Course Description: An introductory course emphasizing the four basic skills: aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Consideration of the cultural and historic background of the areas where the language is spoken, and readings designed to introduce students to Spanish and Latin American cultures and literatures. The aim is to prepare students to speak and comprehend with some facility and to read texts of moderate difficulty. Emphasis is on class participation and active use of the language. F, S.
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Course Description: An introductory course emphasizing the four basic skills: aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Consideration of the cultural and historic background of the areas where the language is spoken, and readings designed to introduce students to Spanish and Latin American cultures and literatures. The aim is to prepare students to speak and comprehend with some facility and to read texts of moderate difficulty. Emphasis is on class participation and active use of the language. F, S.
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Course Description: An introductory course emphasizing the four basic skills: aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Consideration of the cultural and historic background of the areas where the language is spoken, and readings designed to introduce students to Spanish and Latin American cultures and literatures. The aim is to prepare students to speak and comprehend with some facility and to read texts of moderate difficulty. Emphasis is on class participation and active use of the language. F, S.
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Course Description: An introductory course emphasizing the four basic skills: aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Consideration of the cultural and historic background of the areas where the language is spoken, and readings designed to introduce students to Spanish and Latin American cultures and literatures. The aim is to prepare students to speak and comprehend with some facility and to read texts of moderate difficulty. Emphasis is on class participation and active use of the language. F, S.
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Course Description: An introductory course emphasizing the four basic skills: aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Consideration of the cultural and historic background of the areas where the language is spoken, and readings designed to introduce students to Spanish and Latin American cultures and literatures. The aim is to prepare students to speak and comprehend with some facility and to read texts of moderate difficulty. Emphasis is on class participation and active use of the language. F, S.
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Course Description: An introductory course emphasizing the four basic skills: aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Consideration of the cultural and historic background of the areas where the language is spoken, and readings designed to introduce students to Spanish and Latin American cultures and literatures. The aim is to prepare students to speak and comprehend with some facility and to read texts of moderate difficulty. Emphasis is on class participation and active use of the language. F, S.
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Course Description: An introductory course emphasizing the four basic skills: aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Consideration of the cultural and historic background of the areas where the language is spoken, and readings designed to introduce students to Spanish and Latin American cultures and literatures. The aim is to prepare students to speak and comprehend with some facility and to read texts of moderate difficulty. Emphasis is on class participation and active use of the language. F, S.
Course Delivery: Fully Remote
Course Description: An introductory course emphasizing the four basic skills: aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Consideration of the cultural and historic background of the areas where the language is spoken, and readings designed to introduce students to Spanish and Latin American cultures and literatures. The aim is to prepare students to speak and comprehend with some facility and to read texts of moderate difficulty. Emphasis is on class participation and active use of the language. F, S.
Course Delivery: Fully Remote
Course Description: An introductory course emphasizing the four basic skills: aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Consideration of the cultural and historic background of the areas where the language is spoken, and readings designed to introduce students to Spanish and Latin American cultures and literatures. The aim is to prepare students to speak and comprehend with some facility and to read texts of moderate difficulty. Emphasis is on class participation and active use of the language. F, S.
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Course Description: An introductory course emphasizing the four basic skills: aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Consideration of the cultural and historic background of the areas where the language is spoken, and readings designed to introduce students to Spanish and Latin American cultures and literatures. The aim is to prepare students to speak and comprehend with some facility and to read texts of moderate difficulty. Emphasis is on class participation and active use of the language. F, S.
Course Delivery- Hybrid: This course will follow a hybrid format. At least half of course meetings will be held remotely and synchronously via Zoom. This is because the majority of class time should be dedicated to communicative activities that have students talking spontaneously to each other and with me interactively. Zoom meetings will facilitate this, particularly when some of us need to quarantine or be remote, and considering that in-person interaction will have to happen at a distance. However, I also want us to see each other and have an opportunity to build community in person, so I plan to have us meet in person 1/3 to 1/2 of the time, and will adjust that as needs evolve over the semester. The class will resemble a flipped model in the sense that new vocabulary presentations and explanations of new grammatical concepts will be available online along with regular practice activities to be completed outside of class. So that students can ask questions if they have them without having to wait for a virtual or in-person class meeting, I will set up a discussion board in Blackboard for questions and encourage students to submit questions as well as respond to questions when they can.
