Spanish (SPAN) Courses – Taught in Spanish
SPAN 3030 – Sí se puede: Community Engagements in Spanish-Speaking Charlottesville with Esther Povedo
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 11:00 - 11:50am
A Spanish conversation course and the second part of a course sequence with a civic and community engagement component. In SPAN 3030, students will continue the community work that they initiated in Fall 2020 with the UVA Equity Center and Madison House AHS (Albemarle High School) Tutoring Program. They will also engage with materials (oral and written) on selected education projects and movements in Argentina, Colombia, México, Spain, and the USA. As part of the course, students will also have the opportunity to converse with guest speakers. Through their community work, their engagement with course materials, and the conversations with the guest speakers, students will reflect on the importance of education as one of the foundations to build more fair, inclusive and equitable societies, and how this is manifested in the local and broader Spanish speaking world.
SPAN 3420 – Survey of Latin American Literature I (Colonial to 1900) with Alison Bigelow
Tuesday and Thursday 9:30 - 10:45am
La historia de la época colonial influye en nuestro día a día. El sistema legal, el racismo sistémico y la manera en que narramos la historia de América, el territorio llamado Abya Yala por muchos pueblos indígenas, son productos de la invasión europea de 1492. En este curso estudiamos tales fenómenos históricos a través de un análisis literario de textos indígenas, africanos y europeos escritos en letra alfabética y contados en formas orales desde la época precolombina (siglo XIV) hasta el momento revolucionario del siglo XVIII. Al final del curso la/el estudiante podrá analizar poemas, relaciones y materiales de archivo; situar diversos textos en sus propios contextos históricos, y explicar sus interpretaciones literarias e históricas en un español escrito y hablado.
Textos requeridos:
Voces de Hispanoamérica, ed. Raquel Chang Rodríguez y Marta Filer (Cengage). 5ta edición. ISBN 978-1305584488 (versión electrónica o en papel)
Catalina de Erauso, Historia de la Monja Alférez, Catalina de Erauso, escrita por ella misma, ed. Ángel Estebal (Cátedra, 2011). ISBN 978-8437619569
Se puede comprar los libros en la librería de la universidad o en una de las librerías BIPOC nombradas aquí en la página de la facultad: https://spanitalport.as.virginia.edu/resources-students-faculty-and-staff
SPAN 4704 – Islamic Iberia with E. Michael Gerli
Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 - 1:45pm
The course offers an introduction to Islam and a cultural history of al Andalus (Islamic Iberia) from 711 until the expulsion of the Morsicos from early modern Spain (1609-1614). It will concentrate on several major moments: The Emirate/Caliphate of Córdoba and Islamic hegemony in the peninsula; the fragmentation of the Caliphate and the cultural splendor of the taifa kingdoms in the eleventh century; the advent of Moslem fundamentalism from the Maghreb in the eleventh and twelfth centuries; the phenomenon of mudejarismo (Islamic subjects that live under Christian rule) after the Christian conquest of Seville and Córdoba in the thirteenth century; the contradictions posed by Islam in Granada, a client state of Castile during most of its history, after the decline of Islam in the rest of the peninsula (1250-1492); and the problems created by the presence of Muslim culture in a Christian state during the sixteenth-century.
SPAN 4712 – Travelers in Latin America with Fernando Operé
Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30 - 4:45pm
In this course of travelers and frontiers in Latin America. We will study diaries and accounts of those travelers that shape the idea that Europe had of America. What did they see? What did they want to see? How did the describe it? What frontiers they crossed? What influence did their accounts have in the construction of continental imaginary? We will start with text by Christopher Columbus, the expeditions of Cortés to Tenochtitlan, Cabeza de Vaca in North America, Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán in Chile, and other travelers in 17th, 18th and 19th Century: Humboldt, Darwin, Ulloa and others. We will continue with some travelers in the 20th Century: the transformative trip of Ernesto Che Guevara and Pablo Neruda.
SPAN 5300 – Medieval and Early, Early Modern Spanish Literature with E. Michael Gerli
Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30 - 6:00pm
The course deals with the “canonical” works of the Iberian Middle Ages and the early, early modern period. It seeks to provide an overview of current thinking regarding their nature and origin, while at the same time seeking to interrogate many of the prevailing assumptions and received ideas of Spanish literary historiography and, indeed, literary history itself. Works and topics to be addressed are: literacy and orality; manuscript culture, paleography, and textual transmission; the medieval Iberian lyric in its Pan-European context plus its problematic connection to Arabic muwashshaat (i.e., the kharjas); the Castilian epic, especially the Poema de Mio Cid, in relation to the Romance epic in general; clerical poetry and the rise of literacy (Berceo, the so-called mester de clerecía, and the Libro de buen amor); the institutional rise and uses of vernacular prose (Alfonso X and the discourses of cultural authority: historiography, law, and science); the advent of imaginative prose and the class interests of the aristocracy (Don Juan Manuel and El conde Lucanor); medieval quest, sentimental, and etiological romance (Libro del cavallero Zifar, Cárcel de Amor); humanistic comedy (Celestina) and courtly culture; and finally canonization itself.