Romance Languages and Literatures

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures offers programs of study leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree in French, Italian, or Spanish literature, or in some combination, which may include Portuguese. Portuguese offerings include a two-year language sequence and selected literature courses. The B.A. programs are designed to give students a knowledge of the literature in their area of concentration and to develop their ability to read, write, and speak one or more of the Romance languages.

Students with advanced standing are encouraged to take special topic courses at the 200- and 300-level. Some of these courses require consent of the instructor.

Students interested in any of the following degree programs are required to speak with the appropriate B.A. adviser.

B.A. Degree Program in a Single Literature. The programs in French, Italian, and Spanish languages and literatures consist of thirteen courses beyond French, Italian, or Spanish 103. Concentrators must first successfully complete French 201-202-203; Italian 201-202-203; or Spanish 201-202-203, followed by ten literature courses. The introductory sequence in the history of the literature is required (French 207 and 208, plus 209 or 210; Italian 207-208-209; or Spanish 207-208-209). Concentrators are also required to take the following courses, which stress different approaches to language and literature and focus on a limited number of representative works: French 204 and 215; Italian 204 (only required of returning Pisa immersion students) and 215; or Spanish 204 or 205 and 215. In addition to these requirements, students must take five courses in the literature of specialization (six for non-Pisa Italian concentrators). These courses are aimed at developing a broad knowledge of the field and, through the close study of major works, a proficiency in the critical techniques appropriate to their interpretation.

B.A. Paper. All concentrators write a B.A. paper, which must be submitted to the department no later than three weeks before the College graduation deadline. Students should select a faculty supervisor for the paper early in the autumn quarter of their fourth year. During the winter quarter they should register for French, Italian, or Spanish 299 with the faculty member chosen to direct the writing of the B.A. paper. This course does not count as one of the literature courses required for the concentration. The B.A. paper normally is a research paper with a minimum of twenty pages and a bibliography; it is written in the language of specialization. By the beginning of their fourth year, students must submit a writing sample in the language of their concentration (or, in the case of equal emphasis on two literatures, in both). If the department deems the language proficiency inadequate, there may be additional requirements to ensure that the B.A. paper can be successfully written in the language of concentration.

Summary of Requirements:
French

3	French 201-202-203 (second-year French)†
2	French 207 and 208
1	French 209 or 210
5	courses in literature (French 216 or above)
1	French 204 (advanced language)
1	French 215 (literary analysis)
-	French 299 (B.A. paper)
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† Credit may be granted by examination.

Summary of Requirements:
Italian

* Returning Pisa immersion students take five courses in literature, plus Ital 204, for a total of six courses.

† Credit may be granted by examination.

Summary of Requirements:
Spanish

3	Span 201-202-203 (second-year Spanish)†
3	Span 207-208-209
5	courses in literature
1	Span 204 or 205 (advanced Spanish language)
1	Span 215 (literary analysis)
-	Span 299 (B.A. paper)
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† Credit may be granted by examination.

B.A. Degree Program in More than One Literature. The programs in more than one Romance literature consist of eighteen courses. They are designed to accommodate the needs and interests of students who would like to broaden their literary experience. Linguistic competence in at least one Romance language is assumed. Students must write a B.A. paper under the guidance of a faculty adviser, as is the case in the B.A. program in a single literature. The following programs require completion of French, Italian, or Spanish 203, or the placement or accreditation equivalent of the languages selected, with the addition of two or three courses for each language studied.

3	201-202-203 in a Romance language†
3	201-202-203 in a second Romance language†
6	courses comprising two introductory sequences in two Romance literatures
6	courses in literature equally divided between the same two Romance literatures, one of which must be 215 taken in either literature
-	B.A. paper
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† Credit may be granted by examination.

Summary of Requirements:

Program with greater emphasis on one literature

3	201-202-203 in a Romance language†
3	201-202-203 in a second Romance language†
3	one three-course introductory sequence in one Romance literature
5	courses in the same Romance literature
3	courses in a second Romance literature
1	215 course in either Romance literature
-	B.A. paper
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† Credit may be granted by examination.

