Spanish (SPAN) 1 SPAN-209 Composition and Culture SPANISH (SPAN) Fall and Spring. Credits: 4 Emphasis on written expression in Spanish through frequent SPAN-101 Elementary Spanish assignments emphasizing difficult grammatical structures or idiomatic Fall and Spring. Credits: 4 usages, sentence and paragraph structure, making smooth transitions, An interactive introduction to the Spanish language and Hispanic writing the short essay, writing descriptions, engaging in personal or cultures. This course emphasizes communication through extensive business correspondence, analyzing texts, doing library research, and oral practice in class in order to provide students with an immersion drafting and completing research papers. Students will comment on each experience. Covers basic grammar structures to equip students to other's work in the classroom and/or via the use of email or Web sites communicate about personal information (description of self and family, and will practice techniques of self-editing and self-criticism. routine, preferences) and carry out basic tasks (asking for directions, Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Language ordering food, making simple purchases). Students will experience Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive different Spanish varieties within and outside of the classroom through D. Barrios-Beltrán, F. Cunha films, short movies, documentaries, poetry, literature, and a broad variety Prereq: SPAN-201, AP Spanish Language, or a qualifying score on placement of other written and oral texts. exam. Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Language Advisory: Students with AP Spanish Language must register for SPAN-209 or D. Barrios-Beltrán, F. Cunha, E. García Frazier, A. Illescas SPAN-212. Prereq: Placement test required even if no previous study of Spanish; score SPAN-212 Preparation for Advanced Studies 0-200. Fall and Spring. Credits: 4 Advisory: SPAN-101 is designed for students with no previous training in This course will equip students of Spanish with a variety of skills that Spanish or a maximum of one year of Spanish at the high school level. All prepare them for upper-division courses. Specific areas of study will students must take the online Spanish placement test to register for the include introduction to literary genres and movements; practice in class. critical reading and writing; study of figures of speech, rhetoric, and style; SPAN-199 Preparation for Intermediate Spanish presentation of oral reports; use of library resources. In addition, students Fall and Spring. Credits: 4 acquire basic knowledge of the geography, history, and culture of the A communication-based approach to using the Spanish language Hispanic world. and learning about Spanish-speaking communities and cultures, this Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Language course emphasizes communication through extensive oral practice Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive in class in order to provide students with an immersion experience. E. Castro, N. Romero-Díaz Deepens the students' command of Spanish, builds on content learned Prereq: SPAN-201, SPAN-209, AP Spanish Language, or a qualifying score on in SPAN-101 and expands knowledge of the necessary grammar and placement exam. vocabulary to equip students to communicate in new social situations Advisory: Students with AP Spanish Language must register for SPAN-209 or beyond elementary Spanish. Students will experience different Spanish SPAN-212. varieties within and outside of the classroom through films, short movies, SPAN-230 Identities & Intersections documentaries, poetry, literature, and a broad variety of other written and A broad introduction to issues of identity (gender, sexual, ethnic, cultural, oral texts. class, national, religious) in the Spanish-speaking world and their Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Language intersections with other dimensions of cultural agency and power D. Barrios-Beltrán, F. Cunha, E. García Frazier, A. Illescas differentials. The specific course contents and examples examined will Prereq: SPAN-101 or by obtaining a qualifying score on placement exam. vary each semester. SPAN-201 Intermediate Spanish SPAN-230BW Identities & Intersections: An Introduction: 'De Brujas y Fall and Spring. Credits: 4 Lesbianas and Other Bad Women of the Spanish Empire' A communication-based approach to using the Spanish language and Spring. Credits: 4 learning about Spanish-speaking communities and cultures, this course During the Spanish Empire (16th-18th centuries), witches, prostitutes, emphasizes communication through extensive oral practice in class transvestite warriors, lesbians, daring noblewomen and nuns violated in order to provide students with an immersion experience. Strives for the social order by failing to uphold the expected sexual morality of the mastery of complex grammatical structures and continues working on "ideal woman." They were silenced, criticized, punished, and even burned writing, listening, and reading skills to provide the necessary linguistic at the stake. Students will study contradictory discourses of good and and cultural tools to communicate about current social issues. Students evil and beauty and ugliness in relation to gender in the Spanish Empire. will experience different Spanish varieties within and outside of the We will analyze historical and literary texts as well as film versions of so- classroom through films, short movies, documentaries, poetry, literature, called "bad" women -- such as the Celestina, Elena/o de C&acutee;spedes, and a broad variety of other written and oral texts. Catalina de Erauso and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Language Crosslisted as: GNDST-204BW D. Barrios-Beltrán, F. Cunha, E. García Frazier, A. Illescas Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Language Prereq: SPAN-199 or by obtaining a qualifying score on placement exam. Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive Advisory: Students with AP Spanish Language must register for SPAN-209 or N. Romero-Díaz SPAN-212. Prereq: Two courses in Spanish at the 200-level above SPAN-212. Notes: Taught in Spanish 2 Spanish (SPAN) SPAN-230GV Identities & Intersections: An Introduction: 'Gendered SPAN-230SP Identities & Intersections: An Introduction: 'Black Spain' Violence from Medieval to Contemporary Spain' Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 This survey course studies the complex histories and identities of blacks This survey course will review the complex interaction of gender and in Spain from the early medieval period to the present. The aim of this violence as a personal and institutional issue in Spain from Medieval course is to learn a new historical perspective that brings into focus the times to the present. What are the ideological and sociocultural role of black Africans (or those of African descent) as significant actors constructs that sustain and perpetuate violence against women? What in the construction of Spain. An interdisciplinary approach will take us are the forms of resistance women have put into play? Among the texts, from the first visual representation of blacks in Alfonso X's Cantigas in we will study short stories by Lucanor (thirteenth century) and María the thirteenth century, through the plays based on the Renaissance black de Zayas (seventeenth century), song by Bebé and movie by Boyaín scholar Juan Latino, to the contemporary musical contributions of Hijas (twentieth century), contemporary news (twenty-first century), and laws del Sol and Buika. In Spanish. (from the thirteenth century to the present). Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Language; Multicultural Perspectives Crosslisted as: GNDST-204GV Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Language N. Romero-Díaz Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive Prereq: SPAN-212. N. Romero-Díaz Notes: Taught in Spanish Prereq: SPAN-212. SPAN-240 Visual Cultures: An Introduction Notes: Taught in Spanish A broad introduction to the study of visual representation in Latin SPAN-230HY Identities & Intersections: An Introduction: 'Hybrid American, Spanish, and U.S. Latina/o cultures. Students will examine the Identities of the Spanish-Speaking World' articulation of a variety of topics in media such as film, television, fine Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4 arts, Internet, and/or video. The specific course contents and examples With a historical and transnational approach, this course will explore bi/ examined will vary each semester. multicultural identities and communities in the Spanish-speaking world, SPAN-240CN Visual Cultures, An Introduction: 'Latin American Cinema' primarily of the postcolonial period. Mestizos, Korean-Argentineans, Fall. Credits: 4 Cuban-Americans, Afro-Peruvians, Moroccans and West Africans in This course offers a broad introduction to the history, politics and Spanish cities, "gallegos" in Buenos Aires, Chinatowns, Spanglish...Is aesthetics of Latin American cinema through some of its most influential Catalonia Spain? Through literary, audiovisual, and theoretical texts, we films. We address the revolutionary styles of agit-prop, Neo-Realism will put situations of ethnic and linguistic hybridity in dialogue with one and Third Cinema, as well as Hollywood-style melodrama. The course another and focus on how communities and identities reclaim rights and also familiarizes students with the basic terminology, concepts and space, are represented, aspired to, separated,