PORT 1110 – Beginning Intensive Portuguese with Lilian Feitosa

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Prerequisite: Completion of FREN 2020 or SPAN 2020, or instructor permission.

Introduces speaking, understanding, reading and writing Portuguese, especially as used in Brazil. Five class hours and one laboratory hour. Followed by PORT 2120. 

PORT 3010 – Advanced Grammar, Conversation and Composition with Lilian Feitosa

MoWeFr 12:00-12:50PM in Wilson Hall 214

Studies advanced grammar through analysis of written and audiovisual texts; includes extensive practice in composition and topical conversation.

POTR 4240 – Contemporary Brazilian Cinema with Eli Carter

TuTh 5:00-6:15PM in New CAB 183      

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

POTR 4270 – The Civilization of Brazil with Eli Carter

TuTh 2:00-3:15PM New CAB 407

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

ITAL 1010 – Elementary Italian I

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Prerequisites:  No prior instruction in Italian. Students with previous experience in Italian must take the Italian placement exam (Date TBA). Students may not self-place in a language course.

Elementary Italian I is the first class in the four-course sequence that is necessary to complete the foreign language requirement. In this course, students will learn basic survival skills to assist them when they travel to Italy, however they will also learn to describe people and places, ask questions, narrate in the present and simple past tenses, as well as write short texts describing themselves, their families, and their impressions of Italy. Students will also develop their ability to understand spoken Italian by listening to songs, commercials, and movie clips, and they will begin reading advertisements, song lyrics, and some poems. Students of Elementary Italian will also have many occasions to learn more about life in contemporary Italy as they study the country’s language.

60% of this course will take place face to face during regularly scheduled class meetings on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, while 40% of the work must be completed online both through the Connect website and the students’ personal e-Portfolios. It is essential that students arrive to each class meeting having completed all of these assignments beforehand so that they may become more confident and competent speakers of Italian.

Much like learning to play a sport or a musical instrument, studying a foreign language requires constant practice. Therefore, all course activities will be conducted in Italian.

ITAL 2010 – Intermediate Italian I

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Prerequisites: Passing grade in ITAL 1020 or department permission. Students may not self-place in a language course. Students who did not complete ITAL 1020 are required to take the Italian placement exam. All students will submit proof of placement by (TBA).

ITAL 2010 Intermediate Italian I is the third class in the four-course sequence which fulfills the language requirement. Students will further develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills as well as deepen their cultural literacy in Italian. You will accomplish these goals with the guidance of your instructor, through review of grammar, short readings, compositions, and listening and speaking activities. Students will also have the opportunity to listen to songs, comment on works of art, watch commercials and short films, read newspaper articles, and meet natives of Italy in your quest to become more confident and competent users of the Italian language.

Much like learning to play a sport or a musical instrument, studying a foreign language requires constant practice. Therefore, all course activities will be conducted in Italian.

ITAL 3010 – Advanced Italian I with Deborah Parker

TuTh 12:30-1:45PM in New CAB 485

Prerequisite: ITAL 2020

This course seeks to develop advanced literacy in Spanish through extensive reading, writing, analysis, and discussion of authentic literary texts and videos. Emphasis is placed on how grammatical forms codify meaning and how grammar and meaning interact to construct the language and textual structure expected in the following academic genres: the critical review, the persuasive essay, and the research paper.

ITTR 3559 (Cross-listed with WGS 3559) – New Course in Italian Translation “Tv and Web Series in Italy and the Globe: Gender, Sex and Society” with Francesca Calamita

MoWe 3:30-4:45PM in Nau Hall 338

This course focuses on representations of sex, gender and social issues in recent Italian TV and web series, including My Brilliant Friend (2018), based on the 2011 novel of the same title by the acclaimed writer Elena Ferrante, and the political-drama Berlusconi 1992 (2015). Students will also work on current series produced in other countries which have made an impact in Italy, such as The Handmaid’s Tale (2017), based on the 1985 feminist dystopian novel of the same title by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, and the Danish comedy-drama Rita (2012). Lectures and materials explore from a global perspective how TV and web series offer their viewers narratives that encourage them to follow or question different models of femininity, masculinity and sexuality. Class discussion will pay particular attention to issues of gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, disability, social class, migration and citizenship status, among other layers of identity.  What can contemporary Italian TV and web series tell us about current social issues from around the globe?

ITTR 3880 – Reinventing Dante: Influence, Adaptation and Transformation with Deborah Parker

TuTh 3:30-4:45PM in New CAB 485

Dante is one of the greatest influencers of all time. He has shaped cultures across centuries and in different media. The Inferno has captivated the imagination of artists as diverse as Botticelli, Keats, David Fincher as well as that of artists and writers in Africa and Latin America. Creative artists often re-imagine Dante for their own purposes. Our investigations of adaptation and appropriation will be carried out in two directions: we will analyze re-workings of the poem not only to understand how they differ from the original but also how these changes prompt us to rethink the dynamics of innovation and creative reinvention.

ITTR 4010 – Narrating (Un-)sustainability: Ecocritical Explorations in Italy and the Mediterranean with Enrico Cesaretti

TuTh 12:30-1:45PM in Nau Hall 141

This course focuses on the potential narratives have to convey messages that are relevant to our ethical and environmental awareness, and to help us imagine alternatives to existing systems of knowledge and distributions of power. As we shall expand the notion of text to include material formations (landscapes, bodies, matters) we shall learn about the origins and general objectives of ecocriticism, its relevant theories and methodologies, and various approaches to the notion of sustainability. Focusing on Italy as a geographical and narrative sensor that may enlighten the situation of other places globally, we shall travel up and down the Italian peninsula, and encounter a selection of “material narratives” (i.e. the interlaced stories co-emerging simultaneously from places, literature, artworks, films and documentaries) which may contribute to shape our environmental consciousness, affect our ethical attitude in the era of the Anthropocene, and help enact forms of ecological resistance and cultural liberation.

ITTR 4820 – Italian Pop Culture From the 1960s to the Present with Enrico Cesaretti

TuTh 11:00AM-12:15PM in Gibson Hall 142

This course examines, from a cultural/historical perspective, the social, economic, and political transformations that took place in Italy during its recent history, from the post World War II “miracle years” of the industrial boom in the late 50s and 60s, until today’s struggles with the multifaceted dynamics of globalization. By discussing different cultural artifacts and media (film, literature, music, advertisements, comic books) in the period under consideration, together with a selection of relevant critical essays, we shall investigate not only how the (popular) arts reflected, supported, resisted and, in general, commented upon such transformations, but also their frequent dialogues and exchanges with American culture.

