2012-2013 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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Religious Studies |
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RLST 166B 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
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RLST 167 PZ - Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture: Gender, Spirituality, and Power Examines models of resistance to monoculture as imposed by (neo)imperial and capitalist relations and selected European scientific truth systems. Readings and exercises survey systems that survive monoculture and provide resources for egalitarian relations, spiritual values, and sustainable societies such as Curanderismo, Santeria, Buddhism, Chinese science, Wicca, and other traditions.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST167 PZ
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RLST 169 CM - Christianity and Politics in East Asia This course analyzes the political, cultural, and economic impact of and resistance to Western Christian missions, colonialism, and imperialism in China, Japan, and Korea from 1800 to the present vis-à-vis nationalist revolts for and against Christianity in Japan (Shimabara, Unchurch Movement), China (Taiping, Boxer Rebellion, Kuomintang-KMT, Maoism), and Korean (Buddhist, Japanese Imperialism, Minjung). It will give particular attention to the growing political influence of Christianity in China and Korea.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST169 CM
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RLST 170 SC - Women and Religion in Greco-Roman Antiquity This course explores evidence for women’s religious lives in pagan, Jewish, and Christian traditions in antiquity. Topics include practices and ritual, religious authority, holy women, arguments about “proper” gender roles, the feminine divine, and sexuality, marriage, and family. We will also consider modern scholarly and methodological issues in women’s history and gender analysis.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST170 SC
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RLST 171 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
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RLST 172 PO - The Bible Goes to Hollywood: Ideological Afterlives of Scripture See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST172 PO
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RLST 174 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: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST174 CM
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RLST 175 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: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST175 CM
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RLST 177 PO - Gender and Religion See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST177 PO
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RLST 178 PO - The Modern Jewish Experience See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST178 PO
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RLST 180 PO - Interpreting Religious Worlds See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST180 PO
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RLST 183 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
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RLST 184 PO - Queer Theory and the Bible See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST184 PO
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RLST 190 PO - Senior Seminar in Religious Studies See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST190 PO
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RLST 199 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
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Sociology |
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SOC 030 CH - Chicanos/as in Contemporary Society Sociological analysis of theoretical and methodological approaches used to study Chicano/a and Latino/a communities. Socioeconomic conditions, patterns of immigration, the family, education, gender relations and political experiences are examined. Course includes a field internship option.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 030 CH
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SOC 082 PZ - Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Teaching This course examines how race and ethnicity are constructed in schooling from sociological, linguistic and ethnic studies standpoints. Specifically, we will discuss how race and ethnicity are constructed in schooling and ways teachers/educators may refine their pedagogies in relation to race and ethnicity. Students will do a research project.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 082 PZ
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SOC 084 PZ - Nonviolent Social Change Asian American Studies emerged out of the longest student strike in the history of the United States. The third world liberation front used nonviolent social protest to call for educational relevance and greater access to higher education. This course takes a comparative racial approach to examine the history, philosophy, and practice of nonviolent social change.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 084 PZ
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SOC 109 PZ - African American Social Theory How have African Americans contributed to sociology? This course seeks to provide an overview of early 20th century to more contemporary African American contributors to the discipline such as St. Clair Drake, Dorothy Roberts, bell hooks, and Robert Staples. Moreover, students will become familiar with how race, sex, and class shaped these theoretical writings and expanded socio-cultural understanding of African Americans in the U.S.
Prerequisite: SOC 001 PZ
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 109 PZ
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SOC 114 CH - Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequality, and Activism See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 114 CH
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SOC 124 AA - Global Asia/Asian America This course examines the challenges that globalization poses to people of Asian descent living outside of their country of birth. Case studies, especially those involving education, sexuality, citizenship, gender, family, and work, are used to question new concepts, such as “flexible citizenship,” “cultural hybridity,” And “transmigrant,” that have emerged to describe new forms of belonging in this global age. Letter grade only.
Offered: Every other spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 124 AA
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SOC 124 PZ - Race, Place, and Space This course offers an introduction to the processes underlying social and spatial differentiation, with particular reference to race, gender, sexuality, and class. We examine how social difference and social inequalities are constituted through space, not just expressed spatially.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 124 PZ
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SOC 126 AA - Immigration and Second Generation Analysis of the post-1965 children of immigrants and/or immigrant children in Asian America. Examination of diverse childhood experiences, including “brain drain” children, “parachute” and transnational children and refugee children. Emphasis on gender, class, ethnicity, inter-generational relations, education, sexuality, popular culture, and globalization.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 126 AA
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SOC 136 AF - Framing Urban Life The course draws upon a wide range of disciplinary orientations that examine the theories of urban life and representations of urban places and their cultures through literature, websites, maps, architecture, photography, documentary, film, popular art, music, and advertising in local and international cites.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 136 AF
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SOC 141 CH - Chicanas and Latinas in the United States Focuses on ways that race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality intersect and impact the lives of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os in the U.S. As a way of linking theory to experiences, the course examines in detail several key areas: health, migration, work, and family. Examples of resistance and strategies for building alliances are discussed.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 141 CH
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SOC 142 AF - Black and South Asian Diaspora in Great Britain This course examines the experience of Black and Asian diasporas in Great Britain using film, documentary, novels, and ethnographic studies. How do these texts enable us to examine the socio-historical, cultural and social ideas of nation and nationhood, belonging and exclusion, gender and sexuality, identity and the politics of resistance in these communities?
