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Chair: Jose M. del Pino
Professors R. Bueno-Chavez, J. M. del Pino, B. Pastor; Associate
Professors R. E. Biron, R. A. Franconi, I. Lozano-Renieblas, A. Martín, I.
Reyes, S. D. Spitta, M. Swislocki; Assistant Professors J. Aguado, F. M.
A'ness, A. Gomez, A. Merino, A. Sokol, P. A. Sprague; Research Assistant
Professor E. A. Polli; Senior Lecturers G. S. Guzman-Bueno, G. M. Pushee, D. M.
Runnels, M. E. A. Vélez; Lecturers P. Asensio, C. I. Carrizo, D. J. Moody, I.
Saucedo, J. Smolin.
MAJORS
Four major options in Spanish and Portuguese are available to the student,
as well as a major in Romance Languages and a Modified Major. In addition, the
Department offers minors in Spanish and Portuguese.
The program in Spanish and Portuguese is not designed exclusively for
students who plan to pursue the study of language and literature. It is
intended also for those with a cultural, social, political, or economic
interest in Spain, Portugal, or Latin America, and for students whose interests
or future careers will make it necessary for them-as lawyers, politicians,
social workers, doctors, etc.-to know, understand, and interact with the
growing Hispanic population of the United States. The range of options offered
by the Department reflects that diversity of purpose and attempts to satisfy a
wide variety of interests and career goals.
The individual program within the major selected is designed in consultation
with a faculty adviser. Major programs usually include at least one term of
study in a Dartmouth Foreign Study Program in Spain or Latin America (two of
the Foreign Study Program courses count towards the major; for more information
see 'Foreign Study' on pages XXX). All major cards must be signed by the Major
Advisor of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
All Majors and Modified Majors (including Romance Language majors with the
primary language as Spanish or Portuguese) are required to enroll in Spanish 80
(Latin American Literature/Culture Seminar) and/or Spanish 81 (Peninsular
Literature/Culture Seminar) during their junior and/or senior year, in
fulfillment of the College requirement for a Culminating Experience in the
Major. While only one seminar is required of all Spanish majors, the Department
encourages students to enroll in both whenever possible. Romance Language
majors with Portuguese as the primary language are required to enroll in
Portuguese 80 during their junior or senior year. These seminars are viewed as
an opportunity for students in the different major options to develop their
research skills, study given topics in detail, and develop solid critical and
analytical skills. Topics and methodological approaches will vary from offering
to offering, and students are expected to develop a complex independent
research project in each seminar.
1. Major Options in Spanish and Portuguese
There are four options open to the student who elects to major in Spanish:
A. Literatures; B. Language, Culture and Society; C. Latino Studies; D. Iberian
Studies.
A. Literatures.
1. Peninsular Literature
Prerequisite: Spanish 1, 2, 3, and 9, and 20 if participating in the Foreign
Study Program in Spain.
The major program in Spanish Literature consists of at least 8 courses
numbered 30 or higher. Each individual major program must include Spanish 37,
two of the 30, 31, 32 sequence, and Spanish 56. One of the 8 courses must be
Spanish 65 or another upper level course in Latin American Literature. The
individual major program may be organized around a period, like the Twentieth
Century, a genre like poetry or an aesthetic movement, like the Baroque. A
major program in Spanish Literature should ideally include a Foreign Study
Program in Spain. Special note: Spanish 36 (FSP Spain) is considered
equivalent to Spanish 32 for purposes of major requirements, but both can be
taken for major credit.
2. Latin American Literatures
Prerequisite: Spanish 1, 2, 3, and 9, and 21 if participating in the Foreign
Study Program in Latin America.
The major program in Latin American Literatures consists of at least 8
courses numbered 30 or higher. Each individual major program must include
Spanish 37, two of the 30, 31 and 32 sequence, and Spanish 65. One of the 8
courses must be Spanish 56 or another upper level course in Peninsular
literature. The individual major program may be organized around a period like
the 20th century; a genre like the novel; or an aesthetic movement like
Modernismo. A major program in Latin American Literatures should ideally
include a Foreign Study Program in Latin America. Special note:
Spanish 35 (FSP Latin America) is considered equivalent to Spanish 32 for
purposes of major requirements, but both can be taken for major credit.
B. Language, Culture, and Society.
Prerequisite: Spanish 1, 2, 3, 9 and, if participating in a Foreign Study
Program, Spanish 20 (Madrid) or Spanish 21 (Buenos Aires).
This major option consists of at least eight courses numbered 30 or higher.
Each major program must include Spanish 37, and one of Spanish 30, 31, 32.
Spanish 40 is strongly recommended.
Special note: Spanish 35 (F.S.P. Argentina) and Spanish 36
(F.S.P. Spain) are considered to be equivalent to Spanish 32 for
purposes of major requirements, but all three can be taken for major
credit. The remaining major courses will be selected in consultation with the
faculty adviser, incorporating into a coherent program the Department's
offerings in Hispanic literatures and cultures. Major pro grams in this option
should ideally strive for a balance between Peninsular Spanish, Latin American,
and United States Latino offerings, and should include at least one Foreign
Study Program, in Spain or Latin America and, preferably, both.
C. Latino Studies.
Prerequisite: Spanish 1, 2, 3, 9 or 37. Spanish 8 for bilingual students
will be taught one term per year, and may be elected to satisfy the
prerequisite. If Spanish 37 is elected as a prerequisite the major will have a
minimum of ten courses.
This major option consists of a minimum of nine courses numbered 30 or
higher (ten, if 37 is elected as a prerequisite). Requirements include
participation in either F.S.P. Argentina (Spanish 33 and 35) or the U.C.S.D.
Exchange Program (two courses to be approved beforehand), and either History 88
or Sociology 31 or LACS 30, 34, or 35. In addition, every Latino Studies major
must include three courses from each of the following areas: A. Latino
literature (Spanish 75, 77, 78, 79); B. Latin American literature (Spanish 65,
66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76).Two appropriate courses from UCSD may
be used in place of two courses from either list A or B. Major courses will be
selected in consultation with the faculty adviser.
D. Iberian Studies.
Prerequisite: Spanish 1, 2, 3; and Portuguese 1 and 3, or equivalent
preparation in another Peninsular language (i.e., Catalan, Galician, Basque).
Spanish 9, 37, and 20. Portuguese 20 is strongly recommended.
This major option will consist of a minimum of ten courses beyond the
prerequisites, numbered 30 or higher. Requirements include participation in
either F.S.P. Madrid (Spanish 34 and 36) or an equivalent approved program in
Portugal, and History 45 or 46 (with term paper on Iberian Peninsula). Every
Iberian Studies major program must include Spanish 56 and four courses in
Peninsular literature (at least one in Portuguese) selected from the following:
Spanish 30, 40, 50-64 and 81; Portuguese 60-63, 80 (when Portugal) and 87. In
addition, students should take one course each selected from offerings in the
following two groups: A. Latin American/U.S. Latino/Brazilian literature; B.
Comparative Literature or Art History courses with an Iberian component.
Courses for the major will be selected in consultation with the faculty
adviser.
2. Major in Romance Languages.
Includes two of the four principal Romance Languages (Spanish, Portuguese,
French, and Italian), one as primary, the other as secondary. The prerequisite
for all major-level courses in Spanish is Spanish 9. The prerequisite for all
major-level courses in Portuguese is Portuguese 10 or 20.
Requirements: Ten courses, six in the primary language and four in
the secondary. If Spanish is the primary language, the six courses must be
elected from Spanish 30 or above and must include Spanish 37, and at least one
of Spanish 30, 31, and 32. If Spanish is the secondary language, Spanish 37
serves as the prerequisite; four required courses (not including 37) will be
elected from Spanish 30 or above. If Portuguese is the primary language, the
six courses, excluding the prerequisite, must be elected from Portuguese 10,
12, 20, 35, 36, 60, 61, 62, 63, 80, and 87. If Portuguese is the secondary
language, Portuguese 10 or 20 serve as the prerequisite; four courses,
excluding the prerequisite, must be elected from Portuguese 10, 12, 20, 35, 36,
60, 61, 62, 63, 80, and 87.
