Spanish

This intensive Spanish language and culture course is specifically geared for heritage language-learners who have bilingual communicative skills. It refines existing oral and written skills, while improving formal (linguistic/pragmatic) language proficiency. The course also takes advantage of students' immersion in Spanish life to incorporate intercultural learning and provide further context to the grammatical, lexical, and cultural content of the course. Assessment is based on essays, oral presentations, homework, a cultural blog, midterm and final exams, participation, and attendance. Texts: Alonso Raya, Rosario et al. Gramática básica del estudiante de español. Madrid: Editorial Difusión.

This course discusses the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes in the historical and literary context of his time (1547-1616). 

This literature and society elective course examines the relationship between literature and society, including questions of class, race, ethnicity, religion, history and politics. Also included is an analysis of the novel and the theory of art. Particular attention is given to Latin America, especially Mexico, within a general historic sequence. Topics may vary by semester and course instructor.

This abbreviated language course provides students without prior course work or those who have basic knowledge of the language with an introduction to Spanish language skills; students with prior language experience are provided the opportunity to improve upon their oral, written, and reading comprehension skills. All students begin with an intensive week covering basic forms of grammar and vocabulary specific to topics discussed in the program. Students are then organized into similar levels for the subsequent review classes that continue grammar and vocabulary instruction, and also incorporate readings from texts focused on human rights topics.

This course offers study of Spanish spoken in everyday situations. Topics include: shopping; Spanish and Latin American gastronomy; popular festivals and holidays; Barcelona neighborhoods; public transport; activities on a night out; activities for a weekend in Barcelona; colloquial expressions.

This five-week intensive Spanish course is geared for students at the CEFR A1 and A2 levels and focuses on the development of language learning skills and tools at the introductory level. The lectures are divided into five units which cover one or more forms of grammar each week and are complemented with readings, exercises, games, and songs. Basic forms of grammar covered include: the verbs ser, estar, and tener; regular verbs ending in -ar, -er, and -ir, as well as irregular verbs; contrast between estar and haber, and the simple future tense; direct and indirect objects, llevar and tener, ir and venir; verbs expressing emotion, preterite tense. Assessment is based on class participation and a final exam.

The course offers a study of some of the forms of violence that can be found in the post-dictatorship Chilean narrative. It discusses different expressions of social violence and its impact on the discourse of ideas in Chilean society. This course explores post-dictatorship Chilean novels which offer a vision of the world in which some form of violence is also included.

This course outlines the main developments of Hispano-American poetry in the twentieth century. It involves the reading and critical assessment of the work of many authors and themes: exhausted modernism and postmodernism (Dario, Lugones, Gonzalez Martinez, Agustini, Storni, Ibarbouru, Tabalda, and Lopez Velarde); introduction to two vanguardisms (Huidobro, Vallejo, Borges, Girondo, and Neruda); post-vanguardism (Borges, Lezama Lima, Paz, Molina, Rojas, and Varela); on the trails of Rubén Dario (Coronel Urtecho, Cuadra, Martinez Rivas, Cardenal, and Belli); anti-poetry (Parra); Octavio Paz and Nicanor Parra (critical poetry, visions from America, secret realism).