CATA 10100-10200-10300. Beginning Elementary Catalan I-II-III.

This three-quarter sequence is intended for beginning and beginning/intermediate students in Catalan. It provides students with a solid foundation in the basic patterns of spoken and written Catalan (e.g., grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, sociocultural norms) to develop their speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills to the level required to demonstrate competency on the Catalan examination. Although the three courses constitute a sequence leading to the Catalan competency examination, there is enough review and recycling at every level for students to enter the sequence whenever it is appropriate for them.

CATA 12200. Catalan for Speakers of Romance Languages. 100 Units.

This course is intended for speakers of other Romance languages to quickly develop competence in spoken and written Catalan. In this intermediate-level course, students learn ways to apply their skills in another Romance language to mastering Catalan by concentrating on the similarities and differences between the two languages.

Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): Must be taken for a quality grade.

CATA 29700. Readings in Special Topics. 100 Units.

This course involves directed readings in special topics not covered by courses offered as part of the program in Catalan. Subjects treated and work to be completed for this course must be chosen in consultation with the instructor no later than the end of the preceding quarter.

Terms Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
Prerequisite(s): CATA 10300 or 20200, depending upon the requirements of the program for which credit is sought
Note(s): Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form.

CATA 21900. Introduction to Contemporary Catalan Literature. 100 Units.

This course provides a survey of major authors, works, and trends in Catalan literature from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. We study works representing various literary genres (novel, poetry, short story) and analyze the most important cultural debates of the period.

Terms Offered: Winter
Note(s): Knowledge of Catalan highly recommended.

CATA 26212. Women’s Narratives: Cinema and Literature in Contemporary Catalonia. 100 Units.

This course explores some of the major trends in contemporary literary and visual production in Catalan culture through the analysis of novels, short stories, poems, graphic novels and films by women writers, artists and filmmakers. An introduction to the historical and cultural background from which women’s verbal and visual production in Catalan has emerged will be provided, as well as a discussion of the processes through which its manifestations have come into being with reference to social and cultural change. The course favors a historical, interdisciplinary and intertextual approach that facilitates interconnected readings of the texts selected for in-depth analysis. In order to enable the students to engage with the texts under study in an informed and scholarly manner, a number of theoretical approaches to narratology, feminism, social and cultural history, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and postmodernism are also part of the course.

The course is divided into three major thematic groups, and each group is represented by at least two texts. All texts have been produced in the last fifteen years, with the exception of Mercè Rodoreda’s La Plaça del Diamant/The Time of the Doves, published in 1962, which has been included because Rodoreda constitutes a crucial turning point in the history of female-authored literature in Catalan, and because of the lasting effects of her influence on younger writers.

Instructor(s): M. Lunati     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): Classes will be conducted in English. All texts are available either in English or in Spanish (or both) for those students who might find it difficult to read them in the original Catalan. Films have English subtitles.
Equivalent Course(s): CATA 36212,GNSE 26212,SPAN 26212,SPAN 36212

FREN 10100-10200-10300. Beginning Elementary French I-II-III.

This three-quarter sequence is intended for beginning and beginning/intermediate students in French. It provides students with a solid foundation in the basic patterns of spoken and written French (e.g., grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, sociocultural norms) to develop their speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills. Although the three classes constitute a sequence, there is enough review and recycling at every level for students to enter the sequence whenever it is appropriate for them based on placement exam results.

FREN 13100. Introduction to French through Reading. 100 Units.

This intensive course is intended to introduce beginning students to the French language through reading. Students read a variety of French texts from multiple sources and acquire a basic set of vocabulary and grammatical structure that enables reading proficiency in French. Reading is individualized according to students' needs and desires. This course is intended for students with little to no background in French.

Terms Offered: Summer
Note(s): Must be taken for a quality grade.

FREN 20100-20200-20300. Language, History, and Culture I-II-III.

Courses in this sequence must be taken for a quality grade. In this intermediate-level sequence, students review and extend their knowledge of all basic patterns (e.g., grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, sociocultural norms) of the language. They develop their oral and written skills by describing, narrating, and presenting arguments. They are exposed to texts and audio-visual materials that provide them with a deeper understanding of French literature, culture, and contemporary society.

FREN 20500. Ecrire en français. 100 Units.

The main goal of this course is to help students acquire advanced grammatical knowledge of the French language and develop their writing skills. This course is strongly recommended for all students who intend to take courses in which writing essays in French are required: French literature classes on campus, the Autumn Paris Civilization program, or the academic yearlong program in Paris. It is also strongly recommended for students who wish to take the advanced proficiency exam in French.

Terms Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
Prerequisite(s): FREN 20300 or placement
Note(s): Must be taken for a quality grade

FREN 20601. Expression orale et phonétique. 100 Units.

This course focuses on developing the tools necessary for advanced oral proficiency in an academic context. Through active class participation involving a number of class presentations, students practice a variety of discourse styles (e.g., debates, lectures, seminars, interviews). Special emphasis is placed on correct pronunciation.

Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): FREN 20300 or placement
Note(s): This course does not count toward major or minor requirements. Must be taken for a quality grade.
Equivalent Course(s):

FREN 21501. Approches à l’analyse littéraire. 100 Units.

This course will focus on the metaliterary production of authors such as Deschamps, Boileau, Verlaine, Breton, Sartre, and Robbe-Grillet in order to see how literature has theorized and reinvented itself across time.

