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| ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES |
| FRENCH |
| PLEASE
NOTE:
(1)
PLACEMENT in all French language courses is determined
by previous course work at the college level or by placement exam
offered during Orientation Week in the Computer Lab. (See H)
(2)
Students who are registered but do not attend the first two
meetings of their language section will automatically lose their
place. Please notify department beforehand if you will be absent
for religious holidays.
(3)
H Webcape is taken in the Computer Lab during Orientation Week.
Scores and placement will be indicated to students at the end
of their test. For French courses 210.101 to 210.302, if a
student receives between a C- and a D-, they will receive credit,
but cannot continue. |
| 210.101 |
FRENCH
ELEMENTS (4.5) Beauvois Lab
Req'd. Year course; must complete both semesters successfully
in order to receive credit Prereq: No previous knowledge of
French and Webcape score of 0-250 Limit 17 per section
The elements,
or beginning, French program provides a multi-faceted approach
to teaching language and culture to the novice French student.
From the first day, the students are "immersed" in a
linguistically rich environment with French as the primary language
of the classroom. The emphasis of the course is an aural-oral
proficiency without neglecting the other basic skills of grammar
structure, phonetics, reading, and writing.
The
French in Action method provides a video-based multimedia language
and culture experience for the beginning French student. From
the first day, the students are "immersed" in a linguistically
rich environment provided by the video tape presentation and audio
practice tape follow-up. The emphasis of the course is on aural-oral
proficiency without neglecting the other basic skills of grammar
structure, phonetics, reading, and writing.
No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01
02
03
|
MTW 9, F 9:30-10:30
MTW 10, F 10:30-11:30
MTW 11, F 12 |
| 210.103 |
LEARNER
MANAGED SECTION OF FRENCH ELEMENTS (3.5)
Beauvois Limit
12 Lab Req'd Year course; must complete both semesters successfully
in order to receive credit Prereq: No previous knowledge of
French or Webcape score of 0-250. This
course is designed for students with scheduling conflicts.
Special section meets two times a week. Extra materials and e-mail
group help class keep up with the pace of regular French elements
sections. See description for 210.101
No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01 |
MW 6-7:15pm |
| 210.201
(H) |
INTERMEDIATE
FRENCH (3.5) Guillemard Limit 17 per section Prereq:
210.101-102, or between 280 and 390 score on Webcape Lab Req'd.
A two-semester course conducted entirely
in French. Students follow a systematic review of language structures
and phonetics, using tapes and multimedia material. They practice
the four communication skills (listening, speaking, reading, and
writing) through a variety of exercises and videos related to
cultural topics. In-lab exercises. In the spring, students read
excerpts of literary texts. |
Sec. 01
02
03
04 |
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 12
MTW 11 1 |
| 210.203
(H) |
ADVANCED
INTERMEDIATE FRENCH (3.5)
Roos Limit
17 per section Prereq: "A" in 210.101-102 or between
391 and 450 on Webcape Lab Req'd. Credit will not be given
if you have previously taken 210.201-202 Conducted entirely
in French A two-semester intermediate course offering a systematic
review of language structures, conducted exclusively in French.
This course is for students who can express themselves more fluently
in both their written and oral work and can analyze more difficult
texts than in Intermediate French. Students
will study authentic texts, including film "text," and
focus on their written and oral skills. This is a reading- and
writing-intensive course.
The first semester will explore the Francophone
world, and the second will study autobiographical films. The course
is web-based and offers interactive exercises. Required Language
Laboratory exercises are based on interactive CD-roms. |
Sec. 01
02
03 |
MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 11 |
| 210.301
(H)
(W) |
CONVERSATION
ET COMPOSITION FRANÇAISE (3.5)
Mobarek Prereq: 210.201-202 or 210.203-204 or above
450 on Webcape and supplementary test Lab Req'd. Limit
12 per section
This third-year course is conducted
exclusively in French. It is intended to bridge the intermediate
level and more advanced classes in French literature and cultural
studies. Over two semesters, students will be given the opportunity
to strengthen oral and aural skills through films, audiotapes,
class discussions, oral presentations and written skills through
the writing and correction of essays. The course will offer students
an individualized review of grammar based on the students' written
work. Students will be presented with a diversity of texts from
current newspaper articles covering different issues to poems
and literary texts.
Sec.
