2019-2020 University Catalog archived
Course Descriptions
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SOAN 225 - Peoples of Central Europe Through Literature and Film
FDR: SS4
Credits: 4
This course provides basic information about the citizens of Central European nations of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Beliefs, attitudes, and value systems of the people of Central Europe are examined against the backdrop of major historical events of the 20th century. Core textbook readings are supplemented by feature films, video materials, novels, short stories, plays, and poetry. Class discussions focus on interpreting these works of art in the context of comparative historical-sociological analysis of the Polish, Czech, and Hungarian cultures and societies. Jasiewicz.
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SOAN 228 - Race and Ethnic Relations
FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
An examination of why and how society creates and maintains racial and ethnic boundaries in the US. We discuss some of the crucial questions, which include: What conditions constitute a privileged group and an oppressed group? Why and how do racial/ethnic minority groups, the poor, and women experience discrimination, oppression, and exclusion in social life? Is there any racial discrimination against privileged racial/ethnic groups? How can ordinary people, policymakers, and social scientists contribute to improving race and ethnic relations among different social groups in the US? Mondal.
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SOAN 230 - Discovering W&L’s Origins Using Historical Archaeology
(HIST 230) FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
Not open to students who have taken SOAN 181 with the same description. This course introduces students to the practice of historical archaeology using W&L’s Liberty Hall campus and ongoing excavations there as a case study. With archaeological excavation and documentary research as our primary sources of data. we use the methods of these two disciplines to analyze our data using tools from the digital humanities to present our findings. Critically, we explore the range of questions and answers that these data and methods of analysis make possible. Hands-on experience with data collection and analysis is the focus of this course, with students working together in groups deciding how to interpret their findings to a public audience about the university’s early history. The final project varies by term but might include a short video documentary. a museum display, or a web page. Gaylord.
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SOAN 238 - Anthropology of American History
(HIST 238) FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. This course explores issues within historic American communities that ethnographers often investigate among living groups, including cultural values, religious ideologies, class structures, kinship networks, gender roles, and interethnic relations. Although the communities of interest in this course ceased to exist generations ago, many of their characteristic dynamics are accessible through such means as archaeology, architectural history, and the study of documents. Case studies include early English settlement in Plymouth, Massachusetts; the 18th-century plantation world of Virginia and South Carolina; the post-Revolutionary Maine frontier; and 19th-century California. Bell.
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SOAN 240 - Food, Culture, and Society
FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
This course explores connections among food, culture, and society. Food has been an essential way that individuals and societies define themselves, especially now in our ever globalizing world, as cultural anthropology continues to be a central discipline guiding this field of study. Students review some of the classic symbolic and structural analyses of gastro-politics. We explore relationships between fast-food/globalized taste vs. the Slow Food Movement/localized taste, and delve into socioeconomic and political practices behind the production and consumption of coffee, milk products, and alcoholic beverages. Students investigate relationships among cooking/eating and race, gender, and sexuality, and discuss community food justice. Opportunities to experience the Rockbridge area food scene are integrated into the syllabus. Goluboff.
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SOAN 243 - Imaging Tibet
(ARTH 243) FDR: HA
Credits: 4
An examination of images and imaging practices of the early 1900s to the present in order to define and analyze the ways in which both Western and Asian (particularly Tibetan and Chinese) artists have imagined Tibet and its people. Kerin.
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SOAN 245 - European Politics and Society
(POL 245) FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
A comparative analysis of European political systems and social institutions. The course covers the established democracies of western and northern Europe, the new democracies of southern and east-central Europe, and the post-Communist regimes in eastern and southeastern Europe. Mechanisms of European integration are also discussed with attention focused on institutions such as European Union, NATO, OSCE, and Council of Europe. Jasiewicz.
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SOAN 246 - Post-Communism and New Democracies
(POL 246) FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
A comparative analysis of transition from Communism in the countries of the former Soviet bloc. Cases of successful and unsuccessful transitions to civil society, pluralist democracy, and market economy are examined. The comparative framework includes analysis of transition from non-Communist authoritarianism and democratic consolidation in selected countries of Latin America, the Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, and South Africa. Jasiewicz.
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SOAN 250 - Revolutions and Revolutionaries
FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
An exploration of the experiences of activists, radicals, and revolutionaries in a wide variety of settings. Throughout history, individuals have organized with others to bring about different forms of social change. What is it like to be on the front lines fighting for social transformation? Why do people risk life and limb to do so? How do activists advance their goals? We examine sociological research, biographical studies, political theory, and historical sources for insights into the lives of those who make social and revolutionary movements possible. Perez.
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SOAN 252 - Language, Culture, and Communication
FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
This course surveys anthropological approaches to understanding the intersections among language, culture and society. Topics include non-human communication systems, the origins of human language, and methods of establishing historical relationships among languages. Formal linguistic analysis receives some attention, but the greatest part of the course concerns language in sociocultural contexts. Examples of linguistic phenomena in ethnographic perspective are drawn from people around the world, including the Gullah, the Apache, and the Bedouin of Egypt. Bell.
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SOAN 253 - Narrating Our Stories: Culture, Society, and Identity
(POV 253) FDR: SS4
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 3
Taught at Augusta Correctional Center with an equal number of W&L and incarcerated students. Use insights from sociology, anthropology, and the humanities, students uncover how cultural metaphors, socioeconomic inequalities, and global realities inform and shape our identities and experiences. By reading different story-telling formats, we work towards recognizing how the ways we tell our stories impact our ability to see new outcomes and reshape cultural scenarios for ourselves, our families, and our communities. We utilize the Inside-Out Model for class instruction and assignments. Goluboff.
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SOAN 256 - The History of Violence in America
(HIST 256) FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. An examination of the social origins, evolution, and major forms of extralegal, violent conflict in the United States, including individual and collective violence and conflict related to race, class, gender, politics, and ethnicity, especially emphasizing the 19th and 20th centuries. Major topics include theories of social conflict, slavery and interracial violence, predatory crime, labor strife, and inter-ethnic violence. Senechal.
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SOAN 261 - Campus Sex in the Digital Age
FDR: SS4
Credits: 4
This class explores how the cell phone has impacted hooking up and dating at college, with particular attention to Washington and Lee University as a case study. We discuss the development of campus sexual culture in America and the influence of digital technology on student sociality. Students use open-source digital research tools to analyze data they collect on the mobile apps they use to socialize with each other on campus. As a digital humanities project, students work in groups to post their analyses on the class WordPress site. Goluboff.
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SOAN 263 - Poverty and Marginality in the Americas
FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
In recent decades, some global transformations have increased inequality and marginality in various regions of the world. Neoliberalism has generated both opportunities and challenges to human development In different countries. This course focuses on how the undermining of safety nets, the decline of models of economic growth centered on state intervention, and the internationalization of labor markets have affected societies in Latin America and the United States. Students analyze the structural causes of marginality and how the experience of poverty varies for people in both regions. We rely on anthropological and sociological studies to address key questions. How do disadvantaged individuals and families in the Americas deal with the challenges brought about by deindustrialization, violence, and environmental degradation? How do their communities struggle to sustain public life? What are the processes causing many people to migrate from one region to the other? Perez.
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SOAN 265 - Exploring Social Networks
FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
This course is an introduction to network analysis. Students learn some of the major network analysis literature in sociology and related fields and develop their skills as network analysts in laboratory sessions. Social science, humanities, business, and public health applications are emphasized. Eastwood
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SOAN 266 - Neighborhoods, Culture, and Poverty
FDR: SS3
Credits: 3
This course examines social-scientific research on the determinants of poverty, crime, and ill health by focusing on neighborhoods as the sites where many of the mechanisms impacting these outcomes operate. In addition to engaging with key readings and participating in seminar discussions, students conduct their own exploratory analyses of neighborhood level processes using a variety of spatial data analysis tools in R. Eastwood.
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SOAN 267 - Simulating Society
FDR: SS5
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SOAN 101 or 102 or instructor consent. This course is an introduction to computational social science, a rapidly growing field that spans the boundaries of several disciplines. It focuses on complex phenomena such as the spread of rumors, cascades of collective action, dynamics of inter-group violence, housing segregation, and related processes. To analyze such processes, we can make use of agent-based models. In this course, students read and discuss key works in this area of research. They also explore simulations of social processes and develop their own simulations. No programming background is required or expected. Eastwood.
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SOAN 268 - Migration, Identity, and Conflict
(POL 268) FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SOAN 102, POV 101, or POL 105. This course focuses on the complex relationship between migration, political institutions, group identities, and inter-group conflict. The course is a hybrid of a seminar and research lab in which students (a) read some of the key social-scientific literature on these subjects, and (b) conduct team-based research making use of existing survey data about the integration of migrant populations into various polities. Eastwood.
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SOAN 269 - Studying Global Culture with the World Values Survey
FDR: SS5
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Previous exposure to regression analysis, though regression is reviewed during the first week of the course. Analysis of data from the World Values Survey, a major source for studying global culture and cultural change. We read scholarly works that have made use of these data and carry out our own analyses of WVS data as consider questions about religious belief, political values, and social attitudes across the world. Eastwood.
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SOAN 270 - Deviance
FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
An examination of theories of deviance from a sociological perspective. Particular emphasis is placed on the causes of deviant acts and on the social processes utilized in evaluating these behaviors. Theoretical applications are made to crime and mental illness. Novack.
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SOAN 276 - Art & Science of Survey Research
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SOAN 102 or instructor consent. This course is designed as a group research project in questionnaire construction and survey data analysis. Students prepare a list of hypotheses, select indicators, construct a questionnaire, collect and analyze data, and write research reports. When appropriate, the course may include service-learning components (community-based research projects). Jasiewicz.
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SOAN 277 - Seminar in Medical Anthropology
FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
Despite radical differences in theory and procedure, the diagnosis and treatment of diseases are human cultural universals. This seminar first examines the beliefs and practices that comprise the medical systems found among a wide variety of non-western peoples. We then investigates the responses of a number of non-western communities to the introduction of western, biomedical practices. We finish by considering such ethical issues as whether or not non-western peoples who supply western doctors and pharmacologists with knowledge of curing agents should be accorded intellectual property rights over this information; in what situations, if any, should western medical personnel impose biomedical treatments on populations; and should anthropologists make use of indigenous peoples as medical trial subjects as was allegedly done by Napoleon Chagnon. Markowitz.
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SOAN 278 - Health and Inequality: An Introduction to Medical Sociology
FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
This course introduces sociological perspectives of health and illness. Students examine topics such as social organization of medicine; the social construction of illness; class, race and gender inequalities in health; and health care reform. Some of the questions we address: How is the medical profession changing? What are the pros and cons of market-driven medicine? Does class have an enduring impact on health outcomes? Is it true that we are what our friends’ eat? Can unconscious racial bias affect the quality of care for people of different ethnicities? What pitfalls have affected the way evidence-based medicine has been carried out? Chin.
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SOAN 280 - Gender and Sexuality
FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
An investigation of gender cross culturally. Special consideration is given to the roles of biology, cultural variation, identity, and power in determining patterns of male dominance. Emphasis is placed on changing relationships between men and women in American society. Goluboff.
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SOAN 281 - Adolescence Under the Microscope
FDR: SS4
Credits: 4
This course focuses on adolescence through the lens of social psychology. Insights from sociology, anthropology, and psychology are employed to explicate the adolescent experience in the United States in contrast to other societies. Topics include: the impact of liminality on adolescent identity in cross-cultural perspective; adolescence as objective reality or cultural fiction; adolescence and peer relations, gender and suicide; and new technologies and virtual adolescence. Each student engages in a research project focusing on adolescence and identity through either interviews or observational techniques. The final project is a group analysis of adolescence as reflected in Facebook. D. Novack and L. Novack
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SOAN 285 - Introduction to American Indian Religions
(REL 285) FDR: HU
Credits: 3
This class introduces students to some of the dominant themes, values, beliefs, and practices found among the religions of North America’s Indian peoples. The first part of the course explores the importance of sacred power, landscape, and community in traditional Indian spiritualities and rituals. It then examines some of the changes that have occurred in these traditions as a result of western expansion and dominance from the 18th through early 20th centuries. Lastly, the course considers some of the issues and problems confronting contemporary American Indian religions. Markowitz.
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SOAN 286 - Lakota Land Culture, Economics and History
(ECON 286) FDR: SS4
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: ECON 100 or 101 or instructor consent. This class focuses on the cultural, economic, and historical dimensions of the Lakotas’ (Titonwan tawapi) ties to their lands as expressed in their pre- and post-reservation lifeways. It includes a 10 day field trip to western South Dakota to visit and meet with people in the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations and the Black Hills. (Adapted for virtual instruction in Spring 2020 due to COVID-19 global health pandemic.) Guse, Markowitz.
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SOAN 288 - Childhood
FDR: SS4
Credits: 3
This course explores the experience of childhood cross culturally, investigating how different societies conceptualize what it means to be a child. Our readings progress through representations of the lifecycle, starting with a discussion of conception, and moving through issues pertaining to the fetus, infants, children, and adolescents. We discuss socialization, discipline, emotion, education, gender, and sexuality, with special attention given to the effects of war, poverty, social inequality, and disease on children and youth.
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SOAN 290 - Special Topics in Sociology
Credits: 3 in Fall or Winter, 3 or 4 in Spring
A discussion of a series of topics of sociological concern. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Spring 2020, SOAN 290-01: Topic: Global Urban Sociology (3). An exploration of the complexities of city life in an increasingly globalized world, focusing on three broad topics. First, we examine the challenges caused by urbanization in both developed and developing societies: how to provide basic services for urban residents, avoid environmental degradation, and mitigate poverty, inequality, and violence. Second, we discuss the economic role that cities have played during different historical periods. Third, we consider how urban life may change in the future, looking especially at technology and climate change. Perez.
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SOAN 291 - Special Topics in Anthropology
Credits: 3-4
A discussion of a series of topics of anthropological concern. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Winter 2020, SOAN 291A-01: American Indian Ethnohistory (3). No prerequisites. One of the major goals of modern ethnohistory is to use historical and anthropological methods to uncover the understandings that non-western peoples have of their own histories. This seminar introduces students to the theoretical and methodological principles of ethnohistorical research and their application to North American Indian peoples. Participants first study American Indian conceptions of time and their relationship to the criteria by which tribal communities selected and comprehended the events comprising their histories. Students then examine how Indian tribes from different parts of North America, including the Southwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Plains interpreted, evaluated, and responded to their encounters with colonial and the United States governments. Markowitz.
Winter 2020, SOAN 291B-01: Archaeology of Inequality (3). Archaeological evidence indicates that Homo sapiens lived more than 100,000 years in relatively egalitarian bands. Signs of routinized inequality–structured, often hereditary differences in access to resources–appear in several parts of the globe beginning some 10,000 years ago. How did egalitarian people devise and accept or negotiate inequity? How are inequality and struggles against it visible archaeologically in prehistoric and historic eras? We consider these issues on global, national, and local scales. Students read case studies from sites around the world and work with artifacts from the W&L “back campus.” The Liberty Hall Academy tract was an academic landscape for a short time (c. 1780s-1803) and a plantation for generations (c. 1804-1860s). Artifacts excavated on the premises provide students opportunity to explore inter-related dynamics of racial, gender, and socio-economic hierarchies. A. Bell
Spring 2020, SOAN 291-02: Artifacts, Maps, & Archives: An Ethno-Historic Approach to W&L’s Past (3). Applying interdisciplinary methods to study four centuries of W&L material culture and historic records. We use these items to uncover additional stories about W&L founders, its evolving curriculum, and buildings. We visit multiple collections of art, ceramics, artifacts, and documents on campus, and walk several miles across on- and off-campus historic landscapes, including local graveyards. Students synthesize this material and produce several deliverables: (1) additional historic layers to the online campus map (campusmap.wlu.edu); (2) a poster for the term-ending Spring Festival; and (3) biographical sketches of under-studied members of the W&L community. Rainville.
Fall 2019, SOAN 291A-01: Topic in Anthropology: Consumer Cultures (3). No prerequisites. Appropriate for all class years. “It is extraordinary to discover that no one knows why people want goods,” or so observed a famous pair of authors – one an anthropologist, the other an economist – in 1979. What, since then, have anthropology and interrelated disciplines learned about consumer desire? This course considers human interaction with the material world in a variety of cultures, periods, and scales. From socio-cultural and political perspectives, what do consumers hope to accomplish by buying, patronizing, or using products like Barbies, bottled water, French fries, blue jeans, tattoos, and piercings? How does consumerism facilitate claims to social connection, personal identity, and meaning? How do potentially constructive roles of buying “stuff” relate to debt, environmental over-exploitation, hoarding, and the Marie Kondo phenomenon? Bell.
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SOAN 367 - Seminar: 9/11 & Modern Terrorism
(HIST 367) FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Terrorism is a form of collective violence famously illustrated in the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon near Washington on September 11, 2001. This course provides an intensive interdisciplinary examination of the origins of the 9/11 attacks and the terrorist organization that launched them. The course also addresses the impact of the attacks and the future prospects of mass violence against civilians, as well as the role of the media in covering (and dramatizing) terrorism. Much of the course focuses on the social divisions and conflicts that lead to terrorism and its increasingly lethal nature over time. Topics include “old terrorism” (as seen in Northern Ireland and Algeria), “new terrorism” (such as that associated with Al Qaeda), the logic of terrorist recruitment, and the nature of and spread of weapons of mass destruction. Senechal.
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SOAN 370 - Theorizing Social Life: Classical Approaches
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SOAN 101, SOAN 102, and at least junior standing. Sociologists and anthropologists have traditionally approached their role as students of social and cultural phenomena from two different paradigmatic starting points: a so-called “Galilean” model and an “Aristotelian” model. Practitioners were thought that they could eventually arrive at covering laws as powerful as those of physics or, falling short of this ideal, arrive at significant generalizations about human phenomenon. This class explores the trajectory of this paradigmatic split among some of the founders of sociology and anthropology and how these theorists utilized their chosen paradigms to make sense of social and cultural life. We also explore the assumptions about human nature, society, and culture that informed each of these theorists approaches and the wider historical contexts influenced their thought. Staff.
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SOAN 371 - Theorizing Social Life: Contemporary Approaches
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SOAN 101, 102, and at least junior standing. This course is an introduction to selected recent theoretical work in anthropology and sociology. Our two disciplines are not the same but they overlap. The best scholars in each discipline tend to read in both. We take such an approach in this course, looking at examples of (and opportunities for) cross-pollination. Staff.
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SOAN 390 - Special Topics in Sociology
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: May vary by topic. A discussion of a series of topics of sociological concern. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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SOAN 391 - Special Topics in Anthropology
Credits: 3
Permission of the department required. Topics and prerequisites to be arranged. A discussion of a series of topics of anthropological concern. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
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SOAN 395 - Senior Seminar in Social Analysis
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SOAN 102 as well as completion of Group 3 Methods Requirements for the SOAN major. This course is designed as a capstone experience for majors with the sociology emphasis. Students, utilizing their knowledge of sociological theory and research methods, design and execute independent research projects, typically involving secondary analysis of survey data. Working on a subject of their choice, students learn how to present research questions and arguments, formulate research hypotheses, test hypotheses through univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analyses (utilizing appropriate statistical packages such as SPSS), and write research reports. Jasiewicz.
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SOAN 396 - Senior Seminar in Anthropological Analysis
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SOAN 101 and completion of Group 3 Methods requirements for the SOAN major. In this course, senior SOAN majors with an emphasis in anthropology review, augment, and synthesize their understandings of anthropological theory, methods, substantive findings, and ethical issues. To do so, we share common readings on research methods and the integration of anthropological method and theory, and we sustain a term-long workshop focused on students’ research projects and papers. Each student identifies a topic of interest. Consulting with peers and the instructor, each student considers analytical methods and theoretical orientations, identifies appropriate sources, and proposes a course of research and writing. Once the proposal is vetted, students pursue their research designs and circulate partial drafts for peer and instructor review. They produce a final paper and present their findings orally with visual accompaniment to the class. Staff.
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SOAN 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: Permission of the department. A course for selected students, typically with junior or senior standing, who are preparing papers for presentation to professional meetings or for publication. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different. Staff.
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SOAN 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: Departmental consent required. A course for selected students, typically with junior or senior standing, who are preparing papers for presentation to professional meetings or for publication. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different. Staff.
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SOAN 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Departmental consent required. A course for selected students with junior and senior standing, especially for honors students, with direction by different members of the department. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different. Staff.
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SOAN 421 - Directed Individual Research
Experiential Learning (EXP): YES
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. A course for selected students with direction by different members of the department. May be repeated for degree credit with department consent and if the topics are different.
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SOAN 422 - Directed Individual Research
Experiential Learning (EXP): YES
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. A course for selected students with direction by different members of the department. May be repeated for degree credit with department consent and if the topics are different.
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SOAN 423 - Directed Individual Research
Experiential Learning (EXP): YES
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. A course for selected students with direction by different members of the department. May be repeated for degree credit with department consent and if the topics are different.
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SOAN 493 - Honors Thesis
Credits: 3-3
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SPAN 111 - Elementary Spanish I
Credits: 4
Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing. Staff.
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SPAN 112 - Elementary Spanish II
Credits: 4
Prerequisites: SPAN 111. Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing. Staff.
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SPAN 161 - Intermediate Spanish I
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SPAN 112 or departmental consent as a result of placement examination for entering students. Intensive, concentrated course in review grammar and reading, with practice in listening and speaking. Staff.
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SPAN 162 - Intermediate Spanish II
FDR: FL
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 161 or equivalent language skills and departmental permission. Intensive, concentrated course in review grammar and reading, with practice in listening and speaking. Staff.
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SPAN 164 - Advanced Intermediate Spanish
FDR: FL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Departmental consent 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.
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SPAN 200 - Service Learning Practicum in Spanish
Credits: 1
Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. An obligatory corequisite to Spanish courses when the course instructor deems it appropriate. The course comprises activities outside the classroom conducted in conjunction with the academic focus of the corequisite course with which it is taught. Staff.
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SPAN 201 - Supervised Study Abroad: Costa Rica
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent and instructor consent. Spring Term Abroad course. Direct exposure to the language, people, and culture of Costa Rica. Designed to improve grammar and vocabulary of the advanced student through intensive training in Spanish with special emphasis on oral proficiency. The program also includes a home-stay with a Costa Rican family, excursions to local and national sites of interest, cultural activities, and a service-learning component at the local elementary school, hospital, law and accounting firms, or other community agencies. Staff.
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SPAN 204 - Conversational Skills
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent. Development of speaking skills for communication in Spanish. Acquisition and use of practical vocabulary and development of pronunciation skills. Staff.
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SPAN 205 - Spanish for Healthcare Professionals
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164 or equivalent. This course is for students with an advanced intermediate level of Spanish who are considering professions relating to healthcare including physicians, nurses, physical therapists, paramedics, firefighters, law enforcement, health policy, workers, medical attorneys, and hospital administrators. The course emphasizes oral comprehension while examining a diversity of factors influencing the health of Hispanic patients. A primary goal is to learn to conduct a complete medical interview in Spanish via a blend of readings, discussions, films, role-playing, and writing assignments. Students develop their ability to read, write, and converse in Spanish using information and vocabulary pertaining to the medical sciences and healthcare, and they gain cultural awareness and insights into Hispanic peoples and cultures. Michelson.
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SPAN 209 - Intro to Hispanic Linguistics
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent. This course provides a broad view of major subfields of linguistic study with a particular focus on data drawn from the Spanish language. Class discussions begin with broader questions, such as “What is language?” and “How do language and human behavior intersect?”; throughout the term students revisit those questions in light of topics presented in class. By the end of the course, students demonstrate an understanding of the many facets of the Spanish language and also the linguistic principles as can be applied to any language. The course covers major concepts in Spanish phonology and phonetics, Spanish morphology and syntax, and lastly, Spanish dialectology. Reyes.
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SPAN 211 - Spanish Civilization and Culture
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164 or the equivalent in language skills. A survey of significant developments in Spanish civilization. The course addresses Spanish heritage and the present-day cultural patterns formed by its legacies. Readings, discussions and papers, primarily in Spanish, for further development of communication skills. Staff.
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SPAN 212 - Spanish-American Civilization and Culture
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164 or equivalent. A survey of significant developments in Spanish-American civilizations. The course addresses Spanish-American heritage and the present-day cultural patterns formed by its legacies. Readings, discussions and papers primarily in Spanish for further development of communication skills. Staff.
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SPAN 213 - Seville and the Foundations of Spanish Civilization
FDR: HU
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 and instructor consent. This course takes place in Seville, Spain, and uses this privileged location to study the cultures of Foundational Spain. Primary focus is on the medieval and Renaissance periods, from the troubled co-existence of Muslims, Jews, and Christians to the Christian reconquest and subsequent Empire. Significant cultural currents are examined through texts (literary, historical, and religious), direct contact with art and architecture through site visits, and with hands-on exposure to early and contemporary cuisine. Students live in homestays, attend daily classes, participate in site visits, and engage with the local culture independently and through planned activities. Bailey.
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SPAN 214 - Contemporary Spain in Context: (Re)searching Spanish Identity and Culture in the 21st Century
FDR: HU
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 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.
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SPAN 216 - Living on the Edge: Identities in Motion in Argentina and Uruguay
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 and instructor consent. Conducted in Spanish in Argentina and Uruguay, this course comprises a study of Argentine culture, language, and identity. Students live in Buenos Aires with Spanish-speaking families while pursuing coursework on identity in local, national, and international contexts. What does geography have to do with identity? How might a nation redefine its policies and peoples over time? Where does the line exist between an economic system and its individual constituents? And what insights can art offer into domestic and international conflict? This course engages such questions through the study of Argentine historiography, literature, economics, and art. Coursework is accentuated by visits to sites of cultural importance in Argentina and Uruguay, including museums, banks, literary presses, political centers, meat markets, parks, and tango houses. Michelson.
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SPAN 220 - Introducción a la literatura española
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent. Spanish literary masterpieces from the Poema del Cid through the present. Readings and discussions are primarily in Spanish. Staff.
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SPAN 240 - Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent. Spanish-American literary masterpieces from colonial times through the present. Readings and discussions are primarily in Spanish. Staff.
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SPAN 275 - Introducción al análisis literario
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SPAN 220 or 240. Preparation for analysis of Hispanic literature. Composition develops style and method for analyzing prose, poetry, and drama in Spanish. Conversation continues vocabulary building and concentrates on discussion of literary themes. Staff.
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SPAN 290 - Topics in Latin American Culture and Literature
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: May vary with topic. This course offers students the opportunity to further their knowledge of the culture and literature of a specific Latin American country, and their awareness of Latin America in general, through the study of special cultural and literary topics. Readings, discussions, and assignments occur primarily in Spanish. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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SPAN 291 - Poetry Workshop
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or164, and by instructor consent. A poetry workshop taught in Spanish. Students read, write, and critique poetry with the faculty member in both the workshop setting and in individual conferences. The course also includes exercises in the translation and recitation of poetry. The topical focus of the course varies by academic term. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Glasgow Writer in Residence and Romance Language Faculty.
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SPAN 295 - Special Topics in Conversation
Credits: 3 in fall, winter; 4 in spring
Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent. Further development of listening and speaking skills necessary for advanced discussion. Acquisition of both practical and topic-specific vocabulary. Appropriate writing and reading assignments, related to the topic, accompany the primary emphasis on conversational skills. Recent topics include: Hispanic Cinema and La Prensa. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Winter 2020, SPAN 295A-01: Special Topics in Conversation: Vivir Nen Communidad (3). Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent. ESOL community-based learning component. Counts towards the requirements for the RL major and the LACS minor (with Prof. Botta’s permission in advance). Experiential Learning. 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. Class time is devoted primarily to students meeting small groups or as a large group for extensive conversation in order to enhance aural and oral skills and to develop a deeper understanding of migration in the Spanish-speaking/Latinx world, including in Rockbridge County. Assignments require application of all language skills. In 2020, the course has a special emphasis on community-based learning, with each student working 1-2 hours each week using Spanish in different community sectors of Rockbridge County. In addition, class discussions will treat the themes of the students’ community-based experiences and of issues and current events of Latinas/os/xs in the U.S. Mayock.
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SPAN 296 - Topics in Hispanic Culture and Expression
Credits: 3 in fall or winter, 4 in spring
Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent. This course offers students the opportunity to further their understanding of Hispanic cultures and their expression by focusing on a relevant cultural, linguistic or literary topic, on an historical period, or on a region of Spain, Latin America or the U.S. Readings, discussions, and assignments are primarily in Spanish. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Winter 2020, SPAN 296A-01: Topic in Hispanic Culture and Expression: Los Hispanos en EEUU (3). Prerequisite: SPAN 162, 164, or equivalent. This civilization and culture course examines the presence of major Latino cultural groups in the United States. Special attention is given to Mexican-American, Cuban, and Puerto Rican diaspora, with secondary attention to populations from the Northern Triangle countries of Central America. In particular, the course focuses on the manifestations of cultural and artistic expression by exploring questions of identity, as influenced by heritage, assimilation, hybridity, and immigration and exile. For each group, the study takes into account the past (civilization and cultural legacies) as well as the present (socio-political circumstances). In this way, we hope to answer fundamental cultural questions such as: What are the prevalent demographic and cultural characteristics of many Latino groups in the US? How might they differ? What are the historical roots that distinguish them? What impact will these and future groups have on US society at large? And, how do visual and literary artists reflect their own personal histories within a given culture? Class discussion and writing assignments are mostly in Spanish; reading assignments in English and Spanish. In addition to select chapters from a civilization reader, we read brief excerpts from several major diasporic writers such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Esmeralda Santiago, Uva de Aragón, and Achy Obejas. Sandra Cisneros’ La casa en Mango Street is be read in its entirety. Barnett.
Spring 2020, SPAN 296-01: Social and Cultural Practices in Spain: The Construction of National Identity (4). Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164, or instructor consent. An examination of contemporary socio-cultural practices contributing to a multiplicity of understandings and manifestations of Spain, its cultures, and its peoples. Students investigate and discuss different aspects of the diversity of Spanish cultures in order to understand better the complexity of the notion of a Spanish national identity. Reyes.
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SPAN 308 - Power and Ideology: (Critical) Discourse Perspectives
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SPAN 275. This course explores different theoretical approaches to account for the relationship of language and power, and therefore the relationship between language use and social processes. In particular, it observes how meaning is constructed and reconstructed in discourse, especially by the dominant classes with access to public discourse: politicians, academics, journalists, etc., whose messages generally reach and influence large audiences. For this reason, political discourse is an important source of data to observe how social actors employ specific linguistic choices to achieve political goals. Reyes.
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SPAN 309 - History of the Spanish Language
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SPAN 275 and an additional three credits at the 200 level. An introduction to the field of historical linguistics and to the genealogy and development of the Spanish language. It begins with an introduction to the field of historical linguistics: essentially, what it means to study the history of a language, the concept of linguistic change, and the types of language families. This is followed by the study of the genealogy and the development of the Spanish language from its Latin origins to present-day Spanish. These include the examination of the structures and peculiarities of Latin, the cultural and historical events that have influenced the shaping of the Spanish language, the properties of medieval Spanish, the most stubborn linguistic myths, and the development of Spanish outside the Iberian Peninsula, especially in Spanish America. Bailey.
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SPAN 312 - Medieval Spanish Cultures in Context
FDR: HL
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: SPAN 211 or 220 and instructor consent. Spring Term Abroad course. Muslims, Jews, and Christians co-existed for eight-hundred years on the Iberian Peninsula. This course examines these diverse cultures through the texts (literary, historical, religious, and philosophical), the art, and the architecture from the period prior to the arrival of the Arabs in 711, up to and beyond the expulsion of the Jews in 1492. The objective of the course is to glean from the remnants of the experience of their co-existence insights into their distinctive characteristics and how they understood and influenced each other. Bailey.
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SPAN 320 - Don Quijote
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. Close reading and discussion of this Early Modern novel. May include close reading and discussion of additional narrative and poetic genres of the Golden Age, as represented in or contributing to the Cervantine work Campbell.
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SPAN 322 - Spanish Golden-Age Drama
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. Close reading and discussion of a variety of selected Golden Age dramas of the 17th century. Representative dramatists may include Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Lope de Vega, and María de Zayas.
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SPAN 323 - Golden Age Spanish Women Writers
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. A study of the comedia and the novela corta and the manner in which the secular women writers inscribe themselves within and beyond these genres. Close reading and discussion of representative works that may include the short stories and plays by María de Zayas, Ana Caro, Leonor de Meneses, Mariana de Carvajal, and Angela de Azevedo. Campbell.
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SPAN 333 - El Cid in History and Legend
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. A study of the most significant portrayals of the Castilian warrior Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid (1045-1099), from his 12th-century biography Historia Roderici to the Hollywood blockbuster El Cid. Epic poems, late medieval ballads, and Renaissance drama all recreate the legendary life of El Cid. This course examines the relevant narratives in an effort to determine the heroic values and attributes recreated by authors and their audiences for nearly a thousand years. Bailey.
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SPAN 340 - Spanish-American Short Story
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and SPAN 275. A study of the Spanish-American short story with special attention to the works of Quiroga, Borges, Cortázar, and Valenzuela. Barnett.
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SPAN 341 - 20th-Century Mexican Literature: Beyond Revolution
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: SPAN 240 and SPAN 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.
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SPAN 342 - Spanish-American Narrative: The Boom Generation
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and SPAN 275. Readings in the contemporary Spanish-American narrative of the second half of the 20th century with special emphasis on the members of the “Boom” generation, such as Rulfo, Fuentes, García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Carpentier, and Puig. In addition to short narrative pieces, the readings include El Tunel (Ernesto Sábato), El Amor y Otros Demonios (García Márquez), Aura (Carlos Fuentes), Los Pasos Perdidos (Carpentier), and Casa de Los Espiritus (Allende). The class meets once a week for three hours so that we may maximize our time with each novel.
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SPAN 344 - Spanish-American Poetry
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and 275. Analysis of the most relevant poetic texts of Spanish-America, including U.S. Hispanic poetry, beginning with precursors of 20th-century poetry and spanning to contemporary works. Representative works include those by Octavio Paz, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Nicanor Parra, Ernesto Cardenal, Raúl Zurita, among others. Staff.
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SPAN 346 - Poetry in Prison: Immigration. Empathy, and Community Engagement
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and 275. This course emphasizes community-engaged learning through readings of Spanish-American poetry, critical theory, and philosophy on empathy for otherness and immigration across the Hemispheric Americas, in concert with a series of intensive, weekly poetry workshops in the most restrictive maximum-security detention center in the United States for undocumented, unaccompanied youth from Mexico and the Northern Triangle. Invoking and testing insights from the texts in the syllabus, undergraduates work with and for the incarcerated children in term-long partnerships, collaborating in the poetry workshops to respond to a diversity of writing prompts examining the intertwined themes of borders and belonging. Students maintain a writing journal wherein they individually engage in sustained reflection on community needs, course objectives, current events, theorizations of justice, concepts of belonging, empathic philosophies, and affective politics. In this manner, students develop their ability to read, write, and converse in multiple regional varieties of Spanish and gain cultural awareness and insights into Hispanic peoples and culture. Michelson.
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SPAN 347 - Poetry and Power
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and 275. This is a course about reading. We read Spanish-American poetry on power and violence as a way of engaging and investigating the multifaceted and layered historiographies of the region. To intensify our reading, we also “read” a diversity of complementary cultural production, including paintings, murals, and music. Through these self-conscious acts of reading–that is, acts of identifying, evaluating, and critiquing form as much as content–we enhance our ability to analyze and debate ways of defining power in the Americas from within, without, and in liminal zones. Recurring motifs include sexism, racism, classism, and fascism. Michelson.
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SPAN 354 - Spanish-American Theater: 20th Century to the Present
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and SPAN 275. This course provides a panoramic view of the theatrical traditions that have emerged in Spanish-American theater, beginning with the independent theater movement of the 1930s and concluding with the most recent trends in theatrical practices. In particular, the plays are studied as vehicles that reveal how theater practitioners engaged with their historical and cultural contexts in aesthetic terms. Therefore, the focus is also on the plays as performative texts. In order to develop this objective, students are expected to read, discuss, and analyze the dramatic texts, as well as perform scenes from the plays. This course includes works from playwrights such us Arlt, Triana, Diaz, Gambaro, Carballido, Castellanos, and Berman, among others. In addition, we study the political and aesthetic theories of theater developed by Enrique Buenaventura and Augusto Boal. Botta.
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SPAN 380 - Spanish Grammar Rules: The Making of a Language
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Two Spanish courses at the 200 level or instructor consent. This course analyzes areas of the Spanish language that are problematic for non-native speakers of Spanish. At the same time, students explore the processes involved in the standardization of a language, in particular the Spanish language, as a social and political construct. Reyes.
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SPAN 392 - Spanish Language Theory and Practice
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Varies with topic. A topics course that approaches language study through theories of language use and meaning, as well as their practical application through extensive writing exercises. Topics may include translation theory, analysis of theoretical approaches to language study, and advanced grammar. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Fall 2019, SPAN 392A-01: Spanish Language Theory and Practice in Literary Translation (3). Prerequisite: SPAN 275. An advanced seminar devoted to the application, methods, and theories of literary translation. Initial attention is given to the translation of English narrative into Spanish. For this portion, we compare our own translations of oft-translated authors—such as those of Hemingway or Poe—to existing and divergent versions. The majority of the course however is devoted to producing artistic renderings of Spanish and Spanish-American literary texts into English. Students produce individual and collaborative translations of poetry by Pablo Neruda, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, and García Lorca, among others, as well as narrative passages from Ana María Matute, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Jorge Luis Borges. As an example of cross-genre production, we also render 17th-century epic poetry into English prose. The central activity of the course involves the collaborative production of an original translation of a previously non-translated Spanish text into English. Barnett.
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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.
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SPAN 397 - Peninsular Seminar
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. A seminar focusing on a single period, genre, motif, or writer. The specific topic will be determined jointly according to student interest and departmental approval. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Winter 2020, SPAN 397A-01: Peninsular Seminar: Early Modern Spanish Theater: Reading, Writing, and Performing Comedia on Both Sides of the Atlantic. (3). Prerequisites: SPAN 220 and SPAN 275. Much like today’s prestige television, the early modern Spanish theatrical genre known as comedia nueva fused popular and elite entertainment, drawing spectators from every level of society into packed playhouses from Madrid to Mexico City. Comedias were not only blockbusters, however, but also bestsellers, with the burgeoning commercial print market circulating play texts far beyond 16th- and 17th-century stage. In this seminar, we explore the comedia as both a literary phenomenon and as a performance practice; as a transatlantic genre penned not only by elite Peninsular men but also by women, creole, mestizo, and indigenous writers; as a medium to transmit imperial ideology from the metropolis to the periphery; and, simultaneously, as a space for playwrights on the margins of society and empire to explore their identities within these systems of power. Course readings place the works of Peninsular figures, including Lope de Vega and Ana Caro, in dialogue with those of their transatlantic counterparts, from the loas of Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to the Quechua-language comedias of Peruvian playwright Gabriel Centeno de Osma. (HL) Hernández.
