SPAN 6010: Literary Analysis and Theory

(Also listed as Portuguese 6010) Methods of literary analysis for the teaching of literature. The systematic application of contemporary theories - structuralist and poststructuralist - in the analysis of poetry and narrative. [3]  

SPAN/PORT 6020: Ibero-Romance Philology

(Also listed as Portuguese 6020). Study of the evolution of the languages and dialects of the Iberian Peninsula. Analysis of selected linguistic developments and readings from medieval texts. [3]

SPAN 6030: Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

(Also listed as Portuguese 6030). Principles and practices of teaching a second language with concentration on recent interactive and communicative models of foreign language instruction. Classroom observations, journal writing, development of materials, and a small action research project are expected. Required of all entering teaching assistants. [3]

SPAN 6040: Research and Grant Proposal Writing

Designed for Humanities students. Issues of professionalization, career choices, and the job search. Models, guidance, and practice in formulating research projects and writing dissertation and grant proposals. Peer evaluation. [3]

SPAN 7000: Survey of Medieval Spanish Literature

Introduction to major works of pre-modern Spanish literature through the fifteenth century. [3]

SPAN 7010: Seminar: The Baroque.

Readings in Spanish baroque literature and culture, including works by Góngora, Quevedo, Cervantes, María de Zayas, Calderón, and Gracián. [3]

SPAN 7050: Introduction to Latin American Colonial Studies

(Also listed as Portuguese 314) Provides a panoramic introduction to the canonical works of the colonial period from "discovery" to "independence," as well as an overview of the theoretical debates in colonial studies within the Latin American context. Topics include: the construction and reshaping of identities and otherness through various stages of Latin American cultural history, the emergence of what has been called the American consciousness during the "New World Baroque," and the discourses of "independence" and early nation building. [3]

SPAN 7060: Seminar: Modernismo

The major literary movement of the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century in the Spanish-speaking world. Major authors, and the fundamental ideological and literary shifts evident in their works. [3]

SPAN 7070: Spanish American and Brazilian Literature I

(Also listed as Portuguese 7070) Spanish-American and Brazilian literature from the conquests to the end of the nineteenth century. Authors may include: Sor Juana, Matos, Alencar, Assis, and Carrasquilla. [3]

SPAN 7071: Spanish and Brazilian Literature II

(Also listed as Portuguese 7071). Spanish American and Brazilian Literature II. (Also listed as Portuguese 7071) Spanish American and Brazilian literature from twentieth century and to the present. Texts may include: Os sertões, La guerra del fin del mundo, Ficciones, Perto do coração selvagem, and Água viva. [3]

SPAN 8100: Seminar: Studies in Medieval Literature

Topics vary. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

SPAN 8110: Seminar: Early Modern Spanish Narrative

Readings in Spanish prose fiction from 1550 to 1700, including the picaresque tradition and works by Cervantes, María de Zayas, and other writers. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Topics include: Don Quijote and Metafiction. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

SPAN 8120: Seminar: Studies in Golden Age Drama

The comedia nueva in cultural and critical contexts. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Topics include: The Comedia and Beyond. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

SPAN 8130: Seminar: Studies in 18th and 19th Century Spanish Literature.

A broad survey of specific topics such as: textual civil wars; literary constructions of the nation; reconstruction of the narrative genre (1700-1900); eccentricities of Spanish Enlightenment and/or Spanish Romanticism; theatrical spectacles. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

SPAN 8140: Seminar. Modern Hispanic Poetry and Poetics.

Key moments of Spanish lyric poetry during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Theory and praxis, Romanticism, Avant-Garde, and Post-Modernism. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

SPAN 8150: Seminar: Studies in 20th- and 21st Century Spanish Literature

Topics vary. They include: Alterity in Contemporary Spain; History and Theory of Spanish Cinema; Contemporary Spanish Narratives; Alterity Migration in Spain. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

SPAN 8200: Seminar Studies in Colonial Literature.

(Also listed as Portuguese 8200). Topics include: Natural Law and Natural Rights in Colonial Literature; Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, his Ecclesiastical Career and the Comentarios Reales; Comparative Colonialism. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester [3].

SPAN 8210: Seminar: Hispanic American Essay

(Also listed as Portuguese 8210) May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3].

