Spanish & Portuguese Courses

Course Offerings Spring 2013

Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
PORT 231-01	Portuguese Conversation/Comp Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Course Description: Advanced practice in oral and written Portuguese. In-class work focuses primarily on oral practice through presentations and class-wide discussions of these presentations, of current events, readings and films, as well as small group practice emphasizing everyday situations. Out-of-class work focuses on writing and revision of compositions with emphasis on both grammar and style. Prerequisite: 116 or the equivalent.	1030:MWF BOSLER 321
PORT 380-01	Rethinking Brazilian Lit Instructor: Carolina Castellanos Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 300-02. This course examines key literary texts of Brazilian literature since the 19th century, while discussing issues of gender, class, and race. Students will read novels, dramas, poems, and short stories, as well as well-known pieces of theory and literary criticism in order to rethink the literary production of this country.	1130:MWF BOSLER 321
Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
SPAN 101-02	Elementary Spanish Instructor: Asuncion Arnedo-Aldrich Course Description: This course is designed for students who have never taken Spanish previously. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with an emphasis on vocabulary development and listening comprehension development. Prerequisite: No prior study of Spanish and permission of department.	0930:MTWRF BOSLER 305
SPAN 104-01	Elementary Spanish Instructor: Angela DeLutis-Eichenberger Course Description: This course is a continuation of Spanish 101. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on speaking. Prerequisite: 101. Upon completion, students go to 116.	0930:MTWRF BOSLER 319
SPAN 104-02	Elementary Spanish Instructor: Jenni Sharkey Course Description: This course is a continuation of Spanish 101. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on speaking. Prerequisite: 101. Upon completion, students go to 116.	1030:MTWRF BOSLER 309
SPAN 104-03	Elementary Spanish Instructor: Jenni Sharkey Course Description: This course is a continuation of Spanish 101. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on speaking. Prerequisite: 101. Upon completion, students go to 116.	0930:MTWRF BOSLER 309
SPAN 104-04	Elementary Spanish Instructor: Jenni Sharkey Course Description: This course is a continuation of Spanish 101. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on speaking. Prerequisite: 101. Upon completion, students go to 116.	1330:MTWRF BOSLER 318
SPAN 104-05	Elementary Spanish Instructor: Angela DeLutis-Eichenberger Course Description: This course is a continuation of Spanish 101. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on speaking. Prerequisite: 101. Upon completion, students go to 116.	0830:MTWRF BOSLER 319
SPAN 116-01	Intermediate Spanish Instructor: Mark Aldrich Course Description: This course is a continuation of Spanish 104. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on writing and speaking. Prerequisite: 104, 108, or placement by department.	0930:MTWRF BOSLER 313
SPAN 116-02	Intermediate Spanish Instructor: Mark Aldrich Course Description: This course is a continuation of Spanish 104. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on writing and speaking. Prerequisite: 104, 108, or placement by department.	1030:MTWRF BOSLER 313
SPAN 116-03	Intermediate Spanish Instructor: Elise Bartosik-Velez Course Description: This course is a continuation of Spanish 104. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on writing and speaking. Prerequisite: 104, 108, or placement by department.	0830:MTWRF BOSLER 305
SPAN 116-04	Intermediate Spanish Instructor: Elise Bartosik-Velez Course Description: This course is a continuation of Spanish 104. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on writing and speaking. Prerequisite: 104, 108, or placement by department.	0930:MTRF BOSLER 306 0930:W BOSLER 310
SPAN 116-05	Intermediate Spanish Instructor: Julie Lesman Course Description: This course is a continuation of Spanish 104. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on writing and speaking. Prerequisite: 104, 108, or placement by department.	1030:MTWRF BOSLER 307
SPAN 116-06	Intermediate Spanish Instructor: Julie Lesman Course Description: This course is a continuation of Spanish 104. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on writing and speaking. Prerequisite: 104, 108, or placement by department.	1330:MTWRF BOSLER 319
SPAN 116-07	Intermediate Spanish Instructor: Asuncion Arnedo-Aldrich Course Description: This course is a continuation of Spanish 104. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on writing and speaking. Prerequisite: 104, 108, or placement by department.	1030:MTWRF BOSLER 211
SPAN 116-08	Intermediate Spanish Instructor: Lauren Howard Course Description:	0930:MTWRF ALTHSE 08
