2014-2015 University Catalog archived
Romance Languages (ROML)
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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.
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
Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Kentucky
H. Laurent Boetsch Jr., D.M.L.—(1976)-1992
Professor of Romance Languages
D.M.L., Middlebury College
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
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)-2014
Assistant 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
Domnica V. Radulescu, Ph.D.—(1992)-2003
Edwin A. Morris Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Chicago
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.
Major
Minor
FREN 111 - Elementary French I
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall
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
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. 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 172 - Supervised Study Abroad: Intermediate French
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
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
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, FREN 164, or equivalent. 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
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
Planned Offering: Spring
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
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
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 274 - Cinéma français et francophone
FDR: HL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. 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 2012 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
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. Staff.
FREN 281 - Civilisation et culture françaises: Traditions et changements
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
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. Staff.
FREN 282 - Civilisation et culture françaises: La France d’aujourd’hui
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. 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. Staff.
FREN 283 - Histoire des idées
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2014
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
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
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
Planned Offering: 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.
Spring 2015 topic:
FREN 295: Translation and Improvisation (4). This course focuses on developing translation skills from French into English and from English into French as well as skills for simultaneous translation and bilingual improvisation It relies on literary texts as well as texts from other areas of knowledge such as philosophy or from pop culture and journalism. It is informed by various theories of translation as well as techniques of improvisation used in theater and performance. Radulescu. Spring 2015.
Fall 2014 topic:
FREN 295: Atelier avancé de langue, littérature et culture: Regards sur la ville (3). Prerequisites: FREN 162, 164, or equivalent. A study of the ways the city is represented through texts, literary or not, from various periods. Genres include poetry, novel and short story, maps, paintings, ads, songs, films and comic strips. Readings, discussions and papers in French for further development of communication skills. (HL) Frégnac-Clave.
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
Planned Offering: Winter
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 2014 topic:
FREN 332: Études de genre: Theater, Culture and Society in Modern France (3). Prerequisite: Three courses at the 200 level. An examination of the relations between modern and post-modern French society, politics, and the theatrical works that have emerged from or that testify to various historical events and periods. The readings include plays by Jean Giraudoux, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Fernando Arrabal, Matei Visniec, Helen Cixous, among others. (HL) Radulescu.
FREN 333 - La Stylistique
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit
Prerequisite: Three courses at the 200 level. 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
Prerequisite: Three courses 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 2015 topic:
FREN 341: La Légende Arthurienne (3). Prerequisite: three courses at the 200 level. Corequisite: Digital Humanities (DH) 190. This course introduces students to the Arthurian narrative tradition of the medieval francophone world. We 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. The course project, which is completed in conjunction with the digital humanities corequisite studio, aims to create a website on the works of Marie de France, a medieval woman writer. Students learn how to encode text according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). The main objectives of this course are to improve students’ reading fluency in French, and to give students an introduction to the field and applications of digital humanities. (HL) McCormick
FREN 342 - La France moderne
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
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.
Winter 2015 topic:
FREN 342: Crime et Société: Du Fait Divers à la Série Noire (3). Prerequisites: three 200-level French courses or instructor consent. This course examines the rise of crime fiction as a popular genre in 20th-century French literature and film. We discuss public fascination with crime, criminals, detectives and victims as represented in popular literature and films. We read and discuss critical and theoretical texts to better understand the relationship between crime and society, from authors including Simenon, Steeman, Amila, Véry, Malet, Manchette, Daeninckx, Belaïd, and Vargas. Students give class presentations and write short analytical papers in French. (HL) Lambeth.
FREN 343 - La France à travers les siècles
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: Three courses at the 200 level. 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 if the topic is different.
FREN 344 - La Francophonie
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: Three courses 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
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Three courses 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 2014 topic:
FREN 397: Séminaire avancé: La France sous l’occupation (3). Prerequisite: Three courses at the 200 level or instructor consent. A study of the German occupation of France (1939-44). This multidisciplinary, multimedia course focuses on the choices, be they military, political, economic, ethical, or a mere matter of survival, that faced the French during this bleak period, and the traces it left in memory, institutions and the arts. (HL) Frégnac-Clave.
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 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
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
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 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 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.
FREN 403: Directed Individual Study: L’ecriture feminine (3). L’ecriture feminine dans les oeuvres d’Helene Cixous, Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, et autres femmes ecrivains de la litterature francaise. Radulescu. Winter 2015 Staff.
FREN 493 - Honors Thesis
Credits: 3-3
Planned Offering: Fall-Winter
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.
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 Languages 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: 4
Prerequisites: ITAL 163 or equivalent and instructor consent, and approval of the International Education Committee. 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
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
Planned Offering: Winter 2016 and when sufficient student interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: ITAL 261 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.
