2010-2011 University Catalog archived
Romance Languages (ROML)
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French (FREN)
G. W. Custis Lee Foundation
Professors Lambeth, Radulescu
Associate Professors Frégnac-Clave, Kamara
Honors: An Honors Program in French is offered for qualified students; see department head for details.
Teacher Certification: Students wishing to teach French 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 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.
Italian (ITAL)
Portuguese (PORT)
Spanish (SPAN)
Professors Bailey, Barnett, Boetsch, Campbell, Mayock, West-Settle
Assistant Professors Botta, González
Students who plan work in Spanish and another Romance language are advised to refer to the description of the Romance languages major.
Spanish courses are numbered according to the following scheme.
200-209, 300-309 Language
210-219, 310-319 Civilization, Culture, Analysis
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
Majors may count one 200-level Romance Language literature course taught in English by Romance Languages faculty toward the requirements of the Spanish or French major, or the primary language of the Romance Languages major. Approved courses, if any, will be identified on the Romance Languages web site during registration each term.
Major
FREN 111 - Elementary French I
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall
Limited enrollment; departmental permission required. Preference is given to 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
Planned Offering: Winter
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
Planned Offering: Fall
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
Planned Offering: Winter
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
Planned Offering: Fall
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. Emphasis on reading and composition skills, with extensive practice in speaking and listening through class discussion. Some grammar review.Staff.
FREN 172 - Supervised Study Abroad: Intermediate French
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2010 and alternate years
Prerequisites: FREN 111 and 112 during the same academic year and a grade of B (3.0) or better in FREN 112. 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 212 - Supervised Study Abroad
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2010 and alternate years
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 213 - Atelier de conversation
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisites: FREN 162 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.Development of speaking skills pertaining to everyday communication. Acquisition and use of practical vocabulary. Development of pronunciation skills.Staff.
FREN 261 - Conversation et composition: Cours avancé
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall (Winter when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit)
Prerequisites: FREN 162 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.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 273 - Introduction à l’analyse littéraire
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter (Fall when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit)
Prerequisites: FREN 261 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.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 274 - Cinéma français et francophone
FDR: HL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2010 and alternate years
Prerequisite: FREN 261 or equivalent or permission of instructor.This course uses French language films as the basis for discussions, oral presentations and directed writing exercises. It is structured as an intensive workshop for students who would like to learn to analyze films. More generally the course provides a better understanding of contemporary French culture and improves French language proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In Spring, 2010, the class focuses on French New Wave films of the 1960s and ‘70s and the filmmakers who revolutionized film style by experimenting with hand-held cameras, natural light and sound, and by playfully foregrounding film technique. Students acquire the vocabulary to describe camera position, camera movement, and editing as the grammar and syntax of the ‘mise-en-scène.’ They acquire a better understanding of how the composition and sequencing of images contributes to narrative development. These films are a window onto the baby boom culture of post-war France and, as such, provide a deeper understanding of contemporary French culture.Lambeth.
FREN 280 - Civilisation et culture francophones
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2010
Prerequisites: FREN 261 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.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.
Kamara, Lambeth.
FREN 281 - Civilisation et culture françaises: Traditions et changements
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2011 and alternate years
Prerequisites: FREN 261 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.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.Frégnac-Clave.
FREN 282 - Civilisation et culture françaises: La France d’aujourd’hui
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years
Prerequisites: FREN 261 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.A study of modern France. This course examines the economic, political, social and intellectual issues which shape contemporary French life. Readings, discussions and papers in French for further development of communication skills.Frégnac-Clave.
FREN 295 - Atelier avancé de langue, littérature et culture
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisites: FREN 261 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.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 with permission and if the topics are different.Staff.
FREN 331 - Etudes thématiques
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2011
Prerequisites: FREN 273 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.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.
Topic for Winter 2011:
Fren 331: Le voyage dans la littérature française (3). Prerequisites : FREN 273 or equivalent and permission of the instructor. The theme of the journey , actual or imagined, literal or metaphorical, is a real one in French literature. This course explores the journey motif from the medieval period to the present. The goal is to examine and analyze the types and significance(s) of the journey not only for those who undertake it but also for their respective societies at large. (HL) Kamara.
