ELEMENTARY PORTUGUESE I
A beginning course designed for students who wish to start their study of Portuguese and have no proficiency in another Romance language. The four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing are developed at the basic level.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jose A Castellanos-Pazos
CULPA: 25 Info - 4 points
ELEMENTARY SPANISH I
Prerequisites: a score of 0-279 on the department's Spanish as a Second Language Placement exam. An introduction to Spanish communicative competence, with stress on basic oral interaction, reading, writing, and cultural knowledge. Principal objectives are to understand and produce commonly used sentences to satisfy immediate needs; ask and answer questions about personal details such as where we live, people we know and things we have; interact in a simple manner with people who speak clearly, slowly and are ready to cooperate; and understand simple and short written and audiovisual texts in Spanish. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- MWF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicholas Figueroa
Info - 4 points
ELEMENTARY PORTUGUESE II
Prerequisites: PORT W1101 or the equivalent. A course designed to acquaint students with the Portuguese verbal, prepositional, and pronominal systems. As a continuation of Elementary Portuguese I (PORT W1101), this course focuses on the uses of characteristic forms and expressions of the language as it is spoken and written in Brazil today.
- MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ana P Huback
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ELEMENTARY SPANISH II
Prerequisites: SPAN UN1101 or a score of 280-379 on the department’s Spanish as a Second Language Placement exam. An intensive introduction to Spanish language communicative competence, with stress on basic oral interaction, reading, writing and cultural knowledge as a continuation of SPAN UN1101. The principal objectives are to understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of immediate relevance; communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a direct exchange of information on familiar matters; describe in simple terms aspects of our background and personal history; understand the main point, the basic content, and the plot of filmic as well as short written texts. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- MWR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- MWR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- MWR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
- MWF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jose Placido Ruiz-Campillo
Info - 4 points
RAPID READING AND TRANSLATION
This course, conducted in English, is designed to help graduate students from other departments gain proficiency in reading and translating Spanish texts for scholarly research. The course prepares students to take the Reading Proficiency Exam that most graduate departments demand to fulfill the foreign-language proficiency requirement in that language. Graduate students with any degree of knowledge of Spanish are welcome. A grade of A- or higher in this class will satisfy the GSAS foreign language proficiency requirement in Spanish.
- T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Leyre Alejaldre Biel
CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
COMPREHENSIVE BEG CATALAN
An extensive introduction to the Catalan language with an emphasis on oral communication as well as the reading and writing practice that will allow the student to function comfortably in a Catalan environment.
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elsa Ubeda
CULPA: 10
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- 4 points
COMP ELEM PORT I/II-SPAN SPKRS
Prerequisites: knowledge of Spanish or another Romance language. An intensive beginning language course in Brazilian Portuguese with emphasis on Brazilian culture through multimedia materials related to culture and society in contemporary Brazil. Recommended for students who have studied Spanish or another Romance language. The course is the equivalent of two full semesters of elementary Portuguese with stress on reading and conversing, and may be taken in place of PORT W1101-W1102. For students unable to dedicate the time needed cover two semesters in one, the regularly paced sequence PORT W1101-W1102 is preferable.
- TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jose A Castellanos-Pazos
CULPA: 25 Info - 4 points
INTERMEDIATE CATALAN I
Prerequisites: CATL W1120. The first part of Columbia University´s comprehensive intermediate Catalan sequence. The main objectives of this course are to continue developing communicative competence - reading, writing, speaking and listening comprehension - and to further acquaint students with Catalan cultures.