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 142 AF
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SOC 145 CH - Restructuring Communities This course examines how Chicano/Latino and multi-racial communities are being transformed economically, politically, and historically. Students will work in teams through service learning to examine how community organizations such as the Pomona Day Labor Center or Prototypes, for example, are creating new visions of community and resistance.
Prerequisites: SOC 001 PZ or SOC 030 CH .
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 145 CH
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SOC 150 CH - Chicanos/Latinas and Education See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 150 CH
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SOC 155 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
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SOC 189P AF - From Civil Rights to Black Power A panoramic view of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. Explores the vastly different forms that the struggle for social justice assumed in the Western, Northern, and Southern regions of the United States. Emphasizes the heroic acts of ordinary men and women.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 189P AF
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SOC 189Q AF - Race, Class and Education Systems of schooling as they maintain or alleviate inequality. Relationships among privilege, power, and schooling, links between schools and societal stratification, contributions of educational institutions to both social mobility and the preservation of the prevailing social order.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: SOC 189Q AF
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Spanish |
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SPAN 001 CM - Introductory Spanish Acquisition of basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading, writing, with emphasis on aural comprehension and oral communication. This course includes laboratory work.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN001 CM
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SPAN 002 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 .
Prerequisite: SPAN 001 CM or equivalent
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN002 CM
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SPAN 022 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.
Prerequisite: Placement
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN022 CM
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SPAN 033 CM - Intermediate Spanish Review and reinforcement of basic skills. Emphasis on conversation, reading, and writing. Course includes a tutorial session each week (times arranged).
Prerequisite: SPAN 002 CM or SPAN 022 CM or equivalent
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN033 CM
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SPAN 044 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
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SPAN 101 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
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SPAN 102 CM - Latin American Culture and Civilization This course will introduce students to the richness of cultures in Latin America from pre-Columbian days to the present. We will study selected themes, which demonstrate the unique political, social, and artistic components of Latin American culture. Our background readings will come from our texts, and we will complement them with guided readings and research on the web. Class discussions will be based upon students’ research and contributions.
Prerequisite: SPAN 044 CM or equivalent
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN102 CM
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SPAN 120A SC - Survey of Spanish Literature I Survey of Spanish literature readings in selected literary masterpieces from the Middle Ages to the present, coordinated with lectures, films, and visual presentations and discussions. The jarchas through the Golden Age (poetry, narrative, and theater). Offered alternately between Pomona and Scripps.
Prerequisite: SPAN 044 CM or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN120A SC
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SPAN 120B SC - Survey of Spanish Literature II Survey of Spanish literature readings in selected literary masterpieces from the Middle Ages to the present, coordinated with lectures, films, and visual presentations and discussions. 18th century to the contemporary period (rationalism, romanticism, and the Generations of ’98 and ‘27). Offered alternately between Pomona and Scripps.
Prerequisite: SPAN 044 CM or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN120B SC
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SPAN 122 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
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SPAN 123 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
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SPAN 124 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
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SPAN 125A 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
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SPAN 125B 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
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SPAN 127 CH - Literature Chicana en Espanol Analyzes 20th-century texts written in the United States in Spanish. Focusing primarily on the Mexican American experience, the course surveys a wide array of genres dating to distinct historical periods, from cronicas published in Spanish-language newspapers to political treatises, poetry, drama, and narrative.
Prerequisite: SPAN 044 CM or equivalent
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN127 CH
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SPAN 128 CM - Hispanic and Latino Literature in New York New York has always been a destination for travelers, expatriates, immigrants, and others in search of adventure, a new life, or a temporary home. This course explores place, identity, and diaspora in the literature of the Hispanic and Latino/Latina experiences in new York from the late 19th century to the present. Includes writers from Latin America (Martí, Burgos, Sánchez), Spain (Jiménez, Lorca), and the United States (Pietri, Piñero, Prida), and a variety of genres and media.
Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN128 CM
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SPAN 148 CM - Special Topics in Spanish Selected topics vary each offering.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN148 CM
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SPAN 150 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
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SPAN 152 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
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SPAN 155 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
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SPAN 157 CM - History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Spanish America One of the more pressing questions occupying Latin American writers has been, and continues to be, the topic of history and its inscription in various modes. In this course we read a variety of texts that establish, explore, and subvert dominant paradigms of the construction of viable histories. We also examine the phenomena of memory and nostalgia in relation to the writing of historical narratives, both fiction and nonfiction. We will draw on a variety of works from 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century Spanish America for our readings.
Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM or higher
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN157 CM
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SPAN 158 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
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SPAN 178 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: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN178 CM
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SPAN 179 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
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SPAN 180 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: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN180 CM
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SPAN 181 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: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN181 CM
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SPAN 182 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
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SPAN 184 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: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: SPAN184 CM
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SPAN 199 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
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SPCH 061A 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
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SPCH 061B 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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