POTR 4559 Streaming the Americas—Internet-Distributed Television in the American Hemisphere with Eli Carter

W 5:00-7:30pm in Dell 2 010 

The objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive understanding of streaming services and their widespread impact on the mediascapes and social imaginaries of North, Central, and South America. Employing a hemispheric approach, Streaming the Americas contemplates and probes the recent rise of Internet portals, VOD, and SVOD services and the varied practices and incipient norms associated with these. Streaming the Americas will be organized around three broad points of articulation: legislation and production, aesthetics and representation, and reception. The intranational, transnational, and multidisciplinary approaches that make up the different sections will provide the student with a unique, comparative, and wide-ranging understanding of streaming in the American hemisphere.

PORT 2050 – Intensive Portuguese for Speakers of Spanish and other Romance Languages with Lilian Feitosa

MoWeFr 1:00-1:50PM in New Cabell Hall 328

This is an accelerated Portuguese language and culture course.

PORT 2120 – Intermediate Intensive Portuguese with Lilian Feitosa

Section 001 MoWeFr 11:00-11:50AM in New Cabell Hall 283

Section 002 MoWeFr 12:00-12:50PM in New Cabell Hall 283

Prerequisite: Completion of FREN 2020 or SPAN 2020, or instructor permission.

Introduces speaking, understanding, reading and writing Portuguese, especially as used in Brazil. Five class hours and one laboratory hour. Followed by PORT 2120. 

ITAL 1020 – Elementary Italian II

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Elementary Italian II is the second class in the four-course sequence that is necessary to complete the foreign language requirement. In this course, students will learn to narrate in all tenses of the indicative, express opinions, make hypotheses, and give orders. They will improve their writing skills by producing a number of original texts, including blog posts, essays, and articles. Students will also develop their ability to understand spoken Italian by listening to songs, commercials, and movie clips, and they will read and study song lyrics, newspaper headlines, poems, and some short stories. Students of Elementary Italian II will also have many occasions to learn more about life in contemporary Italy as they study the country’s language.

60% of this course will take place face to face during regularly scheduled class meetings on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, while 40% of the work must be completed online both through the Connect website and the students’ personal e-Portfolios.

Much like learning to play a sport or a musical instrument, studying a foreign language requires constant practice. Therefore, all course activities will be conducted in Italian.

ITAL 2020 – Intermediate Italian II

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ITAL 2020 Intermediate Italian II is the fourth class in the four-course sequence which fulfills the language requirement. In this course, students will further develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills as well as deepen their cultural literacy in Italian. You will accomplish these goals with the guidance of your instructor, through review of grammar, short readings, compositions, and listening and speaking activities. Students will also have the opportunity to listen to songs, comment on works of art, watch commercials and short films, read and write newspaper articles, analyze how the Italian language reflects the movement towards gender parity, and meet natives of Italy in your quest to become more confident and competent users of the Italian language.

Much like learning to play a sport or a musical instrument, studying a foreign language requires constant practice. Therefore, all course activities will be conducted in Italian.

ITAL 2030 – Intermediate Italian for Professionals with Francesca Calamita

MoWeFr 1:00-1:50AM in New Cabell Hall 383

Italian society is changing and Italian language dynamically reflects these fluctuations and vice versa. This is the fourth class in the four-course sequence that fulfills the language requirement with special modules on issues of diversity and inclusion applicable to the work context. Especially designed for students interested in Italian Studies and Communication, Politics, International Relationships, Women, Gender and Sexuality as well as Psychology, but not limited to these disciplines, this class offers the opportunity to learn how to use Italian language in work environments where interculturalism, crossculturalism and multiculturalism are required. Present-day films, TV series episodes and articles from Italian newspapers will help students to learn more about the Italian society of the new millennium and strengthen their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills at upper intermediate level. 

ITAL 2030 – Intermidiate Italian II for Professionals with Stella Mattioli

MoWeFr 2:00PM-2:50 in Gibson 141

Prerequisite: ITAL 2020

Italian 2030 For Professional” is a 2020 Italian course designed especially for students who would like to learn the vocabulary, the grammar and the cultural and legislative notions that are fundamental to live and work in Italy (or with Italian companies).

The idea for this course stems from the fact that different Italian students at UVa, over the years, have started working for Italian culinary and wine companies; of for American food companies with strong ties to Italy.

Students in this course will follow the program of Italian 2020, but with a special focus on food and culinary culture. In order to enroll, you need to have passed Italian 2010.

ITAL 3020 – Advanced Italian II with Francesca Calamita

TuH 2:00PM-3:15PM  in Nau Hall 242

ITAL3020 is a 300-level class aimed at advancing students’ language skills. Emphasis is placed on conversation, as well as composition and vocabulary. Students attending this class will deepen their knowledge of Italian culture and society, with a special focus on socio-cultural debates concerning politics, migration and gender issues. This course is designed with a series of activities focused on experiential learning to achieve fluency in Italian through real-life situations. The activities include (but are not limited to):sport days at UVa facilities; teaching a class for the community and for the lower level students of other languages; grocery shopping/eating at an Italian business in Charlottesville; tour guiding the Lawnand UVa in Italian; guiding a cineforum; tutoring clinic for lower class students and more.Italian women’s writing, LGBTQ cinema and globally acclaimed TVseries, such as My Brilliant Friend (Rai-HBO)will be read/watched over the course of the semester.

ITAL 3559 – Neorealism around the World: Italy and Global Film with Sarah Annunziato

MoWeFr 12:0012:50pm

Following World War II, Italian filmmakers developed a new style of story-telling that focused on marginalized people, drew attention to social ills, and emphasized stark realism. Later film critics would refer to this as Neorealism.  The movement’s roots stretched back into 19th-century Italian literature, and would eventually spread into cinematic traditions around the world.

 Students of this course will begin by studying Verismo, the literary movement that gave rise to Neorealism, and then learn how this earlier development eventually inspired a new style of filmmaking in the mid-twentieth century. You will also examine the characteristics of Neorealism, and then explore the vast influence it wielded, and continues to wield, over successive generations of filmmakers from around the world.

 Films to include: È piccerella, Ossessione, Roma, Città Aperta, Sciuscià, Ladri di biciclette, Riso Amaro, Miracolo a Milano, Les quatre cent coups, Raging Bull, 3-Iron, La noire de, Moonlight, and Roma.

ITTR 3280– Michelangelo: The Artist, The Man, and His World

MoWe 2:00PM-3:15PM in New Cabell Hall 303

Currently Listed as ITTR 3559. Michelangelo’s name conjures genius and a nearly superhuman achievement in the arts. Contemporaries elevated him as the supreme sculptor, painter and architect of the age. His work offers a window on a deeply personal vision and rich artistic culture. Michelangelo’s creativity extends to many media—sculpture, painting, architecture, and writing in poetry and prose. This course focuses on all these pursuits. The course is not only about the extraordinary achievements of this Renaissance luminary but the ways in which we can analyze and compare visual and written works. We will examine closely the artist’s poems and letters, contemporary assessments of his artistic achievements, critical articles, and recent digital projects involving his work. Through an analysis of a wide range of contemporary digital projects we will explore how audiences today adapt earlier masterpieces for audiences today. This course is intended to enhance students’ skills in analyzing visual and literary artefacts. This skill is crucial in our media age which relies increasingly on visual messages and the interplay of text and image.

ITTR 5250 - Dante’s Purgatory in Translation

W 4:00pm-6:00PM in New Cabell Hall 303

This course focuses on Dante’s Purgatory, the realm of the saved, and the second canticle of the Divine Comedy. It introduces readers to a wondrous light and song-filled world. Each class will be a devoted to a close reading and discussion of themes, among them the treatment of political corruption, free will, source of evil in the universe, the relationship between church and state, and the role of liturgy and prayer in the path to salvation. We will also explore artistic treatments of Purgatory and the use of music in this realm. The course is intended for undergraduate and graduate with knowledge of the Inferno. 

SPAN 1020 – Elementary Spanish

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Prerequisites:  Passing grade in SPAN 1010. SPAN 1020 is for true beginners only. Students with prior experience with Spanish in high school must take the UVA Spanish placement exam. Students may not self-place in a language course. All students will submit proof of placement by TBA (MWF sections) and TBA (TuTh sections).

Elementary Spanish (SPAN 1020) is a four-credit introductory level hybrid course for true beginners designed to provide a thorough foundation in all the language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This is a technology-enhanced language course in which students will complete online activities on Connect on Tuesdays and Thursdays instead of attending class all five days of the week.  Students should expect an average of 1-2 hours of online homework 5 days a week, plus an extra hour of work that substitutes for class time each on Tuesday/ Thursday. This is a flipped class, which means that students will learn grammar and vocabulary at home, and class time will be devoted to meaningful, authentic, and interactive practice. Class is conducted in Spanish only.

SPAN 1060 – Accelerated Elementary Spanish

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Prerequisites: Placement score of 420-510 on the SAT II Exam or a score of 0-325 on the UVA Placement Exam. Students may not self-place in a language course. All students will submit proof of placement by TBA (MWF sections) and TBA (TuTh sections).

Accelerated Elementary Spanish a four-credit accelerated introductory level hybrid course designed to provide a thorough foundation in all the language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This is a technology-enhanced language course in which students will complete online activities with Connect on Tuesdays and Thursdays instead of attending class all five days of the week.  Students should expect an average of 1-2 hours of online homework 5 days a week, plus an extra hour of work that substitutes for class time each on Tuesday/ Thursday. This is a flipped class, which means that students will learn grammar and vocabulary at home, and class time will be devoted to meaningful, authentic, and interactive practice. Class is conducted in Spanish only.

SPAN 2010 – Intermediate Spanish 

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Prerequisites: SPAN 1020, SPAN 1060, or SAT II score of 520-590, or Placement Test score of 326-409. Students may not self-place in a language course.  All students will submit proof of placement by TBA (MWF sections) and TBA (TuTh sections).

Intermediate Spanish is a three-credit intermediate level course, the third course in a four-course sequence, which fulfills the language requirement.  The goal of this course is to bridge the gap between elementary and advanced levels in the further development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. This is a flipped class, which means that students will learn grammar and vocabulary at home, and class time will be devoted to meaningful, authentic, and interactive practice. Class is conducted in Spanish only.

SPAN 2020 – Advanced Intermediate Spanish 

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Prerequisites: Spanish 2010, SAT II Test score of 600-640, or UVA Placement Test score of 410-535. Students may not self-place in a language course. All students will submit proof of placement by TBA (MWF sections) and TBA (TuTh sections).

Advanced Intermediate Spanish is a three credit intermediate level course, the fourth course in a four-course sequence which fulfills the language requirement. The goal of this course is to bridge the gap between elementary and advanced levels in the further development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. This is a flipped class, which means that students will learn grammar and vocabulary at home, and class time will be devoted to meaningful, authentic, and interactive practice. Class is conducted in Spanish only.

SPAN 3000 – Phonetics with Emily Scida

T/TH 11:00-12:15pm in New Cabell 132

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or equivalent.

Spanish Phonetics provides an introduction to the sound system of both Peninsular and Latin American Spanish. Class discussions focus on how the sounds of Spanish are produced from an articulatory point of view, and how these sounds are organized and represented in the linguistic competence of their speakers. When appropriate, comparisons will be made between Spanish and English or Spanish and other (Romance and non-Romance) languages. This course seeks to improve the student's pronunciation.

SPAN 3010 – Grammar and Composition I

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Prerequisite: SPAN 2020 (or equivalent); or UVA placement test score of 536-650; or AP score of 4; or SAT II score of 641-700; or IB Spanish (High) score of 7.

This course seeks to develop advanced literacy in Spanish through extensive reading, writing, analysis, and discussion of authentic literary texts and videos. Emphasis is placed on how grammatical forms codify meaning and how grammar and meaning interact to construct the language and textual structure expected in the following academic genres: the critical review, the persuasive essay, and the research paper.

SPAN 3020 – Grammar and Composition II 

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Prerequisites: SPAN 2020 (or equivalent) AND either of the following: a UVA placement test score of 651+; an AP score of 5; an SAT II score of 701-800; an IB Spanish A1 or A2 score of 5, 6 or 7.

This course seeks to develop advanced literacy in Spanish through extensive reading, writing, analysis, and discussion of authentic literary texts and videos. Emphasis is placed on how grammatical forms codify meaning and how grammar and meaning interact to construct the language and textual structure expected in the following academic genres: the comparative essay, the argumentative essay, and the research paper.

SPAN 3030 – Cultural Conversations with Esther Poveda and Alison Posey

• Section 001 M/W/F 9:00-9:50am in New Cabell Hall 064 with Esther Poveda
• Section 002 M/W/F 10:00-10:50am in New Cabell Hall 415 with Alison Posey

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or departmental placement

Conversation course devoted to different aspects of Spanish, Spanish American, or Latino culture. Student-led discussion of materials ranging from films and music videos to radio programs, newspapers, and the Internet.    

SPAN 3040 – Business Spanish 

Please check SIS for sections, dates, times, locations, and instructors.

