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Spring 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 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-speaking countries. 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 134
Accelerated Intermediate Spanish
Staff
MWF 9-10AM, TR 9-10:30 AM
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-speaking countries. 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
TR 1:30-3
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. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 202 or equivalent.
Spanish 219
Contextos de la Civilización Hispánica
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 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.
Spanish 228-601
Spanish Civil War
Prof. López
R 5:30-8:30
In this course we study the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) including the events preceding and following the war. Although the war itself is the center of our interest, we will complete our explorations by seeing Spanish events in their world context. We will study the failure of the reformist project of the Second Republic of 1931 in the environment of political and economic crisis that begins in 1929 (the year of the collapse of the New York stock market). We will also explore the first violent response to this economic crisis in Spain during the October revolution in Asturias (1934). And, after the study of the war itself, we will investigate the dictatorship that, led by General Franco, follows the war in the new world order created after World War II and during the years of the Cold War.
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 319-301
History of the Spanish Language
Prof. Esposito
MWF 11-12
This course will explore three main issues: (1) The external linguistic history of the Iberian Peninsula: How do linguists read history? What are the cultural and historical events that shaped the linguistic development of the Iberian peninsula? As linguistic historians, we shall follow a canonical chronology that will examine pre-Roman influences, Iberian Latinity, the linguistic fragmentation of the Peninsula, medieval attempts at standardization, the rise of the Academy, and the linguistic revivals of the Autonomías. As new philologists, we shall interpret these linguistic cultures in light of their foundational ideologies. Who put the "Hispano" in Hispano-romance? (2) The internal history of the Spanish language: How did Latin become Spanish? What features make Spanish unique in comparison to the other Iberian languages? Is a sound change innocent and free of ideological meaning? To what end do we make such analyses? (3) Reading Old Spanish texts. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 348-301
Don Quijote
Prof. Solomon
TR 1:30-3:00
In commemoration of the four hundred year anniversary of the publication of Don Quijote (the first part of which was published in 1605), the course will combine a careful reading of Cervantes' original work with reflections and discussion on cultural Donquixotism, the fate and fortune of the novel and its characters during the past four centuries in Spain, Latin American and Europe. In addition to reading the entire first and second books of Don Quijote we will also examine the production of things related to or in commemoration of Cervantes and Don Quijote, such as contemporary civic monuments, cinematographic representations, sequels, translations, abridgements, illustrations, statues, dances, plays, songs, cookbooks, toys, cartoons, museums, and maps. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
For additional information see the course webpage:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/romance/spanish/solomon/film/Quijote/Main.htm
Spanish 386
Women and Madness in Contemporary Hispanic Literature
Prof. García Serrano
MWF 1:00-2:00
In this course we will explore the representation of women identified as suffering from mental illnesses in contemporary Hispanic fiction. Works include Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo), Y si yo fuera Susana San Juan (Susana Pagano), La intimidad (Nuria Amat), Delirio (Laura Restrepo), Amores patológicos (Nuria Barrios), and Tratado de culinaria para mujeres tristes (Héctor Abad Faciolince). Additional readings on a wide range of disciplines (feminism, literary theory, psychology and psychoanalysis) will enhance our understanding of these texts. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 390
Coming of Age in the Andes
Prof. Knight
MWF 11-12
This course examines narratives of childhood and adolescence in contemporary fiction and film from Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. These narratives critique the forces that shape young people as they attempt to define themselves in highly stratified societies marked by racial, ethnic, gender, and class divisions. Texts for the course include three lengthy novels (Arguedas's Los ríos profundos, Vargas Llosa's La ciudad y los perros, and Bryce Echenique's Un mundo para Julius), four films, and various short stories. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 392
The Making of Dominion Through Travel Writing
Prof. Gómez Fernández
MWF 12:00-1:00
This course is intended to be an introduction to major travel writing in the Americas. It examines metaphorical and geographical journeys both American and European and their ideas and impact in the making of the Americas, from the 16th up to 19th Century. The class is divided into three parts. The first section covers samples of indigenous cosmologies envisaged as metaphorical journeys; the second section deals with discovery and mapping writing as part of conquest and the invention of América, and the final section analyzes personal travel accounts. The course therefore includes texts by male and female explorers, conquerors and missionaries, who acted as pirates, privateers, sailors bureaucrats and scientists according to their circumstance. Finally, a close examination of recurring themes of travel writing will show how social sciences (ethnography, anthropology etc.) together with literature can enrich the study of subjectivities, imperial writing within the discourses of history. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 394-401
20th-Century Latin American Novel
Prof. Salessi
TR 10:30-12:00
Through the reading and discussion of novels and short stories written by well known authors, such as Borges, Carpentier, Rulfo, García Marquez, Puig and Cortázar, we will discuss issues and concerns of the Latin American culture of the middle of the twentieth century. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 394-402
Jorge Luis Borges in Context
Prof. Laddaga
TR 12:00-1:30
Jorge Luis Borges is the most important Argentinean (and one of the most important Latin American) writer. He was also one the most astute observers of Argentinean society of the XXth century. Borges conceived the identity of the South American intellectual as a construction based on the selective and ironic reception of the Western culture, and built a life work that enacted this conception in a particularly complex and original way. We will read a number of pieces of fiction, poetry and essay by Borges, paying attention both to their relationship to the historical context in which they were written and to their links to the literary tradition. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 394-403
Contemporary Cuban Literature
Prof. García-Serrano
TR 3:00-4:30
An overview of twentieth-century Cuban Literature, focusing on the construction of Cuban national and cultural identity before and after Fidel Castro's Revolution. Readings include: Cuentos negros de Cuba (Lydia Cabrera), Tres tristes tigres (Guillermo Cabrera Infante), Hagiografía de Narcisa la bella (Mireya Robles), and La nada cotidiana (Zoé Valdés). These works will be analyzed from both a stylistic and a sociocultural perspective. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 396-401
Introduction to Mexican Cinema
Prof. Solomon
TR 10:30-12:00, T 4:00-6:00
An overview of Mexican Cinema from its roots in the late 19th century to the present. Feature-length screenings include: Vámonos con Pancho Villa (Fernando de Fuentes, 1935), María Candelaria (Emilio Fernández, 1943), Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950), La pasión según Berenice (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1975), El Topo (Alexandro Jodorowsky 1969) El lugar sin límites (Arturo Ripstein , 1977), Cronos (Guillermo del Toro 1992), Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001), Japón (Carlos Reygadas, 2003). In addition to mainstream Mexican cinema, a portion of the course will be dedicated to popular paracinema such as Mexican horror film, narcocinema, and wrestling films (El Santo). Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
For additional information see the course webpage:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/romance/spanish/solomon/film/MexicanCinema/Main.htm
Spanish 396-402
Literature and Society in 20th Century Latin America
Prof. Laddaga
TR 3:00-4:30
The course will examine the diverse ways in which writers and intellectuals have narrated and analyzed the forms of social life in the region. Why can social life in Latin America be so exhilarating yet so problematic? So fluid yet so violent? We will read a series of texts by José Martí, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Octavio Paz, Reinaldo Arenas and others who have suggested answers to these questions. Based on these readings, we will attempt to trace the outlines of a history of ideas regarding the societies of the region and the social ideals that their intellectuals and writers conceived. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 396-403
Brothels, Drug Trafficking, and Mojados: Stereotypes and Representations of the U.S.-Mexican Border
Prof. Sisk
MWF 10:00-11:00
This course will look at various representations of the U.S.-Mexican Border from both Mexico and the United States. In this course, the "border" will be understood as the national boundary line between Mexico and the United States. The region has long been associated to illegal and illicit activities such as prostitution, narco-trafficking, and undocumented migration. While the area is undeniably linked to these activities, they are also key stereotypes of the border. The objective of the course will be to understand how these stereotypes function in order to go beyond them. The first part of the course will look at how the border has been represented in the United States and how these representations are inextricably linked to ethnic/racial politics. The works of Cormac Mccarthy, Gloria Anzaldúa, Guillermo Gómez Peña, Orson Wells, Robert M. Young and Luis Alberto Urrea may be included. In the second section of the course, we will cross the border and see how the representations of the area have been affected by the regional politics within Mexico and the rivalry between Mexico City and Northern Mexico. The following directors and writers may be included: María Novaro, Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz, Federico Campbell, and Carlos Fuentes. Note: Although some readings may be in English, class discussions and all written work will be in Spanish. Film screenings will be conducted outside of class. The screening times will be decided by the class as a whole. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 396-404
Post-National Identity and Migration in Latin America
Prof. Sisk
MWF 12:00-1:00
The objective of this course will be to understand the role of a Latin American identity in the present day. Some of the readings will include current anthropological and sociological studies, such as those written by Arjun Appadurai, that analyze current forms of identity. The discussions of Latin Americanism will be fundamental to this course, so we will read several texts from different periods that argue for a Latin American identity. Several readings may be included such as those by Fernando Ortiz, José Vasconcelos, and José Martí. The processes of globalization are increasingly destabilizing the notion of nation/states and regional identities, so we will analyze these readings from this perspective, seeing what can still apply to Latin America now. This background will serve to analyze current Latin American novels and films that deal with the topic of migration. The writers and directors included in this course will be Horacio Castellanos Moya, Fernando Vallejo, Ethel Krauze, José Luis Gonzalez, Reynaldo Arenas, Fernando Musa, Alejandro Springall, and others. Film screenings will be conducted outside of class. The screening times will be decided by the class as a whole. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
Spanish 396-405
Auto-Referential Writing in Modern Latin America
Prof. Gómez Fernández
MWF 2:00-3:00
This course will focus on Latin American writers' self-representation from an interdisciplinary theoretical framework. It explores the hybridity of Latin American first person narrators throughout the Modern period. The course will include autobiographies, oral narratives, and testimonial essays. All of these genres have common characteristics that make them ideal for an interdisciplinary analysis in as much as they create a first person witness, who copes with external forces making him/her representative of a cultural moment in a certain social space in history. Since auto-referential writing relies on factual information, where the "I" grows up in the present but is inspired from the past, it assumes the role of an answer in times of crises. This course therefore will deal with affection, self-representation and writing legitimation of marginal literature that intends to reassert identity, and personhood, in various periods and across race, class, and gender lines in Latin American discourses. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 219.
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