2018-2019 University Catalog

May 02, 2024

2018-2019 University Catalog archived

Romance Languages (ROML)

French (FREN), Italian (ITAL), Portuguese (PORT), Spanish (SPAN)

Students who plan to work in either French or Spanish and another Romance language are advised to refer to the description of the Romance Languages major. Students interested in using Portuguese or Italian in combination with French or Spanish for the Romance Languages major should consult with the appropriate faculty member (or department head).

HONORS: An Honors Program is offered for qualified students majoring in French, Spanish, or Romance languages; see department head for details. Honors coursework is in addition to major requirements.

Department Head: Matthew Bailey

Faculty

First date is the year in which the faculty member began service as regular faculty at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.

Matthew Bailey, Ph.D.—(2008)-2008
Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., Tulane University

Jeffrey C. Barnett, Ph.D.—(1989)-2007
S. Blount Mason Jr. Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Kentucky

Mónica Botta, Ph.D.—(2006)-2012
Associate Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Gwyn E. Campbell, Ph.D.—(1985)-1999
Professor of Romance Languages and Associate Dean of The College
Ph.D., Princeton University

Françoise Frégnac-Clave, Ph.D.—(1996)-2011
Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of North Carolina

Mohamed Kamara, Ph.D.—(2001)-2008
Associate Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., Tulane University

John A. Lambeth, Ph.D.—(1985)-2009
Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Florida

Ellen C. Mayock, Ph.D.—(1997)-2008
Ernest Williams II Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Texas

Stephen P. McCormick, Ph.D.—(2014)-2018
Associate Professor of French
Ph.D., University of Oregon

Seth R. Michelson, Ph.D.—(2014)-2014
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of Southern California

Antonio Reyes, Ph.D.—(2011)-2011
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of Illinois

Spanish courses are numbered according to the following scheme.

200-209, 300-309 Language and Linguistics
210-219, 310-319 Civilization and Culture
220-229, 320-339 Peninsular literature
240-249, 340-359 Spanish-American literature
260-269, 360-369 Hispanic (Transatlantic)
270-279, 370-379 Literary Analysis and Theory

Romance Languages

Majors may count one literature, film, or culture course taught in English by Romance Languages faculty toward the 200-level requirements of the Spanish or French major, or the primary language of the Romance Languages major. Students interested in using Portuguese or Italian in combination with French or Spanish for the Romance Languages major should consult with the appropriate faculty member (or department head).

Teacher Certification

Students wishing to teach French or Spanish in secondary school have the opportunity for certification from the Commonwealth of Virginia, reciprocal in 40 additional states. In general, fulfillment of general education requirements and requirements for the major in French or Spanish make up the core of the certification requirement. Students must complete at least 33 credits in language. In addition, students must take up to 15 credits in education courses, as well as additional credits in student teaching. Interested students should consult the Director of Teacher Education.

Degrees/Majors/Minors

Major

Minor

• French minor

Courses

FREN 111 - Elementary French I

Credits: 4

Limited enrollment. Preference is given to first-year students with no prior preparation in French. Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing. Staff.

FREN 112 - Elementary French II

Credits: 4

Prerequisite: FREN 111 or departmental permission. Limited enrollment. Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing. Staff.

FREN 161 - Intermediate French I

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: FREN 112 or the equivalent in language skills. Extensive grammar review with acquisition of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the classroom. The course acquaints students with French life and culture. Staff.

FREN 162 - Intermediate French II

FDR: FL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: FREN 161 or the equivalent in language skills and departmental permission. Extensive grammar review with practical application of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the classroom. The course acquaints students with French life and culture. Staff.

FREN 164 - Advanced Intermediate French

FDR: FL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Departmental permission as a result of placement examination for entering students. Students with credit in FREN 164 may not receive subsequent credit in a lower numbered French course. Students with credit in a lower numbered French course are, in general, ineligible for credit in FREN 164. Students may not receive degree credit for both FREN 162 and 164. Emphasis on reading and composition skills, with extensive practice in speaking and listening through class discussion. Some grammar review. Staff.

FREN 212 - Supervised Study Abroad

Credits: 4

Prerequisite: FREN 162, 164 or equivalent. Majors in subjects other than French, including other languages, are encouraged to apply. Spring Term Abroad course. A period of direct exposure to the language, culture, and people of France. The program includes formal language instruction, living with a French family, excursions, and other cultural activities. In addition to weekly journal entries, students are required to adopt a neighborhood, a street, an organization, a market, etc., in their choice of surroundings. A 10-15-page easy is required on a unique aspect of their chosen subject. Students are encouraged to take advantage of their home-stay families in gathering information for this project. Staff.

FREN 261 - Conversation et composition: Cours avancé

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. Further development of conversational skills and beginning work in free composition, with systematic grammar review and word study in various relevant cultural contexts. Staff.

FREN 272 - Humour et Comedie: Explorations, Jeux, Spectacles

FDR: HL
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. An exploration of modern French comedy and humor in theatrical works by modern and contemporary playwrights. The course culminates with a performance of student-acted and student-produced comic scenes and one act plays. Radulescu.

FREN 273 - Introduction à l’analyse littéraire

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: FREN 162, FREN 164 or equivalent. An introduction to French literature and literary analysis based on a study of selected prose, poetry, and theater. Focus on textual analysis in composition and oral presentations. Staff.