08 added 09/08/05 Sec.08 canceled 09/22/05
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Sec. 01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
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MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 11
MTW 12
MTW 12
MTW
10
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| 210.303
(H)
|
BUSINESS FRENCH (3)
Beauvois
Prereq: 210.301-302 or above 550 on Webcape Limit 15
Introduction to fundamental aspects of the
business world. The French language as a means of communication
in the business world; commercial and economic vocabulary, trade
and business practices, public and private sectors. Prepares students
for the exam for the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris
certificate. Only the second semester of 210.303-304 counts
as credit for the major
Course canceled 05/10/05
|
Sec. 01
|
MTW 11
|
| 210.307
(H)
|
LEGAL FRENCH (3) Beauvois
Limit 15 Course added 05/10/05
Course canceled 09/08/05
|
Sec. 01
|
MTW 10
|
| 210.501 |
FRENCH INDEPENDENT STUDY - LANGUAGE Staff |
|
|
| 211.315
(H) |
B-BOYS
& B-GIRLS IN THE BANLIEUE (3)
Asquith An
introduction to politics and aesthetics of French rap and graffiti,
its models, from Rimbaud to Oum Kalthoum and its stars, from MC
Solaar to Ackhenaton. Taught in French. Course
added 06/08/05 |
Sec. 01 |
T 3-5pm |
| 211.350
(H) |
LE
FRANCAIS ARGOTIQUE (3)
Puckett Do you want to learn French as it's "really"
spoken by people your age? Then this course is for you! Students
will be exposed to "street" French through various forms
of contemporary French media, from novels and popular music to
comic books and movies. Class time will be divided between the
study of spoken French and application of what has been learned.
Each student will be required to keep a weekly blog and each will
need to submit a final project incorporating what she/he has learned
over the semester. Course added 08/19/05 |
Sec. 01 |
T 1-3 |
| 211.401
(H) |
LA FRANCE CONTEMPORAINE I (3)
Roos Limit 15
Prereq: 210.301-302 or Webcape above 550 or Perm. Req'd.
Contemporary French culture and society
studied through the French press and Internet, recent books, films,
and broadcast television. Oral presentation and independent research
are required. Conducted in French |
Sec. 01 |
MTW 12 |
| 212.201
(H)
(W) |
INTRODUCTION
À LA LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE I (3)
Delacampagne (Sec.01) / Asquith (Sec.02)
Limit 15 per section
Prereq: Both semesters of 210.301-302
or at least one semester of 210.301-302 with a grade of “A” and
written permission of the instructor Readings and discussion
of texts of various genres from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
The two semesters may be taken in either order. This sequence
is a prerequisite to all further literature courses. Students
may co-register with an upper-level course during their second
semester. Course conducted in French |
Sec. 01
02
|
ThF 9-10:30
MTW 10 |
| 212.219
(H) |
FROM
DUMAS TO PROUST: THE ADVENTURE NOVEL IN FRANCE (3)
Conceatu Limit 15 Prereq: 210.201 or 210.202
Adventure as the essence of fiction:
novels, comic-books, and movies explore exoticism, danger, and
mystery to demonstrate the literary underpinnings of suspense
and readerly enjoyment.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course |
Sec. 01
|
M 2-4
ThF 10:30-12 |
| 212.318
(H)
(W) |
WOMEN IN FRENCH LITERATURE OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES (3)
Anderson Prereq: 212.201
This course will examine the changes
in the relationship of women to literature in France before the
French Revolution from several points of view: (1) What were the
social and intellectual contexts of gender distinctions? (2) How
did men writing about women differ from women writing about women?
(3) How were these questions affected by the changing norms of
literary productions? Texts by Mme. de Sèvignè, Molière, Mme.
de Lafayette, Prévost, Diderot, Rousseau, Laclos, and Beaumarchais.
Cross-listed
with Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Sec. 01
|
W 3-5 |
| 212.340
(H)
(W) |
DIDEROT
& ROUSSEAU BETWEEN 1749 & 1756 (3) Hodson
Prereq: 212.201-202
This course will look at five major
texts written by these two philosophers at a time when they were
also close friends. Diderot's two letters examine whether there
is a firm basis for our knowledge, universal to all men. His letters
are hard to interpret, but seem to point to language and pedagogical
tradition as the answer to this question. He is an atheist. Rousseau
probes into the moral value of human culture, and then into whether
there is a possible social basis in man for man's development.
He comes to realize that he is not an atheist. The course will
help students become familiar with texts that are at the very
basis of mid eighteenth-century free-thinking and political thought.