In a Romance Languages Major, courses in the secondary language may be
organized historically, around a genre (like poetry, drama, or prose fiction),
or around a period concept or movement (such as the Enlightenment, baroque,
classicism and romanticism, or existentialism). The modifying component must
have some coherence with the major department plan. The major card must be
approved by the Major Adviser for the department of the primary language and
will be filed with that department.
3. Modified Major.
For a Spanish modified major the student is required to take ten courses.
Six of these shall be elected from Spanish and Portuguese and the remaining
four from appropriate major-level courses offered by other departments.
Modified majors must include Spanish 37 and at least one of Spanish 30, 31, and
32. (The prerequisite for all major-level courses in Spanish is Spanish 9.) The
major program must be approved by the Major Adviser for the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese.
Foreign Study: Major programs normally include one or more terms of study
abroad, in one of the Dartmouth programs in Spain or Argentina. Three course
credits are awarded for successful completion of a foreign study term. Two of
these credits are applicable by students majoring in Spanish to the major
requirements. All three credits are potentially applicable to the Distributive
Requirement by students majoring elsewhere.
MINOR
The Spanish and Portuguese Department offers three options for a Minor
program as follows:
1. Spanish Literature
Prerequisites: Spanish 9 and Spanish 37
Four additional courses, which may be selected, upon consultation with the
Department Adviser, from among Spanish 30, 31, 32, 34 and 36 (F.S.P. Spain),
40, 50 through 64, and 81, and 87.
2. Latin American and U.S. Hispanic Literatures
Prerequisites: Spanish 9 and Spanish 37
Four additional courses, which may be selected, upon consultation with the
Department Adviser, from among Spanish 30, 31, 32, 33 and 35 (F.S.P.
Argentina), 40, and 65 through 80, and 87.
3. Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures
Prerequisite: Portuguese 10 (D.L.S.A.+) or Portuguese 20
Five additional courses, excluding the prerequisite, which may be selected,
upon consultation with the Department Adviser, from Portuguese 10, 12, 20, 35,
36, 60, 61, 62, 63, 80, and 87.
Students who elect a Foreign Study Program will need Spanish 20 (for Spain)
or Spanish 21 (for Argentina) as prerequisites.
TRANSFER CREDIT
Only upon its approval will the Department of Spanish and Portuguese allow
for a maximum of two transfer credits from comparable institutions. The
Department does not give transfer credit for Spanish 1, 2, or 3 or
Portuguese 1 or 3.
HONORS PROGRAM
To be admitted to the Honors Program, a student must satisfy the minimum
College requirement (see pages XXX) and give clear evidence of exceptional
ability and interest in the major field. The Honors Seminar (Spanish 90 and 91)
constitutes two courses above the minimum course requirement in the major.
Honors students arrange a program of study and research during any two terms of
the senior year on a tutorial basis with individual faculty members.
Application to the Honors Program is normally made during the final (spring)
term of the junior year. For additional information about admission to the
Honors Program, consult the Major Advisor.
LANGUAGE STUDY ABROAD
Spanish L.S.A. Fall, Winter, Spring: Barcelona, Spain
Winter, Spring: Puebla, Mexico
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of B- in Spanish 2, or equivalent preparation;
acceptance into the program.
A student may choose to satisfy the language requirement through a
combination of two preparatory courses at Dartmouth and one term of L.S.A. The
preparatory courses must be taken within six months of departure. Students who
have not had Spanish at Dartmouth or who have had Spanish 2 more than six
months before departure must attend a Special Drill (non-credit) designed to
prepare them for the program. Students who have fulfilled the language
requirement are not eligible for the L.S.A.
Upon successful completion of the program, credit will be awarded for
Spanish 3, 5, and 6. Course 3 completes the language requirement.
Students will be accepted on the basis of their application forms and
letters of reference; actual participation in the program is contingent upon
the maintenance of satisfactory academic standing, satisfactory participation
in the Special Drill (for those who must take it), and compliance with
orientation procedures.
For application and deadline information, consult the Off-Campus Programs
Office in 44 N. College Street.
Portuguese L.S.A.-Plus Fall: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of B- in Portuguese 3, or equivalent
preparation; acceptance into the program.
The LSA-Plus is a program designed for students who have satisfied the
language requirement and are prepared for a more advanced language study abroad
experience. Students who have had Portuguese 3 or its equivalent more than 6
months before departure must attend Special Drill (non-credit) during the term
prior to the program.
Upon successful completion of the program, credit will be awarded for
Portuguese 8, 10, and 12. Portuguese 8 and 12 offer credit toward the minor in
Portuguese. Portuguese 12 also serves as the prerequisite for the FSP
Brazil.
Students will be accepted on the basis of their application forms, letters
of reference, and an interview; actual participation in the program is
contingent upon the maintenance of satisfactory academic standing, satisfactory
participation in drill (for those who must take it), and compliance with
orientation procedures.
For application and deadline information, consult the Off-Campus Programs
Office in 44 N. College Street.
FOREIGN STUDY
Spanish F.S.P. Fall: Madrid, Spain
Spring: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the program, plus a minimum grade of B- in
Spanish 20: Madrid or Spanish 21: Buenos Aires. (The prerequisite should be
taken the term prior to FSP); or satisfactory completion of the LSA program in
Mexico or Spain during the term immediately preceding the Foreign Study
term.
Students live with families for one term in Argentina or Spain. Special
Dartmouth courses, taught by local faculty and by the accompanying Dartmouth
faculty member, are offered in advanced grammar and stylistics, literature,
art, and civilization. Demonstration of the importance of the program to the
student's overall academic program at Dartmouth is an important factor
considered for acceptance.
Upon successful completion of the program, credit will be awarded for three
courses (Argentina-Spanish 23, 33, 35; OR Spain-Spanish 24, 34, 36), two of
which may be counted towards the major in Spanish.
Foreign Study may not be taken during a student's last Dartmouth term.
For application and deadline information, consult the Off-Campus Programs
Office in 44 N. College Street.
Portuguese F.S.P Fall: Salvador, Brazil
Prerequisite: Portuguese 20 or the equivalent, or permission of the program
director.
Students live with families for one term in Salvador. The foreign study
program includes courses in advanced language and culture, Brazilian
literature, and the option to elect one course selected from the general
curriculum of the ACBEU, as long as that course is taught in Portuguese.
Electives may include courses from such departments as History, Environmental
Studies, Biology, etc., and must be approved in advance by the director of the
program. In the event a student wishes to receivecredit for that course towards
his/her major, credit will be available upon approval by that department,
following the normal procedures of the College. Upon successful completion of
the program, credit will be awarded for three courses, including Portuguese 35
and 36, which may be counted towards the minor in Portuguese or Romance
Languages. Offered every other year in conjunction with LSA-Plus Brazil.
For application and deadline information, consult the Off-Campus Programs
Office in 44 N. College Street.
SPANISH
1. Beginning Spanish
06F: 9, 10/10A, 11/10A 07W: 9, 10/10A 07S: 9, 10/10A,
11/10A
07F: 9, 10/10A, 11/10A 08W: 9, 10/10A 08S: 9, 10/10A,
11/10A
An introduction to Spanish as a spoken and written language. The work
includes regular practice-in class, in drill sessions, and in the language
laboratory-in understanding and using the spoken language. Elementary reading
materials serve for vocabulary building, analytical exercises, and discussion.
Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture
Requirements.
2. Introductory Spanish
06F: 9, 10, 12 07W: 9, 10, 11, 12 07S: 10, 11, 12
07X: 9
07F: 9, 10, 12 08W: 9, 10, 11, 12 08S: 10, 11, 12
Review of the fundamentals of Spanish, intensive work on vocabulary
building, extensive reading and discussion. More advanced practice in the use
of the spoken language in the classroom, the drill sessions and the language
laboratory. Introduction to Spanish composition. Never serves in partial
satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture Requirements.
