printer friendly pageILAC 114N: Introduction to Lyric Poetry
A basic introduction to the elements of lyric poetry--image, metaphor, symbol, connotation, denotation, irony, rhyme and meter-drawing upon a selection of poems from major poets of the Hispanic World, including, G. A. Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Rubén Darío, Miguel de Unamuno, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Gabriela Mistral. Prerequisites: Two years of college-level Spanish. This is a bilingual course, taught both in English, and Spanish, with an emphasis on Spanish.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Predmore, M. (PI)
ILAC 116: Approaches to Spanish and Spanish American Literature
Short stories, poetry, and theater. What analytical tools do the "grammars" of different genres call for? What contact zones exist between these genres? How have ideologies, the power of patronage, and shifting poetics shaped their production over time? Authors may include Arrabal, Borges, Cortázar, Cernuda,García Márquez, Lorca, Neruda, Rivas. Taught in Spanish.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Santana, C. (PI)
ILAC 122: Literature and Politics - Two Mediterranean Cases: Catalonia and Italy (ITALIAN 136)
A comparison between the different roles played by writers as members of the intellectual establishment in Catalonia, Spain and Italy. Focus on the relation between intellectuals and politics in shaping national identity. We will give especially consideration to the role played by intellectuals during the Fascist and Francoist dictatorships and during Spain's transition to democracy. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Rigobon, P. (PI)
ILAC 131: Introduction to Latin America: Cultural Perspectives
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.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Librandi Rocha, M. (PI)
ILAC 140: Migration in 21st Century Latin American Film (CHILATST 140)
Focus on how images and narratives of migration are depicted in recent Latin American film. It compares migration as it takes place within Latin America to migration from Latin America to Europe and to the U.S. We will analyze these films, and their making, in the global context of an evergrowing tension between "inside" and "outside"; we consider how these films represent or explore precariousness and exclusion; visibility and invisibility; racial and gender dynamics; national and social boundaries; new subjectivities and cultural practices. Films include: El niño pez, Bolivia, Ulises, Faustino Mayta visita a su prima, Copacabana, Chico y Rita, Sin nombre, Los que se quedan, Amador, and En la puta calle. Films in Spanish, with English subtitles. Discussions and assignments in Spanish.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Briceno, X. (PI)
ILAC 157: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literatures
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.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
ILAC 193Q: Spaces and Voices of Brazil through Film (PORTLANG 193Q)
The manners in which a country is perceived and defines itself is a result of many complex forces, and involves the reproduction of social relations and complex social constructions both on the part of those who live there and those who see it from a distance. The perceptions of what Brazil is and what defines the country has changed throughout times, but has conserved some clear pervasive defining traits. This course is an introduction to the history, culture, politics and artistic production of Brazil as seen through feature films, documentaries and some complementary readings. Movies include, among others, Banana is my Business, Black Orpheus, Olga, They Don't Use Black-Tie, City of God, Central Station, Gaijin, and Four Days in September-among others. In English.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-4
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum, GER:ECGlobalCom
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Wiedemann, L. (PI)
ILAC 199: Individual Work
Open only to students in the department, or by consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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Units: 1-12
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
ILAC 217: Spain & Catalonia face to face. History, Literature and Arts within two European national traditions
During the long period considered, the relationship between Spain and Catalonia has passed from aversion and misunderstanding to acceptance and understanding, hardly to sympathy. Emphasis on giving students a "longue durée" viewpoint on Spanish-Catalan relations in a European and Mediterranean framework. Political concerns, especially in the Romantic period, are largely mediated by literature, the arts and other cultural venues. Will emphasize cross-cultural references while considering the following topics: 1. Maragall and the Iberianist tradition, 2. "Modernisms" in and out the Iberian peninsula, 3. Avant-Garde movements in Spain and Catalonia, 4. Meditating in a desert: Catalan culture under Franco. Taught in Spanish. Readings in English and Spanish.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Rigobon, P. (PI)
ILAC 243: The Millenium Novel in Latin America
Between 2000 and 2012, a young Spanish American novel emerges, taking at times a minimalist point of view to narrate individual stories with a subjective tone, or continuing a tradition of the historical panorama to present national tragedies that occurred in the last two or three decades. Focus is on this new type of novel from different countries, with such titles as "El cuerpo en que nací" by Guadalupe Entel; "Las teorías salvajes" by Pola Oloixarac; "El ruido de las cosas al caer" by Juan Gabriel Vazquez; and "Bonsai" by Alejandro Zambra, among others.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Ruffinelli-Altesor, J. (PI)
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