Spanish

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).

This course is divided into three parts and offers a comparative study of Spanish literature and its relationship with performing arts, film, and painting. Each of the three parts compares Spanish literature to another art form over the course of several centuries and various art movements or styles.

Through this course students learn the varieties and uses of spoken Spanish in different communicative situations. Students analyze the proper characteristics of oral language in comparison to the written language, and colloquial register is specifically studied. 

This course provides a study of romantic, modern, and regionalist Latin American literature. Topics include: romanticism in America; costumbrismo (traditional and comedy); MARTIN FIERRO and "gauchoesque" literature; realism and naturalism; modernism ; post-modernist poetry; regional narrative; fantasy novels and stories.

This course offers a study of the Spanish language, including the historical and cultural contexts for language development and evolution, from Latin to medieval and classical Spanish, and finally to Contemporary Spanish.

Using a variety of texts and genres as case studies (including the short story, novel, theater, and poetry), this course explores the way in which 20th-century writers in the Hispanic world have reflected upon their social and cultural realities. Through an examination of new aesthetic trends and new treatments of stock themes such as religion, politics, and love, it appraises the very characteristics of modern Latin American and Peninsular Spanish cultures.