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Undergraduate Courses Spanish and Portuguese Descriptions Spring 2012

SPAN 206: Spanish for Business and Economics (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)

MWF 12:10-1:00 Lori Catanzaro

This course provides a thorough foundation in business vocabulary and overview of current international business and cultural concepts related to doing business in the US, Latin America, and Spain. Focusing on the role of the international manager, the course emphasizes vocabulary related to corporate organization and structure, banking and accounting processes, real estate, capital investment, human resources, the production of goods and services, marketing, financial management, and international operations articulated within the geographic and cultural context of the Spanish-speaking world. Students are evaluated through quizzes, tests, and oral presentations, final project, and final exam.

SPAN 207: Advanced Conversation (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)

207-01 MWF 3:10-4:00  Jose Aznar

207-02 MWF 2:10-3:00  Jose Aznar

207-03 MWF 11:10-12:00  Heraldo Falconi

This class is an advanced conversation class that will offer an intra-cultural approach contrasting Spanish, Spanish American and US perspectives. This is a content-based course that focuses primarily on the development of advanced oral language skills. The class format will consist of class discussions, debates, oral presentations, interviews and electronic discussions on contemporary issues. This class is designed for students with a high level of proficiency, especially those returning from a study abroad program.  Some of the issues covered in this class will be gender relations, cultural identity, social relations, value systems, religion and education. This class is closed to native speakers.

SPAN 211:  Spanish for the Medical Profession *Service Learning Course (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)

211-01 MWF 10:10-11:00 Lori Catanzaro

211-02 MWF 11:10-12:00 Lori Catanzaro

Service learning based, advanced conversation and writing course covering comprehensive medical terminology, current events and policy issues impacting the Latino population in the United States, and cultural competency as it relates to health care in the Hispanic community. Students are evaluated through tests, oral presentations, essays, service learning reports, and final exam. Prerequisite: 201W and 202; closed to native speakers of Spanish.

SPAN 213: Translation and Interpretation (Major: Linguistics; AXLE: SBS)

TR 9:35-10:50 Francille Bergquist

The  art  and  practice  of  translation  and  interpretation  dealing  with  materials  from  science, economics, politics, belles lettres, etc. Prerequisite: 201 and 202.

SPAN 216: Phonology (Major: Linguistics; AXLE: SBS)

MWF 11:10-12:00 Cynthia Wasick

Spanish Phonology consists of the study of phonological theory, as well as the practical application of its principles, as applied to the Spanish language. The primary goal of the course is to enable students to improve their pronunciation of Spanish through an analysis of the nature and the production of Spanish sounds and of pronunciation problems frequently experienced by non-native speakers.  The course will provide a general understanding of the nature of human language, how speech sounds are produced and function discretely as a component of a linguistic system, and how the sounds of Spanish differ in nature and in distribution from those of English and other languages.  Also considered are pronunciation problems due to spelling differences. Both standard and dialectal pronunciations of Spanish will be analyzed.  Students will make six recordings based upon an assigned text in order to analyze and perfect Spanish pronunciation skills. They will also be required to make an orthographic transcription of four assigned recordings so as to perfect their aural perception of the Spanish languages. There will be three quizzes and two exams.

Text/Classpak (Required - Must be purchased by the second class meeting):

Dalbor, John B. Spanish Pronunciation: Theory and Practice, 3rd edition. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1997.

SPAN 218: Morphology and Syntax (Major: Linguistics; AXLE: SBS)

MWF 12:10-1:00 Philip Rasico

Spanish 218 introduces the basic principles of modern Spanish morphology (word formation) and syntax (phrase structure and usage) through an analysis of how native Spanish speakers organize reality and use language to reflect and to express that organization.  As a theoretical course concerned primarily with linguistic analysis, emphasis is given to the study of the meaningful grammatical contrasts that exist in Spanish and that serve to define it as a linguistic system.  Attention is also given to various grammatical contrasts between Spanish and other languages, especially English.

