2017-2018 Catalog 
    
    May 20, 2024  
2017-2018 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Religious Studies

  
  • RLST162 PO - Modern Jewish Philosophy

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST162 PO
  
  • RLST163 CM - Women and Gender in the Jewish Tradition

    Examination of the representation of women and gender in Jewish tradition and how women from the biblical period to the present have experienced Judaism. Special attention is given to the articulation of these issues in biblical and rabbinic texts, the influence these texts have had on shaping Jewish attitudes and practices, the particular religious activities practiced by women, and developments in contemporary Judaism, including liturgical revisions and Rabbinic ordination.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST163 CM
  
  • RLST164 PO - Engendering and Experience: Women in the Islamic Tradition

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST164 PO
  
  • RLST165 CM - Religion and Politics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

    This course analyzes the relationship between religion and politics in Western Europe from the late medieval period to the early modern period. It explores key church-state conflicts, economic pressures and problems, gender roles, Catholic-Protestant controversies and religious reform movements that impacted the political and social situations in England, Scotland and continental Europe.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST165 CM
  
  • RLST166A PO - The Divine Body: Religion and the Environment

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST166A PO
  
  • RLST166B CM - Religion, Politics and Global Violence

    Examines the critical intersection of religious ideology, politics, and violence. In particular, it will analyze how Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists have used religious ideology, rhetoric, and values to justify acts of violence and calls for peace and reconciliation in the name of God. The course will explore case studies that include attention to conflicts in Europe (Northern Ireland and Bosnia/Serbia), the Middle East (Israel-Palestine and Iraq), Southeast Asia (Indonesia), the Indian Subcontinent (India-Pakistan), Africa (the Sudan and Rwanda).

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST166B CM
  
  • RLST169 CM - Christianity and Politics in East Asia

    This course analyzes the religious, political, and economic impact of Western Christian missions, colonialism and imperialism in Japan, China and Korea in the modern period. It examines the nationalist revolts for and against Christianity in Japan (Shimabara Rebellion, Unchurch Movement), China (Taiping Rebellion, Boxer Rebellion, Kuomintang-KMT and Maoism) and Korea (Buddhist collaboration, Japanese imperialism, Independence Movement, Minjung Thought), by comparing the continuity and discontinuity between religion and culture.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST169 CM
  
  • RLST170 SC - Women and Religion in Greco-Roman Antiquity

    See Scripps College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST170 SC
  
  • RLST171 CM - Religion and Film

    This course employs critical social, race, gender, and post-colonial theories to analyze the role of religious symbols, rhetoric, values, and world-views in American film. After briefly examining film genre, structure, and screenwriting, the course will explore religious sensibilities in six genres such as: Historical Epic, Action/Adventure, Science Fiction, Comedy, Drama, and Politics.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST171 CM
  
  • RLST172 PO - The Bible Goes to Hollywood: Ideological Afterlives of Scripture

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST172 PO
  
  • RLST174 CM - Religion and the American Presidency

    This advanced reading and writing seminar explores how religious symbols, sensibilities, values, and world-views shaped the Founding Fathers and the domestic and/or foreign policies of presidents Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, JFK, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr. Special attention will be paid to civil religion, religious pluralism, and key interpretations of religion and the presidency.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST174 CM
  
  • RLST175 CM - Visions of the Divine Feminine

    Examines how different cultures have conceived of the Divine as gendered. Main themes include the nature of myths and their relation to reality, the significance of myths for women’s and men’s role modeling, feminist theories of religion, including the patriarchal inversion of myths, and the role of historical change in interpreting mythical texts.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST175 CM
  