Winter 2016 topic:
ITAL 295: Introduction to Italian Medieval and Renaissance Literature (3). This course offers an overview of Italian literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, focusing on a selection of major works in poetry and prose of the major authors (Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Marco Polo, Cristofaro Colombo, Machiavelli) and minor figures of the first centuries of ltalian literature (San Francesco, Rustico, Angiolieri, and Serlio). Readings concentrate on earthly and spiritual life, comedy and tragedy, men and women, beauty and horror, with a focus on commonalities between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance;. We address historical, political, cultural, and literary issues important to an understanding of these texts and their contexts, and read the texts in modern and medieval Italian. We also use video adaptations of medieval and Renaissance literature, as well as music and artworks from the periods, and conclude with students performing selected scenes of Machiavelli’s play La Mandragola. Hardin, McCormick.
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 if the topics are different.
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 if the topics are different.
ITAL 403 - Directed Individual Study
FDR: HL: 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 if the topics are different.
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
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Completion of 112 or equivalent in another Romance language. Preference is given to Romance Languages 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. Pinto-Bailey.
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. 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
Planned Offering: Winter 2016 and when sufficient student interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
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.
Winter 2016 topic:
PORT 295: Brazilian Culture and Civilization through Film (3). This independent study course offers an overview of key aspects of Brazilian culture and civilization as seen through film, with supporting material drawn from literature and news articles. Students view, discuss, and analyze movies by Brazilian directors in order to develop an understanding of the culture and of issues that have shaped Brazilian society today. Issues addressed include: the country’s ethnic profile; racial relations; the 1964-85 military dictatorship and its aftermath; women and society; immigration and globalization. Students are exposed to these issues through film, and develop critical tools to analyze movies in their thematic content and cinematic aspects. Students improve their Portuguese language skills and develop their critical skills. Pinto-Bailey. Winter 2016
PORT 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
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.
Winter 2015 topic:
PORT 401-01: Directed Individual Study (1): Prerequisite: Instructor consent.Graded pass/fail. Advanced oral and written practice based on readings of current newspaper articles and contemporary short narrative fiction that address cultural, social and political issues such as contemporary cinema; the 2016 Olympic Games; soccer and race relations in Brazil; globalization and migration; and recent international economic developments. Pinto-Bailey Winter 2015 Staff.
PORT 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
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 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
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.
Fall 2014 topic:
PORT 403: Directed Individual Study: Brazilian Culture and Civilization through Film (3). This course offers an overview of key aspects of Brazilian culture and civilization as seen through film, with supporting material drawn from literature and news articles. Students view, discuss, and analyze movies by Brazilian directors in order to develop an understanding of the culture and of issues that have shaped Brazilian society today. Some of the issues to be addressed include: the country’s ethnic profile; racial relations; the 1964-85 military dictatorship and its aftermath; women and society; immigration and globalization. Students are exposed to these issues through film and develop critical tools to analyze movies in their thematic content and cinematic aspects. The course also offers students opportunities to improve their Portuguese language skills and develop their critical skills. (HU) Pinto-Bailey. Fall 2014 Staff.
ROML 295 - Topics in Romance Languages
Credits: 1-3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit
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
Planned Offering: Spring
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
Planned Offering: Spring
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
Planned Offering: Fall-Winter
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. Staff.
SPAN 111 - Elementary Spanish I
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall
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
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: Departmental permission as a result of placement examination for entering students. First-Years only. 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: First-Years with 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, Winter
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 172 - Supervised Study Abroad: Intermediate Spanish
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisite: SPAN 112 with a minimum grade of B, and instructor consent. 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 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 instructor consent. 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 instructor consent 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: Not yet approved for new spring term. (was 6 or 3-3)
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: Fall, Winter
Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent. Instructor consent is required for SPAN 204-01 due to a significant community service component. Development of speaking skills for communication in Spanish. Acquisition and use of practical vocabulary and development of pronunciation skills. For Winter 2015: SPAN 204-01 will have a community service component. Mayock, Reyes.
SPAN 209 - Intro to Hispanic Linguistics
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
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
Planned Offering: Spring
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
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 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 214 - Contemporary Spain in Context: Spanish Culture through Social Interaction
FDR: HU
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2014
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 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 literatura 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
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
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
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
Planned Offering: Spring
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.
Spring 2015 topic:
SPAN 290A: Topics in Latin American Culture and Literature: Instrospección, Reflexión y Activismo Social en el Cine Documental Contemporáneo (4). Documentary filmmaking has a strong tradition in Latin America going back to the 1930s and becoming a remarkable form of denunciation in the 1960s and 1970s. Since its origins, and in most cases, a commitment to socio-political causes has motivated the nonfiction productions in the region. In the past two decades, though, there has been a tendency to use documentaries as a means of connecting and understanding personal and historical realities, as well as a mode of advancing social causes through the participation of the social actors in the filmmaking process. This course introduces students to nonfiction films with specific attention given to the documentary practices that emerged in Latin America in the past two decades. Botta. Spring 2015
SPAN 290B: Latin America through Film (4). This spring term abroad course offers an overview of key aspects of Latin American culture, with a special focus on Argentina, as seen through film, with supporting material drawn from music, poetry, and news articles. Students view, discuss, and analyze movies from Latin American countries such as Argentina, México, Cuba, and Peru, in order to develop an understanding of Latin American cultures, and of issues that have shaped their societies today, including: the foundation of national identities in the period immediately following independence; the political struggles and dictatorships of the 20th century; women and society; and immigration and globalization. Students develop tools to analyze movies in their thematic content and cinematic aspects, write movie reviews, and enact selected scenes from the movies discussed. Readings and guided field trips enhance students’ understanding, along with a daily Spanish language class emphasizing listening, speaking, reading, and writing. (HU) Pinto-Bailey. Spring 2015
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 instructor consent. 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 consent 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 instructor consent. 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 Spanish Literature and Culture
Credits: 3 in fall or winter, 4 in spring
This course offers students the opportunity to further their understanding of the literature and culture of Spain by focusing on a specific literary and/or cultural topic unique to Spain, on a specific cultural moment in Spanish history, or on a region of Spain. Readings. discussions. and assignments occur primarily in Spanish. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
SPAN 309 - History of the Spanish Language
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
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
Planned Offering: Spring
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
Planned Offering: Winter 2015 and every third year
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
Winter 2015:
SPANISH 320: Digital Don Quijote (3). Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and 275. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of this timeless work by Miguel de Cervantes – the first modern novel and source of such current expressions as “tilting at windmills” – students work individually and collaboratively on a Don Quijote website that allows us to better capture the nuances of the text and understand its enduring appeal. While close reading and discussion of the novel itself (and additional narrative and poetic genres of the Golden Age, represented in the work) is the basis of the course, the digital humanities component (the website) constitutes much of the assessed components of the course, instead of more traditional graded assignments. (HL) Campbell.
SPAN 322 - Spanish Golden-Age Drama
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: 2015-2016 and every third year
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
Planned Offering: Fall 2017 and every third year.
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
Planned Offering: 2015 and alternate years
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
Planned Offering: 2014 and alternate years
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
Planned Offering: Winter 2015
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
Planned Offering: Winter 2017 and every third year.
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
Planned Offering: Winter 2016 and alternate years
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 SPAN 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 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 352 - Voces caribeñas
FDR: HL
Credits: 4
Prerequisites: SPAN 240, SPAN 275, 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 2015 and alternate years
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 390 - Topics in Latin American Culture and Literature
FDR: HL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
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
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisite: SPAN 275 and three credits at the 200 level. 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.
Winter 2015 topic:
SPAN 392: Spanish Language Theory and Practice: Power and Ideology: Critical Discourse Perspectives (3). This course examines some important theoretical frameworks applied to the (critical) analysis of discourse, in particular political and media discourse. Through a selection of readings, this course addresses the relationship between language and social processes–such as ideology, power, exclusion and discrimination–observing how ideological meaning is discursively created, shaped and re-defined by social actors. Reyes.
Fall 2014 topic:
SPAN 392: Spanish Language Theory and Practice: Planning and Use in the Spanish Context (3). Prerequisite: SPAN 275 and three credits at the 200 level. This course explores the processes involved in the standardization of a language, in particular the Spanish language, as a social and political construct. At the same time, the course analyzes areas of standard language that are problematic for non-native speakers of Spanish. Reyes
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
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
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. 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 if the topics are different.
Fall 2014 topic:
SPAN 397: Peninsular Seminar: Medieval Spanish Literature. (3): Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. This course surveys the major works of Medieval Spanish literature, taking into account the widest possible sampling of literary forms and authors, from the first literary text in Castilian Spanish, Cantar de mio Cid (c. 1207), Galician-Portuguese lyric poetry, Marian miracle stories, wisdom literature, satirical verse, pre-Renaissance love lyric, and the parody of courtly-love drama La Celestina (1499). The texts are read in their original language, with translations to English and vocabulary aids to assist in comprehension as needed. (HL) Bailey.
SPAN 398 - Spanish-American Seminar
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
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
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 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 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 if the topics are different.
Winter 2015 topic:
SPAN 403-01: Directed Independent Study: Antonio Machado: Campos de Castilla (3). The course will examine the evolution of the poetry of Antonio Machado as evidenced in his book, Campos de Castilla. It will focus on three major aspects of the content of the book: the attempt to create a contemporary ballad in Tierras de Alvargonzález, Machado´s expression of personal grief in the cycle of poems dedicated to his deceased wife, and Machado´s political and moral vision of the Spain of his time. Work will include the oral and written analyses of individual poems as well as the preparation of appropriate digital materials. The course will meet six hours per week for six weeks. Boetsch
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