ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
(IN)DIGESTIBLE CULTURES
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score.
An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the
Directory of Classes
for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Alberto Carpio Jimenez
Info - 3 points
HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)
Prerequisites: L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300).
Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period until about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spain and the Americas.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Patricia E Grieve
CULPA: 15 Info -
Instructor:
Santiago Acosta
Info - 3 points
MEDIEVAL SPANISH LIT
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jesus Rodriguez-Velasco
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
THAT MEDIEVAL IBERIAN THING
What are the contributions and challenges of Medieval Studies to the field of Iberian Studies—and to contemporary critical thought? This challenge has frequently been invoked as
convivencia
, a concept that roughly, albeit inadequately, translates as
coexistence
. The term was deployed occasionally in the early twentieth century and it arose, more or less as we know it, in Ramón Menéndez Pidal's
Orígenes del español
(1926). There, the notion of
convivencia
was cast as a linguistic line of inquiry: how did different languages coexist in the same territory, and how did they interact productively?
This Iberian Medieval Thing
is a theoretical and historical meditation on contemporary forms of
convivencia
that transcends the coexistence of languages, religions, and cultures to address gender, race, and what David Nirenberg called
communities of violence
. The seminar will also foster a conversation from the perspective that the
Iberian thing
is not something exceptional, and that it is critical to expand the context of the Iberian peninsula and its cultural production. While dealing with translations, transactions, boundaries, networks, etc., we will immediately see the importance of understanding the
Ibernianness
of cultures around and beyond the Iberian Peninsula.
Throughout the semester, we will discuss vernacular cultures and the concept of vernacularism, the challenges of competing languages, the politics of translation, Iberian Studies, Cultural Studies, the role of literature as well as transactions and boundaries.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jesus Rodriguez-Velasco
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points