  • RLST176 CM - Visionaries, Prophets, and Transformative Leadership

    This course examines the transformative leadership visions, methods, and practices of internationally recognized religious and secular founders, innovators, and societal prophets. It analyzes their leadership styles, communication strategies, marketing techniques, psychological appeals, and how they kept their leadership styles and religious or secular visions grounded in the hopes and dreams of the masses. Each week we analyze one but occasionally two (for contrast) leaders like Moses, Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, Bartolomé de las Casas, Theodor Herzl, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Chairman Mao, Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Dorothy Day, M.L.King, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Billy Graham, Rosemary Radford Reuther, Indira Gandhi, Muhammad Yunus, Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST176 CM
  
  • RLST177 PO - Gender and Religion

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST177 PO
  
  • RLST178 PO - The Modern Jewish Experience

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST178 PO
  
  • RLST180 CM - Interpreting Religious Worlds

    Examines current theoretical and methodological approaches to the academic study of religion. This course is offered every year, alternating between Claremont McKenna, Pomona, and Scripps.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST180 CM
  
  • RLST183 HM - Ghosts and the Machines

    This course explores the interrelations between occult mediumship, modern media and technology in Europe and the United States from the 19th-century through the present. Topics for the course include (but are not limited to): ghostly visions and magic lantern phantasmagoria, American spiritualism and the telegraph, phrenology and the rise of the archive, psychical research and stage magic, radio’s disembodied voices, spirit photography and therapeutic light therapies, psychic television, magic on film.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST183 HM
  
  • RLST184 PO - Queer Theory and the Bible

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST184 PO
  
  • RLST186 CM - Research Practicum in Archeology

    The course introduces students to archaeological method and theory, and the history and culture of the Levant region in the Middle East. The course can be taken for 0.25 or 0.5 credits. For 0.25 credit, students enroll in a spring semester component that will introduce them to the archaeological methods and materials common in Near Eastern Archaeology, and the history and culture of the region. For 0.5 credit, students will complete this course and participate in the summer archaeological field school of Tel Akko. Credit/No-Credit grading only. Offered as a second-half course.

    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

    Offered: Every spring and summer

    Credit: 0.25-0.5

    Course Number: RLST186 CM
  
  • RLST190 PO - Senior Seminar in Religious Studies

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: RLST190 PO
  
  • RLST199 CM - Independent Study in Religious Studies

    Students who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for independent study under the direction of a faculty reader.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 0.5 or 1

    Course Number: RLST199 CM

Silicon Valley

  
  • ECON098 CM - Organizing for Innovation

    This course guides the student through several topics related to organizing for innovation. The material considers how organizational structures, processes and practices impact an organization’s ability to generate innovations and appropriate returns. Links between the course content and the internship are developed. The focus is on innovation in firms, but many of the insights apply to all types of organizations. Silicon Valley Program students only. Letter grade only.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ECON098 CM
  
  • INT030 CM - Silicon Valley Program Internship

    Taken as part of the Silicon Valley Program, students gain experience in an innovative organization through a placement arranged in consultation with the program director. This experience completments the other coursework in the program to enhance the student’s understanding of the strategies and practices of innovative organizations, firm-level innovation ecosystems, high-tech markets and the regional system of innovation in Silicon Valley and the surrounding area. Silicon Valley Program students only. Letter grade only.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: INT 030 CM
  
  • SV100 CM - Special Topics in Silicon Valley

    This course accommodates special topics relevant for students in the Silicon Valley program. Letter grade only.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SV 100 CM

Sociology

  
  • SOC030 CH - Chicanos/as and Latinos/as in Contemporary Society

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SOC 030 CH
  
  • SOC109 PZ - African American Social Theory

    See Pitzer College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SOC 109 PZ
  
  • SOC114 CH - Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequality, and Activism

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SOC 114 CH
  
  • SOC124 AF - Race, Place, and Space

    See Pitzer College Catalog for course description.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SOC 124 AF
  
  • SOC136 AF - Framing Urban Life

    See Pitzer College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SOC 136 AF
  
  • SOC141 CH - Chicanas and Latinas in the United States

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SOC 141 CH
  
  • SOC145 CH - Restructuring Communities

    See Pitzer College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SOC 145 CH
  
  • SOC150 CH - Chicanos/Latinas and Education

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SOC 150 CH
  
  • SOC155 CH - Rural and Urban Social Movements

    This course will examine the emergence of social movements, the process of their formation, and the varied strategies for their mobilization. Particular attention will be paid to the Chicano, Civil Rights, Farm Labor, and union movements. Students will draw practical experience from organizing a memorial and alternative spring break with the United Farmworker’s Union.