Instructor(s): D. Delogu     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): FREN 20500 and one previous literature course taught in French.
Note(s): Taught in French.
Equivalent Course(s): FREN 31501

FREN 21803. Introduction à la littérature française II: Littérature à l'Age des Lumières. 100 Units.

In this introductory-level course we will read great classics from the eighteenth century including works by Montesquieu, Prévost, Voltaire, Diderot and Beaumarchais.

Instructor(s): R. Morrissey     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): FREN 20500
Note(s): Readings, discussions and papers in French.

FREN 21903. Introduction à la littérature française III: Littérature du 19e. 100 Units.

An introduction to some major nineteenth-century French literary works, this course emphasizes the main cultural debates of the period through some close readings and discussions. We study various literary genres from early Romanticism to the rise of Symbolism. Authors include Chateaubriand, Mme de Staël, Benjamin Constant, Balzac, George Sand, Hugo, Musset, Zola, Lamartine, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, and Mallarmé.

Instructor(s): D. Desormeaux     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): FREN 20500
Note(s): Classes conducted in French.

FREN 22012. Ambition: An Introduction to the Representation of Social Climbing in French Literature. 100 Units.

A study of French works that feature ambition and ambitious characters before and after the French Revolution. Ambition is a contradictory phenomenon: while often maligned as a vice that disturbs the social order, in its "moderate" forms, it is celebrated as one of the virtues that talented individuals must possess in their pursuit of promotions, prizes and recognition. We will analyze together the possible evolution of ideas about social climbing by reading a medley of texts from several genres.

Instructor(s): M. Olaru     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): FREN 20500
Note(s): Taught in French.

FREN 23003. Introduction: Voix féminines dans la littérature française. 100 Units.

This course examines works written by women from the Middle Ages to the present day. We will consider the freedoms and constraints that govern textual production in order to better understand how women fashion individual, authorial, and collective identities through writing.

Instructor(s): D. Delogu     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): FREN 20500
Note(s): Introductory level, taught in French.
Equivalent Course(s):

FREN 23600. Littérature et société: Flaubert et Marx. 100 Units.

Notre approche de Flaubert sera essentiellement sociologique. Trois romans seront étudiés (Madame Bovary, Un cœur simple et L’Education sentimentale) en relation directe avec des textes de Marx sur l’aliénation, la marchandise, la révolution de 1848 (Capital, Manuscripts de 1844, L’Idéologie allemande et Le 18 Brumaire de Louis Bonaparte).

Instructor(s): P. Desan     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Open to French majors and minors, and others with consent of instructor.
Note(s): Readings and classes conducted in French.
Equivalent Course(s): FREN 33600

FREN 24100. Nature and the Natural in the Middle Ages. 100 Units.

This course will consider medieval representations and understandings of nature and the natural in its many guises – theological, legal, allegorical, scientific, political, sexual – in order to see how the human comes to define itself in relation to the created world.

Instructor(s): D. Delogu     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): FREN 20500 and one previous literature course taught in French.
Note(s): Taught in English with separate discussion session for students in French.
Equivalent Course(s): FREN 34100

FREN 25100. Comedy, Immorality and Theatricality: Molière's first grandes comédies. 100 Units.

Molière created a revolution in modern comic theater with his first three grandes comedies, five-act satirical plays that tackled the prominent social and cultural problems of the day: marriage and feminism, religion and hypocrisy, and the refined artifice of court and salon society. We will conduct close readings of L’Ecole des femmes, Tartuffe and Le Misanthrope, relating them to key currents in seventeenth-century thought and literature (Pascal, La Bruyère, La Fontaine, etc). We will also examine their theatrical dimension, working in conjunction with the preparation for a Court Theatre staging of two of the comedies.

Instructor(s): L. Norman     Terms Offered: Spring
Note(s): This course will be bilingual (French and English), all texts will be read in French and most courses (aside from those dedicated to theatrical adaptation) conducted in French. Those taking the course in TAPS may conduct written work in English.
Equivalent Course(s): FREN 35100,REMS 35100,TAPS 28471

FREN 25301. Beautiful Souls, Adventurers, and Rogues. The European 18th Century Novel. 100 Units.

The course will examine several major eighteenth-century novels, including Manon Lescaut by Prevost, Pamela and fragments from Clarissa by Richardson, Shamela and fragments from Joseph Andrews by Fielding, Jacques le Fataliste by Diderot, and The Sufferings of Young Werther by Goethe.

Instructor(s): T. Pavel     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Not open to first-year undergraduates.
Note(s): Taught in English. A weekly session in French will be held for French majors and graduate students.
Equivalent Course(s): FREN 35301,CMLT 24401,CMLT 34401,SCTH 38240

FREN 25703. Le Roman et L'Histoire (XIXe-XXe Siecles) 100 Units.

While the nineteenth-century novel has a privileged relationship with history, twentieth-century literature is marked by a double movement of engagement with and detachment from contemporary events. This course will examine this evolution through the study of some key works from the nineteenth century to the present. Themes will include the representation and fictionalization of history, memory and quest, and the transformations of realism. Among the authors studied will be Zola, Duras, Modiano, Nemirovsky, and Djebar.

Instructor(s): A. James     Terms Offered: Spring
Note(s): Taught in French.

FREN 26003. Introduction à l'autobiographie. 100 Units.

This course traces the history of the autobiographical genre in France from the eighteenth century to the present. The study of key texts will be accompanied by an introduction to some critical perspectives. We will give special emphasis to questions of reference and authenticity, identity and subject formation, and gender and the family. Authors include Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Colette, Perec, and Sarraute.