Course Description: Female film directors lack visibility as a result of the gender inequality that is still perpetuated in the film industry. In the history of Spanish cinema, the presence of women behind the camera was more limited than in the US in its origins, mainly due to a lack of infrastructure, and the numbers were almost brought down to zero during the Francisco Franco dictatorship (1939-1975). After almost 40 years of dictatorship and Franco's death, and the development of the new democracy, a new generation of women directors defy sexism in the film industry. These film professionals subvert gender roles and women's sexual oppression; they denounce a society rooted in a patriarchal system and heteronormative discourses, and offer new male and female paradigms on the screen by means of stories that privilege a feminine and feminist gaze or point of view. During the last two decades, since the 90s and until today, the Spanish film industry has experienced an increase in the number of female directors. In 2016, 16% of movies were made by women, compared to 7% in the US. Although women represent over half of the population, female protagonists seem to be featured much less often. This represents a potential gap in our understanding of human experience and it affects how women are portrayed in the real world. Stories tell us what societies value, they offer us lessons, and they share and preserve our history. No matter how many movies with original screenplays and state of the art technology have been recently produced, if the female point of view of reality is limited and reduced, then we continue reinforcing gender roles and gendered stereotypes and we are only exposed to half of the point of view of society. This Freshman Tutorial aims at enriching the map of Spain's film canon by giving visibility to female film directors that have actively contributed to Spanish cinema and to the portrayal of Spanish history, culture and politics. The goal is to move towards a much-needed representation of gender equity by studying these filmmakers' cultural production as work that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. In particular, it will address topics such as immigration, the representation of the female body, domesticity and lesbian desire, and different forms of social violence towards vulnerable communities. This course will also pay attention to how these female directors, having gained full awareness of the different forms of gender discrimination in the film industry in front of and behind the camera, are developing alternative modes of filming and representing. This Tutorial will give students the opportunity to explore Spanish society and culture through a number of Spanish movies directed by women. Students will familiarize with a contemporary cultural production that features a broader presence of women directors and other female professionals behind the camera, and gain a deeper understanding on distinctive artistic techniques employed by them to advance their ideological goals. Students will learn about major historical developments, and they will gain a deeper understanding of the complex meaning of Spanish democracy today, while acquiring a better understanding of the current state of affairs of female-authored cinema in Spain. To this purpose, students will watch movies in the four official languages in Spain: Basque, Catalan, Spanish, and Galician, and class will be devoted to the discussion of topics that are relevant to Spanish history and cinema in the global context. Special notes: All movies will have English subtitles. Students will be required to watch the movies outside of class. All movies will be on reserve in the library.
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Course Description: This course, the third semester of a three-semester sequence introducing the Spanish language, emphasizes the four basic skills: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will also be exposed to the diversity of the Spanish-speaking world, for example through readings that introduce them to Spanish and Latin American cultures and literatures. The aim is to prepare students to speak, write and comprehend with some facility and to read texts of moderate difficulty. Emphasis is on class participation and active use of the language. Prerequisite: SPAN 111 or placement into SPAN 225.
Course Delivery- Fully Remote: This fall SPAN 225 will be taught 100% online. We will meet virtually (via Zoom) 3x per week during the times we would normally have met face-to-face. These meetings will NOT be used to introduce new material or lecture. Instead, students will be assigned selected materials (such as tutorials and practice activities) to study before class using the online platform that accompanies the textbook and additional tools such as Quizlet and Flipgrid. Zoom meetings will be dedicated to actively practicing the material in large and small group settings. These virtual meetings will give students a chance to test their understanding, ask questions, practice, converse and actively use the language in various ways. The final grade will be determined by the level of participation and engagement as well as performance on homework assignments, vocab and grammar quizzes (online), oral and/or written projects at the end of each unit and a final group project. Prerequisite: SPAN 111 or a placement test score above 345 and an interview with a Spanish faculty member.
Course Description: This course, the third semester of a three-semester sequence introducing the Spanish language, emphasizes the four basic skills: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will also be exposed to the diversity of the Spanish-speaking world, for example through readings that introduce them to Spanish and Latin American cultures and literatures. The aim is to prepare students to speak, write and comprehend with some facility and to read texts of moderate difficulty. Emphasis is on class participation and active use of the language. Prerequisite: SPAN 111 or placement into SPAN 225.
Course Delivery- Fully Remote: This fall SPAN 225 will be taught 100% online. We will meet virtually (via Zoom) 3x per week during the times we would normally have met face-to-face. These meetings will NOT be used to introduce new material or lecture. Instead, students will be assigned selected materials (such as tutorials and practice activities) to study before class using the online platform that accompanies the textbook and additional tools such as Quizlet and Flipgrid. Zoom meetings will be dedicated to actively practicing the material in large and small group settings. These virtual meetings will give students a chance to test their understanding, ask questions, practice, converse and actively use the language in various ways. The final grade will be determined by the level of participation and engagement as well as performance on homework assignments, vocab and grammar quizzes (online), oral and/or written projects at the end of each unit and a final group project. Prerequisite: SPAN 111 or a placement test score above 345 and an interview with a Spanish faculty member.
Course Description: Spanish for the Professions is an intermediate-level course that offers students communication skills for professional purposes. Emphasis is on language skills for a diverse array of professions, including, but not limited to, the legal field, the business world, public health, information technology and jobs in the humanities. It follows a task based approach in order to expose learners to real life situations, help them acquire specialized terminology and professional etiquette, and write technical documents. Project based assignments may include creating a professional dossier and preparing for and carrying out a successful professional interview in Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 225 or placement above 225.
Course Delivery- Hybrid: For students on campus, class will be taught using a combination of in-person and remote synchronous modalities. Blackboard will be used as a repository for class materials, gradebook, and discussion board. Virtual class meetings will be delivered during class time via Zoom. In-class discussions will also be recorded for students who join remotely and will be stored on Blackboard.
Course Description: A conversation practicum in which a broad range of cultural and language topics, including Spanish for the professions (health, business) are used as substance for class programs and projects. Students are required to speak Spanish. Students wanting to satisfy the Modern Foreign Language House requirement should enroll in 241 for the fall semester, 242 for spring semester. SPAN 241 may be repeated once for a total of 0.5 unit, not to be counted toward the major or minor. Prerequisite: 225 or the equivalent. F.
Course Delivery: Fully Remote
Course Description: This intermediate-level course is designed to help students improve their conversational abilities in Spanish as well as their understanding of social realities in the Hispanic World. A variety of films from Latin America and Spain as well as selected readings will be the basis of class discussions and activities. Students will be expected to work collaboratively in a variety of settings. Prerequisite: SPAN 225 or placement above 225. Diversity. Group III.
Course Delivery: Fully Remote
Course Description: This intermediate-level course will introduce students to a variety of texts (including poems, short stories, plays, graphic novels, essays and articles) as well as other cultural materials (e.g. short/feature films, music or art) from the Spanish-speaking world. This will allow students to gain a greater appreciation for the artistic expressions of the Hispanic world while building their vocabulary, communication and analytical skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 225 or placement above 225. Diversity. Group III.
Course Delivery- Hybrid: Taught using a combination of in-person and remote modalities. Replaces face-to-face instruction with online activities when assigned and/or necessary. In-person classes paired with online asynchronous delivery of course content. Blackboard (LMS) Course-specific software. Regular attendance in in-person classes (except when experiencing symptoms or under quarantine) and completion of online “in-lieu-of-class” activities. Regular completion of online activities.
Course Description: A critical study of contemporary Spanish drama and its representation in film. Special attention will be paid to representative works from 1960 to the present, including the plays of Antonio Buero Vallejo, Alfonso Sastre, Paloma Pedrero, Jose Luis Alonso de Santos, Concha Romero, Fernando Arrabal, and others. Film will be used to complement themes and explore the transformation of literary text to film. Prerequisite: Any three of SPAN 226, 250, 310, or 350 or permission of instructor. Group III Humanities/Literature S.
Course Delivery- Hybrid: For students on campus, class will be taught using a combination of in-person and remote synchronous modalities. Blackboard will be used as a repository for class materials, gradebook, and discussion board. Virtual class meetings will be delivered during class time via Zoom. In-class discussions will also be recorded for students who join remotely and will be stored on Blackboard.
Course Description: This course examines the use of child characters/narrators in contemporary Latin American narrative and film in order to explore questions related to the role of the child's voice within the text and the view of childhood in Latin America's cultural production. It will feature films, short stories, and novels by well-known authors from various regions within Latin America (including Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, and Puerto Rico). Both the texts and the films will be studied within the historical, social, and political context in which they were produced. Prerequisite: Any three of SPAN 226, 250, 310, or 350 or permission of instructor. (Group III, Diversity)
Course Delivery- Fully Remote: This fall SPAN 370 will be taught 100% online with virtual class meetings on the days we would normally have met face-to-face. During these meetings I do not intend to lecture or provide a lot of new information. Instead, short lectures, readings and/or films will be assigned ahead of time and our virtual meetings will be used for discussion and hands-on activities that will allow students to engage with the language and the material as much as possible. Students will have opportunities to engage and participate in many different ways (including small and large group discussions, posts on discussion forums, Flipgrid videos, peer review, a group presentation etc.). The final grade will be determined by the student's level of engagement on a weekly basis, a group presentation on one of the films we discuss, one analytical essay and a final digital storytelling project.
Course Description: This upper level Spanish course, taught in Spanish, will focus on the phonetics and phonology of the Spanish language. Topics covered will include articulatory phonetics, Spanish phonology, the difference in phonetics and phonology, the differences in English and Spanish speech sounds, the phonetic and phonological variations that exist in the Spanish-speaking world, and the perception of speech sounds, particularly regarding the perception of a foreign accent. Students will also become familiar with Praat, an acoustic analysis software, learn to record themselves or others, and analyze the sound spectrograms of that recorded speech. Prerequisite: Any three of SPAN 226, 250, 310, or 350 or permission of instructor. F.
Course Delivery- Hybrid: With an enrollment around 10, I hope to meet with most of the class in person to start the semester. This would allow me to familiarize students with the way the course is generally set up and what it looks like in a normal semester; this would allow students to understand the intentions behind any needed transitions to remote instruction. If some students can't attend in person at the beginning, I will first see if I can record the in-person class to allow remote students to see it later. In this case, I will either meet briefly with these remote students virtually, or set up a discussion board on Blackboard, to answer questions. If I cannot easily record the in-person class meetings, I will have to hold virtual class meetings via Zoom in the beginning to make sure the stage gets set and explained identically for all students. This course follows a fairly rigid weekly schedule: what anybody sees on Monday or Wednesday, everybody needs to see equally, even if from a recording.