Courses
At Bryn Mawr
This page displays the schedule of Bryn Mawr courses in this department for this academic year. It also displays descriptions of courses offered by the department during the last four academic years.
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Students must choose a major subject and may choose a minor subject. Students may also select from one of seven concentrations, which are offered to enhance a student's work in the major or minor and to focus work on a specific area of interest.
Concentrations are an intentional cluster of courses already offered by various academic departments or through general programs. These courses may also be cross-listed in several academic departments. Therefore, when registering for a course that counts toward a concentration, a student should register for the course listed in her major or minor department. If the concentration course is not listed in her major or minor department, the student may enroll in any listing of that course.
Spring 2013
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/ UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANTH B219-001 | Visual Anthropology, Latin America and Social Movements | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH | Dalton Hall 2 | Uzwiak,B. |
| ANTH B229-001 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Building China | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | Taylor Hall D | Zhang,J. |
| ANTH B229-002 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Building China | Semester / 1 | LEC: 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM M | Thomas Hall 116 | Zhang,J. |
| LEC: 4:30 PM- 6:00 PM T | Thomas Hall 116 | ||||
| ANTH B231-001 | Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH | Dalton Hall 212A | Seyhan,A. |
| CITY B229-001 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Building China | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | Taylor Hall D | Zhang,J. |
| CITY B229-002 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Building China | Semester / 1 | LEC: 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM M | Thomas Hall 116 | Zhang,J. |
| LEC: 4:30 PM- 6:00 PM T | Thomas Hall 116 | ||||
| COML B231-001 | Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH | Dalton Hall 212A | Seyhan,A. |
| COML B345-001 | Topics in Narrative Theory: Theory of the Ethnic Novel | Semester / 1 | LEC: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | English House I | Harford Vargas,J. |
| EAST B229-001 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Building China | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | Taylor Hall D | Zhang,J. |
| EAST B229-002 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Building China | Semester / 1 | LEC: 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM M | Thomas Hall 116 | Zhang,J. |
| LEC: 4:30 PM- 6:00 PM T | Thomas Hall 116 | ||||
| ENGL B276-001 | Transnational American Literature | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | English House II | Harford Vargas,J. |
| ENGL B345-001 | Topics in Narrative Theory: Theory of the Ethnic Novel | Semester / 1 | LEC: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | English House I | Harford Vargas,J. |
| GERM B231-001 | Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH | Dalton Hall 212A | Seyhan,A. |
| HART B229-001 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Building China | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | Taylor Hall D | Zhang,J. |
| HART B229-002 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Building China | Semester / 1 | LEC: 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM M | Thomas Hall 116 | Zhang,J. |
| LEC: 4:30 PM- 6:00 PM T | Thomas Hall 116 | ||||
| HART B241-001 | New Visual Worlds in the Spanish Empire 1492 - 1820 | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Carpenter Library 15 | McKim-Smith,G. |
| HIST B265-001 | Colonial Encounters in the Americas | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW | Taylor Hall D | Gallup-Diaz,I. |
| HIST B371-001 | Topics in Atlantic History: The Early Modern Pirate in Fact and Fiction | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM TH | Taylor Hall C | Gallup-Diaz,I. |
| SOCL B230-001 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Building China | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | Taylor Hall D | Zhang,J. |
| SOCL B230-002 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Building China | Semester / 1 | LEC: 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM M | Thomas Hall 116 | Zhang,J. |
| LEC: 4:30 PM- 6:00 PM T | Thomas Hall 116 | ||||
| SOCL B231-001 | Punishment and Social Order | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Taylor Hall D | Marquez,E. |
| SPAN B110-001 | Introduccion al analisis cultural | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF | Thomas Hall 116 | Puig-Herz,A. |
| SPAN B203-001 | Tópicos en la literatura hispana: La naturaleza como iden politi | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 102 | Song,R. |
| SPAN B208-001 | Drama y sociedad en España | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Dalton Hall 1 | Quintero,M. |
| SPAN B307-001 | Cervantes | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | Dalton Hall 10 | Quintero,M. |
| SPAN B321-001 | Del surrealismo al afrorealismo | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM M | Carpenter Library 25 | Sacerio-Garí,E. |
Fall 2013
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/ UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANTH B258-001 | Immigrant Experiences | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM MW | Dalton Hall 119 | Takenaka,A. |
