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Fall 2005
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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
This is an accelerated course designed for the student who has already achieved intermediate proficiency in a second language and wants to study Spanish as a third language. The course covers two semesters of the regular Spanish course in one semester. Students wishing to enroll must have prior approval from the Coordinator.
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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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.
Prerequisite: Spanish 110 at Penn.
Spanish 121
Elementary Spanish
Staff
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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 136
Spanish for Heritage Speakers I
Staff
TR 10:30-12:00
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.
Prerequisite: Spanish 130 or equivalent score on the placement exam or SAT II.
Spanish 180
Spanish Conversation in Residence
Staff
Students must be residents of the Modern Language College House.
Spanish 202
Advanced Spanish
Staff
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The purpose of this course is twofold: (a) to develop students’ communicative abilities (that is, speaking, listening, reading and writing) in Spanish and (b) to increase their awareness and understanding of Hispanic cultures and societies. Homework and classroom activities are designed to help students build their oral proficiency, expand and perfect their knowledge of vocabulary and grammatical structures, improve their reading and writing skills, and develop their critical thinking abilities. The readings for this class include short stories, newspaper articles, poems, songs, cartoons, and the novel by Gabriel García Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada. Three Hispanic films (with English or Spanish subtitles) are seen outside of class during the semester. At the completion of this course students will feel confident discussing and debating a variety of contemporary issues (cultural and religious practices, family relationships, gender stereotypes, political events, immigration to USA, etc.).
Prerequisite: successful completion of Spanish 140 or its equivalent
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 or equivalent.
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 5:30-7:00
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 the outlook for their future. The course will focus on - but not be restricted to - Mexico, Cuba and Argentina.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 202 or equivalent.
Spanish 219
The Contexts of Hispanic Civilization
Prof. Espòsito
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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 frequent individual meetings with instructors. 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. Discussion and all class requirements in Spanish.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 212.
Spanish 230
Intensive Catalan Language and Culture
Prof. Espòsito
MWF 2-3
An excellent course for students wishing to study in Barcelona, Spanish 230 provides an accelerated introduction to the language, history and culture of the Països Catalans. This course will give students an intensive functional preparation in standard Catalan with the hope that students will acquire a more-than-basic knowledge of Catalan language and culture. In addition to developing oral and writing skills, reading and writing assignments will focus on the history, literature and culture of the Catalan-speaking areas of Spain, France and Italy. Catalan will be used as the language of instruction as much as possible. Requirements include frequent quizzes, hourly examinations and a final during finals week.
Prerequisite(s): 200-level course in a Romance Language.
Spanish 243-411
Transatlantic Fictions
Prof. Fuchs
TR 10:30-12
This interdisciplinary course explores how early modern Europe digests or assimilates the New World. The course considers the genres of encounter and colonization--letters, "relaciones", chronicles, utopias--and the transformation of those genres by writers from the Americas and later authors. How do problems of quotation, translation, and certification shape European visions of the Americas? How do literary strategies relate to imperial goals? We will address the relation between desire and conquest; the contrasts between Renaissance conceptions of the New World and first-person, experiential accounts, and the role of language in the American exchanges. We will also analyze the relation between imaginative and historiographical accounts, focusing on how texts deal with problems of truth and authority in representation. Students will learn how to read highly self-conscious texts for their rhetorical and ideological goals, and how the broad category of the transatlantic enables investigation beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. Authors will include Columbus, More, Shakespeare, Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Behn, Defoe.
Spanish 250-601
Major Works in Spanish and Latin American Literature
Prof. Regueiro
MW 5:00-6:30
From the rise of the novel with Cervantes' Don Quixote in early-modern Spain to the Latin American "boom" with García Márquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude, this course will examine these and other major works in Hispanic literature within the cultural, political, and social context of each period.
Spanish 285
Introduction to Spanish Film
Prof. Solomon
T 5:30-8:30
An introduction and overview of Spanish film from its roots in the late nineteenth century to its recent rise to international prominence. Special attention will be paid to the social and political movements that led to the growth and development of Spanish film. Screenings include works by Segundo de Chomón (The Golden Beatle and Hotel Electric), Fernando Reyes (The Cursed Village) , Juan Antonio Bardem (Death of a Cyclist), Carlos Saura (The Seventh Day), Julio Medem (Vacas), Pedro Almódovar (Bad Education), and Alejandro Amenábar (Tesis). This course is taught in ENGLISH. All screened films will be subtitled or simultaneously translated.
