Course	SPAN 110 Accelerated Spanish
Professor	Belén Pascual Medrano
CRN	15186
Schedule	M T W Th 10:00 - 11:00 am Olin L.C. 115
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

A 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). We will be using a new textbook specially designed to 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.

Course	SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I
Professor	Nicole Caso
CRN	15190
Schedule	M T W Th 10:00 - 11:00 am Olin L.C. 208
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

For students who have completed Spanish 106 or 110, or permission of the instructor. 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.

Prerequisite: Spanish 106, 110, or permission of instructor

Course	SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II: Introduction to Hispanic Culture and Civilization
Professor	TBA
CRN	15191
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:00 - 11:00 am Olin L.C. 120 Tu Th 10:00 - 11:00 am OLIN 107
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

Cross-listed: LAIS

This course continues refining and perfecting the student's 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 the 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 will read one or more full-length modern novels.

Prerequisites: Spanish 201 or consent of instructor.

Course	SPAN 211 Spanish for Bilinguals
Professor	Nicole Caso
CRN	15304
Schedule	Tu Th 11:30 - 12:50 pm OLIN 304
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

This course is for students who have been exposed to Spanish at home and wish to achieve confidence in speaking, writing, and reading the language. Grammar study capitalizes on prior contact with the language and allows more rapid progress than in a standard setting. We will emphasize written composition, accelerated grammar review, and the discussion of issues pertinent to Hispanic cultures. The course incorporates a video series that provides the opportunity for engagement with a wide variety of topics related to Spanish and Latin American history, literature, music, and art.

Course	SPAN 240 Testimonies of Latin America: Perspectives from the Margins
Professor	Nicole Caso
CRN	15277
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 301
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture; Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Gender & Sexuality Studies, Human Rights and LAIS.

This course provides the opportunity for students to engage critically with texts that serve as a public forum for voices often silenced in the past. Students will also learn about the broader context of the hemisphere's history through the particular experiences of women from Bolivia, Guatemala, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S.-Latino community, including Rigoberta Menchú, Domitila Barrios de Chungara, and Cherríe Moraga. We will read testimonial accounts documenting the priorities and concerns of women who have been marginalized for reasons of poverty, ethnic difference, political ideologies, or sexual preference. The semester will be devoted to analyzing the form in which their memories are represented textually, and to the discussion of the historical circumstances that have led to their marginalization. Some of the central questions that will organize our discussions are: how to represent memories of violence and pain? What are the ultimate effects of mediations of the written word, translations to hegemonic languages, and the interventions of well-intentioned intellectuals? How best to use writing as a mechanism to trace a space for dignity and "difference"? We will integrate films that portray the issues and time-periods documented in the diaries and testimonial narratives to be read - including "Men With Guns", "El Norte," "Historia oficial," "Cidade de Deus", and "Rojo amanecer." Conducted in English.

Course	SPAN 301 Interpretation of Hispanic Texts
Professor	Gabriela Carrion
CRN	15188
Schedule	Tu Th 10:00 - 11:20 am OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

This course will provide an introduction to Spanish literature through a variety of genres including poetry, short stories, novels, dramas and essays. We will begin in the 11^th century when the first literary texts in Spanish were written, and continue through to the Baroque period. Special attention will focus on “Golden Age” literature, an especially rich period of literary production in Spain. Discussions will take into account the historical and cultural contexts in which these texts were produced in order to provide students with a greater understanding of Spanish culture. We will also explore other artistic contributions to this culture from the fields of music, painting, and sculpture. Students will learn read texts in the original with special attention given to close readings. Conducted in Spanish.

Course	SPAN 314 Advanced Seminar in Spanish
Professor	TBA
CRN	15193
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 306
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

Cross-listed: LAIS

Course description to follow as soon as it is available.

Course	SPAN / LIT 340 Cervantes' Don Quixote
Professor	Gabriela Carrion
CRN	15187
Schedule	Tu Th 3:00 -4:20 pm Olin L.C. 210
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

Cross-listed: LAIS

This course examines the role of difference in Miguel de Cervantes’ masterpiece, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. In this “first modern novel” conflict erupts when an old man, moved by his readings of chivalric literature, pronounces himself a knight in shining armor to rescue those in need. Believing in evil enchanters, Don Quijote and his rotund alter ego, Sancho Panza, set out to rectify the wrongs of the world. However, Don Quijote takes up this mission when knighthood has long ceased to be a social reality in sixteenth-century Spain. Difference and conformity thus become critical issues at every turn of this novel. What are the ideological forces that compel conformity in Don Quijote? How are language and violence posited as instruments of change? How does literature change its readers and, alternatively, how do readers change literature? Apart from Don Quijote readings will include Lazarillo de Tormes, Amadis of Gaul, and El abencerraje, among others. Students may read the texts either in English or in the original Spanish. Conducted in English.