

[348 {3248} c. The Others: The Nineteenth-Century Latin American Novel. (Same as Latin American Studies 348 {3248}.)]

401–404 {4000–4003} c. Independent Study and Honors in Spanish. The Department.

405 {4029} c. Collaborative Study in Spanish. The Department.