Open to first-year students by qualifying test and to others who have passed
Spanish 1.
3. Intermediate Spanish
06F: 9, 11, 12, D.L.S.A. 07W, 07S: 9, 10, 11,
D.L.S.A. 07X: 10
07F: 9, 11, 12, D.L.S.A. 08W, 08S: 9, 10, 11,
D.L.S.A.
Panorama of contemporary Spanish and Spanish-American intellectual and
artistic achievements. This course is designed to develop techniques of
discriminating reading as well as mastery of the spoken and written language.
Linguistic and thematic analysis of texts; discussions and frequent
compositions are complemented by lectures and films. Given on-campus as the
final course in the required sequence and off-campus as part of the Language
Study Abroad curriculum. Special emphasis will be given off-campus to
contemporary Spanish and Mexican cultural topics and social issues through the
discussion of newspapers, artistic events, and mass media presentations.
Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture
Requirements.
Open to first-year students by qualifying tests and to others who have
passed Spanish 2.
5. Language Study Abroad
06F, 07W, 07S, 07F, 08W, 08S: D.L.S.A.
A course in Hispanic culture and civilization taught in the context of the
Language Study Abroad program. Lectures by local personnel concentrate on
contemporary political, social, economic, and religious institutions of the
country, with attention paid to their historical background. Visits to sites
supplement these lectures when appropriate. Assigned work includes preparation
of papers and oral presentations, and a final course examination.
Prerequisite: acceptance into the Dartmouth Language Study Abroad Program.
Class of 2007 and earlier: Dist: PHR; WCult: EU (Spain), NW (Mexico).
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W (Spain), NW (Mexico).
6. Language Study Abroad
06F, 07W, 07S, 07F, 08W, 08S: D.L.S.A.
An introductory course, offered in the context of the Language Study Abroad
program, dealing with major figures, themes, or genres of Hispanic literature.
Some areas of concern are critical reading and analysis, style, historical and
social perspective.
Prerequisite: acceptance into the Dartmouth Language Study Abroad Program.
Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU (Spain), NW
(Mexico). Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W (Spain), NW
(Mexico).
7. First-Year Seminars in Spanish and Spanish-American Literature
Consult special listings
8. Writing and Speaking: A Cultural Approach for Speakers of Spanish
07S, 08S: 11
This course is designed for students with a cultural background in Spanish
who wish to enhance their skills in reading, writing and comprehension. Course
materials will reflect a multi-media approach to understanding the cultural
experiences of U.S. Latinos/as and the Spanish-speaking world. Assignments will
be geared toward improving existing language skills and developing higher
levels of academic proficiency. This course fulfills the language requirement
for heritage speakers and serves as a prerequisite for 9 and/or all upper-level
courses (30 and higher). With departmental approval, this course may be
considered equivalent to Spanish 9.
Enrollment by permission only. Open to all classes.
9. Writing and Speaking: A Cultural Approach
06F, 07W, 07S: 9, 10 07X: 11 07F, 08W, 08S: 9, 10
This course serves as a transition between the basic Spanish language
sequence (1, 2, 3, or LSA) and upper-level courses. Through a selective review
of grammar, vocabulary-building exercises, and readings and discussion of
contemporary Hispanic topics, students will develop their ability to write and
speak clear, correct and idiomatic Spanish. This course serves as a
prerequisite for all upper-level courses (30 and higher).
Prerequisite: Spanish 3, completion of the foreign language requirement in
Spanish, or permission of the Chair. Open to all classes. Dist: LIT.
Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later:
WCult: W.
10. Introduction to Hispanic Literature: Great Themes and Great Issues
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
This course deals with major figures, themes, and issues of modern Hispanic
literature. Techniques of critical reading and interpretation are studied as an
approach to these topics. This course serves as a prerequisite for upper level
courses for non-majors. Topics will vary every offering. Dist: LIT; WCult:
Varies.
20. The Spanish Language: Advanced Training through Contemporary Spanish
Culture
07S, 08S: 11
Further training in speech and writing based on a study of contemporary
Spanish cultural patterns contrasted with those of the United States. This
course is designed especially, but not exclusively, for participants in the
Dartmouth Foreign Study Program in Spain.
Prerequisite: Spanish 3, or equivalent preparation. (First-year students
must have special permission from the Chair of the Department.) Class of 2007
and earlier: Dist: PHR; WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult:
W. Sprague.
21. The Spanish Language: Advanced Training through Contemporary Argentine
Culture
07W, 08W: 12
Further training in speech and writing based on a study of Argentine
cultural patterns contrasted with those of the United States. This course is
designed especially, but not exclusively, for participants in the Dartmouth
Foreign Study Program in Argentina.
Prerequisite: Spanish 3, or equivalent preparation. (First-year students
must have special permission from the Chair of the Department.) Class of 2007
and earlier: Dist: PHR; WCult: NW. Class of 2008 and later: WCult:
NW. A'ness.
23. Argentine Culture: Contemporary Issues
07S, 08S: D.F.S.P.
The main purpose of this course is to deepen the student's knowledge of the
Spanish language through writing, reading, and discussion of the reading
material. The texts will serve as a basis for discussion in class and also for
the weekly essay, on problems being examined, to be handed in by the students.
The reading materials will be selected in such a way as to expose the students
to the main problems of contemporary Argentine culture and society. This course
will complement Spanish 33 and 35 by dealing with particular problems of the
cultural framework within which contemporary Argentine art and literature are
produced.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program,
Argentina. Dist: SOC; WCult: NW.
24. Spanish Culture: Contemporary Issues
06F, 07F: D.F.S.P.
The main purpose of this course is to deepen the student's knowledge of the
Spanish language through writing, reading, and discussion of the reading
material. The texts will serve as a basis for the discussion in class and also
for the weekly essay on problems being examined to be handed in by the
students. The reading materials will be selected in such a way as to expose the
students to the main problems of contemporary Spanish culture and society. This
course will complement Spanish 34 and 36 by dealing with the particular
problems of the cultural framework within which contemporary Spanish art and
literature are produced.
Prerequisite: acceptance into the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program, Spain.
Dist: SOC. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of
2008 and later: WCult: W.
30. Introduction to Hispanic Literature I: Middle Ages to 1700
06F, 07F: 11
This survey course will present a chronological study of literary material,
both Peninsular and Spanish-American. It is designed to prepare the students
for more specialized work in major level courses. Readings may include
selections from the Romancero, Berceo, Don Juan Manuel, Jorge Manrique, the
chronicles of discovery, Lazarillo de Tormes and poetry by some sixteenth and
seventeenth century authors.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, or equivalent preparation. Dist: LIT.
Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later:
WCult: W. Gomez.
31. Introduction to Hispanic Literature II: Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries
07W, 08W: 11
This survey course will present a chronological study of literary material,
both Peninsular and Spanish-American. It is designed to prepare the students
for more specialized work in major level courses. Readings will be drawn from
such authors as Jovellanos, Larra, Espronceda, Galdós, Sarmiento, José
Hernández, Rubén Darío.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, or equivalent preparation. Dist: LIT.
Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later:
WCult: W. Reyes.
32. Introduction to Hispanic Literature III: The Twentieth Century
07S, 08S: 12
This survey course will present a chronological study of literary material,
both Peninsular and Spanish-American. It is designed to prepare the students
for more specialized work in major level courses. Readings will be drawn from
García Lorca, Valle-Inclán, Neruda, Vallejo, García Márquez, and others.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, or equivalent preparation. Dist: LIT; WCult:
NW. Swislocki.
33. Argentine Civilization: The Cultural Heritage
07S, 08S: D.F.S.P.
Studies in such aspects of the Argentine cultural heritage as art, music,
and folklore with an emphasis on historical and ethnographic approaches. Credit
for this course is awarded to students who have successfully completed the
Dartmouth Foreign Study Program at its University Center in Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Prerequisite: acceptance into the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program. Class of
2007 and earlier: Dist: PHR; WCult: NW. Class of 2008 and later:
WCult: NW.
34. Spanish Civilization
06F, 07F: D.F.S.P.
Studies in such aspects of the Spanish cultural heritage as art, music, and
folklore, with an emphasis on a historical approach. Credit for this course is
awarded to students who have successfully completed the Dartmouth Foreign Study
Program at its University Center in Madrid, Spain.
Prerequisite: acceptance into the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program, Spain.
Class of 2007 and earlier: Dist: PHR; WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and
later: WCult: W.
35. Studies in Spanish-American Literature: Contemporary Argentine
Literature
07S, 08S: D.F.S.P.
Analytical reading of poetry, drama, and fiction representative of the
period from 1910 to the present. Credit for this course is awarded to students
who have successfully completed the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program at its
University Center in Spanish America.
Prerequisite: acceptance into the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program,
Argentina. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW.
36. Studies in Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature
06F, 07F: D.F.S.P.
Analytical reading of poetry, drama, and fiction representative of the
period from 1898 to the present. Credit for this course is awarded to students
who have successfully completed the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program at its
University Center in Spain.
Prerequisite: acceptance into the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program, Spain.
Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of
2008 and later: WCult: W.
37. Texts and Contexts: Topics in Writing
06F: 12 07W: 10, 11 07S, 07X: 10 07F: 12 08W: 10, 11 08S: 10
This course is designed to help students develop excellence in writing as
they prepare for upper level literature and culture courses in Spanish. Topics
will vary according to term and faculty as will the "texts" studied
in the course (literary, filmic, cultural, and visual). Given that thinking,
reading, and writing are interdependent activities, Spanish 37 is designed to
offer students an opportunity to study a topic of interest in Hispanic
literature or culture while simultaneously emphasizing the advanced writing
skills required of a research paper. Frequent exercises in writing and close
textual study are basic to this course.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9 or permission of instructor. Dist: LIT.
Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later:
WCult: W.
40. History of the Spanish Language
08W: 12
From Medieval dialects to world language: how Spanish grew out of spoken
Latin, and how it spread to many parts of the world. Spanish will be the model
for a general study of linguistic change. Analytical studies of a variety of
texts from the Middle Ages to the present, from peninsular Spain and Latin
America.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Class of 2007 and earlier: Dist: PHR; WCult: EU. Class of
2008 and later: WCult: W.
45. Special Topics in Spanish and Latin American Cultural Production
07X: 12
This course presents a wide range of topics pertinent to the study of
Spanish and Latin American cultures in all of their diverse intellectual
production. Each course will emphasize a different combination of historical,
theoretical, and textual practices (literary, filmic, theatrical, graphic,
etc). The course may be offered any term and its content will depend on the
interests of the instructor.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2008 and later: WCult:
CI.
50. Literature and Society in Medieval Spain
08S: 10A
In the context of medieval Europe, Spain is rightly acknowledged as unique
because of the dynamic interaction of its three peoples: Jews, Christians, and
Moors. This course explores the legacy of these cultures as reflected in their
historical and literary expression. Texts representative of this cultural
uniqueness and its literary diversity will be drawn from the major genres
practiced at that time. Readings will include Poema del Cid, Libro
de Buen Amor, Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor, Sem Tob's
Proverbios morales, Ibn Hazam, El collar de la paloma, and
works by Ramón Llúll.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
51. Women's Voices in Medieval Spain
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, important transformations
occurred in social life, giving women an opening to financial and legal
independence. This increasingly visible role of women also found expression in
art and literature in the Iberian Peninsula. This course will explore aesthetic
and cultural images of women in Peninsular literature throughout different
literary genres in the context of theories on the nature of women by the most
influential theologians of the epoch. Reading will include jarchas, cantigas de
amigo, lyric of the Catalan Provençal "trobairitz" (women poets),
Libro de Apolonio, La Celestina, La doncella Teodor, and poems by Florencia
Pinar and Isabel de Villena.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
52. Eroticism and Spirituality in Early Modern Spain
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
The transition from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century brought a series
of changes in Spain's ideological formations. Under the influence of Italian
culture, new literary forms were developed. Changes in religious practices also
left their mark in poetic, dramatic, and narrative texts of these two periods.
The course will study the construction of representative erotic themes and
motifs as contrasted to the development of moral and religious ones. Readings
may include works by Fray Luis de León, Santa Teresa, San Juan de la Cruz, the
anonymous Poesía erótica, Cervantes' Novelas ejemplares and the novelas cortas
by María de Zayas.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
53. Knights and Rogues: Narratives of Escape and Alienation in Early Modern
Spain
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
Knights and ladies, noble Moors, lovesick shepherds; vagabonds and rogues,
charlatans, tricksters, and thieves. These characters inhabit the imaginative
world of a 'Golden Age' of contradictions in Spain. The course will explore the
relationship between society and literature during the Golden Age, as
constructed in several sub-genres of chivalry, the Moorish novel, the pastoral
novel, and the picaresque. Readings will include Amadís de Gaula,
Montemayor's La Diana, El Abencerraje, Lazarillo de
Tormes, Quevedo's Vida del buscón, Salas Barbadillo's La hija
de Celestina, and Castillo Solórzano's Garduña de Sevilla.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
54. Spanish Poetry of the Renaissance and Baroque
07S: 10A
Many extraordinary texts written in Spanish were produced by Spain's
Renaissance and Baroque poets-among them, Garcilaso de la Vega, Luis de León,
Lope de Vega, Luis de Góngora, and Francisco de Quevedo. These authors
expressed ideas and sentiments of an era marked by tectonic shifts: crisis of
the aristocracy, disintegration of the feudal state, formation of the
bourgeoisie, birth of a market economy, and Spanish imperial enterprise in
America. This course focuses on close textual analysis of poems within their
historical and conceptual framework, providing a dynamic picture of concerns
that engulfed a society undergoing transition towards modernity.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W. Sokol.
55. Love, Honor, and Monarchy: Drama and Theater in Early Modern Spain
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
The Golden Age drama created by Lope de Vega is a theatre of poetry and
action. Monarchist and deeply rooted in national origins, it has nonetheless
produced figures of universal mythic dimensions, such as Tirso de Molina's Don
Juan Tenorio. El burlador de Sevilla, the original Don Juan play, is
one of a number of works to be read in this course, which will explore the
relationship between drama and society, theater and public, ceremony and spec
tacle, in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain and Portugal. Readings will
include such 'popular' genres as the pasos of Lope de Rueda and the
entremeses of Cervantes; the Renaissance drama of Torres Naharro;
autos by Gil Vicente; the historical tragedies of Juan de la Cueva;
and comedias and autos sacramentales by Lope de Vega, Tirso
de Molina, and Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
56. Don Quijote
06F: 2A 07F: 10A
From the time of its publication in 1605 (Part I) and 1615 (Part II),
Don Quijote has continually fascinated its readers and provoked
radically different interpretations. Taking as his point of departure the
tradition of chivalric romance, Cervantes begins by writing a critique of
imaginative literature that evolves into a critique of reality itself-the first
modern European novel. This course seeks to understand the Quijote
both per se-as an autonomous work of literature-and as a highly creative
response to the literary and cultural forces from which it was forged.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
57. From Romanticism to Realism: Spanish Intellectuals and the New
Bourgeois State
07W: 12
The notion of 'the two Spains' (liberal/conservative) served as a
battleground for debates among nineteenth-century intellectuals. This course
will explore the different literary responses to this historical determinant
generated by the Romantic spirit. It will seek to clarify the role and position
of the intellectual in relation to the development of the modern bourgeois
state, and will pose the question of national identities in Catalonia and
Galicia. The influence of scientific positivism and industrialism in the second
half of the nineteenth century raises new intellectual questions that will be
expressed in the modern realist novel. We will study the relationship between
the urban landscape and psychological exploration, nature and society, and men
and women, in these new narrative forms. Readings by Larra, Espronceda,
Zorilla, Boehl de Faber, Aribau, Rosalía de Castro, Bécquer, Galdós, Clarín,
Pardo Bazán, and Oller.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W. del Pino.