Instructor(s): A. James     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): FREN 20500
Note(s): Taught in French.
Equivalent Course(s):

FREN 26800. Les Philosophes. 100 Units.

This advanced course will study major works of the Enlightenment understood as a current of critical thought and a moment of a fundamental transformation and redefinition of relations between man and the world he inhabits. Voltaire, Diderot and Rousseau will of course be present, but we will also study the development of sensationalism in the works of Condillac, the materialist current represented by LaMettrie et d’Holbach and the libertine thought of the Marquis de Sade.

Instructor(s): R. Morrissey     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): FREN 20500 and one previous literature course taught in French.
Note(s): Readings and discussion in French (but comments in English are also welcome). Papers and student presentations in French or English depending on student's concentration.
Equivalent Course(s): FREN 36800

FREN 28600. Fiction, Ideals, and Norms. 100 Units.

This course will discuss the ways in which fiction imagines a multitude of individual cases meant to incite reflection on moral practices. The topics will include: the distance between the “I” and its life, the birth of moral responsibility, and the role of affection and gratitude. We will read philosophical texts by Elisabeth Anscombe, Charles Taylor, Robert Pippin, Hans Joas, Charles Larmore, and Candace Vogler, and literary texts by Shakespeare, Balzac, Theodor Fontane, Henry James, Carson McCullers, and Sandor Marai. 

Instructor(s): T. Pavel     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): CMLT 28601,CMLT 38601,FREN 38600,SCTH 38211

FREN 29200. Edgar Quinet au carrefour de la littérature et de l’histoire. 100 Units.

Thinker, poet, historian, Edgar Quinet had a profound influence in nineteenth-century France. Very much a European, he had a deep understanding of Vico and was among the very first to introduce German thought into France. He opened new perspectives in the understanding of medieval culture as well as the French Revolution and the Empire. In this course we will study selected works of Quinet such as Ahsvérus, Merlin l’Enchanteur, Histoire de mes idées, and La Révolution, placing them in the broader context of nineteenth-century French culture.

Instructor(s): R. Morrissey     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): FREN 20500 and one previous literature course taught in French.
Note(s): Readings and discussion in French (but comments in English are also welcome). Papers and student presentations in French or English depending on student's concentration.
Equivalent Course(s): FREN 39200

FREN 29700. Readings in Special Topics. 100 Units.

This course is a study of directed readings in special topics not covered by courses offered as part of the program in French. Subjects treated and work completed for the course must be chosen in consultation with the instructor no later than the end of the preceding quarter.

Terms Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
Prerequisite(s): FREN 10300 or 20300, depending upon the requirements of the program for which credit is sought
Note(s): Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form.

FREN 29900. BA Paper Preparation: French. 100 Units.

In consultation with a faculty member, students devote the equivalent of a one-quarter course to the preparation of a BA project.

Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Consent of undergraduate adviser
Note(s): Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Must be taken for a quality grade.

FREN 34000. Travelling in Early Modern Times. 100 Units.

We will see how the expansion of commerce in the sixteenth century produces a new form of travel literature, an object for imagination where the Other (in reality or in fiction) helps to reflect on the cultural and moral values of Europe. We will read the primary texts of Marco Polo, Columbus, Las Casas, Sepúlveda, Mendieta, De Acosta, Rabelais, Montaigne, Jean de Léry, André Thevet. We will also read critical studies by Claude Lévi-Strauss and Tzvetan Todorov.

Instructor(s): P. Desan     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Advanced undergraduates accepted with consent of instructor.
Note(s): Most readings in French. Papers in French for French grad students and in English for others.
Equivalent Course(s): REMS 34000

SOSC 27501-27601-27701. Civilisation Européenne I-II-III.

Enrollment in Paris study abroad program. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. Cette série de cours est un hybride: à la fois une introduction à l’histoire de la civilisation européenne depuis le Moyen Age et une vue d’ensemble de l’histoire de France durant cette période. Notre objectif sera double: d’une part, intégrer étude de textes et découverte de Paris et de sa région; de l’autre, pratiquer le métier d’historiens de la culture. Pour ce faire, nous analyserons de nombreux documents historiques et oeuvres littéraires, philosophiques, artistiques, et musicales. Nous en discuterons lors de nos trois réunions hebdomadaires. De plus, nous étudierons la civilisation française à travers les villages, monastères, et châteaux de la région parisienne et ailleurs. Classes conducted in French. This class meets in Paris.

ITAL 10100-10200-10300. Beginning Elementary Italian I-II-III.

This three-quarter sequence is intended for beginning and beginning/intermediate students in Italian. It provides students with a solid foundation in the basic patterns of spoken and written Italian (e.g., grammar, vocabulary, sociocultural norms) to develop their speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills. Although the three classes constitute a sequence, there is enough review and recycling at every level for students to enter the sequence at whatever level is appropriate for them. Cultural awareness is enhanced through the use of authentic audio-visual materials and literary texts.

ITAL 20100-20200-20300. Language, History, and Culture I-II-III.

In this intermediate-level sequence, students review and extend their knowledge of all basic patterns (e.g., grammar, vocabulary, sociocultural norms) of the language. They develop their oral and written skills in describing, narrating, and presenting arguments. They are exposed to literary and nonliterary texts and audio-visual materials that provide them with a deeper understanding of the Italian-speaking world.

