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

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 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.

Summer Session I: May 22-June 16

SPAN 1060 Accelerated Elementary Spanish (1 section, 9:00am to 12:00pm)

SPAN 3410 Survey of Spanish Literature II (1700 to present) (1 section, 10:30am to 12:45pm)

Summer Session II:  June 20-July 14

SPAN 1010 Elementary Spanish REMOTE (1 section, 9:15am to 12:15pm)

SPAN 2010 Intermediate Spanish (10:30am to 12:45pm, 1 section in person, 1 section REMOTE)

SPAN 1010 and SPAN 1020 will be offered in Summer Session only. These courses will not be offered in fall or spring semesters

Summer Session III:  July 17-August 11

SPAN 1020 Elementary Spanish REMOTE (1 section, 9:15am to 12:15pm)

SPAN 2010 Intermediate Spanish (1 section, 10:30am to 12:45pm)

SPAN 2020 Advanced Intermediate Spanish (2 sections in person, 2 sections REMOTE, 10:30am to 12:45pm)

SPAN 1010 and SPAN 1020 will be offered in Summer Session only. These courses will not be offered in fall or spring semesters

Summer Language Institute: June 17-August 11

SPAN 1016 Intensive Introductory Spanish (1 section)

SPAN 1026 Intensive Introductory Spanish ( 1 section)

SPAN 2016 Intensive Intermediate Spanish (1 section)

SPAN 2026 Intensive Intermediate Spanish (1 section)

http://www.virginia.edu/summer/SLI/

The Spanish Summer Language Institute offers an intensive near-immersion program in which students complete beginning and intermediate levels of Spanish instruction in eight weeks - two years of coursework (SPAN 1016, 1026, 2016, and 2026) in one summer!  SLI classes meet from Monday through Friday for seven and a half hours a day with three different Spanish instructors: from 9:00-12:00, from 1:00-4:00, and from 6:00-7:30.

For more information, see:  https://summer.virginia.edu/summer-language-institute-spanish

PORT 1110 Beginning Intensive Portuguese with Lilian Feitosa

MoWeFr 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

PORT 2050 Intensive Portuguese with Lilian Feitosa

MoWeFr 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

PORT 3010 Portuguese Advanced Grammar & Composition with Lilian Feitosa

MoWeFr 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

ITAL 1010 Elementary Italian I with Stella Mattioli and Francesca Calamita

MoWeFr 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM; 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM; 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

TuTh 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM; 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Elementary Italian I is the first class in the four-course sequence that is necessary to complete the world 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.    

ITAL 2010 Intermediate Italian I with Sarah Annunziato and Stella Mattioli

MoWeFr 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM; 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

MoWe 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

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 professor, 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 and its culture.   

ITAL 3010 Advanced Italian I with Sarah Annunziato

MoWe 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Advanced Italian I (ITAL 3010) is the first of two courses that are required to complete either a major or a minor in Italian Studies.  Students of this class will enhance their mastery of the five skills essential to learning a world language (speaking, listening, reading, writing, and cultural competency) by applying them to various real-world settings such as: dialogues, presentations, informal conversations, debates, interviews with native speakers, and book clubs, among other possibilities. We will accomplish these goals through viewing and discussing contemporary Italian cinema. Our course will examine films from 21st-century Italy to give students a glimpse of present-day Italian society, while placing particular emphasis on further development of conversational and writing skills. Films to include: Benvenuti al sud, Il rosso e il blu, Il ragazzo invisibile, Corpo Celeste, Terraferma, La mafia uccide solo d’estate, Io e lei, Noi e la Giulia, Scusate se esisto, and Quo vado. 

ITTR 4820 Italian Pop Culture with Enrico Cesaretti

TuTh 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

SPAN 1060 Accelerated Elementary Spanish with Daniel Colón and Matthew Street

MoWeFr 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM; 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM; 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM; 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM; 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through engagement with oral and written texts in Spanish and various interactive projects. Five class hours. Covers the material in SPAN 1010-1020 in an accelerated one semester format. Followed by SPAN 2010. Prerequisite: Previous background in Spanish (1-2 years of high school Spanish) and PLACE diagnostic score of 1.0-3.0, UVA placement diagnostic score of 0-325 (prior to May 2022), or SAT II score of 420-510.]

