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Fall 2002
Spanish 110
Elementary Spanish
Staff
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This course is intended for students with no previous study experience
in Spanish. It introduces students to the language and to Hispanic culture,
while promoting the development of the four language skills: speaking,
listening, reading, and writing. Students develop the ability to communicate
in Spanish in everyday, practical situations and begin reading and writing
short texts in the language.
Spanish 112
Elementary Spanish: Accelerated
Staff
MWF 9:00-10:00; TR 9:00-10:30
Spanish 115
Spanish for the Medical Professions I
Staff
MW 6:30-8:45 PM
This course introduces beginning students to the fundamentals of practical
Spanish usage in medical situations. The course is two-pronged: linguistic
competence in Spanish will be stressed along with a focus on applied
medical terminology. Emphasis will be placed on all four skills: speaking,
listening, reading, and writing, with a specific focus on perfecting
speaking and listening skills. Students will be expected to participate
actively in classroom activities such as role-playing based on typical
office and emergency procedures.
Spanish 120
Elementary Spanish
Staff
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(Prerequisite: SPAN 110 at Penn)
Spanish 120 is the continuation of Spanish 110. Students who place
into a second-level Spanish course in the placement test should take
Spanish 121.
Spanish 121
Elementary Spanish
Staff
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Spanish 125
Spanish For the Medical Professions II
Staff
MW 6:30-8:45 PM
Spanish 130
Intermediate Spanish
Staff
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Spanish 130 is a third semester content-based language course designed
to help students achieve intermediate-mid competency in Spanish. It
emphasizes the development of reading, writing, listening and speaking
skills in an academic context. Throughout the course, students will
explore the history and literature of Spanish-speakers in the United
States, Spain, Central America and the Caribbean. This course emphasizes
the linguistic skills necessary to investigate, understand and express
cultural themes in Spanish. Prerequisites: Spanish 120 or equivalent
score on the placement exam or SATII.
Spanish 135
Spanish for Medical Professionals, Intermediate I
Staff
MW 6:30-8:30 PM
Spanish 140
Intermediate Spanish
Staff
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Spanish 140 is a fourth semester content-based language course designed
to help students achieve intermediate-mid competency in Spanish. It
emphasizes the development of reading, writing, listening and speaking
skills in an academic context. Throughout the course, students will
explore the history and literature of Spanish-speakers in Central and
South America. This course emphasizes the linguistic skills necessary
to investigate, understand and express cultural themes in Spanish. Prerequisites:
Spanish 130 or equivalent score on the placement exam or SATII.
Spanish 145
Spanish for the Medical Professions, Intermediate
II
Staff
MW 6:30-8:30 PM
Spanish 180
Spanish Conversation in Residence
Staff
Time TBA
Students must be residents of the Modern Language College House.
Spanish 202
Advanced Spanish
Staff
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The main goal of this course is to build students' oral proficiency
while increasing their awareness of Hispanic culture. Reading, listening,
and writing skills are also practiced. Reading and listening materials
provide opportunities for students to be exposed to authentic language
use and to integrate these forms into their speaking. Some expository
writing is done with the goal of perfecting students' command of linguistic
structures and cohesive devices.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 140 and/or having passed the proficiency exam.
Spanish 208
Business Spanish I
Staff
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This course is designed to develop students' use of Spanish for business
purposes. It is conducted in Spanish. In addition to technical vocabulary,
an outline of the geography, demography, forms of government, and current
economic issues facing Latin American countries and Spain is presented
in lectures, readings, and translations.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 140 and/or having passed the proficiency exam.
Spanish 212
Advanced Spanish Syntax
Staff
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A rigorous advanced grammar course. Emphasis on acquisition of a solid
knowledge of all important points of Spanish grammar, plus rules governing
colloquial usage. Required of all majors and minors. Also useful for
non-majors who wish to improve their language skills before beginning
advanced courses on culture, or for those who want a practical working
knowledge of Spanish for career work. Class work consists mostly of
discussion and correction of assigned exercises.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 202 or equivalent.
Spanish 215
Spanish for the Professions I
Staff
MW 4:30-6:00 PM
Spanish for Professions is designed to provide advanced-level language
students (post-proficiency) with a wide technical vocabulary and understanding
of key areas in the developing Latin American countries. Emphasis is
placed on the enhancement of technical vocabulary and solid communicative
skills. A series of topics including Politics, Economy, Society, Health,
Environment, Education and Science and Technology will reveal realities
and underlying challenges in the Latin American scenario. Through essays,
papers, articles, research, discussions, case studies, and videotapes
we will take an in-depth look at the dynamics of Latin American societies
and future outlook. The course will focus on - but not be restricted
to - Mexico, Cuba and Argentina.