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elsa Ubeda
CULPA: 10
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- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE PORTUGUESE I
Prerequisites: PORT W1120 or the equivalent. General review of grammar, with emphasis on self-expression through oral and written composition, reading, conversation, and discussion.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ana P Huback
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I
Prerequisites: SPAN UN1102 or SPAN UN1120 or or a score of 380-449 in the departments Placement Examination. An intensive course in Spanish language communicative competence, with stress on oral interaction, reading, writing, and culture as a continuation of SPAN UN1102 or SPAN UN1120. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- MWF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jana Soler Libran
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Instructor:
Laura Berrios Figueroa
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Instructor:
Emily Oliveira
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Instructor:
Lee B Abraham
CULPA: 7
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- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE CATALAN II
Prerequisites: CATL UN2101 or equivalent Catalan 1202 is the second part of Columbia Universitys intermediate Catalan sequence. Course goals are to enhance student exposure to various aspects of Catalan culture and to consolidate and expand reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Elsa Ubeda
CULPA: 10
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- 4 points
Intermed. Portuguese II
Prerequisites: PORT UN1120 or PORT UN1320 or the equivalent. General review of grammar, with emphasis on self-expression through oral and written composition, reading, conversation, and discussion.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Jose A Castellanos-Pazos
CULPA: 25 Info - 4 points
INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2101 or a score of 450-625 in the departments Placement Examination. An intensive course in Spanish language communicative competence, with stress on oral interaction, reading, writing and culture as a continuation of SPAN UN2101. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- MWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- MWR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- MWR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- MWR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Ximena Gonzalez-Parada
Info - 4 points
INTERMED SPAN II - MEDICAL
HEALTH-RELATED TOPICS
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2101 or a score of 450-625 on the Department’s placement examination. This is an intensive course in Spanish language communicative competence with an emphasis on oral interaction, reading, writing, and culture at an Intermediate II level with focus on health-related topics in the Spanish-speaking world. In an increasingly interconnected world, and in multilingual global cities such as New York City, the study of a foreign language is fundamental not only in the field of the humanities but also in the natural sciences. This interdisciplinary course analyzes the intersection between these two disciplines through the study of health-related topics in Iberian and Latin American cultural expressions (literature, film, documentaries, among other sources) in order to explore new critical perspectives across both domains. Students will learn health-related vocabulary and usage-based grammar in Spanish. Students will develop a cultural understanding of medicine, illness, and treatment in the Spanish-speaking world. Finally, students will be able to carry out specific collaborative tasks in Spanish with the aim of integrating language, culture, and health. * This course fulfills the last semester of the foreign language requirement. Therefore, students who have taken SPAN UN 2101 (Intermediate Spanish I), or have a score of 450-625 on the Department’s placement exam, and are interested in health-related topics may proceed and enroll in SPAN UN 2103 (Intermediate Spanish II: Health-Related Topics in the Spanish-Speaking World). Pre-med and pre-health students, as well as those students majoring in the natural sciences—including biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and physics—will be given registration priority. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Juan Pablo Cominguez
CULPA: 5
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Intermediate Spanish II: Topics on Clima
This is an intensive course in Spanish language communicative competence with an emphasis on oral interaction, reading, writing, and culture at an Intermediate II level focused on climate discourse and environmental topics. Prerequisites: SPAN UN2101 (Intermediate Spanish I) or a score of 450-625 on the Department’s placement examination. This course fulfills the last semester of the foreign language requirement. After SPAN UN2104, students can continue learning Spanish and its cultures in SPAN UN3300.
This transdisciplinary course blends together Spanish language/s, Hispanic cultures, and climate in the field of the broadly defined ‘Climate Humanities’. It examines how climate change is discursively framed in the media, literature, and other cultural productions in the Spanish-speaking world including the US. We will explore how it becomes reframed as it travels from the scientific sphere to the social spaces where public opinion is negotiated, and how those linguistic and textual strategies shape and are shaped by the political economy of climate debates, that is, by the specific geopolitical and social positions of the different stake-holders. The purpose of this course is, first, to explore the possibilities of a new space at the interface between language/sociolinguistics, cultural studies, and environmental discourse to raise awareness of the challenges faced when we position ourselves outside of our communities of scholarly practice. Secondly, the course aims at providing students with tools to perform a mediating role between specialized knowledge production in Spanish and the public. From a multiliteracies framework, we will offer a language and content-based course with spaces for discussion of key emerging issues related to environmental justice using a critical discourse methodology while we continue honing students’ skills in Spanish through climate-related vocabulary and usage-based grammar.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Francisca Aguilo Mora
CULPA: 5
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- 4 points
SPANISH FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS
Prerequisites: SPAN UN1108 or scoring at this level on the department’s Spanish as a Heritage Language Placement test (https://columbia-barnard.vega-labs.com).
The principal aim of SPAN UN2108 is to build upon and further develop the knowledge of Spanish that heritage learners bring to the classroom – from SPAN UN1108 and/or from family and neighborhood exposure to the language. This course cultivates intermediate-level formal speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities.
Spanish heritage language courses at Columbia/Barnard focus on the development of communicative abilities and literacy from sociolinguistic and sociocultural approaches. Throughout the semester, students will be reviewing spelling patterns, building vocabulary, acquiring and effectively using learning strategies, and strengthening composition skills in Spanish. Cultural projects and readings reinforce learners’ understanding of the multiple issues related to Hispanic cultures in the United States and in other Spanish-speaking societies.
- TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Diana Romero
CULPA: 27 Info - 4 points
COMPREHENSIVE INTERMED PORT
Prerequisites: PORT UN1102 or PORT UN1320. Prerequisites: this course is an intensive and fast-paced coverage of both PORT UN2101 and PORT UN2102. Students MUST demonstrate a strong foundation in Portuguese and meet the following REQUIREMENT: A- or higher in PORT UN1102 or PORT UN1320. If you fulfill the above requirement, you do not need the instructors permission to register. HOWEVER the instructor will additionally assess student proficiency during the Change of Program Period. Students who do not have the necessary proficiency level may not remain in this course. This course replaces the sequence PORT UN2101-PORT UN2102.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Ana P Huback
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
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 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Ximena Gonzalez-Parada
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Instructor:
Leyre Alejaldre Biel
CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
SPAIN THROUGH ITS ART
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.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Angelina Craig-Florez
CULPA: 14
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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 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Arnau Sala Sallent
Info - 3 points
HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)
ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH PRESENT
This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquire the knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues and events studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice, the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish American independence, the fin-de-siecle and the cultural avant-gardes, the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study some key moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representative texts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish. This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Javiera Irribarren Ortiz
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Instructor:
Maria Agustina Battezzati
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Instructor:
Miguel Angel Blanco Martinez
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ARTISTIC HUMANITY
Between 1400 and 1600, in the context of the Iberian conquest and colonization of the “four parts of the world," artifacts were looted, melted, and destroyed; other objects traveled between continents in physical and textual forms. They were sent and offered as proof of the new territories, desired and collected. The powerful subtlety of unexpected artistic forms, media, and monuments triggered a new space of inquiry. Novel materials, techniques, and ideas about artistry were observed far and near—in the Americas, in Asia, in Africa, and in Europe. They were also described, compared and analyzed in letters, histories, or inventories. All around a sphere that could now be mentally embraced, missionaries, collectors, historians, and artists felt under the power of novel creations: intricate shell jewelries, wood and stone sculptures, turquoise masks, feather mosaics, painted manuscripts and folding screens, ivory spoons, carved temples, monumental cities, and so on. These splendid artworks deeply challenged conceptual boundaries such as those between: idol and image, beautiful and frightening, civilized and barbarian, center and periphery, classic and modern, and ancient and new. The artworks and their descriptions contributed to define humanity as immanently creative and to conceive artistic creation as a distinctive form of thought. Section 001 will be taught in Spanish; section 002 will be taught in English.
- W 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alessandra Russo
CULPA: 5
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Law, Literature, and Gender in the Hispa
Law, Lit & Gender in Hisp
This interdisciplinary course explores the intersections between law, literature, and gender within the Hispanic world, examining how literary and legal texts shape and reflect cultural norms, identities, and power dynamics. The course will analyze key works of literature and legal texts from Spain and Latin America, paying special attention to how gender is constructed, represented, expressed, problematized or instrumentalized in legal texts and literary narratives.
Both literature and legal texts use language as their primary tool to construct meaning, navigate ambiguity, and shape social realities: style, rhetoric, implicit and explicit narratives, form and character construction are essential in the writing of the law. Legal language, like literary language, can be ambiguous and open to interpretation. By examining how laws and legal texts are written, interpreted, used and argued, students will explore how language in both realms functions to maintain or challenge power structures related to gender.
In the last decades, Latin American and Spain have seen a wide variety of radical transformations along with striking immobilism in legal and literary treatments of gender. A clear-cut path to "liberation", "recognition" or "inclusion" has been problematized not only by political, ideological and social resistance but also by political and rhetorical uses of gender discourse as strategies of "pink-washing" or a convenient mask to hide different sets of conflicts. "Progressive" gender discourses imported from the north have been sometimes the condition of possibility for transformation but also a problematic imposition on local social, political and symbolic structures with very different genealogies.
Through texts that address issues such as gender violence, sexual identities, family law, and women's rights, students will explore how legal and literary narratives intersect in their portrayal of gender norms. Authors from Latin America and Spain will be studied alongside legal reforms. Through these analyses, students will develop a deeper understanding of how literature and law both reflect and shape gender relations in the Hispanic world, offering nuanced perspectives on cultural and political representation, justice, identity, and power.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alberto Medina
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CONVERSATION IN SPANISH:PRACTICE AND ANA
This is a course in Spanish conversation. Students will study and practice features of social interaction in Spanish that are crucial to participate in the new culture. This means the course has two learning objectives: One is learning to engage in regular conversations in Spanish; the other is to understand how conversation works. We will cover conversational issues such as gesture, narratives, intonation, opening and closing interactions, turn taking, etc. both in linguistics and social terms. Practice and analysis will be connected: Every week we will consider an aspect of oral interaction in Spanish. We will study those features in naturally occurring conversations among native speakers and we will practice in actual conversations inside and outside the classroom, by means of role play, simulation, film making, debates and interviews. We will use topics of conversation to provide a meaningful environment for the conversation practice.