Spanish 317
Spanish Phonetics and Morphology
Prof. Espòsito
MWF 10-11
Spanish 317 is an introduction to Hispanic linguistics, with special emphasis on the Spanish sound system and structural morphology. Topics to be covered include articulatory phonetics, use of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), English and Spanish contrastive phonology, regional and social variations of Spanish pronunciation, word formation and classification, verbal inflection and structural semantics. Requirements include readings in both Spanish and English with quizzes, in-class examinations, and a final examination during finals week.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 350
Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
Prof. Regueiro
MWF 1-2
This course will introduce students to the key works of Spanish literature written between 1500 to 1700. It will explore the major literary genres of this period (lyric poetry, narrative prose—including the picaresque—and drama) as well as the social and cultural contexts in which they were produced. We will examine works by Garcilaso, Cervantes, Góngora, Quevedo, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Calderón.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 380
Mothers and Daughters in Contemporary Hispanic Literature and Film
Prof. García-Serrano
MWF 11-12
In all cultures, mothers play a critical role in their daughters´ sense of identity, self-worth, and even mental health. In our course we will scrutinize the complex primal relationship between mothers and daughters as it has been portrayed in contemporary Hispanic narrative (Madres e hijas, Salidas de madre, Todo un carácter) and films (Hola, ¿estás sola?, Alas de mariposa, Tacones lejanos, De eso no se habla, Santitos). Readings on a wide range of disciplines --feminism, history, sociology, and psychoanalysis-- will enhance our understanding of the ties, attachments, affinities (or lack thereof) developed between Hispanic mothers and their daughters.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 381
Poet in An Urban Landscape
Prof. López
TR 12-1:30
Through the examination of both lyrical and philosophical texts, we will explore the problematic relationship between desire and reality and between the artist and the social milieu. The relationship of the poet with the modern urban environment--the latter viewed both as an alien horizon and as the space of nostalgia for a primordial existence-will be the guiding theme of the course. We will read texts from some of Spain's most important modern poets, including
Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Unamuno, Juan Ramón Jiménez, the authors of the Generation of 27, Miguel Hernández, Valente, Gil de Biedma, Atencia, Gimferrer and Carnero. We will complement these readings with texts from Giner de los Ríos, Ortega y Gasset, Zambrano, Aranguren, Eugenio Trías and José Antonio Marina.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 386-301
Individual and Society
Prof. Laddaga
TR 10:30-12
Spanish 386-401
Bodies, Blood, and Beauty: Health and Disease in Early Modern Spain
Prof. McInnis
TR 10:30-12
The expansion of the Spanish Empire fostered new ways of imagining health and beauty within its realms. During the early modern period, health was not only determined by visible signs of physiological well-being, but also on more hidden markers, such as the purity of ones blood. The view of disease as an imbalance or impurity of ones complexion was easily appropriated by political discourse to justify the creation of differencebetween the various members of the Spanish body politic. Through medical, political, and literary readings, we will explore the relationship between the changing medical theories on health and disease and the marginalization of the supposedly diseasedmembers of the Spanish body politic such as Conversos, Moriscos, and Native Americans. Some of the authors we will read include Fernando de Rojas, Francisco Delicado, Cervantes, Calderón, Huarte de San Juan, and Enriquez.
Spanish 390
(Re)Writing Spanish America: Cultural Fictions of the Modern Age
Prof. Austin
TR 1:30-3
This course will focus on the role of the writer and the text in the invention and dissemination of the concept of Spanish Americafrom the end of the 19th century into the mid-20th. We will examine the multiple subject positions that represent the writers and readers of these texts, and investigate the changing relationships between literature, history, the writer, and the Americas in the continuous discursive (re)shaping of Spanish America in the cultural imaginary. We will consider texts by Sarmiento, Martí, Vasconcelos, Mariágtegui, and Lezama Lima, as well as poetry and short stories by writers such as Rulfo, Borges, Carpentier, Cortázar, and García Márquez.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 394
Contemporary Latin American and Spanish Short Stories
Prof. García Serrano
MWF 12-1
In this course we will analyze a selection of short stories written by some of the best known Hispanic authors: Horacio Quiroga, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Augusto Monterroso, Juan José Arreola, Luisa Valenzuela, Silvina Ocampo, Ana María Shua, and Quim Monzó. The texts selected explore a variety of issues, such as subjectivity, gender, desire, love, power, fantasy and language. Readings on contemporary literary theory --structuralism, post-structuralism, reader-response criticism, psychoanalysis, and feminism-- will provide students with analytical and interpretative tools to examine these narratives, especially its ideological underpinnings.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 396-401
Caribe Two Ways: Language, Identity, and Migration in the Hispanic Caribbean
Prof. Martínez-San Miguel
MW 3-4:30
Cuba , the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico had massive migrations to the US during the second half of the twentieth century. This course reviews the historical backgrounds and patterns of these three major migratory experiences and their impact on cultural representation. Contemporary Caribbean Diasporas are studied to question traditional definitions of national identity, and to propose a specific conceptualization of the Caribbean as a distinct geopolitical and cultural area within the Americas. Race, sexuality, ethnic identity, gender, and linguistic identity will also be studied in a migratory context. This course also questions the limits between Latin American, Caribbean and Latino identities, to propose a productive redefinition of the local and the global in the study of culture. We will read texts by Reinaldo Arenas, Abilio Estévez, Ronaldo Menéndez, Achy Obejas, Sonia Rivera Valdés, Julia Alvarez, Juan Bosch, Angela Hernández Núñez, Pedro Vergés, Magali García Ramis, Manuel Ramos Otero, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Esmeralda Santiago, and Ana Lydia Vega. The course also includes music, film and visual arts.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 396-402
The Andean World: An Exploration of Literature from Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia
Prof. Knight
TR 1:30-3
This course offers an introduction to the principal works of modern Andean literature. In it we will explore a variety of texts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including novels, essays, poetry, testimonials, short stories, and film. As we progress through the readings we will examine how key themes of the Latin American experience are articulated in the Andean context. These themes include representations of indigenous people, political violence, machismo, mestizaje, and the struggle for social justice. Among the longer works covered are Matto de Turner's Aves sin nido, Icaza's Huasipungo, Vargas Llosa's Historia de Mayta, and Adoum's Ciudad sin ángel.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 396-403
The Individual and Society in Latin American Film and Literature, 1950-2000
Prof. Laddaga
TR 10:30-12
We will study the transformations in the way the link between the individual and society is rendered in Latin American literary narrative and film in the las fifty years. We will analyze a series of representative narratives and films in relation to the main transformations in social history in the region during this period. We will pay particular attention to the way the impact of processes of modernization is articulated in the works under consideration. Among the authors to be studied, are Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortázar, Clarice Lispector, Glauber Rocha, Raul Ruiz and Severo Sarduy.
Spanish 397
Urban Life and Culture in Contemporary Latin America
Prof. Laddaga
TR 3-4:30
We will study the ways that urban life in the big cities (Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico DF) has been represented in Latin American literature, art and film from the 1950s to the present. We will pay special attention to the way that, as the decades passed, the transformations of the cities were recorded, and we will put special emphasis on the impact of the processes of globalization in these transformations. We will read texts by José Luis Romero, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Clarice Lispector, Octavio Paz, and films by Mexican, Argentinean and Brazilian filmmakers.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 400-301
Conference Course for Majors
400-301
The Spanish and Latin American Short Film
Prof. Solomon
TR 10:30-12
This advanced seminar for Hispanic Studies majors explores the narrative poetics and artistic parameters of the Spanish and Latin American short film in contrast and comparison with the Latin American and Spanish short story. Readings for the seminar will include general works on film and narrative theory, and a selection of short stories from Julio Cortázar, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Horacio Quiroga, José Luis Borges, and Quim Monzó. During the course of the semester students will view and analyze approximate fifty short films from Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil and Spain.
Course open only to graduating senior majors.
Spanish 400-302
Reading the Urban Experience in Early Modern Spain
Prof. Fuchs
TR 12-1:30
This course explores representations of the city in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Central questions will include the relationship between urban space and "self-fashioning," the role of the city in the emergence of the centralized states, the development of the comedia as an urban phenomenon, and the relationship between the European metropolis and its colonial counterparts. Our readings will be informed by architectural theory, art history, and, of course, social and cultural theory. Primary texts will include Rojas, Botero, More, Cervantes, and Tirso.
Course open only to graduating senior majors.
400-303
Liberalism and Modernismo in Latin America
Prof. Salessi
TR 1:30-3
Reading and discussing texts, novels, poems, historical and scientific documents of the end of the Nineteenth and the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the class will explore the literature and culture of Latin America, when the liberal economic and cultural project became the central ideology of the process nation formation and continental definition. Authors will include: Darío, Martí, Ingenieros, Silva, Mercante, Ramos Mejía, and others.
Course open only to graduating senior majors.
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