SPAN 226: Film and Recent Cultural Trends in Spain (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)

TR 11:00-12:15 Michelle Shepherd

This course examines cinematic production that reflects Spain's cultural dynamics during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and explores issues in contemporary Spanish culture through the medium of film. Themes include the memory of the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship, the Transition to democracy, nationalisms, migration, and gender; and films may include La aldea maldita (dir. Florian Rey 1930), Las Hurdes, Tierra sin pan (dir. Luis Buñuel 1933), Bienvenido Mr. Marshall (dir. Luis García Berlanga 1952), Cría cuervos (dir. Carlos Saura 1976), Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (dir. Pedro Almodóvar 1988), Los lunes al sol (dir. Fernando León de Aranoa 1997), Te doy mis ojos (dir. Icíar Bollaín 2003) and El laberinto del fauno (dir. Guillermo del Toro 2006). In addition, we will read articles that help us understand cinematic and cultural critique. Grades will be determined through class participation, daily reflections and homework assignments, a midterm exam, class presentations, and a final essay.

SPAN 240: Contemporary Spanish Novel (Major: Literature; AXLE: HCA)

MWF 1:10-2:00 Cynthia Wasick

This course explores current trends in contemporary Spanish fiction produced during the period from  1990-2010.  The  novels  deal  with  political  intrigue,  historical  events  and  figures,  the criminal mind, and fantasy/virtual reality. Some of the novelists may include Almudena de Arteaga, Almudena Grandes, Espido Freire, Bernardo Atxaga, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and Eduardo Mendoza. Students will be evaluated based upon weekly personal reflections, 2 partial exams, one written paper and final group presentation, and active discussion and participation.

SPAN 243: Latino Immigration Experience *Service Learning Course (Major: Literature; AXLE: P)

MWF 12:10-1:00 Elena.O.Segovia

Analysis of the immigration experience of four Latino/a groups (Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Cuban-American, and Dominican-American) as presented by Latino/a literature (all genres) and movies about Latinos/Latinas.  This is a service-learning class and students are required to complete 20 hours of service to the Latino/a community in Nashville as part of their course work. Travel time is not included in this total, so you need to budget at least three hours per week to complete this requirement. This service experience will be considered another text and will be analyzed in class, together with the literary texts and the movies, focusing on issues of assimilation, bilingualism, biculturalism, uprootedness, etc.  Final grade will be based on intense class participation, two exams, two portfolio presentations about a topic related to immigration, a detailed journal about the service experience, and a final reflection essay.

SPAN 247: Spanish American Literature of the Boom (Major: Literature; AXLE: HCA)

MWF 2:10-3:00 Heraldo Falconi

In this course we will study Latin American fiction during a period (1960s and 1970s) characterized by literary experimentation and popularly called el Boom. Some of the authors surveyed include Cortázar, García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes and Vargas Llosa. Literature will be placed  in  both  historical  and  cultural  context  and  will  be  accompanied  by  key  theoretical readings. Final grade will be based on active participation, class reports, 2 exams and two research papers (5 or 6 pages.)

SPAN 251 Development of Drama (Major: Literature; AXLE: HCA)

MWF 10:10-11:00 Maria P Pintane

This course is a survey of Spanish theatre from 1600 to 1850 designed to introduce students to some of the most important and significant plays of the Golden Age, Neoclassic & Romantic periods. In addition to reading the required selected works, students will watch a movie, fragments of the plays representations, and read selected critical studies.

Texts:

Miguel de Cervantes, selección entremeses.

Lope de Vega: Fuenteovejuna y La dama boba

Tirso de Molina, El burlador de Sevilla

Ana Caro, Valor, Agravio y Mujer

Leandro Fernández de Moratín, El sí de las niñas

José Zorrilla, Don Juan Tenorio

The goals of this course are as follows:

– To acquaint students with some of the major plays to develop a sense of the history of Spanish drama and an understanding of the main movements on Spanish Cultural history from 1600 to

1850

– To acquire the concepts and terminology necessary for communicating your ideas about theatre in Spanish in an academic register.

