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Discover CATALAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is excited to offer new courses exploring Catalan Language and Culture for Fall 2019! FALL 2019 CATALAN/SPANISH 291 Introduction to Catalan Language and Culture Susanna Coll Section 001: TTh 10-11:30 am #27709/#27749 Section 002: TTh 11:30 am-1 pm #27710/#27750 This course is an introduction to Catalan language, culture, and history. The principal aim is to acquire a more profound understanding of the history, politics, society and culture of the Catalan world through listening, writing, reading and speaking activities in Catalan. Language will be used through communicative activities; however, no previous knowledge of Catalan language is required. The class will discuss issues of relevance to Catalan culture and history. Materials will include newspaper articles, cultural readings, movies, videos, short lectures, listening activities, and computer materials. CATALAN/SPANISH 441 Topics in Catalan Literature and Culture Cristina Moreiras-Menor TTh 2:30-4 pm #31012 / #31068 This class is interested in exploring the main cultural, historical and political topics covered by the most important writers and filmmakers from Catalonia and from the Catalan region (“Países Catalanes”). Through their analysis (close readings of both literature and films) the class will discuss topics such as: catalan nationalism, independence, immigration, historical and cultural memory, civil war, gender and nation, urbanism and landscape, the current crisis. We will concentrate on authors and filmmakers in the 20th and 21st centuries. The historical periods that contextualize the readings and visualizations will be: Spanish Civil War, Postwar, Transition and Democracy. Catalan writers that we might read (from novels to poems to short stoies and diaries) include: Quim Monzó, Josep Pla, Mercè Rododera, Salvador Spriu, Esther Tusquets, Llorencs Villalonga, and Monserrat Roig. We will see some of the remarkable films by the most important contemporay filmmakers. We will select some films from the following directors: Vicente Aranda, Jaíme Chavarri, Isabel Coixet, Cesc Gay, José Luis Guerín, Isaki Lacuesta, Pere Portabella, Marc Recha, Albert Serra, and Agustí Villaronga. The class will be conducted in Spanish, and students can do their readings in both Catalan or Spanish. This class counts as literature credit for the Spanish minor. WINTER 2020 CATALAN/SPANISH 405 Advanced Catalan Language, Culture, and Society Susanna Coll Schedule TBA This course is a continuation of Catalan 291. The principal aim is to continue expanding the history, politics, society and culture of the Catalan world to get a deeper understanding of some major events of what constitutes the Catalan culture, politics, arts and society. Throughout the semester, we will get in contact and analyze a wide range of cultural manifestations (music, architecture, cinema, literature and art). In addition to delve deeper into many different topics, students will be able to continue their language acquirement beyond Catalan 291. Photo credit: Parc Güell - Barcelona, by MorBCN Courtesy of www.flickr.com.

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