    Prerequisites: SOC 001  PZ or SOC 030 CH  

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SOC 155 CH

Spanish

  
  • SPAN001 CM - Introductory Spanish

    Acquisition of basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading, writing, with emphasis on aural comprehension and oral communication. This course includes laboratory work. Letter grade only.

    Offered: Every fall

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN001 CM
  
  • SPAN002 CM - Continuing Introductory Spanish

    A continuation of SPAN 001 CM . Acquisition of basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading, writing, with emphasis on aural comprehension and oral communication. Increased emphasis on oral expression and laboratory work each week. Not open to students who have completed SPAN 022 CM . Letter grade only.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 001 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Every spring

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN002 CM
  
  • SPAN022 CM - Intensive Introductory Spanish

    Designed for beginning students with some basic knowledge of the language, who are too advanced for SPAN 001 CM , but do not yet qualify for SPAN 033 CM . Students will complete in one semester the equivalent of SPAN 001 CM  and SPAN 002 CM . Includes laboratory work. Letter grade only.

    Prerequisite: Placement.

    Offered: Every fall

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN022 CM
  
  • SPAN033 CM - Intermediate Spanish

    Review and reinforcement of basic skills. Emphasis on conversation, reading, and writing. Course includes a tutorial session each week (times arranged). Letter grade only.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 002 CM  or SPAN 022 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN033 CM
  
  • SPAN044 CM - Advanced Spanish: Contemporary Hispanic Culture and Society

    Discussion of texts and films concerning literary and social aspects of Spain and Latin America. Development of correct personal style in students’ oral and written expression. Course includes a tutorial session each week (times arranged).

    Prerequisite: SPAN 033 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN044 CM
  
  • SPAN101 CM - Introduction to Literary Analysis

    This class provides students with both the tools for and the practice of interpreting and analyzing texts in Spanish. Students will be given a general overview of pertinent, major literary currents and movements, and will study the major genres: poetry, narrative, theater, and essay. Readings are taken from both Peninsular and Latin American literary traditions.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN101 CM
  
  • SPAN102 CM - Introduction to Latin American Cultural Studies

    The rubric of cultural studies has created stimulating approaches that go beyond canonical texts in literature or history in order to study society at large. The main area of inquiry of Latin American cultural studies is symbolic production and cultural and social phenomena in present-day Latin America, from art and literature, to sports and media, music, television, and cultural and social institutions. This course will introduce students to the main theoretical, methodological, and themes of contemporary Latin American cultural studies as well as its foremost practitioners (Néstor García Canclini, Jean Franco, Jesús Martin-Barbero, Carlos Monsiváis, Beatriz Sarlo, among others).

    Prerequisite: SPAN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN102 CM
  
  • SPAN104 CM - Negotiating Hispanic Contexts

    This course offers students the opportunity to learn about the practice and culture of professional life in Latin America. The course imparts practical skills such as writing letters, conducting interviews, and other activities to develop and refine students’ spoken and written Spanish abilities at the same time that students study the representation of professional life, including the public, private and social sectors, in a variety of media, including literature, film, and periodicals and television. Students acquire the ability to interact professionally in Latin American cultures as well as the cultural knowledge necessary to do so successfully. The course is conducted entirely in Spanish, with a few readings in English.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 044 CM  or instructor permission