ITAL 20400. Corso di perfezionamento. 100 Units.

This course helps students achieve a very high level of composition and style through the acquisition of numerous writing techniques. Using a variety of literary and nonliterary texts as models, students examine the linguistic structure and organization of several types of written Italian discourse. This course is also intended to help students attain high levels in reading, speaking, and listening through readings and debates on various issues of relevance in contemporary Italian society.

Terms Offered: Autumn, Winter
Prerequisite(s): ITAL 20300, placement, or consent of instructor
Note(s): Must be taken for a quality grade.

ITAL 20500. Luci e ombre nell’Italia contemporanea. 100 Units.

This course aims at enhancing students’ awareness of the complexity of contemporary Italy through readings and discussions on such relevant issues as school, art, immigration, sports, health care, religion, and politics, debated daily in modern Italian society. Students are exposed to a wide variety of texts, from newspaper articles to literary texts, as well as video and audio clips, that help them attain more advanced levels in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Guest native speakers lecture on some of the debated topics.

Terms Offered: Winter, Spring
Prerequisite(s): ITAL 20300 or consent of instructor
Note(s): Must be taken for a quality grade.

ITAL 21100. Le regioni italiane: lingua, dialetti, tradizioni. 100 Units.

This course expands students' awareness of the diversity of the Italian language and culture. It emphasizes the interrelationship between language and culture, as well as social and historical transformations. We also study the Italian phonological system. Students are exposed to a wide variety of texts, both literary and nonliterary, as well as audio-visual materials that enhance their awareness of regional expressions and Italian dialects. Guest lecturers include native speakers from different Italian regions.

Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): ITAL 20300 or consent of instructor
Note(s): Must be taken for a quality grade.

ITAL 22101. Dante's "Divine Comedy" 3: Paradiso. 100 Units.

An in-depth study of the third cantica of Dante's masterpiece, considered the most difficult but in many ways also the most innovative.  Read alongside his scientific treatise the Convivio and his political manifesto the Monarchia.

Instructor(s): J. Steinberg     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): Completion of the previous courses in the sequence not required, but students should familiarize themselves with the "Inferno" and the "Purgatorio" before the first day of class. Taught in English
Equivalent Course(s): FNDL 21804,ITAL 32101,REMS 32101

ITAL 22200. Introduction to the Renaissance. 100 Units.

The Renaissance, which first and foremost flourished in Italy, founded our modern concept of the self. The way we see ourselves, the values we cherish, derive from the Renaissance. Modernity is a product of the Renaissance. This course emphasizes the importance of introspection in Renaissance culture, poetry, and philosophy. The books I have selected have a strong autobiographical element. However, they also illuminate how the Renaissance theorizes the relationship between the individual and society. We will read, in Italian, passages from major Italian texts in prose, such as Castiglione's Il cortigiano, Machiavelli's Discorsi, Campanella's Città del Sole, and poetry by Michelangelo, Monsignor della Casa, and numerous women poets, such as Veronica Franco, Vittoria Colonna, and Veronica Gambara.

Instructor(s): A. Maggi     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): Taught in Italian.
Equivalent Course(s): CMLT 26400

ITAL 23101. Early Italian Lyric: Dante and His Rivals. 100 Units.

This course examines Dante’s complicated relationship with other contemporary and near-contemporary lyric poets. In particular, we examine Dante’s texts as part of a dense web of contending vernacular discourses instead of as the final word or telos of our studies. For this reason, special emphasis is given to the sonnet form as a ritualized genre in which poetic communities are formed and contending philosophical, political, and sociological visions of society are constructed and deconstructed. The role of books and manuscript culture is especially important as we try to understand the material production and reception of the emergent vernacular literature, and its role and function in late medieval urban Italy.

Instructor(s): J. Steinberg     Terms Offered: Spring
Note(s): The first hour will be dedicated to close reading of poem/s in Italian. Auditors without knowledge of Italian are welcome to arrive for the discussion after that. Interested undergraduates, please contact instructor before the first day of class.
Equivalent Course(s): ITAL 33101

ITAL 23203. Rome in Film and Literature. 100 Units.

We shall analyze films and fictional works that reflect both realities and myths about the “Eternal City,” Rome. Classical Rome will not be studied; instead the focus will be on a trajectory of works, both written and cinematic, that are set in and explore late nineteenth to late twentieth-century Rome. The goal is to analyze some of the numerous diverse representations of modern Rome that portray historical, political, subjective, and/or fantastical/mythopoetic elements that have interacted over time to produce the palimpsest that is the city of Rome. Books by D’Annunzio, Moravia, Pasolini and Malerba; films by Fellini, Visconti, Rossellini, Bertolucci, Pasolini, and Moretti.

Instructor(s): R. West     Terms Offered: Winter
Note(s): Taught in English; Italian majors will read the texts in the original Italian.
Equivalent Course(s): CMST 23202,CMST 32302,ITAL 33203

ITAL 24100. Goldoni. 100 Units.

This class is a close reading (in context) of some selected works by Carlo Goldoni, Italy’s most prominent playwright of the eighteenth century. It includes discussion of Goldoni’s so-called “reform” of Italian theater, whereby elements of Renaissance and Baroque comedy where refashioned to serve a prototypical bourgeois theater; and Goldoni’s antagonism with Carlo Gozzi, promoter of a more exotic yet old-fashioned type of comedy. In the latter part of the course we will focus on the Goldoni-Renaissance in the twentieth century, spearheaded by renowned stage director Giorgio Strehler (1921-1997).