58. Turn-of-the-Century Literature in Spain
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
A profound intellectual crisis takes place at the end of the 19th century in
Spain. Spanish intellectuals react in opposing ways to the perceived failures
of the bourgeois model and the psychological impact of the Spanish-American
War. On the one hand, we see the reformist Regeneracionismo movement
and a literature of social engagement; on the other hand, a lapse into an
aesthetic attitude strictly appreciative of art-for-art's-sake. The course will
explore the attempts to resolve the conflict between these contradictory
positions in individual authors. Readings by M. Unamuno, A. Ganivet, P. Baroja,
Azorín, J. M. Valle-Inclán, A. Machado, M. Machado, J. Maragall, J. R. Jiménez,
R. Maeztu.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
59. Avant-Garde Movements and Social Poetry in Spain
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
This course will explore the developments of Spanish poetry during the first
half of the 20th century, in particular the close relationships between art and
poetry, and poetry and politics. In the course we will analyze the different
poetic expressions of the Avant-garde movements (futurism, ultraismo,
surrealism) and the development of a poetry of social engagement that will
continue after the Spanish Civil War. Readings by García Lorca, Alberti,
Guillermo de Torre, Cernuda, Aleixandre, Alonso, Guillén, Salinas, Hernández,
Blas de Otero, Celaya.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
60. Exile, Repression and Writing in Post-Civil War Spain
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
What was the effect of mass exile on Spanish culture after the Civil War?
How was the inner exile of the intellectuals and writers who stayed expressed
in the literature of the period? How do ideological repression and systematic
censorship shape Spanish culture during this period? These are some of the
fundamental questions that will be addressed in an attempt to study the
relationship between cultural production and historical process. Readings will
include works by R. Sender, R. Chacel, C. Cela, Buero Vallejo, M. Rodoreda, J.
L. Martín Santos, M. Delibes, J. Marsé, and others. Films by Buñuel, Berlanga
and Saura.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
61. Spanish Literature and Film
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
This course will analyze the relationship between literature and film,
focusing on the problems encountered and the narrative strategies involved in
the transposition of Spanish literary texts into filmic texts. Issues of
narrative exposition, point of view, authorial control, and dramatization will
be discussed. How does one 'read' films? How can filmic language translate
verbal language? What is a 'faithful' adaptation? Readings will include modern
Spanish novels and plays, such as Bodas de sangre, Los santos
inocentes, Tristana, El Sur, La plaza del
diamante, El bosque animado, and Bajarse al moro.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: INT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
62. Women Writers in Twentieth Century Spain
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
This course explores a variety of issues related to constructions of gender
in contemporary Spanish literature: the representation of men and women as
subjects, the traditional gender roles and their subversion, the emergence of
women writers following the Spanish Civil War. What role does sexual
orientation play in their writing practices? How have the representations of
women changed in Post-Franco Spain? What role does feminist thought play in the
discourse of contemporary authors? Readings will be selected from plays,
autobiographies, novels and poetry by E. Tusquets, R. Montero, M. Mayoral, J.
Aldecoa, C. Riera, C. Martín Gaite, A. Urrietabizcaia, T. P√†mies and M.
Roig.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: CI.
63. Postmodern Literature in Post-Franco Spain
06F: 10
This course focuses on the new literary trends that have reshaped the
literary scene in Spain in the last two decades following the long tradition of
social realism and experimental writing of the post-Civil War period. The
course will explore how the acceptance of what were once considered nonliterary
genres (mass media, film, novela rosa, autobiographies, historical
discourses) and marginal fictional genres (mystery, historical novel, romance,
the erotic novel and poetry) have contributed to a new postmodern aesthetic
which aims to reconcile formerly antithetical social and experimental modes of
writing. Readings by E. Mendoza, M. Vázquez Montalbán, A. Muñoz Molina, A.
Rosetti, A. Grandes, J. Juaristi.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W. Aguado.
64. Recent Spanish Poetry: The Reconquest of Subjectivity
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
Spanish poetry since 1960 has shifted its interest from the collective to
the subjective, from social issues to problematizing identity; furthermore, as
a reaction to post-Civil War poetry, it attempts to reconstruct the subject.
The course will focus on the different attempts to recreate this 'self': the
'poetry of experience' which initiated the recovery of a poetic identity,
leaving behind the collective thematics of postwar poetry (Barral, Gil de
Biedma); the poets associated with the novisimos group of the late
1960's, whose poetic subject seeks its frame of reference in a cultural,
intertextual collective mythology (Carnero, Gimferrer,Montalban); and the
development of a new dichotomy of subjective and objective positions in the
1980s and 1990s (Juaristi, Alas). In this class, we will trace the limits and
configuration of this renaissance, with particular emphasis placed on the
questions and problems of representing poetic subjectivity.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
65. One Hundred Years of Solitude
08W: 2
Few literary works have ever fascinated readers all over the world the way
One Hundred Years of Solitude has. Gabriel García Marquez's novel
opens up a magical world where the boundaries that separate fantasy and
reality, fairy tale and history seem to dissolve naturally. And yet no
fictional work has ever been more deeply grounded in the reality and history of
a people. The book tells the incredible story of the Buendía family as it
develops through the successive cycles of destruction and rebirth that shape
history in the mythical world of Macondo. And, as the story unfolds, it
illuminates the wonders and terrors of the history of Latin American countries,
the complexities and contradictions that have defined their peoples and shaped
their cultures. In this course we will read, analyze and enjoy One Hundred
Years of Solitude and also a selection of García Márquez's short stories
and journalistic works. The readings will be discussed within the framework of
some major theoretical issues and in constant dialogue with a variety of
secondary sources.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW.
66. Latin American Culture: Migrations, Displacement, Exclusion and
Exile
07W: 2
Since the time of the Spanish conquest Latin American cultures have
developed in the midst of turmoil. Racial conflict, gender struggle, ethnic and
political exclusion, concentration of power in the hands of small white or
mestizo ruling classes provide part of the background for the process of
definition of cultural identities in Latin America. Through a careful analysis
and discussion of texts ranging from the first native and Spanish accounts of
the Conquest to contemporary writings by U.S. Chicano and Latino writers this
course will explore some of the faces of what we call Latin American culture.
Readings will include selections of native and Spanish chronicles of the
conquest, literary works like Hernández's Martín Fierro, Los ríos
profundos by Arguedas, El reino de este mundo by Carpentier,
Hasta no verte Jesús mío by Poniatowska and Pedro Píramo by
Rulfo, among others.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Class of 2007 and earlier: Dist: PHR; WCult: NW. Class of
2008 and later: WCult: NW.
67. Romanticism and the Formation of National Identities in Latin
America
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
Romanticism in Latin America coincides with the process of the constitution
of new Spanish American republics, and plays a crucial role in the definition
of national identities. This is why the movement tends to be more
socio-political and didactic than subjective. Nature, countryside, city, race,
tradition and history participate in the works of the period with distinct and
sometimes contradictory contents, according to how each nation or region
imagines its identity. The course explores those themes-and their links with
liberalism- in the central works of the period. Gómez de Avellaneda,
Echeverría, Sarmiento, Ascasubi, Mármol, Isaacs, Altamirano, Palma and Galván
are among the authors who will be studied.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Class of 2007 and earlier: Dist: PHR; WCult: NW. Class of
2008 and later: WCult: NW.
