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  • SPAN 0332A: Spanish Culture Through Art

    <strong>A Spanish Culture Through Art: Velázquez, Goya, Picasso, and Dali</strong><br /> In this course we will study the rich artistic heritage of Spain by examining in depth the life and works of the four most internationally renowned Spanish Artists of all times: Velázquez, Goya, Picasso, and Dalí. Our objective will be to go beyond knowledge of the peculiarities or style of each artist. We will seek to relate the images represented in the paintings to Spanish culture of the various periods, identify their prevailing values and ideas, and discover what the artists teach us about Spain and its contributions to Western civilization. In addition, we will explore the legacy they have left behind, a fact that makes possible a continuous artistic resurgence generation after generation. We will visit virtually El Prado Museum, Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Reina Sofía Museum, and Salvador Dalí Museum. (SPAN 0220 or placement) 3 hrs. lect./disc.

  • ITAL 0101C: Beginning Italian

    <strong>Beginning Italian</strong> <br /> This course is an introduction to the Italian language that provides a foundation in both spoken and written Italian. Focus on the spoken language encourages rapid mastery of the basic structures and vocabulary of contemporary Italian. The exclusive use of Italian in dialogue situations and vocabulary building encourages the student to develop skills in a personalized context. Conversation and drill are stimulated and fostered through active reference to popular Italian music, authentic props, and slides of Italian everyday life and culture. Students are required to participate in the Italian table. 6 hrs. disc./perf.; 2 hrs. screen

  • Fall 2020 - Speak About It - Consent and Healthy Relationships

  • TIJA 8522A: Intrm WrittenTrans to Japanese

    Builds on the theoretical and practical foundation laid in Introduction to Translation and introduces the translation of specialized subject matter. Depending upon the language program in which they are enrolled, students will be expected to acquire and demonstrate basic proficiency in the sight and written translation of either commercial and economic texts, legal texts, or scientific and technical texts. The amount of emphasis accorded to a particular topic will depend on the specific professional requirements of each language program. Course assignments will include readings, research, presentations, practice and graded exercises in sight translation, and practice and graded written translation assignments, including exercises in speed translation. Students will also be expected to take at least one midterm and one final exam. The frequency, nature, and structure of course assignments and examinations are largely at the discretion of the instructor(s) of record. <br /> <p>Prerequisite: Introduction to Translation or equivalent background.</p>

  • TIJA 8524A: Interm Sight Trans to Japanese

    Builds on the theoretical and practical foundation laid in Introduction to Translation and introduces the translation of specialized subject matter. Depending upon the language program in which they are enrolled, students will be expected to acquire and demonstrate basic proficiency in the sight and written translation of either commercial and economic texts, legal texts, or scientific and technical texts. The amount of emphasis accorded to a particular topic will depend on the specific professional requirements of each language program. Course assignments will include readings, research, presentations, practice and graded exercises in sight translation, and practice and graded written translation assignments, including exercises in speed translation. Students will also be expected to take at least one midterm and one final exam. The frequency, nature, and structure of course assignments and examinations are largely at the discretion of the instructor(s) of record. <br /> <p>Prerequisite: Introduction to Translation or equivalent background.</p>

  • TIJA 8642A-2 SP21

  • PSCI 0251A: Identity/Conflict South Asia

    <strong>Identity and Conflict in South Asia</strong><br /> In this course we will examine political development and conflict in South Asia through the concept of identity. South Asians take on a variety of identities -- ethnic, religious, linguistic, caste, national, etc. These identities often form the basis of political mobilization and both inter- and intrastate conflict. We will study the general concept of identity, including how identities are constructed and used, and then specific manifestations in South Asia. We will also examine the question of whether these identities were constructed during colonial or post-colonial times, or have an earlier basis. <em>(International Relations and Foreign Policy)/</em>