Instructor(s): R. Rubini     Terms Offered: Winter
Note(s): Taught in Italian.
Equivalent Course(s): ITAL 34100

ITAL 24903. Outsiders II: Italo Svevo. 100 Units.

Jewish and Triestine, Italo Svevo was an “outsider” in many ways: culturally, geographically, and linguistically. Now included as one of the twentieth-century's canonical writers, he is emblematic of those writers whose works move from the margins to the center, and it is to this fascinating process that we shall devote much attention, as we read and analyze Svevo's novels and short stories. We shall also consider the intellectual and cultural milieu of early twentieth-century Trieste, itself an “outsider” city vis-à-vis the nation of Italy. The importance of Freudian thought to Svevo's art will be discussed, as well as his creative rapport with James Joyce.

Instructor(s): R. West     Terms Offered: Winter
Note(s): Taught in English.
Equivalent Course(s): ITAL 34903,JWSC 20902

ITAL 26600. Bruno/Campanella. 100 Units.

This course analyzes the philosophy and theology of Giordano Bruno and Tommaso Campanella, two crucial figures of European sixteenth-century culture. As philosophers, theologians, poets, and narrators, Bruno and Campanella embody the literary, religions, and philosophical syncretism of the Italian Renaissance. To study these authors necessarily entails a close analysis of Florentine Neo-Platonism, Hermetism, magic, and apocalyptism, along with the literary traditions that molded the Italian renaissance. We discuss Bruno’s Italian Dialogues, De umbris idearum (his first major treatise on artificial memory), and a selection of his later Latin poems. We then examine Campanella’s La Città del sole, most of his philosophical poems, De Antichristo, and a selection of his theological treatises.

Instructor(s): A. Maggi     Terms Offered: Spring
Note(s): Classes conducted in English. Texts in English and the original.
Equivalent Course(s): ITAL 36600,RLIT 36600

ITAL 27100. The Birth of “Modern Man”: Petrarch, Alberti, Valla. 100 Units.

This course accounts for the emergence of the “modern” individual in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy. It does so through a close reading of three major works by some of the most innovative thinkers of their epoch(s): Francesco Petrarca’s collection, Letters on Familiar Matters, where the author originally struggles with notions of identity and authorship; Leon Battista Alberti’s dialogue, The Family in Renaissance Florence, which anticipates notions of modern economy or capitalism; and Lorenzo Valla’s newly translated (for the first time in any modern language) philosophical treatise, Dialectical Disputations, an attempt at conceiving a “new logic” against medieval scholasticism. We will debate their relevance in our day and age.

Instructor(s): R. Rubini     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): Taught in English.
Equivalent Course(s): FNDL 23313

ITAL 29700. Readings in Special Topics. 100 Units.

This course provides directed readings in special topics not covered as part of the program in Italian. Subjects treated and work to be completed for the course must be chosen in consultation with the instructor no later than the end of the preceding quarter.

Terms Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
Prerequisite(s): ITAL 10300 or 20300, depending upon the requirements of the program for which credit is sought
Note(s): Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form.

ITAL 29900. BA Paper Preparation: Italian. 100 Units.

In consultation with a faculty member, students must devote the equivalent of a one-quarter course to the preparation of a BA project.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of undergraduate adviser
Note(s): Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Must be taken for a quality grade.

PORT 10100-10200-10300. Beginning Elementary Portuguese I-II-III.

This sequence is intended for beginning and beginning/intermediate students in Portuguese. It provides students with a solid foundation in the basic patterns of spoken and written Portuguese (e.g., grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, sociocultural norms) to develop their speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills. Although the three courses constitute a sequence, there is enough review and recycling at every level for students to enter the sequence whenever it is appropriate for them.

PORT 12200. Portuguese for Spanish Speakers. 100 Units.

This class is intended for speakers of Spanish to develop competence quickly in spoken and written Portuguese. In this intermediate-level course, students learn ways to apply their Spanish language skills to mastering Portuguese by concentrating on the similarities and differences between the two languages.

Instructor(s): A.-M. Lima     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 20100 or consent of instructor
Note(s): Must be taken for a quality grade.
Equivalent Course(s): LACS 12200

PORT 20100-20200. Intermediate/Advanced Portuguese.

In this intermediate/advanced-level sequence, students review and extend their knowledge of all basic patterns (e.g., grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, sociocultural norms) of the language. They develop their oral and written skills in describing, narrating, and presenting arguments. They are exposed to texts and audio-visual materials that provide them with a deeper understanding of Portuguese literature, culture, and contemporary society.

PORT 21500. Estilística da língua portuguesa. 100 Units.

This course helps students develop their skills in understanding, summarizing, and producing written and spoken arguments in Portuguese through readings and debates on various issues of relevance in contemporary Luso-Brazilian societies. Special consideration is given to the major differences between continental and Brazilian Portuguese. In addition to reading, analyzing, and commenting on advanced texts (both literary and nonliterary), students practice and extend their writing skills in a series of compositions.

Instructor(s): A.-M. Lima     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): PORT 20200 or consent of instructor
Note(s): Must be taken for a quality grade.

PORT 20700. Introduction to Brazilian Film. 100 Units.

In this course, we will survey Brazilian Cinema from "Cinema Novo" from the 1960s to contemporary film. We will discuss themes such as the representation of urban violence in contemporary cinema, the role of the "sertão" in the national imaginary, and Third-World Cinema. Films will include Deus o Diabo na Terra do Sol, Pixote, Bye Bye Brazil, City of God, Elite Squad, and Centra do Brasil, among others.