68. Literature and Ideas in Spanish America (1845 to the present)
07F: 2
The search for a Latin American identity became particularly urgent during
the years of nation-building that followed independence. Was Latin America
internally divided between opposing factions of barbaric and civilized peoples?
Is it possible to speak of a unified syncretic Latin America? What was the role
of the United States and of Europe vis-à-vis the Latin American nations? This
course begins with a reappraisal of these nineteenth-century questions as
formulated in the works of Sarmiento, Martí, and Rodó. We will then examine how
twentieth-century Latin American writers have transformed and redefined these
central themes of Latin American history and culture. Race, class, the function
of society, and the role of the intellectual will be discussed in relation to a
specific socio-political context. Readings include works by Sarmiento, Martí,
Rodó, Mariátegui, Arguedas, Carpentier, Desnoes, Galeano, and others.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: NW.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: CI.
69. Modernismo and Vanguardia
06F: 2
Around the 1880s Latin American poets sought to modernize Hispanic
literatures by importing the last wave of French poetic styles: Parnassian and
Symbolist poetry. They created the movement that came to be known as
Modernismo. In every Spanish speaking country, in Latin America as
well as in Spain, Modernismo deeply influenced not only high culture
but also the Mexican corrido, the bolero, the Argentinian
tango and other forms of popular culture.
In the 1920s the legacy of Modernismo was displaced by the poetic
innovations of the European Avant-gardes, an aesthetic which continued to shape
poetry well into the twentieth century. This course will analyze the
development of Modernismo and the transition to the Avant-gardes
through the works of Darío, Martí, Agustini, Lugones, Huidobro, Mistral,
Neruda, Vallejo and others.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Bueno.
70. Contemporary Latin American Poetry (from 1936 to the present)
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
The achievements of the Vanguardias shaped to a great extent
twentieth-century poetry in Latin America. Starting with the period of high
avant-garde we will examine the development of Latin American poetry from the
1930s to the present. We will study the new literary forms that expanded and
also fragmented the poetic impulse built around the Vanguardias:
social realist poetry, conversational poetry, 'negrista' poetry,
neo-avant-garde poetry, anti-poetry, and their reciprocal influence on the
popular poetry of the 'Nueva Trova,' folk songs and Brazilian popular music.
The readings for this course will include poetic works by Vallejo, Neruda, Paz,
Cardenal, Parra, Cisneros, Nicolás Guillén, Gioconda Belli, Castellanos, and
the lyrics of Silvio Rodríguez, Violeta Parra and Chico Buarque.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW.
71. Twentieth Century Regionalist Writing: The Discovery of Latin America's
Cultural Heritages
07X: 2
The Russian and Mexican revolutions and World War I changed irrevocably
Western perceptions of peoples, societies, and histories. Within the context of
twentieth-century ideological and existential developments, Latin America
became, once again, a land of discovery for its writers. This course will
explore the process of rediscovery of national heritages. The search for
non-European cultural identities highlights the African and Amerindian
components of the different Latin American regions. What were these cultures
that precariously coexisted with Western culture in America and survived
centuries of marginality and repression? What were the myths, beliefs, and
values that shaped their perception of the world? How do they relate to Western
twentieth-century social systems and philosophical currents? These questions
will be explored in the writings of Gallegos, Rivera, Guillén, Palés Matos,
Carpentier, Icaza, Arguedas, Castellanos, and others.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW.
72. Latin American and Latina Women: Gender, Culture, Literature
07S: 2A
This course will explore the images, representations and roles of the
'feminine' in Latin American and the U.S. Latino communities, beginning with La
Malinche -the translator and mistress of Hernán Cortés-and leading to the
reevaluation of those same images by contemporary Latin American and U.S.
Latina writers such as Jesusa Rodriquez, Sabina Berman, Cherríe Moraga and
Gloria Anzaldúa. We will trace the image of woman as the figure who enables
cultural interchange between and within male dominated groups, but who has
herself been denied access to cultural institutions, social recognition, and
political representation. Through an analysis of novels, plays, poems, short
stories, and testimonial writings, we will examine the traditional roles and
spaces assigned to women in Latin America and Latino societies and their
persistent attempts to subvert, challenge, or transgress these patriarchal
limitations. Readings will include selected works by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,
Gabriela Mistral, Rosario Castellanos, Elena Poniatowska, Griselda Gambaro,
Luisa Valenzuela, Diana Raznovich, Clarice Lispector, Nancy Morejón, Rigoberta
Menchú, Rosario Ferré, Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa and others.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: NA.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: CI. Spitta.
73. Literature and Social Protest: Alienation, Dictatorship, Revolution and
Disillusionment in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
In a continent where, from the times of the Spanish Conquest, nature had
been the worst enemy of man, twentieth-century writers like Arlt, Onetti, and
Vargas Llosa focus on the newer, rapidly growing urban environment. Loners,
drifters, madmen, prostitutes, and suicidal characters inhabit the
city. Their struggle against oppression and suffering becomes the symbolic
expression of the individual's search for identity in contemporary Latin
America. Loss of self vs. self-definition, destruction vs.
progress, alienation vs. freedom, and rebellion vs.
revolution are some of the issues that will be discussed in this course.
Readings will be drawn from the works of Arlt, Onetti, Vargas Llosa, Sábato,
Fuentes, and others.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW.
74. Old World/New World: Tradition and Change in Contemporary Latin
American Cultures
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
From eighteenth-century pirates to bohemian life in 1960s Paris; from
madness in the green prison of the jungle of the Amazon to the magical world of
Macondo, the readings and discussions will explore the complexities of
Western/non-Western interaction. The discussion will critically reevaluate a
long tradition that views Europe as Latin America's model while perceiving
Latin America as Europe's other. A number of key oppositions that have been
traditionally used to categorize these views-such as Reason vs. Madness,
Barbarism vs. Civilization, and Humanism vs. Nature-will be carefully examined
as part of a critical reassessment of Latin America's cultures and literatures.
Readings will include such works as Ifigenia by Teresa de la Parra,
El siglo de las luces by Carpentier, La casa verde by Vargas
Llosa, Macunaima by Andrade, Rayuela by Cortázar,
Recuerdos del Porvenir by Elena Garro, and Cien años de
soledad by García Márquez.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Class of 2007 and earlier: Dist: PHR; WCult: NW. Class of
2008 and later: WCult: NW.
75. Negotiating Performance in Latin America
08S: 2A
This course explores the history, the theory and current practice of Latin
American performance in its broadest sense. This includes theatre, performance
art, and carnival as well as rituals and spectacles associated with daily life
such as cross-dressing and other examples of what we might call performing
culture and culture as performance. Beginning with a brief overview of
pre-Columbian rituals, fiestas and public spectacle, the course will trace the
imposition of eurocentric notions of 'theatre' on populations with a long
tradition of spectacle. The course will then turn to the 1960s to examine how
Latin American playwrights (Boal, Buenaventura, Gambaro, Carballido) struggled
to transform theatre from an instrument of colonial oppression into an
oppositional, at times revolutionary, 'theatre of the oppressed.'
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: ART; WCult: Varies.
76. The Fabrication of Images: Mass Media in Latin America
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
The slapstick comedy of Mexican film star Cantinflas, the
satirical-melodramatic radio theatre of the Bolivian Raúl Salmón, and the
high-tech soap operas of the Brazilian Janete Clair are some examples of the
immense repertoire of mass-appeal productions in Latin America.
Such media productions create, produce, and reinforce a universe of
prototypical and stereotypical characters and plot stories. The gallery of
figures ranging through opportunist villain, femme fatale, expert detective,
and the family clan are prototypes in often clichéd stories that deal with the
themes of marriage, religion, crime, treason, revenge, forsaken love, political
corruption, and the success story of social conquest. This course aims at a
critical reading of such varied media material by focusing on three
interconnected issues: ideological content, public reception, and the
socio-political context of production. Course material includes a wide
selection of films, television serials, soap operas, talk shows, radio
productions, and readings of major critical texts.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: ART; WCult: NW.