SPAN 2010 Intermediate Spanish with Germain Badang, Esperanza Górriz Jarque, Sara Young, Kate Neff, Jennifer Barlow, Kazara Williams, Elizabeth Mirabal

MoWeFr 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM; 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM; 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM; 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM; 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM; 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

TuTh 09:30 AM-10:45 AM; 12:30 PM-01:45 PM; 02:00 PM-03:15 PM; 03:30 PM-04:45 PM; 05:00 PM-06:15 PM; 06:30 PM-07:45 PM

Further develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through engagement with authentic, culturally rich oral and written texts in Spanish. Enables students to perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., narrating present and past activities and expressing desires and requests), and to express personal meaning by creating with the language. Three class hours. Followed by SPAN 2020.  

SPAN 2020 Advanced Intermediate Spanish with Gabriela Dongo Arévalo, David Florez-Murillo, María J. Jorquera Hervás, Jennifer Hogg, Laura Aguilar García, Patricio Arriagada Soto, Kate Neff, Nieves García Prados, Carlos Velazco Fernández, MAR Sotelo-Padrón, Josue Morales

MoWeFr 8:00 AM - 8:50 AM; 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM; 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM; 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM; 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM; 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM; 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM, 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM; 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM

TuTh 09:30 AM-10:45 AM; 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM; 12:30 PM-01:45 PM; 02:00 PM-03:15 PM; 03:30 PM-04:45 PM; 05:00 PM-06:15 PM; 06:30 PM-07:45 PM

Further develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through engagement with authentic, culturally rich oral and written texts in Spanish. Enables students to perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations with some complications (e.g., describing present, past and future activities, expressing opinions, and persuading), and to express personal meaning by creating with the language. Three class hours. 

SPAN 3000 Phonetics with Omar Velázquez-Mendoza

TuTh 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

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 & represented in the linguistic competence of their speakers. When appropriate, comparisons will be made between Spanish & English or Spanish & other (Romance & non-Romance) languages. Course seeks to improve the student's pronunciation. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or a score of 641-800 on the SAT II Exam, or a 4 or 5 on the AP Exam.

SPAN 3010 Grammar and Composition I with Esther Poveda Moreno, Alicia López Operé, Ana Píriz Moguel, Jesús Játiva Fernández, Rachel West, Winnie Pérez Martínez, Eliud Encarnación Segura

MoWeFr 9:00 AM – 9:50 AM; 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM; 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM; 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM

TuTh 9:30 AM – 10:45 PM; 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM

SPAN 3010 seeks to develop advanced literacy in Spanish through extensive analysis and discussion of journalistic and literary texts, and documentaries and films from the Spanish-speaking world. Emphasis is placed on how grammatical forms codify meaning and grammar and meaning interact to construct the language and textual structures expected in the following types of texts: a photo-narrative, a report on a current event, and a film review. Prerequisite: SPAN 2020 or equivalent.

SPAN 3015 - Spanish for Heritage Learners with Paula Sprague

MoWeFr 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

The course first provides recognition of the bilingual language skills and linguistic cultures that students who are heritage speakers of Spanish already have. Second, work with thematic resources and practice of various registers of syntax and discipline-specific discourse in writing, reading, and speech, combined with a review of advanced grammar will reinforce students' bilingual abilities and confidence when using the language in new contexts.

SPAN 3020 – Grammar and Composition II with Yafrainy Familia, Alicia López Operé

TuTh 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

SPAN 3020 seeks to develop advanced literacy in Spanish through extensive analysis and discussion of journalistic and literary texts, and documentaries and films from the Spanish-speaking world. We will focus especially on analyzing and learning advanced and late-acquisition grammatical structures and on how grammar and meaning interact to construct the language and textual structures expected in the following types of essays: and op-ed, a literary review, and an academic essay.    