| COML B260-001 | Ariel/Caliban y el discurso americano | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 116 | Sacerio-Garí,E. |
| ENGL B217-001 | Narratives of Latinidad | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 104 | Harford Vargas,J. |
| ENGL B332-001 | Novelas de las Américas | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 104 | Gaspar,M. |
| GNST B145-001 | Introduction to Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Peoples and Cultures | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW | Taylor Hall D | Dept. staff, TBA |
| HIST B127-001 | Indigenous Leaders 1492-1750 | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM W | Taylor Hall B | Gallup-Diaz,I. |
| SOCL B246-001 | Immigrant Experiences: Introduction to International Migration | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM MW | Dalton Hall 119 | Takenaka,A. |
| SOCL B259-001 | Comparative Social Movements in Latin America | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Dalton Hall 2 | Marquez,E. |
| SPAN B110-001 | Introduccion al analisis cultural | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Taylor Hall C | Gaspar,M. |
| SPAN B203-001 | Tópicos en la literatura hispana: ¡A morirse de risa! Humor negro y nación en el cin | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF | Dalton Hall 25 | Puig-Herz,A. |
| SPAN B211-001 | Borges y sus lectores | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 116 | Sacerio-Garí,E. |
| SPAN B217-001 | Narratives of Latinidad | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 104 | Harford Vargas,J. |
| SPAN B231-001 | El cuento y novela corta en España | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Dalton Hall 6 | Quintero,M. |
| SPAN B309-001 | La mujer en la literatura española del Siglo de Oro | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM MW | Dalton Hall 6 | Quintero,M. |
| SPAN B332-001 | Novelas de las Américas | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 104 | Gaspar,M. |
Spring 2014
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/ UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANTH B219-001 | Visual Anthropology, Latin America and Social Movements | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Dalton Hall 25 | Uzwiak,B. |
| ANTH B229-001 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Taylor Hall D | McDonogh,G. |
| CITY B229-001 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Mysteries of the City | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Taylor Hall D | McDonogh,G. |
| COML B237-001 | The Dictator Novel in the Americas | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Thomas Hall 104 | Harford Vargas,J. |
| COML B345-001 | Topics in Narrative Theory | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | English House II | Ricketts,R. |
| EAST B229-001 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Taylor Hall D | McDonogh,G. |
| ENGL B237-001 | Latino Dictator Novel in Americas | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Thomas Hall 104 | Harford Vargas,J. |
| ENGL B345-001 | Topics in Narrative Theory: Realism | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | English House II | Ricketts,R. |
| HART B229-001 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Taylor Hall D | McDonogh,G. |
| HART B242-001 | Material Identities in Latin America 1820 - 2010 | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF | Carpenter Library 13 | McKim-Smith,G. |
| SOCL B230-001 | Topics in Comparative Urbanism | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Taylor Hall D | McDonogh,G. |
| SOCL B231-001 | Punishment and Social Order | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | Taylor Hall E | Marquez,E. |
| SPAN B110-001 | Introduccion al analisis cultural | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 111 | Interim,R. |
| SPAN B203-001 | Tópicos en la literatura hispana | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Carpenter Library 15 | Gaspar,M. |
| SPAN B237-001 | Latino Dictator Novel in Americas | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Thomas Hall 104 | Harford Vargas,J. |
2013-14 Catalog Data
ANTH B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 Not offered 2013-14 The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from Africa, Europe. and the Americas came together to form an interconnected Atlantic World system. The course is designed to chart the manner in which an integrated system was created in the Americas in the early modern period, rather than to treat the history of the Atlantic World as nothing more than an expanded version of North American, Caribbean, or Latin American history. Division I or Division III Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as HIST B200 Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures Counts toward International Studies Major ANTH B219 Visual Anthropology, Latin America and Social Movements Spring 2014 Focusing on indigenous communities and social movements, this course examines the cultural uses of visual art, photography, film, and new media in Latin America. Students will analyze a variety of materials to reconsider western conceptions of art. As well, students will explore how anthropologists employ visual methods in ethnographic research. Prerequisites: ANTH B102 or permission of instructor. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures ANTH B229 Topics in Comparative UrbanismSection 001 (Spring 2013): Building China
Section 002 (Spring 2013): Building China Spring 2014 This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Comparative Urbanism insists that our understanding of cities must incorporate systematic analysis, testing theory and practice. This year, the class explores questions raised about cities through crime literature, ranging from depictions of criminality (across race, class and gender) to visions of form and movement. The key cities for comparison this year will be Barcelona, Los Angeles, Havana, Buenos Aires and Shanghai. Readings will include literary sources, films and social histories. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as CITY B229 Cross-listed as SOCL B230 Cross-listed as HART B229 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures ANTH B231 Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile Not offered 2013-14 This course investigates the anthropological, philosophical, psychological, cultural, and literary aspects of modern exile. It studies exile as experience and metaphor in the context of modernity, and examines the structure of the relationship between imagined/remembered homelands and transnational identities, and the dialectics of language loss and bi- and multi-lingualism. Particular attention is given to the psychocultural dimensions of linguistic exclusion and loss. Readings of works by Julia Alvarez, Anita Desai, Sigmund Freud, Milan Kundera, Friedrich Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie, and others. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as GERM B231 Cross-listed as COML B231 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures Counts toward International Studies Major ANTH B258 Immigrant Experiences Fall 2013 The course will examine the causes and consequences of immigration by looking at various immigrant groups in the United States in comparison with Western Europe, Japan, and other parts of the world. How is immigration induced and perpetuated? How are the types of migration changing (labor migration, refugee flows, return migration, transnationalism)? How do immigrants adapt differently across societies? We will explore scholarly texts, films, and novels to examine what it means to be an immigrant, what generational and cultural conflicts immigrants experience, and how they identify with the new country and the old country. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as SOCL B246 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures CITY B229 Topics in Comparative Urbanism
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Building China
Section 001 (Spring 2014): Mysteries of the City
Section 002 (Spring 2013): Building China Spring 2014 This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Comparative Urbanism insists that our understanding of cities must incorporate systematic analysis, testing theory and practice. This year, the class explores questions raised about cities through crime literature, ranging from depictions of criminality (across race, class and gender) to visions of form and movement. The key cities for comparison this year will be Barcelona, Los Angeles, Havana, Buenos Aires and Shanghai. Readings will include literary sources, films and social histories. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as SOCL B230 Cross-listed as HART B229 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures COML B225 Censorship: Historical Contexts, Local Practices and Global Resonance Not offered 2013-14 This course examines the ban on books and art in the US, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe through a study of the historical, political, and sociocultural conditions of censorship practices and the rhetorical strategies writers and artists use to translate repression and trauma into idioms of resistance. Prerequisite: EMLY B001 or a 100-level intensive writing course. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures Counts toward Middle East Studies COML B231 Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile Not offered 2013-14 This course investigates the anthropological, philosophical, psychological, cultural, and literary aspects of modern exile. It studies exile as experience and metaphor in the context of modernity, and examines the structure of the relationship between imagined/remembered homelands and transnational identities, and the dialectics of language loss and bi- and multi-lingualism. Particular attention is given to the psychocultural dimensions of linguistic exclusion and loss. Readings of works by Julia Alvarez, Anita Desai, Sigmund Freud, Milan Kundera, Friedrich Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie, and others. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as GERM B231 Cross-listed as ANTH B231 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures Counts toward International Studies Major COML B237 The Dictator Novel in the Americas Spring 2014 This course examines representations of dictatorship in Latin American and Latina/o novels. We will explore the relationship between narrative form and absolute power by analyzing the literary techniques writers use to contest authoritarianism. We will compare dictator novels from the United States, the Caribbean, Central America, and the Southern Cone. Prerequisite: only for students wishing to take the course for major/minor credit in SPAN is SPAN B200/B202. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as ENGL B237 Cross-listed as SPAN B237 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures COML B248 The Reception of Classics in the Hispanic World Not offered 2013-14 A survey of the reception of Classical literature in the Spanish-speaking world. We read select literary works in translation, ranging from Renaissance Spain to contemporary Latin America, side-by-side with their classical models, to examine what is culturally unique about their choice of authors, themes, and adaptation of the material. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as CSTS B248 Cross-listed as SPAN B248 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures COML B260 Ariel/Caliban y el discurso americano Fall 2013 A study of the transformations of Ariel/Calibán as images of Latin American culture. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as SPAN B260 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures COML B271 Litertura y delincuencia: explorando la novela picaresca Not offered 2013-14 A study of the origins, development and transformation of the picaresque genre from its origins in 16th- and 17th-century Spain through the 21st century. Using texts, literature, painting, and film from Spain and Latin America, we will explore topics such as the construction of the (fictional) self, the poetics and politics of criminality, transgression in gender and class. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as SPAN B270 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures COML B322 Queens, Nuns, and Other Deviants in the Early Modern Iberian World Not offered 2013-14 The course examines literary, historical, and legal texts from the early modern Iberian world (Spain, Mexico, Peru) through the lens of gender studies. The course is divided around three topics: royal bodies (women in power), cloistered bodies (women in the convent), and delinquent bodies (figures who defy legal and gender normativity). Course is taught in English and is open to all juniors or seniors who have taken at least one 200-level course in a literature department. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as SPAN B322 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures COML B345 Topics in Narrative Theory
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Theory of the Ethnic Novel Spring 2014 This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Students in this course will explore the history of literary "realism" and the development of the verisimilitude we take for granted in prose today. Whether they aimed to portray real life vividly or describe made-up worlds realistically, many authors exploited the blurry boundary between factual and fictional writing, between storytelling and reporting. Course texts will include essays, novels, plays, and short stories from a range of British and American literary traditions. Cross-listed as ENGL B345 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures CSTS B248 Reception of Classical Literature in the Hispanic World Not offered 2013-14 A survey of the reception of Classical literature in the Spanish-speaking world. We read select literary works in translation, ranging from Renaissance Spain to contemporary Latin America, side-by-side with their classical models, to examine what is culturally unique about their choice of authors, themes, and adaptation of the material. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as SPAN B248 Cross-listed as COML B248 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures EAST B229 Topics in Comparative Urbanism
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Building China
Section 002 (Spring 2013): Building China Spring 2014 This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Comparative Urbanism insists that our understanding of cities must incorporate systematic analysis, testing theory and practice. This year, the class explores questions raised about cities through crime literature, ranging from depictions of criminality (across race, class and gender) to visions of form and movement. The key cities for comparison this year will be Barcelona, Los Angeles, Havana, Buenos Aires and Shanghai. Readings will include literary sources, films and social histories. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as CITY B229 Cross-listed as SOCL B230 Cross-listed as HART B229 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures ENGL B217 Narratives of Latinidad Fall 2013 This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion bicultural and transnational identities and narrate the intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America. We will focus on topics of shared concern among Latino groups such as imperialism and annexation, the affective experience of migration, race and gender stereotypes, the politics of Spanglish, and struggles for social justice. By analyzing novels, poetry, performance art, testimonial narratives, films, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of Latinadad in the Americas. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as SPAN B217 Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures ENGL B237 Latino Dictator Novel in Americas Spring 2014 This course examines representations of dictatorship in Latin American and Latina/o novels. We will explore the relationship between narrative form and absolute power by analyzing the literary techniques writers use to contest authoritarianism. We will compare dictator novels from the United States, the Caribbean, Central America, and the Southern Cone. Prerequisite: only for students wishing to take the course for major/minor credit in SPAN is SPAN B200/B202. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as SPAN B237 Cross-listed as COML B237 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures ENGL B276 Transnational American Literature Not offered 2013-14 This course asks students to re-imagine "American" literature through a transnational framework. We will explore what paradigms are useful for conceptualizing U.S. literature given shared political histories, aesthetic modes, racial discourses, and patterns of migration in the hemisphere. Reading canonical Anglo American writers alongside ethnic minority writers, we will examine how their aesthetic engagements and cultural entanglements with Latin America transform our understanding of what constitutes a national literary tradition. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures ENGL B332 Novelas de las Américas Fall 2013 What do we gain by reading a Latin American or a US novel as "American" in the continental sense? What do we learn by comparing novels from "this" America to classics of the "other" Americas? Can we find through this Panamericanist perspective common aesthetics, interests, conflicts? In this course we will explore these questions by connecting and comparing major US novels with Latin American classics of the 20th and 21st century. We will read these works in clusters to illuminate aesthetic, political and cultural resonances and affinities. Prerequisites: SPAN B110 and/or SPAN B120 and a 200-level course in Spanish. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as SPAN B332 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures ENGL B345 Topics in Narrative Theory
Section 001 (Spring 2014): Realism
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Theory of the Ethnic Novel Spring 2014 This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Students in this course will explore the history of literary "realism" and the development of the verisimilitude we take for granted in prose today. Whether they aimed to portray real life vividly or describe made-up worlds realistically, many authors exploited the blurry boundary between factual and fictional writing, between storytelling and reporting. Course texts will include essays, novels, plays, and short stories from a range of British and American literary traditions. Cross-listed as COML B345 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures GERM B231 Cultural Profiles in Modern Exile Not offered 2013-14 This course investigates the anthropological, philosophical, psychological, cultural, and literary aspects of modern exile. It studies exile as experience and metaphor in the context of modernity, and examines the structure of the relationship between imagined/remembered homelands and transnational identities, and the dialectics of language loss and bi- and multi-lingualism. Particular attention is given to the psychocultural dimensions of linguistic exclusion and loss. Readings of works by Julia Alvarez, Anita Desai, Sigmund Freud, Milan Kundera, Friedrich Nietzsche, Salman Rushdie, and others. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as COML B231 Cross-listed as ANTH B231 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures Counts toward International Studies Major GNST B145 Introduction to Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Peoples and Cultures Fall 2013 A broad, interdisciplinary survey of themes uniting and dividing societies from the Iberian Peninsula through the contemporary New World. The class introduces the methods and interests of all departments in the concentration, posing problems of cultural continuity and change, globalization and struggles within dynamic histories, political economies, and creative expressions. Division I or Division III Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures Counts toward International Studies Major HART B229 Topics in Comparative Urbanism
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Building China
Section 002 (Spring 2013): Building China Spring 2014 This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Comparative Urbanism insists that our understanding of cities must incorporate systematic analysis, testing theory and practice. This year, the class explores questions raised about cities through crime literature, ranging from depictions of criminality (across race, class and gender) to visions of form and movement. The key cities for comparison this year will be Barcelona, Los Angeles, Havana, Buenos Aires and Shanghai. Readings will include literary sources, films and social histories. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as CITY B229 Cross-listed as EAST B229 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures HART B241 New Visual Worlds in the Spanish Empire 1492 - 1820 Not offered 2013-14 The events of 1492 changed the world. Visual works made at the time of the Conquest of the Caribbean, Mexico and South America by Spain and Portugal reveal multiple and often conflicting political, racial and ethnic agendas. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures HART B242 Material Identities in Latin America 1820 - 2010 Spring 2014 Revolutions in Latin America begin around 1810. By the 20th and 21st centuries, there is an international viewership for the works of Latin American artists, and in the 21st century the production of Latina and Latino artists living in the United States becomes particularly important. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures HIST B127 Indigenous Leaders 1492-1750 Fall 2013 Studies the experiences of indigenous men and women who exercised local authority in the systems established by European colonizers. In return for places in the colonial administrations, these leaders performed a range of tasks. At the same time they served as imperial officials, they exercised "traditional" forms of authority within their communities, often free of European presence. These figures provide a lens through which early modern colonialism is studied. Division I or Division III Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures Counts toward Peace and Conflict Studies HIST B200 The Atlantic World 1492-1800 Not offered 2013-14 The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the way in which peoples, goods, and ideas from Africa, Europe. and the Americas came together to form an interconnected Atlantic World system. The course is designed to chart the manner in which an integrated system was created in the Americas in the early modern period, rather than to treat the history of the Atlantic World as nothing more than an expanded version of North American, Caribbean, or Latin American history. Division I or Division III Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as ANTH B200 Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures Counts toward International Studies Major HIST B265 Colonial Encounters in the Americas Not offered 2013-14 The course explores the confrontations, conquests and accommodations that formed the "ground-level" experience of day-to-day colonialism throughout the Americas. The course is comparative in scope, examining events and structures in North, South and Central America, with particular attention paid to indigenous peoples and the nature of indigenous leadership in the colonial world of the 18th century. Division I or Division III Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures HIST B287 Immigration in the U.S. Not offered 2013-14 How we understand the history of immigration to the territory now known as the United States has been transformed by recent explorations of the notion of "whiteness." This course will be framed by the ways in which this powerful lens for interpretation has helped to recast the meaning of ethnicity as we focus on individual immigrant groups and the context which they both entered and created from the 17th century to the present. The first half of the semester will concentrate largely on the "century of immigration," from the early 19th through the early 20th century. Together, we will shape the second half of the course, deciding on the topics we will investigate and upon which 20th century groups we will focus. Division I or Division III Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures HIST B371 Topics in Atlantic History: The Early Modern Pirate in Fact and Fiction Not offered 2013-14 This course will explore piracy in the Americas in the period 1550-1750. We will investigate the historical reality of pirates and what they did, and the manner in which pirates have entered the popular imagination through fiction and films. Pirates have been depicted as lovable rogues, anti-establishment rebels, and enlightened multiculturalists who were skilled in dealing with the indigenous and African peoples of the Americas. The course will examine the facts and the fictions surrounding these important historical actors. Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SOCL B230 Topics in Comparative Urbanism
Section 001 (Spring 2013): Building China
Section 002 (Spring 2013): Building China Spring 2014 This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Comparative Urbanism insists that our understanding of cities must incorporate systematic analysis, testing theory and practice. This year, the class explores questions raised about cities through crime literature, ranging from depictions of criminality (across race, class and gender) to visions of form and movement. The key cities for comparison this year will be Barcelona, Los Angeles, Havana, Buenos Aires and Shanghai. Readings will include literary sources, films and social histories. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as CITY B229 Cross-listed as HART B229 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SOCL B231 Punishment and Social Order Spring 2014 A cross-cultural examination of punishment, from mass incarceration in the United States, to a widened "penal net" in Europe, and the securitization of society in Latin America. The course addresses theoretical approaches to crime control and the emergence of a punitive state connected with pervasive social inequality. Cross-listed as CITY B231 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SOCL B246 Immigrant Experiences: Introduction to International Migration Fall 2013 The course will examine the causes and consequences of immigration by looking at various immigrant groups in the United States in comparison with Western Europe, Japan, and other parts of the world. How is immigration induced and perpetuated? How are the types of migration changing (labor migration, refugee flows, return migration, transnationalism)? How do immigrants adapt differently across societies? We will explore scholarly texts, films, and novels to examine what it means to be an immigrant, what generational and cultural conflicts immigrants experience, and how they identify with the new country and the old country. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as ANTH B258 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SOCL B259 Comparative Social Movements in Latin America Fall 2013 An examination of resistance movements to the power of the state and globalization in three Latin American societies: Mexico, Columbia, and Peru. The course explores the political, legal, and socio-economic factors underlying contemporary struggles for human and social rights, and the role of race, ethnicity, and coloniality play in these struggles. Division I: Social Science Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Cross-listed as POLS B259 Cross-listed as CITY B220 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SOCL B314 Immigrant Experiences Not offered 2013-14 This course is an introduction to the causes and consequences of international migration. It explores the major theories of migration (how migration is induced and perpetuated); the different types of migration (labor migration, refugee flows, return migration) and forms of transnationalism; immigration and emigration policies; and patterns of migrants' integration around the globe. It also addresses the implications of growing population movements and transnationalism for social relations and nation-states. Prerequisite: At least one prior social science course or permission of the instructor. Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures Counts toward Peace and Conflict Studies SPAN B110 Introduccion al analisis cultural Fall 2013, Spring 2014 An introduction to the history and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world in a global context: art, folklore, geography, literature, sociopolitical issues, and multicultural perspectives. This course is a requisite for the Spanish major. Prerequisite: SPAN 102 or placement. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B203 Tópicos en la literatura hispana
Section 001 (Spring 2013): La naturaleza como iden politi
Section 001 (Fall 2013): ¡A morirse de risa! Humor negro y nación en el cin Fall 2013, Spring 2014 This is a topic course. Topics vary. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B208 Drama y sociedad en España Not offered 2013-14 A study of the rich dramatic tradition of Spain from the Golden Age (16th and 17th centuries) to the 20th century within specific cultural and social contexts. The course considers a variety of plays as manifestations of specific sociopolitical issues and problems. Topics include theater as a site for fashioning a national identity; the dramatization of gender conflicts; and plays as vehicles of protest in repressive circumstances. Counts toward the Latin American, Latino and Iberian Peoples and Cultures Concentration. Pre-requisite: Spanish 202 or another 200-level course or placement. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B211 Borges y sus lectores Fall 2013 Primary emphasis on Borges and his poetics of reading; other writers are considered to illustrate the semiotics of texts, society, and traditions. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as COML B212 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B217 Narratives of Latinidad Fall 2013 This course explores how Latina/o writers fashion bicultural and transnational identities and narrate the intertwined histories of the U.S. and Latin America. We will focus on topics of shared concern among Latino groups such as imperialism and annexation, the affective experience of migration, race and gender stereotypes, the politics of Spanglish, and struggles for social justice. By analyzing novels, poetry, performance art, testimonial narratives, films, and essays, we will unpack the complexity of Latinadad in the Americas. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as ENGL B217 Counts toward Africana Studies Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B223 Género y modernidad en la narrativa del siglo XIX Not offered 2013-14 A reading of 19th-century Spanish narrative by both men and women writers, to assess how they come together in configuring new ideas of female identity and its social domains, as the country is facing new challenges in its quest for modernity. Division III: Humanities Inquiry into the Past (IP) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B231 El cuento y novela corta en España Fall 2013 Traces the development of the novella and short story in Spain, from its origins in the Middle Ages to our time. The writers will include Pardo Bazán, Cervantes, Clarín, Don Juan Manuel, Matute, María de Zayas, and a number of contemporary writers such as Julián Marías and Soledad Puértolas. Our approach will include formal and thematic considerations, and attention will be given to social and historical contexts. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B237 Latino Dictator Novel in Americas Spring 2014 This course examines representations of dictatorship in Latin American and Latina/o novels. We will explore the relationship between narrative form and absolute power by analyzing the literary techniques writers use to contest authoritarianism. We will compare dictator novels from the United States, the Caribbean, Central America, and the Southern Cone. Prerequisite: only for students wishing to take the course for major/minor credit in SPAN is SPAN B200/B202. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as ENGL B237 Cross-listed as COML B237 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B248 Reception of Classical Literature in the Hispanic World Not offered 2013-14 A survey of the reception of Classical literature in the Spanish-speaking world. We read select literary works in translation, ranging from Renaissance Spain to contemporary Latin America, side-by-side with their classical models, to examine what is culturally unique about their choice of authors, themes, and adaptation of the material. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as CSTS B248 Cross-listed as COML B248 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B260 Ariel/Calibán y el discurso Americano Not offered 2013-14 A study of the transformations of Ariel/Calibán as images of Latin American culture. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Inquiry into the Past (IP) Cross-listed as COML B260 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B270 Literatura y delincuencia: explorando la novela picaresca Not offered 2013-14 A study of the origins, development and transformation of the picaresque genre from its origins in 16th- and 17th-century Spain through the 21st century. Using texts, literature, painting, and film from Spain and Latin America, we will explore topics such as the construction of the (fictional) self, the poetics and politics of criminality, transgression in gender and class. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as COML B271 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B307 Cervantes Not offered 2013-14 A study of themes, structure, and style of Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quijote and its impact on world literature. In addition to a close reading of the text and a consideration of narrative theory, the course examines the impact of Don Quijote on the visual arts, music, film, and popular culture. Counts toward the Latin American, Latino and Iberian Peoples and Cultures Concentration. Prerequisite: Spanish 202 and another 200-level course. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B309 La mujer en la literatura española del Siglo de Oro Fall 2013 A study of the depiction of women in the fiction, drama, and poetry of 16th- and 17th-century Spain. Topics include the construction of gender; the idealization and codification of women's bodies; the politics of feminine enclosure (convent, home, brothel, palace); and the performance of honor. The first half of the course will deal with representations of women by male authors (Calderón, Cervantes, Lope, Quevedo) and the second will be dedicated to women writers such as Teresa de Ávila, Ana Caro, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and María de Zayas. Pre-requisites: SPAN 200/202 and another 200-level course in Spanish. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B318 Adaptaciones literarias en el cine español Not offered 2013-14 Film adaptations of literary works have been popular since the early years of cinema in Spain. This course examines the relationship between films and literature, focusing on the theory and practice of film adaptation. Attention will be paid to the political and cultural context in which these texts are being published and made into films. Prerequisite: A 200-level course in Spanish, SPAN 208. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Film Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B321 Del surrealismo al afrorealismo Not offered 2013-14 Examines artistic texts that trace the development and relationships of surrealism, lo real maravilloso americano, realismo mágico and afrorealismo. Manifestos and literary works by Latin American authors will be emphasized: Miguel Angel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Quince Duncan. Prerequisite: a 200-level Spanish course. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B322 Queens, Nuns, and Other Deviants in the Early Modern Iberian World Not offered 2013-14 The course examines literary, historical, and legal texts from the early modern Iberian world (Spain, Mexico, Peru) through the lens of gender studies. The course is divided around three topics: royal bodies (women in power), cloistered bodies (women in the convent), and delinquent bodies (figures who defy legal and gender normativity). Course is taught in English and is open to all juniors or seniors who have taken at least one 200-level course in a literature department. Students seeking Spanish credit must have taken BMC Spanish 202 and at least one other Spanish course beyond 202, or received permission from instructor. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as COML B322 Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B323 Memoria y Guerra Civil Not offered 2013-14 A look into the Spanish Civil War and its wide-ranging international significance as both the military and ideological testing ground for World War II. This course examines the endurance of myths related to this conflict and the cultural memory it has produced along with the current negotiations of the past that is taking place in democratic Spain. Prerequisites: SPAN 200/202 and another 200-level course in Spanish. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Cross-listed as HIST B323 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B332 Novelas de las Américas Fall 2013 What do we gain by reading a Latin American or a US novel as "American" in the continental sense? What do we learn by comparing novels from "this" America to classics of the "other" Americas? Can we find through this Panamericanist perspective common aesthetics, interests, conflicts? In this course we will explore these questions by connecting and comparing major US novels with Latin American classics of the 20th and 21st century. We will read these works in clusters to illuminate aesthetic, political and cultural resonances and affinities. This course is taught in Spanish. Prerequisites: SPAN B110 and/or SPAN B120 and a 200-level course in Spanish. Division III: Humanities Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC) Cross-listed as ENGL B332 Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B351 Tradición y revolución: Cuba y su literature Not offered 2013-14 An examination of Cuba, its history and its literature with emphasis on the analysis of the changing cultural policies since 1959. Major topics include slavery and resistance; Cuba's struggles for freedom; the literature and film of the Revolution; and literature in exile. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures
At Haverford College
Latin American & Iberian Studies Courses
Fall 2011
SPANH205A01 Studies in the Spanish American Novel
SPANH214A01 Writing the Nation: 19th-Century Literature in Latin America
Spring 2012
HISTH209B01 Modern Latin America
HISTH317B01 The Latin American Baroque
SPANH222B01 Rethinking Latin America in Contemporary Narrative
SPANH250B01 Quixotic Narratives
