Course Descriptions
Graduate - TENTATIVE WINTER QUARTER 2009
Spanish 206: Spanish Syntax
Raul Aranovich, Assoc. Professor (T 4:10-7:00) CRN 53380
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Textbooks: Carmen Benjamin and Dr. John Butt, A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish; Karen Zagona, Syntax of Spanish.
Spanish 223: Critical Approaches to Spanish Lit. II: Poetry and Drama
Marta Altisent, Professor (T 4:10-7:00) CRN 53381
A critical study of key texts of two centuries of Spanish poetry and drama tracing a coherent articulation of these genres, according to modern literary theory criteria. The course will focus on the
works/authors that best represent Spain's resistance and assimilation to modern aesthetics and attitudes.
The first part of the course will be devoted to the development of the modern Spanish poetry through a wide spectrum of poetic currents and language structures to acquaint the student with major themes,
images, rhetorical devices, deictic enunciations, myths, and basic literary systems of poetic thinking. The legacy of poets Gustavo A. Becquer, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Unamuno, Juan Ramon Jimenez
and the Avant-garde poetry of the 1920s will be discussed. The last four weeks will be dedicated to 5 playwrights (Valle Inclán, García Lorca, and Arrabal) as examples of expressionist drama,
symbolist tragedy, surrealist play, epic theater, farce, theater of the absurd, and metadrama). Special emphasis will be placed on the dramatic techniques in relation to historical, social and political
factors of modern and postmodern Spain.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Textbooks: Ferando Fernan-Gomez, Las Bicicletas Son Para El Verano; Luisa Cunille, Barcelona, mapa de sombras; Fernando Arrabal, El Cementerio de Automoviles;
Max Aub, San Juan; Federico García Lorca, Doña Rosita la soltera; Ramon Del Valle-Inclan, Luces de Bohemia; Frederico Garcia Lorca, Asi que pasen
cinco anos; Miguel Mihura, Tres Sombreros de Copa; Jose Zorrilla, Don Juan Tenorio; Arturo Ramoneda, Antologia de la poesia espanola del siglo XX.
Spanish 224: Studies of a Major Writer, Period, or Genre in Spanish Literature
Adrienne Martín, Professor (M 4:10-7:00) CRN 53382
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Textbooks: Miguel Cervantes, Entremeses; Miguel De Cervantes, Novelas ejemplares; Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra and Vicente Gaos, Poesias Completas.
Spanish 274: Carlos Monsiváis, Elena Poniatowska, and Co.: The Chronicle in Mexico
Linda Egan, Professor (sec. 1, W 4:10-7:00) CRN 50972
Lecture-2 hours; Discussion-2 hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Textbooks: Mabel Morana & Ignacio Sanchez Prado, El arte de la ironia/The Art of the Irony: Carlos Monsiváis Ante La Critica; Elena Poniatowska,
Fuerte es el silencio, Nada, nadie. Las voces del temblor, Elenisima: Ingenio Y Figura de Elena Poniatowska; Linda Egan, Carlos
Monsiváis. Cultura y crónica en el Méxio contemporáneo; Carlos Monsiváis, Amor Perdido; Carlos Monsiváis, A ustedes les
consta. Antologia de la cronica en Mexico . And a course reader.
Spanish 274: Luso-Hispanic Encounters
Rob Newcomb, Asst. Professor (sec. 2, T 4:10-7:00) CRN 53383
This seminar will examine the manifold ways in which Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking essayists have described, conceptualized and challenged the state of Luso-Hispanic relations. Our
readings will be skewed toward Brazilian and Spanish American writers and theorists active from the late 19th century to the present, though select texts from Portugal and Spain will
be considered as well, so as to give the seminar's participants a sense for transatlantic commonalities and discrepancies in the theorization of Luso-Hispanic interactions. In reading
a range of essayistic and critical texts - some of which are canonical interventions, some of which are less known - we will consider how attention to the Luso-Hispanic dimension may
serve to reinforce or possibly undermine assumptions about how the fields of Luso-Brazilian, Hispanic, and Latin American studies are structured. Further, this seminar is aimed at
providing participants with a background in Spanish with exposure to major figures and themes in Lusophone criticism and theory. Participants are therefore encouraged to consider how
writers, texts, and critical paradigms may be productively applied across the Luso-Hispanic frontier, and to develop final papers that apply this approach to their particular research
interests. Writers we will discuss include Antero de Quental, Joaquim Nabuco, José Enrique Rodó, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Alfonso Reyes, Gilberto Freyre, Antonio
Candido, Silviano Santiago, Eduardo Lourenço, Roberto Schwarz, and Ángel Rama. Participants should feel comfortable reading texts in Portuguese. Classroom discussion will
be in Portuguese and/or Spanish, depending on participants' proficiency.
Lecture-2 hours; Discussion-2 hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Textbooks: A course reader.
Spanish 291: Foreign Language Learning
Carlee Arnett, Professor (M 12:10-3:00) CRN 50973
This course will provide an overview of approaches to university-level foreign language instruction in the United States and the theoretical notions underlying current trends in
classroom practices across commonly taught foreign languages. Course objectives are the following: (1) to acquaint students with issues and research in foreign language teaching; (2)
to show ways of using that research to achieve moreeffective classroom instruction; (3) to develop students' skills in evaluating teaching performance and instructional materials; and
(4) to prepare students for continued professional development, including the use of technology in the classroom. Class meetings will be devoted to lectures by the course instructor
and invited guest speakers, student-led discussion, and short presentations and/or demonstrations by students and the instructor. Students will use professional journals to explore
topics of interest; prepare their own classroom materials; evaluate the instructional materials developed by others; and complete a final exam.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Textbooks: A course packet.