Instructor(s): A. Melo     Terms Offered: Not offered in 2012-2013
Equivalent Course(s): PORT 30700

PORT 21803. Introduction to Latin American Cultural Theory. 100 Units.

In this class, we will discuss how Brazilian and Spanish American critics theorize about cultural production in Latin America. We will read Angel Rama and Antonio Candido, Antonio Cornejo-Polar and Silviano Santiago, Roberto Gonzales-Echevarría and Luiz Costa Lima, Roberto Fernandes Retamar and Roberto Schwarz.

Instructor(s): A. Melo     Terms Offered: Not offered in 2012-2013
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 21804,CRES 31804,LACS 21800,LACS 31800,PORT 31803

PORT 22500. The Travels of Fernão Mendes Pinto. 100 Units.

Most people think that pirates have no scientific interests, and that businesspeople lack literary inclinations. They also think that the sciences and the arts are powerful antidote to dubious trading practices. The Portuguese writer Fernão Mendes Pinto (c.1509-1583), however, was a committed pirate, a traveler in Asia and Africa, a dubious tradesman, an inept secret agent, an amateur anthropologist and, not least, a very great writer. The course will discuss his only book, Peregrinação (published posthumously in 1614). The book will be read in Rebecca Catz’s English translation.

Instructor(s): M. Tamen     Terms Offered: Spring
Note(s): No knowledge of Portuguese is required.
Equivalent Course(s): PORT 32500

PORT 25013. Plato on Poets. 100 Units.

Plato is famous among literary people, though not necessarily among philosophers, for having peppered some of his works with attacks on poets and poetry. The course will argue for a nuanced description of such attacks and for a connection between some of his arguments on poets and poetry and some of his general philosophical arguments (e.g., on knowledge). Among the topics to be discussed will be the relationship between what poets know, what poets can do, and what poets say (namely what they say they know). Of particular interest will also be the connection between Plato’s descriptions of poets and Socrates’ notions of obeying a voice, a dream or an oracle. Works to be discussed include the Apology and the Ion (in their entirety), as well as substantial sections of the Republic, Phaedo, Phaedrus and, not least, Gorgias.

Instructor(s): M. Tamen     Terms Offered: Spring
Note(s): No knowledge of Greek is required.
Equivalent Course(s): PORT 35013,SCTH 30612

PORT 27100. Introduction to Brazilian Culture: Essay, Fiction, Cinema, and Music. 100 Units.

During the twentieth century, literature, social thought, music and cinema were completely intertwined in Brazil. This class is an introduction to Brazilian culture through these four types of cultural production and their interaction. We will read authors such as Euclides da Cunha, Gilberto Freyre, Mario de Andrade, Clarice Lispector, and listen to samba, bossa nova, and tropicalismo.

Instructor(s): A. Melo     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 37100,LACS 27105,LACS 37105,PORT 37100

PORT 28000. Brazil and the Global South. 100 Units.

In this course, we will examine the cultural and literary relationships between Brazil and Lusophone African Countries, and Brazil and Spanish America. As most contemporary comparative studies in literature (Postcolonial Studies, Marxism, World-Systems Theory applied to Literature) have been focused on the dichotomies between colonizer/colonized, western/non-western, center/periphery, North/South, Prospero/Caliban, one question ensues: how should one account for this relationship between two “third-world,” “non-western,” “underdeveloped” countries? Would this South-South relationship be emulative or collaborative? What kind of power dynamic was engendered among those countries? We will try to answer those questions.

Instructor(s): A. Melo     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): LACS 28013,LACS 38013,PORT 38000

PORT 29700. Readings in Special Topics. 100 Units.

This course is directed readings in special topics not covered as part of the program in Portuguese. Subjects treated and work to be completed for the course must be chosen in consultation with the instructor no later than the end of the preceding quarter.

Terms Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
Prerequisite(s): PORT 10300 or 20200, depending upon the requirements of the program for which credit is sought
Note(s): Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form.

SPAN 10100-10200-10300. Beginning Elementary Spanish I-II-III.

This three-quarter sequence is intended for beginning and beginning/intermediate students in Spanish. It provides students with a solid foundation in the basic patterns of spoken and written Spanish (e.g., grammar, vocabulary, sociocultural norms) to develop their speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills to the level required to demonstrate competency on the Spanish examination. Although the three classes constitute a sequence leading to the Spanish competency examination, there is enough review and recycling at every level for students to enter the sequence whenever it is appropriate for them.

SPAN 20100-20200-20300. Language, History, and Culture I-II-III.

In this intermediate-level sequence, students review but most of all extend their knowledge of all basic patterns (e.g., grammar, vocabulary, sociocultural norms) of the language. They develop their oral and written skills in describing, narrating, and presenting arguments. They are exposed to texts and audio-visual materials that provide them with a deeper understanding of the Spanish-speaking world.

SPAN 20102-20202-20302. Language, History, and Culture for Heritage Speakers I-II-III.

SPAN 20400. Curso de redacción académica. 100 Units.

This advanced language course helps students achieve mastery of composition and style through the acquisition of numerous writing techniques. A wide variety of literary, historiographic, and sociological texts are read. Through writing a number of essays and participating in class debates, students are guided in the examination of linguistic structures and organization of several types of written Spanish discourse. This course is also intended to enhance awareness of the cultural diversity within the contemporary Spanish-speaking world and its historical roots.

