Spanish

This course examines the complexity of Hispanic culture across two continents. The course is about learning to speak, read and write Spanish by using the medium of culture. Vocabulary and grammatical structures are presented in the context of culturally relevant topics.

This course focuses on various Chilean poets during the dictatorship and post-dictatorship. It connects censorship, gender identity, and different aspects of Chilean culture to rhetorical devices utilized in the poetry. 

This course analyzes Latin American literature from the avant-garde era to the present. It focuses on the Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, the Post- Boom novel, poetry after the first avant-garde movement, and the essay in the twentieth century. 

The course focuses on issues, historical contexts, and social aspects of Spanish culture. Emphasis is placed on socio-cultural issues related to culture and the critical tools necessary for contextualizing, analyzing, and commenting on texts and documents in order to relate them to the most significant transformations in the areas of language reference. The course focuses on the analysis of excerpts of a selection of literary texts as well as documentaries of the time. Specific course topics vary each term. Access the University of Bologna Online Course Catalog for the most up to date topic for the course. The topic for Fall 2023 is the Re-elaborations and Cultural Transformations through the 20th Century and the Contemporary World. Specific topics covered include the Second Republic; the Civil War and the Francoist Repression; and the transition to democracy. The course focuses on how to retell history from realism to postmodernism and neo-modernity, and how historical memory is presented through different genres including theater and literature. The course also focuses on debates regarding ethical questions including collective memory, forgetting and recognition, reparation and post-memory, individual rights, and mass education. The analysis is based on images, sound documents, fragments of historical and philosophical essays, newspapers, and documentaries of the period.

This course is designed for UCEAP students at the intermediate (B1) level to improve, consolidate, and expand their grammatical knowledge of the Spanish language. Class meetings are supplemented with practical experiences where students visit emblematic locations in Madrid to practice Spanish communication in real-time.

This course focuses on practicing, expanding, and improving Spanish language oral production in everyday contexts as well as improving pronunciation of Spanish through listening and articulation practice.

This course offers study of Spanish spoken in everyday situations. Topics include: multi-culturalism in Barcelona; eating at a restaurant; clothing; public transit; health care; and travel.

The course analyzes the Spanish novel with an emphasis on realism and naturalism. Topics include theory, criticism, and the novels; the origin of realism and the tendentious novel; the work of Benito Pérez Galdós and other contemporary Spanish novels; the work of Leopoldo Alas; and Emilia Pardo Bazán and short stories.

This course provides students with the opportunity to read some of the best known short stories from Spain and Latin America. It presents literary terminology to better analyze the literary works and learn the fundamental techniques of short story writing in order to write their own short story. The course presents a brief historical and chronological review of the Spanish and Latin American roots of the genre to focus on the principal examples of the short story since the Middle Ages. Emphasis is placed on the developments of the modern short story during the 20th century. Students explore the different manifestations of the genre according to the literary, social and aesthetic movements and trends (modernism, vanguard, expressionism, surrealism, and magical realism). The course examines the skills of short story writing, including form, plot, characterization, dialogue, style, imagery, and narrative voice.