Fall 2019, SPAN 397A-01: Peninsular Seminar: Representaciones de la Guerra Civil Española (3). This course examines the fundamental importance of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) in literary and visual texts of the Franco and contemporary periods of Spain. Through these readings, students come to understand the evolution of often conflicting histories, ideologies, obsessions, and artistic notions surrounding the war itself and its consequences. After a review of the events leading up to the Spanish Civil War and of the prelude to the Second World War, we observe how the themes and issues of the war manifest in fiction, poetry, film, and other visual texts, paying particular attention to the Franco regime, the pact of silence, and the desire to uncover the past in myriad ways. Literature includes works by Federico García Lorca, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Carmen Laforet, Alberto Méndez, and Mercè Rodoreda. Visual texts include posters, newspapers, letters, government documents, documentaries, fictional films, and NO-DO reels from the Franco era. Mayock.
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SPAN 398 - Spanish-American Seminar
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and SPAN 275. A seminar focusing on a single period, genre, motif, or writer. Recent topics have included “Spanish American Women Writers: From America into the 21st Century,” “20th Century Latin America Theater,” and “Past, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Argentina’s Cultural Products.” May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Fall 2019, SPAN 398A-01 (3): Spanish-American Seminar: La representación del yo en escritos y documentales latinoamericanos. (3). Prerequisites: SPAN 240 and SPAN 275.The course examines the practices of self-representation through the study of literary and non-literary works, oral narratives, and documentaries. In addition to conceptual discussions of how individuals use fictionalized forms of self-portraiture in diverse Latin-American contexts, special attention is paid to issues of memory, subjectivity, self-empowerment, authority, and audience and addressee, among others. Primary texts focus mainly on the 20th and 21th centuries. (HL) Botta.
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SPAN 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: At least nine credits of 300-level Spanish and permission of the department head. Taught in Spanish. Nature and content of course to be determined by students’ needs and by instructors acquainted with their earlier preparation and performance. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
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SPAN 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
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.
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SPAN 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
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.
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SPAN 493 - Honors Thesis
Credits: 3-3
Prerequisites: Senior standing, honors candidacy, and instructor consent. Interested students should see a member of the Spanish faculty by winter term of their junior year. May not count towards fulfillment of the major requirements.
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SSIR 481 - Student Summer Independent Research
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: Grant funding and dean’s consent. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. W&L-funded support for students to pursue their own research or creative interest, with the mentorship of a faculty member. Students work 18-35 hours per week for no fewer than four weeks and prepare a research report. Staff.
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SSIR 482 - Student Summer Independent Research
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: Grant funding and dean’s consent. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. W&L-funded support for students to pursue their own research or creative interest, with the mentorship of a faculty member. Students work 18-35 hours per week for no fewer than four weeks and prepare a research report. Staff.
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SSIR 483 - Student Summer Independent Research
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Grant funding and dean’s consent. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. W&L-funded support for students to pursue their own research or creative interest, with the mentorship of a faculty member. Students work 18-35 hours per week for no fewer than four weeks and prepare a research report. Staff.
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DANC 201 - Artistic Identity in Contemporary European Dance
Credits: 2
This course provides an introduction through video and text to influential European dance artists. We explore the contemporary aesthetics of these artists, how their particular culture and society influences, their movement choices, and the ways in which society adapts to their new forms of expression. We examine how art is produced, challenged, and transformed. We study the ways in which these cultures interact and affect one another through dance, examine hybrid styles, and explore ethnic and national identity in a global society. This class provides a framework for further exploration in the Spring term course, DANC 202: Dance Europe Davies.
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THTR 100 - Introduction to Theater
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
An introduction to drama and the theater arts, including a brief historical survey, selected examples of dramatic literature, and a sequence on theater disciplines such as acting, designing, and directing. Staff.
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THTR 109 - University Theater
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Participation in a university theater production for a minimum of 40 hours. A journal recording the production process is required. May be repeated for degree credit with permission. Maximum seven credits for students with a major or minor in theater, eight credits for others. Staff.
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THTR 121 - Script Analysis for Stage and Screen
(FILM 121) FDR: HL
Credits: 3
The study of selected plays and screenplays from the standpoint of the theatre and screen artists. Emphasis on thorough examination of the scripts preparatory to production. This course is focused on developing script analysis skills directly applicable to work in production. Students work collaboratively in various creative capacities to transform texts into productions. Sandberg, Levy, Collins, Evans.
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THTR 131 - Fundamentals of Theater Art
FDR: HA
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 3
Corequisite: THTR 132 An introduction to modern theater practice involving two hours of lecture per week and participation of approximately 45-60 hours of work in a large-scale production spread throughout the term. A practical course, emphasizing scene-craft, stage lighting, and prop making. The student applies the methods and theories discussed in class to work on actual productions. Laboratory course with THTR 132. Staff.
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THTR 132 - Laboratory for Fundamentals of Theater Art
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 1
Corequisite: THTR 131. An introduction to modern theater practice involving four hours of laboratory work per week. A practical course, emphasizing scenecraft, stage lighting, and prop making. The student applies the methods and theories discussed in class to work on actual productions. Staff.
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THTR 141 - Stage Acting 1
FDR: HA
Credits: 3
An introduction to acting for the stage. In this hands-on class, students learn and develop physical and vocal techniques for text-based and improvisational performance, focusing on relationships, objectives, and actions. Work includes in-class scene presentations from modern scripts. Levy, Mish.
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THTR 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
Credits: 3
First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. First-year seminar.
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