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or departmental placement

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

SPAN 3050 – Spanish for Medical Professionals with Alicia Lopez Operé

T/TH 2:00-3:15pm in New Cabell 044

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or departmental placement

This course is designed for students planning to work in the health care field and who want to develop fundamental written and oral skills and vocabulary for the assessment of Spanish speaking patients in a variety of settings. Students will gain familiarity with non-technical and semi-technical functional vocabulary, along with idiomatic expressions and situational phrases that are used in medical Spanish.

SPAN 3200 – Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics with Maria Isabel Richart Marset

T/TH 12:30-1:45pm in TBD

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement

SPAN 3300 – Texts and Interpretation 

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Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or departmental placement. (Note: SPAN 3300 or instructor permission is prerequisite for any course in Spanish literature or culture with a number above SPAN 3300.)

In this course we will be covering a variety of basic approaches to literary texts that enable us to analyze and understand them better. The course will be organized on the basis of literary genre (narrative, theater, poetry, etc.), with a portion of the semester dedicated to each. Short texts in Spanish for readings will be drawn from both Spanish and Latin American literature, and from a range of time periods.

SPAN 3400 – Survey of Spanish Literature I (Middle Ages to 1700) with Crystal Chemris

T/TH 11:00-12:15pm in New Cabell Hall 338

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement

Medieval and Renaissance literature may seem daunting, but actually the topics and works covered in this course are highly relevant to today's social and political crises and are also innovative aesthetically in their own time.  You will engage with foundational texts, many of which were underground critiques of church and state.  The Celestina, for example, is overtly about the world of prostitution intersecting the world of courtly love, but covertly it is a protest against the oppression of the conversos, Jews forcibly converted to Christianity.  Lazarillo de Tormes is the first picaresque novel, which develops in the context of debates about the urban poor, marking the beginnings of an early critique of an economic crisis which continues to this day in the specter of impoverished children begging in the streets of Latin America.  We read the religious poetry of the mystics as the beginnings of a new subjectivity.  We also read selections from the highly experimental Don Quixote, a novel in which the protagonist, a "loco," visits a printing press, the place of the character's birth, and consider its relationship to paintings of the period such as Velázquez's Las meninas, which depicts the artist in the process of creating the painting itself. In short, students will be guided through selections of classic texts of early Spanish literature with an eye towards developing skills in literary analysis.

SPAN 3410 – Survey of Spanish Literature II (1700 to Present) with Fernando Valverde Rodriguez

• Section 001 M/W/F 12:00-12:50pm in New Cabell Hall 338
• Section 002 M/W/F 1:00-1:50pm in New Cabell Hall 338

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement

This course for advanced undergraduates represents a panoramic survey of the last two hundred years of Spanish peninsular culture. Over the course of the semester, we will explore representative literary movements of modern Spain, including Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, the Avant Garde, Modernism, and Postmodernism in terms of their historical, intellectual, artistic and cultural contexts.

SPAN 3430 – Survey of Latin American Literature II (1900 to Present) with Anne Garland Mahler

M/W 3:30-4:45pm in Wilson Hall 214

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.

This course provides students with a survey of Latin American literature and the context in which it has developed from 1900 to the present. Students will leave this course with a general understanding of the region’s major literary trends, including their social and political dimensions. “Literature,” in this course, refers to a range of cultural production from literary texts (novels, stories, essays, poems) to visual art, film, and song lyrics. Throughout the course, we will consider the following questions: How has Latin America’s cultural production shaped and been shaped by its cultures, peoples, and historical events? How do the consciousness, memory, and imagination expressed within the region’s literature both reflect and create the region’s realities? And perhaps most importantly, who has (and has not) had access to Latin America’s literature and how has that shaped the way the region has represented itself through both the written word and image?

SPAN 4040 – Translation from Spanish to English with Catherine Addington

MoWeFr 11:00-11:50am in New Cabell Hall 309

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement

Note: SPAN 4040 may be used to satisfy the Language or Literature course requirement.

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

SPAN 4200 – History of the Language with David Korfhagen

• Section 001 M/W/F 10:00-10:50am in New Cabell Hall 303
• Section 002 M/W/F 11:00-11:50am in New Cabell Hall 303

Prerequisite: SPAN 3200 and 3010, or 3000 and 3010, or departmental placement.

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

SPAN 4320 – Contemporary Latin American Short Fictionwith Gustavo Pellón

TuTh 2:00-3:15pm  in Wilson 214

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement

We will explore the great variety of the short story in Latin America during the twentieth century. Authors studied will include:  Quiroga, Borges, Rulfo, Cortázar, García Márquez,  Angelica Gorodischer, Mempo Giardinelli, Allende, Ferré and Clarice Lispector.

Texts:

Delmira Agustini.  Poesía completas.  Cátedra.

Alfonsina Storni.  Antología poética.  Losada.

Gabriela Mistral.  Desolación, Ternura, Tala, Lagar.  Porrúa.

SPAN 4413 – MODERN SPANISH LITERATURE with Andrew Anderson

T/TH 12:30-1:45 New Cabell Hall

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement

This upper-level course will provide an in-depth survey of Spanish literature from the beginning of the twentieth-century through to close to the present day.  We will read examples of narrative, theatre, and poetry, observing how both themes and techniques evolve over the century

SPAN 4500 – Special Topics Literature Seminars with Charlotte Rogers and Andrew Anderson

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement

• Section 001 M/W 2:00-3:15PM in Ruffner Hall 177 with Charlotte Rogers

Note: Spanish majors who are prohibited from taking survey of literature courses may use this class as a substitute for the survey of Spanish literature requirement -- SPAN 3410.

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

• Section 003 “READING SPANISH POETRY”  T/TH 2:00-2:50PM in New Cabell Hall 303 with Andrew Anderson

Note: Spanish majors who are prohibited from taking survey of literature courses may use this class as a substitute for the survey of Spanish literature requirement -- SPAN 3410.

This upper-level course will provide a kind of workshop environment for learning and practicing a range of techniques in order to read, analysis, interpret, and appreciate Spanish poetry.  We will read selected examples of poems from a wide range of authors and a wide range of time periods; most of the poetry will be by Spanish authors, while some will be by Latin American authors.  A high level of active participation will be expected of all students.

