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Fall 2007 Courses

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102. Elementary Spanish II
Esmeralda Ulloa M 9:30 - 10:25, W 9:30 - 10:25, F 9:30 - 10:25
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
Eugenia Wheelwright M 9:30 - 10:25, W 9:30 - 10:25, F 9:30 - 10:25
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.

204. Intermediate Spanish II
Eugenia Wheelwright M 10:30 - 11:25, W 10:30 - 11:25, F 10:30 - 11:25
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.

205. Advanced Spanish
Elena Cueto-Asin M 11:30 - 12:55, W 11:30 - 12:55
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
Nadia Celis M 2:30 - 3:55, W 2:30 - 3:55
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
Carolyne Wolfenzon Niego T 10:00 - 11:25, TH 10:00 - 11:25
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
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
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.

323. The War of the (Latin American) Worlds
Carolyne Wolfenzon Niego T 2:30 - 3:55, TH 2:30 - 3:55
This course is a discussion of the historical, social, and political consequences of the clash between tradition and modernity in Latin America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as seen through novels, short stories, and film. Particular attention will be given to study the ways in which the processes of modernization have caused the coexistence of divergent “worlds” within Latin American countries. The class will also analyze different social and political reactions to these conflictive realities, focusing on four cases: the Mexican Revolution, the Cuban Revolution, the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, and Andean insurgencies in Perú. Authors to be read may include José Martí, Simón Bolívar, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolaño, Mario Vargas Llosa, Cromwell Jara, Elena Poniatowska, Reinaldo Arenas, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, among others.

324. Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater
Elena Cueto-Asin M 2:30 - 3:55, W 2:30 - 3:55
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 dictatatorship, 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.

326. A Body "Of One's Own": Latina and Caribbean Women Writers
Nadia Celis M 11:30 - 12:55, W 11:30 - 12:55
What do bodies tell or conceal? What does it mean to live in a female body? How a body does become a Self? are some of the questions addressed in this study of contemporary literature by women writers from the Hispanic Caribbean and the US-Latina community. Films, popular music, soap operas and advertising dialogue with literary works to explore the relationship between corporeality, power and the development of female subjectivity, as well as the representation of female bodies in the construction of Caribbean and Latino identities. Authors include Julia Álvarez, Fanny Buitrago, Magali García Ramis, Judith Ortiz Cofer and Mayra Santos-Febres, among others.

335. Conquest & Sovereignty in Latin American Literature
Esmeralda Ulloa M 1:00 - 2:25, W 1:00 - 2:25
Considers historical, literary, and ideological issues in texts that represent the conquest of Latin America in order to examine shifts in the formulation of political power and sovereignty. The regalia of power and the representation of governance are two main themes studied through colonial and contemporary texts, pre-Columbian codices, images of the conquest, and contemporary film. Authors include both colonial writers and conquistadores such as Christopher Columbus, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and contemporary Latin American authors who consider the conquest in relation to contemporary issues of governance and nationhood such as Carlos Fuentes, Alejo Carpentier, Ernesto Cardenal, and Gloria Anzaldúa, among others.