Introductory Portuguese
Listening, reading, writing and speaking; emphasizing a communicative approach to learning a language.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Note: for students with no background in Portuguese.
Intermediate Portuguese
Review of Portuguese grammar emphasizing written and oral practice. Introduction to Portuguese and Brazilian literary and cultural readings, as well as to topics of current interest.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PORT 1F00 or permission of the instructor.
Conquest and Colonization
(also offered as SPAN 1P95)
Creation of a new culture founded on Amerindian, Iberian and African traditions; visual arts, architecture, literature and music; disparity between cultural identity and economic and political identity, utopian ideals, alienation through imitation, rediscovery of autochthonous cultural models.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Note: given in English.
Latin American Culture Since Independence
(also offered as INTL 2P10 and SPAN 2P10)
Survey of contemporary social history; the Latin American nations through text and images. Topics include cultural hybridization and identity.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Note: given in English. Spanish majors complete written assignments and exams in Spanish.
Iberian Culture
(also offered as INTL 2P11 and SPAN 2P11)
Social, political and cultural history of Portugal and Spain through historical and literary texts, film and other visual arts.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Note: given in English. Spanish majors complete written assignments and exams in Spanish.
Latin American and Iberian Film
(also offered as FILM 2P82 and PORT 2P82)
Spanish and Latin American representations of identity crises involving issues of nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion and politics. Pastiche, parody and camp aesthetics, and the envisioning of new possibilities of solidarity leading to social transformations.
Lectures, 3 hours per week; plus weekly film lab.
Prerequisite: SPAN 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: Spanish and Portuguese language films with English subtitles. Given in English. Spanish majors complete written assignments and exams in Spanish.
Iberian Narrative
(also offered as SPAN 3P94)
Themes and narrative techniques that characterize the works of major 20th-century authors as well as contemporary Spanish and Portuguese authors.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F10) or permission of the instructor.
Note: taught in Spanish.
Readings in Medieval Iberian Narrative
(also offered as SPAN 4P10)
Development of narrative traditions through the early 15th century and their historical contexts.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F10) or permission of the instructor.
Note: taught in Spanish