SPAN 8220: Seminar: Studies in Spanish American Literature in a Global Context

May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

SPAN 8300: Studies in Trans-Atlantic Literature and Culture

(Also listed as Portuguese 8400) Topics include: Transatlantic Enlightenment; From Transatlantic to Transamerican; Tracing Origins; Poetry in the Era of Memory; Transatlantic Approaches to the Humanities. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

SPAN 8400: Seminar: Studies in Inter-American Literature

(Also listed as Portuguese 8400) Comparative approaches to literary texts from such New World cultures as Brazil, Spanish America, the United States, the Caribbean, and Canada (both its French and English traditions). Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese required; reading competency in English and French. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

SPAN 8500: Seminar: Issues in Hispanic Cinema

Possible topics include: feminine reflections in contemporary Spanish cinema; Hispanic variations on the cinematic Bildungsroman; traveling films; delivering the nation (Spain 1975-2005). [3]

SPAN/PORT 8600: Seminar: Issues in Latin American Cinema

Films from Brazil and Argentina in the early twenty-first century. Globalization, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race. Brazilian films will have English subtitles. [3]

SPAN 9110: Love in Late Medieval Spanish Literature

Examination of the different conceptions and discourses of love in Spain during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. [3]

SPAN 9140: Seminar: The Realist Novel of the Nineteenth Century

A multifaceted approach to the Spanish Realist novel with attention to the sociopolitical context, contemporary cultural discourses and practices; European literary and artistic currents of the day, and theoretical formulations on the genre. [3]

SPAN 9240: Ordering and Disrupting Fictions in Latin America

Fictions of the mid nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The racialized and sexualized nature of these imagined communities and their uncanny tendency to disassemble themselves. [3]

SPAN 9250: Self-Writing in Latin America

Theory and practice of self-writing; memoir, testimony, autobiography in Latin America. The connection between the body, language, and memory in a subject of both national and individual dimensions. [3]

SPAN 9260: The Spanish American Novel of the Boom Period

An examination of the Boom novel, from the 1960s: La muerte de Artemio Cruz, Rayuela, La casa verde or Conversación en la Catedral, Tres tristes tigres, and Cien años de soledad. [3]

SPAN 9265: The Melancholy Novel in Latin America

Construction of a melancholy subject built on the loss of a linguistic, sexual, and racial identity. The works of mourning and remembering of an abject maternal body. Texts by Latin American women writers and Latinas. [3]

SPAN 9270: The Politics of Identity in Latino U.S. Literature

The writings of Latinas/Latinos from the four largest groups: Chicanos, Cuban Americans, Puerto Rican Americans, and Dominican Americans. Redefinition of borders, cultures, and languages. [3]

SPAN 9300: Comparative Methodology

(Also listed as Portuguese 9300). Comparative literature as an academic discipline; scholarly and theoretical distinctions; methodologies, applications, relationship to national literature units and humanities programs. [3]

SPAN 9510: Special Topics in Spanish Literature

Topics vary and include: Cultural Ripples of the Spanish Civil War. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

SPAN 9510: Special Topics in Spanish Literature

Topics vary. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

SPAN 9520: Special Topics in Spanish American Literature. 

Topics vary. They include: Afro-Hispanic Literature; From Baroque to Neo-Baroque; Self-Writing in Latin America; Post-colonial Malady and Genius; Indian, Mestizo and Creole Intellectuals; Poetry and Prose in the Crossroad of Autobiography; Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture/ Los poetas matanceros de la Cuba del siglo XIX, Life and Works of the Cuban Slave Poet Juan Francisco Manzano; Contemporary Brazilian Science Fiction; Narratives of Nation Building as well as others. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

SPAN 9560: Special Studies in Spanish Linguistics

Topics vary. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

SPAN 9660: Special Studies in Spanish Literature

Topics vary. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

SPAN 9670: Special Studies in Spanish American Literature

Topics vary. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

PORT 5203: Intermediate Portuguese

(Also listed as PORT 2203). Review of Portuguese grammar with emphasis on conversation, composition, and reading of modern Portuguese literary texts. No credit for students who have earned credit for a higher-level Portuguese language course. No credit for students who have earned credit for 2203. [3]

PORT 5205: Portuguese and Global Health

Speaking, reading, and writing; advanced grammar. Health in Brazil and Lusophone Africa, through literary texts, films, articles, and public health publications. Virtual language-learning partnerships with medical students in Lusophone Africa. Prerequisite: 5203. [3]

PORT 5301: Portuguese Composition and Conversation

(Also listed as PORT 3301) Expository writing and development of speaking skills. Emphasis on pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. No credit for students who have earned credit for 3301. [3]

