Spanish

This course focuses on improving oral communication Spanish skills, incorporating skills in grammar, listening, reading, pronunciation, and culture. Students study stylistics, analyze and discuss texts, view films, and acquire advanced reading strategies.

The course examines the development of literary genres in Latin American literature across the history of Spanish language and literature. It places emphasis on the philosophical and aesthetic components of the genre; the fundamentals of literary analysis; and the relationship between the literary work and its historical context. Topics include the origin and history of America; the diaries of Christopher Columbus; an overview of Spanish language Latin American literature (from Baroque to modernism); anti-poetry and conversational poetry (Nicanor Parra y Mario Benedetti); the Latin American Boom (Gabriel Garcia Marquez); and contemporary authors (Roberto Bolaño).

The course analyzes key texts in the development of contemporary theater in Spain and Latin America. The course explores the history of contemporary Hispanic theatre through examination of key authors, texts and trends in Spain and Latin America since the beginning of the 20th century.

This course provides a study of the role of emotions within modern and contemporary Latin American narrative and novels. Topics include: characterization of the emotions of love, hate, fear, hope, happiness, sadness, and disgust; the role emotions play in novels and how it affects the body; the social, ideological, and esthetic dimensions of emotions. Texts include: Juan Rodolfo Wilcok, LOS AMANTES; Nona Fernández, CHILEAN ELECTRIC; Ana Peluffo, EL CLAVE EMOCIONAL. CULTURA Y AFECTO EN AMÉRICA LATINA; Mariana Enriquez, EL CHICO SUCIO.

This course explores the characteristics, phases of development, trends, works, and authors of 20th century Latin American literature. Topics include: the pro-indigenous novel; reality transfigured; the current panorama of Latin American literature; modernity and post-modernity.

This Spanish language course corresponds to intermediate advanced level (B2 on the CEFR). By the end of the course students can understand the main ideas in complex texts that are concrete and abstract; interact with native speakers with sufficient fluency and naturalness; produce clear and detailed texts on various topics and defend points of view on general topics indicating pros and cons. The course integrates topics on Chilean culture. 

In this course, students examine a selection of key theater texts by contemporary Spanish dramatists from the early 18th century to the present. Students analyze how the selected plays are representative of trends and innovations in the contemporary Spanish stage. Throughout the course, students work not only with the dramatic texts but also with documents illustrative of their performance histories, such as filmic or journalistic records, in order to contextualize the dialogue between writing and performance from a historical, cultural and theatrical perspective. Special attention is paid to the ways in which theater is disseminated and how commercial and/or political considerations can affect the trajectory of a dramatic text, from page to stage.

This course analyzes the history and dialectology of Latin American Spanish, with special focus on Chilean history and linguistic documentation of the colonial and post-colonial eras. Topics include: the concept of Latin American Spanish-- unity and diversity, Latin American Spanish and Atlantic Spanish; the influence of Andalusia and genetic matrices; diastratic-diatopic variation and zoning; historical aspects-- periodization of Latin American Spanish; koineization and standardization processes; linguistic contact-- indigenous substrata and immigrant languages.

This course examines the problems, methods, and results of semantics and pragmatics, with an emphasis on how they complement one another. It explores the development of semantics and pragmatics and contextualizes them in the development of general linguistics theory. Finally, this courses uses an organic assembly of theoretical concepts and methodologies for semantic and pragmatic analysis of the Spanish language.