FREN 280 - Civilisation et culture francophones

FDR: HU
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. A study of significant aspects of culture and civilization in francophone countries. Topics may include: contemporary Africa, pre-colonial Africa, West Indian history and culture, and Canadian contemporary issues. Readings, discussion and papers in French further development of communication skills.

FREN 281 - Civilisation et culture françaises: Traditions et changements

FDR: HU
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. A study of significant aspects of French culture and civilization, seen in a diachronic perspective. Emphasis on economic, sociological and historical changes that shaped present-day institutions and national identity. Readings, discussions and papers in French for further development of communication skills.

FREN 282 - Civilisation et culture françaises: La France d’aujourd’hui

FDR: HU
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. A study of the current front-page titles in the French press (and the underlying realities) as they reflect the current economic, political, social and intellectual issues that define contemporary French life. Readings, film viewings, discussions and papers in French for further development of communication skills.

Frégnac-Clave.

FREN 283 - Histoire des idées

FDR: HU
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: FREN 162, FREN 164 or equivalent. This course retraces the evolution of thought in France across centuries through the examination of intellectual, cultural and artistic movements. Readings, discussions and paper in French for further development of communication skills. Staff.

FREN 285 - Spring Term Topics in French Civilization

Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. A study of significant aspects of culture and civilization through direct experience abroad in France and/or Francophone countries. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

FREN 295 - Atelier avancé de langue, littérature et culture

Credits: 3 inf fall and winter; 4 in spring

Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. A third-year topics or advanced grammar workshop. Recent offerings include: Les dossiers de la presse; Regards sur la ville. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

FREN 331 - Etudes thématiques

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Three courses at the 200 level. This course gives students a general knowledge of the evolution of French literature and ideas over the centuries through the study of one main theme. Recent offerings include: L’Exil; Regards sur la ville; Le dépaysement; Le voyage dans la literature française; L’esprit critique au XVIIIe siècle. May be repeated for degree credit if the theme is different.

FREN 332 - Études de genre

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Three courses at the 200 level. This course gives students a general knowledge of the evolution of French literature and ideas over the centuries through the study of a single genre, its styles and techniques. Recent offerings include: L’Essai de Montaigne Camus; Ecriture feminine/Ecriture féministe? L’amour dans la poésie lyrique; Le conte et la nouvelle. May be repeated for degree credit if the genre is different.

Fall 2018, FREN 332-01: Théâtre, poesie, et rock’n roll (3). Prerequisites: Three courses at the 200 level. An exploration of the connections and synergies between various works of modern and avant-garde French theater, poetry, and popular music in the 20th and 21st centuries from surrealism to the absurd to the postmodern. We journey through the magical worlds of Paul Eluard to Fernando Arrabal’s theater of cruelty to French hip hop and the dramas of Eric Emmanuel Schmidt. (HL) Radulescu.

FREN 341 - La France de l’Ancien Régime

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Three courses in French at the 200 level. Readings in French literature and civilization from before the Revolution of 1789. May be repeated for degree credit if the topic is different.

Winter 2019, FREN 341-01: Introduction à la légende arthurienne (3). Prerequisite: three FREN courses at the 200 level. An introduction to the Arthurian narrative tradition of the medieval francophone world. Students examine the origin and development of Arthur and the knights of the round table, the manuscript tradition in which these legends are transmitted, the concept of le merveilleux, and the role beasts and monsters play in the textual fabric of Arthurian material. Texts include works by Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France, and other anonymous stories involving Camelot and Arthur’s court. The main objectives of this course are to improve students’ reading fluency in French and to give students an understanding of medieval culture, history, and civilization through literature. (HL) McCormick.

FREN 342 - La France moderne

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Three courses at the 200 level. Readings in French literature and civilization of the 19th and 20th centuries. Recent offerings include: La poésie moderne et contemporaine ; Théâtre de l’absurde-Théâtre de la dérision ; L’enfance et l’adolescence dans la prose française moderne. May be repeated for degree credit if the topic is different.

FREN 343 - La France à travers les siècles

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Three courses at the 200 level. Readings in French literature and civilization from across the centuries. May be repeated for degree credit if the topic is different.

FREN 344 - La Francophonie

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Three courses in French at the 200 level. An analysis of styles, genres, and themes in relation to particular cultural contexts, as represented in literary works written in French by authors from countries other than France. Of particular interest is French language literature from Africa, the Caribbean, and Canada. May be repeated for degree credit if the topic is different. Staff.

FREN 397 - Séminaire avancé

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Three courses in French at the 200 level. The in-depth study of a topic in French literature and/or civilization. Recent offerings include: La Littérature francophone du Maghreb; La littérature Beure; La France sous l’occupation; Les femmes et l’écriture au XVIIe siècle; Les écrivains du XXe siècle et la diversité culturelle; L’affaire Dreyfus. Students are encouraged to use this course for the development of a personal project. May be repeated for degree credit when the topics are different.

