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Spring 2012
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/ UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPAN B002-001 | Elementary Spanish II | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 8:00 AM- 9:00 AM MWF | Bettws Y Coed 127 | Mayer,K., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Lecture: 7:45 AM- 8:45 AM TTH | Bettws Y Coed 127 | ||||
| SPAN B002-002 | Elementary Spanish II | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF | Bettws Y Coed 106 | Brena,D., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Lecture: 8:45 AM- 9:45 AM TTH | Bettws Y Coed 239 | ||||
| SPAN B101-001 | Intermediate Spanish I | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF | Bettws Y Coed 127 | Mayer,K., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | Taylor Hall E | ||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Taylor Hall G | ||||
| SPAN B101-002 | Intermediate Spanish I | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Bettws Y Coed 106 | Cameron,B. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | Taylor Hall E | ||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Taylor Hall G | ||||
| SPAN B102-001 | Intermediate Spanish II | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall F | Arribas,I., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | Taylor Hall G | ||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Thomas Hall 104 | ||||
| Drill: 6:00 PM- 7:00 PM M | Taylor Hall G | ||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Taylor Hall E | ||||
| SPAN B102-002 | Intermediate Spanish II | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall F | Arribas,I., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| DRILL: 6:00 PM- 7:00 PM M | Taylor Hall G | ||||
| DRILL: 6:00 PM- 7:00 PM M | Taylor Hall G | ||||
| DRILL: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Thomas Hall 104 | ||||
| DRILL: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Taylor Hall E | ||||
| SPAN B102-003 | Intermediate Spanish II | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Bettws Y Coed 127 | Brena,D., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| DRILL: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| DRILL: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | Taylor Hall G | ||||
| DRILL: 6:00 PM- 7:00 PM M | Taylor Hall G | ||||
| DRILL: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Thomas Hall 104 | ||||
| DRILL: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Taylor Hall E | ||||
| SPAN B115-001 | Focus: Taller del español escrito | First Half / 0.5 | Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF | Taylor Hall F | Arribas,I. |
| SPAN B200-001 | Estudios culturales de España e Hispanoamérica | Semester / 1 | LEC: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM MWF | Thomas Hall 111 | Cameron,B. |
| SPAN B202-001 | Introducción al análisis literario | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW | Taylor Hall B | Sacerio-Garí,E. |
| SPAN B203-001 | Tópicos en la literatura hispana: La razón de la sinrazón: locura y creatividad | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW | Goodhart Hall B | Cameron,B. |
| SPAN B231-001 | El cuento y novela corta en España | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Thomas Hall 111 | Quintero,M. |
| SPAN B237-001 | The Dictator Novel in the Americas | Semester / 1 | LEC: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | English House Lecture Hall | Harford Vargas,J. |
| SPAN B308-001 | Teatro del sigo de oro: negociaciones de clase, genero y poder | Semester / 1 | LEC: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | Carpenter Library 13 | Quintero,M. |
| SPAN B351-001 | Tradición y revolución: Cuba y su literature | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM T | Carpenter Library 25 | Sacerio-Garí,E. |
| SPAN B399-001 | Senior Essay | Semester / 1 | Lecture: Date/Time TBA | Dept. staff, TBA | |
Fall 2012
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/ UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPAN B001-001 | Elementary Spanish I | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall F | Arribas,I., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Lecture: 8:45 AM- 9:45 AM TTH | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| SPAN B001-002 | Elementary Spanish I | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall F | Arribas,I., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Lecture: 9:45 AM-10:45 AM TTH | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| SPAN B002-001 | Elementary Spanish II | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 8:00 AM- 9:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall F | Mayer,K., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Lecture: 7:45 AM- 8:45 AM TTH | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| SPAN B101-001 | Intermediate Spanish I | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 8:00 AM- 9:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall G | Gastanaga,J., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| SPAN B101-002 | Intermediate Spanish I | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall G | Mayer,K., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| SPAN B101-003 | Intermediate Spanish I | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall G | Gastanaga,J., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| SPAN B102-001 | Intermediate Spanish II | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF | Bettws Y Coed 127 | Puig-Herz,A., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| SPAN B102-002 | Intermediate Spanish II | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall G | Mayer,K., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| SPAN B102-003 | Intermediate Spanish II | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall E | Puig-Herz,A., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| SPAN B115-001 | Focus: Taller del español escrito | First Half / 0.5 | Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF | Taylor Hall F | Arribas,I. |
| SPAN B200-001 | Estudios culturales de España e Hispanoamérica | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 111 | Song,H. |
| SPAN B202-001 | Introducción al análisis literario | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW | Thomas Hall 104 | Sacerio-Garí,E. |
| SPAN B217-001 | Narratives of Latinidad | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | English House Lecture Hall | Harford Vargas,J. |
| SPAN B260-001 | Ariel/Calibán y el discurso Americano | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW | Thomas Hall 104 | Sacerio-Garí,E. |
| SPAN B270-001 | Literatura y delincuencia: explorando la novela picaresca | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Thomas Hall 118 | Gastanaga,J. |
| SPAN B323-001 | Memoria y Guerra Civil | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:00 PM- 2:00 PM W | Dalton Hall 6 | Song,H. |
| SPAN B398-001 | Senior Seminar | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM T | Thomas Hall 118 | Dept. staff, TBA |
Spring 2013
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/ UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPAN B002-001 | Elementary Spanish II | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall F | Arribas,I., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Lecture: 8:45 AM- 9:45 AM TTH | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| SPAN B002-002 | Elementary Spanish II | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall F | Arribas,I., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Lecture: 9:45 AM-10:45 AM TTH | Taylor Hall F | ||||
| SPAN B101-001 | Intermediate Spanish I | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 8:00 AM- 9:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall E | Gastanaga,J., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | |||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | |||||
| SPAN B101-002 | Intermediate Spanish I | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall G | Mayer,K., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | |||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | |||||
| SPAN B102-001 | Intermediate Spanish II | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall E | Gastanaga,J., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | |||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | |||||
| SPAN B102-002 | Intermediate Spanish II | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Taylor Hall G | Mayer,K., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | |||||
| LEC: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | |||||
| SPAN B102-003 | Intermediate Spanish II | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Bettws Y Coed 127 | Gastanaga,J., Teaching Assistant,T. |
| Drill: 5:00 PM- 6:00 PM M | |||||
| Drill: 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM M | |||||
| SPAN B115-001 | Focus: Taller del español escrito | First Half / 0.5 | Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF | Taylor Hall F | Arribas,I. |
| SPAN B200-001 | Estudios culturales de España e Hispanoamérica | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH | Thomas Hall 116 | Puig-Herz,A. |
| SPAN B202-001 | Introducción al análisis literario | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW | Thomas Hall 104 | Sacerio-Garí,E. |
| 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,H. |
| SPAN B208-001 | Drama y sociedad en España | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Dalton Hall 10 | 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 realismo mágico | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM T | Carpenter Library 25 | Sacerio-Garí,E. |
| SPAN B399-002 | Senior Essay | Semester / 1 | Lecture: Date/Time TBA | Dept. staff, TBA | |
2012-13 Catalog Data
SPAN B001 Elementary Spanish ICourse URL Fall 2012 Grammar, composition, conversation, listening comprehension; readings from Spain, Spanish America and the Hispanic community in the United States. Assumes no previous study of Spanish. Practice sessions with a language assistant. Language Level 1 SPAN B002 Elementary Spanish II
Course URL Fall 2012, Spring 2013 Grammar, composition, conversation, listening comprehension; readings from Spain, Spanish America and the Hispanic community in the United States. Practice sessions with a language assistant. Prerequisite: 001 or placement. Language Level 1 SPAN B011 Intensive Elementary Spanish II Not offered 2012-13 The second part of a year long course in grammar, composition, conversation, listening comprehension; readings from Spain, Spanish America, and the Hispanic community in the United States. Meets 9 hours per week. Prerequisite: SPAN B005. Language Level 1 SPAN B101 Intermediate Spanish I Fall 2012, Spring 2013 A thorough review of grammar with intensive practice in speaking, reading, and writing (group activities and individual presentations). Readings from the Hispanic world. Additional practice and conversation sessions with a language assistant on Monday evenings. Prerequisite: 002 or placement. Language Level 2 SPAN B102 Intermediate Spanish II Fall 2012, Spring 2013 Continuation of a thorough review of grammar with special emphasis on reading and writing. Selected readings from the Hispanic world. Additional practice and conversation sessions with a language assistant on Monday evenings. Prerequisite: Span 101 or placement. (Language Level 2) Language Level 2 SPAN B105 Intensive Intermediate Spanish Not offered 2012-13 A thorough review of grammar with intensive oral practice, frequent writing assignments, readings, and oral presentations. Prerequisite: Enrollment in this class is limited to those students who completed 002 Intensive Elementary Spanish in spring semester 2010. Language Level 2 SPAN B107 Conversación: Intensive Practice in Conversational Spanish Not offered 2012-13 This course seeks to enhance speaking proficiency through the development of vocabulary, pronunciation skills, and correct grammatical usage. Students participate in daily practice of speaking on a wide variety of topics, as well as give formal presentations. This course will not count towards the major or minor. Prerequisite: SPAN 102 or 105. SPAN B115 Focus: Taller del español escrito
Course URL Fall 2012, Spring 2013 This class will encompass a detailed review of Spanish grammar and writing techniques. We will examine the most challenging grammar topics for non-native speakers. A selection of readings will be the point of departure for acquiring a greater control of grammar and expanding vocabulary through a diverse range of writing exercises. This is a half semester Focus course. Prerequisite: SPAN B102 or Placement exam. SPAN B200 Estudios culturales de España e Hispanoamérica Fall 2012, Spring 2013 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 does not count toward the major, but may be counted for the minor. Prerequisite: SPAN 102 or placement. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B202 Introducción al análisis literario Fall 2012, Spring 2013 Readings from Spanish and Spanish-American works of various periods and genres (drama, poetry, short stories). Main focus on developing analytical skills with attention to improvement of grammar. Prerequisite: SPAN 102 or 105, or placement. Division III: Humanities SPAN B203 Tópicos en la literatura hispana
Section 001 (Fall 2011): José Martí y el equilibrio mundial
Section 001 (Spring 2013): La naturaleza como iden politi
Section 001 (Spring 2012): La razón de la sinrazón: locura y creatividad Spring 2013 This is a topic course. Topics vary.