SPAN 4510 – Special Topics Literature Seminars with Allison Bigelow and Trevor Dadson, Visiting Distinguish Professor

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement

• Section 001 T/TH 12:30-1:45PM in New Cabell Hall 315 with Allison Bigelow

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

• Section 002 MoWE   12:30-1:45PM in Lower West Oval Room  102 with Trevor Dadson, Visiting Distinguish Professor

SPAN 4520 – Latin American Revolutions with Anne Garland Mahler

M/W 2:00-3:15pm, Wilson Hall 214

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement

This course examines literature, film, artwork, and other cultural production from Latin America’s major revolutions of the twentieth century. It will focus on the violent social revolutions of Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua, as well as social movements in Guatemala, Chile, and Venezuela. We will use cultural production as a way to understand why these revolutions occurred, how they transformed economic, social, and cultural relations, how they were accompanied by revolutions in artistic form, and in what ways these revolutions both enthused and disappointed the people most affected by them. The course content will include diverse artistic media including poetry, mural paintings, photography, testimonies, music, and novels

SPAN 4530 – Special Topics Language Seminar with Emily Scida and David Korfhagen

Prerequisites: SPAN 3010; AND SPAN 3000 or SPAN 3200 or another course in Linguistics

• Section 001 TuTh 2:00-3:15pm  in New Cabell Hall 364 with Emily Scida

How do people learn a second language (L2)?  How are first language acquisition and second language acquisition different?  Why are some learners more successful than others in learning a second language?  How do we measure “success” in second language acquisition?  How do we define “competence”?  I invite you to join me in the exploration of these and other exciting questions.  Together we will discover the processes and mechanisms that drive language acquisition by studying how various disciplines have contributed to the major theories and ideas informing the field of Second Language Acquisition.

• Section 002 “Meaning in (the Spanish) language”  M/W/F 1:00-1:50pm in New Cabell Hall 303 with David Korfhagen

Span 4530-002- What is the nature of meaning, and how is it conveyed through language? What does it mean to say that a word or expression ‘means’ something? How do words and expressions change meanings over time? How has our approach to answering these questions changed over time? These are the main questions that will guide this course; while focusing on enhancing and reflecting on critical thinking skills, we will address these issues within the context of the Spanish language. Lectures and discussions will be conducted in Spanish.

. SPAN 4600 – Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics with Maria Isabel Richart Marset

T/TH 2:00-3:15PM in New Cabell Hall 168

Span 4700 – Spanish Culture and Civilization with Fernando Valverde Rodriguez

MoWeFr 1:00-1:50PM in New Cabell Hall 027

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.

This course deals with Spain in the 20th and 21st centuries.  It will begin with the most important political events since 1900 (end of the Monarchy of Alfonso XIII, the 2nd Republic, Spanish Civil War, Franco Dictatorship), up to the present political events of modern Spain ruled by a parliament under a monarchy, and integrated into the European Community.  Special emphasis will be put in understanding Spain in its complexity, social composition and decomposition, fiestas, and the main social changes of the Spanish society after the death of Franco in 1975 (immigration, nationalism).  Part of the course will be dedicated to the study of the Spanish artistic movements and its most relevant contemporary representatives in the field of music (flamenco and popular), painting (Dalí, Picasso, Sorolla), architecture (Gaudí, Calatrava), dance.

Span 4710 – Latin American Culture and Civilization with Fernando Operé

MoWe 3:30-4:45PM in Wilson Hall 214

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement

This course intends to acquaint the student with the history and culture of two important countries in Latin America: Argentina and Mexico. We will start with pre-Columbian cultures, and the historical evolution from colonial times, the Independent period up to the present. The second part of the course will be dedicated to study cultural and social topics: identity; race and ethnicity; city and countryside; artistic and music production; food and cuisine; fluctuations in the economy; religion and its many manifestations; and violence and resistance among others. The methodology is the consistent comparison of these two countries in the most important faces of their history and development.

SPAN 5820  – Spanish America: From Romanticism to Modernism with Fernando Operé

M/W 2:00-3:15PM in New Cabell Hall 407

SPAN 7850 – Themes and Genres with Trevor Dadson, Visiting Distinguish Professor and Samuel Amago

• Section 001 – “Moriscos and other Minorities in Early Modern Spain” M 3:30-6:00PM in New Cabell Hall 209 with Trevor Dadson, Visiting Distinguish Professor

• Section 002- “Film Theory” T/Th 12:30-1:45PM in Kerchof Hall 317 with Sam Amago

Course objectives:

Over the course of the semester, we will develop and refine the vocabularies and analytical skills essential for teaching and research in Hispanic film studies. Students will gain a working knowledge of some of the major currents in theory and international film movements since 1950, including realism, auteurism, counter and Third Cinema movements, psychoanalytical and feminist approaches, spectatorship and subjectivity, globalization, colonialism and indigeneity. Case studies will be drawn principally from the cinemas of the Spanish-speaking world.

The seminar has three objectives:

1. To introduce theoretical, analytical and historical approaches to the study of fiction film and documentary to graduate students with no prior experience in film studies;
2. To provide a snapshot of the state of the field of Film Studies within the framework of international developments in academia and emerging theoretical and methodological perspectives and interdisciplinary issues;
3. To think about resources, techniques, and tools available for research and teaching in Film Studies.

Course requirements:

Students will lead one class discussion and write two papers: a 4-5 page close formal analysis of one short film sequence (chosen in consultation with the professor), and a final paper (10-15 pages).

Required Texts:

David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. McGraw Hill

Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen, eds. Film Theory and Criticism. Oxford UP.

SPAN 7860 – Regional Literature: Mass Media and Spanish American Narrativewith Gustavo Pellón

TuTh 3:30-6:00PM in New Caball Hall 407

In this course we will study the fascination various contemporary novelists have for kitsch, mass culture, and "bad literature."  We will examine how these authors reconcile kitsch and art, and we will consider the aesthetic and social consequences of their experiments.

Alejo Carpentier.  Los pasos perdidos.

Manuel Puig.  Boquitas pintadas.  Penguin

Mario Vargas Llosa.  La tía Julia y el escribidor

Gabriel García Márquez.   El amor en los tiempos del cólera.  Penguin

Severo Sarduy.  De donde son los cantantes. 

Luis Rafael Sánchez.  La guaracha del Macho Camacho. 

Isabel Allende.  Eva Luna.  Harper Collins

Osvaldo Soriano.  Triste, solitario y final. 

José Ortega y Gasset.  La rebelión de las masas.

Matei Calinescu.  Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism (Duke UP, 1987).  

Milan Kundera. The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

SPAN 8560 – The Latin American Jungle Noval with Charlotte Rogers

We 3:30-6:00PM in New Cabell Hall 411

SPAN 1060 – Accelerated Elementary Spanish

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Prerequisites: Placement score of 420-510 on the SAT II Exam or a score of 0-325 on the UVA Placement Exam. Students may not self-place in a language course. All students will submit proof of placement by (August 31, 2018).