The texts will be read in French but translations exist for all
but one. |
Sec. 01 |
T 11-1 |
| 212.375
(H) |
FRENCH
CULTURE THROUGH POETRY: FROM EARLY MODERN TO MODERN (3) Jeanneret Prereq: 210.301-302
or Perm. Req’d. This seminar has
two objectives: (1) Students will learn how to read poetry, how
to understand the significance of forms and will get a chance
to improve their skill in close reading and interpretation of
poems. (2) The selection of texts, ranging from the XVIth century,
with Ronsard, to the late XIXth century, with Rimbaud, and including
such major poets as Malherbe, La Fontaine and Baudelaire, will
provide insights into the ideology and aesthetics of different
cultures in premodern and modern France: the Renaissance, the
Classical period, Romanticism and finally the outbreak of a radical
modernism. The seminar will be held in French. |
Sec. 01 |
W 1-3 |
| 212.402
(H) |
LE ROI ARTUR, LE SAINT GRAAL, ET LES CHEVALIERS DE LA TABLE RONDE (3)
Nichols Prereq:
210.301-302 or Perm. Req'd
Qui est le roi Arthur
et pourquoi la légende du saint graal a-t-elle évoluée
autour de sa cour? D’où vient l’idée
d’une chevalerie consacrée à la quête
du Saint Graal? Pourquoi la France au XIIe siècle est-elle
devenue le berceau de ce mythe perdurable? Et, enfin, pourquoi
cette légende a-t-elle exercé une fascination continue
sur l’imagination moderne? En lisant des romans de Chrétien
de Troyes et d’autres auteurs médiévaux, ce
cours tâchera de répondre à de telles questions?
On examinera, pour terminer, quelques traitements cinématographiques
contemporains du thème.
Qui est le roi Artur et pourquoi la légende
du saint graal s’est-elle évoluée autour de sa cour? D’où vient
l’idée d’une chevalerie consacrée à la quête du saint graal?
Pourquoi la France au 12th siècle est-elle devenu le berceau de
ce mythe perdurable? Et, enfin, pourquoi cette légende a-t-elle
exercé une fascination continue sur l’imagination moderne? En
lisant des romans de Chrétien de Troyes et d’autres auteurs médiévaux,
ce cours tâchera de répondre à de telles questions. On examinera,
pour terminer, quelques traitements cinématographiques contemporains
du thème. |
Sec. 01 |
T 3-5 |
| 212.405
(H)
|
FRENCH SURREALISM IN LITERATURE, ART AND FILMS
(3) Delacampagne Prereq: 210.301-302
In order to better understand what French
surrealism really was, we will read texts (poetry & novels),
look at paintings, and watch some films created between 1920 and
1960. Conducted in French Course
canceled 04/12/05
|
Sec. 01
|
T 3-5
|
| 212.409
(H)
(W) |
SADE: PHILOSOPHIE ET LITTÉRATURE (3) Mobarek Prereq:
210.301-302 or Perm. Req’d.
Religion, sexualité, éthique, et politique
dans l’œuvre de Sade. |
Sec. 01 |
MW 11 |
| SPANISH |
| Final
placement in all Spanish language courses will be determined by
a Spanish Placement exam to be taken during orientation week and
in the Department office at other times, or be the previous completion
of a Spanish class at Hopkins. See the Spanish Language Coordinator
to arrange for the taking of the exam. |
| 210.111
|
SPANISH ELEMENTS I (3.5) Weingarten
(Formerly 210.127)
Year course Must complete both semesters successfully in order
to receive credit Lab Req'd. Limit 23 (Sec. 01); Limit 17
per section (Secs. 02-06) Development
of the basic skills in reading, writing, and speaking, with emphasis
on good pronunciation and aural comprehension. (Extensive use
of the language laboratory, sustained class participation, daily
homework, frequent testing, a midterm, and a final exam.)
No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01
02
03
04
05
06 |
Online
MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 11
MTW 12 |
| 210.112
|
SPANISH
ELEMENTS II (3.5) Weingarten (Formerly 210.128) Prereq: 210.127 or placement exam
Lab
Req'd. Must complete both semesters successfully in order to
receive credit Limit 17 per section Continuation of Spanish Elements I. Development of the
basic skills in reading, writing, and speaking, with emphasis
on good pronunciation and aural comprehension. (Extensive use
of the language laboratory, sustained class participation, daily
homework, frequent testing, a midterm, and a final exam.) No
Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01
02
03
04 |
MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 12 |
| 210.211
(H) |
INTERMEDIATE
SPANISH I (3.5) Gonzalez
Miranda-Aldaco (Formerly 210.227) Prereq: 210.127-128 or equivalent
Limit
17 per section Completion of basic training in the skills of the language.