77. Hispanic Literature in the USA
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
The Hispanic experience in the USA offers a wide variety of artistic
expressions, ranging from the traditional 'corrido' to the poetic experiments
of, for instance, Pedro Pietri. One element remains, nevertheless, constant:
either by rejection or by assimilation, Hispanic culture is the result of an
interaction between the 'Anglo' and the Hispanic worlds. This course will
examine the terms of that interaction, giving special attention to such
problems as marginality, bilingual-bicultural expression, and nationalism.
Primary emphasis will be on contemporary works of such authors as Alurista,
Anaya, Hinojosa-Smith, Luis Valdés and Pedro Pietri.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: NA.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: CI.
78. Living in the Borderlands: Latino/a Culture and Identity
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
This course will focus on the historical development of a latino/a culture
and identity in the United States. Since the notion of 'borderlands' today
includes not only an early Span ish colonial period of the Southwest, but also
urban centers in the Midwest and the East coast, we will discuss geographic,
psychic, sexual, linguistic, and generic borders and how latino/as negotiate
between them. We will pay close attention to the different development of the
Mexican-American, Puertorrican, Nuyorican, Cuban-American, Dominican, Central
American and other latino communities. While the U.S. mainstream has for
decades stereotyped latinos/as into a negative and immutable 'other,' we will
see how constant migrations continually force us to redefine what 'latino'
means. Readings will include: Bolton, Paredes, Gómez-Peña, Fusco, Anzaldúa,
Anaya, García, Soto, Ortiz Taylor, Ortiz Cofer, Prida, Castillo.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Class of 2007 and earlier: Dist: PHR; WCult: NA. Class of
2008 and later: WCult: W.
79. Latino/a Literature: Between Literary Traditions, Languages, and
Cultures
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
Latino/a literature is a literature caught between conflicting cultural and
literary traditions: it is Janus-faced and looks to Latin America and the U.S.
at once. Latino literature draws from sources as diverse as pre-Columbian
myths, Mexican corridos, the writings of the Black Renaissance, the
Civil Rights Movement, and Anglo American feminism, among others. Since it is
situated in between different traditions, latino/a literature is excluded from
both the U.S. and Latin American literary canons. This course will study how
latino/ a writers negotiate between Latin America and the U.S. and between
Spanish and English. We will analyze how a latino/a literature is arising out
of the confrontation between different cultural, linguistic, and literary
traditions. Readings will include: Pineda, Umpierre, Moraga, Retchy, Pietri,
Esteves, Laviera, etc.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: NA.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: CI.
80. Seminar: Latin American Literature
07W: 10A
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers a seminar on Latin American
literature twice during every three-year period. The topic will vary each time
the course is taught.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Reyes.
81. Seminar: Peninsular Literature
08W: 10A
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers a seminar on Peninsular
literature twice during every three-year period. The topic will vary each time
the course is taught.
Prerequisite: Spanish 9, and one of 30, 31, 32 or 37; or permission of the
instructor. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU.
Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W.
87. Independent Reading and Research
All terms: Arrange
A program of individual study directed by a member of the Spanish and
Portuguese faculty. Spanish 87 will normally consist of a program of reading
and research that is not covered in standard course offerings during a
three-year period. Under exceptional circumstances it may serve as the vehicle
for satisfying a course requirement that a student has been otherwise unable to
satisfy through the regularly-scheduled curriculum offerings. All Independent
Study proposals must be submitted for consideration and approval to the
Department, and require the signature of the Major Adviser. Open only to majors
in Spanish or Romance Languages. Under normal circumstances, no student may
receive credit for this course more than once.
90. Honors Course
All terms: Arrange
Supervised independent research under the direction of a designated advisor.
Honors majors will normally elect this course as the first in the required
sequence (90 and 91) for completion of the Honors Program. Spanish 90 is
intended to prepare the student for writing the Honors thesis, through readings
in primary and secondary texts, theory and methodology. The course will include
periodic written assignments and culminate in a final paper.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Honors Program.
91. Honors Seminar
All terms: Arrange
A prearranged program of study and research during any term of the senior
year, on a tutorial basis, with individual faculty members (normally the thesis
advisor). A thesis and public presentation are the expected culmination of the
course.
Prerequisite: Prior admission to the Department's Honors Program; clear
evidence of capability to perform honors level work, normally indicated by
completion of Spanish 90 with a grade of B+ or higher.
PORTUGUESE
1. Intensive Portuguese I
07W, 08W: 10/10A
An introduction to Portuguese as a spoken and written language. Classroom
and laboratory work provide an opportunity for practice in pronunciation and
understanding of the language as it is spoken in both Portugal and Brazil.
Elementary readings from both Portuguese and Brazilian literature are analyzed
and discussed in class. Readings are complemented with music tapes and films.
Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture
Requirements.
3. Intensive Portuguese II
07S, 08S: 10/10A
Review of the fundamentals of Portuguese, intensive work on vocabulary
building, extensive reading and discussion. More advanced practice in the use
of the spoken language in the classroom, the drill sessions, and the language
laboratory. Linguistic and thematic analyses of texts, discussions, and
frequent compositions are complemented by lectures and films. Given on campus
as the final course in the required sequence. Open to first-year students by
qualifying test and to others who have passed Portuguese 1 or the equivalent
preparation. Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or
World Culture Requirements.
7. First-Year Seminars in Portuguese
Consult special listings
8. Intensive Post-Intermediate Portuguese
06F: D.L.S.A.+
In this course, students will learn to recognize and produce a broad range
of linguistic registers, in order to achieve competence in Portuguese grammar,
phonetics, vocabulary, and oral and written expression. Using newspaper
articles, short stories, "cronicas," screen plays, interviews, and
reviews, students will analyze, imitate, and produce diverse types and levels
of discourse. Course work will entail intensive writing, stylistic analysis,
small group discussions, dramatic presentations, and exercises such as
conducting interviews, writing reviews and reports. Texts by a range of
20th-Century Brazilian authors. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW.
10. Brazilian Culture and Civilization
06F: D.L.S.A.+
A course in Brazilian culture and civilization taught in the context of the
Language Study Abroad program. Lectures by local personnel concentrate on
contemporary political, social, economic, and religious institutions of the
country, with attention paid to their historical background. Visits to sites
supplement these lectures when appropriate. Assigned work includes preparation
of papers and oral presentations, and a final examination. Class of 2007 and
earlier: Dist: PHR; WCult: NW. Class of 2008 and later: WCult:
NW.
12. Introduction to Brazilian Literature
06F: D.L.S.A.+
An introductory course, offered in the context of the Language Study Abroad
program, dealing with major figures, themes, or genres of Brazilian/Portuguese
literature. Areas of concern include critical reading and analysis, style,
historical and social perspective. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW.
15. Topics in Brazilian Culture
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
Further language training based on study of historic and contemporary
Brazilian culture drawing on literature, film, music, folklore and social
history. Focus may change each time offered; consult instructor. This course,
or Portuguese 20 or Portuguese 10 serve as prerequisite for the Portuguese FSP
program and as prerequisite for the minor.
Prerequisite: Portuguese 3, or equivalent preparation with permission of
instructor.
20. The Portuguese-Speaking World and its Literatures and Cultures: The
Definition of an Identity
07W, 08W: 11
This course deals with major figures, themes, and issues of the literatures
of the modern Portuguese-speaking world, including continental and insular
Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone Africa and Asia, and Luso-America. The course will
also discuss different techniques of critical reading and interpretation and
their relevance to the study of specific works. Reading selections will be
drawn from different genres and periods, and will be supplemented by film,
music, and materials from the mass media. Considerable emphasis will be placed
on speaking and writing skills. Topics will be announced in advance of each
offering.
Open to first-year students by qualifying test and to others who have passed
Portuguese 3 or have equivalent preparation. Dist: LIT; WCult: Varies.
Franconi.