  • Structure of English

  • WRPR 0210A: Social Class & the Environment

    <strong>Social Class and the Environment</strong><br /> In this course we will explore the consequence of growth, technological development, and the evolution of ecological sacrifice zones. Texts will serve as the theoretical framework for in-the-field investigations, classroom work, and real-world experience. The Struggle for Environmental Justice outlines resistance models; Shadow Cities provides lessons from the squatters movement; Ben Hewitt's The Town that Food Saved describes economy of scale solutions, and David Owen's The Conundrum challenges environmentalism. Texts will guide discussions, serve as lenses for in-the-field investigations, and the basis for writing. We will also travel to Hardwick and Putney, Vermont, to explore new economic-environmental models. (Not open to students who have taken ENVS/WRPR 1014)

  • WRPR 0334A: Writing and Experience

    <strong>Writing and Experience: Exploring Self in Society</strong><br /> The reading and online writing for this course will focus on what it means to construct a sense of self in relation to the larger social world of family and friends, education, media, work, and community. Readings will include nonfiction and fiction works by authors such as Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Andre Dubus, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and Alice Walker. Students will explore the craft of storytelling and the multiple ways in which one can employ the tools of fiction in crafting creative nonfiction and fiction narratives for a new online magazine on American popular culture. This magazine will have been created by students in Writing on Contemporary Issues. Narratives about self and society will therefore lean towards aspects of American popular culture. 3 hrs sem.

  • FMMC 0104A: Television & American Culture

    <strong>Television and American Culture</strong><br /> This course explores American life in the last seven decades through an analysis of our central medium: television. Spanning a history of television from its origins in radio to today’s digital convergence via YouTube and Netflix, we will consider television's role in both representing and constituting American society through a variety of approaches, including: the economics of the television industry, television's role within American democracy, the formal attributes of various television genres, television as a site of gender and racial identity formation, television's role in everyday life, the medium's technological transformations, and television as a site of global cultural exchange. Note to students: this course involves substantial streaming of television for assigned viewing. 3 hrs. lect./disc. / 3 hrs. screen

  • SPAN 6793A: Pol & Violence:Span Am TheaterTheatre of Crisis

    Theatre of Crisis: Politics, Violence, and Memory in Spanish America<br /> <br /> This course offers an examination of the pervasive topic of violence and its relation to politics in contemporary Spanish American theatre from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. We will center our discussions on three controversial and debated issues: 1) The role of politics within the discourse of theatre, 2) the implications and repercussions of staging the violence experienced by the members of society, 3) and the victims’ attempts to face their violent past by preserving memory. In this way Spanish American theatre bears witness and documents the struggle for human rights in the region and the need to never forget. (1 unit)<br /> Readings<br /> La maestra (Colombia) – Enrique Buenaventura <br /> La noche de los asesinos (Cuba 1965) – José Triana (Cuba)<br /> El campo (Argentina 1965) – Griselda Gambaro<br /> La pasión según Antígona Pérez (Puerto Rico 1968) – Luis Rafael Sánchez <br /> El señor Galíndez (Argentina 1973) – Eduardo Pavlovsky<br /> El juego (Venezuela 1976) – Mariela Romero <br /> Pedro y el Capitán (Uruguay 1979) – Mario Benedetti<br /> El viaje de los cantores (México 1988) – Hugo Salcedo (ver web) <br /> La muerte y la doncella (Chile 1990)– Ariel Dorfman<br /> Cuarteto (Argentina 1991) – Eduardo Rovner<br /> Contracciones- Marta Betoldi<br /> Required texts: Eds. Frank Dauster, Leon Lyday, &amp; George Woodyard, 9 dramaturgos hispanoamericanos: Antología de teatro hispanoamericano del siglo XX: Tomo I (La noche de los asesinos) (Ottawa: Girol Books 2nd ed., 1983 or most recent<br /> ISBN 0-919659-37-3; Luis Rafael Sánchez, La pasión según Antígona Pérez<br /> 16th ed., 2000 or most recent, (Río Piedras, PR: Editorial Cultural) ISBN 84-399-3092-5;<br /> Mario Benedetti, Pedro y el Capitán (Publisher: Punto de Lectura) 2006 (or most recent)<br /> ISBN-10: 9707311320 ISBN-13: 978-9707311329; Ariel Dorfman, La muerte y la doncella (Nueva York: Siete Cuentos), 2001, ISBN-10: 158322078X ISBN-13: 978-1583220788

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