Terms Offered: Autumn, Winter
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 20300 or consent of instructor
Note(s): Must be taken for a quality grade.
Equivalent Course(s):

SPAN 20402. Curso de redacción académica para hablantes nativos. 100 Units.

This advanced language course helps students achieve mastery of composition and style through the acquisition of numerous writing techniques. A wide variety of literary, historiographic, and sociological texts are read. Through writing a number of essays and participating in class debates, students are guided in the examination of linguistic structures and organization of several types of written Spanish discourse. This course also enhances awareness of the cultural diversity within the contemporary Spanish-speaking world and its historical roots.

Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Open only to native and heritage speakers with consent of instructor
Note(s): Must be taken for a quality grade.

SPAN 20601. Discurso académico. 100 Units.

This seminar/practicum focuses on developing vocabulary and discourse styles for academic verbal communication. This goal is achieved through exposure to taped formal and informal interviews and public debate in the media. Most important, however, is active class participation. Through a number of class presentations, students put into practice a variety of discourse styles (e.g., debates, lectures, seminars, interviews). We also read numerous Spanish newspapers.

Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 20300 or consent of instructor
Note(s): Must be taken for a quality grade.

SPAN 20602. Discurso académico para hablantes nativos. 100 Units.

This seminar/practicum focuses on developing vocabulary and discourse styles for academic verbal communication. This goal is achieved through exposure to taped formal and informal interviews and public debate in the media. Most important, however, is active class participation. Through a number of class presentations, students put into practice a variety of discourse styles (e.g., debates, lectures, seminars, interviews). We also read numerous Spanish newspapers.

Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): Open only to native speakers
Note(s): Must be taken for a quality grade

SPAN 21100. Las regiones del español. 100 Units.

This sociolinguistic course expands understanding of the historical development of Spanish and awareness of the great sociocultural diversity within the Spanish-speaking world and its impact on the Spanish language. We emphasize the interrelationship between language and culture as well as ethno-historical transformations within the different regions of the Hispanic world. Special consideration is given to identifying lexical variations and regional expressions exemplifying diverse sociocultural aspects of the Spanish language, and to recognizing phonological differences between dialects. We also examine the impact of indigenous cultures on dialectical aspects. The course includes literary and nonliterary texts, audio-visual materials, and visits by native speakers of a variety of Spanish-speaking regions.

Terms Offered: Winter, Spring
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 20300 or consent of instructor
Note(s): Must be taken for a quality grade.
Equivalent Course(s): LACS 21100

SPAN 21500. Introducción al análisis literario. 100 Units.

Through a variety of representative works of Hispanic literature, this course focuses on the discussion and practical application of different approaches to the critical reading of literary texts. We also study basic concepts and problems of literary theory, as well as strategies for research and academic writing in Spanish.

Instructor(s): M. Santana     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 20300 or consent of instructor
Note(s): Classes conducted in Spanish.

SPAN 21703. Literatura hispánica: textos clásicos. 100 Units.

This course involves careful reading and discussion of significant works from the Spanish Middle Ages, Renaissance, and the Golden Age, including Juan Manuel's Conde Lucanor, Jorge Manrique's Coplas, the anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes, and the theater of Calderón.

Instructor(s): R. Giles     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 20300 or consent of instructor

SPAN 21803. Introducción a las literaturas hispánicas: textos españoles contemporáneos. 100 Units.

This course is a close reading and discussion of selected texts from the nineteenth century to the present. Authors may include Larra, Espronceda, Zorrillal, Becquer, Pardo Bazan, Galdos, Unamuno, Valle-Inclan, Machado, Lorca, Cela, Laforet, and Matute.

Instructor(s): M. Martínez      Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 20300 or consent of instructor

SPAN 21903. Introducción a las literaturas hispánicas: textos hispanoamericanos desde la colonia a la independencia. 100 Units.

This course examines an array of representative texts written in Spanish America from the colonial period to the late nineteenth century, underscoring not only their aesthetic qualities but also the historical conditions that made their production possible. Among authors studied are Christopher Columbus, Hernán Cortés, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Simón Bolívar, and José Martí.

Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 20300 or consent of instructor
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 21903,LACS 21903

SPAN 22003. Introducción a las literaturas hispánicas: del Modernismo al presente. 100 Units.

Students in this course study an array of texts written in Spanish America from the late nineteenth century to the present, including the literature of the Hispanic diasporas. Authors may include José Martí, Rubén Darío, Mariano Azuela, Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo, Teresa de la Parra, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Rosario Castellanos, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Pedro Pietri.

Instructor(s): A. Lugo-Ortiz     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 20300 or consent of instructor

SPAN 23013. Historia y memoria en las literaturas de la diáspora cubana. 100 Units.

In this course, we will read a sample of the prominent voices to have emerged from the literature of the Cuban Diaspora since the triumph of the socialist revolution in 1959. We will look at the problematics of migration and exile specifically as a literary and cultural problem. The texts we will read—novels and autobiographical non-fiction—all grapple with how to write, preserve, and reconstruct notions of history and memory. We will thus explore these broad themes in an array of readings from throughout the Cuban Diaspora.

Among the many questions to be raised, we will consider the ways in which literature can represent and reproduce the human, social, cultural, historical and political experiences of exile. Through these multiple visions of the self and homeland, we will examine expressions of how that self remembers, imagines and reconstitutes the homeland as well as its Diasporic community. Among the authors we will read are Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Cristina García, Achy Obejas and Zoé Valdés.