Emphasis on reading and the rudiments of composition. Class participation
is essential as is frequent testing plus the writing of one or
two brief compositions, language laboratory work, and comprehensive
testing during midterms and finals. |
Sec. 01
02
03
04
05
06 |
MTW 9 Online
MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 12
MTW 12 |
| 210.212
(H) |
INTERMEDIATE
SPANISH II (3.5) Miranda-Aldaco
(Formerly 210.228)
Prereq: 210.227 or equivalent Limit 17 per section Continuation of Intermediate Spanish I. Completion of basic
training in the skills of the language. Emphasis on reading and
the rudiments of composition. Class participation is essential
as is frequent testing plus the writing of one or two brief compositions,
language laboratory work, and comprehensive testing during midterms
and finals. |
Sec. 01
02
03
04 |
MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 12 |
| 210.213
(H) |
ADVANCED
INTERMEDIATE SPANISH (3.5) Miranda-Aldaco
(Formerly
210.229) Limit 17 per section Prereq:
Entrance by placement exam
Second-year course designed for students
with a solid grammatical foundation and an interest in literature.
The course aims at developing their oral and writing skills by
means of readings, discussions, and compositions based on a variety
of texts by well-known Spanish and Latin American authors. |
Sec. 01
02 |
MTW 10
MTW 11 |
| 210.311
(H)
(W) |
ADVANCED
SPANISH I (3) Encinas (Formerly
210.326) Prereqs: 210.227-228 or 210.229-230 or appropriate
S-CAPE score Limit 15 per section
This course is designed for students
who have attained a high intermediate level of proficiency and
wish to improve on grammar and vocabulary in addition to oral
and written expression. Students are exposed to a deeper understanding
of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. |
Sec. 01
02
03
04
05
|
Online MTW 9
MTW 9 10
MTW 10 11
MTW 11 12
MTW 12 Online |
| 210.312
(H) |
ADVANCED SPANISH II (3) Encinas
Prereq: 210.311 or appropriate
S-CAPE score This course is designed
for students who have attained an advanced level of proficiency
in Spanish 210.326 and wish to improve their oral skills by focusing
on the use of standard, spoken Spanish with an emphasis on colloquial
and idiomatic expressions. Students are exposed to a deeper understanding
of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world through movies and
other listening comprehension exercises. The course will mainly
focus on conversation and vocabulary acquisition. Sec.
01 canceled 08/18/05 |
Sec. 01
02
03
04 |
MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 12 |
| 210.313
(H) |
MEDICAL
SPANISH (3) Sánchez Limit
22 15 Upperclassmen
and Homewood undgrads have priority Prereq: 210.326
Students will increase their vocabulary
and practice grammar structures closely related to the medical
and health administration professions. All language skills are
equally emphasized. Highly recommended to students in any of the
health-related majors. Intensive online component. |
Sec. 01 |
MT 11 |
| 210.314
(H) |
BUSINESS SPANISH (3) Sánchez (Formerly 210.329) Limit 15 Prereq: 210.326
Students will increase their vocabulary and practice grammar
structures closely related to trade and business practices. Highly
recommended to students majoring in business and international
relations. There will be an on-line component. |
Sec. 01 |
MW 10 |
| 210.411
(H) |
SPANISH
TRANSLATION FOR THE PROFESSIONS (3)
Sánchez-Serrano Encinas
(Formerly 210.345)
Prereq: One of the following: 210.329, 210.333, or 210.335 Limit
15 Students will learn the basics
of translation theory and be presented with the tools needed (specialized
dictionaries, Web resources, etc.) for the translation of business,
medical, legal, technological, political, and journalistic texts
from Spanish to English and English to Spanish. |
Sec. 01 |
MTW 12 |
| 210.412
(H)
(W) |
SPANISH
LANGUAGE INTERNSHIP (3) Sánchez
(Formerly 210.430) Limit
12 Prereq: 210.345
Internship involves a specially designed
project related to student's minor concentration. Provides an
opportunity to use Spanish language in real world contexts. May
be related to current employment context or developed in agencies
or organizations that complement student's research and experimental
background while contributing to the improvement of language proficiency. |
Sec. 01 |
MW 1 |
| 212.342
(H) |
INTRODUCTION
TO THE FORMATION OF LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES I
(3) Castro-Klaren The course will explore the cultural continuities and fractures
in the unfolding of life in the Andes from the appearance of the
first urban center on the coastal valleys--2000bc-- to the aftermath
of the Spanish conquest at about 1600. Readings will be taken
from archeology and anthropology. Andean and Christian myths of
origin and theories of state formation will be examined along
with the chronicles written by Spanish conquistadores, Indian
and Mestizo intellectuals. |
Sec. 01 |
T 12-2
(plus one additional hour TBA) |
| 212.352
(H) |
NARRATION
& TEXT IN FILM (3) González
Lab Fee: $40 Focus
on 20th-century authors from Spanish America in comparative reference
to European and American fiction and film.
Cross-listed
with Film & Media Studies
|
Sec. 01
Film
screening |
T 11-1
T 1-3
M
7:30-10pm |
| 212.385
(H)
|
20TH
CENTURY SPANISH LITERATURE (3) Monleón This
course will survey the Spanish literary production from the Generation
of 1898 to the present as a means to understand the cultural and
political issues that dominated life during the 20th century.
