Spanish

Examines major questions and issues that arise in considering race, sex, and gender together. Focus on critical and theoretical texts queering ethnic and diaspora studies and bringing race and ethnicity into queer studies. Close reading of texts in a variety of media negotiating racialized sexualities and sexualized identities. How is desire racialized? How is racial difference produced through sex acts? How to reconcile pleasure and desire with histories of imperialism and (neo)colonialism and structures of power?

Strategies and tactics for research and writing in the humanities; focus is on the Spanish-speaking world. Objectives: how to write a funding proposal; how to conduct research online and in the library; annotated bibliographies; literature reviews; a book review; primary research and archive skills. Students will learn how to conduct research in Iberian and Latin American Studies, improve their written skills and learn how to think in the discipline. The emphasis of the course is on skill-building while exploring topics of interest to each student. (Meets Writing-in-the-Major requirement)

Major theoretical debates about the construction of Latin American identities, from the 19th Century to the present. Readings by writers, poets, philosophers, and historians, including Rodo, Retamar, O'Gorman, Vasconcelos, Henríquez-Ureña, Ramos, Paz, Carpentier, Lezama Lima, Borges, and Fuentes.

From independence to the present. Topics include romantic allegories of the nation; modernism and postmodernism; avant-garde poetry; regionalism versus cosmopolitanism; indigenous and indigenist literature; magical realism and the literature of the boom; Afro-Hispanic literature; and testimonial narrative. Authors may include: Boli­var, Bello, Gómez de Avellaneda, Isaacs, Sarmiento, Machado de Assis, Dario, Marti­, Agustini, Vallejo, Huidobro, Borges, Cortizar, Neruda, Guillon, Rulfo, Ramos, García Márquez, Lispector, Bolaño.

Examines a diverse set of narratives by U.S. Latin@s of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Guatemalan, and Dominican heritage through the lens of latinidad. All share the historical experience of Spanish colonization and U.S. imperialism, yet their im/migration patterns differ, affecting social, cultural, and political trajectories in the US and relationships to home and homeland, nation, diaspora, history, and memory. Explores how racialization informs genders as well as sexualities. Emphasis on textual analysis.  Taught in English.

Preference to freshmen. For students with at least two years of language preparation. Focus is on principal elements and expressive devices of lyric poetry: multidimensional use of language, denotation, connotation, image, metaphor, symbol, paradox, irony, meaning, idea, rhythm, and meter. Readings include the best of major poets of Spain and Latin America: Becquer, Rosalia de Castro, Ruben Dari­o, Unamuno, Antonio Machado, García Lorca, Neruda, and Gabriela Mistral. Bilingual in English and Spanish with an emphasis on Spanish.

Survey on modern Iberian literatures (Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician and Portuguese) through major canonical authors. Community building, tolerance, the ethics of memory, the value of human purpose as a tool for survival are some of the issues explores in key works by Eca de Queiros, Miguel de Unamuno, García Lorca, Fernando Pessoa, Antonio Machado, Mercé Rodoreda, Maria Angels Anglada, Ramón Sainzarbitoria and Manuel Rivas. SPANLANG 13 or equivalent, SPANLANG 102 recommended. 

Survey of major literary works (in Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish) from the thirteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Topics include manuscript culture; lyric poetry and performance; cultural/linguistic contact and exchange; gender; empire; and the rise of the novel. Authors may include Alfonso X, Llull, Arcipreste de Hita, Zurara, Ausias March, Gil Vicente, Garcilaso de la Vega, Camoes, Gongora, Soror Violante do Ceu, Lope de Vega, Calderon de la Barca, and Antonio Vieira. Taught in Spanish.