Spanish 219
Contextos de la Civilización Hispánica
Prof. Solomon
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The primary aim of this course is to develop students' knowledge of
the geographical, historical, and cultural contexts in which Spanish
is used. At the same time that they are introduced to research techniques
and materials available in Spanish, students strengthen their language
skills through reading, oral presentations, video viewing, short papers,
and a final research project. The course is designed to give students
a broad understanding of Hispanic culture that will prepare them for
upper-level course work. Required of all majors and minors.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 212 or equivalent proficiency.
Spanish 225
El español en el mundo
Prof. Espòsito
MW 6:30-8:00 PM
This course will explore the social aspects of the Spanish language
in the world. It will principally deal with the position and history
of Spanish in Spain, in Spanish-speaking America, and in the United
States. We will deal with the unity and diversity of Spanish and
its speakers in topics such as dialect varieties, regional languages,
linguistic identity, languages in contact, etc. The class will
be conducted in Spanish, with readings in both Spanish and English.
Spanish 317
Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
Prof. Espòsito
MWF 10:00-11:00
This course is an introduction to Spanish linguistics, with special
emphasis on the Spanish sound system and inflectional and derivational
morphology. Topics to be covered include articulatory phonetics, use
of the phonetic alphabet, English and Spanish contrastive phonology,
regional and social varities of Spanish pronunciation, structural semantics,
the Spanish lexicon, word formation and inflection. Readings in both
Spanish and English. Grading will be based on quizzes, mid-term, and
final examination during finals week.
Spanish 350
Reading the Urban Experience
Prof. Giaudrone
MWF 12:00-1:00
This course will analyze the city as a space of representation in Spanish
and Spanish American literary texts from early modernization to the
1930s. Emphasis will be placed on the ways the city becomes the site
for opportunities, new hopes, and socio-political awareness, but also
for anxiety, misery, and despair. The course intends to respond to the
questions that arise upon looking into spaces ‹the urban exterior
and the bourgeois interior occupied, and represented by national and
generic subjectivities. For example: how are those spaces filled (or
emptied)? What is left inside and what is left out? How are they represented?
Which are the spaces these subjects claim as their own? Why are some
spaces more permissive than others?
Spanish 380
Federico García Lorca and his Contemporaries
Prof. Lamas
TR 3:00-4:30
Lorca was an exceptional interpreter of modern culture. From poetry
to theater, from flamenco to surrealism, from Granada to New York, his
works introduce the reader into an extremely rich and provocative universe
of metaphors, symbols, and narratives. This course explores works by
Lorca and some of the poets of the so-called Generation of '27. Their
writing constituted the most important Spanish cultural renaissance
of the last centuries, which was broken abruptly by the Spanish Civil
War in 1936.
Spanish 386-301
The Films of Luis Buñuel
Prof. López
TR 10:30-12:00
We will study Luis Buñuel's film production from An
Andalusian Dog to The Phantom of Liberty. We will start by
examining the avant-garde origins of Buñuel's first films (Andalusian
Dog, Golden Age). We will move to the committed films that
characterize Buñuel's evolution from Surrealism into a more Marxist
position (Land Without Bread, The Forgotten) and his fascination
with human passions in the genre films of his Mexican period during
the 1950's (The Brute). Finally, we will consider the Realist
movies he produced upon his return to European cinema (Viridiana,
Tristana) as well as his particular blend of passion and absurdity
in his better-known films (Nazarín, The Discreet Charm
of the Bourgeoisie, Belle de Jour, Phantom of Liberty).
The final grade will be determined by class participation, an oral report
and a research paper.
Spanish 386-302
Consuming Spain: Contemporary Cultural Production
Prof. Crumbaugh
MWF 1-2
Consumerism, or the preoccupation with and inclination toward buying
consumer goods, has become a key trope in contemporary Spanish cinema,
literature, and culture. As such, it has influenced Spaniards' understanding
of nationality, gender roles, social class, and the role of artistic
practice itself. This course will examine consumerism in relation to
a series of pivotal historical moments, such as Francoism's adoption
of free-market capitalism in the early 60s, Spain's transition to democracy,
and the current stalemate regarding peripheral nationalist movements.
We will also look at consumerism's role in several aesthetic trends
in contemporary Spain, including neorealism, camp, and postmodernism.
Students will read from a variety of sources from different disciplines
(literature, but also film studies, social history, critical theory)
and view a variety of Spanish, Catalan and Basque films that span the
past 50 years. Among the authors and filmmakers to be studied are Pedro
Almodóvar, Bernardo Atxaga, Luis Berlanga, Juan José Bigas
Luna, Terenci Moix, Juan de Orduña, Manuel Gómez Pereira,
Eduardo Mendoza, and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.
Spanish 386-303
On the Verge: Women and Modernization in 20th-Century Spain
Prof. Crumbaugh
MW 3-4:30
This course will study the relationship between the category of "woman"
and Spain's ambivalent modernization. We will pay particular attention
to how women have acted as a site of conflict over the meaning of modernization
in Spain, at times symbolized as a haven of an imagined premodern Spanishness,
other times as an emblem of (economic and cultural) liberalization.