It will include works by Unamuno, Lorca, Cela, Martin Gaite, Goytisolo,
Gopegui, among others.
Course canceled 03/30/05 Course re-opened 04/06/05
Course canceled 07/15/05
|
Sec. 01
|
W 2-4
|
| 212.439
(H) |
CONTEMPORARY
FICTION AND CINEMA BY SPANISH WOMEN (3) Gonzalez
Zecchi Prereq:
210.326 This class studies the recent boom of women writers and
film directors and explores how this so-called "Generación
X" deals with issues such as the anxiety of authorship, the
memory of the past, the relation with feminist discourses, and
the representation of female sexuality. The study will include
fiction by Lucía Etxebarria, Dulce Chacón, Laura
Mañá, Laura Freixas, and films by Iciar Bollain,
Patricia Ferreiras, Dolores Payás, and Helena Taverna.
Taught in Spanish.
Cross-listed
with Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Course added 04/06/05 |
Sec. 01 |
W 3-5 |
| 212.491
(H) |
MUSLIM, JEWISH, AND CHRISTIAN LITERATURES IN IBERIA (3) Altschul Limit 20 From
711 to 1492 the Iberian Peninsula was a multilingual and multiethnic
society inhabited by members of the three monotheistic faiths.
This course will discuss the interactions and literatures of the
Muslim, Jewish and Christian peoples of Iberia during Medieval
times. Readings include Ibn Hazm, Shem Tov, Petrus Alfonsus and
Juan Manuel, as well as Kalilah wa Dimnah and Sendebar. |
Sec. 01 |
T 4-6pm |
| 212.525 |
SPANISH
INDEPENDENT STUDY |
|
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| ITALIAN |
| Final
placement in all Italian language courses will be determined by
an Italian Placement exam, or be the previous completion of an
Italian class at Hopkins. See the Italian Language Coordinator
to arrange for the taking of the exam. |
| 210.151 |
ITALIAN
ELEMENTS (3.5) Zannirato
Year course; must complete both semesters for credit; Lab Req'd.
Limit 20 per section The aim of
the course is to provide the student with the basic skills in
reading, writing, and speaking the language through the use of
grammatical texts, elementary readings, videos, and electronic
didactic materials in the Language Laboratory (required). All
classes are conducted in Italian; oral participation is encouraged
from the beginning. Daily homework, three to four tests, one midterm
and one final exam. No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01
02
03
04 |
MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 12 |
| 210.251
(H) |
INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN (3.5) Zannirato
Limit 17 per section Prereq: 210.151-152 Lab Req'd. Intensive
review of grammatical and syntactical structures; improvement
of reading and composition skills through the use of contemporary
literary texts, reinforcement of the student's knowledge of the
language through weekly oral and written presentations on predetermined
subjects. Class participation is essential. Language laboratory
work required on videos, CD-rom, and online. |
Sec. 01
02
03 |
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 12 |
| 210.351
(H)
(W) |
ADVANCED
ITALIAN COMPOSITION AND CONVERSATION (3)
Zannirato
Limit 17 per section Prereq: 210.251-252
This third-year level course presents
a systematic introduction to a variety of contemporary cultural
topics, emphasizing role-playing, vocabulary building, and style
and clarity in writing. Texts drawn from different media (newspapers,
magazines, and literary work), and ample use of audio-visual and
electronic materials will stress everyday spoken Italian. |
Sec. 01
02 |
MTW 11
MTW 12 |
| 2102.361
(H) |
WORLD
OF DANTE (3) Forni
This course focuses on the social,
cultural, political, and moral concerns that shape Dante’s Divine
Comedy. Together with selected cantos from Inferno,
Purgatory, and Paradise, students read parts of
Dante’s New Life and On World Government. |
Sec. 01
|
M 1-3
W 3-5
|
| 212.380
(H) |
ITALIAN SHORT FICTION (3) Stephens
Prereq: 210.251-252 or
Perm. Req’d. Course will read major examples of the short story and novella,
beginning with contemporary writers and working backward through
several centuries of Italian fiction to build vocabulary and literary-historical
knowledge. Taught entirely in Italian. |
Sec. 01 |
ThF 9-10:30 |
| 212.561 |
ITALIAN INDEPENDENT STUDY |
|
|
| PORTUGUESE |
| Final
placement in all Portuguese language courses will be determined
by a Portuguese Placement exam to be taken during orientation
week and in the Department office at other times, or be the previous
completion of a Portuguese class at Hopkins. See the Portuguese
Language Coordinator to arrange for the taking of the exam. |
| 210.177
|
PORTUGUESE
ELEMENTS (3.5) Bensabat-Ott
Year course must complete
both semesters with passing grades to receive credit Lab Req'd
This course introduces students to the
basic skills in reading, writing, and speaking the Portuguese
language. Basic texts, music, and folklore are used to acquaint
students with Portugal and Brazil, as well as the cultural influences
of Africa on Brazilian society. Students are encouraged to speak
from the very beginning of the course, and class participation
is a must. All classes are conducted in Portuguese.
