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 (Date TBA). All students will submit proof of placement by (Date 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 Sarah Annunziato

MoWeFr 11:00-11:50AM in Nau Hall 242

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 –  New Course: Italian in Translation “Narrating (Un-)sustainability: Ecocritical Explorations in Italy and the Mediterranean” with Enrico Cesaretti

TuTh 12:30-1:45PM in Nau Hall 242

This course focuses on the potential narratives have to convey messages that are relevant to our ethical and environmental awareness, and to stimulate critical strategies that encourage to imagine alternatives to existing systems of knowledge and distributions of power. As we shall expand the notion of ‘text’ to include all material formations (landscapes, bodies, matters), in the first half of this course, students will learn about the origins and general objectives of ecocriticism, and various approaches to the notion of sustainability. In the second section, taking the Italian/Mediterranean area as an interpretive, local key that may enlighten the situation of many other, global places, we shall travel up and down throughout 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, and affect our ethical attitude in the era of the Anthropocene.

ITTR 3559 (Cross-listed with WGS 3559) – New Course in Italian Translation “Italy on Screen: Sex, Gender and Racial Identities in the Global Context” with Francesca Calamita

MoWe 3:30-4:45PM in Nau Hall 142

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?

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

TuTh 11:00-12:15PM in Nau Hall 242

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 WWII “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.

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 3020 – Advanced Italian II with Enrico Cesaretti

MoWeFr 12:00-12:50PM in Wilson Hall 238

Prerequisite: ITAL 2020

ITAL 3020 - This course focuses on a selective review of Italian grammar and especially aims at boosting students' language skills. Emphasis will be on conversation, composition and vocabulary enrichment. 

ITAL 3720 – Novella (Italian Short Narrative) with Enrico Cesaretti

MoWeFr 11:00-11:50AM in Nau Hall 309

The main objective of this course is to introduce students to the long-standing and flexible genre of the Italian "novella" (short story) and to assess its continuous efficacy as a medium able to synthetically address a wide range of aesthetic, ethical, political and social-environmental issues. The course also aims at boosting students’ language skills and, therefore, requires extensive reading, discussing and writing in Italian.

ITTR 2260 – Dante in Translation with Deborah Parker

MoWe 3:30-4:45PM in New Cabell Hall 485

T.S. Eliot wrote that “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.” We’ll pursue this bold statement through a close reading of the Inferno, the most intricate account of the afterlife ever written. This course will examine what makes this brilliant poem one of the acclaimed classics of western culture. We will explore the organization of Hell, its inhabitants, the nature of evil, Dante’s exile, and the rich tradition of visual material the poem has inspired from manuscript illustrations to Botticelli to more recent artists such as Gustave Doré and William Blake. Lectures will draw on The World of Dante (www.worldofdante.org) a multimedia site, that offers a wide range of digital materials related to the Comedy.

ITTR 3559 New Course: Italian in Translation

• Section 001 Italian-American Cinema with Sarah Annunziato

MoWeFr 12:00-12:50PM in New Cabell Hall 485

Following the unification of Italy in 1861, immigrants from that nation began coming to the USA in record numbers. While they arrived in search of better lives, they often faced discrimination, disenfranchisement, and the challenges of assimilation. Through it all, their experiences have been documented on film by screenwriters and directors. In this course we will explore how cinema depicts the Italian-American experience from the end of the 19th-century to the present-day.

Students of this course will learn about immigration patterns from Italy to the United States, the main reasons that prompted many Italians to resettle in the USA, the response that these immigrants received in their new home, the rise of the mafia and the gangster stereotype, Italian Americans during World War II, Italian-Americans and race, the cinematic representation of the Italian American family, gender roles, controversy over “guido culture,” and the relationship between Italians and Italian Americans.

Films to include: Bitter Bread, Big Night, The Godfather Parts I and II, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, From Here to Eternity, Two Family House, Marty, Moonstruck, Household Saints, and Saturday Night Fever. Novel, Christ in Concrete, by Pietro di Donato.

• Section 002 (Cross-listed with ARTH 3559) – Michelangelo: The Artist, The Man, and His World with Deborah Parker

MoWe 2:00-3:15PM in New Cabell Hall 485

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. To this end we will examine closely the artist’s poems and letters, contemporary assessments of his artistic achievements, and critical articles on his work. 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.

