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Latinas In Transition And Translation: The Latina In Latinx Studies, Mariana Romo-Carmona
Latinas In Transition And Translation: The Latina In Latinx Studies, Mariana Romo-Carmona
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This course will study the contributions of Latina writers to the field of Latinx Studies in the United States. Through their literary and scholarly work, we will explore the historical roots of Latino/a culture in this country and how the politics of race, gender, and class have defined the field of Latinx Studies, with Latinas at the forefront of the struggle.
Short Stories Of Latin America From Antilles To Southern Cone, Mariana Romo-Carmona
Short Stories Of Latin America From Antilles To Southern Cone, Mariana Romo-Carmona
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The study of the short story genre in Latin American literature. Literary currents in 20th century, from the Vanguards to The Boom, fiction of post dictatorships, exile, and entry into the 21st century.
Orientalism In Hispanic Literatures, Araceli Tinajero
Orientalism In Hispanic Literatures, Araceli Tinajero
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This course will examine Hispanic (including Brazilian) literary and cultural representations pertaining to China, India, Korea, and Japan. Students will read novels, short stories, poems, essays, and chronicles of prominent writers of the Hispanic world in order to have a deeper understanding of the “East/West” divide conceptualized as Orientalism. Students will be exposed to films, music, and visual representations so they can have a better understanding of the historical, geographic, and transnational connections between the Hispanic world and the Far East.
Spa 3190 Hispanic Culture, Juan Jesús Payán
Spa 3190 Hispanic Culture, Juan Jesús Payán
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The interdisciplinary study of a variety of practices and products (film, popular festivals, literary texts, music, art) of the Hispanic World.
Spa 2201hs Spanish For Heritage Speakers (Syllabus_Fall 2019), David Sánchez-Jiménez
Spa 2201hs Spanish For Heritage Speakers (Syllabus_Fall 2019), David Sánchez-Jiménez
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SPA 2201HS Spanish for Heritage Speakers is an intermediate course intended for students who were immersed in or exposed to the language while growing up, but who have received little or no formal instruction in Spanish. Strengthens students’ competence in the oral and written standard varieties of Spanish by building on their previous knowledge to expand their vocabulary, strengthen their command of grammar, and achieve more confidence and fluency in speaking and writing while learning about the diversity of the Hispanic cultures. The skills acquired in this course will help reinforce students’ bilingual abilities and cultural competence.
Hispanics In The U.S.: Migration And Adjustment, Mariana Romo-Carmona
Hispanics In The U.S.: Migration And Adjustment, Mariana Romo-Carmona
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This course will discuss the challenge that the multifaceted Latino/a-Hispanic reality poses to the anglo-european and monocultural conception of the United States. For the most part, mainstream approaches to the study of Latino and Latina populations in the United States tend to focus on Latinos/as as a problem group, somehow outside and distinct from society. In our approach, we will shift perspectives to the myriad identities that in fact constitute the U.S. We will read and discuss texts on the socio-economic and political origins of migration from Latin America and the Spanish speaking Caribbean to the United States, as well …