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Guadalupe Ruiz-Fajardo
CULPA: 13
h-index: 5
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The Imaginaries of Asia and Latin Americ
Imagin of Asia & Latin Am
For centuries, the transatlantic has been a space of forced labor migrations, mercantilism, colonial and capitalist extraction, imagination, resistance, and resignification. The transpacific, too, has long been a space of imperial imaginaries and conquests, and subaltern protagonisms. In this seminar, we will examine the restructuration of the gradual end of African slavery and the shift to new forms of involuntary labor, or what sociologist Dale Tomich calls, the second slavery. We will examine the relationship between political economy and aesthetics with a focus on Asiatic labor and Asiatic racial form to understand ways that colonial stereotypes about Asian laborers were curated to facilitate the restructuration of the global division of labor. Focusing on the aesthetics of Chinese exclusion in mediating debates about labor, we will examine hemispheric American debates that reconfigured Transatlantic slave relations with eugenics and scientific racism to new forms of transpacific labor. We will question how visual cultures that circulated ideologies about racial capital, miscegenation, and economic liberalization shaped racialized nationalisms and immigrant restriction policies. While we will focus primarily on the Brazilian context, we will also examine the way these discourses took shape in other Latin American countries to interrogate the hemispheric circulation of the ways eugenic ideas about racial mixing shaped deliberations of political life, citizenship, and national belonging.
- R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ana P Lee
CULPA: 4
h-index: 2
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- 4 points
Theory & Practice of Second Language Tea
Theory& Practice Lang Tea
This graduate seminar serves as an introduction to second language (SL) teaching for in-service instructors of language, and language and content courses. It highlights pedagogical principles, methodological strategies, and practical activities that are critical for new instructors teaching SL courses at the university level for the first time at Columbia University.
Students consider major theoretical constructs (culture, language, mind, metaphor, communication, context) and contemporary teaching approaches in the field of instructed second language acquisition (concept-based teaching, communicative language teaching, literacy-oriented approaches, task-project based learning). They will also engage with basic teaching techniques (lesson planning, use of the target language, technology integration, task design, grammar teaching, utilization of written and oral authentic materials in the classroom), reflective teaching practices (teachers as learners of teaching, dynamics of classroom communication, the role of teachers’ beliefs about pedagogical practices), and the design of testing and assessment measures (contextualized test design, portfolios, and grading criteria).
The main goal of the course is to connect critical pedagogy as well as sociocultural and cognitive theories with classroom practice through guest workshops, collaborative discussion, online forums, lesson plan design, observation of SL classrooms, peer feedback, and portfolio development.
- F noon-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Irene Alonso-Aparicio
Info - 2 points
WORKSHOP ON SCHOLARLY WRITING
- W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Graciela Montaldo
Info - 4 points
Subaltern Urbanism
This seminar asks how spatial politics intersect with economic inequality and social difference (race, gender, caste, and ethnicity) to produce marginalized and stigmatized spaces such as “favelas,” “slum,” and “ghettos.”
The seminar draws on the convergent yet distinct urban trajectories of Bombay/Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro as a place from which to explore questions of comparative and global urbanism from an explicitly South-South perspective. That is, we ask how Bombay and Rio’s distinct yet connected urbanity might force us to alter our approaches to the city; approaches that are largely drawn from modular Euro-American paradigms for understanding urbanization as coeval with modernity, as well as industrialization. We do so in this seminar by focusing on people and practices—subaltern urbanity (and on those whose labor produced the modern city), as well as on spatial orders—the informal or unintended city—to ask the question: “what makes and unmakes a city?”
How might questions about built form, industrialization, capital flows, and social life and inhabitation that takes the perspective of “city theory from the Global South” shed new understanding on the history of the city, the extranational frames of colonial modernity, and the ongoing impact of neoliberalism? How can we rethink critical concepts in urban studies (precarity, spatial segregation, subalternity, economies of eviction, urban dispossession) through embedded studies of locality and lifemaking?
- R 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ana P Lee
CULPA: 4
h-index: 2
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Contemporary Cultural Practices in Latin
Contemp. Culture Latin Am
This course proposes to make a theoretical reYlection on Latin American literature, art, video, and cinema in the present. Starting from a diagnosis of the new scene, we are going to study some alternative forms. We will start with reading theoretical texts in the four proposed topics: Archive, Gender, Nature, and Intermediality.
The study of these works will also allow us to understand the dynamics between the different media and how artists conceive their practice in the midst of contemporary conditions. We are going to explore in these works the relationships between imagining, documenting, creating communities, intervening in the social field, and discussing global issues that often, from a precise location, involve planetary issues.
We will study works by Cristina Rivera Garza, Tamara Kamenszain, Ariana Harwicz, Fernanda Trías, Daniela Catrileo, Verónica Gerber-Biceci, among others. We will discuss the constellation of problems around aesthetics, mediality, exhibition, politics, materiality, and immateriality in art and literature, mimesis and institutions, artists and intellectuals.
- T 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Graciela Montaldo
Info - 4 points