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN104 CM
  
  • SPAN120A SC - Survey of Spanish Literature I

    See Scripps College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN120A SC
  
  • SPAN120B CM - Survey of Spanish Peninsular Literature

    This course introduces students to the literature, history, and visual culture of contemporary Spain from the 18th to the 21st centuries. All readings will be in Spanish, although we’ll look at texts originally written in Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and Basque. We will study representative novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, and films by Galdós, Campoamor, Bécquer, Unamuno, Lorca, Machado, Laforet, Matute, Cercas, Martín Gaite, and others. We will pay particular attention to the Spanish Civil War and its lasting effects on Spanish culture today.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN120B CM
  
  • SPAN120B SC - Survey of Spanish Literature II

    See Scripps College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN120B SC
  
  • SPAN122 CM - Images of Immigration in Spanish Literature and Cinema: Border-Crossings, Identities, and Cultural Translation

    From an interdisciplinary perspective, this course explores the significant role of culture (novels, films, songs, newspaper articles, photography, etc.) in the construction of the social imaginary of the immigrant in Europe, particularly in Spain. It focuses on narratives about immigrants from Africa (Morocco, Senegal), Latin America (Cuba, Dominican Republic), Eastern Europe (Romania, Poland), and Asia (China, Bangladesh), examining the complex identities of both Spaniards and immigrants. Major themes are: “Global” vs. “Local”; stages of migrants’ journeys (departure, border-crossing, arrival); conceptions of hybridity, otherness, border, “new Europeanness,” and neo-racism; role of history and religion in the acceptance/rejection of foreigners; feminization of immigration.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN122 CM
  
  • SPAN123 CM - Encounters in the Atlantic

    We examine the evolution of the relations between Spain and Latin America. We follow a chronological order, starting with Columbus’s diary and finishing with texts about Hispanic-American immigrants in Spain today. We look at literary texts, old manuscripts, paintings, and films to examine social, political, and cultural changes on both sides of the Atlantic from 1492 to the present. Themes: conquistadors, missionaries, Inquisition; conceptions of indigeneity; women in the “New World”; ideas of class, race, and gender; Spanish empire, piracy, and struggles for independence; consequences of colonization. Texts from Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Uruguay.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN123 CM
  
  • SPAN124 CM - Visions of Democracy: New Spanish Voices after the Fall of the Dictatorship

    The fall of Franco’s authoritarian regime brought an amazing new cultural diversity to Spain. This course explores new voices (women, transvestites, generation X, political exiles, and others) that have reappeared in literature, film, and mass media since 1975. How were they silenced under dictatorship? How did the transition change literature, film, and historical memory? How have new voices constructed competing visions of democracy? We consider life under dictatorship; “La Movida” of the 1980s; ETA and terrorism; youth and gender movements; popular culture and the construction of new Spanish identities in Almodóvar, Bollaín, Amenábar, Tusquets, Martín Gaite, Goytisolo, Mendicutti, and others.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN124 CM
  
  • SPAN125A CM - Introduction to Latin American Literature and Civilization I

    A survey of the major events and texts of Latin American literature from the colonial period to the present. Readings in selected literary masterpieces coordinated with lectures, visual presentations, and discussions of the various periods. Offered alternately between CMC and Pomona.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN125A CM
  
  • SPAN125B CM - Introduction to Latin American Literature and Civilization II

    A survey of the major events and texts of Latin American literature from the colonial period to the present. Readings in selected literary masterpieces coordinated with lectures, visual presentations, and discussions of the various periods. Offered alternately between CMC and Pomona.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN125B CM
  
  • SPAN127 CH - Literature Chicana en Espanol

    See Scripps College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN127 CH
  
  • SPAN129 CM - The Latin American City

    This course explores the evolution of cities in Latin America from the pre-Colombian cities in the Andes and Mesoamerica to present day megacities such as Mexico City, Sao Paolo, and Buenos Aires. What is a city? What does the city mean? In cinema, arts, literature, architecture, history, anthropology, and music, we discover Latin American cities as sites of creativity, production and circulation of contested meanings. This course aims to study the complexity, diversity, and richness of past and present urban experiences in Latin America from a cultural perspective.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Every two years