Throughout the course, we shall address topics such as how to represent the human figure, how to convey a story, how to show emotion, and how to represent space—still topics of contemporary interest and relevance. Additional subjects include the social and cultural worlds of Renaissance Florence and Rome, the effects of patronage on artistic production, Michelangelo’s use of classical models, and his relationships with fellow artists, friends, and rivals.

SPAN 5750 – Contemporary Spanish Literature with Andrew Anderson

We 3:30-6:00PM in Shannon House 109

In this core course we will study and analyze well-known texts from twentieth-century Spain drawn from the reading list for the qualifying exams. Over the course of the semester, we shall be looking at plays (texts by Valle-Inclán, García Lorca, and Buero Vallejo), poems (a broad selection of representative poems by a number of Spanish poets), novels (texts by Cela, Laforet, Martín Gaite and Mendoza), and essays (Ortega y Gasset).  The approach will be based essentially on close-reading, though attention will also be paid to the socio-historical context in which the works were composed and received.  Discussion/seminar format.

SPAN 5800 – Spanish America: Colonial Period to 1800 with Allison Bigelow

Tu 3:30-6:00PM in Shannon House 107

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. De esta forma nos vamos planteando preguntas en cuatro temas principales: saberes nuevos (datos e informaciones nuevos, autores noveladores, diversidad epistemológica), la polémica de la posesión (derecho, justicia, poder y autonomía del territorio, cuerpo y mente), indígenidad e “yndios” (culturas, saberes e historias indígenas, escritura y lectoescritura, representaciones de los pueblos y tradiciones indígenas) y la cultura criolla (el barroco de Indias, resistencia y marginalización del barroco).

Please email the instructor for pre-circulated texts that we will discuss in our first meeting, martes 15 de enero: Colón (1493, 1498-1500), Laiou (1998), Restall and Lane (2018), and readings in professionalization. We will address different aspects of professional development each week of the semester.

SPAN 7040 – Translation from Spanish to English with Gustavo Pellón

TuTh 2:00-3:15PM in Shannon House 109

Spanish 7040 offers an introduction to the craft of literary translation.  Although we will study important concepts in translation theory, the emphasis of the course is on the practice of translation from Spanish to English.  The course will be run as a translation workshop.  Each class will include the discussion of the reading assignments and our translations of short texts.  There will be class presentations, tests on idiomatic expressions, proverbs and false cognates;  a take home midterm exam; and a final translation project which the student will choose in consultation with the professor.  The final project will typically result in a 3,750-5,000-word manuscript, but this is negotiable depending on your ambitions, dreams, and the difficulty of the text chosen.  Future instructors of Spanish 4040 Translation will be chosen from those who complete this course.

Textos:

•  Jack Child.  Introduction to Spanish Translation.

•  John Biguenet and Rainier Schulte, eds.  The Craft of Translation.

•  Rainier Shulte and John Biguenet, eds. Theories of Translation.

•  Textos en Collab.

•  Un buen diccionario bilingüe.  Por ejemplo: Oxford (275,000 palabras), Simon & Schuster’s, Larousse. 

•  Un buen libro de gramática.  Por ejemplo: John Butt and Carmen Benjamin, A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (New York: Edward Arnold, 1994).

•  DRAE online

SPAN 7820 – Nineteenth-Century Spanish-American Literature with Fernando Operé

MoWe 2:00-3:15PM in New Cabell Hall 183

In this course, we will study of the Latin American frontiers since the discovery of the continent. By reading theory and chronicles and diaries from different periods, we will be able to establish how the frontier, and the idea of frontier, changed over time, and along with it the concept of "self identity," as well as the "Other" beyond the frontier line. Obviously, travelers were the protagonists of the crossing of new frontiers, and their chronicles talked to us about the way they conceptualized the new territories. Readings include chronicles, and travel books from 16th to 20th Century: Colón's Diario, Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, La araucana.

Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios’s, Hernán Cortes, Cartas de Relación; Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva España, Lucio Mansilla’s Una excursión a los indios ranqueles; Juan León Mera Cumandá, Horacio Quiroga “Short stories”; Eustasio Rivera La vorágine; Pablo Neruda, Canto general; Ernesto and Mempo Giardinelli’s Final de novela en Patagonia, among others.

SPAN 7850 – Themes and Genres "Film Theory" with Sam Amago

Th 3:30-6:00PM in New Cabell Hall 191

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 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 Omar Velázquez-Mendoza and David Korfhagen

• Section 001 MoWe 3:30-4:45PM in New Cabell Hall 107 with Omar Velázquez-Mendoza
• Section 002 MoWeFr 12:00-12:50PM in Nau Hall 241 with David Korfhagen

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) languages. This course seeks to improve the students’ pronunciation. Taught in Spanish.