Accelerated Elementary Spanish a four-credit accelerated introductory level hybrid course designed to provide a thorough foundation in all the language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This is a technology-enhanced language course in which students will complete online activities with Connect on Tuesdays and Thursdays instead of attending class all five days of the week.  Students should expect an average of 1-2 hours of online homework 5 days a week, plus an extra hour of work that substitutes for class time each on Tuesday/ Thursday. This is a flipped class, which means that students will learn grammar and vocabulary at home, and class time will be devoted to meaningful, authentic, and interactive practice. Class is conducted in Spanish only.

SPAN 2010 – Intermediate Spanish 

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Prerequisites: SPAN 1020, SPAN 1060, or SAT II score of 520-590, or Placement Test score of 326-409. Students may not self-place in a language course.  All students will submit proof of placement by (August 30, 2018 for TuTh Courses and August 31, 2018 for MWF Courses).

Intermediate Spanish is a three-credit intermediate level course, the third course in a four-course sequence, which fulfills the language requirement.  The goal of this course is to bridge the gap between elementary and advanced levels in the further development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. This is a flipped class, which means that students will learn grammar and vocabulary at home, and class time will be devoted to meaningful, authentic, and interactive practice. Class is conducted in Spanish only.

SPAN 2020 – Advanced Intermediate Spanish 

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Prerequisites: Spanish 2010, SAT II Test score of 600-640, or UVA Placement Test score of 410-535. Students may not self-place in a language course. All students will submit proof of placement by (August 30, 2018 for TuTh Courses and August 31, 2018 for MWF Courses).

Advanced Intermediate Spanish is a three credit intermediate level course, the fourth course in a four-course sequence which fulfills the language requirement. The goal of this course is to bridge the gap between elementary and advanced levels in the further development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. This is a flipped class, which means that students will learn grammar and vocabulary at home, and class time will be devoted to meaningful, authentic, and interactive practice. Class is conducted in Spanish only.

SPAN 3000 – Phonetics with Omar Velázquez-Mendoza

MoWe 3:30-4:45PM in New CAB 207

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or equivalent.

Spanish Phonetics provides an introduction to the sound system of both Peninsular and Latin American Spanish. Class discussions focus on how the sounds of Spanish are produced from an articulatory point of view, and how these sounds are organized and represented in the linguistic competence of their speakers. When appropriate, comparisons will be made between Spanish and English or Spanish and other (Romance and non-Romance) languages. This course seeks to improve the student's pronunciation.

SPAN 3010 – Grammar and Composition I 

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Prerequisite: SPAN 2020 (or equivalent); or UVA placement test score of 536-650; or AP score of 4; or SAT II score of 641-700; or IB Spanish (High) score of 7.

This course seeks to develop advanced literacy in Spanish through extensive reading, writing, analysis, and discussion of authentic literary texts and videos. Emphasis is placed on how grammatical forms codify meaning and how grammar and meaning interact to construct the language and textual structure expected in the following academic genres: the critical review, the persuasive essay, and the research paper.

NEW SPAN COURSE SEQUENCE IN THE CIVIC & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM

SPAN 3020-002: Grammar and Composition II- Writing for Social Justice and Change with Esther Poveda

Section 002- MWF 10:00 am- 10:50 am

Have you ever wondered what kinds of change could you enact with more proficient Spanish writing skills? In this section of SPAN 3020, you will have the opportunity to grapple with advanced grammatical and writing skills while you read and discuss selected works by representative Latin American authors that have used writing as a tool for social justice and change, and by participating in a community engagement project. In this course, in addition to completing 15-18 hours of volunteer work with a local organization in the fields of immigration and education, health, or social work, you will deliberately use advanced grammatical forms to construct meaning and will produce texts in which grammar and meaning interact to lead to effective writing in Spanish.

SPRING 2021 (Meeting days/time TBA)

SPAN 3030: Cultural Conversations- Sí se puede: Community Engagement in Spanish Speaking Charlottesville 

SPAN 3030: Cultural Conversation- Sí se puede: Community Engagement in Spanish-Speaking Charlottesville is the continuation of SPAN 3020-001: Grammar and Composition II- Writing for Social Justice and Change. It is Spanish conversation course on the history, and the experiences of the Spanish-speaking population in the USA. In this course, students will continue the community engagement projects that they initiated in the Fall. In class, we will engage in an exploration of the history, contributions, and cultural productions of Spanish-speaking communities and individuals in the USA through a variety of documents (written and oral), and through conversations with leaders in our Latino Community. Throughout the semester, we will also reflect on how language learning is a rewarding and continuous process that allows us to better understand ourselves, to communicate with others, and to construct a more tolerant, and fair world around us.

Both courses will be conducted in Spanish, and the civic & community engagement projects will allow students to use their Spanish with the Charlottesville community.

Please note that, as part of the UVA Civic & Community Engagement Program, this is a two-semester course; therefore, students are required to take both courses in the sequence articulated above.

For any questions or further information please contact Prof. Esther Poveda Moreno at mp8yk@virginia.edu.

SPAN 3030 – Cultural Conversations

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Prerequisite: SPAN3010 or the equivalent level of Spanish, in which case students will need to speak with the instructor ahead of time for permission to take the course.

Conversation course devoted to different aspects of Spanish, Spanish American, or Latino culture. Student-led discussion of materials ranging from films and music videos to radio programs, newspapers, and the Internet.   

SPAN 3040 – Business Spanish

• Section 001 T/TH 9:30 am to 10:45 am New Cabell 364 with Paula Sprague
• Section 002 MWF 2:00 pm to 2:50 pm New Cabell 407 with Esther Poveda
• Section 004MWF 12:00 pm to 12:50 pm New Cabell 291 with Esther Poveda

SPAN 3040 is a Language for the Professions course intended for students with interest in Business and Economy related fields. Upon completion of this course, students will have acquired the vocabulary and the intercultural competence that will allow them to comfortably and successfully participate in professional settings in Spanish. Since SPAN 3040 is a Language for the Professions course, international students that are native speakers of Spanish are ineligible to take the class.

SPAN 3050 – Spanish for Medical Professionals with Alicia Lopez Operé

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Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or departmental placement

This course is designed for students planning to work in the health care field and who want to develop fundamental written and oral skills and vocabulary for the assessment of Spanish speaking patients in a variety of settings. Students will gain familiarity with non-technical and semi-technical functional vocabulary, along with idiomatic expressions and situational phrases that are used in medical Spanish.

SPAN 3420-001 – Survey of Colonial Literature with Allison Bigelow

TuTh 9:30-10:45

¿Qué es la literatura colonial en América, la así llamada cuarta parte del mundo? En este curso introductorio, analizaremos la diversidad literaria y cultural de la época colonial a través de conversaciones en la sala de clase y trabajos escritos. Las metas del curso abordan la explicación de textos literarios con ideas creativas y vocabulario critico y la colaboración con sus compañeras y compañeros en los trabajos orales y escritos.