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN129 CM
  
  • SPAN140 PO - From Borges to “Literatura Lite”: Gender and Genre in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN140 PO
  
  • SPAN148 CM - Special Topics in Spanish

    Selected topics vary each offering.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN148 CM
  
  • SPAN150 CM - Nation and Identity in 19th-Century Spanish America

    After the Wars of Independence (1810-1824) in Spanish America, writers and intellectuals in the new Spanish American nations had to confront the problem of defining and articulating their national identities. In this course, we read some of the most important texts (novels, short stories, poetry, and essays) that treat the topic of national identity, with particular focus on gender, race and ethnicity, regionalism, and social class. We also put literary works in their cultural and historical contexts.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN150 CM
  
  • SPAN152 CM - Gender in 19th-Century Spanish America

    19th-century Spanish America experienced great upheaval after the Wars of Independence from Spain (1810-1824). Among the topics of contention as the newly-formed Spanish American nations struggled to formulate sustainable political agendas was the topic of gender. Men and women intellectuals alike responded to dominant discourses from Europe and North America and constructed their own representations of viable gender roles. This course explores some of the ways in which authors dealt with the concepts of masculinity and femininity, sexuality and chastity, the family, and the public and private spheres.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN152 CM
  
  • SPAN153 CM - Political and Social Leadership in Latin America in the 21st Century

    This course will introduce students to central issues in political and social leadership in Latin America. Over the past decade Latin American nations have experienced often tumultuous change as political power has shifted from traditional white male elites to an increasingly diverse set of stakeholders. In today’s context, such phenomena include the presence of leaders of indigenous descent and female presidents as well as social movements spearheaded by the urban poor, peasants, and students. By examining several specific case studies, the course will seek to contextualize the appearance of these collective actors and the strategies employed to achieve their goals.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN153 CM
  
  • SPAN154 CM - Women in Spain: Making History from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century

    From the Middle Ages to the 21st century, women have played an essential part in Spanish society, politics, and culture. Through manuscripts, films, political speeches, novels, and visual art, we’ll study the voices and experiences of women in Spanish history. We consider women´s lives in the “Three Spains” (Al-Andalus, Hispania, and Sepharad); Medieval beguines and witches; Goya’s nineteenth-century depictions of women at war; and the Civil War anti-fascist group “Las trece rosas” - as well as individuals such as Queens Isabel and Sofía, the legendary lieutenant Catalina de Erauso, politician Clara Campoamor, painter Remedios Varo, and filmmaker Icíar Bollaín, among others. This course will be taught in Spanish.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or SPAN 102 CM  

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN154 CM
  
  • SPAN155 CM - Small Wonders: The Latin American Short Story

    This course will examine major literary and cultural trends demonstrated in Latin American short fiction. We focus on writings from the 19th and 20th centuries and follow the construction of nations in the post-independence era and the issues of national identities in present day Latin America. We study Realist and Regionalist trends, the role of experimentation and innovation in Fantastic and Existentialist texts, and the role of the past in recent short stories from a continent looking towards the future.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN155 CM
  
  • SPAN158 CM - Revolutions and Revolutionary Thought in Spanish America

    It could be said that the Latin American countries were created out of a violent revolution. Since then some nations have undergone dramatic revolutions that have radically altered the political, cultural, economic, and social scenes. This course focuses on the literature of (and against) revolutions and on revolutionary thinking throughout Latin America. The specific focus may vary from semester to semester but typically will include an examination of the revolutionary literature of Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua, as well as texts produced in countries such as El Salvador, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, and Argentina, among others.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN158 CM
  
  • SPAN178 CM - The New Latin American Cinema: History, Politics, Gender, and Society

    Traces the development of Latin American cinema from the formative years of the 1960’s through the 1990’s. Examines both films and theoretical writings of pioneering filmmakers, paying special attention to the emergence of a new women’s cinema in the ‘80’s and ‘90’s.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN178 CM
  