25. Advanced Portuguese
06F: D.F.S.P
Composition. Intensive essay writing workshop with discussion focusing on
Brazilian culture. Advanced grammar, sentence structure and word usage provide
a framework for excellence in writing. Exercises are based on readings of
materials from diverse sources in contemporary Brazilian culture, history,
politics and current events. Credit for this course is awarded to students who
have successfully completed the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program in Salvador,
Brazil.
Prerequisite: acceptance into the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program. Class of
2007 and earlier: Dist: PHR; WCult: NW. Class of 2008 and later:
WCult: NW.
35. Advanced Studies in Brazilian Culture and Civilization
06F: D.F.S.P
A course in Brazilian culture and civilization taught in the context of the
Foreign Studies Program. Lectures by local personnel concentrate on
contemporary political, social, economic and religious institutions and issues
and their historical background. Visits to sites supplement lectures when
appropriate. Taught in conjunction with Portuguese 10. Assigned work includes
preparation of short papers, oral presentations and exams, assessed at advanced
level. Students enrolling in Portuguese 35 will write an additional research
paper based on group visits requiring sessions additional to regular
classes.
Prerequisites: acceptance into the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program.
Dist: SOC; WCult: NW.
36. Studies in Contemporary Brazilian Literature
06F: D.F.S.P.
This course explores currents in Brazilian literature from the 1970s to the
present. Genres include novels, plays, short stories and poetry, as well as
song lyrics of literary quality, from various musical genres. Prominent themes
include, but are not limited to, the socio-political experience of the
dictatorship, urban and suburban life, and literature by women. The course
stresses going beyond the literary canon to seek new literary representations
of previously under-represented issues and groups.
Prerequisite: acceptance into the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program. Dist:
LIT; WCult: NW.
60. Portuguese Literature I: Middle Ages to the Early Nineteenth
Century
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
The first part of this course will cover the creation of the Portuguese
nation in the middle of the twelfth century, and consider its extraordinary
geographical expansion in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, until
its loss of political autonomy with the disappearance of its King, Dom
Sebastão. Among the readings will be selections from the poetry of the
Cancioneiros and from Os Lusíadas, by Luís Vaz de Camoes-the
epic poem on Vasco da Gama's discovery of the route to India through the south
seas-and the literature of the Baroque period, nuanced by Portugal's contacts
with India, China, and Japan. The second part of the course will cover the
Enlightenment and its Arcadian poets, the satirical and obscene poetry of
Bocage, and the plays of the gifted 'cristão-novo' Antonio José da Silva, who
was burned by the Inquisition. The course will conclude with a consideration of
the Romantic period, heralded by the writings of Almeida Garrett, and
characterized, on the one hand, by its nostalgia for the Middle Ages (in the
novels of Alexandre Herculano), and, on the other, the innovative trends of the
revolutionary movement (Júlio Dinis, João de Deus).
Prerequisite: Portuguese 20 or equivalent preparation. Dist: LIT.
Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult: EU. Class of 2008 and later:
WCult: W.
61. Brazilian Literature I: Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries
Not offered in the period from 06F through 08S
This course focuses on the main literary movements of Brazilian literature
from its origins-Caminha's Letter of Discovery (1500)-to independence.
The so-called 'absence' of Brazilian cultures is seen in chronicles of the
Portuguese conquest and resistance, and in the Jesuits' catechistic plays,
written to be performed by the natives. The Colonial Baroque is analyzed
through the discussion of lyrical, mystical, epic and satirical poems, and
sermons. We will discuss the Independence Movement of Vila Rica, the richest
city of the Americas in the early 18th century, through readings of the
'inconfidentes'-the unfaithful ones to the Portuguese Crown. Romanticism, which
in Brazil coincided with the beginning of Brazil's Empire, will be studied
through readings about the mythical creation of Brazil in the indianist poems
of Gonçalves Dias and José de Alencar's novels, the abolitionist poems by
Castro Alves, and Martins Pena's plays dealing with the first struggles between
the city and country.
Prerequisite: Portuguese 20 or equivalent preparation. Dist: LIT; WCult:
NW.
62. Portuguese Literature II: Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
07S: Arrange
The course begins by studying Realismo through the great writer Eça
de Queirós in his famous novel O Primo Basílio, and moves on to Antero
de Quental's philosophical poetry. The Modernista movement will be
studied in selections from the poetry of Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Almada
Negreiros, and Fernando Pessoa, recognized as one of the greatest poets of the
twentieth century. The class struggle between the upper and middle bourgeoisie
will be studied in the sociopolitical novels of Neo-Realism by such major
contemporary writers as Fernando Namora, Miguel Torga, and Vergílio Ferreira.
Special attention will be given to the best of contemporary poetry and drama,
focusing on such poets as Antonio Ramos Rosa, Herberto Hélder, and Sofia de
Melo Breyner Andresen, and the playwright Bernardo Santareno. We will also
examine such post-revolutionary authors as Lídia Jorge and José Saramago, whose
most recent works are best-sellers in and outside of Portugal.
Prerequisite: Portuguese 20 or equivalent preparation, and preferably,
Portuguese 61. Dist: LIT. Class of 2007 and earlier: WCult:
EU. Class of 2008 and later: WCult: W. Franconi.
63. Brazilian Literature II: Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
08S: Arrange
This course will begin by examining the contribution to world literature of
the great writer Machado de Assis, his skeptical world view and his particular
version of Realism. It will move on to study the Naturalism of Adolfo Caminha's
Bom Crioulo, according to many the first published 'gay' novel in
modern Western society; the avant-garde creation of Mário de Andrade's
'rhapsody' Macunaíma, 'the hero with no character,' and Oswald de
Andrade's 'Manifesto Antropófago,' a condemnation of all that comes from
European civilization. 'Tupi or not tupi that is the question,' posed by the
'Manifesto.' The regionalism of the Northeast, the poverty, mysticism and
social injustice of the backlands, and the urbanism of the Southern cities such
as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, are discussed through the oral poetry of the
'romances de cordel' and through such well-known writers and playwrights as
Jorge Amado, João Guimarães Rosa, Clarice Lispector, and Nélson Rodrigues, and
through the lyrics of Bossa Nova composers, Chico Buarque, and others.
The course ends with an overview of major issues (gender, class, and race) in
Brazilian postmodern poetry and fiction.
Prerequisite: Portuguese 20 or equivalent preparation, and preferably,
Portuguese 62. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW.
80. Seminar
All terms: Arrange
Topics vary. For the next offering, consult the Department newsletter.
Prerequisite: Portuguese 1, 2, 3 and 10, or permission of the instructor.
Dist: LIT; WCult: Varies.
87. Independent Reading and Research
All terms: Arrange
A program of individual study directed by a member of the Spanish and
Portuguese faculty. Portuguese 87 will normally consist of a program of reading
and research which is not covered in standard course offerings during a
two-year period. Under exceptional circumstances it may serve as the vehicle
for satisfying a course requirement that a student has been otherwise unable to
satisfy through the regularly-scheduled curriculum offerings. All Independent
Study proposals must be submitted for consideration and approval to the
Department, and require the signature of the Major Adviser. By special
permission the course may be taken more than once.
90. Honors Course
All terms: Arrange
Supervised independent research under the direction of a designated advisor.
Honors students will normally elect this course as the first in the required
sequence (90 and 91) for completion of the Honors Program. Portuguese 90 is
intended to prepare the student for writing the Honors thesis, through readings
in primary and secondary texts, theory and methodology. The course will include
periodic written assignments and culminate in a final paper.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Honors Program.
91. Honors Seminar
All terms: Arrange
A prearranged program of study and research during any term of the senior
year, on a tutorial basis, with individual faculty members (normally the thesis
advisor). A thesis and public presentation are the expected culmination of the
course.
Prerequisite: Prior admission to the Department's Honors Program; clear
evidence of capability to perform honors level work, normally indicated by
completion of Portuguese 90 with a grade of B+ or higher.
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