|
91205 |
LAIS 120 Modern
Latin America since Independence |
Miles Rodriguez |
M . W . . |
10:10 - 11:30
am |
OLINLC 120 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: LAIS This counts as
an LAIS core course.
This is an introductory survey of the history of Modern Latin America since
Independence. The course traces the process of Independence of the Latin
American nations from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires in North and South
America in the early nineteenth century, and the long-term, contested, and
often violent processes of nation-formation in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. Primary source and historical texts examine the regions main
challenges in this period, including persistent inequality, regional
disintegration, endemic violence, elite political control, revolution, military
rule, and civil reconciliation. Major historical issues and debates for study
and discussion include the meaning and uses of the idea of Latin America,
slavery and empire in nineteenth-century Brazil, and the roles of race,
religion, women, and indigenous peoples in Latin American societies. Class size: 22
|
91206 |
HIST / LAIS 220 Mexican History & Culture |
Miles Rodriguez |
. T . Th . |
11:50 -1:10
pm |
OLIN 205 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: LAIS There is no abstract
or timeless Mexican culture. Nor does Mexican history happen independently of
its changing cultural contexts. This introductory course explores the complex
relationship between culture and history from Mexicos pre-conquest indigenous
origins to the Mexican Revolution and the contemporary nation-state. The course
begins with Mexicos most durable foundational myths, visions, and symbols,
such as the image of an eagle grasping a serpent on a cactus on the Mexican
flag and the Virgin of Guadalupe. Using primary sources like codices, native
language writings, and visual media, as well as anthropological, historical,
and literary texts, it traces the major cultural continuities and revolutions
to the present. Special topics include race and racial mixture, established and
popular religion, women and gender, indigenous cultures, and official versus
counter-cultures. Class size: 22
|
91360 |
ECON 221 Economic
Development |
Sanjaya DeSilva |
. . W . F |
10:10 - 11:30
am |
ALBEE 106 |
SSCI |
|
91323 |
HIST 2631 Capitalism
and Slavery |
Christian Crouch |
M . W . . |
1:30 -2:50 pm |
OLIN 202 |
HIST |
|
91358 |
LIT 2204 World
Literature & the CIA |
Elizabeth Holt |
. T . Th . |
10:10 - 11:30
am |
OLIN 308 |
FLLC |
|
91283 |
LIT 2261 Blurring the Boundaries: Magical Realism in World Literature |
Melanie Nicholson |
M . W . . |
10:10 - 11:30
am |
OLIN 303 |
FLLC |
|
91566 |
PS 222 Latin
American Politics & Society |
Omar Encarnacion |
M . W . . |
11:50 -1:10
pm |
OLIN 303 |
SSCI |
|
91674 |
THTR 343B Latino
Theater and Performance |
Jorge Cortinas |
. . W. . . |
1:30 3:50
pm |
FISHER PAC |
AART |
|
91271 |
SPAN 110 Accelerated
First Year Spanish |
David
Rodriguez-Solas |
. T W Th F |
9:00 10:00 am |
HDR 101A |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: LAIS
A first-year course designed for the student who
has had some prior exposure to Spanish or who has excellent command of another
Romance language. All the major topics in grammar will be covered, and the
course will provide intensive practice in the four skills (speaking,
comprehension, reading and writing). The course will provide a streamlined
review of basic topics in grammar and provide more detail and exercises for
advanced topics. The textbook will be supplemented with authentic video
material from Spain and 'Latin America. One additional hour per week of
practice with the Spanish tutor and a substantial amount of work in the
language resource center will also be required. The course will prepare the
student for summer language programs abroad or Spanish 201 the following
semester. Prospective students must speak with instructor prior to
registration. Class size: 22
|
91270 |
SPAN 201 Intermediate
Spanish I |
Melanie
Nicholson |
M T W Th . |
3:10 -4:10 pm |
OLINLC 120 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: LAIS
For students who have completed Spanish 106, 110, or the equivalent ( two or three solid years of high school Spanish).
This course is designed to perfect the student's command of all four language
skills (speaking, aural comprehension, reading, and writing). This will be
achieved through an intensive grammar review, conversational practice, reading
of modern Spanish texts, writing simple compositions, and language lab work.
