Academic Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Listing
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Courses listed below are grouped together alphabetically by subject prefix. To search for a specific course, please follow the instructions in the course filter box below and click on “Filter.”
Departments and interdisciplinary programs are described in detail on the Majors, Minors, and Other Programs page within this catalog. Please refer to the detailed sections on each area of study for more information. Requirements to fulfill a major or minor appear within each program or area of study.
All students must also complete the courses in the Common Curriculum (General Education), including Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) requirements and other requirements that pertain to the undergraduate degree. Courses are numbered as follows.
000-049 - Non-credit courses.
050-099 - Common Curriculum (General Education) courses and others that do NOT count toward the major.
100-199 - Introductory-level courses which count for the major.
200-299 - Sophomore/junior-level courses that can be taken by non-majors. (Some departments may use 200-249 and 250-259 to delineate between sophomore and junior level offerings.)
300-399 - Upper-level courses intended primarily for majors - these are courses representing the depth component of the major.
400-499 - All advanced courses for seniors, including those used to fulfill WS (Senior Writing Experience requirement), small seminars, research, thesis, and independent studies.
Wherever possible, the departments have indicated the instructor and the term during which a course is given. Some courses are offered only occasionally and are so indicated. The College retains the right not to offer a course, especially if enrollment is insufficient.
A few courses are not valued at full course credit, and some carry double credit.
A full course unit may be equated to five quarter-credit hours, or three and one-third semester credit hours.
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SOC 271 - Sociology of Disaster Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course is an introduction to the sociological analysis of disasters. We will consider how sociologists conceptualize and theorize about disasters and the social and physical damage, death and injury, and economics loss they involve. Variations in the vulnerability of communities and particular social groups to such events will also be examined. Prerequisite(s): SOC 100
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SOC 284 - Sociology of Women & Health Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) A critical introduction to the sociological analysis of issues in women’s health in the contemporary United States, emphasizing how the key variables of gender, race & class structure access to health & well-being for women in our society. Prerequisite(s): SOC 100
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SOC 285 - Food, Nutrition and Society Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) In this course we will explore the social construction of food and its emotional and cultural meaning. How do social structures, such as education, affect how we eat? Included in the topics addressed in this course are how gender, culture, socio-economic status, ethnicity, and media affect our food choices, nutrition, health and health care system. Prerequisite(s): SOC 100
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SOC 290 - Personality, Media, and Society Course Units: 1
(Fall, Kaplan) How social roles and group dynamics impact personality and group behavior. Agents of socialization, with particular emphasis on the media and their impact on individual and societal expectations and values, will also be examined. Prerequisite(s): SOC 100
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SOC 295H - Sociology Honors Independent Project 1 Course Units: 0
(Staff)
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SOC 296H - Sociology Honors Independent Project 2 Course Units: 1
(Staff)
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SOC 300 - Quantitative Methods of Social Research Course Units: 1
(Fall; Cotter) Identifying sociopolitical questions and developing hypotheses; designing research instruments (questionnaires); basic statistics and introduction to social science computer analysis.
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SOC 302 - Qualitative Social Research Methods Course Units: 1
(Same as PSC 222 ) (Not Offered this Academic Year) Introduction to qualitative research methods. The course is equally concerned with research design, techniques for gathering data, ethics in research, and the translation of field data into text.
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SOC 305 - History of Sociological Thought Course Units: 1
(Winter; Goldner) The development of sociological theory, with particular emphasis on the works of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Mead, Foucault, and Bourdieu, with a feminist critical analysis of each.
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SOC 314 - America’s War on Drugs: Culture, Conflict, & Social Policy Course Units: 1
(Spring, Stablein) A critical evaluation of United States domestic and international drug policy. In this course, students will gain an understanding of domestic and international drug policy, and will apply a sociological perspective to understand the historic and current situational forces which shape America’s War on Drugs. We will evaluate current drug control strategies and the inequalities that have emerged as a result. This course also offers an overview of America’s international war on drugs and the role it plays in other parts of the world. Prerequisite(s): SOC 100
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SOC 340 - Inequality and Mobility: From Penthouse to Poorhouse Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) The forms, causes, and consequences of social inequality. Topics include objective and ideological manifestations of trends and patterns in wealth, poverty, mobility, and welfare policy.
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SOC 346 - Sociology of Black Women’s Culture Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course examines the socialization of black womanhood. We will explore how certain socio-historical norms shape black women’s ideas about race, gender, class, sexuality, constructions of femininity, and public and private activism. Understanding the complexities of strategies of resistance to multiple and intersecting oppressions (race, class, gender, sexuality, etc.) forms the focus of the course. Prerequisite(s): Suggested: SOC 230 , SOC 233 , GSW 100 (WGS-100) CC: LCC
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SOC 359 - Environmental Policy and Resource Management Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) An examination of environmental issues and problems such as acid rain, ocean dumping, and nuclear wastes, and the social forces that shape environmental policies.