Current topic description: Full title is: La naturaleza como identidad política. A transatlantic look into how the citizen of newly created nations in Latin America and the diverse regions in Spain have negotiated their surrounding landscape. This course looks into how writing about nature has always been an important part of establishing the identity of groups of people. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B208 Drama y sociedad en España Spring 2013 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 Not offered 2012-13 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 2012 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 2012-13 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 Not offered 2012-13 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 The Dictator Novel in the Americas Not offered 2012-13 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 2012-13 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-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 Fall 2012 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 B265 Escritoras españolas: entre tradición, renovación y migración Not offered 2012-13 Fiction by women writers from Spain in the 20th and 21st century. Breaking the traditional female stereotypes during and after Franco's dictatorship, the authors explore through their creative writing changing sociopolitical and cultural issues including regional identities and immigration. Topics of discussion include gender marginality, feminist studies and the portrayal of women in contemporary society. Division III: Humanities Critical Interpretation (CI) Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B270 Literatura y delincuencia: explorando la novela picaresca Fall 2012 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 SPAN B307 Cervantes Spring 2013 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 B308 Teatro del sigo de oro: negociaciones de clase, genero y poder Not offered 2012-13 A study of the dramatic theory and practice of 16th- and 17th-century Spain. Topics include the treatment of honor, historical self-fashioning and the politics of the corrales, and palace theater. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as COML B308 SPAN B309 La mujer en la literatura española del Siglo de Oro Not offered 2012-13 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. Division III: Humanities Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies Counts toward Latin Amer/Latino/Iberian Peoples & Cultures SPAN B310 La condición pos-mortem: pos/modernidad periférica en la narrativa e historia actual mexicana Not offered 2012-13 The figuration of "death" in Mexican literature and culture has served as a central metaphor for the critique of modernity and has become one of Mexico's principle symbols of cultural identity. The counter revolutionary movements of the '60s, however, initiated a series of post-mortem (after death) identity projects that served as aesthetic responses to Mexico's considerable investment in modernity's unfulfilled cultural, political and economic promises. This new post-mortem aesthetic has begun to reconceptualize the fictions of national progress by focusing on the corporeality of citizenship and migration. Prerequisites: one 200-level Spanish course or permission of the instructor. Division III: Humanities SPAN B311 Crimen y detectives en la narrativa hispánica contemporánea Not offered 2012-13 An analysis of the rise of the hardboiled genre in contemporary Hispanic narrative and its contrast to classic detective fiction, as a context for understanding contemporary Spanish and Latin American culture. Discussion of pertinent theoretical implications and the social and political factors that contributed to the genre's evolution and popularity. Division III: Humanities Cross-listed as COML B312 SPAN B318 Adaptaciones literarias en el cine español Not offered 2012-13 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 realismo mágico Spring 2013 Examines artistic texts that trace the development and relationships of surrealism, lo real maravilloso americano, and magic realism. Manifestos, literary and cinematic works by Spanish and Latin American authors will be emphasized. 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 2012-13 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
Course URL Fall 2012 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 B351 Tradición y revolución: Cuba y su literature Not offered 2012-13 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 SPAN B398 Senior Seminar The study of special topics, critical theory and approaches with primary emphasis on Hispanic literatures. Topics will be prepared jointly with the students. SPAN B399 Senior Essay Available to students whose proposals are approved by the department. SPAN B403 Supervised Work Independent reading, conferences, and a long paper; offered to senior students recommended by the department.