Lectura: del libro _Voces de Hispanoamérica_ (ed. Raquel Chang-Rodríguez y Malva E. Filer) y en Collab

SPAN 3430 – Survey of Latin American Literature II with Gustavo Pellón

• Section 002 10:00 am-10:50 amNew Cabell Hall 338

lunes, miércoles, y viernes          

Spanish 3300 Texts and Interpretation es un requisito para este curso.  Si eres Spanish major y estás en tu cuarto año no debes estar en un curso panorámico.  Hay algunas excepciones.  En caso de duda habla conmigo.

Este curso ofrece un panorama de la literatura hispanoamericana moderna.  El curso tiene como meta exponer al estudiante a los autores, obras, y movimientos literarios principales de Hispanoamérica desde fines del siglo XIX a nuestros días.  Vamos a leer poemas y selecciones breves de prosa en la antología Voces de  Hispanomérica y además la novela Boquitas pintadas del novelista argentino Manuel Puig.

SPAN 4401 – Spanish Literature of the Golden Age with Michael Gerli

• Section 001 T/TH 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm 315

Readings from representative literary genres of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: poetry, theater, prose narrative. The class is taught from the perspective of the `history of ideas' and emphasizes the role of the Spanish cultural, political, and religious environment of the period in adapting the major ideas of European Thought to a Hispanic context. Emphasis will also be given to theoretical literary aspects of the works we read, particularly the positioning and definition of the human subject in the texts.

SPAN 4402 – Don Quijote with Michael Gerli

• Section 001 T/TH 3:30 pm to 4:45 pm New Cabell Hall 303

A detailed reading of Don Quijote from a theoretical and historical perspective in order to explore its pivotal role in the development of the modern novel. Special consideration is given to the history of ideas, especially Early Modern literary theory, particularly the commentaries on Aristotle's Poetics and the humanistic polemics on mimesis (imitation and the problem of the emulation of reality and truth in artifice), plus the history and reception of romance in Europe from the Middle Ages through the beginning of the seventeenth century.

SPAN 4500 – “Literatures of the Latin American Jungle” with Charlotte Rogers

• Section 001 MW 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm CAB 027

 This course studies representations of the jungle in twentieth-century Latin American literature. The course will address the following questions: How has the environment shaped literature about South America, and vice versa? We will explore how the discourses of imperialism, anthropology, medicine and science shape the answers to this question.  Other elements common to these jungle novels, such as the encounter with the Other, the protagonists’ negotiation of sexuality and madness, and the enduring popularity of the jungle adventure myth will also be addressed. Texts by Quiroga, Rivera, Carpentier, Vargas Llosa, Mutis and Hatoum.

SPAN 4500 – “Transgender Studies in the Americas” with Cole Rizki

• Section 003 T/TH 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm CAB 332

This course introduces students to transgender cultural production taking shape across the Americas. Turning to contemporary Latin American and Latinx cultural production from literary texts (novels, essays, poetry) to activist manifestos, zines, visual art, performance art, and film, this course asks the following questions: how does cultural production by transgender authors, artists, and activists illuminate and contest dominant social, cultural, and economic relationships of power across the hemisphere? As political projects, how do different area or identity configurations—“Latin America,” “Latinx,” “the Americas,” “transatlantic,” for example—inform transgender cultural production and practices? How might transgender cultural production unsettle interlocking racial, class, sexual, and gendered norms? What kinds of alternative world-making practices does our contemporary moment demand of us and how might trans studies and trans cultural production inform our response?

Course prerequisites: Must have completed SPAN 3010 and 3300, and one of the following: SPAN 3400, 3410, 3420 or 3430 or departmental consent. Some WGS coursework is useful but not required.

Span 4500 – Special Topics: Julio Cortázar with Gustavo Pellón

• Section 004 MWF 11:00am-11:50am New Cabell Hall 338

Spanish 3300 Texts and Interpretation y por lo menos un curso panorámico de literatura (3400, 3410, 3420, 3430) son requisitos para este curso. 

En este curso estudiaremos la obra del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar con especial atención a sus cuentos, poemas, ensayos y sus traducciones de los cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe al español.

SPAN 5800 – MA Survey of Colonial Literature with Allison Bigelow

Thursday, 3:30 - 6:00pm

Este curso proporciona un panorama de la literatura latinoamericana en el periodo que abarca el examen de maestría del área colonial: 1492-1700. Los textos primarios nos ayudarán a entender la complejidad cultural del periodo colonial, mientras las fuentes secundarias nos orientarán a varias preguntas abiertas y polémicas historiográficas. Al final del curso, la alumna o el alumno será capaz de analizar los textos de la lista del examen de maestría, situar varios temas claves dentro del contexto histórico-intelectual de la época y mostrar su conocimiento a través de una presentación oral, examen parcial y un proyecto final. Conforme al interés de la alumna o el alumno, el proyecto puede ser orientado a las investigaciones o a la enseñanza. Aprovechando el rol del examen en el programa de maestría, también leeremos textos que tratan de la profesionalización, abordando temas como la organización, el examen, el estrés y la vida académica.

SPAN 7850 – Caribbean Environmental Humanities with Charlotte Rogers

Wednesdays, 3:30 - 6:00pm

Why have outsiders depicted the Caribbean as a hellish site of malaria and hurricanes and also as a tourist Eden?  How do peoples of the Caribbean define their own relationship to the islands’ ecologies? This graduate level seminar considers these questions through the lens of the environmental humanities, an emerging method of study that unites humanistic inquiry with environmental science. We will survey the intertwined ecological and human histories of the archipelago from the colonial era to the twenty-first century. Topics include deforestation, the plantation system, natural resource extraction, scientific experimentation on Caribbean peoples and landscapes, and the social and ecological ramifications of tourism. The course will emphasize how artists and writers recognize and resist the legacies of environmental depredation and human exploitation in the region. Our areas of inquiry will range over literature, art, tropical medicine, the history of science, environmental activism, social justice movements and cultural studies. This class counts towards the Graduate Certificate in Environmental Humanities. Class discussions will be in English. Readings will be in Spanish, French, and English with optional translations.

SPAN 7850 – Space and Place in Hispanic Literature with Ricardo Pardon

Writing of all kinds is often used to map spaces and describe places, facilitating all sorts of and imaginative relationships between readers and locales both near and far. We might think of the way travel narrative facilitates virtual journeys, or the way a novel is said to evoke the place in which the story is set. The current moment is a propitious time to explore these issues, thanks to the so-called “spatial turn” in the human sciences, the renewed attention to space and place that has marked any number of disciplines over the course of the last few decades. In this course, we will review some of the major theoretical statements of humanistic geography and of critical geography, and consider the opportunities created by juxtaposing writing with cartography. We will also apply what we have learned to a repertoire of texts from a variety of periods in the literary and cultural history of Spain and Latin America. Registered students will be given the opportunity to provide input regarding which texts we will use.

