Spanish

In this class you will actively use your Spanish every day, learn about being an effective bilingual professional and develop fundamental intercultural skills.   CRN: 32868 T/R 9:30 – 10:50  1002 Siebel Center for Design Prof. Ann Abbott, arabbott@illinois.edu, 4006 FLB  

Through the thematic frame of ‘otherness,’ this course will consider how writers of different historical moments have portrayed their experiences with the unfamiliar and distinct.   Writing Otherness: Specters, Misfits, and Selves The focus of SPAN 312 is the critical analysis of selected texts and periods representative of Spain's literary production from the 18th century to the present, with special attention paid to broader literary and cultural contexts. In this section of SPAN 312, we will approach texts from the thematic frame of ‘otherness’ to consider the...

This course aims to address and complicate the body as a category and material of representation in Latin American culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Through novels, short stories, movies, and performances, we will analyze how the body is thought of and written from diverse embodiments that defy the hegemonic construction of the body, such as bodies with disabilities, plus size, sick, or racialized bodies. Likewise, we will consider other possibilities of questioning the materiality and limits of the body regarding its relations with nature and technology.   El cuerpo...

Experimentar (verb. to experience; to experiment) leads this seminar and practicum on a study of how bodies experiment with political and cultural narratives about its experiences. Moreover, in this vein, the structure of the seminar experiments with the experience of studying bodies by blending the seminar with practice-based research: this is a seminar and practicum experiment. In “Bodies Experimentales,” we will ask, how does the body experience other gendered and racialized material worlds? Grounded queer theory and transgender studies, this seminar studies the themes of...

 TAUGHT IN ENGLISH, Gen Ed for “Literature and the Arts” and “US Minority Cultures;" This course studies the relationships between Latinx and Latin American culture through exciting films. It focuses on a set of current and relevant topics (migrations, assimilation and integration, ICE, political struggles, globalization, nationalism and transnationalism). No prerequisites. Lectures Online and Section Face to Face. The class will expose and go beyond stereotypes about Latinx and Latin Americans typically seen on the screen (...

In this sociolinguistics seminar, we will discuss the historical and contemporary applications of speech communities, communities of practice, perceptual communities, and digital communities, and how these intersect with theories in linguistic variation, social identity, , globalization, racialization, and mediatization. Furthermore, we will consider how social justice efforts in linguistics intersect with the ever-changing community boundaries around languages, varieties, and speakers/signers.   Tuesdays, 12:30 pm - 3:20 pm, 1038 Campus Instructional Facility Instructor: Salvatore...

A course that explores how language, culture, race, public discourse and public policy intersect with the health and wellness of US Latinx communities. We will cover a variety of topics, including COVID-19 and its impact on our local immigrant community. Classes consist of discussion, active learning exercises and interviews with experts. Required textbook: Spanish in Healthcare by Glenn A. Martínez, paper back...

The Spanish Golden Age (1492-1700) has aspects that will appeal to any audience: the rise and decline of the Spanish Empire; the colonization of the New World; the union (and disunion) of the Iberian kingdoms; the persecution of Jews, Muslims, and Protestants; and the development of the first global economy. Moving between Quixotic post-modern craziness and Velázquez’s pictorial delusions, this period triggers tales of bravery and imperial greed, while also serving to reenact questions of religious and cultural hegemony as well as racial and national identity. Between nostalgic idealization...