Honors. Students whose overall grade point average is 3.0 or better and who have an average in their major of 3.5 or better may petition the department at the end of their junior year or the beginning of the autumn quarter senior year to be admitted to the honors program. In addition to the regular B.A. requirements, candidates for special honors take an oral examination on a special reading list that is a reduced version of the M.A. list.

Joint B.A./M.A. Degree. The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures has a combined B.A./M.A. program for students with an exceptional background in the language and culture of the discipline. The program has been designed to ensure that the traditional breadth of the B.A. degree and the expertise of the M.A. degree are maintained. Because all requirements for both degrees must be fulfilled, an extra quarter is sometimes necessary to complete the program. Students may petition for admission to the B.A./M.A. program at the beginning of their third year. Graduate registration is required during the three quarters before receipt of the degree to meet the M.A. residence requirement.

1. French, Italian, or Spanish 201-202-20
2. Introductory literature sequence (three courses)
3. 300-level literature courses (six in French; seven in Italian; seven in Spanish)
4. B.A. paper (required enrollment in French, Italian, or Spanish 299)
5. M.A. tutorials and seminars (French 304, 315, 358, and 359; Italian 304 and 315; Spanish 304 or 305, and 315)
6. Comprehensive examination

Language (must be taken for a letter grade)

101-102-103. Beginning Elementary French I, II, III. This three-quarter sequence has as its major objectives the building of a solid foundation in the basic patterns of written and spoken French and their use in everyday communication, as well as an understanding of language and behavior as the reflection of sociocultural norms. Staff. Summer (complete sequence offered); Autumn, Winter, Spring.

121-122. Continuing Elementary French I, II. PQ: Placement. This two-quarter course sequence has the same objectives as French 101-102-103, but it is reserved for students with enough knowledge of the language to permit a more rapid assimilation of its foundational linguistic and phonetic patterns. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

201-202-203. Language, History, and Culture I, II, III. PQ: French 103 or 122, or placement. In this intermediate-level sequence, students review all major grammar points and develop their skills in description, narration, and argumentation. They read and discuss both literary and historical texts to understand contemporary French society and its historical roots. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

204/304. Cours de perfectionnement. PQ: French 203 or placement. This course is designed to help students attain very high levels in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It also serves as an introduction to literary analysis. Through selected exercises, the close analysis of literary and nonliterary texts, weekly compositions, and class debates and discussions, students are guided in the exploration of the relationships between linguistic expression and literary style while perfecting their spoken and written French. Staff. Autumn.

205/305. Ecrire en français. PQ: French 203 or placement. The goal of this course is to help students achieve mastery 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 structures and organization of several types of written French discourse and are guided in the acquisition of the rules underlying each discourse type. This course is strongly recommended for Paris Program-bound students. Staff. Winter.

206/306. Phonétique et phonologie. PQ: French 203 or placement. This course involves a systematic study of the French phonological system, placing equal emphasis on the recognition and the production of French sounds in context. Students also examine the relationships between the French sound system and French orthographic norms and grammatical distinctions. Classroom exercises and homework include examining authentic spoken discourse representing a variety of discourse styles and activities to promote the acquisition of spoken proficiency. Staff. Spring.

207. Introduction à la littérature française I. PQ: French 203 or equivalent. This course is designed to give a historical overview of French literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There are close readings and discussions from representative works of this period. Among the authors studied are Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Corneille, Racine, Molière, La Fontaine, and Mme. de La Fayette. K. Duys. Spring.

208. Introduction à la littérature française II. PQ: French 203 or equivalent. Readings of major authors of the eighteenth century, including Montesquieu, Prévost, Marivaux, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, and Beaumarchais. L. Norman. Autumn.

209. Introduction à la littérature française III. PQ: French 203 or equivalent. Readings from major writers of the nineteenth century. Among the authors studied are Chateaubriand, Michelet, Balzac, Flaubert, and Baudelaire. Not offered 1999-2000; will be offered 2000-2001.