This course is primarily intended for graduate students in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, but is open to all students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Students from outside the department will be able to read in English or other languages, and the language of instruction will be English

SPAN 8540 – Seminars: Modern Spanish Literature with Sam Amago

Tuesdays, 3:30 - 6:00pm

Drawing key examples from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Portugal and Spain, this viewing-intensive course will explore the close connection between aesthetics and politics in Spanish- and Portuguese-language movies produced from 1950 to the present. Through film viewings, critical readings, and class discussion, we will consider how contemporary Iberian and American films have critically and creatively re-imagined the interrelated concepts of modernity, memory, and migration.

POTR 4559—Global South: Brazilian Soccer in a Global Context with Eli Carter

Tuesday 4:00 to 6:30 pm New Cabell 211 

Brazilian "futebol" or soccer has long been celebrated throughout the world for its myriad stars and singular style of play. Providing a broad historical overview of the development of soccer in Brazil, the objective of this course is to explore cultural and socio-political issues raised by the sport, all while connecting these to broader processes of globalization beginning in the early 1990s.

PORT 1110 – Beginning Intensive Portuguese with Lilian Feitosa

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Prerequisite: Completion of FREN 2020 or SPAN 2020, or instructor permission.

Introduces speaking, understanding, reading and writing Portuguese, especially as used in Brazil. Five class hours and one laboratory hour. Followed by PORT 2120. 

PORT 3010 – Advanced Grammar, Conversation and Composition with Lilian Feitosa

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Studies advanced grammar through analysis of written and audiovisual texts; includes extensive practice in composition and topical conversation.

ITAL 1020 – Elementary Italian II

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Elementary Italian II is the second class in the four-course sequence that is necessary to complete the foreign language requirement. In this course, students will learn to narrate in all tenses of the indicative, express opinions, make hypotheses, and give orders. They will improve their writing skills by producing a number of original texts, including blog posts, essays, and articles. Students will also develop their ability to understand spoken Italian by listening to songs, commercials, and movie clips, and they will read and study song lyrics, newspaper headlines, poems, and some short stories. Students of Elementary Italian II will also have many occasions to learn more about life in contemporary Italy as they study the country’s language.

60% of this course will take place face to face during regularly scheduled class meetings on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, while 40% of the work must be completed online both through the Connect website and the students’ personal e-Portfolios.

Much like learning to play a sport or a musical instrument, studying a foreign language requires constant practice. Therefore, all course activities will be conducted in Italian.

ITAL 2020 – Intermediate Italian II

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ITAL 2020 Intermediate Italian II is the fourth class in the four-course sequence which fulfills the language requirement. In this course, students will further develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills as well as deepen their cultural literacy in Italian. You will accomplish these goals with the guidance of your instructor, through review of grammar, short readings, compositions, and listening and speaking activities. Students will also have the opportunity to listen to songs, comment on works of art, watch commercials and short films, read and write newspaper articles, analyze how the Italian language reflects the movement towards gender parity, and meet natives of Italy in your quest to become more confident and competent users of the Italian language.

Much like learning to play a sport or a musical instrument, studying a foreign language requires constant practice. Therefore, all course activities will be conducted in Italian.

ITAL 3110 – Italian Medieval and Renaissance Masterpieces with Deborah Parker

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As the plague swept through Italy in the mid-1300s, three young men and seven young women from Florence escaped the city to the countryside, where they spent 10 days telling stories.  So begins Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, one of the many masterpieces that we will explore in this course.  ITAL 3110 focuses on foundational works of Italian literature, art, architecture, and music in their historical and cultural context and to relate them to contemporary issues. We will examine some of the most extraordinary personalities of an age of luminaries, among them, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Giotto, Botticelli, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo.  Prerequisite: ITAL 2010.

ITTR 3685 -  Italy on Screen:  Sex, Gender and Racial Identities in the Glocal Context with Francesca Calamita

• Section 001 MW 3:30pm-4:45pm NAU 241

Counts as elective to major/minor in Women, Gender and Sexuality

This course considers representations of sex, gender and racial identities in Italian films, television, advertisements and other forms of visual culture. With a focus on the contemporary Italian context, students will explore issues of intersectionality from a global perspective. An intersectional feminist approach will frame class discussion, where, Italian society and its culture will be read through a perspective that emphasizes the interconnectedness between gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, disability, social class and immigration status, among other layers of identity. Lectures will offer a close reading of both critically acclaimed and more mainstream works, trying to answer the following question: what can Italian cinema, television and advertising tell us about diversity and inclusion in the worldwide context?

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. 

KICH 1020 – Introduction to Maya K’iché II on TuTh 4:00-5:15PM Allison Bigelow

The second part of a year-long sequence that introduces students to Maya K’iche’, this course focuses on three main areas: K’iche’ language, Maya linguistics, and Maya culture. The language and linguistics elements of the course will allow students to learn and understand complex relationships – the relationship of sound to syntax, of language to literature – in an entirely new cultural context and content area, building from their knowledge of K’iche’ I to expand and enrich their studies. Students will thus learn how to apply their work in other classes, especially linguistics, anthropology, Spanish, and Latin American studies, to a new body of content, recognizing how their study of other languages, literary forms, and issues in global development can enhance their study of K’iche’, and how to communicate those insights through the target language.

KICH 2020 – Intermediate Maya K’iché II on TuTh 2:00-3:15PM with Allison Bigelow

As the Maya K'iche' capstone course in the Duke-UVa-Vanderbilt consortium for the teaching of less commonly taught languages, this class asks students to apply their introductory study of grammar to original research with primary and secondary sources, print and oral alike. Having studied the difference between colonial-era and contemporary orthographies in KICH 2010, students will now work with primary sources and different translations of K’iche’ texts; for example, they might compare Dennis Tedlock’s translation of the Popol Vuh with and Allen Christenson’s more recent work, or they might choose to write their final essay on the work of contemporary poet Sam Colop. By collaborating with the Vanderbilt-based instructor of K’iche’, students will identify a research topic that reflects their larger academic and professional interests, learning how to integrate their work in other classes, especially linguistics, anthropology, comparative literature, Spanish, and Latin American studies, to their study of K’iche’. This capstone course will also ask that they recognize how their study of other languages, literary forms, and issues in global development can enhance their study of K’iche’, and how to communicate those insights through the target language.