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SOC 360 - Domestic Violence Course Units: 1
(Fall, Frandino) A sociological examination of issues and questions raised by violence within American families. The public definition of family violence, subjective experiences of abusers and victims, social and individual causes and consequences of abuse, complexities and problems of social interventions.
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SOC 362 - Family and Community Services Course Units: 1
(Spring; Kaplan) An examination of the response of community organizations and services to family life. Particular issues will include spouse and child abuse, juvenile delinquency, teenage pregnancy, daycare, and family instability and mental health. Visits to community and human service organizations will also be arranged.
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SOC 364 - Sex and Motherhood Course Units: 1
(Fall, Staff) An analysis of selected issues in the regulation of human reproduction & family building, primarily from sociological and feminist perspectives. Topics such as birth control, abortion, adolescent pregnancy, infertility & pregnancy are examined in historical and cross-cultural contexts with particular focus on the variables of gender, class and race.
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SOC 370 - Public Health Care Policy and Society Course Units: 1
(Spring, Goldner) An overview of public health with emphasis on the impact of large-scale social and cultural forces on the health of the public. The epidemiology of selected diseases, injuries, and the addictive disorders; the health effects of exposure to environmental and work place toxins; the role of nutrition in health.
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SOC 372 - Global Health Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) An in-depth survey of health care systems and topics from a cross-cultural perspective, of particular interest to health care providers and practitioners and to students interested in comparative health care systems particularly those planning to go on the Health Systems Term Abroad.
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SOC 374 - Mental Health and Society Course Units: 1
(Winter, Frandino) A general introduction to the social scientific study of mental health. Topics include theories of mental illness, epidemiology of mental illness, the social experience of being a mental patient, and contemporary issues in mental health.
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SOC 385 - Internships for Community Outreach Course Units: 1
(Spring; Kaplan) Designed to provide the student with work and research experience within a human service organization. Registration by application filed during fall term and by permission of instructor.
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SOC 387T - Community Service Miniterm Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) An integrative learning experience that combines an intensive off-campus December service experience with academic inquiry and critical reflection about the social, political, cultural and economic issues in which such service is embedded. Current focus is hurricane recovery in Louisiana Gulf coast. Registration by application filed in spring term and permission of instructor. CC: LCC
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SOC 450 - Environmental Services and Policy Course Units: 1
(Winter; Kaplan) The focus of this seminar is on the implementation of different environmental policies. Internships or case studies of environmental organizations, including NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, are part of the course.
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SOC 490 - Sociology Independent Study 1 Course Units: 1
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Prerequisite(s): Permission of the department chair.
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SOC 491 - Sociology Independent Study 2 Course Units: 1
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SOC 492 - Sociology Independent Study 3 Course Units: 1
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SOC 493 - Sociology Independent Study 4 Course Units: 1
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SOC 494 - Sociology Independent Study 5 Course Units: 1
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SOC 495 - Sociology Independent Study 6 Course Units: 1
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SOC 496 - Sociology Independent Study 7 Course Units: 1
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SOC 497 - Sociology Independent Study 8 Course Units: 1
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SOC 498 - Sociology Senior Thesis 1 Course Units: 0
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Special project for senior majors. Prerequisite(s): Permission of the department chair.
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SOC 499 - Sociology Senior Thesis 2 Course Units: 2
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Special project for senior majors. Prerequisite(s): Permission of the department chair.
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SRS 200 - Sophomore Research Seminar Course Units: 1
(Staff) Ensures that students have an early hands-on experience thinking and working as an academic researcher. (Students in the Scholars Program take the Scholars Research Seminar (SCH-150) instead of the Sophomore Research Seminar, and take it after the Scholars Preceptorial.)
