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Spring 2007 Courses

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102. Elementary Spanish II
Eugenia Wheelwright M 9:30 - 10:25, W 9:30 - 10:25, F 9:30 - 10:25 Sills-207
Continuation of Spanish 101. 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.
204. Intermediate Spanish II
Candice Bosse M 8:30 - 9:25, W 8:30 - 9:25, F 8:30 - 9:25 Sills-205
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.
204. Intermediate Spanish II
Candice Bosse M 9:30 - 10:25, W 9:30 - 10:25, F 9:30 - 10:25 Sills-107
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.
205. Advanced Spanish
Elena Cueto-Asin M 11:30 - 12:55, W 11:30 - 12:55 Mass-McKeen Study
The study of a variety of journalistic and literary texts and visual media, together with an advanced grammar review, designed to increase written and oral proficiency, as well as appreciation of the cultural history of the Spanish-speaking world. Foundational course for the major. Three class hours per week and one weekly conversation session with assistant.
207. Latin American Cultures
Enrique Yepes T 11:30 - 12:55, TH 11:30 - 12:55 Hawthorn Longfellow - 311 (third floor)
A study of diverse cultural artifacts (literature, film, history, graffiti, and journalism) intended to explore the ethnic and cultural heterogeneity of Latin American societies from pre-Columbian times to the present, including the Latino presence in the United States. Conducted in Spanish.
207. Latin American Cultures
Enrique Yepes T 2:30 - 3:55, TH 2:30 - 3:55 Kanbar Hall - 107
A study of diverse cultural artifacts (literature, film, history, graffiti, and journalism) intended to explore the ethnic and cultural heterogeneity of Latin American societies from pre-Columbian times to the present, including the Latino presence in the United States. Conducted in Spanish.
LAB
Enrique Yepes W 7:00 - 9:00 Searles-315
A study of diverse cultural artifacts (literature, film, history, graffiti, and journalism) intended to explore the ethnic and cultural heterogeneity of Latin American societies from pre-Columbian times to the present, including the Latino presence in the United States. Conducted in Spanish.
LAB
Enrique Yepes W 7:00 - 9:00 Searles-315
A study of diverse cultural artifacts (literature, film, history, graffiti, and journalism) intended to explore the ethnic and cultural heterogeneity of Latin American societies from pre-Columbian times to the present, including the Latino presence in the United States. Conducted in Spanish.
210. Introduction to the Study and Criticism of Modern Hispanic Literature
John Turner M 11:30 - 12:55, W 11:30 - 12:55 Sills-207
Introduces students to the literatures of Spain and Spanish America from 1800 to the present. Examines major authors and literary movements of modern Spain and Spanish America in historical and cultural context.
210. Introduction to the Study and Criticism of Modern Hispanic Literature
John Turner M 2:30 - 3:55, W 2:30 - 3:55 Sills-207
Introduces students to the literatures of Spain and Spanish America from 1800 to the present. Examines major authors and literary movements of modern Spain and Spanish America in historical and cultural context.
329. Short Cuts: The Latin American Nouvelle
Gustavo Faveron-Patriau T 6:30 - 9:25 Sills-207
This seminar will focus on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin American literature through a number of masterpieces of the short novel genre. Authors will include Esteban Echevarría, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Mario Bellatín.
333. Reading Madrid
Elena Cueto-Asin M 2:30 - 3:55, W 2:30 - 3:55 Sills-205
A study of narratives from the nineteenth century to the present that take place in Madrid. Examines the different ways in which the city as an urban space functions in fiction as a unifying backdrop, as a collective protagonist, as a symbolic compendium of a nation, etc., in works by major contemporary Spanish authors like B. Pérez Galdós, P. Baroja, C.J. Cela, P. Almodóvar.
337. Hispanic Short Story
Gustavo Faveron-Patriau T 11:30 - 12:55, TH 11:30 - 12:55 Sills-209
An investigation of the short story as a literary genre, beginning in the nineteenth century, involving discussion of its aesthetics, as well as its political, social and cultural ramifications in the Spanish-speaking world. Authors include Pardo Bazan, Echevarria, Borges, Cortazar, Garcia Marquez, Ferre, and others.

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