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

TuTh 3:30-4:45PM in New Cabell Hall 489 with Loreto Romero Martinez Eiroa

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 

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Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or departmental placement

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

SPAN 3050 – Spanish for Medical Professionals with Alicia Lopez Operé

MoWeFr 11:00-11:50AM in Dell 1 104

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 Emily Scida

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or departmental placement

• Section 001 TuTh 12:30-1:45PM in New Cabell Hall 315
• Section 002 TuTh 11:00AM-12:15PM in New Cabell Hall 183

In this course we will explore various areas of linguistics as they relate to the study of the Spanish language, including: the sound system (phonetics and phonology), word formation (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), language change (historical linguistics), linguistic variation (dialectology), meaning (semantics), and language learning (second language acquisition). Through course readings and assignments, students will learn to apply linguistic analysis to the study of language and understand how research in linguistics informs what we know about language. Coursework will include weekly writing assignments, six quizzes, a digital research project, and a final exam. Taught in Spanish.

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

MoWeFr 1:00-1:50PM in New Cabell Hall 338

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement

In this introduction to Spanish Literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque, selections of literary classics will be studied in their historical and aesthetic context, highlighting in particular the importance of the mixture of Jewish, Islamic and Christian cultures. Topics such as gender, alterity, artistic experimentation, and social critique will be explored as the course progresses, offering students a foundation in the cultural production of Spain's early periods which continues to impact Hispanic literature today.

SPAN 3410 – Survey of Spanish Literature II (1700 to Present) with Samuel Amago

MoWeFr 12:00-12:50PM 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

TuTh 12:30-1:45PM in New Cabell Hall 338

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.

Spanish 3430 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 wide 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 

MoWe 2:00-3:15PM in Shannon House 109 with Alexa Jeffress

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 Joel Rini

TuTh 2:00-3:15PM in New Cabell Hall 027

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

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

SPAN 4202 – Hispanic Sociolinguistics with Omar Velázquez-Mendoza 

MoWe 2:00-3:15PM in New Cabell Hall 383

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

This course examines the Spanish language within its social context by exploring—among others—the following topics: 1) language versus dialect; 2) the standard language; 3) linguistic variation and its main variables: geography, style, gender, age, etc.; 4) grammaticalization as a social process; 5) language variation and language change; 6) language contact and biligualism; 7) Spanish in the US. Taught in Spanish.

SPAN 4310 – Latin American Women Writers from 1900 to the Present with María-Inés Lagos

TuTh 12:30-1:45PM in New Cabell Hall 383

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

Note: Spanish majors who are prohibited from taking survey of literature courses may use this class as a substitute for the survey of Latin American literature requirement -- SPAN 3420 or SPAN 3430.

Study of major Latin American women writers from 1900 to the present—poets, essayists, playwrights, and fiction writers. We will read works by authors of various generations and countries as well as essays on gender theory. Discussion will focus on the literary representation of issues related to gender and culture, and their intersection with other variables, such as class, race, historical period, etc. Emphasis on how women from different backgrounds have articulated female experience in societies that establish strong differences between the roles of men and women. Films and other audiovisual materials will be used to illustrate the social and cultural context. Class participation, oral presentation, two exams, several short essays, one research paper.

SPAN 4320 – Contemporary Latin-American Short Fiction with María-Inés Lagos

TuTh 12:00-12:50AM in New Cabell Hall 383

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

Note: Spanish majors who are prohibited from taking survey of literature courses may use this class as a substitute for the survey of Latin American literature requirement -- SPAN 3420 or SPAN 3430.

We will explore the great variety of the short story in Spanish America during the 20th and 21st century. Starting with Baldomero Lillo’s stories about life in the coal mines in Southern Chile at the turn of the 20th century, we will read short stories addressing a multiplicity of themes (family relationships, the workings of power and politics, love relationships, friendships, the intersection of social, political, gender, class and race issues, etc.) taking into account the socio historical context. Among the authors we will include Horacio Quiroga, María Luisa Bombal, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, José Donoso, Elena Poniatowska, Luisa Valenzuela, Rosario Ferré, Liliana Heker, Ana María Shua, Roberto Bolaño, Cristina Peri Rossi, and a group of young writers born in the 1970s and 80s. We will also watch films and documentaries that will help us to better understand the socio historical background. Class participation, 2 exams, quizzes and written assignments, and one research paper.