SPAN 274: Literature and Medicine: Disease Constructs in Puerto Rico (Major: Literature; AXLE: Perspectives)

TR 1:10-2:25 Benigno Trigo

What are some of the social meanings of the representation of disease in literature and in medicine? We will answer this question by way of a case study. We will study three moments in the history of literature and medicine in Puerto Rico, an autonomous territory and possession of the United States that holds the peculiar political status of a Commonwealth.  More specifically, we will trace the shifts in the configuration of three related public health crises as they are represented in both medical literature and fiction during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: tropical disease, overpopulation, and mass hysteria. From the concerns of military doctors with hygiene and the nation during the nineteenth century to the disquiet of late-twentieth century psychologists and cultural anthropologists with the hysterical atomization of the Puerto Rican citizen.

Disease is more than a biological event.  As such, we will study it in the context of social and economic considerations, as well as of political considerations having to do with colonization, self-government, and modernization.  We will focus on both literary and medical texts in Spanish to suggest the ways in which disease is both an empirical and a symbolic event, as well as the ways in which it is the result of both biological causes and socially determined preconceptions and beliefs.

SPAN 275: Latina and Latin American Women Writers (Major: Literature; AXLE: P)

TR 2:35-3:50 Benigno Trigo

This course aims to be an introduction to contemporary women writing in Latin America and to the recent writing of Latinas in the United States.  It will focus on their complex representation of sexuality and the maternal body.  We will study how these authors trouble writing, and will interrogate their association of writing with the maternal experience.

Texts:

Clorinda Matto de Turner, Aves sin nido (1889) Clarice Lispector, Lazos de familia (1960)

Mayra Montero, El capitán de los dormidos (2002) Vanessa Vilches Norat, Crímenes domésticos (2007)

We will discuss two films in class:

The Hour of the Star

Entrevista a Mayra Montero

SPAN 294-01 Special Topics: Theory and Practice of Literary Translation (Major: Literature; AXLE: none)

MWF 11:10-12:00 Earl E Fitz

This course focuses on both the theory and the practice of literary translation. Examples of the theoretical questions taken up are the following: what happens in the process of translation? What is lost, what is gained? Why? What are we really reading when we read a translation? Can stylistic issues be legitimately discussed when working with a translated text? Why does Gregory Rabassa regard the translator as a text's most discerning reader? What is the ultimate justification of translation? While the first third of the course (the theoretical part) will be devoted to a discussion of Steiner's After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation, the remainder of our time will be devoted to the actual translation of Spanish and Portuguese texts, primarily poetry (traditionally regarded as the most difficult literary genre to translate successfully). Students will be  translating  their  own  texts  (from  either  Spanish  or  Portuguese  into  English)  and  then discussing the process of their translation with the rest of the class. We will also discuss the relative merits of extant translations of canonical Brazilian and Spanish American poetry. The course will be taught in Spanish. Knowledge of Portuguese is not required. Written work may be done in either Spanish or Portuguese. Portuguese students who want to take this course must sign up for it as SPAN 294 (see above). If they do their written work in Portuguese they will receive Portuguese credit for the Spanish and Portuguese major or the Portuguese minor.