PORT 5302: Brazilian Pop Culture

(Also listed as PORT 3302) Development of written and oral communication skills through the study of Brazilian popular culture. Movies, music, television, and magazines. No credit for students who have earned credit for 3302. [3]

PORT 5303: Introduction to Luso-Brazilian Literature

(Also listed as PORT 3303) Critical readings and methods of literary analysis. Masterpieces from Portugal and Brazil from all genres in several periods. Conversation and writing. No credit for students who have earned credit for 3303. [3]

PORT 5350: Brazilian Culture Through Native Materials

(Also listed as PORT 4350). Differences between spoken and written Portuguese in Brazil. Modern culture, including popular music, film, politics, family life, and sports. No credit for students who have earned credit for 4350. [3]

PORT 5420: Brazilian Literature through the Nineteenth Century

(Also listed as PORT 4420). Main literary trends, principal writers and works of Brazilian literature, from colonial beginnings through the nineteenth century. Study of the works of Gregório de Matos, Gonçalves Dias, Alencar, Machado de Assis, and Euclides da Cunha. No credit for students who have earned credit for 4420. [3]

PORT 5425: Modern Brazilian Literature

(Also listed as PORT 4425) Brazilian literature from the Semana de Arte Moderna to the present. Modernist and neo-Modernist movements. No credit for students who have earned credit for 4425. [3]

PORT 5892: Special Topics in Portuguese Language, Literature or Civilization

(Also listed as PORT 3892) May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Topics include: Machado and Clarice. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. No credit for students who have earned credit for 3892. [3] (No AXLE credit)

PORT 5900: Brazilian Civilization through English Language Material

(Also listed as PORT 2900) The cultural heritage of Brazil from its earliest days to the present. National identity, race relations, and Brazil's emergence as a major force in the Americas and beyond. Taught in English. No credit for graduate students in Spanish and Portuguese. No credit for students who have earned credit for 2900. [3]

PORT 6010: Literary Analysis and Theory

(Also listed as PORT 2203). Review of Portuguese grammar with emphasis on conversation, composition, and reading of modern Portuguese literary texts. No credit for students who have earned credit for a higher-level Portuguese language course. No credit for students who have earned credit for 2203. [3]

PORT 6020: Ibero-Romance Philology

(Also listed as Spanish 6020) Study of the evolution of the languages and dialects of the Iberian Peninsula. Analysis of selected linguistic developments and readings from medieval texts. [3]

PORT 6030: Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

(Also listed as Spanish 6030) Principles and practices of teaching a second language with concentration on recent interactive and communicative models of foreign language instruction. Classroom observations, journal writing, development of materials, and a small action research project are expected. Required of all entering teaching assistants. [3]

PORT  7050: Introduction to Latin American Colonial Studies

(Also listed as Spanish 7050) Provides a panoramic introduction to the canonical works of the colonial period from "discovery" to "independence," as well as an overview of the theoretical debates in colonial studies within the Latin American context. Topics include the construction and reshaping of identities and otherness through various stages of Latin American cultural history, the emergence of what has been called the American consciousness during the "New World Baroque," and the discourses of "independence" and early nation building. [3]

PORT 7070: Spanish American and Brazilian Literature I

(Also listed as Spanish 7070) Literature in a comparative perspective: from the conquests to the end of the nineteenth century. Authors may include Sor Juana, Matos, Alencar, Assis, and Carrasquilla. [3

PORT 7071: Spanish American and Brazilian Literature II

Literature in a comparative perspective: twentieth century to the present. Texts may include: Os Sertoes, La Guerra del Fin del Mundo, Ficciones, Perto do Coracao Selvagem, and Agua Viva. [3]

PORT 8200: Seminar: Studies in Colonial Literature

(Also listed as Spanish 8200) May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

PORT 8210: Seminar: Hispanic American Essay

(Also listed as Spanish 8210) May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

PORT 8400: Seminar: Studies in Inter-American Literature

(Also listed as Spanish 8400) Comparative approaches to literary texts from such New World cultures as Brazil, Spanish America, the United States, the Caribbean, and Canada (both its French and English traditions). Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese required; reading competency in English and French. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

PORT 9520: Seminar Studies in Contemporary Literature of the Portuguese Speaking World

Topics vary. Contemporary Brazilian Narrative. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [3]

PORT 9660: Special Studies in Portuguese Literature

[Variable credit: 1-6]

PORT 9670: Special Studies in Brazilian Literature.

[Variable credit: 1-6]