SPAN 4500 – Special Topics Literature Seminars with Anne-Garland Mahler and Andrew Anderson

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

• Section 001 “Afro-Latinidad”  TuTh 2:00-3:15PM in New Cabell Hall 191 with Anne-Garland Mahler

Note: Spanish majors who are prohibited from taking survey of literature courses may use this class as a substitute for the survey of Latin American literature requirement -- SPAN 3420 or SPAN 3430.

This course is a survey of the history and literature of the African diaspora in Latin America from the Caribbean, Mexico, and the Río de la Plata to the “Latin American” cities of New York and Miami. From the earliest days of Spanish colonization to fighting in the wars of independence to forging global political and cultural networks from the early twentieth century to present-day, African-descended peoples have had an undeniably central role in defining Latin America’s history and its present. Yet Afro-Latin American experiences and literatures are often occluded in mainstream media and scholarship.  In this course, we will engage a wide array of texts and films on the experiences of peoples of African descent in Latin America, ranging from narratives about black conquistadors to testimonies of runaway slaves to Afro-Latin@ contributions to the origins of hip-hop in the United States. The primary objectives of this course are to expose students to both texts produced by and about Afro-Latin Americans and to the social and historical context in which those texts were produced, as well as to assist students in further developing their critical writing and speaking skills in Spanish.

• Section 003 “Modern Spanish Theatre”  MoWeFr 2:00-2:50PM in New Cabell Hall 395 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.

We will study selected plays by Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Federico García Lorca, and Antonio Buero Vallejo.  Through close readings we will seek to understand what the plays are about and how they explore and communicate their themes, and also what challenges they presented for their staging.  In one or other way, thematically or technically, they all deviate from the stylistic norms of “realist” theatre current at the time.  Discussion/seminar format.

SPAN 4530 – Special Topics Language Seminar “Spanish to English Translation II” with Melissa Frost

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

Note: SPAN 4530 with topic: Spanish to English Translation II may be used to satisfy the Literature course requirement.

Spring 2019 ONLY: Due to the limited number of literature courses being offered, this course may be used as a substitute for the Latin American survey requirement.

• Section 001 TuTh 11:00AM-12:15PM in New Cabell Hall 132
• Section 002 TuTh 9:30-10:45AM in New Cabell Hall 027

Span 4530 is a continuation of Span 4040. This course will enable students to develop their translation skills through the analysis of canonical twentieth-century Latin American texts. We will consider the political and social backdrop of literary movements and the stylistic tendencies of some of the most important intellectuals of the time. Our focus will also facilitate a more in-depth consideration of the theories of translation presented in 4040.

SPAN 4621 – Latin American Women Poets with Gustavo Pellón

TuTh 11:00AM-12:15PM in New Cabell Hall 168

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

Note: Spanish majors who are prohibited from taking survey of literature courses may use this class as a substitute for the survey of Latin American literature requirement -- SPAN 3420 or SPAN 3430.

In this course we will read extensively from the poetry of the three most famous women poets of Latin America in the twentieth century: Uruguay’s Delmira Agustini, Argentina’s Alfonsina Storni, and Chile’s Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. 

Texts:

Delmira Agustini.  Poesía completas.  Cátedra.

Alfonsina Storni.  Antología poética.  Losada.

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

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 4704 – Islamic Ibeia with E. Michael Gerli

TuTh12:30-1:45AM in New Cabell Hall 485

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

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 in 1609. Lectures, videos, and oral reports will concentrate on several major moments: The rise of the Emirate/Caliphate of Córdoba and Islamic hegemony in the peninsula; fragmentation of the Caliphate and cultural splendor of the ta’ifa (pl. tawa’if) kingdoms in the eleventh century; the advent of Moslem fundamentalism from the Maghrib in the eleventh and twelfth centuries; the phenomenon of mudejarismo after the Christian conquest of Seville and Córdoba in the mid-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 Islamic culture in a Christian state during the sixteenth-century.

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.

PORT 2120 – Intermediate Intensive Portuguese with Lilian Feitosa

MoWeFr 11:00-11:50AM in New Cabell Hall 183

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 2559 – New Course in Portuguese Begin-Intermediate Portuguese for Spanish Speakers with Lilian Feitosa

MoWeFr 12:00-12:50PM in New Cabell Hall 111

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

PORT 3559 – New Course in Portuguese Advanced Portuguese: Music, Cinema & Literature with Lilian Feitosa

MoWe 2:00-3:15PM in Shannon House 111       

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

KICH 1010 – Introduction to Maya K’iche’ I  with Allison Bigelow

TuTh 4:00-5:15PM  

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

KICH 2010 – Intermediate Maya K’iche’ I  with Allison Bigelow

TuTh 2:00-3:15PM   

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

SPAN 1010 – Elementary Spanish

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No previous formal instruction in Spanish, or an SAT II score less than 410. SPAN 1010 is for true beginners only. Students with prior experience with Spanish 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).

Elementary Spanish 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).

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).

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).

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 and David Korfhagen

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.

• Section 001 TuTh 11:00AM-12:15PM in New CAB 332 with Emily Scida
• Section 002 MoWeFr 1:00-1:50PM in New CAB 027 with David Korfhagen

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 

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.

• Section 001 (Cross-listed with LASE 3500-001) Grammar and Composition II - Writing for Social Justice and Change MoWeFr 11:00-11:50AM in The Rotunda 150 with M. Esther Poveda Moreno.

Have you ever wondered what kinds of change you could enact with more proficient Spanish writing skills? In this section of SPAN 3020 (in cross-listing with LASE 3500-001), 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 who 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 20-24 hours of volunteer work with a local organization in the fields of immigration and education, law, 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. For any questions or further information, please contact Prof. Esther Poveda Moreno at mp8yk@viriginia.edu.

• Section 002 MoWeFr 9:00-9:50AM in New CAB 364 with Paula Sprague
• Section 003 MoWeFr 10:00-10:50AM in New CAB 364 with Paula Sprague

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

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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 with Paula Sprague 

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Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or departmental placement

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

SPAN 3050 – Spanish for Medical Professionals with Alicia Lopez Operé

TuTh 2:00-3:15 in Wilson Hall 244  

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 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 l (Middle Ages to 1700) with E. Michael Gerli and Crystal Chemris

TuTh 11:00AM-11:15PM in New CAB 303 with E. Michael Gerli

MWF 9:00am-9:50am in Ruffner Hall 173, with Crystal Chemris

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.

El curso comprende una  introducción a la literatura castellana de la Edad Media, el renacimiento, y el barroco hasta 1680. Las obras se estudiarán en su contexto histórico-cultural. Además de intentar de estimular un aprecio por algunas obras maestras de estos períodos, el curso intentará dar a conocer el marco histórico-intelectual de varios aspectos de la cultura peninsular.

SPAN 3410 – Survey of Spanish Literature lI (1700 to Present) with Andrew Anderson

TuTh 2:00-3:15PM in New CAB 395

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.

A survey of major Spanish texts and authors from the Enlightenment to the contemporary period.  We will study literary and cultural movements such as neoclassicism, romanticism, positivism, realism, symbolism, “modernismo”, existentialism, etc.  We will also study a range of works that exemplify all the major literary genres: lyric poetry, drama, novel, short story, and essay.  Three papers spaced throughout the semester.  All readings and all discussion in Spanish.

SPAN 3430 – Survey of Latin American Literature II (1900 to Present) with Charlotte Rogers and Crystal Chemris

Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement.

This course is a survey of Modern Spanish American literature to introduce students to major authors, works, and literary movements of Spanish America from 1900 to the present. Students will read poetry, essays and short prose selections as well as a novel. Class participation and attendance, papers, exams and other assignments.

• Section 001 TuTh 2:00-3:15PM in New CAB 364 with Charlotte Rogers
• Section 002 MoWeFr 12:00PM-12:50PM in New CAB 338 with Crystal Chemris
• Section 003 MoWeFr 10:00AM-10:50AM in Ruffner Hall 173 with Crystal Chemris

SPAN 4040 – Translation from Spanish to English 

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Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement

Please direct inquiries to the instructor.

SPAN 4319 – Borges with Gustavo Pellón

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

Note: Spanish majors who are prohibited from taking survey of literature courses may use this class as a substitute for the survey of Latin American literature requirement (SPAN 3420 or 3430).

Este curso se propone estudiar la obra de Jorge Luis Borges con énfasis en sus cuentos, sin excluir algunos ensayos y poemas.   El curso examinará la obra de Borges desde la perspectiva de la literatura comparada y a Borges como lector y escritor de literatura mundial. 

SPAN 4500 – Special Topics Literature Seminars with E. Michael Gerli and Anne-Garland Mahler

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

• Section 001 “Cervantes: Novelas ejemplares” TuTh 2:00-3:15PM in New CAB 027 with E. Michael Gerli

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 3400).