SPAN 294-02 Special Topics: Art and Literature in Spanish America (Major: Literature; AXLE: none)

TR 11:00-12:15 Cathy L. Jrade

El curso tiene como propósito explorar la relación entre la palabra escrita y las artes plásticas, especialmente entre la poesía y la pintura, y así revelar aspectos fundamentales de los distintos medios  artísticos.    La  clase  combina  una  perspectiva  literaria  con  un  interés  por  las  artes visuales.  Por esta razón el libro de John Updike (Just Looking) ofrece un modelo de observación y de análisis.  Por lo general, la clase procederá en orden cronológico, trazando los cambios históricos y los movimientos intelectuales del siglo XIX y del siglo XX.  El libro de Dawn Ades sobre el arte en Latinoamérica proveerá el trasfondo histórico y servirá como guía al desarrollo de las distintas épocas artísticas.  La clase investigará la manera en que estas épocas se definen y se desarrollan y cómo se manifiestan tanto en la literatura como en las artes plásticas.   La mayoría de las lecturas se encuentran en los libros asignados, pero algunas se entregarán en forma digital (a través de OAK).  Todo el trabajo de clase se hará en español, pero algunos textos están en inglés.

La nota final se calcula de acuerdo con la fórmula siguiente:

Exámenes (2)...........................................................................

30%

Trabajos escritos (2).................................................................

40%

Presentación oral......................................................................

10%

Participación diaria, tareas, y examencitos no-anunciados.......

20%

Span 295 Language and the Law (Major: Linguistics; AXLE: none)

TR 2:35-3:50 Susan Berk-Seligson

How language is used presents a growing challenge to the system of justice.  This course will pay particular attention to language use among linguistic minorities and women in their contact with the court system, in a linguistically diverse society like our own.  The course will show that typically they are given the short end of the stick.  Key types of cases that we will examine are rape, murder, kidnapping, and child molestation.  The course examines how justice sometimes is denied  to  Spanish-speakers  in  the  U.S.  and  to  speakers  of  indigenous  languages  in  Latin America.  Comparative data from Ecuador, Mexico, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia will be examined, to see how different justice systems handle ethno-linguistic minorities.  Particular attention will be given to the role of legal interpreters in the administration of justice.  We will look at both written and oral language to see what makes legal language difficult to understand, and in the process we will examine the speech of police officers, judges, lawyers, and testifying witnesses or defendants.

Spanish Majors may take either Catalan 102 or Portuguese 102 (each a beginning course designed for Spanish speakers) to count as 3 hours of elective in the Spanish major only. They cannot count toward a Spanish minor.

CTLN 102: Intensive Elementary Catalan (Spanish Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)

MWF 1:10-2:00 Philip Rasico

This course is an intensive introduction to Catalan, a Romance language of some eight million people of northeastern Spain (Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and a portion of eastern Aragon), the Principality of Andorra, the Department of Roussillon in southwestern France, as well as the town of Alguer (Alghero) on the island of Sardinia.  Emphasis will be on oral/aural communication, grammar, reading and culture.  Prior study of another Romance language through the intermediate level is highly recommended. May be counted as an elective toward the major in Spanish.

Spanish Majors may take Portuguese 102 (a beginning course designed for Spanish speakers)

as an elective in the Spanish major.

PORT 102: Intensive Elementary Portuguese (4 hrs) (Spanish Major: Elective; AXLE: INT)

PORT 102-01 MTRF 10:05-10:55 Buttrick 312

PORT 102-02 MTRF 12:10-1:00 West Hall 102

An accelerated introduction to reading, writing, speaking and listening. Emphasis on practical usage. Open to students with prior study of another Romance language or by permission of instructor. May be counted as an elective toward the major in Spanish.

PORT 200: Intermediate Portuguese (AXLE: INT)

MWF 11:10-12:00 Marcio Bahia

Intermediate Portuguese 200 is a course offering for students who have taken Portuguese 100B,

102 or have acquired Portuguese background elsewhere and wish to continue studying the language.  The course is designed to offer a review of grammar through the use of music and other cultural elements (film, television programs, web resources, etc).

PORT 201: Portuguese Composition (AXLE: INT)

MWF 1:10-2:00 Marcio Bahia

Portuguese Composition is a composition course for students who control the basic structure of the language and need to develop control of written communication at an advanced level. The course seeks to explore various aspects of Brazilian society while practicing advanced level grammar topics, discussing the readings, and engaging in the process of writing.