FREN 332 - Etudes de genre
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2010
Prerequisites: FREN 273 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.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 à Camus; Ecriture feminine/Ecriture féministe? L’amour dans la poésie lyrique; Le conte et la nouvelle.
Topic in Fall 2010:
FREN 332: Théâtre français à travers les siècles (3): French Theater across the Centuries. An exploration of French dramatic texts and diverse theatrical forms of expression from the Middle Ages to the present day. (HL) Radulescu.
FREN 333 - La Stylistique
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit
Prerequisites: FREN 261 or equivalent and two additional courses from the 200 level or permission of the instructor.An advanced language course intended to enhance students’ knowledge and use of sophisticated stylistic devices through specialized grammar study, translation, and composition, among other approaches. Students learn to recognize different communicative styles and to apply them practically to their increasingly sophisticated communication in French.Staff.
FREN 341 - La France de l’Ancien Régime
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisites: FREN 273 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.Readings in French literature and civilization from before the Revolution of 1789. Recent offerings include: Le théâtre français des XVIe et XVIIe siècles ; Chefs-d’oeuvre du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance ; La littérature libertine ; Les femmes et l’écriture ; L’esprit critique au XVIIIe siècle. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topic is different.
FREN 342 - La France moderne
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisites: FREN 273 or equivalent and permission of instructor.Readings in French literature and civilization of the XIXth and XXth 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 with permission and if the topic is different.Staff.
FREN 343 - La France à travers les siècles
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisites: FREN 273 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.Readings in French literature and civilization from across the centuries. Recent offerings: Les femmes et la comédie; L’orientalisme français; L’écriture de femmes. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topic is different.
Topic for Fall 2010:
FREN 343: Esthétique du récit court. (3). Prerequisite: French 273 or equivalent and permission of the instructor. A close study of selected tales and short stories written by some of the better-known French authors (Marie de France, Perrault, Balzac, Maupassant, Vian, Le Clézio, Tournier, Yourcenar, Gracq…), this course explores the techniques of the short narrative and its relation to the cultural and historical context. (HL) Frégnac-Clave.
FREN 344 - La Francophonie
FDR: HL, GE3
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter (Spring when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit)
Prerequisites: FREN 273 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.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.Staff.
FREN 397 - Séminaire avancé
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisites: Senior status and three courses at the 300 level or permission of the instructor.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 with permission and when the topics are different.
Topic for Winter 2011:
Fren 397: Littérature maghrébine (3). Prerequisites: Three 300-level French courses. This course features a selection of contemporary novels in French written by North Africans including Driss Chraibi, Rachid Mimouni, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Assia Djebar, Albert Memmi, Malika Mokkadem, and Yasmina Khadra. Students read about contemporary North African society and watch several feature films made by North African filmmakers. Class discussion focuses on the complex problems of post-colonial North Africa and how these novelists frame the problems of corruption, violence, immigration, exile, and freedom. Students write about the novels and give oral presentations in class. The class is conducted in French and the papers are written in French. Considerable attention is given to developing writing skills and analytical skills. (HL) Lambeth.
Topic for Fall 2010:
FREN 397: Séminaire avancé: femmes écrivains francophones (3). Prerequisite: Senior standing and three courses at the 300 level or permission of the instructor. A thorough introduction to women writers from Francophone sub-Saharan Africa. While providing an overview of the trajectory of women’s writing from its beginnings in the 1960s, the course focuses more heavily on the literary endeavors of women from the late ‘70s to the end of the 20th century. Through representative works from this period, we examine how women address such issues as patriarchy, tradition, modernity, the self in society, etc. (HL) Kamara
FREN 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisites: At least nine credits of 300-level French and permission 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 with permission and if the topics are different.Staff.
FREN 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisites: At least nine credits of 300-level French and permission 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 with permission and if the topics are different.Staff.
