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Spanish
Graduate Courses
Spring
2008
Spanish 5311: Conceptions of Honor, Gender, and Sexuality in
Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature
Professor:
Dr. Yuri Porras Index
# 329318
Time:
Tuesday 6:30-9:15 PM
Description: Literature
provides an exciting space within which we might progressively learn more about
the ways honor, gender, and sexuality have been envisioned, imposed and
challenged in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries). This course will pay special attention to the diffusion of these
codes and, particularly, to how they were represented and spoken about in
different historical contexts. How is honor represented during medieval times?
What was expected of the ³ideal² man or woman of the Renaissance and Baroque?
Studying a wide range of Spanish texts from El cantar de mío Cid and La
Celestina to Lope de Vega and the
creation of a ³national² theater within their literary and socio-political
context, we will consider their importance in the formation and later the
maintenance of the Spanish Empire.
Spanish 5322: Spanish
for the Professions
Professor:
Dr. Yasmine Beale-Rivaya Index
# 329320
Time:
Wednesday 6:30-9:15 PM
Description: In this course we will explore where Spanish is needed in the
application of a broad spectrum of professions and identify the specific skill
needs and desires of organizations such as: the health professions, social
services, justice agencies, and translation and interpretation services,
amongst others. We will discuss the areas in which these professional bodies
have a shortage in either manpower or skill. This course will cover a variety
of practical aspects for the application of Spanish in the non-academic as well
as the academic world. I will provide the opportunity for graduate students to
explore various professional avenues that they may not have previously
considered upon completing their master¹s degree. (Business Spanish will not be
covered extensively in this course as it was the focus of this course when last
offered)
Spanish 5314: The Stories
We Tell: Approach to Caribbean and Central American Literature
Professor:
Dr. Tanya Weimer Index
#: 329319
Time:
Thursday 6:30-9:15 PM
Description: The testimonial genre has been both
popular and controversial in Latin American Literature. Its popularity stems
from the immediacy of the first person narration as a means of telling the
stories of subaltern subjects and is attested to by the inclusion of the
testimonial as a special category in the Casa de las Américas literary prizes.
The controversy starts with the desire to define the genre against other first
person accounts, such as autobiography; continues with the questioning of the
factuality of many of these texts; and ultimately rests in the aesthetic and
psychological issues surrounding the ways in which we tell stories. This course
will explore these issues in testimonies from the Caribbean and Central America
including Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia, La montaña es algo más que una
inmensa estepa verde, El
furor y el delirio and Something
to Declare. We will as
well consider the ways in which filmic testimonies differ from these written
ones.