PORT 205: Introduction to Luso-Brazilian Literature (AXLE: HCA)

Emanuelle Oliveira

Portuguese 205 is an introduction to Luso-Brazilian literature through the reading and analysis of literary texts and other cultural productions (such as films and music). The classes will be conducted entirely in Portuguese. Students should have taken Portuguese 201 or 203 or acquired background in the language elsewhere (please see instructor if you are not certain about your language proficiency).

PORT 233 Modern Brazilian Literature (AXLE: HCA)

MWF 1:10-2:00 Earl E. Fitz

The development of Brazilian literature from the Semana de Arte Moderna to the present. Emphasis on the modernist and postmodernist movements. Authors read will include Machado de Assis, Oswald de Andrade, Guimarães Rosa, and Clarice Lispector, among others.

Senior  Majors  may,  with  permission  of  the  instructor,  take  a  graduate  level  course. Registration must be handled separately through the Graduate School.

300-level courses are designated for GRADUATE STUDENTS SPAN 344 Seminar: The Baroque

M 4:10-6:30 Edward Friedman

The course will offer a survey of baroque literature and culture in Spain. The selections will include narrative, dramatic, and poetic texts, as well as critical studies. We will discuss the use of the term baroque: its origins, manifestations, and polemics regarding baroque style. We will consider the distinctions between culteranismo and conceptismo; contrasts among the categories of Renaissance, mannerist, and baroque art; the baroque in Europe at large; and the neobaroque. Students will write short response papers, contribute to class dialogue, and develop a seminar

paper on a Spanish baroque work. Evaluation will be based on written exercises and participation

(70%) and the seminar paper (30%).

The primary texts will include

Lazarillo de Tormes

Francisco de Quevedo, La vida del buscón

Miguel de Cervantes, La fuerza de la sangre, La española inglesa

María de Zayas, La inocencia castigada, El jardín engañoso

Tirso de Molina, El vergonzoso en palacio

Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La dama duende

Elias L. Rivers, ed., Renaissance and Baroque Poetry of Spain (selections by Juan Boscán, Garcilaso de la Vega, Lope de Vega, Luis de Góngora, Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Fray Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz)

SPAN 361 Seminar: Studies in 18th and 19th-Century Spanish Literature

W 3:10-5:30 Andres Zamora

This semester the seminar will explore two intimately interrelated topics: the ideological wars fought in the literary battlefield throughout the two centuries, and the attempt, or failure, by the texts in that literary tradition to construct the nation.   We will start by reading some theoretical and historical works on nation building and Spanish nationalism by Benedict Anderson and José Alvarez Junco.  Our primary texts will cover both centuries and a wide variety of genres: plays, essays, literary letters, newspaper articles, poetry, novels, etc.   The tentative list of authors includes José Cadalso, Vicente García de la Huerta, Juan Pablo Forner, José María Blanco White, Mariano José de Larra, José de Espronceda, el duque de Rivas, Zorrilla, José María de Pereda, Benito Pérez Galdós, Emilia Pardo Bazán y el padre Luis Coloma.  The final grade will be based on class discussions, short reaction papers and a final research paper.

SPAN 389 Special Topics in Spanish-American Literature. Topic: Literature and Politics in the Cuban Revolution

T 3:10-5:30 William Luis

No information provided at this time. Please contact instructor for details about the course.

PORT 385 Studies in Contemporary Literature of the Portuguese-Speaking World

Topic: Latin American Cinema

R 3:10-5:30 Emanuelle Oliveira

This course analyzes the main cinematic trends in contemporary Latin American cinema, with emphasis on Brazil and Argentina. Some of the topics studied include: effects of Globalization; urban violence and poverty; democracy and citizenship; race, gender, and ethnic representations; and human rights. This course also provides background in some of the most important movements of World Cinema.SPAN 206: Spanish for Business and Economics (Major: Elective; AXLE: INT) MWF 12:10-1:00