SPAN 230-02	Advanced Grammar Instructor: Julie Lesman Course Description: The primary goal of this course is to develop students' formal knowledge of Spanish by reviewing and studying the more challenging grammatical structures. The course will also work on development of skills in reading, oral expression, and vocabulary development. The purpose of the course is to equip students with the formal grammatical background necessary to be successful in courses on Hispanic literatures, linguistics and cultures. Prerequisite: 116, 120, or the equivalent.	1130:MWF BOSLER 305
SPAN 230-03	Advanced Grammar Instructor: Wendell Smith Course Description: The primary goal of this course is to develop students' formal knowledge of Spanish by reviewing and studying the more challenging grammatical structures. The course will also work on development of skills in reading, oral expression, and vocabulary development. The purpose of the course is to equip students with the formal grammatical background necessary to be successful in courses on Hispanic literatures, linguistics and cultures. Prerequisite: 116, 120, or the equivalent.	1030:TR DENNY 212
SPAN 230-04	Advanced Grammar Instructor: Alberto Rodriguez Course Description: The primary goal of this course is to develop students' formal knowledge of Spanish by reviewing and studying the more challenging grammatical structures. The course will also work on development of skills in reading, oral expression, and vocabulary development. The purpose of the course is to equip students with the formal grammatical background necessary to be successful in courses on Hispanic literatures, linguistics and cultures. Prerequisite: 116, 120, or the equivalent.	0930:MWF BOSLER 321
SPAN 230-05	Advanced Grammar Instructor: Eva Copeland Course Description: The primary goal of this course is to develop students' formal knowledge of Spanish by reviewing and studying the more challenging grammatical structures. The course will also work on development of skills in reading, oral expression, and vocabulary development. The purpose of the course is to equip students with the formal grammatical background necessary to be successful in courses on Hispanic literatures, linguistics and cultures. Prerequisite: 116, 120, or the equivalent.	1030:MWF WESTC 2
SPAN 231-01	Cultura y Sociedad Mexicana Instructor: Hector Reyes Zaga Course Description: The class presents a range of perspectives of the Mexican culture and society with a focus on the construction of Mexican identity. Among the many topics we will be discussing in class are: the construction of nation, race, ethnicity and multiculturalism; class, gender and sexuality; family and social classes; and urban city, province and border in Mexico. This will allow us to better know and understand the different variables that make up the Mexican imaginary.	0930:MWF BOSLER 307
SPAN 231-02	Cuban Literature Inside & Out Instructor: Mariana Past Course Description: This course will focus on developing students' writing skills through reading, discussion, and analysis of films and literary texts by Cuban writers both at home and abroad. Emphasis will be placed on analyzing poetry and prose through various approaches, as well asunderstanding the social, political, and cultural stakes surrounding this part of the Caribbean diaspora; the 1959 Cuban Revolution will be a main theme.	1330:MR BOSLER 308
SPAN 231-03	Cultura y Sociedad Mexicana Instructor: Hector Reyes Zaga Course Description: The class presents a range of perspectives of the Mexican culture and society with a focus on the construction of Mexican identity. Among the many topics we will be discussing in class are: the construction of nation, race, ethnicity and multiculturalism; class, gender and sexuality; family and social classes; and urban city, province and border in Mexico. This will allow us to better know and understand the different variables that make up the Mexican imaginary.	1130:MWF BOSLER 306
SPAN 231-04	Sustain in Contxt of Hisp Cult Instructor: Asuncion Arnedo-Aldrich Course Description: Permission of Instructor Required. This section of Spanish 231 will examine the concept of sustainability in the context of Hispanic cultures and will examine its social, economic, and environmental components. The class will begin with a two-week trip to Cuba to study food security and sustainable urban agriculture in La Havana. Upon return to campus students will develop projects related to their experience in Cuba and also continue with other sustainability case studies. The course will include readings by noted Hispanic authors such as Homero Aridjis, Pablo Neruda, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Miguel Delibes, among others. Readings will develop an understanding of how our relation to the environment is expressed in Spanish and discussion of readings will help students develop critical thinking skills. By the end of the course, students should have a basic understanding of the principal historical and cultural contexts that orient considerations of sustainability in the Hispanic world. They will also have developed an ability to express ideas and formulate responses to sustainability issues with appropriate vocabulary, both orally and in writing.	1330:MR BOSLER 309