FREN 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisites: At least nine credits of 300-level French and permission 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 with permission and if the topics are different.Staff.
FREN 493 - Honors Thesis
Credits: 3-3
Planned Offering: Fall-Winter
Interested students should see a member of the French faculty by winter term of their junior year.
ITAL 113 - Accelerated Elementary Italian
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Completion of 112 or equivalent in another Romance language.Preference is given to Romance Language majors. 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
Planned Offering: Winter
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 202 - Supervised Study Abroad
Credits: 6 or 3-3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2010-2011
Prerequisites: ITAL 162, permission of the instructor and approval of the International Education Committee.Credits may be split between Italian and other disciplines with approval of the departments involved. A total immersion in Italian language and culture. A required winter-term cultural preparation and training period precedes residence in Italy. Additional details are available from the director of the program.Staff.
ITAL 261 - Advanced Conversation and Composition
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: ITAL 163 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.Further development of conversational skills and beginning work in free composition, with systematic grammar review and word study in various relevant cultural contexts.Hardin
ITAL 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
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 with permission and if the topics are different.Staff.
ITAL 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
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 with permission and if the topics are different.Staff.
ITAL 403 - Directed Individual Study
FDR: GE3: only when the subject is literary.
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
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 with permission and if the topics are different.
LIT 259 - The French Caribbean Novel
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2010-2011
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 100 - Beginning Portuguese
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2010-2011
Prerequisite: Permission of the Director of the Program in Environmental Studies or Head of Department of Romance Languages.This course is designed to help prepare students in Portuguese language proficiency for participation in the U.S./Brazil Consortium for Environmental Studies, a federally funded Washington and Lee University exchange program with the Universidade do Amazonas and the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense. Basic language skills are taught in preparation for a Portuguese language immersion course taught in Brazil as part of the exchange program. The immersion course focuses on language skills required for environmental studies. The course does not fulfill any part of the FL or GE2 language requirements. First priority is given to students participating in the FIPSE/CAPES exchange program or other relevant programs in Brazil (Watson Fellowships, Global Stewardship internships, Fulbright Fellowships, approved internship programs, etc.). Other students are eligible for participation in the program on a space-available basis. In addition to the exchange students, a limited number of students will be eligible to participate in the intensive course in Brazil, at their own expense.Staff
PORT 113 - Accelerated Elementary Portuguese
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Completion of 112 or equivalent in another Romance language. Preference is given to Romance Language majors.An accelerated course in elementary Portuguese emphasizing grammar and the skills of speaking, writing, reading, and listening comprehension and meeting five days per week.Staff.
PORT 163 - Accelerated Intermediate Portuguese
FDR: FL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Winter
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.Staff.
PORT 261 - Advanced Conversation and Composition
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: PORT 163 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.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 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisites: Four terms of Portuguese language or equivalent and permission 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 with permission and if the topics are different.Staff.
PORT 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisites: Four terms of Portuguese language or equivalent and permission 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 with permission and if the topics are different.Staff.
PORT 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisites: Four terms of Portuguese language or equivalent and permission 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 with permission and if the topics are different.Staff.
ROML 295 - Topics in Romance Languages
Credits: 1-3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit
Prerequisites: Appropriate language preparation and permission of the department head.Nature and content of the course is determined by the interests of the instructor(s) and student(s). May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topic for Winter 2011:
ROML 295: Topics in Romance Language: Female Protagonists in Romance Literatures (3). Meets the humanities distribution requirement in the women’s and gender studies minor. This course takes a comparative look at the representation of women in different literary works of prose and drama from France, Italy, and the Hispanic world. The texts are in English, though students are encouraged to also look at original versions, depending on their various language skills in the respective languages. (HL) Radulescu.
ROML 296 - Spring-Term Topics in Romance Languages
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisites: Appropriate language preparation and permission of the department head. Nature and content of the course is determined by the interests of the instructor(s) and student(s). May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different. Staff. Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
SPAN 111 - Elementary Spanish I
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall
Enrollment limited to students who have had one year or less of Spanish instruction; departmental permission required.Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing.Staff.