Prospective students must speak with instructor prior to registration. Class
size: 18
|
91268 |
SPAN 202 Intermediate
Spanish II |
Nicole
Caso |
M . W Th . |
1:30 -2:50 pm |
OLINLC 208 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: LAIS
This course continues refining and perfecting
the students mastery of speaking, reading, comprehending, and writing Spanish.
Advanced study of grammar is supplemented by a video series and authentic
readings on a wide variety of topics related to Spanish and Latin American
history, literature, music, and art. Current topics in culture such as
the Latin American military dictatorships or issues surrounding the Hispanic
presence in the United States will be
discussed. In addition to shorter readings, such as excerpts from Don
Quixote and indigenous Mexican poetry, students may read a short modern
novel. Prerequisite: Spanish 201 or permission of instructor.
Prospective students must speak with instructor prior to registration. Class size: 18
|
91703 |
SPAN 229 Travelers,
Gypsies, and Tricksters: Nineteenth-Century Spain |
David
Rodriguez-Solas |
. T . Th . |
11:50 -1:10 pm |
OLINLC 115 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: LAIS
Spain was a haven for many travelers making the Grand Tour in the nineteenth century. Many travelers and writers,
such as Prosper Merime, Thophile
Gautier, and Richard Ford, imagined a nation of gypsies and tricksters attached
to Spains Moorish past, but this conventional image also made its way into
texts by Spanish writers (Zorrillas Don Juan Tenorio)
and into the European popular imaginary (Bizets Carmen, Verdis Il Trovatore, and La
forza del destino). In
this course we will study stereotypical representations of Spain in the second
half of the nineteenth century, exploring specifically how these
representations became an obstacle in the nations project of modernization. We
will be covering topics such as the construction of national images, exile, the
creation of a middle class, secularism, and the erosion of differences between
town and country, the masculine and the feminine. Besides the aforementioned
texts, we will analyze Garca Gutirrezs
El Trovador,
Galdss Misericordia, Clarns Doa Berta, and short stories by Pardo Bazn and Pereda. Conducted in Spanish. Class size: 18
|
91275 |
SPAN 301 Introduction
to Spanish Literature |
David
Rodriguez-Solas |
. . W . F |
11:50 -1:10 pm |
OLINLC 118 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: LAIS
This course is an introduction to Spanish
literatures and cultures from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, organized
around the topic of Food and Famine. Materials for this course include an anthology
of texts that presents all literary genres. Students will interpret the
representation of food in literary works while they are introduced to the
critical analysis of literature through short papers. Literary texts from Spain
have dealt with food and hunger as literary topoi,
from its scarcity in Don Quijote, Lazarillo,
and Galdss Torquemada
novellas, to its abundance in wedding celebrations in Lope de Vegas Fuenteovejuna and Garca
Lorcas Bodas de sangre.
Our approach to contemporary texts will reflect on the effects of food shortage
in Post-Civil War literature (Laforets Nada),
and the representation of eating out (Vzquez Montalbn, Gil de Biedma). We
will also discuss how food is tied to national identity in Spanish, Basque,
Galician and Catalan cultures as we read the works of Atxaga,
Cunqueiro, and Pla. Conducted in Spanish. Class size: 14
|
91702 |
SPAN 352 Mapping the
City in Latin American Literature |
Nicole
Caso |
M . W . . |
10:10 - 11:30 am |
OLIN 306 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; LAIS Latin American cities have often been the
site where received codes from abroad are both imitated and rearticulated based
on local particularities. In this course we will read several twentieth-century
texts that address the many tensions that arise in the process of modernization
in the region. We will pay close attention to considerations of centers and
margins, inclusions and exclusions, feelings of alienation and, ultimately, a
search for community. We will explore how the danger of state violence enters
domestic spaces, the role of mass media in shaping local culture, and the
effects of globalization on identity formation. Among the authors we will read
are Carlos Fuentes from Mexico, Roberto Arlt from
Argentina, Fernando Vallejo from Colombia, Mario Vargas Llosa
from Per, and Diamela Eltit from Chile. Conducted in Spanish. Class
size: 15