El curso se centrará en las Novelas ejemplares de Cervantes (1613). Cada una de las doce obras se examinará desde una doble vertiente, por una parte teórica y por otra histórica, para explorar a fondo la compleja imaginación cervantina. Se pondrá un énfasis especial en la teoría literaria y linguística en la temprana  modernidad, sobre todo en los comentarios  italianos y españoles a la Poética de Aristóteles, y las polémicas humanísticas sobre la mimesis (la imitación y la problemática de captar y mediatizar la verdad por medio de un artificio representacional). Por otra parte, se tratará de la historia y recepción de las novelas y la prosa imaginativa en general en Europa durante los siglos XVI y XVII. Se llevarán a cabo lecturas atentas de las obras a leer para ver cómo Cervantes se enfrenta con el problema  de la representación de una realidad y verdad tambaleantes por medio del lenguaje y el papel que hace la imaginación en este proceso, acabando finalmente con la proclamación del mismo estatus ficticio de la ficción.

• Section 002 “Afro-Latinidad across the Americas” MoWe 2:00-3:15PM in New CAB 168 with Anne-Garland Mahler

Note: Spanish majors who are prohibited from taking survey of literature courses may use this class as a substitute for the survey of Latin American literature requirement (SPAN 3430).

This course is a survey of the history and literature of the African diaspora in Latin America from the Caribbean, Mexico, and the Río de la Plata to the “Latin American” cities of New York and Miami. From the earliest days of Spanish colonization to fighting in the wars of independence to forging global political and cultural networks from the early twentieth century to present-day, African-descended peoples have had an undeniably central role in defining Latin America’s history and its present. Yet Afro-Latin American experiences and literatures are often occluded in mainstream media and scholarship.  In this course, we will engage a wide array of texts and films on the experiences of peoples of African descent in Latin America, ranging from narratives about black conquistadors to testimonies of runaway slaves to Afro-Latin@ contributions to the origins of hip-hop in the United States. The primary objectives of this course are to expose students to both texts produced by and about Afro-Latin Americans and to the social and historical context in which those texts were produced, as well as to assist students in further developing their critical writing and speaking skills in Spanish.

SPAN 4520 – Special Topics Culture & Civ Seminar "Contemporary Peruvian Culture" with Jorge Secada

MW 3:30-4:45PM in New CAB 032

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

This course is a survey of contemporary Peruvian culture, focusing on literary, philosophical and political themes through the discussion of a selection of short essays published in Peruvian newspapers, magazines, blogs, and literary and academic journals after 2010. Some contemporary Peruvian authors, whose work is related to the readings, will visit the course throughout term. The course will start with introductory lectures on recent Peruvian history but after that will be structured as a seminar, around class presentations and discussions of the readings. Apart from such work, a term paper will be required. Lectures, discussions and all readings are in Spanish.

SPAN 4530 – Special Topics Language Seminars with Omar Velázquez-Mendoza and Melissa Frost

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

• Section 001 “Spanish vis-à-vis Other Romance Languages” MoWe 2:00-3:15PM in Shannon House 107 with Omar Velázquez-Mendoza

Drawing on a comparative approach to language change, this course traces the primitive origins and historical development of the major linguistic changes that took place in the passage from Latin to Spanish and other Romance (i.e., Latin-derived) languages, mainly Portuguese, Italian, and French. Topics to be explored include: expected and unexpected phonological changes in the neo-Latin language continuum; the role of analogy and ‘contamination’ in language change; etymological and non-etymological nasalization; the object + verb to verb + object shift; the prepositional direct object; expressions of possession; pronominal replacement and duplication of direct and indirect objects. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or equivalent AND SPAN 3000 or SPAN 3200 or any other linguistics course focusing on Spanish or on any other language.

• Section 002 “Spanish to English Translation II” TuTh 11:00AM-12:15PM in Wilson Hall 214 with Melisa Frost

Span 4530 is a continuation of Span 4040. This course will enable students to develop their translation skills through the analysis of canonical twentieth-century Latin American texts. We will consider the political and social backdrop of literary movements and the stylistic tendencies of some of the most important intellectuals of the time. Our focus will also facilitate a more in-depth consideration of the theories of translation presented in 4040.

SPAN 4700 – Spanish Culture and Civilization with Fernando Operé

MoWe 3:30-4:45PM in New CAB 395

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 4712 – Travelers in Latin America with Fernando Operé

MoWe 5:00-6:15PM in New CAB 395

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

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 trips 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.

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

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

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

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

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.