Spanish

In this course, we will explore the construction of the image of Spain for foreign consumption from the turn of the twentieth Century to the present. We will analyze the presence of Spain beyond its borders, including aspects such as military and economic colonialism, migration, tourism, sports, arts, food, fashion, and language. We will study a wide array of documents (films, literary texts, articles, commercials, visual culture, etc) from the perspective of postcolonial theory and cultural studies. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisites SPAN 228 Section A1: T/R 09:30-10:50AM;...

This course analyzes the creation of memory of religious conflicts in the Spanish Empire through literature of entertainment and their interaction with other political and commercial conflicts during the Early Modern period. In this course we will examine short stories, plays, poems, and news pamphlets by authors of the Spanish Golden Age literature. Considering the religious conflicts these texts present, as well as the perspective they afford us on war, commerce, and politics, we will focus on how these topics intertwine with love and friendship in the context of the 16th and 17th...

Learn the fundamentals of social entrepreneurship and identify opportunities for positive change. We will focus on the question of how to create linguistically and culturally-appropriate programming within nonprofits. You will volunteer/work on projects for a local nonprofit, using your Spanish to learn from and serve our local Latino community. Come to class prepared to speak Spanish and to connect the headlines with our immigrant community’s realities.   M/W 11:00 – 11:50; Location pending CRN 47945 Prerequisite: SPAN 228 or permission of the professor Taught in Spanish ...

This course examines the dynamics of identity construction by and about black subjects in colonial Spanish America and its intrinsic relations to issues of race, gender, sexuality, spatiality, food and ecology. We will explore the racial politics of Church and State and the evolution of racial ideologies as seen through legal documents, chronicles, piracy accounts, religious literature, poetry, newspapers, and visual documents. The course focuses on how black bodies were categorized and constructed within specific political and cultural contexts by colonial authorities and other intellectual...

This course approaches cultural studies in Latin American and US Latinx studies through an introduction to race and performance studies. With particular emphasis on artists of color from the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, we will study methods of how race is performed culturally, socially, and politically. M/W/F 2:00-2:50pm; CRN: 53110 Instructor: Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez  

This course serves as a panoramic introduction to Spanish literatures and cultures from the perspective of non-hegemonic discourses and subjects. Following Antonio Gramsci, the course will focus on literature that challenges dominant assumptions, beliefs, and established patterns of behavior. The common denominator will be breaking with the hegemonic image of Spain as Castilian, White, Catholic, Middle-Class, and Heteropatriarchal. We will examine artistic product such as literary pieces, films, and testimonial and biographical materials like documentaries or memoirs. Taking an...

In this course, we will explore the construction of the image of Spain for foreign consumption from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. We will analyze the presence of Spain beyond its borders, including aspects such as military and economic colonialism, migration, tourism, sports, arts, food, fashion, and language. We will study a wide array of documents (films, literary texts, articles, commercials, visual culture, etc) from the perspective of postcolonial theory and cultural studies. Taught in Spanish (Pre-Req: Span 228). MWF 9:00-9:50 (section D, CRN 60341), location TBD...

Did you know that the United States has over 50 million Spanish-speakers, making it the second largest Spanish-speaking population in the world, after Mexico? In this course, we will explore the past, present, and future of the many different Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S. The main objective is to develop critical and linguistic awareness of the relationship between language, individual, and society. We will accomplish this through an examination of historical migration patterns and settlements, dialects of Spanish in the different regions of the U.S., the linguistic characteristics...

This course explores how cinema produced in the United States and Mexico, from the silent period to the contemporary moment has mediated and commented on the presence of Mexicans in what is today the U.S., as well as the migratory experience. Because cinema is an industrial art form, we will examine the impact of social, historical, and political conditions as well as the impact of global economic structures on cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will acquire knowledge of the periods of US and Mexican cinema history and a familiarity with critical approaches to...

This course explores the role of cinema in constructing and mediating ideas about race throughout Latin America in the context of the region's national formations from the early 20th century through the 21st. As a popular visual medium central to the processes of nation building, cinema in the region provides a unique vantage point to understand the multiple and vying proposals regarding the role of racial plurality in local projects of identity. Students will study films from Mesoamerica, the Andes, Brazil and Cuba with attention to both their production contexts within the broad history of...