Fall 2018, FREN 397-01: Séminaire avancé: Femmes Écrivaines Africaines: S’écrire et Écrire Le Monde (3). Prerequisites: Three courses at the 200 level. While providing an overview of the trajectory of women’s writing from its beginnings in the 1960s, this seminar focuses more heavily on the literary endeavors of women from the late ‘70s to the 21st century. Through representative works from this extended period, we examine how women address such issues as patriarchy, tradition, modernity, the self in society, as well as the question of feminism itself. (HL) Kamara.

FREN 401 - Directed Individual Study

Credits: 1

Prerequisites: At least nine credits of 300-level French and consent of the department head. Taught In French. Nature and content of course to be determined by students’ needs and by instructors acquainted with their earlier preparation and performance. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.

FREN 402 - Directed Individual Study

Credits: 2

FREN 403 - Directed Individual Study

Credits: 3

FREN 451 - Internship Abroad

Credits: 1

Prerequisite: Instructor consent prior to travel abroad. Supervised experience in a French-speaking country in an agency, research organization, or other venue, to be followed by related academic work on campus the subsequent term. Requires at least 48 work hours over no fewer than four weeks and a research paper or an academic equivalent focused on the off-campus activities. Credit is based on the academic component of the internship experience. Both the work component and the academic component shall be in French. May be carried out during the summer. McCormick.

FREN 452 - Internship Abroad

Credits: 2

Prerequisite: Instructor consent prior to travel abroad. Supervised experience in a French-speaking country in an agency, research organization, or other venue, to be followed by related academic work on campus the subsequent term. Requires at least 96 work hours over no fewer than four weeks and a research paper or an academic equivalent focused on the off-campus activities. Credit is based on the academic component of the internship experience. Both the work component and the academic component shall be in French. May be carried out during the summer. McCormick.

FREN 453 - Internship Abroad

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Instructor consent prior to travel abroad. Supervised experience in a French-speaking country in an agency, research organization, or other venue, to be followed by related academic work on campus the subsequent term. Requires at least 144 work hours over no fewer than four weeks and a research paper or an academic equivalent focused on the off-campus activities. Credit is based on the academic component of the internship experience. Both the work component and the academic component shall be in French. May be carried out during the summer. McCormick.

FREN 493 - Honors Thesis

Credits: 3-3

Prerequisite: Senior standing, honors candidacy, and instructor consent. Interested students should see a member of the French faculty by winter term of their junior year. May not count towards fulfillment of the major requirements.

ITAL 113 - Accelerated Elementary Italian

Credits: 4

Prerequisite: Romance Language placement into FREN 161 or SPAN
161 or higher, or by instructor consent for students with prior experience in Italian. An accelerated course in elementary Italian emphasizing grammar and the skills of speaking, writing, reading, and listening comprehension and meeting five days per week. Staff.

ITAL 163 - Accelerated Intermediate Italian

FDR: FL
Credits: 4

Prerequisite: ITAL 113 or equivalent. This course develops intermediate communicative Italian vocabulary and active intermediate competence in the language. The traditional skills of foreign language instruction (structure, listening comprehension, reading, writing, and speaking) are stressed. This course meets five days per week. Staff.

ITAL 261 - Advanced Conversation and Composition

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: ITAL 163 or equivalent. Further development of conversational skills and beginning work in free composition, with systematic grammar review and word study in various relevant cultural contexts. Staff.

ITAL 295 - Topics in Italian Culture

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: ITAL 163 or equivalent. A second-year topics course focusing on issues and texts related to Italian literature and culture. All discussion, writing, and exercises are in Italian. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.

Fall 2018, ITAL 295A-01: Contemporary Italy through Literature and Film (3). Prerequisite: ITAL 163. A panorama of issues and debates of contemporary Italy. All material is introduced and examined through the lens of film, media, and contemporary literature, and students have ample opportunity to improve their listening and speaking skills through discussion of texts, films, and media clips. Topics include immigration, university life, women and gender, work and unemployment, gastronomy, travel, and history. An important goal of this course is also to review and develop grammar and vocabulary. Students practice targeted linguistic forms through the context of contemporary Italian culture and society. All classes, discussions, homework and projects are conducted entirely in Italian. McCormick.

ITAL 401 - Directed Individual Study

Credits: 1

Prerequisite: Permission of the department head. Advanced study in Italian. The nature and content of the course is determined by the students’ needs and by an evaluation of their previous work. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

ITAL 402 - Directed Individual Study

Credits: 2

ITAL 403 - Directed Individual Study

FDR: HL: only when the subject is literary.
Credits: 3

LIT 259 - The French Caribbean Novel

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. A stylistic and thematic study of identity acquisition through exile, marginalization, struggle, reintegration and cultural blending or any other sociologically significant phenomenon reflected in the literary works of the most important post-colonial French West Indian authors. Spawned largely by Aimé Césaire’s book-length poem, Notebook of a Return to My Native Land , French Caribbean novels have proliferated since the end of World War II. After taking a brief look first at this seminal poem, the course then focuses analytically on novels written by authors such as Haitian Jacques Roumain, Guadeloupeans Simone Schwarz-Bart and Maryse Condé, and Martinicans Joseph Zobel, Raphaël Confiant, and Édouard Glissant. Several films based on, or pertaining to, Césaire’s poem and to certain novels are also viewed. Staff.

PORT 113 - Accelerated Elementary Portuguese

Credits: 4

Prerequisite: Romance Language placement into FREN 161 or SPAN
161 or higher, or by instructor consent for students with prior experience in Portuguese. An accelerated course in elementary Portuguese emphasizing grammar and the skills of speaking, writing, reading, and listening comprehension and meeting five days per week. Pinto-Bailey.

PORT 163 - Accelerated Intermediate Portuguese

FDR: FL
Credits: 4

Prerequisite: PORT 113 or equivalent. This course develops intermediate communicative Portuguese vocabulary and active intermediate competence in the language. The traditional skills of foreign language instruction (structure, listening comprehension, reading, writing, and speaking) are stressed. This course meets five days per week. Pinto-Bailey.

PORT 261 - Advanced Conversation and Composition

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: PORT 163 or equivalent. Further development of conversational skills and beginning work in free composition, with systematic grammar review and word study in various relevant cultural contexts. Pinto-Bailey.

PORT 295 - Topics in Brazilian Culture

Credits: 3

A second-year topics course focusing on issues and texts related to Portuguese literature and culture. All discussion, writing, and exercises are in Portuguese. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.

PORT 401 - Directed Individual Study

Credits: 1

Prerequisites: Two terms of Portuguese language or equivalent and consent of the department head. Taught in Portuguese. The nature and content of the course is determined by the students’ needs and by an evaluation of previous work. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.

PORT 402 - Directed Individual Study

Credits: 2

Fall 2018, PORT 402-01: Directed Individual Study (2). Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Weekly meetings, during which students discuss topics of their choice or give brief presentations based on readings in Portuguese, movies, etc., chosen according to the students’ personal and academic interests, in consultation with the instructor. Students also meet weekly with the Portuguese teaching assistant to work on fluency, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Grades based on attendance, participation, and improvement of aural and speaking skills. Pinto-Bailey. Staff.

PORT 403 - Directed Individual Study

Credits: 3

ROML 295 - Topics in Romance Languages

Credits: 1-3

Prerequisites vary with topic. Nature and content of the course is determined by the interests of the instructor(s) and student(s). May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

ROML 296 - Spring-Term Topics in Romance Languages

Credits: 4

Prerequisites vary with topic. Nature and content of the course is determined by the interests of the instructor(s) and student(s). May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff. Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

ROML 297 - Spring Term Abroad in Romance Languages

Credits: 4

A spring-term abroad topics course in which the language of instruction is English, while students also study the language of the host country (French, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese). The course topic is an intensive cultural study related to one of the societies that speak Romance Languages, with an emphasis on experiential learning. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

ROML 493 - Honors Thesis

Credits: 3-3

Prerequisites: Senior standing, honors candidacy, and instructor consent. Interested students should see a member of the Romance languages faculty by winter term of their junior year. May not count towards fulfillment of the major requirements.

SPAN 111 - Elementary Spanish I

Credits: 4

Enrollment limited. Preference given to first-year students with no prior preparation in Spanish. Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing. Staff.

SPAN 112 - Elementary Spanish II

Credits: 4

Prerequisites: SPAN 111 or the equivalent language skills and departmental permission. Limited enrollment. Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing. Staff.

SPAN 161 - Intermediate Spanish I

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Departmental permission as a result of placement examination for entering students. Preference given to returning students completing SPAN 112 and to entering first-years prior to the fall term drop/add period. Intensive, concentrated course in review grammar and reading, with practice in listening and speaking. Staff.

SPAN 162 - Intermediate Spanish II

FDR: FL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 161 or equivalent language skills and departmental permission. Intensive, concentrated course in review grammar and reading, with practice in listening and speaking. Staff.

SPAN 164 - Advanced Intermediate Spanish

FDR: FL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SPAN 112 or departmental permission as a result of placement examination. Students with credit in SPAN 164 may not receive subsequent credit in a lower numbered Spanish course. Students may not receive degree credit for both SPAN 162 and 164. Emphasis on reading and composition skills, with extensive practice in speaking and listening through class discussion. Some grammar review. Staff.

SPAN 200 - Service Learning Practicum in Spanish

Credits: 1

Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. An obligatory corequisite to Spanish courses when the course instructor deems it appropriate. The course comprises activities outside the classroom conducted in conjunction with the academic focus of the corequisite course with which it is taught. Staff.

SPAN 201 - Supervised Study Abroad: Costa Rica

Credits: 4

Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent and instructor consent. Spring Term Abroad course. Direct exposure to the language, people, and culture of Costa Rica. Designed to improve grammar and vocabulary of the advanced student through intensive training in Spanish with special emphasis on oral proficiency. The program also includes a home-stay with a Costa Rican family, excursions to local and national sites of interest, cultural activities, and a service-learning component at the local elementary school, hospital, law and accounting firms, or other community agencies. Staff.

SPAN 204 - Conversational Skills

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent. Development of speaking skills for communication in Spanish. Acquisition and use of practical vocabulary and development of pronunciation skills. Fall 2018 has an ESOL community-based learning component and EXP designation. Staff.