Most importantly, we will see that women themselves have reinscribed
womanhood in terms of modernization (or a resistance to it, as the case
may be) and its correlative themes of urbanization, commercialization,
and class struggle. The course will explore an array of media and genres,
including performance art, biography, essay, the "novela rosa,"
and "españolada" films. These cultural products will
in turn be examined against the background of landmark developments
concerning women in the 20th-century: the insertion of women in the
labor force, female suffrage, woman as consumer, and the mobilization
of different women's groups. Among the writers, filmmakers, and performers
to be studied are: Pedro Almodóvar, Carmen de Burgos, Rosa Chacel,
Carmen Martín Gaite, Rosa Montero, Sara Montiel, Juan de Orduña,
and Corín Tellado.
Spanish 390
The "Boom" and Its Aftermath
Prof. Salessi
MWF 12:00-1:00
The course will examine narratives, novels and short stories, published
by Latin American writers between 1945 and 1975. While looking at some
of the texts that brought Latin American literature to world attention,
we will explore themes such as the Spanish American colonial legacy
and cultural identity, revolution, democracy and authoritarianism; gender,
genre, and scientific discourse; the reader as writer and the writer
as reader; cultural production, the literary market, and national and
continental politics. Authors include: Gabriel García Márquez,
Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Manuel Puig, Julio
Cortázar, and others.
Spanish 392
Traveling in the Mediterranean and the New World
Prof. Willstedt
MWF 1:00-2:00
Traveling has traditionally been a way of confirming one's self through
contact with an Other. On the other hand, there are always elements
about the Other than resist their appropriation by the self. In this
course we will examine the Mediterranean and the New World as scenarios
in which this problematic plays itself out in texts written by Spanish
travelers in the medieval and early modern periods. We will read accounts
of real and fictional journeys, explore premodern conceptions of time
and space, and study the ways in which the category of "the foreign"
is constructed in different times and contexts. Course materials will
include, among others, maps and itineraries, accounts of explorations,
and travel diaries . We will read selections from La gran conquista
de Ultramar, La historia del Gran Tamorlán, Los
viajes de Ibn Jubayr, Columbus's diaries, Cortés's Cartas
de relación de la conquista de México, and others.
Spanish 394
Latin America & Globalization
Prof. Laddaga
MWF 1:00-2:00
How do individuals relate to their communities? How do they place themselves
in the spaces that community mores and institutions define? In turn,
how do communities shape the identity of individuals? We will explore
these questions in Latin American essays and narratives of the last
few decades. We will place special emphasis in the way processes of
globalization are represented and problematized in the region's textual
production.
Spanish 396
Biography of a City: Buenos Aires
Prof. Salessi
MWF 11:00-12:00
The course will explore the rich history of representations of the
city of Buenos Aires in documents, short stories, novels and films.
While looking at depictions of the "Great Hamlet" of the XVIII
century, the slaughterhouse of the 1800s, the "París del
Plata" at the turn-of-the-century, the battleground and dungeon
of the Dirty War, or the space for the grand opening to the flows and
riots of neoliberalism, we will examine themes such as the romantic
city as the focus of civilization and enlightenment, the metropolis
as the entry port to the immigrant adventure, the modern city as the
labyrinth for the search of identity and the self, or the great capital
of developing neoliberalism as a social, cultural and economic trench
in the conflicts of the twenty-first century. Authors include Esteban
Echeverría, Juana Manzo, Juan José de Soiza Reilly, Lucio
Mansilla, Macedonio Fernández, Roberto
Arlt, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejandra Pizarnik, Néstor Perlongher,
César Aira, and others.
Spanish 397
Mothers & Daughters: From Reality to Fiction
Prof. García-Serrano
MW 3:00-4:30
In the last ten years there has been an unprecedented concern on the
ties, attachments, affinities (or lack thereof) developed between mothers
and daughters. The purpose of this course is to scrutinize that complex
primal relationship as it has been portrayed in short stories (Madres
e hijas, Salidas de madre, and Mothers & Daughters),
novels (Paula by Isabel Allende and Soñar en cubano
by Cristina García), and films (Solas, Alas de mariposa,
and Tacones lejanos). Readings on a wide range of disciplines
(feminism, history, sociology, and psychoanalysis) will enhance our
understanding of those cultural and artistic texts.
Spanish 400
Conference Course for Majors: teatro de liberación y democracia
Prof. Regueiro
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Through the study of a series of contemporary plays, this course will
address the theater as testimony to the social and political changes
in Spain and Latin America in the twentieth century. From pre- to post-Franco
Spain, and from the naturalist drama in the early twentieth century
to the postmodern experiments in the theater of the absurd in Latin
America, we will examine works by Rafael Alberti, José Luis Alonso
de Santos, Roberto Arlt, Ricardo Halac, Osvaldo Dragún, and others.
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