SPAN 3040 Business Spanish with Lauren Mehfoud, Paola Monteros-Freeman, Alicia López Operé

TuTh 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM; 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

This is an intermediate level course in which students read, research, discuss, debate and write in Spanish about recent themes that are relevant to commercial and economic contexts in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a language class that focusses on Spanish in professional settings; no previous academic or practical experience in commerce is required.

SPAN 3050 Spanish for Medical Profession with Alicia López Operé 

TuTh 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, 12:30 PM-1:45 PM

Spanish for Medical Professions, is a recommended course for students that want to have a career in the health professions, and also for those who need to interact with Spanish-speaking people in hospitals, clinics and similar spaces. The course has been designed to develop linguistic competency as well as cultural competency in the health context. The emphasis is put on the real use of the language and the understanding of cultural differences among Spanish-speaking countries and the United States, and Latino patients in the United States. The course has a background theme on contemplative practices. 

SPAN 3300 Texts and Interpretations with Robert Sanchis Álvarez, Alicia López Operé, Esther Poveda Moreno, Paula Sprague, Manuel Acevedo-Reyes

MoWeFr 10:00 AM -  10:50 AM; 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

TuTh 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM, 11:00 AM – 12:15 AM, 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM; 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

This intermediate level course introduces the student of Spanish to the fundamentals of reading and understanding various genres, and to practice discussing, analyzing, and writing about them in an academic register in Spanish. It draws on texts and materials from both Spain and Latin America, and builds students’ specialized vocabulary. All work for the class, including reading, discussion, and writing, is done in Spanish. SPAN 3300 is a prerequisite for the survey courses. 

SPAN 3400 Survey of Spanish Literature (Mid Ages - 1700) with Ricardo Padrón

TuTh 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM

El curso comprende una  introducción a la literatura castellana de la Edad Media, el renacimiento, y el barroco hasta 1680. Las obras se estudian 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 las culturas peninsular y europea.

SPAN 3410 Survey of Spanish Literature II (1700-Pres) with Fernando Valverde

MoWe 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

MoWeFr 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

SPAN 3420 Latin American Literature I (Colonial-1900) with Melissa Frost

TuTh 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

SPAN 3430 Latin American Literature II (1900-Present)​ with Cole Rizki

MoWeFr 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

TuTh 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

SPAN 4040 Translation Spanish to English​ with Nieves García Prados

MoWeFr 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM; 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

TuTh 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM; 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

SPAN 4203 Structure of Spanish with Joel Rini

MoWe 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

SPAN 4500 Special Topics Seminar: Literature 

TuTh 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

SPAN 4510 Special Topics Seminar: Literature with Fernando Valverde

MoWe 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM

SPAN 4520 Special Topics in Culture and Civilization with Jorge Secada

MoWe 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM

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 4520 Special Topics in Culture and Civilization: Environmental Health in the Caribbean with Charlotte Rogers

MoWe 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

SPAN 4530 Special Topics in Language: Understand Forms of Spanish with Joel Rini

MoWe 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

SPAN 4700 Spanish Culture and Civilization with Fernando Valverde

MoWe 6:30 PM -7:45 PM 

SPAN 7290 Golden Age Prose 

Th 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM

SPAN 7850 Themes and Genres: Environmental Literatures of the Américas with Charlotte Rogers

Mo 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM

This course approaches the literary traditions of Latin America and the Caribbean from the perspective of the environmental humanities. We will examine how practices of imperialism, extractivism, and science have shaped the depiction of the region’s entangled ecologies in literature from the colonial era to the present. The course will focus on how literary texts from a variety of genres, including colonial chronicles, regionalist novels, magical realism, and testimonies contest visions of the Americas imposed from the outside and how they reimagine relations between humans and the vibrant, more-than-human beings by drawing on Indigenous and Afro-diasporic belief systems and ways of knowing. Readings include the work of Horacio Quiroga, José Eustasio Rivera, Pablo Neruda, Juan Rulfo, Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Samanta Schweblin, Fernanda Melchor, and Davi Kopenawa. Readings available in Spanish with translations into English; class discussions will be in English; written work may be completed in either Spanish or English. This course fulfills elective requirements for the graduate certificate in Environmental Humanities.  