Instructor(s): J. Leving Jacobson     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 20300 or consent of instructor.
Note(s): Readings and class meetings will be in Spanish.
Equivalent Course(s): LACS 25613

SPAN 23200. Renaissance Epic: Camões, Ercilla, Tasso. 100 Units.

Due to the prestige and cultural ascendancy of its classical models, epic was considered the highest literary genre of the sixteenth-century repertoire, which forced Renaissance authors of epic poetry to explicitly compete against their illustrious predecessors and among themselves. This provides a perfect basis to study some mechanisms of textual production in Renaissance poetry, but it will also help us to raise issues around the European (and global) circulation of literary goods, cultural competition, the relation between epic, nation, and empire, or the contested place of epic among the constitutive discourses of colonialism. We will read three major Renaissance epic poems written and distributed in the same years: Alonso de Ercilla’s The Araucaniad (1569-1590), Luís de Camões’s The Lusiads (1572), and Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered (1581).

Instructor(s): M. Martínez     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): Texts will be provided in both the original languages and in English. In order to enrich the discussion, reading in the original will be encouraged for students with different language backgrounds and skills.
Equivalent Course(s): REMS 33200,SPAN 33200

SPAN 24103. El mester de clerecía: 1200-1400. 100 Units.

This course examines the formation of the clerical mester in the monasteries and nascent universities of medieval Castile and its development over the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Of primary concern will be the interplay of profane and sacred themes, oral and textual traditions, the poetic commingling of jularía and clerecía during this period. Texts include Libro de Alejandre, Libro de Apolonio, Milagros de Nuestra Señora, and Libro de buen amor.

Instructor(s): R. Giles     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): SPAN 34103

SPAN 25312. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Broche de oro del Barroco hispánico. 100 Units.

La trayectoria lírica de sor Juana conforma, en conjunto, su manifiesto poético. Como no podía ser menos en una poeta de su tipo, la monja mexicana nunca se limitó a sólo reproducir los moldes existentes ni a respetar las convenciones literarias: se apropió de las tradiciones poéticas de su tiempo, dominadas por los hombres, las hizo suyas a base de sutiles variaciones y rupturas; las llevó más lejos que cualquier otro poeta contemporáneo. Después de sor Juana nadie emuló a Calderón, Quevedo o Góngora como ella; después de ella no volvió a haber gran poesía española hasta mucho tiempo después: el broche resplandeciente que cerró los siglos de oro fue, precisamente, la obra de esta poetisa americana; de ahí el título del curso.

Instructor(s): M. L. Tenorio     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): LACS 25312,LACS 35312,SPAN 35312

SPAN 26212. Women’s Narratives: Cinema and Literature in Contemporary Catalonia. 100 Units.

This course explores some of the major trends in contemporary literary and visual production in Catalan culture through the analysis of novels, short stories, poems, graphic novels and films by women writers, artists and filmmakers. An introduction to the historical and cultural background from which women’s verbal and visual production in Catalan has emerged will be provided, as well as a discussion of the processes through which its manifestations have come into being with reference to social and cultural change. The course favors a historical, interdisciplinary and intertextual approach that facilitates interconnected readings of the texts selected for in-depth analysis. In order to enable the students to engage with the texts under study in an informed and scholarly manner, a number of theoretical approaches to narratology, feminism, social and cultural history, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and postmodernism are also part of the course.
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,The course is divided into three major thematic groups, and each group is represented by at least two texts. All texts have been produced in the last fifteen years, with the exception of Mercè Rodoreda’s La Plaça del Diamant/The Time of the Doves, published in 1962, which has been included because Rodoreda constitutes a crucial turning point in the history of female-authored literature in Catalan, and because of the lasting effects of her influence on younger writers.

Instructor(s): M. Lunati     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): Classes will be conducted in English. All texts are available either in English or in Spanish (or both) for those students who might find it difficult to read them in the original Catalan. Films have English subtitles.
Equivalent Course(s): CATA 26212,CATA 36212,GNSE 26212,SPAN 36212

SPAN 27401. Literaturas del Caribe Hispánico en el siglo XX. 100 Units.

This course will explore some key examples of the literatures of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo) during the twentieth century, including those of its migrant and exile communities. Questions concerning the literary elaboration of the region’s histories of slavery and colonialism, militarization, and territorial displacements will be at the center of our discussions. Among the authors we may read are Fernando Ortiz, Antonio Pedreira, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Luis Palés Matos, Nicolás Guillén, René Marqués, Pedro Pietri, Alejo Carpentier, Ana Lydia Vega, Eduardo Lalo, and Pedro Juan Gutiérrez.

Instructor(s): A. Lugo-Ortiz     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): LACS 22713,LACS 32713,SPAN 37401

SPAN 29700. Readings in Special Topics. 100 Units.

This course involves directed readings on special topics not covered by courses offered as part of the program in Spanish. Subjects treated and work to be completed for the course must be chosen in consultation with the instructor no later than the end of the preceding quarter.

Terms Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 10300 or 20300, depending on the requirements of the program for which credit is sought
Note(s): Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form.

SPAN 29900. BA Paper Preparation: Spanish. 100 Units.

In consultation with a faculty member, students must devote the equivalent of a one-quarter course to the preparation of a BA project. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of undergraduate adviser
Note(s): Must be taken for a quality grade.