SPAN 112 - Elementary Spanish II
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Winter
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
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisites: SPAN 112 or the equivalent language skills and departmental permission.Intensive, concentrated course in review grammar and reading, with practice in listening and speaking.Staff.
SPAN 162 - Intermediate Spanish II
FDR: FL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
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
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Departmental permission as a result of placement examination for entering students. Students with credit in SPAN 164 may not receive subsequent credit in a lower numbered Spanish course. Students with credit in a lower numbered Spanish course are, in general, ineligible for credit in SPAN 164.Emphasis on reading and composition skills, with extensive practice in speaking and listening through class discussion. Some grammar review.Staff.
SPAN 172 - Supervised Study Abroad: Intermediate Spanish
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisite: SPAN 111 and 112, or equivalent, and permission by the instructor.Spring Term Abroad course. A period of intensive language training and exposure to the language, culture, and people of Costa Rica. This course develops intermediate communicative Spanish vocabulary and active intermediate competence in the language. The traditional skills of foreign language instruction (structure, listening comprehension, reading, writing and speaking) are carried out in a small class environment at the host language school and supervised by a W&L faculty member. 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 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies.
Prerequisite: First-year standing.First-year seminar.
SPAN 192 - Practical Applications of the Spanish Language
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Pass/Fail only. Prerequisite: 100-level Spanish course or the equivalent and permission of the instructor.Introduction to specialized professional vocabularies. Participants apply learning through service work in the Rockbridge community for at least one hour per week. May be repeated with permission for a maximum of two degree credits.Mayock.
SPAN 201 - Supervised Study Abroad: Costa Rica
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
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 202 - Supervised Study Abroad: Spain
Credits: 6 or 3-3
Planned Offering: Spring 2011 and alternate years
Prerequisites: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent.A period of direct exposure to the language, culture, and people of Spain. The program includes supervised academic projects, lectures by native authorities, attendance at the theater and other cultural activities. Students majoring in subjects other than Spanish, as well as language majors, are encouraged to apply. Three credits may be in Spanish and three in another subject.Staff.
SPAN 204 - Conversational Skills
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Spring
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. Not open to students with study abroad credit in Spanish or SPAN 201 or 202.Staff.
SPAN 209 - Intro to Hispanic Linguistics
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent or permission of the instructor.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 historical linguistics, Spanish phonology and phonetics, Spanish morphology and syntax, and lastly, Spanish dialectology.Gordon.
SPAN 210 - The Road to Santiago
FDR: HU
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisites: SPAN 162, 164 or equivalent, and permission of the instructor. 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.West-Settle.
SPAN 211 - Spanish Civilization and Culture
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
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
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164 or the equivalent in language skills.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 215 - Introducción al análisis literario
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisite: SPAN 220 or 240 or permission of the instructor.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 220 - Introducción a la literatura española
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
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 literature hispanoamericana
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
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
Planned Offering: Spring 2011 and alternate years
Prerequisites: 3 credits from 200-level Spanish.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.Gonzalez.
SPAN 292 - Tutorial in Foreign Language Teaching, Translation, and Interpretation
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Pass/Fail only.Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent and permission of the instructor.Preparation for and participation in teaching, translation, and interpretation in the Rockbridge community. Participants oversee teacher training workshops, complete formal translations, and execute live interpretations in the area. The service-learning component requires at least two hours per week in the community. May be repeated once with instructor’s permission for a maximum of four credits toward degree requirements.Mayock.
SPAN 295 - Special Topics in Conversation
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisite: Three credits from any 200-level Spanish course or permission of the instructor.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 with permission and if the topics are different.
Topic in Spring 2011:
SPAN 295: Hispanic Cinema (4). This course is designed to expand students’ speaking and comprehension skills in Spanish, through analysis and discussion of contemporary films produced in Spain and Latin America. Films are screened outside of class. In addition to in-class discussions, course work involves writing, producing, acting out, and taping a short video screened in the last week of classes. Botta
SPAN 309 - History of the Spanish Language
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years
Prerequisite: At least one 300-level Spanish course. 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 - Culture in Context in Medieval Spain
FDR: HL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2011 and alternate years
Prerequisite: One 200-level Spanish course 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
Planned Offering: Offered 2009-2010 and alternate years.
