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Hispanic Literature and Culture
Hispanic Linguistics
Lusophone Literature and Culture

Fall 2013

Portuguese 597A - Lusophone African Literature
Frank Fagundes
This course, open to both undergraduate and graduate students, focuses on some of the most representative authors and works of colonial and post-colonial Lusophone African literature (the literatures of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe). Authors studied include Luandino Vieira, Agostinho Neto, Pepetela, and Ondjaki (Angola); Jorge Barbosa, Manuel Lopes, Baltasar Lopes, Corsino Fortes, and Germano Almeida (Cape Verde); Amílcar Cabral, Hélder Proença, Eunice Borges (Guinea-Bissau); Luís Bernardo Honwana, José Craveirinha, Luís Carlos Patraquim, and Mia Couto (Mozambique); Costa Alegre, Francisco José Tenreiro, Alda Espírito Santo (São Tomé and Príncipe). Theoretically, the course privileges a postcolonialist approach, although more traditional approaches will be utilized as well. Graduate students are expected to write a paper between 15 and 20 pages and a series or brief fichas or reviews. Undergraduate students will have two take-home exams. Prerequisite for the course is native or near native proficiency in Portuguese. Students who have taken at least one literature course before are most likely to do well in this course.

Spanish 520 - Spanish Literature Beginning to 1500
Albert Lloret
This course offers an introduction to fundamental authors, works, and literary genres of Medieval Iberia, with an emphasis on the Castilian tradition. Classes will be devoted to examining texts and discussing recent critical contributions to their study. Special attention will be paid to the historical and theoretical problems of our modern engagement with "medieval literature." Readings include the epic poem Cantar de Mio Cid, the exempla of El Conde Lucanor, the burlesque verses of El libro de buen amor, chivalric romance Amadís de Gaula, and Humanistic comedy La Celestina, among others. Taught in Spanish.

Spanish 533 - Spanish American Poetry Since Modernism
Margara Russotto
This cours is an introductory seminar on modern Latin American Poetry, from Modernism (1880) to the avant-garde of the twentieth century. Reading and discussion will focus on canonical works such as: Dario, Huidobro, Vallejo, among others. We will debate the difference between "pure" poetry and "impure" poetry as well as the "two" avant-gardes. We will study the importance of the Brazilian avant-garde ("Brazilian Modernism") and the famous "Week of 22". Approach and reflection will be focused on the following topics: What it means to be "modern" in poetry? What is the character "representative" of Latin American Poetry? Why? Class requires consistent participation and will have a Midterm Exam, a commented Bibliography, and a Final Essay as a result of research. TAUGHT IN SPANISH. Latin American content: 99%

Spanish 597J – Foreign Language Teaching Methodology
Carole Cloutier
The purpose of this course is to review current language acquisition theories, examine various recent trends that have influenced teaching practice, and extract from these resources those elements that seem most relevant to the construction of future models for language teaching. Assignments are designed to encourage application of the theory covered in class, such as lesson plans and a teaching statement on the core principles that guide you as language teachers. Additionally, students will conduct classroom observations to gain perspective on how different instructors use a range of techniques that yield a variety of outcomes, and share insights gleaned during follow-up discussions in class.

Spanish 597FFA - Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
Staff

Spanish 597TC – Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism: Dialogues from the Hispanic World
Alberto Ameal-Perez
Survey of Literary Theory and Criticism in a diachronic and synchronic sense. Representative tendencies and critical concepts for the interpretation of the discourses. Emphasis on Latin American and Hispanic critical tradition as a discipline that provides analytical tools according to the context. Historical background and aspects of international debate.Of particular interest to students in the humanities and social sciences. Conducted in Spanish.

Spanish 672 – Hispanic Dialectology
Patricia Gubitosi
This course examines and compares diachronic and synchronic surveys of the dialects of Spain, Spanish America and the Hispanic Caribbean. Some theoretical approaches and methodologies to study dialect classification are considered. Also, the course revises the debates on the origins and historical development of Spanish dialects in Latin America as well as the most recent developments in the fields of Dialectology.

Spanish 697TF – Teoría femenista: escritura femenina
Staff

Spring 2014
Hispanic Literatures and Cultures
Course	Professor	Sub-Area
Adaptaciones fílmicas (700 level)	Barbara Zecchi	Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
Introduction to US Latino Literature (500 level)	Alberto Ameal-Perez	Spanish American Literature from 1820 to Present
Mexico: Post Revolucionario(700 level)	Luis Marentes	Spanish American Literature from 1820 to Present
Hispanic Linguistics
Course	Professor	Sub-Area
Introduction to Applied Linguistics (500 level)	Luiz Amaral	Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition
Topics in Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (600 level)	Meghan Armstrong	Phonetics and Phonology
Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Course	Professor	Sub-Area
TBA

Fall 2014
Hispanic Literatures and Cultures
Course	Professor	Sub-Area
Don Quijote (600 level)	Albert Lloret	Medieval/Golden Age Spanish Literature and Culture
Discursos de género (500 level)	Barbara Zecchi	Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
Caribe (600 level)	Margara Russotto	Spanish American Literature from 1820 to Present
Hispanic Linguistics
Course	Professor	Sub-Area
Research Methods in Second Language Acquisition(600 level)	Luiz Amaral	Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition
Advanced Seminar in Sociolinguistics (700 level)	Patricia Gubitosi	Sociolinguistics, Dialectology and Bilingualism
Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Course	Professor	Sub-Area
TBA