210. Intro à la littérature française IV. PQ: French 203 or equivalent. Readings from major writers of the nineteenth and twentieth century, including Balzac, Flaubert, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Proust, and Sartre. Staff. Winter.

215/315. La Stylistique. PQ: French 211 or consent of instructor. This course concentrates on linguistic and literary problems of textual analysis. It examines literary and stylistic techniques in poetry and prose with concentration on the explication de texte method of literary study. T. Pavel. Winter.

241/341. Poésie française de la Renaissance. PQ. French 203 and permission of instructor. Ce séminaire nous permettra de nous pencher sur les recueils lyriques les plus importants du XVIe siècle français: l’Adolescence clémentine et sa suite, de Clément Marot, les sonnets de Louise Labé, la Délie de Maurice Scève, les Regrets de Joachim Du Bellay, et les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard. Le travail du séminaire consistera en analyses détaillées de poèmes exemplaires, accompagnées d’un survol de la critique. Chemin faisant nous étudiérons les problèmes suivants, relevant de l’écriture poétique et de la fonction sociale de la poésie: la position sociale du poète, poésie et mécénat, poésie et la notion de l’oeuvre et du livre, la "poétique" de la Renaissance, le rapport entre poétique et rhétorique, la structure formelle du poème court, écriture et subjectivité, écriture et désir, écriture et espace, etc. Les étudiants devront préparer plusieurs "explications" orales de poèmes précis, un compte rendu (oral) d’un ouvrage critique, et un travail écrit d’une quinzaine de pages, en fin de trimestre. U. Langer. Autumn.

245/345. La Tragédie classique. PQ: French 203 and consent of instructor. This course concentrates on the works of Corneille and Racine. We place the plays in the context of classical poetics and dramatic theory, considering questions of esthetic unity, decorum, and moral utility (i.e., the arousal of pity, fear, and admiration). To what extent do the plays conform to the "rules of art" and to what extent do they play freely with them? We also consider how the plays represent social reality, examining depictions of political and moral authority, and the relation between power and gender roles. L. Norman. Autumn.

274. La Révolution surréaliste. PQ: French 203 or equivalent. This course is intended as an introduction to the surrealist movement of the 1920s and 1930s and to theories of modernism and the avant-garde. Through examination of a variety of surrealist works (manifestoes, poetry, theater, painting, and cinema), we will explore the origins and theoretical foundations of surrealism, its revolutionary aspirations, poetic innovations, and political engagements. Among the authors and works we will study are André Breton, Manifeste du surréalisme and Nadja; Robert Desnos, Benjamin Péret, Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard, poems; Antonin Artaud, Le Théâtre et son double; Salvador Dali, "Un chien andalou" (film). C. Spreen. Spring.

282. Le cinéma français classique (=CMS 234, GSHum 212, Fr 282). PQ: French 203 or equivalent. Le cinéma français classique. Le cinéma français classique (depuis les primitifs jusqu’à l’avènement de la Nouvelle Vague) sera ètudié à travers dix films, qui ont marqué son histoire et représenté l’apogée d’un mouvement esthétique: l’école française d’avant 1914 (Fantômas de Louis Feuillade), l’avant-garde des années 20 (La Chute de la maison Usher de Jean Epstein), le cinéma surréaliste (L’Age d’or de Luis Bunuel), la comédie musicale (Le Million de René Clair), le film 100% parlant (Le roman d’un tricheur de Sacha Guitry), le réalisme poétique (La Bête humaine de Jean Renoir), le cinéma de l’Occupation Les Visiteurs du soir de Marcel Carné), le naturalisme d’aprés-guerre (Quai des orfèvres d’Henri-Georges Courzot), l’èvocation de la Belle Epoque (Le Plaisir de Max Ophuls), le renouveau de l’adaptation littéraire (Le journal d’un curé de campagne de Robert Bresson). The course will be taught in French; non-concentrators may write their papers in English. N. Herpe. Winter.

297. Readings in Special Topics. PQ: French 203 or consent of instructor. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Directed readings in special topics not covered by courses offered as part of the program in French. Because registration in French 297 is subject to departmental approval, the subjects treated and work done in the course must be chosen, in consultation with the instructor, no later than the end of the preceding quarter. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

299. B.A. Paper Preparation: French. PQ: Consent of B.A. adviser. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. This course offers a structure for students writing their B.A. papers. Students work with a faculty member of their choice who directs their paper and supervises their writing. Staff. Winter.

French 328. Jeanne d'Arc. F. Meltzer. Autumn.

French 358. M.A. Seminar I. Staff. Autumn.

French 359. M.A. Seminar II. Staff. Winter.

French 391. Vie intellectuelle et vie litteraire en France: 1930-1960. T. Pavel. Winter.

RomLL 388. Foreign Language Acquisition Research and Teaching. N. DiVito. Autumn.

Language (must be taken for a letter grade)

101-102-103. Elementary Italian I, II, III. Knowledge of Italian not required. This three-quarter sequence has as its basic objectives proficiency in speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

104-105-106. Italian through Dante I, II, III. An experimental linguistic and literary approach to first-year Italian in which an Italian classic, Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia, is used to teach first-year level language skills. We begin with a study of the poem that alternates with an intensive grammar component. During the autumn quarter, we concentrate on a few cantos of the Inferno, during the winter quarter we continue with the Inferno, and during the third quarter we add selected cantos of the Purgatorio and the Paradiso. Oral and reading skills are equally emphasized in the autumn and winter quarters; writing becomes more important in spring quarter. E. Weaver, Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

201-202-203. Language, History, and Culture I, II, III. PQ: Ital 103 or 106, or placement. In this intermediate level sequence, students review all major grammar points and develop their skills in description, narration, and argumentation. They read and discuss both literary and historical texts in order to understand contemporary Italian society and its historical roots. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

204/304. Corso di perfezionamento. Ital 204 limited to returning Pisa immersion students. The goal of this course is to help students achieve mastery 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 and are guided in the acquisition of the rules underlying each discourse type. Staff. Autumn.

207. B.A. Survey I: Letteratura italiana dal Duecento al Quattrocento. PQ: Ital 203 or consent of instructor. This course is an introduction to the notion of literary history and a consideration of the interrelationship of literary works, their historical and cultural contexts, their authors, their immediate reading public, and their modern reader. In the first quarter, which is devoted to the literature of feudal society and the early city-states, we focus on three genres: (1) the novella, (2) lyric poetry, and (3) the epic poem. F. Nasi. Autumn.

208. B.A. Survey II: Letteratura italiana dal Cinquecento al Settecento. PQ: Ital 203 or consent of instructor. We read and analyze representative texts from the beginning of renaissance court society and throughout the ancien regime, focusing on the following genres: lyric poetry, treatises, essays, epic poetry, and drama. We study the correspondences of texts and contexts, paying special attention to the context of the visual arts and architecture. F. Nasi. Winter.

209. B.A. Survey III: Letteratura italiana dall'Ottocento al Novecento. PQ: Ital 203 or consent of instructor. We read texts published during the last two hundred years documenting the rise of bourgeois society and culture and the advanced industrial age. Where possible, we seek to analyze complete works and to consider them in the context of other literatures. Our focus is on lyric poetry and novels. F. Nasi. Spring.

215. Introduzione alla stilistica: tipologie e varietà testuali. PQ: Ital 203 or consent of instructor. This course covers the basic types of prose writing as defined by rhetoric: narration, description, exposition, and argumentation. We examine texts of each type, and students are asked, through writing exercises, to use what they have learned. We also study a variety of popular prose genres: letters, diaries, and journalistic pieces such as obituaries, advertisements, sports, and crime news. F. Nasi. Spring.

216. Italian Cinema Today. PQ: Ital 203 or consent of instructor. In the last few years, Italian cinema has undergone a renaissance. Films directed by Benigni, Moretti, and Troisi are examples of this new vitality, in which the great tradition of Italian Neo-Realism is blended with the ironic, and sometimes paradoxical, reading of twentieth-century Italy of three fine comic actors. Films such as La vita e' bella, Caro diario, and Il postino are analyzed both in their historical context (political, social, and cultural) and from a linguistic point of view. F. Nasi. Autumn.

217. Decameron: from Boccaccio to Pasolini and Busi. PQ: Ital 203 or consent of instructor. This masterpiece of Italian medieval literature has been read and translated in many different ways and languages. With Chaucer and Keats, it became part of English literature; with Pasolini, it became part of the history of Western cinema. We begin with the reading of a number of novelle recently translated into modern Italian by renowned writers, such as Busi and Chiara. We then move to the analysis of the original text by Boccaccio, also in relation to its historical context. Finally, we focus on the cinematic translation by Pasolini. F. Nasi. Winter.

251. Italian Women Mystics (=Div HC 251, GSHum 228, It 251). This course examines four major women mystics of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Catherine of Siena, Catherine of Genua, Angela of Foligno, and Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi. We shall analyze their historical, theological, and linguistic background. Moreover, this class also studies those European mystics that had some direct or indirect influence on the Italian visionaries: Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Teresa of Avila. Essays by Kristeva, Lacan, Matter, Zarri, McGinn, and de Certeau will be discussed in class. Taught in English. A. Maggi. Spring.

284/384. Pasolini (=CMS 235/335, GendSt 286, It 284). PQ: undergraduates need permission of instructor. This course examines each aspect of Pasolini’s artistic production according to the most recent literary and cultural theories, including Gender Studies. We shall analyze his poetry (in particular "Le Ceneri di Gramsci" and "Poesie informa di rosa"), some of his novels ("Ragazzi di vita," "Una vita violenta," "Teorema," "Petrolio"), and his numerous essays on the relationship between standard Italian and dialects, semiotics and cinema, and the role of intellectuals in contemporary Western culture. We shall also discuss the following films: "Accattone," "La ricotta," "Edipo Re," "Teorema," and "Salo." A. Maggi. Spring.

285/385. Mastroianni and Keitel: Comparative Masculinities and Ethnicities (=CMS 236/336, GendSt 285, Ital 285/385). PQ: Ital 203 or consent of instructor. Using films in which Mastroianni and Keitel star, we study the diverse concepts of masculinity and ethnicity that these actors have embodied. Theoretical approaches to filmic representations of maleness and ethnic types, to comparative cultural assumptions and stereotypes regarding men, and to Italian and American styles of filmmaking are employed in the analysis of these stars. All work in English; Italian concentrators read critical materials and write a final paper and a book review in Italian. R. West. Winter.

289. Italian-American Visions (=GSHUM 218, It 289). In this course, with readings and discussion in English, we shall consider diverse aspects of Italian-American culture, including fiction, films, and enduring Italian customs. When and how did Italian immigrants come to the United States? What does it mean to be Italian-American today? Who are the important writers and filmmakers? What does a hyphenated identity mean in today's global reality? Readings will include fiction and film by men and women both, including "hidden" or "assumed" Italian-Americans like Ed McBain, Harvey Keitel, and Anne Bancroft. The course is designed to serve primarily as an elective. R. West. Winter.

297. Readings in Special Topics. PQ: Ital 103 or 203, depending upon the requirements of the program for which credit is sought. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. This course provides directed readings in special topics not covered by courses offered as part of the program in Italian. Subjects treated and work done in the course must be chosen, in consultation with the instructor, no later than the end of the preceding quarter. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

299. B.A. Paper Preparation: Italian. PQ: Consent of B.A. adviser. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. This course examines problems and methods of research, concentrating on a literary topic of the student's choice, as preparation for the B.A. paper. Individual tutorial sessions are arranged. Staff. Winter.

Ital 312. Poesia del Duecento. P. Cherchi. Autumn.

Ital 330. Petrarca. P. Cherchi. Spring.

Italian 352. Renaissance Philosophy of Love. A. Maggi. Winter.

Italian 355. Forme di intertestualità: la parodia. S. Zatti. Spring.

Ital 391. Creative Couples. R. West. Autumn.

RomLL 388. Foreign Language Acquisition Research and Teaching. N. DiVito. Autumn.

Language (must be taken for a letter grade)

101-102-103. Elementary Portuguese I, II, III. This is the basic three-quarter sequence of Portuguese language instruction. The course stresses oral communication and conversational expression in the first quarter, leading to gradual acquisition of reading and writing skills in the second and third quarters. Strong emphasis is placed on classroom activities throughout the sequence; these center increasingly on Brazilian and Portuguese cultural themes as the course progresses. Reading and writing tasks also increase in complexity, accompanying students' growing knowledge of the spoken language. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

201/301. Intermediate Portuguese. PQ: Portu 103 or consent of instructor. While maintaining emphasis on spoken expression, this course incorporates grammar review with selected readings from the Luso-Brazilian literary tradition. Writing assignments stress the culture and civilization of Portugal and Brazil. Students enrolled in Portu 201 have the option of attending an extra weekly meeting designed to provide additional practice and review. A.-M. Lima. Autumn.

202/302. Advanced Portuguese. PQ: Portu 201/301 or consent of instructor. Careful reading of a broad range of texts in conjunction with selective grammar review supports students' increasing awareness of literary style. At least one major work from the Portuguese and Brazilian literary traditions is chosen for closer study and analysis; past choices include Jorge Amado and Machado de Assis. Students enrolled in Portu 202 have the option of attending an extra weekly meeting designed to provide additional practice and review. A.-M. Lima. Winter.

215/315. Estilística da língua portuguesa. PQ: Portu 202/302 or consent of instructor. The principal aim of this course is to advance knowledge of written Portuguese while creating awareness of grammatical and stylistic patterns that characterize the more complex registers of the language. 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. A.-M. Lima. Spring.

297. Readings in Special Topics. PQ: Portu 103 or 202/302, depending upon the requirements of the program for which credit is sought. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Directed readings in special topics not covered by courses offered as part of the program in Portuguese. Subjects treated and work done in the course must be chosen, in consultation with the instructor, no later than the end of the preceding quarter. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

Language (must be taken for a letter grade)

101-102-103. Beginning Elementary Spanish I, II, III. This three-quarter sequence emphasizes the development of communicative (linguistic, sociolinguistic, and cultural) competence in Spanish. Students develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills by practicing specific language functions in context and by communicating in Spanish. Classroom activities are supplemented by individualized listening and speaking exercises in the language lab and by structured communication and review tasks undertaken with peers. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

121-122. Continuing Elementary Spanish I, II. PQ: Placement. This course provides a complete review of the essential semantic and syntactic structures of Spanish. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

201-202-203. Language, History, and Culture I, II, III. PQ: Span 103 or 122, or placement. In this intermediate level sequence, students review all major grammar points and develop their skills in description, narration, and argumentation. They read and discuss both literary and historical texts to understand contemporary Hispanic societies and their historical roots. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

204/304. Curso de perfeccionamiento. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. The goal of this course is to help students achieve mastery of composition and style in Spanish 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 Spanish discourse and are guided in the acquisition of the rules underlying each discourse type. Staff. Autumn.

205. Curso de perfeccionamiento para hablantes nativos. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. This advanced language course is devoted to those areas that present the most difficulties for native speakers of Spanish, with particular emphasis on the use of language in formal spoken and written contexts. To help students improve their writing skills, class work focuses on frequent writing exercises, including orthographic conventions. Reading is also stressed to introduce and exemplify the use of different styles and levels of writing. Staff. Winter.

206/306. Fonética y fonología. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. This advanced language course is devoted to the acquisition of competence in spoken Spanish. There is special emphasis on problems in phonetics particular to Anglophones. To help students expand their linguistic competence, class work focuses on frequent oral presentations that exemplify the use of patterns in the spoken language. Staff. Spring.

207. Literatura hispánica: textos clásicos. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. This course involves careful reading and discussion of a limited number of significant texts from writers of the Spanish Renaissance and the Golden Age, including Garcilaso, the mystics, Cervantes, Góngora, Quevedo, and plays of Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Calderón. Staff. Spring.

208. Literatura hispánica: textos españoles contemporáneos. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. Close reading and discussion of selected texts from the nineteenth century to the present. Authors may include Larra, Espronceda, Zorrilla, Bécquer, Pardo Bazán, Galdós, Unamuno, Valle-Inclán, Machado, Lorca, Cela, Laforet, and Matute. Staff. Autumn.

209. Literatura hispánica: textos hispanoamericanos. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. This course examines Latin American literature from 1890 to 1990. Authors studied may include Quiroga, Darío, Borges, Cortázar, García Márquez, Paz, Neruda, Pacheco, Ferré, Sábato, and Skármeta. P. O'Connor. Winter.

210. Español académico para hablantes bilingües. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. This seminar/practicum is for native Spanish speakers and focuses on developing vocabulary and discourse styles for academic verbal communication through exposure to taped formal interviews and public debate in the media. This course will also include diverse written materials and, most importantly, active class participation. The course emphasizes frequent, formal, in-class oral presentations by students, in which they lead collective critical discussions of various genres of Spanish language, representing the standard register in Spanish. Students have the opportunity to develop their personal interests by helping to select materials for this class. P. Liffman. Winter.

215/315. Introducción al análisis literario. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. This course introduces the principles of textual analysis through close readings of selected Hispanic works. S. Cavallo. Spring.

216. Topics in Hispanic Culture: La cultura hispánica a través de la prensa. A lecture-discussion and writing course, based on selected readings from Spanish-langauge newspapers and cultural magazines from Spain, latin America, the United States (and Chicago), with an emphasis on current social, politcal, and cultural issues. E. Rodriguez Barilio. Spring.

231/331. Textos básicos medievales I. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. In this course, the works of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries are studied, with emphasis on the major literary achievements of those periods: Cantar de Mio Cid, Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora, Alfonso X's literary and nonliterary works, Juan Manuel's didactic works, and Libro del arcipreste. Texts in Old Spanish. P. Cherchi. Autumn.

232/332. Textos básicos medievales II. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. Readings include the Romancero, La Celestina, lyric poetry, and novela sentimental. P. Cherchi. Winter.

233/333. Drama del Siglo de Oro. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. Masterpieces from the age of the height (and also the decline) of the political power of the Spanish Empire. We focus on current debates about the society of the spectacle and the formation of the first European mass publics, but also on specularity and spectacularity as themes in the plays themselves in this Baroque world; and on representations of king, people, nation, and individual; but also on anarchy, despair, treason, and madness; and on love, honor, witchcraft, hatred, and death. Plays by Lope, Cervantes, Tirso, and Calderón are studied; theoretical and secondary texts include Maravall, Benjamin, Lacan, and Baudrillard. P. O'Connor. Spring.

241/341. La novela picaresca. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. Tanto una temática (la mala vida de ladrones, mendigos, etc.) como una forma (la desmitificación de una sociedad vista desde abajo, con una perspectiva desarraigada, siempre móvil). Seguiremos las andanzas de este género fundamental de la novela, desde sus orígenes en España (Lazarillo, Novelas ejemplares, El buscón) a América (Lizardi) hasta el siglo veinte (C.J.Cela, Elena Poniatowska). J. Durán. Winter.

242. Cervantes Don Quixote and the Poetics of the Novel. This course combines a close reading and discussion of the text, in English translation, with other materials on the interpretation of the novel from the seventeenth century to the present. Special emphasis will be given to historical and aesthetic background and the analysis of narrative discourse. Class discussions in English. (Spanish concentrators must do all work in Spanish to receive concentration credit; others may write in English.) M. Santana. Spring.

269. El cuento latinoamericano. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. A close reading of the most important short story writers in Latin America. The texts will include Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones; Julio Cortázar, Final del juego; Gabriel García Márquez, ...Eréndira; and Isabel Allende, Cuentos de Eva Luna. J. Durán. Spring.

272. Literatura de protesta. PQ: Span 203 or consent of insructor. The tensions between the demand for social justice and the demands of art have always formed a crucial aspect of Latin American literature. This course will examine texts involved in the causes of the oppressed, from Las Casas's 16^th century defense of the Indians all the way to the 1994 communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas, and will cover poetry (Cardenal, Neruda), fiction (García Márquez, Arenas), and essays (González Prada, Galeano). J. Durán. Winter.

277/377. Narrativas de la Transición. PQ: Span 203 or consent of the instructor. This seminar will explore the connections between cultural and historical change in Spain and the emergence of new discursive forms during the transition from dictatorship to democracy (1975-1986). This process has been the subject of numerous narratives, not only in literature and film, but also in historical, sociological, and autobiographical texts. The aim of this seminar is to analyze the dynamics of these representations and interpretations: What discursive forms give shape and content to these historical changes? What topics characterize them? How are these narratives associated with new understandings of national identity? Class discussion, readings and course work in Spanish. M. Santana. Spring.

267/367. Islas de historia: Literatura cubana y puertorriqueña. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. The last American hostages of the Spanish Empire and (arguably, and each in its own way) the main American hostages of the cold war, Cuba and Puerto Rico, have a unique trajectory in Latin American literature, even as each has contributed spectacularly to Latin America's Romanticism, modernismo, indigenism, magical realism, and literature of exile. We look at various authors' understandings of history and identity and, especially, how the claims of these histories and identities often conflict with these authors' understandings of the autonomy of the artist and of the work of art. Readings by Heredia, Avellaneda, Manzano, Martí, Casal, Guillén, Pales Matos, de Burgos, Carpentier, Sarduy, Ferré, and Rodgíguez Juliá. P. O'Connor. Autumn.

268/368. El territorio invisible: Cultura, Esfera pública, e identidad en América Latina. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. This course examines the construction of territories and identities in the first century of Latin American independence. In particular we examine the concepts of nation, identity, and culture in three canonical moments of Latin America's imagined communities: (1) strategies of authority and visibility in the intellectuals of the Independence era (Bello and Sarmiento), (2) the fin-de-siècle and Latin America's complex and partial entry into modernity (the crónicas of Darío, Gómez Carrillo, and Quiroga), and (3) various attempts to make a unified creole consciousness in the 1920s (Güiraldes, de la Parra, Hudson, and Borges). G. Montaldo. Spring.

283/383. Invención de la decadencia. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. An examination of the poetic and critical tradition that willingly adopted the self-image of decadence in Spanish and especially Latin American literature. Related topics include poetry, mysticism, and other irrationalisms; poetry and the city; the construction of the interior self, and of sexualities and nationalities; the politics of aestheticism; and theories of irony and masks. Authors studied include Gutiérrez Nera, Darío, Cambaceres, Rodó, Casal, Martí, Lugones, Silva, Gómez Carrillo, and Agustini. P. O'Connor. Winter.

297. Readings in Special Topics. PQ: Span 203 or consent of instructor. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Directed readings on special topics not covered by courses offered as part of the program in Spanish. Subjects treated and work done must be chosen, in consultation with the instructor, no later than the end of the preceding quarter. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

299. B.A. Paper Preparation: Spanish. PQ: Consent of B.A. adviser. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. This is a study of problems and methods of research, concentrating on a literary topic of the student's choice, as preparation for the B.A. paper. Individual tutorial sessions arranged. Staff. Winter.

Spanish 335. Literatura colonial. J. Duran. Winter.

Spanish 376. Pablo Neruda. K. Müller-Bergh. Autumn.

Spanish 381. Teoría feminista hispánica. S. Cavallo. Winter.

RomLL 388. Foreign Language Acquisition Research and Teaching. N. DiVito. Autumn.