No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory
|
Sec. 01 |
MWF 11 |
| 210.277
(H) |
INTERMEDIATE/
ADVANCED PORTUGUESE (3.5)
Bensabat-Ott Year course must complete both semesters
with passing grades to receive credit
Lab Req'd More advanced training in the skills of the language through
short stories, poetry, and miscellaneous readings from Brazil,
Portugal, and Portuguese-speaking Africa that reflect the mix
of cultures at work in contemporary Lusophone world. Throughout
the course emphasis is placed on vocabulary building, ease, and
fluency in the language. All classes are conducted in Portuguese.
No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01 |
MWF 10 |
| 210.379
(H)
|
ADVANCED
PORTUGUESE: READING, COMPOSITION AND CONVERSATION (3.5) Bensabat-Ott
Year course must complete both semesters with passing grades to
receive credit Lab Req'd. Advanced training
in spoken and written Portuguese expression, incorporating traditional
and contemporary writing including newspaper and magazine articles
from Brazil, Portugal, and Portuguese-speaking Africa. Advanced
vocabulary building and fluency are stressed. All classes are
conducted in Portuguese. No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory Course canceled 03/30/05
|
Sec. 01
|
MWF 12
|
| 210.391
(H) |
PORTUGUESE
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (3) Bensabat-Ott Prereq: 210.277-278 or equivalent. Perm.
Req'd. This third-year advanced Portuguese language
course focuses on reading, writing and oral expression. Under
the supervision of the instructor, students will read one or two
complete works by major Brazilian, Portuguese, and/or Afro-Portuguese
writers each semester, followed by intensive writing and oral
discussion on the topics covered. Grammar will be reviewed as
necessary. Course added 03/30/05 |
Sec. 01 |
MWF 12 |
| 360.133
(H)
(W) |
GREAT
BOOKS: WESTERN TRADITION (3) Patton/Bett/Celenza/Biddle Limit
20 per section
Cross-listed with Interdepartmental, Classics, Philosophy, German, and
the Humanities Center |
Sec. 01
02
03
04 |
ThF 10:30-12
ThF 10:30-12
ThF 10:30-12
ThF 10:30-12 |
| 300.377
(H) |
RADICAL
ENLIGHTENMENTS: SPINOZA’S HERETIC “ATHEISM AND THE MATERIALIST
TRADITION” (3)
deVries Limit:
30
Cross-listed with Philosophy, Anthropology, German,
the Humanities Center, and Political Science |
Sec. 01 |
Th 1-3:30 |
| 300.383
(H) |
WHAT
MAKES US DESIRE? (3) Marrati
Limit 20
Cross-listed with the Humanities Center, Anthropology,
and Philosophy |
Sec. 01 |
M 2-4:30 |
| 090.384
(H)
(W) |
A
DIALOGUE BETWEEN OLD AND NEW THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE
(3) Wilczek Limit 18
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course
Cross-listed with German, Cognitive Science, and the
Humanities Center |
Sec. 01 |
M 3-4:30,
W 2-3:30 |
| GRADUATE COURSES |
| 210.610 |
METHODS
OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING Beauvois
Required
for all incoming French, Italian, and Spanish Graduate students |
Sec. 01 |
Th 11-1 |
| 212.692 |
RESEARCH
METHODS Waterman Department
majors only Limit 20 Year-long
course |
Sec. 01 |
Th 9-10:30 10:30-12 |
FRENCH |
| 210.601
|
FRENCH FOR READING AND TRANSLATION (3) Staff Limit 20 Intensive study of French grammar structure plus experience
in reading and translating expository prose. Students do independent
work (vocabulary acquisition and translation) in their particular
field of study. Designed for graduate students in other departments
who need to complete a language requirement in French. Open to
undergraduates only with the permission of the language coordinator. |
Sec. 01 |
MTW 9 |
| 212.600 |
READING
& SEEING IN MEDIEVAL LYRIC POETRY Nichols
Theories
of Reading and a new poetry of love evolved simultaneously in
twelfth century France. Both stressed the role of vision
and cognition. The seminar will examine medieval reading theory
in conjunction with practices of writing and painting in thirteenth
century troubadour and trouvère chansonniers (manuscript
song-books). |
Sec. 01 |
W 1-3 |
| 212.716 |
DIDEROT AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES Anderson
Diderot's
early work was dominated by his work on the natural sciences and
the Encyclopédie. But in later years, his literature addresses
the social applications of his knowledge: economic, anthropological,
political, and moral issues structure his aesthetic concerns.
