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 the fourth semester of Spanish language instruction. The course has a format similar to Spanish 130, and continues to present a variety of input in the language to increase students' exposure to more complex situations. In addition, short literary texts, videos, and class presentations will be subjects for classroom discussion. A proficiency exam on the four linguistic skills is required for completion of this course.

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
Prof. García-Serrano
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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
Prof. Basaluzzo
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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
Prof. Espòsito
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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. Classwork consists mostly of discussion and correction of assigned exercises.
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 202 or equivalent.

Spanish 215
Spanish for the Professions I
Staff
TR 12-1:30
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. Alonso
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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 319
History of the Spanish Language
Prof. Espòsito
MWF 11:00-12:00

This course will explore three main issues: (1) The external history of the Spanish language. How do linguists read history? What cultural and historical events are important for the development of the Spanish language? (2) How did Latin become Spanish? What features make Spanish unique in comparison to the other Iberian languages? (3) How do we read Old Spanish texts? Taught in Spanish with readings in English and Spanish. There will be frequent quizzes, a mid-term and final exam.

Spanish 337
Jews, Moors, and Indians in a Christian Empire:
Ethnic Conflict in Early Hispanic Culture
Prof. Marchante-Aragón
TR 3:00-4:30

Through a series of major historical and literary works of the Early Hispanic world, we will examine the cultural trajectory from an arguably diverse Middle Age to the homogenizing politics of the Holy Roman Empire in the XVI and XVII centuries. The examination of historical events such as the expulsion of the Jews and Muslims, the creation of the Spanish Inquisition, and social discourses such as "la limpieza de la sangre" will help to illustrate some of the anxieties of this period. Readings from the Poema de Mio Cid and traditional balladry of the Medieval period will illustrate problems of ethnicity and their expression through cultural performance. Cervantes's mockery of the construction of Castilian national identity, as well as his solution for the integration of the American "other" within the empire will also be discussed through reference to contemporary chronicle (Cortés) and/or epic (Ercilla).

Spanish 357
Humors Good and Bad: Satire, Parody, and the Burlesque in Spain's Golden Age
Prof. Bergman
MWF 10:00-11:00

Laughter, that particularly human trait, has often been a part of literature and theater, where one finds as many uses for humor as there are reasons to laugh or even smile. From the biting moral criticism of satire to acts of creative appropriation through parody, Spain's Golden Age is full of both modes and genres (terms often intertwined) that seek novel uses for humor in order to entertain, educate, and sway a public hungry for variety in all forms of artistic expression. Forms familiar to students, such as the comedia or Quevedo's satirical verses, will be examined with many others in a broad context that includes street theater, religious humor, outlaw ballads, and even contemporary travesties of the era's most popular plays. Studying humor can be a serious business, and the course's focus will necessarily include issues concerning taste, order (maintained or subverted), censorship, social convention, stereotypes, topicality, and the validity of using theories to explain jokes. This course will study both the serious and the ridiculous, as each is extremely helpful in achieving a better understanding of the other.

Spanish 386
Introduction to Spanish Screenwriting
Prof. Solomon
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In this course students explore the art of writing scripts and screenplays in Spanish. The course begins with a brief overview of Spanish cinema followed by close readings of several screenplays, such as Berlanga's El verdugo and Almodovar's Todo sobre mi madre. Through screenings of Spanish films, class discussions, and short writing exercises, students learn how to create or identify adaptable stories, build characters, develop dialogues, and generate descriptions. Following the international screenwriting format, students will complete one to two acts of an original or adapted screenplay in Spanish. No previous knowledge of screenwriting is required. This is an excellent course for students who are interested in building their advanced Spanish language skills while exploring Hispanic film and screenwriting.

Spanish 386
Excess and Tragedy in Modern Spanish Culture
Prof. Lamas
TR 1:30-3:00

Breaking the limits of reflexive experience can be risky. Consequences vary from ecstasy to tragedy, love and death. The modern construction of Spanish national identity required exploring those limits, going beyond European ethics and aesthetics, presenting itself as the Other. This course will focus on the tragic consequences of the Spanish excess, examining representations in literature, film, and music. Among the writers studied will be Unamuno, Valle-Inclán, Lorca, Cela, Goytisolo, Arrabal, and Valente. We will also study critical works by authors such as Bataille, Freud, Lacan, and Baudrillard.

Spanish 390
Literatura e historia
Prof. Salessi
MWF 12:00-1:00

Looking at historical documents, novels, and short stories produced by Cristobal Colón, Alejo Carpentier, Rosario Castellanos, Esteban Echeverría, Jorge Luis Borges, Elena Garro, Manuel Puig and others, the class will explore the relationship between texts and the culture that supports and surrounds them, and the power of texts to (re)create reality.

Spanish 391
Jorge Luis Borges in Context
Prof. Laddaga
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The Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been one of the main voices in Latin American literature in the 20th century. Being a witness in his lifetime to the many extraordinary transformations of his country, he recorded these transformations in stories, essays, and poems that are at the same time captivating and disturbing. People, places, ideas, and images are reflected in his texts as if in a convex mirror and are illuminated in a strange but powerful light. We will read Borges's texts (and the texts of some of his contemporaries with whom he dialogued) and examine them against the background of modern Argentine history and culture.

Spanish 394
Latin American Women Writers As Voices of Resistance
Prof. García-Serrano
MWF 11:00-12:00

This course aims to study contemporary Latin American women writers' production as an expression of resistance to political and sexual oppression. We will ascertain different sites of opposition while reading testimonials, historical novels, autobiographical and experimental writing. We will take into account issues of subjectivity, power, language, and censorship.

Spanish 394
Hispanic Women and Mental Illnesses: Cases and Causes
Prof. García-Serrano
MWF 1:00-2:00

The first goal of this course is to examine different "cases" of mental disturbances suffered by women in Hispanic cultures as they have been depicted in novels, short stories and films. Secondly, we will focus on the "causes" psychoanalysts, authors and literary critics have proposed for those disturbances. We will study "cases" of female madness precipitated by maternity (Ana María Shua, Judith Ortiz Cofer), domesticity (Clarice Lispector, Rosario Castellanos), sexuality (Alejandra Pizarnik, Esther Tusquets), creativity (Nuria Amat, Remedios Varo), historical events (Nuria Barrios, Luisa Valenzuela), and bi-culturalism (Gloria Anzaldúa, Ana Castillo).

Spanish 396
Monsters and Machines
Prof. Braham
MW 3:00-4:30

In this course we will examine constructs of technology and monstrosity in literary works from Latin America. We will focus on the concept of the machine and how it develops within the paradigms of modernity: reason, nation, medicine, evolution and industrialization. Constructs of monstrosity and magic evolve in dialogue with these machines, and at times are an integral part of them. Authors studied will include Borges, Arlt, Cortázar, Zapata, García Márquez, Pizarnik and Quiroga. Monsters include the fantastic animals of medieval bestiaries, sirens and mermaids, sphinxes, cannibals and wild men, vampires and histrions, and the Chupacabras.

Spanish 396
Mexican Literature and Identity
Prof. Braham
MWF 12:00-1:00

An exploration of representations of Mexican identity through prose, poetry, drama and film. A survey of cultural icons, heroes and archetypes including Quetzalcóatl, the Virgin of Guadalupe, La Malinche, Don Nadie, Emiliano Zapata, Cantinflas and María Félix, the calavera, el corazón sangrante and the mythical homeland of Aztlán will provide a metatext for studying literature by Mexicans Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Sor Juana, Mariano Azuelas, José Vasconcelos, Rodolfo Usigli, Roger Bartra and Carlos Monsiváis, and Xicano/a authors JA Villarreal, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Ana Castillo.

Spanish 401
Conference Course for Majors: Teatro de Liberación y Democracia
Prof. Regueiro
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In a series of contemporary plays, this course will study the theater as testimony to the social and political changes in Spain and Latin America in the 20th century. From pre- to post-Franco Spain, and from the naturalist drama in the early 20th century to the post-modern 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.