SPAN 238-01	Span for Business Professions Instructor: Erin McNulty Course Description: This is a specialized course that emphasizes the language of business. Students will study the lexicon and language protocols appropriate to the basic functions of international business. The goal is to improve oral, reading, and writing skills while acquiring a general business vocabulary, and a broadened intercultural perspective. Prerequisite: 230, or permission of instructor.	1030:TR WESTC 2
SPAN 251-01	Language Tutorial Instructor: Jorge Sagastume Course Description: Offered only at the Dickinson Study Center in Mlaga. Oral practice and written compositions on a variety of topics including the students' first-hand encounters with key aspects of Spanish society. This course functions as an intensive language laboratory on location in the city.	:
SPAN 305-01	Intro Literary Analysis/Theory Instructor: Alberto Rodriguez Course Description: This course introduces students to different methods of reading and analyzing literary and non-literary texts. These may include - among others-formalist, psychoanalytic, feminist, semiotic, and postructuralist approaches. Students will read both primary texts and theoretical studies, and they will be required to analyze texts themselves. Prerequisite: 231. This course fulfills the WR graduation requirement.	1130:MWF BOSLER 313
SPAN 305-02	Intro Literary Analysis/Theory Instructor: Eva Copeland Course Description: This course introduces students to different methods of reading and analyzing literary and non-literary texts. These may include - among others-formalist, psychoanalytic, feminist, semiotic, and postructuralist approaches. Students will read both primary texts and theoretical studies, and they will be required to analyze texts themselves. Prerequisite: 231. This course fulfills the WR graduation requirement.	1230:MWF BOSLER 306
SPAN 320-01	St in Span Golden Age Texts Instructor: Wendell Smith Course Description: This course will present the diversity of Spanish literature during its moment of greatest achievement. The evolution of various genres will be studied, and various works by writers such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Caldern, Gngora, Quevedo and others will be read. The purpose is to acquaint the students with works that have had a significant impact on Spanish culture and literature. Prerequisite: 305.	1330:TF BOSLER 313
SPAN 366-01	Intro to Span Sociolinguistics Instructor: Erin McNulty Course Description: This course will introduce students to the study of variation and change in Spanish based on a variety of sociological factors. Topics will include phonological variation, morphological and morphosyntactic variation, discourse analysis, and language in contact. Prerequisite: 365.	1330:MR BOSLER 313
SPAN 372-01	Spanish Society and Culture Instructor: Jorge Sagastume Course Description: Offered only at the Dickinson Study Center in Mlaga. In-depth study of several aspects of Spanish cultural traditions and values. Contrasts Andalusian culture with other peninsular cultures. Oral and written reports concerning cultural aspectsof life in Mlaga. Local field trips and interviews are an important part of the course. Offered in the fall semester.	:
SPAN 380-01	Writing Chile in the 19th C Instructor: Angela DeLutis-Eichenberger Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 300-01. This course studies how Chile was conceptualized and portrayed following independence through the analysis of patriotic hymns, emblems, art, monuments, and literature. It discusses how symbols and heroes, like Diego Portales, Andrs Bello and Arturo Prat, were devised and written, and it considers how these constructed images related to nationalistic fervor, war sentiment, and feelings of a shared Americanism. The renowned historiography debates between Bello, and Lastarria and Chacn are analyzed, as well as the literature produced from the Generation of 1842. Works by Alberto Blest Gana, deemed Chiles most important novelist of the 19th century, will also be studied.	1030:TR BOSLER 314
SPAN 381-01	Advances in Grammatical Struct Instructor: Jorge Sagastume Course Description: Offered only at the Dickinson Study Center in Mlaga. Study of significant cultural, literary, and historical topics concerning the Spanish-speaking world. Peninsular and Latin American topics may be offered. Specific topics to be announced.	:
SPAN 410-01	Brevity in Contemp Hisp Lit Instructor: Mark Aldrich Course Description: A thorough investigation of major figures or important literary trends in Hispanic literature which were not covered by the majors in previous courses. The majors will work on a semi-independent basis with a particular instructor and will present reports to the seminar and participate in subsequent discussions. Emphasis on methods of literary research. Prerequisite: 305. This course is cross-listed as LALC 390.	1330:W BOSLER 213
SPAN 500-01	Independent Study Instructor: Mark Aldrich Course Description:	:
SPAN 500-02	Independent Study Instructor: Mark Aldrich Course Description:	:
SPAN 500-03	Independent Study Instructor: Mark Aldrich Course Description:	:
SPAN 500-04	Independent Study Instructor: Hector Reyes Zaga Course Description:	:
SPAN 500-05	Independent Study Instructor: Hector Reyes Zaga Course Description:	:
SPAN 550-02	Independent Research Instructor: Mariana Past Course Description:	: