Classes
Spring, 2018
Description Intermediate course introducing students to Catalan culture and boosting their oral and written skills through a wide range of resources, such as Internet, television, radio, and press. Students will get a taste of various aspects of Catalan culture: art, cinema...
Description This course presents a diverse set of literary and cultural materials that will help understand Spain’s frequently contested Modernity. The guiding topic of discussion will be the conflicting definitions of Spanish national identity from the 18th to the...
Description This graduate seminar proposes an exploration of the fraught connection between political engagement and textual innovation in poetry written in and about 20th Century Spain. We will discuss key texts by Max Aub, Luis Cernuda, Rubén Darío, Antonio Gamoneda...
Fall, 2017
Description This course offers a set of units that, while introducing critical topics of contemporary social, political, territorial, and artistic debates, teach the basics of Catalan language. By the end of the course students will be able to interact in daily situations...
Description An intermediate language and culture class that aims to consolidate and expand the skills of listening comprehension, speaking, reading and writing in Catalan. Includes a comprehensive review of the grammar and reinforces linguistic acquisition through texts...
Description What’s the connection between fear, hate, pain and identity? To what extent are our personal and collective identities shaped by received ideas of “others”? Does questioning “others” help us understand our ideas of culture, nation, and polity? How do these...
Description Through close readings and translations centering on 20th-century Spanish history and society, students hone their linguistic, grammatical, and stylistic skills, and acquire the interpretive skills required to comprehend and analyze increasingly complex literary...