Texts to be studied include Le Supplément au voyage de Bougainville,
Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron, the Salon of 1767,
Le Reve de d'Alembert, Le Neveu de Rameau |
Sec. 01 |
Th 1-3 |
| 212.740 |
HISTORY
& TRAGEDY: SHAKESPEARE, CORNEILLE, RACINE Hodson
History seems to go on; tragedy stops. Tragedy from the greeks
until the twentieth century has been considered the most important
dramatic form; and since Aristotle, at least, questions have been
raised about its relation with history. This course looks at the
relation to history expressed in five plays: Shakespeare's "Hamlet",
Corneille's "Horace" and "Surena", Racine’s
"Britannicus" and "Athalie". It will not be
concerned with how the dramatists have arranged the historical
sources they have used so much as how they have presented their
human actors' relation to some kind of historical process implied
in their play. The texts will be studied in detail, in relation
especially to one modern theoretical work on tragedy, Walther
Benjamin's "The Origin of the German Mourning Play",
together with some reference to other theoretical works on tragedy.
Assessment: by one long essay at the end of the course. Ability
to read French essential. |
Sec. 01 |
T 3-5 |
| 212.745 |
RELIRE
DERRIDA Delacampagne
Derrida’s
death (2004) allows us to look on his whole work in retrospect,
and to assess its importance for cultural critique and literary
theory. |
Sec. 01 |
W 3-5 |
| 212.746 |
MONSTERS, PRODIGIES, AND MYSTERIOUS SIGNS IN RENAISSANCE Jeanneret
The modern
era has neutralized the enigma of the monster by relegating it
to the fantastic or by rationalizing it as a medical accident.
In Renaissance culture, on the other hand, monsters were ubiquitous,
uncanny and ominous. The word designates an unusual phenomenon,
biological or cosmological, which is supposed to carry a supernatural
message. If it is a sign, it invites interpretation; if it is
a superstition or an illusion, it requires demystification. Reading
texts by Ronsard, Rabelais, Montaigne and others, we will work
out the strategies provided by literature to face up to the challenges
of the monsters, whether by decoding their hidden meaning or by
emptying them of their threatening potential. The seminar will
be held in French. |
Sec. 01 |
T 12-2 1-3 |
| 212.801 |
FRENCH
INDEPENDENT STUDY |
|
|
| 212.802 |
FRENCH
DISSERTATION RESEARCH |
|
|
| 212.803 |
FRENCH
PROPOSAL PREPARATION |
|
|
| SPANISH |
| 212.681 |
SPANISH
CINEMA AND NATIONAL IDENTITY Yarza This course will focus on the various attempts by directors
such as Luis Buñuel, Basilio Martin Patino, Victor Erice,
Pedro Almodóvar, and Alex de la Iglesia, among others,
to create alternative versions of national identity that oppose
this Francoist kitsch first embodied by Raza. This course
will also aim at providing students with both the theoretical
background and the analytical tools necessary to read all these
films in their proper cinematographic context.Course
added 07/26/05 |
Sec. 01
Scr. |
Th 4-6pm
MT
7:30-9:30pm |
| 212.686
|
ROMANTICISM Monleón
This course will explore
the nature of Romanticism in Spain, both as a social phenomenon
and as an artistic movement. Being the object of Northern Europe’s
romantic gaze, how could a romantic subjectivity grow in Spain?
What role did it play in a nationalist project? How did it affect
gender roles?
Course canceled
03/30/05 Course re-opened 04/06/05
Course canceled 07/15/05
|
Sec. 01
|
Th 1-3
|
| 212.691 |
MUSLIM, JEWISH, AND CHRISTIAN LITERATURES IN IBERIA Altschul Limit
5 Open to Graduate student’s with instructor’s consent
(See description for
212.491) |
Sec. 01 |
T 4-6pm |
| 212.739 |
NOVELA, CINE Y TEORÍA González
Highlights
in the philosophy and theory of the novel and narration from Lukacs
to Barthes, Bahktin, and Derrida, examined in reference to leading
approaches to cinema in the twentieth century. Works of fiction
from Cervantes to Manuel Puig and Javier Marías and films
from classical Hollywood to Almodóvar. |
Sec. 01 |
M T 2-4
|
| 212.756 |
CONQUEST & WRITING IN THE ANDES: 1430-1630 Castro-Klaren
In view of
the latest arguments and revision of the history of Andean Cultures
in the work of Gary Urton, Frank Salomon, Maria Rostoworosky and
Irene Silverblatt, the course will consider the problem of writing
and memory in the Andes together with the relation of writing
to the formation of both imperial and colonial cultural formations.
Readings will include the Huarochiri myths, the Inca relations
of the war with the Waris, the narrative of conquest authored
by Betanzos, Cieza de Leon, Garcilaso de la Vega Inca and Guaman
Poma. The course will depart from a post-colonial perspective
and approach to studies of conquest and colonial formations. |
Sec.01 |
W 3-5pm 4-6pm |
| 212.757
|
MODERN
SPANISH FEMINISMS Zecchi
This course will address
the formation of a gender consciousness in Spain and it will articulate
issues such as what is feminist literary criticism? What is the
relationship between gender and genre? Is there a women's literature?
Can we conceive a feminine language?
Course added 04/06/05
Course canceled
08/22/05
Cross-listed
with Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality
|
Sec.01
|
M 4-6pm
|
| 212.775 |
PROSTITUTION
AND ETHICS OF READING IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN Brownlee
This course focuses on three seminal texts – La
Celestina, La Lozana Andaluza, and La Dorotea
– from perspectives of gender, especially powerful women
(prostitutes, witches, mothers), the societal realities they reflect
(history, race, and medical issues), as well as print culture
– reading practices, authorial self-fashioning, and the
emerging modern subject.Course
added 05/03/05
Cross-listed
with Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality |
Sec.01 |
M 1-3 |
| 212.826 |
SPANISH INDEPENDENT STUDY |
|
|
| 212.827 |
SPANISH DISSERTATION RESEARCH |
|
|
| 212.828 |
SPANISH PROPOSAL PREPARATION |
|
|
| ITALIAN |
| 212.668 |
BOCCACCIO I Forni
Readings
from Boccaccio's early works (Filocolo, Filostrato, Teseida, Ninfale
fiesolano) prepare the students for the study of the Decameron
(Boccaccio II). Particular attention is given to the different
cultural traditions that enrich young Boccaccio's imagination.
The question of the writer's humanism is seen against the background
of his Neapolitan years. |
Sec. 01 |
F 10:30-12:30 |
| 212.749 |
THE
SCHOLAR’S BOOKSHELF, PART I: MEDIEVAL AUTHORS’ AUTHORS Stephens
Course
will examine a variety of examples from the genres and authors
most read by medieval authors in the Romance Languages canon,
and relate them to authors of that canon. Examples will include
theology, philosophy, encyclopedias, poetry, hagiography and historiography.
Translations will be used, but reading knowledge of simple Latin
is helpful. |
Sec. 01 |
Th 3-5pm Th 2-4 |
| 212.760 |
ITALIAN
HUMANISM FROM PETRARCH TO POLIZIANO Celenza
Prereq: Some basic reading knowledge of Latin What were Italian
humanists doing when they decided to write in a “new,” seemingly
classicizing Latin? Concentrating on five generations of humanists,
from Petrarch to Poliziano, and focusing on leading figures in
each generation, we will see that classicizing Latin prose served
as a unique means of pre-modern
philosophical expression, a form of “spiritual exercise” that
energized and gave direction to the Italian humanist movement.
Yet, as classicizing Latin became part of elite educations and
as near-perfect imitation of Ciceronian Latin grew increasingly
common, the tasks changed for leading scholars and intellectuals.
By the generation of Lorenzo Valla (+1457), important thinkers
moved beyond technical imitation; philology began to challenge
institutionalized philosophy on its own ground and at the same
time to give impetus to a different kind of philosophy, deliberately
anti-institutional, resistant to orthodoxies, and highly attentive
to the complexities of language. After Poliziano, that same anti-institutional
energy was transferred into European vernaculars, and an important
phase of the Italian Renaissance came to an end. |
Sec. 01 |
M 2-4
4-6pm |
| 212.861 |
ITALIAN INDEPENDENT STUDY |
|
|
| 212.862 |
ITALIAN DISSERTATION RESEARCH |
|
|
| 212.863 |
ITALIAN PROPOSAL PREPARATION |
|
|
| 300.677 |
TRANSCENDANCE & IMMANENCE: THEODOR W. ADORNO AND
GILLES DELEUZE deVries/Marrati
Cross-listed with Anthropology, English,
Philosophy, German, the Humanities Center and Political Science |
Sec. 01 |
T 1-4 |
| 010.685 |
EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE WALL MOSAICS Maguire, H.
Cross-listed with History of Art |
Sec. 01 |
W 4-6pm |
| 040.693 |
BACCHUS AND DIONYSUS TODAY Detienne
Cross-listed with Classics, History, the Humanities
Center, and Anthropology |
Sec. 01 |
W 3-5 |