SPAN 8510 / PMCC 6000 Premodern Cultures & Communities with Ricardo Padron

Tu 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM

This seminar explores current methods and issues in the study of the premodern world (ca. 500 ACE – 1700 AD), placing special emphasis on global Iberia, and spotlighting scholarship that bridges the divide between “then” and “now” by exploring the deep roots of gender, race, colonialism, and the environment. Guest lecturers from within and without UVA will guide us through their research and introduce us to the latest issues and approaches in their field of specialization. This seminar is required of graduate students pursuing the certificate in Premodern Cultures & Communities, but is open to all graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who are interested and curious, no matter what field or period they study.  All readings and course discussions will be carried out in English. 

ITAL 1020 Elementary Italian II with Stella Mattioli and Sarah Annunziato

MoWeFr 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM; 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

TuTh 9:30 AM-10:45 AM; 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

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 Tuedays and Thursdays or Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, while 40% of the work must be completed online both through the textbook’s website and the students’ personal diaries on Canvas.  

ITAL 2020 Intermediate Italian II with Francesca Calamita

TuTh 2:00 PM-3:15 PM; 3:30 PM-4:45 PM

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.

ITAL 2030 Intermediate Italian II for Professionals: Italian for Public Relations, Television, and Social Media with Stella Mattioli

MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Memes and emoticons are a universal language aimed at appealing to a general audience. Online content must be relatable and easy to understand. When it comes to social media, though, every culture has its key to a hidden world that speaks effectively only to the members of its community. It is time for you to join this cultural group! In 2030, you will be equipped with the technical tools and cultural competencies to understand and fully enjoy the last Italian tendencies in terms of public relations and social media. You will solidify your linguistic understanding, get to know Italian Instagram stars, become familiar with Italian most popular memes and their socio-cultural background; all while acquiring practical skills useful to access the Italian world of public relations.

ITAL 3020 Advanced Italian II with Enrico Cesaretti

MWF 11:00pm - 11:50pm

ITAL 3460 Growing-Up Italian Style: Children’s Culture with Sarah Annunziato

TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm

In his book, Children’s Literature, a Reader’s History From Aesop to Harry Potter, Seth Lerer writes, “ever since there were children, there has been children’s literature.” It is precisely for this reason that children’s literature is a central part of each and every culture. Although written simplistically, works for younger audiences are anything but. In fact, fairytales, picture books, nursery rhymes and young adult fiction often teach us vital lessons about daily life in any given society.

Italy is no exception to this rule. In this course, we will explore how major works of literature for children, from Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, to the poetry of Gianni Rodari, reflect changing views of childhood and parenting in the boot-shaped nation.  Students will learn how children’s literature of the nineteenth-century helped to create an Italian national identity. We will also examine how Italian children’s literature evolved in accordance with the country’s school system by looking at how innovations in early childhood education, such as the theories of Maria Montessori, influenced and were influenced by writers of children’s books. In addition, we will look at how new technologies, such as film and television in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, changed the nature of story-telling for younger audiences.

ITTR 3680 Eve's Sinful Bite: Foodscapes in Women's Writing Culture and Society with Francesca Calamita

TuTh 5:00pm - 6:15pm

This course explores how Italian women writers have represented food in their short stories, novels and autobiographies in dialogue with the culture and society from late nineteenth century to the present. These lectures will offer a close reading of the symbolic meaning of food in narrative and the way it intersects with Italian women's socio-cultural history, addressing issues of gender, identity and politics of the body.

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

MoWeFr 1:00pm - 1:50pm

PORT 2120 Intermediate Intensive Portuguese with Lilian Feitosa

MoWeFr 11:00am - 11:50am

PORT 4020 Readings in Literature in Portuguese with Lilian Feitosa

MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm