Limited enrollment to 25. 4 semesters of Spanish or equivalent proficiency, or permission of instructor. The main emphasis of this course is on the adquisition of vocabulary and intensive practice in spoken and written Spanish through a variety of media. Offered only as part of the Fall Semester in Chile Program. Includes Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Ruiz de Alarcon, and other 17th-century playwrights.
Content varies from year to year.
Offered alternate years. Study of the main historical periods and literary-cultural movements of Latin America, including questions of gender, the formation of social subjects, institutional processes, tensions between tradition and modernity, formation of a literate reading public, and the dialogue among the various arts. Technologies of subjectivity, production of national citizenship and territorial space, marginalization, and the medicalizaiton of the body. Offered ONLY as part of the Fall Semester in Chile program. An introduction to the craft of translation.