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 220.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 workCampbell.
SPAN 322 - La Comedia del Siglo de Oro
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2010 and alternate years
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 220.. 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 Mari’a de Zayas.
Campbell.
SPAN 324 - Visions of the Nation: Romanticism and the Generation of 1898
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2010 and alternate years
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 220.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.West-Settle.
SPAN 326 - Modern Spanish Prose Fiction
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2010 and alternate years
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 220.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
Planned Offering: Winter 2011 and alternate years
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 220.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.West-Settle.
SPAN 340 - Spanish-American Short Story
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest Is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 240.A study of the Spanish-American short story with special attention to the works of Quiroga, Borges, Cortázar, and Valenzuela.Staff.
SPAN 342 - Spanish-American Narrative: The Boom Generation
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2010
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 240.Readings in the contemporary Spanish-American narrative focusing on prominent post-World War II writers with special emphasis on the members of the “Boom” generation, such as Rulfo, Fuentes, Garc’a Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Carpentier, and Puig.Barnett.
SPAN 343 - Spanish-American Colonial Literature
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2011 and alternate years
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 240. 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.González.
SPAN 344 - Spanish-American Poetry
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered in 2010-2011
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 240.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
Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 240. 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.González.
SPAN 346 - Spanish-American Essay
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered in 2010-2011
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 240.Readings in Spanish-American essays with emphasis on the development of thought in literature and culture throughout its history. Special emphasis on prominent writers such as José Carlos Mariátegui, Octavio Paz, José Mart’, José Vasconcelos, and Victoria Ocampo, among others.Staff.
SPAN 348 - Spanish-American Women Writers
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered in 2010-2011
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 240.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
Planned Offering: Fall 2011 and alternate years
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 240.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 Guitierrz Alea, Vega, Solas, and Tabio, among others.Barnett.
SPAN 352 - Voces caribeñas
FDR: HL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2012 and alternate years
Prerequisite: SPAN 215,240 (or 212), and at least three credits from any 300-level Spanish course.A multi-genre study of artistic and cultural representations from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, with special emphasis on the resultant impact on the U.S. Caribbean diaspora. Viewed as a collage of Caribbean “voices,” this course examines artistic works that reflect a sense of Spanish-Caribbean identity. Students analyze diverse examples from prose, poetry, film, music, and the plastic arts, as well as non-fiction discourses.Barnett.
SPAN 354 - Spanish-American Theater: 20th Century to the Present
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2010 and alternate years
Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and 215. 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 392 - Spanish Language Theory and Practice
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: SPAN 215.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.Staff.
SPAN 397 - Peninsular Seminar
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 220.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. Recent topics have included “The Female Voice in Hispanic Literature,” “19th- and 20th-Century Spanish drama,” “Women Writers of the Golden Age,” and “Romanticism and the Generation of ‘98.” May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topic for Winter 2011:
SPAN 397: Antonio Machado, Poeta (3). A critical approximation to the poetry of the 20th-century Spanish poet Antonio Machado. Students approach the work thematically to include various major poetic episodes in the life of Machado including his Modernist period, his exploration of the “the two Spains”, his personal reflections on love and life, and his attachment to Castile. Biographical, cultural and historical contexts are examined to provide a background for Machado’s particular poetic expression. (HL) Boetsch.
SPAN 398 - Spanish-American Seminar
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 240.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 with permission and if the topics are different.Staff.
SPAN 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
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 with permission and if the topics are different.Staff.
SPAN 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
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 with permission and if the topics are different.Staff.
SPAN 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
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 with permission and if the topics are different.Staff.
SPAN 493 - Honors Thesis
Credits: 3-3
Planned Offering: Fall-Winter
Prerequisites: Honors candidacy and permission of the department.Honors Thesis.
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