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MLT 272 - Art and Politics in Spain: From the Civil War to Postfrancoism and Postmodernity Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) The impact that political events of this century in Spain have had on Spanish society and culture, as manifested in the arts in general and in literature in particular. CC: HUL
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MLT 273 - Re-Viewing Spanish Cinema: From Dictators, Bullfighters and Flamenco to Nationalisms and Globalization Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course examines the works of such well-known artists/filmmakers as Medem, Almodovar, Bigas Luna, de la Iglesia, Amenabar, among others, who often directly engage with questions of “Spanishness,” of the nature of regional and ethnic diversity and identities within Spain, and the place of these identities in the wider framework of filmmaking in Europe. Furthermore, it will also study popular cinema which has been successful in a national context under the Franco regime and since the coming of democracy in the 1970s. CC: HUM
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MLT 281 - Screening Identities in Latin American Cinema Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) A survey of the main trends in film production in Latin America since the 1950s (Mexican Golden Age Cinema, Brazilian Cinema Novo, Cuban Imperfect Cinema, Mexican New Wave, the 1990’s and beyond). Readings and discussions on issues of film history, aesthetics, representation and reception will frame our critical reflection on the construction of identities (inner-city youth, gender roles, masculinities, race and ethnicity, and US Latinos). CC: HUM, LCC
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MLT 282 - North/South Relations and Diasporic Politics Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course explores the cultural and political interaction between North and South that historically has helped to define the geography of the Americas. As an interdisciplinary course, North/South will draw students into ongoing debates about linguistic and intercultural exchange and conflict within hemispheric politics. CC: HUM, LCC
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MLT 283 - Beyond the Sunny Paradise: Literature and Politics in the Caribbean Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) An interdisciplinary study of Caribbean literature focusing on the political history of the region from 1898 to the present. Pan-Caribbean literary survey (Alvarez, Arenas, Bosch, Cartagena- Portalatin, Zobel, Danticat, Ferre, Kincaid, Naipaul, Santos-Febres, Ana Lydia Vega, among others). Besides the literary texts, films and substantive readings will contribute to an examination of five main topics: Legacies of Colonialism; Race and Ethnicity; Constructed Identities; U.S. Dominance and Interventionism; and Caribbean Diaspora. CC: HUL, LCC
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MLT 284 - Popular Religion and Politics in Latin America Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) In this course we will examine the connection between politics and popular religions in Latin America, taking a critical view of several of their manifestations without losing track of the language and “sciences” historically used to describe them. We will engage biblical, anthropological, videographic, ethnohistorical and cultural theory texts as well as oral histories and collective memories. The final goal is to tease out those ideas that have traditionally defined the terms in which we understand and explain the “popular” in religious behavior; to understand better the conflicted relationship between “popular” cultural and institutional spaces; and finally to understand why the evolution of popular religions in Latin America cannot be examined without also taking into account their political economy. CC: HUL, LCC
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MLT 286T - Gender and Identity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) The course is a survey of contemporary Brazilian cinema focusing on issues of representation, reception and spectatorship, and construction of (national, cultural, gender, and racial) identity. Besides the films, reviews and substantive readings will contribute to an examination of five main topics: 1) Constructions of Gender; 2) Representations of National Identity; 3) Race and Class; 4) Queer Images; and, 5) Imagining Marginality. All films studied in class will link two or more of these topics. CC: HUM, LCC
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MLT 287 - Filming Margins: Cinema Verité and Social Realism in Latin America Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course studies different styles of documentary and realist film making from Latin America. It looks critically and with a “film-eye” at the aesthetics and socio-political meanings of conventional and experimental documentary films dealing with marginalized peoples and their representation, such as Bunuel’s Los Olvidados (1950), Hector Babenco’s Pixote (1981) and Fernando Meirelles’ City of God (2002), and others. CC: HUM, LCC
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MLT 288 - Torture and Dictatorship in Latin American Literature Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course is an exploration of Latin-American literature in the twentieth century with a particular focus on the Dirty War in Argentina (1976-1983) and the early years after the military coups in Uruguay and Chile during the same time period. Readings include texts by writers who stayed in Argentina and Chile and who wrote under the confines of censorship, texts by exiled writers and essays theories of violence, torture and censorship. The class will also include viewings and analysis of films related to the events in those countries. We will also discuss the gendering of nation, the government and the victims-and will study the phenomenon of nation and people as the feminine “body” on which the male government exacts its control and punishment. We will also analyze the contrasts between literature written under the constraints of censorship, and that of exile. CC: HUL, LCC
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MLT 289 - Literature of the Mexican-American Border Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This is a class in literature, film and essays from both sides of the Mexican-American border. This course is designed to give students an under-standing of the complexities of the history, culture and sense of identity of residents from both sides. The class will be discussion based and will focus on the close readings of novels, poems, short stories and plays. CC: HUL, LCC
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MLT 293 - Made in New York: Puerto Rican and Dominican Transnational Identities in American Literature & Cinema Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) The course is a survey of the cultural production and representation of the Dominican and Puerto Rican communities in New York City from the late 1950’s to the present. Through the analysis of literary texts (narrative, poetry, theater) and films, students are encouraged to reflect on the forging of transnational identities and other issues (race, cultural identity, gender and masculinities) related to these two Caribbean diasporic communities in the U.S., and on the politics of their representation within the American cultural economy. CC: HUL, LCC