  • SPAN179 CM - Mexican Cinema in the New Millennium

    The popularity of Mexican cinema has grown recently, thanks to a number of films that have done very well at the box office and won recognition at international film festivals. This course explores the development of Mexican cinema in the 21st-century (2000-2010), focusing on the most innovative filmmakers. It examines thematic and stylistic variety in films dealing with history, politics, gender, democracy, and society. We also will consider Mexican filmmakers that are filming in Hollywood such as Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo Del Toro and Alejandro González Iñárritu as well as the impact of globalization in Mexican film production.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 044 CM  or higher

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN179 CM
  
  • SPAN180 CM - Time of Crisis: Spanish Literature from 1898-1920

    In 1898, Spain loses its remaining colonies, an event commonly referred to as “el desastre.” Spain’s transition into the 20th century is a time of intense economic and sociopolitical crisis. Its very identity as a nation comes into question. Influenced by the philosophical currents of the time (Schopenhauer and Nietzsche especially), the so-called Generation of ‘98 writers approach what Azorín refers to as “el problema de España” in a variety of ways. Whose “desastre” is it? How did Spain get into this mess? What does it mean to be a Spaniard at this time? What does it mean to be Castillian, Catalan, Basque, or Galician? How does the novelistic and poetic production of this time engage these concerns? Readings by Unamuno, Baroja, Valle-Inclán, A. Machado, Azorín, Martí, and Darío .

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  (or equivalent)

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN180 CM
  
  • SPAN181 CM - Representations of Democracy in Latin American Literature and Cinema

    During the 1990’s, many Latin American nations moved towards fully democratic political systems despite years of caudillismo, military dictatorships, revolutions, and coups d’etat. This course will analyze the representations of Latin America’s new political reality in its literature and cinema.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN181 CM
  
  • SPAN182 CM - Latin American Documentary Cinema

    This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the thematic and stylistic variety in documentary films from and about Latin America. We will examine a series of questions related to the content, form, and politics of documentary films. The course will include documentaries by Santiago Álvarez, Fernando Birri, Luis Buñuel, Patricio Guzmán, Luis Ospina, Fernando Pérez, Lourdes Portillo, Marta Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Rulfo, Fernando Solanas, Carmen Toscano, Win Wenders, among others.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN182 CM
  
  • SPAN184 CM - Literature of the Zapatista Rebellion: “To rule by obeying”

    The Chiapas rebellion of 1994 is a milestone in the history of indigenous resistance in the Americas, and a significant part of the growing international movement against global capitalism. Described as the world’s first “post-communist rebellion,” this armed movement has raised key questions about the social and economic impact of Neoliberalism, the future of indigenous cultures, and the scope of democratization in Mexico. This seminar will examine recent literary texts (novels, political essays, chronicles, and communiqués) that provide the background and context for the Zapatista movement, and explore its impact in Mexico and internationally.

    Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM  or higher

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: SPAN184 CM
  
  • SPAN199 CM - Independent Study in Spanish

    Students who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for an independent study under the direction of a faculty reader.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 0.5 or 1

    Course Number: SPAN199 CM

Speech

  
  • SPCH061A CM - Speech and Debate

    A study of reasoned discourses, including argumentation theory and practice, argument anticipation and opposition research, position briefing, evidence evaluation, fallacies, stratagems, and persuasion, applied to current political, social, and economic issues. Students participate in intercollegiate tournaments and campus and public speaking events, including debates and round-table discussions. May be repeated up to four times.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 0.5

    Course Number: SPCH061A CM
  
  • SPCH061B CM - Speech and Debate

    A study of reasoned discourses, including argumentation theory and practice, argument anticipation and opposition research, position briefing, evidence evaluation, fallacies, stratagems, and persuasion, applied to current political, social, and economic issues. Students participate in intercollegiate tournaments and campus and public speaking events, including debates and round-table discussions. May be repeated.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 0

    Course Number: SPCH061B CM
 

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