SPAN 205 - Spanish for Healthcare Professionals

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164 or equivalent. This course is for students with an advanced intermediate level of Spanish who are considering professions relating to healthcare including physicians, nurses, physical therapists, paramedics, firefighters, law enforcement, health policy, workers, medical attorneys, and hospital administrators. The course emphasizes oral comprehension while examining a diversity of factors influencing the health of Hispanic patients. A primary goal is to learn to conduct a complete medical interview in Spanish via a blend of readings, discussions, films, role-playing, and writing assignments. Students develop their ability to read, write, and converse in Spanish using information and vocabulary pertaining to the medical sciences and healthcare, and they gain cultural awareness and insights into Hispanic peoples and cultures. Michelson.

SPAN 209 - Intro to Hispanic Linguistics

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent. This course provides a broad view of major subfields of linguistic study with a particular focus on data drawn from the Spanish language. Class discussions begin with broader questions, such as “What is language?” and “How do language and human behavior intersect?”; throughout the term students revisit those questions in light of topics presented in class. By the end of the course, students demonstrate an understanding of the many facets of the Spanish language and also the linguistic principles as can be applied to any language. The course covers major concepts in Spanish phonology and phonetics, Spanish morphology and syntax, and lastly, Spanish dialectology. Reyes.

SPAN 210 - The Road to Santiago

FDR: HU
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: SPAN 162, 164 or equivalent, and instructor consent. Spring Term Abroad course. A study of Spanish culture and language conducted entirely in Spain. During the first three weeks of the course, students live in Madrid with Spanish-speaking families and study language at Estudio Internacional Sampere. At the same time, students engage in an in-depth study of the history and legend of the eight-centuries-old pilgrimage to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela, the burial site of St James, apostle of Christ. During the last week of the course, students travel to northwestern Spain to visit and study the monuments associated with the Santiago pilgrimage as well as experience the art, architecture, and culture of pilgrimage as they hike the last portion of the trail. Staff.

SPAN 211 - Spanish Civilization and Culture

FDR: HU
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164 or the equivalent in language skills. A survey of significant developments in Spanish civilization. The course addresses Spanish heritage and the present-day cultural patterns formed by its legacies. Readings, discussions and papers, primarily in Spanish, for further development of communication skills. Staff.

SPAN 212 - Spanish-American Civilization and Culture

FDR: HU
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164 or equivalent. A survey of significant developments in Spanish-American civilizations. The course addresses Spanish-American heritage and the present-day cultural patterns formed by its legacies. Readings, discussions and papers primarily in Spanish for further development of communication skills. Staff.

SPAN 213 - Seville and the Foundations of Spanish Civilization

FDR: HU
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 4

Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164, or the equivalent. This course takes place in Seville, Spain, and uses this privileged location to study the cultures of Foundational Spain. Primary focus is on the medieval and Renaissance periods, from the troubled co-existence of Muslims, Jews, and Christians to the Christian reconquest and subsequent Empire. Significant cultural currents are examined through texts (literary, historical, and religious), direct contact with art and architecture through site visits, and with hands-on exposure to early and contemporary cuisine. Students live in homestays, attend daily classes, participate in site visits, and engage with the local culture independently and through planned activities. Bailey.

SPAN 214 - Contemporary Spain in Context: (Re)searching Spanish Identity and Culture in the 21st Century

FDR: HU
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 4

Prerequisite: One 200-level Spanish course and instructor consent. This course examines contemporary social issues in Spain through lectures and interviews with local subjects in Spain. Lectures provide a formal understanding of contemporary Spanish society, while interviews of local subjects provide data for further analysis by the students that may challenge, complement or further develop their understanding of current social issues. Reyes.

SPAN 216 - Living on the Edge: Identities in Motion in Argentina and Uruguay

Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 4

Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 and instructor consent. Conducted in Spanish in Argentina and Uruguay, this course comprises a study of Argentine culture, language, and identity. Students live in Buenos Aires with Spanish-speaking families while pursuing coursework on identity in local, national, and international contexts. What does geography have to do with identity? How might a nation redefine its policies and peoples over time? Where does the line exist between an economic system and its individual constituents? And what insights can art offer into domestic and international conflict? This course engages such questions through the study of Argentine historiography, literature, economics, and art. Coursework is accentuated by visits to sites of cultural importance in Argentina and Uruguay, including museums, banks, literary presses, political centers, meat markets, parks, and tango houses. Michelson.

SPAN 220 - Introducción a la literatura española

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent. Spanish literary masterpieces from the Poema del Cid through the present. Readings and discussions are primarily in Spanish. Staff.

SPAN 240 - Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent. Spanish-American literary masterpieces from colonial times through the present. Readings and discussions are primarily in Spanish. Staff.

SPAN 270 - The Contemporary Latin American Press: Journalistic Writing & Analysis

FDR: HU
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Three credits from any 200 level Spanish course or instructor consent. The public space in Latin America is a complex site where ideological negotiations and social changes constantly take place. Researchers and journalists have compared the archives of the press produced by different countries to grasp the most recent dynamics in the region. Thanks to the simultaneity and globalization provided by the Internet, people can capture the pulse of the planet from home and in real time. This phenomenon can be described as the institutionalization of the global village. This course aims to take advantage of the epistemologies of global communication created by new technologies in order to feel the pulse of Latin America as portrayed by the local press. This is an advanced course in composition in which students improve their writing skills and acquire tools to understand contemporary Latin American politics, economy. and society. Staff.

SPAN 275 - Introducción al análisis literario

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SPAN 220 or 240. Preparation for analysis of Hispanic literature. Composition develops style and method for analyzing prose, poetry, and drama in Spanish. Conversation continues vocabulary building and concentrates on discussion of literary themes. Staff.

SPAN 290 - Topics in Latin American Culture and Literature

Credits: 4

Prerequisite: May vary with topic. This course offers students the opportunity to further their knowledge of the culture and literature of a specific Latin American country, and their awareness of Latin America in general, through the study of special cultural and literary topics. Readings, discussions, and assignments occur primarily in Spanish. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

SPAN 295 - Special Topics in Conversation

Credits: 3 in fall, winter; 4 in spring

Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent. Further development of listening and speaking skills necessary for advanced discussion. Acquisition of both practical and topic-specific vocabulary. Appropriate writing and reading assignments, related to the topic, accompany the primary emphasis on conversational skills. Recent topics include: Hispanic Cinema and La Prensa. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

SPAN 296 - Topics in Hispanic Culture and Expression

Credits: 3 in fall or winter, 4 in spring

This course offers students the opportunity to further their understanding of Hispanic cultures and their expression by focusing on a relevant cultural, linguistic or literary topic, on an historical period, or on a region of Spain, Latin America or the U.S. Readings, discussions, and assignments are primarily in Spanish. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Spring 2019, SPAN 296-01: Topics in Hispanic Culture and Expression: Comparative Critical Race Theory and the Early-Modern Creation of Race (3). Prerequisite: One 200-level Spanish course. Have you ever wondered why you should bother to read 16th- and 17th-century literature? What does Bartolomé de las Casas have to do with Thomas Jefferson? How can Francisco de Vitoria help us to better understand the United States or, even more locally, the Virginia of 2019? This course comprises a survey of theorizations of race and ethnicity in Hispanophone literary and cultural studies, performance studies, visual studies, and philosophy. The course engages with the body of critical literature that examines the construction of race in a variety of different social, political, legal, and economic settings in the West, from the15th century Western Mediterranean to early-modern Spanish-American colonies to the United States of the 20th and 21st centuries. Accordingly, students gain the tools with which to examine their own beliefs and attitudes surrounding race, and with which to engage with the many, diverse people whom they encounter in the complex world of 21st century America. We seek to historicize the context of race and to understand the ways in which people have constructed and made use of race for particular purposes. Spragins.

SPAN 308 - Power and Ideology: (Critical) Discourse Perspectives

FDR: HU
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SPAN 215 or 275. This course explores different theoretical approaches to account for the relationship of language and power, and therefore the relationship between language use and social processes. In particular, it observes how meaning is constructed and reconstructed in discourse, especially by the dominant classes with access to public discourse: politicians, academics, journalists, etc., whose messages generally reach and influence large audiences. For this reason, political discourse is an important source of data to observe how social actors employ specific linguistic choices to achieve political goals. Reyes.

SPAN 309 - History of the Spanish Language

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SPAN 275 and an additional three credits at the 200 level. An introduction to the field of historical linguistics and to the genealogy and development of the Spanish language. It begins with an introduction to the field of historical linguistics: essentially, what it means to study the history of a language, the concept of linguistic change, and the types of language families. This is followed by the study of the genealogy and the development of the Spanish language from its Latin origins to present-day Spanish. These include the examination of the structures and peculiarities of Latin, the cultural and historical events that have influenced the shaping of the Spanish language, the properties of medieval Spanish, the most stubborn linguistic myths, and the development of Spanish outside the Iberian Peninsula, especially in Spanish America. Bailey.

SPAN 312 - Medieval Spanish Cultures in Context

FDR: HL
Credits: 4

Prerequisite: SPAN 211 or 220 and instructor consent. Spring Term Abroad course. Muslims, Jews, and Christians co-existed for eight-hundred years on the Iberian Peninsula. This course examines these diverse cultures through the texts (literary, historical, religious, and philosophical), the art, and the architecture from the period prior to the arrival of the Arabs in 711, up to and beyond the expulsion of the Jews in 1492. The objective of the course is to glean from the remnants of the experience of their co-existence insights into their distinctive characteristics and how they understood and influenced each other. Bailey.

SPAN 320 - Don Quijote

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. Close reading and discussion of this Early Modern novel. May include close reading and discussion of additional narrative and poetic genres of the Golden Age, as represented in or contributing to the Cervantine work Campbell.

SPAN 322 - Spanish Golden-Age Drama

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. Close reading and discussion of a variety of selected Golden Age dramas of the 17th century. Representative dramatists may include Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Lope de Vega, and María de Zayas.
Campbell.

SPAN 323 - Golden Age Spanish Women Writers

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. A study of the comedia and the novela corta and the manner in which the secular women writers inscribe themselves within and beyond these genres. Close reading and discussion of representative works that may include the short stories and plays by María de Zayas, Ana Caro, Leonor de Meneses, Mariana de Carvajal, and Angela de Azevedo. Campbell.

SPAN 324 - Visions of the Nation: Romanticism and the Generation of 1898

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. A study of the contrasting identities of Spain, her land and peoples, as represented by Romanticism and the Generation of 1898. From the romantic period students read the popular and folkloric “romances” of Duque de Rivas and the works of Mariano José de Larra. Works from the more philosophical Generation of 1898 include: El árbol de la ciencia by P’o Baroja, the poetry of Antonio Machado, and various texts of Miguel de Unamuno. Staff.

SPAN 326 - Modern Spanish Prose Fiction

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. The development of the Spanish novel from the late 19th century through the present day. Representative authors may include Galdos, Baroja, Unamuno, Cela, Martín Gaite, and Mayoral. Mayock.

SPAN 328 - Contemporary Spanish Poetry

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. A study of Spanish poetry within its historical context from Romanticism until the present day. Special emphasis is given to the generations of 1898 and 1927, the poetry of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco period. Representative authors include Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti, and Gloria Fuertes. Staff.

SPAN 333 - El Cid in History and Legend

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. A study of the most significant portrayals of the Castilian warrior Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid (1045-1099), from his 12th-century biography Historia Roderici to the Hollywood blockbuster El Cid. Epic poems, late medieval ballads, and Renaissance drama all recreate the legendary life of El Cid. This course examines the relevant narratives in an effort to determine the heroic values and attributes recreated by authors and their audiences for nearly a thousand years. Bailey.

SPAN 340 - Spanish-American Short Story

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and SPAN 275. A study of the Spanish-American short story with special attention to the works of Quiroga, Borges, Cortázar, and Valenzuela. Barnett.

SPAN 341 - 20th-Century Mexican Literature: Beyond Revolution

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SPAN 240 and either SPAN 215 or 275. This course examines the artistic reaction to the 1910 Mexican Revolution and seeks to understand its aesthetic impact on 20th-century Mexican artists from a variety of genres. Seminal works from narrative, poetry, and essay as well as the visual arts reveal how some artists promoted the ideals of the Revolution, others became disenchanted, and still others invented revolutionary styles of expression in order to convey a new cultural self-perception and worldview. Barnett.

SPAN 342 - Spanish-American Narrative: The Boom Generation

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and SPAN 275. Readings in the contemporary Spanish-American narrative of the second half of the 20th century with special emphasis on the members of the “Boom” generation, such as Rulfo, Fuentes, García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Carpentier, and Puig. In addition to short narrative pieces, the readings include El Tunel (Ernesto Sábato), El Amor y Otros Demonios (García Márquez), Aura (Carlos Fuentes), Los Pasos Perdidos (Carpentier), and Casa de Los Espiritus (Allende). The class meets once a week for three hours so that we may maximize our time with each novel.
Barnett.

SPAN 343 - Spanish-American Colonial Literature

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and SPAN 275. This course examines the Latin American Colonial period by reading the most important Spanish, Creole, and indigenous texts of the period, and by reflecting on the violent cultural dynamics that created the problematic notion of continental “America.” The questions this course examines are related to how identity discourses are produced in Colonial America, and who are the main agents involved in this process. By analyzing the different sides of the Latin American colonial experience, the student will be able to critically approach many “given” paradigms that inform our understanding of the Americas and of the world. Staff.

SPAN 344 - Spanish-American Poetry

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and 275. Analysis of the most relevant poetic texts of Spanish-America, including U.S. Hispanic poetry, beginning with precursors of 20th-century poetry and spanning to contemporary works. Representative works include those by Octavio Paz, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Nicanor Parra, Ernesto Cardenal, Raúl Zurita, among others. Staff.

SPAN 345 - Spanish-American Modernist Poetry

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and SPAN 275. Considered the literary movement that achieves the “linguistic independence” of Latin America from Spain, Modernismo is the first “original aesthetic” which exercises an influence on the poetic production of Europe. This course studies the movement through the poems and works by four of its principal writers: the Nicaraguan Ruben Dario, the Mexican Manuel Gutierrez Najera, the Peruvian Manuel Gonzalez Prada, and the Cuban Jose Marti. By contrasting their literature to the “paradigm of modernity” which surrounded its production, the course distinguishes the dialectics between the artists and their respective geopolitical circumstances. By analyzing the literature of writers from different regions, we visualize and distinguish the divergent modernities which emerged in Latin America during the 19th century and the diverse artistic reactions and consequences. Staff.

SPAN 346 - Poetry in Prison: Immigration. Empathy, and Community Engagement

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and 275. This course emphasizes community-engaged learning through readings of Spanish-American poetry, critical theory, and philosophy on empathy for otherness and immigration across the Hemispheric Americas, in concert with a series of intensive, weekly poetry workshops in the most restrictive maximum-security detention center in the United States for undocumented, unaccompanied youth from Mexico and the Northern Triangle. Invoking and testing insights from the texts in the syllabus, undergraduates work with and for the incarcerated children in term-long partnerships, collaborating in the poetry workshops to respond to a diversity of writing prompts examining the intertwined themes of borders and belonging. Students maintain a writing journal wherein they individually engage in sustained reflection on community needs, course objectives, current events, theorizations of justice, concepts of belonging, empathic philosophies, and affective politics. In this manner, students develop their ability to read, write, and converse in multiple regional varieties of Spanish and gain cultural awareness and insights into Hispanic peoples and culture. Michelson.

SPAN 347 - Poetry and Power

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and 275. This is a course about reading. We read Spanish-American poetry on power and violence as a way of engaging and investigating the multifaceted and layered historiographies of the region. To intensify our reading, we also “read” a diversity of complementary cultural production, including paintings, murals, and music. Through these self-conscious acts of reading–that is, acts of identifying, evaluating, and critiquing form as much as content–we enhance our ability to analyze and debate ways of defining power in the Americas from within, without, and in liminal zones. Recurring motifs include sexism, racism, classism, and fascism. Michelson.

SPAN 348 - Spanish-American Women Writers

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and SPAN 275. An examination of the role of women writers in the development of Spanish- American literary history, including U.S. Hispanic writers. Textual and cultural analysis of readings from multiple genres by authors such as Poniatowska, Ferré, Bombal, Mastretta, Gambaro, Lispector, Valenzuela, Castellanos, Cisneros, Esquivel, Peri Rossi, and Allende, among others. Staff.

SPAN 350 - The Cuban Story

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and SPAN 275. A multigenre examination of 20th-century Cuba as its own “story.” Beginning with the first European account of Columbus, to insights from slaves, to finally more recent writers who question its future, the course presents the development of Cuban society as its own narrative. Major readings by Manzano, Barnet, Marti, Carpentier, Castro, Guevara, Garcia, and Hernandez Diaz, among others. Shorter anthologized works by Guillen, Lezama Lima, Valdes, Novas Calvo, Cabrera Infante, and Sarduy, among others. Films by Guitiérrez Alea, Vega, Solas, and Tabio, among others. Barnett.

SPAN 354 - Spanish-American Theater: 20th Century to the Present

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and SPAN 275. This course provides a panoramic view of the theatrical traditions that have emerged in Spanish-American theater, beginning with the independent theater movement of the 1930s and concluding with the most recent trends in theatrical practices. In particular, the plays are studied as vehicles that reveal how theater practitioners engaged with their historical and cultural contexts in aesthetic terms. Therefore, the focus is also on the plays as performative texts. In order to develop this objective, students are expected to read, discuss, and analyze the dramatic texts, as well as perform scenes from the plays. This course includes works from playwrights such us Arlt, Triana, Diaz, Gambaro, Carballido, Castellanos, and Berman, among others. In addition, we study the political and aesthetic theories of theater developed by Enrique Buenaventura and Augusto Boal. Botta.

SPAN 380 - Spanish Grammar Rules: The Making of a Language

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Two Spanish courses at the 200 level or instructor consent. This course analyzes areas of the Spanish language that are problematic for non-native speakers of Spanish. At the same time, students explore the processes involved in the standardization of a language, in particular the Spanish language, as a social and political construct. Reyes.

SPAN 390 - Topics in Latin American Culture and Literature

FDR: HL
Credits: 4

Prerequisite: SPAN 212 or 240 and instructor consent. This course offers students the opportunity to further their knowledge of the culture and literature of a specific Latin American country, and their awareness of Latin America in general, through the study of special cultural and literary topics. Readings, discussions, and assignments occur primarily in Spanish. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. (HL)

SPAN 392 - Spanish Language Theory and Practice

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Varies with topic. A topics course that approaches language study through theories of language use and meaning, as well as their practical application through extensive writing exercises. Topics may include translation theory, analysis of theoretical approaches to language study, and advanced grammar. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Fall 2018, SPAN 392-01: Spanish Language Theory and Practice (3). Prerequisite: SPAN 275. An advanced Spanish seminar devoted to the reinforcement of Spanish grammar and the analysis of theoretical themes surrounding Spanish grammar and translation. Students complete a review and analysis of complicated Spanish grammar points, applying this knowledge to grammar exercises, advanced composition and translation, oral presentation, and a community translation project. Special thematic attention is paid to the idea of “living in translation” in United States Latina/o/x communities. Mayock.

SPAN 393 - Workshop in Literary Translation

Credits: 4

Prerequisite: Three credits from any SPAN 200-level course. An intensive workshop devoted to the practical application, methods, and theories of literary translation. Students collaborate to produce artistic renderings of literary texts into the target language in a workshop-style setting. Preliminary attention is given to English-to-Spanish narrative as well as Spanish-to-English poetry. The primary activity involves the collaborative production of an original translation of a previously non-translated Spanish short story into English. Barnett.

SPAN 397 - Peninsular Seminar

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. A seminar focusing on a single period, genre, motif, or writer. The specific topic will be determined jointly according to student interest and departmental approval. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

SPAN 398 - Spanish-American Seminar

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites:SPAN 240 and SPAN 275. A seminar focusing on a single period, genre, motif, or writer. Recent topics have included “Spanish American Women Writers: From America into the 21st Century,” “20th Century Latin America Theater,” and “Past, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Argentina’s Cultural Products.” May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

SPAN 401 - Directed Individual Study

Credits: 1

Prerequisites: At least nine credits of 300-level Spanish and permission of the department head. Taught in Spanish. Nature and content of course to be determined by students’ needs and by instructors acquainted with their earlier preparation and performance. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Fall 2018, SPAN 401-01: Directed Individual Study:Pluma (1). Literary creation and editing. The student creates a call for creative works in Spanish, manages a team of young editors, selects and edits creative works, and produces a literary magazine. Mayock. Staff.

SPAN 402 - Directed Individual Study

Credits: 2

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