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MLT 294 - Generation X: Global Youth Culture in Fiction and Film Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) In this course we will examine the production of Generation X literature and culture worldwide. We will begin the course by gaining an understanding of the roots and meaning of “Generation X” since the US post-war period, to its various outgrowths around the world. We will examine how the axis of a “GenX” consciousness plays itself out in countries around the world in narrative, film, art, and music. Possible authors, artists and directors include Canadian Douglas Coupland, American Richard Linklater, Spaniard Ray Loriga, Chilean Alberto Fuguet, Bolivian Edmundo Paz-Soldan, Australians Andrew McGahan and Justine Ettler, Icelandic author Hallgrimur Helgason, British artist Sarah Lucas, Chinese writers Mian Mian and Wei Hui, Russian Viktor Pelevin, Check writer Jachym Topol, and others. In this course, students will create their own short films through a careful, task-by-task research and creative idea generation process, they will receive training using iMovie, and they will learn about the ethical and lawful use of digital media material. For MLT Spanish credit, students must engage in a research / film project related to the Hispanic world. CC: HUM, LCC
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SPN 100 - Basic Spanish 1 Course Units: 1
(Fall; Osuna) An introduction to the study of the Spanish language and culture through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. No prior knowledge of Spanish is required. Attendance of weekly sessions with the language assistant is required. CC: HUM
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SPN 101 - Basic Spanish 2 Course Units: 1
(Winter; Osuna) A continuation of Spanish 1. This course further develops all language skills. Prerequisite(s): SPN 100 or two years of Spanish at high school level. Attendance of weekly sessions with the language assistant is required. CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 102 - Basic Spanish 3 Course Units: 1
(Spring; Collinge) A continuation of Spanish 2. This course further develops all language skills. Prerequisite(s): SPN 101 or three years of Spanish at high school level. Attendance of weekly sessions with the language assistant is required. CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 200 - Intermediate Spanish 1 Course Units: 1
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Intensive and accelerated grammar review, and vocabulary growth. Further development of conversation and writing skills based on cultural texts. Prerequisite(s): SPN 102 or equivalent or four years of secondary school Spanish. CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 201 - Intermediate Spanish 2 Course Units: 1
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Continuation of the intensive and accelerated grammar review and vocabulary growth initiated in the previous course. Further development of conversation and writing skills based on cultural and literary texts. Prerequisite(s): SPN 200 or AP Spanish credit in high school CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 202 - Intermediate Spanish 3 Course Units: 1
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Continuation of the intensive and accelerated grammar review and vocabulary growth initiated in the previous course. Further development of conversation and writing skills based on literary texts. Prerequisite(s): SPN 201 or a score of 3+ on AP Spanish exam. CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 203 - Advanced Spanish Course Units: 1
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) The course emphasizes the further development of composition and writing skills using the process-writing approach. Writing production will consist of expository and creative pieces based on cultural and literary readings. Prerequisite(s): SPN 202 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 204T - The Spanish Language Studied Abroad 1 Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) See International Programs.
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SPN 205T - The Spanish Language Studied Abroad 2 Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) See International Programs.
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SPN 206T - The Spanish Language Studied Abroad 3 Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) See International Programs.
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SPN 207T - The Spanish Language Studied Abroad 4 Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) See International Programs.
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SPN 208T - Spanish Civilization Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) See International Programs.
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SPN 209T - Mexican Civilization Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year)
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SPN 250T - The Spanish Language Studied Independently Abroad 1 Course Units: 1
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SPN 251T - The Spanish Language Studied Independently Abroad 2 Course Units: 1
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SPN 295H - Spanish Honors Independent Study 1 Course Units: 0
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SPN 296H - Spanish Honors Independent Study 2 Course Units: 1
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SPN 304 - Performing Identities in Contemporary Spanish Theater Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) Representative works by Spain’s leading playwrights from the 1930’s to the present (Garcia Lorca, Sastre, Buero Vallejo, Muniz, Arrabal, Lopez Rubio, Cabal, Pedrero, Diosdado, Onetti) are studied from diverse theoretical approaches to reflect on the performative nature of identities. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 306 - Spanish Mutant Fictioneers: Mutant Fiction & Media Mutations in Twenty- First Century Spanish Literature Course Units: 1
Spring; Henseler) The contemporary authors known as the Mutantes are well-connected and savvy users of new media and social networking sites. They maintain their own web pages, they write blogs, they produce videos, book trailers, electronic hypertexts, and post photographs on Flickr. They directly address and dialogue with their fans and foes alike. This course examines how authors such as Agustin Fernandez Mallo, Jorge Carrion, Alberto Olmos, Juan Francisco Ferre, Javier Fernandez, among others use new media technologies to mutate words in print and print across media platforms. To understand the role of media in print, this course includes a series of hands-on workshops and a series of digital assignments. Students will read, watch, and analyze the work of these authors by engaging in research projects, reading short stories, book chapters, newspaper articles, blogs, and watching trailers, presentations, even spoken word DJ performances. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 308 - The Spanish Movida: Explosive Youth Culture of the 1970s and 80s Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) The Spanish Movida was an explosive artistic youth cultural movement that emerged during the Spanish transition to democracy in the 1970’s and ‘80s. Although short-lived, it left a lasting mark on Spanish cultural history because Spanish youth used music, art, photography, fashion, film, fanzines, comics, sculpture, architecture, and design to challenge social norms, question assumptions, open new spaces, and give expression to their vision of a new democratic Spain. How and why did the vibrant Movida come about? Who were the major contributors to this cultural explosion? And what was their lasting legacy? Through the step-by-step development of a research project and student-centered conversations and workshops, this course engages with the prolific multi-disciplinary expressions of individual artists an d visionaries of the Movida. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS
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SPN 311 - Otherness and Citizenship in Contemporary Spanish Theater and Cinema Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) An introduction to the study of the dramatic and film genres through the analysis and discussion of contemporary works by Spanish playwrights (Alonso deSantos, Moral, Onetti, Pedrero) and filmmakers (Almodovar, Bollain, De la lglesia, Leon de Aranoa, Pons, Uribe). Theoretical readings and diverse critical approaches to theater and cinema frame the course around the portrayal of the Other (women, North African and Latin American immigrants, LGBT communities, Roma people, and the poor). The analysis of primary texts will center on how the authors/directors weave representations of difference into narratives of nationhood, engaging in cultural and political debates about citizenship. The course also aims to familiarize students with Spanish visual culture and performance from “la Movida” (immediate post-Franco period) to the new millennium. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 312T - Immigration in Spanish Cinema Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course will examine the filmic representation of migration in Spain in the context of contemporary European debates related to cultural, economic, and political change. The course seeks as well to grasp more clearly immigration’s racial, gender, sexual, religious, and other identity locations, as the Spanish nation and the people that inhabit its borders negotiate-often in paradoxical ways-national and social proximity with demographic realities. The course will analyze miscellaneous printed (newspapers, magazines, literary and economic-political texts) and visual media (virtual and not) dealing with the topic of migration in the context of re-settlement and human rights and institutional, cultural, and national beliefs. CC: LCCS
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SPN 314 - Spain is Different: Current Debates Shaping Spain’s Future Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) The slogan “Spain is different” was coined by Francisco Franco’s dictatorial regime in the 1960s as part of its campaign to advertise Spain to its northern neighbors as an exotic tourist destination characterized by sunny beaches, siestas, flamenco, and bullfights. Today, many Spaniards use the phrase colloquially, not to celebrate their country’s uniqueness, but rather to comment on its perceived backwardness in comparison to other industrialized countries. The evolving meaning of this slogan epitomizes Spain’s sometimes contradictory efforts to maintain local traditions and values while aligning with broader European and global identities. These opposing forces of change and tradition are at the root of many of the economic, social, and cultural issues dividing public opinion in Spain today. In this course we will examine a few of these current debates through discussion of literature, cinema, and the media. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 325 - Staging Conflict: Studies in One-Act Mexican Theater Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course surveys contemporary one-act Mexican theater focusing on the theatrical devices, trends, and discourses adopted by playwrights to explore conflictive issues in Mexican society and culture: urban violence, generational clashes within the family, sexual diversity, gender roles, consumerism, among others. The course offers an introduction to the study of drama and the analysis of theatrical signs, and it attempts to complement the students’ term abroad experience in Mexico by focusing on and contextualizing linguistic and cultural aspects in the texts. Students read texts by Emilio Carballido, Victor Hugo Rascon Banda, Sabina Berman, Hugo Salcedo, among others. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 326 - Women Weaving Histories: Short Narratives by Latin American Female Writers Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) We will focus on short stories written in the 20th century by women throughout the Latin American region, including Isabel Allende (Chile), Elena Poniatowska (Mexico), Luisa Velenzuela (Argentina), Rosario Ferre (Puerto Rico), Laura Antillano (Venezuela), Maria Teresa Solaris (Peru), Helena Araujo (Colombia), Clarice Lispector (Brasil), Claribel Alegria (El Salvador/Nicaragua), among others. We will examine how these women have fictionalized their political and social realities and called into question the myths surrounding their existence; how their narratives subvert notions of national history, and of female identity and sexuality in relation to private and public spaces. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 327 - The Nation at Home: Family and Nationhood in Spanish American Theater Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) An introduction to the study of the dramatic genre through the analysis and discussion of representative works by Spanish American playwrights (Triana, Wolff, Diaz, Gambaro, Arguelles, Berman, Canales, among others). Theoretical readings and diverse critical approaches to theater frame the course around the representation of family as a microcosm in which narratives of nationhood are contested, revised, and imagined. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 328 - Inquiring Latin American Identities: Reading Context, Space & Cultural Artifacts Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course reflects on how Latin American identities are constructed through the lenses of written, visual, and oral texts. Latin-American cultural identities are conceived as processes initiated and sustained by the merging of radically different cultures that framed and continue to shape people’s lives.. Particularly, the course explores the impact of gender relations, ethnicity, urban spaces, cultural practices and beliefs on identity. Substantive theoretical readings will complement the assignments. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 329 - Interruptions: The Paradox of Tradition in Spanish American Poetry Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) Octavio Paz describes modern literature as a “tradition of discontinuity,” one that constantly rebels against itself in search of innovation. This course examines Paz’s assertion through the study of foundational Spanish American poets. As we read and discuss each poet’s contribution to modern literature we will also study the characteristics that manifest a Spanish American poetic tradition. The course’s objectives are centered on strengthening student’s process of language acquisition, developing analytical skills, and reinforcing writing proficiency through reading poetry. Students will also have the opportunity to share their knowledge and collaborate in a learning community through in-class discussion and oral presentations. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 330 - Mexican Women’s Contemporary Short Fiction Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course focuses on Mexican women’s contemporary short fiction. Its analytical structure centers on reading stories from three anthologies that deal with three of the most significant formative female experiences in contemporary Latin-American societies: the mother, the family, and schools. The axis of conversation and analysis follows a feminist theoretical path while keeping in mind also local cultural, social and economic realities, racial and ethnic identities, and temporal specificities. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 332 - An Introduction to Afro-Hispanic Literatures and Cultures Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course exposes students, through selected readings dealing with the black experience in Latin America, to African diaspora literature particular to Spanish-speaking regions. It bridges various genres and artistic media (narrative, poetry, drama, film, music) in order to provide a general sense - aesthetic, material and cultural, theoretical and cross-temporal - of different manners in which black diasporic expressions have intervened in the re-creation, transformation, and interrogation of African-derived identities in Latin America. As such, this course examines these expressions as locutions that problematize and enrich our perceptions of social, cultural, economic, religious, gender, and sexual social orders and identities related to the black experience. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 350 - Visions and Voices: Chicana Icons from Myth to Matter Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Malinche, and Frida Kahlo surround us on a daily basis. We see them in our dreams and in ourselves; they are repeatedly embodied in contemporary life and art. In this course we will discuss the historical significance of these three figures in dialogue with feminist reappropriations of their iconic value in contemporary literature, art, and culture. We will examine how musicians, visual artists, poets, narrators, and playwrights reclaim the iconic significance of these women and give them new voice and body in order to reposition and redefine the sexual and social identities of contemporary women. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 351 - Border Identities Course Units: 1
(Fall; Martinez) This course explores Chicano culture through essays, literature, and films that represent current and historical issues of the Mexican-American border. Readings will provide research and data, while literary texts and films will offer varying interpretations and representation of the border culture that will allow you to consider critically the complexities of 20th and 21st century issues that include immigration, working conditions, socio-economic status, the role of women, and identity. The course should also help you improve your proficiency in Spanish at all levels: building vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or any other 300-level Spanish course. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 352 - Imagining Latino & Latina Identities Course Units: 1
(Spring; Garcia) This course is an introduction to contemporary US Latino/a literature with a focus on Cuban-Americans, Dominican-Americans, Mexican-Americans/Chicanos, and Puerto Ricans. We will study representative works of various genres (narrative, drama, poetry, and film) within their cultural context. Our exploration of US Latino/a production seeks to reflect on the plurality and diversity of (self-) representation and the various ways in which Latin@ authors and artists imagine and construct their identities and communities in the United States. In addition to acquainting students with significant works of US Latino/a literature, the course seeks to strengthen reading ability and sharpening writing and critical skills. Class discussions and writing assignments are in Spanish. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 360 - Spanish Communication: Speaking and Writing in Contemporary Settings Course Units: 1
(Winter; Osuna) The goal of this course is to build oral proficiency in Spanish at advanced levels. Oral communication will be supported by readings and intensive writing in the target language. Acquisition of linguistically and culturally appropriate oral skills will allow students to communicate successfully in academic and professional settings as well as daily life. CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 375 - Dreams, Mirages and Delusions in Peninsular and Latin American Fiction Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course examines the complex relationships between author, character, and audience and explores representations of reality through the subconscious, the magical real and the unreal. Readings include texts by Cervantes, Borges, Garcia Lorca, García Márquez, Cortázar, and Ana Lydia Vega Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 376 - Down to Earth: Cross-Cultural Explorations of the Hispanic World Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course furthers the development of cultural competency while maximizing language skills and providing the foundation for further studies in language, literature, and culture. “Down to Earth” broadens students’ knowledge of the Spanish-speaking world by focusing on shared past and present issues affecting people living in similar geographic regions. CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 380 - What’s Love Got to Do with It: Gender and Nation in Hispanic and US Latino Literatures Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) An introduction to the study of literary genres thematically anchored in the intersection of gender dynamics, national politics, and the construction of identity (sexual, cultural, national). Students will read narrative, poetry, and drama from Spain, Spanish- America, and U.S. Latino communities. Theoretical readings and diverse critical approaches to literature frame the course around the portrayal of romantic/sexual relationships that acquire broader dimensions when scrutinized from the perspective of gender and national politics. How are gender and sexual identities inscribed in national identity? How cultural artifacts project and reflect the gendered body of the nation? Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 381 - Hauntings in Hispanic Fiction Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) Ghost stories evoke both fear and delight in readers, listeners, or viewers. But beyond entertaining us, tales of haunting can reveal memories, traumas, and social figures that an individual or society has repressed or maybe just never noticed before. For example, a ghostly apparition may serve to remind a nation of historical violence that it has sought to forget. Or it may represent the return of a marginalized social figure silenced in the past and clamoring to be heard in the present. In this course we will explore haunting as a theoretical concept and storytelling device. To do so we will analyze a variety of ghostly narratives - both literary and cinematic - from the Hispanic world. As we summon these fictional phantoms and work to interpret their messages, we will situate each text within its particular cultural, sociopolitical, and intellectual contexts. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 CC: HUM, HUL, LCCS
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SPN 400 - Don Quixote Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course explores what is considered the first modern novel: its place within the historical and literary context of the time it was written, the complexities of the narrative, and its continued popularity 400 years after its initial publication. Related articles will provide background information and points of departure for discussion. By the end of the course students will have better knowledge of the period known as the Golden Age of Spanish literature, the Renaissance in Spain, and the famous text itself; and they will recognize the international influence the book has had on the arts around the world. Prerequisite(s): Any two 300-level Spanish courses, or any 400-level Spanish courses. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 401 - Bodies and Power in Latin American Narrative Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) We will examine through narrative and film the metaphoric use of the body in literature and how it represents the effects of political and socio-economic power. We will read texts by Manuel Puig, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Laura Esquivel, among others. Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level courses. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 405 - Lost and Found in Translation Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course was created to provide advanced students of Spanish with foundational knowledge of the emergent field of Translation and Interpretation Studies. The course complements the curriculum in Spanish Language and Literatures by (1) building upon the Studies in Contemporary Communications cluster at the 300-level and (2) by honing advanced language skills, broadening cultural knowledge, and sharpening critical thinking skills. The course also makes connections with other fields in the Humanities–mainly Japanese, Classics, Theater, and Philosophy–by forging understandings on how notions of interpretation are enacted in these specific disciplines. Class will be taught in Spanish. CC: WAC, HUM, LCC
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SPN 406 - Film of the Mexican American Border Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) Through the study of 9 films, students will gain an understanding of cinematic techniques and the ways in which the directors of these films use them to convey differing perspectives of the Mexican-American border, with emphasis on the Mexican side. The films will be presented thematically in reference to the border as the perceived locus of perversion and violence, emigration/immigration, and identity. Readings for the course will come from texts on film, and from book chapters and articles. By the end of the term students will have a better understanding of the history and social dynamics of the Mexican- American border. They will also better understand how to “read” film through different theoretical approaches. They will also be able to discuss and write analytically about what a director does and why. CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 407 - Cultures in Contact (and Conflict) in Contemporary Spain Course Units: 1
(Winter; Mueller) What does it mean to be a national of a country? And who is included in that definition? By analyzing the specific case of Spain, in this course we will discover that the answers to these questions are complex and multiple. We will study literature, film, music, and television shows from three culturally and linguistically distinct regions of Spain: Galicia, Catalonia, and the Basque Country. In our analyses of these works we will discuss the key components of national identity, including language, traditions, geography, historical memory, political repression and violence, and gender. In the final unit we will explore how immigration and Spain’s relationship to the European Union are challenging traditional definitions of the nation. Prerequisite(s): Take any two 300-level Spanish courses.
CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 408 - Hispanic Literature in the Digital Age Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) In this course students will explore contemporary Hispanic literature as it moves from the printed page to digital screen. Students will analyze contemporary novels, poems, microtexts and hypertexts in digital and printed formats by authors from Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Columbia and the U.S., among others. The interpretation of these texts will allow us to question how digital literature alters our understanding of reading and writing. What is gained and what is lost when the design of digital spaces alter an author’s mode of expression? What assumptions are questioned along the way? Can a Twitter text, for instance, be considered “literature”? Why, or why not? Coursework includes the writing of several critical blogs and a final interpretive paper expressed in digital format. Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level SPN courses CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 409 - Rebels with a Cause: Contemporary Spanish Youth Culture 1975-2010 Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course examines fiction and film of Spanish writers and directors from 1975 to 2010. Students consider critical perspectives on the development and expression of youth from the Spanish Movida (1975-85), Generation X (1990-2000), and the Mutantes (2000-2010). What are the socio-historical and cultural developments that have influenced these groups of writers? How have they reacted and represented their social realities? How did they define their identities, question and rebel against society? To what degree did North American popular and commercial culture and developments in media technologies infuse their storytelling practices on thematic and technical levels? Students in this course will read short stories and extracts from novels, magazines and newspaper articles, they will watch films and YouTube clips, write blogs and papers. Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level courses. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 415 - What Remains: Waste in Latin American Cinema, Literature, Media, and Art Course Units: 1
(Fall; Mosquera) This course examines the presence and impact of trash, disposed objects and life, and landfills/wastelands in the context of expiry, renewal, and globalization in Latin America. Borrowing from philosophy and urban sociology and anthropology, Latin American, cultural, media and cinema, and environmental studies, the course teases out the aesthetic, political, and economic aspects of “trash” as an intricate stockpile of modern, industrial, digital, and postindustrial traces of discarded and remnant history as well as a multifaceted symbolic index with particular trajectories and manifestations in Latin America contexts. The course will revisit cultish films like Amores Perros (González Iñárritu, 2000) and lesser known films like La sociedad del semáforo (Mendoza, 2010) and Buscando a Miguel (Fisher, 2006); examine Photography work by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Miguel Río Branco, and Enrique Meinitides and conceptual art by Teresa Margolles and Doris Salcedo, among others; explore documentary and environmental work looking at waste, neoliberalism, and recovered and precarious life such as Sequía (Sánchez Macías, 2009), Cartoneros (Livón-Grosman, 2006),Lixo extraordinario (Walker, Jardim, Harly 2010), El tren blanco (García, Pérez Giménez y García, 2003), and Yasuní: dos segundos de vida(Leonardo Wild, 2010); and finally, analyze select literary and alternative initiatives related to “basura” (Ibargoyen, Bolaños, Restrepo, editorial Eloisa Cartonera, Spregelburd, among others). Prerequisite(s): Take two SPN-300 level courses. CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 417 - Death and Revenge in the Southern Cone Course Units: 1
(Winter; Martinez) This course explores the literature of the Dirty War in Argentina, Uruguay, and of the early years of the Pinochet regime in Chile. Through analysis of narrative, theater and film we will touch upon the effects of torture and terrorism on society in those countries during the early 1970’s through the mid 1980’s. The class will read texts and view films written and produced under heavy censorship, and those written and produced in exile. We will also examine themes of revenge either by exiled writers or by those who can write more freely after a change in government. We will read texts by Marta Traba, Luisa Valenzuela, Diana Raznovich, Eduardo Pavlovsky, Ariel Dorfman, and others. Films will include Camila and Death and the Maiden. Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level courses. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 418 - Of Cock Fights and Crowded Elevators: Readings in Contemporary Mexican Theater Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) Readings in contemporary Mexican theater that seek to explore how Mexican playwrights stage, perform, and imagine the nation and their communities either contesting or legitimizing hegemonic narratives of cultural uniformity, normative gender and sexual roles, and a cohesive political state. We will analyze dramatic texts by Luisa Josefina Hernández, Hugo Argüelles, Leonor Azcárate, Tomás Urtusástegui, Dante del Castillo, Jesús González Dávila, Sabina Berman, Hugo Salcedo, among others. Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level courses. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 431 - Colonial Latin America 1492-1800 Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course examines the complex array of European, indigenous, mestizo and African recordings of the encounter between Europeans, slaves and native Americans that started in the fifteenth century; and at the colonization and subsequent reconfiguration and displacement of individuals, communities, and their cultures. The course analyzes in some detail the historical and theoretical issues arising from this trans- Atlantic collision and exchange, a diverse historiographic and literary production that heralded and bore witness to the many ways in which the various peoples of, and involved in, the creation of the Americas documented, perceived, and imagined the old and the new, themselves and others. We will read travel journals, poetry, drama, histories, ethnographies, and other types of textual/visual production such as films and codices. Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level courses. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 432 - Islands Adrift: Race, Politics, and Diasporas in the Hispanic Caribbean Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) Introduction to the literatures and cultures of Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico centering on how the region continues to approach its development tempered by an array of colonial legacies-from the slave plantation system to globalization-that impact on social, political, economic, and cultural dynamics. Diverse critical approaches will frame the analysis of literary, visual, and musical texts by Luis Pales Matos, Nicolas Guillen, Pedro Mir, Heberto Padilla, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Aida Cartagena Portalatin, Celia Cruz, Ana Lydia Vega, Juan Luis Guerra, Reinaldo Arenas, Mayra Montero, among others. Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level courses. CC: LCCS, HUL
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SPN 433 - Latin American Colonial Crossroads at the Movies Course Units: 1
(Spring; Mosquera) This course explores critically filmic approaches to colonial Latin American literature and history. Its main objectives are to analyze films preoccupied with historical events and life in colonial times, to engage the filmic representation of the cultural, political, and religious encounters and tensions informing our desire to revisit contact among Amerindians, African slaves and Europeans, and to familiarize students with debates pertaining to reconstructing the colonial past for contemporary consumption. Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level courses. CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 473 - Re-Viewing Spanish Cinema Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course examines the works of such well known artists/filmmakers as Medem, Almodóvar, Bigas Luna, de la Iglesia, and Aménabar, among others, who often directly engage with questions of ¨Spanishness,¨ of the nature of regional and ethnic diversity and identities within Spain, and the place of these identities in the wider framework of filmmaking in Europe. Furthermore, it will also study popular cinema which has been successful in a national context under the Franco regime and since the coming of democracy in the 1070s. Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level courses CC: LCCS, HUM
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SPN 489 - Honors Senior Seminar Course Units: 1
(Spring; Mosquera) For seniors who qualify for departmental honors; please contact the department during the Winter term. CC: LCCS
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SPN 490 - Spanish Independent Study 1 Course Units: 1
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Individual directed readings in the field of Spanish or Spanish-American literature. Prerequisite(s): At least one course in Spanish at the 400-level and permission of the instructor.
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SPN 491 - Spanish Independent Study 2 Course Units: 1
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Individual directed readings in the field of Spanish or Spanish-American literature. Prerequisite(s): At least one course in Spanish at the 400-level and permission of the instructor.
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