| ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES |
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| FRENCH |
| PLEASE
NOTE:
Placement
in all French language courses is determined either by Webcape
(computerized exam to be taken online or during Orientation at
the Language Lab) or by completion of a previous class at
Hopkins. Contact Claude
Guillemard (claude@jhu.edu) for any placement questions. |
| 210.101 |
FRENCH
ELEMENTS (4.5)
Beauvois Lab
Req'd. Prereq: No previous knowledge of French and Webcap
score of 0-250 Limit 15 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. Year course; must
complete both semesters successfully in order to receive credit
No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01
02
03
|
MTW 9, F 12
9:30-10:30
MTW 10, F 12
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 for 1 and
1/4 hours. This is a hybrid on-line course
taught both in the classroom (2x a week) and on-line (2x a week).
Students will need to have regular and consistent access to a
computer. On-line materials are designed for 1 and 1/2 more
hours a week required for the course. It must be noted
that there is less classroom contact time in this course, and
therefore this course is recommended for those who have some knowledge
of French and need a review of the language. Only highly self-motivated
students should attempt this course. No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01 |
MW 6-7:15pm |
| 210.201 (H) |
INTERMEDIATE
FRENCH (3.5)
Guillemard Limit 15 per section Prereq:
210.101-102, 210.103-104 or between 280 and 390 score on Webcape
Lab Req'd. Taught in French, this course develops the four
communication skills through multimedia material. Movies and
readings from French-speaking destinations and extensive study
of Manon des Sources. WebCT-based. |
Sec. 01
02
03
04 |
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 11
MTW 12 |
| 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. 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: 210.202 or 210.204
or Webcape and supplementary test (Contact Prof. Guillemard at
claude@jhu.edu)
Lab Req’d Limit 12 per section
This is a third-year language course intended to bridge the intermediate
level and more advanced levels in French literature and cultural
studies. Over two semesters, students will be given the opportunity
to continue strengthening their linguistic skills. This
course will offer students an individualized review of grammar
based on the students¹ written work. Students will be presented
with a diversity of texts from current newspaper articles covering
key national and international issues to a diversity of literary
texts. |
Sec. 01
02
03
04
05
06
07 |
MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 11
MTW 12
MTW 12 |
| 210.303 (H) |
BUSINESS
FRENCH (3)
Beauvois
Prereq: 210.301-302 Limit 15 This course covers the
fundamentals of the business world in the French language. It
is a two-semester course in which students study commercial and
economic vocabulary, trade and business practices in the public
and private sectors. Students take the exam for the Chambre de
Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris certificate at the end of the
spring semester. Only the second semester of 210.303-304 counts as credit
for the major |
Sec. 01 |
MTW 10 |
| 210.501 |
FRENCH INDEPENDENT STUDY - LANGUAGE Staff |
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| 211.401 (H) |
LA
FRANCE CONTEMPORAINE I (3) Cook-Gailloud Roos
Limit 18 5 Prereq: 210.301-302
or 210.301 and instructor’s consent Contemporary French culture
and society studied through newspapers, French broadcast news,
videos, and directed readings. During the first semester students
study general trends in French society; during the second semester
they concentrate on French youth and family. Oral presentation
and independent research are required. Conducted
in French |
Sec. 01 |
MTW 12 |
| 212.101
(H) |
WHAT
MAKES A NOVEL INTERESTING? (3) Neefs Limit 60 Do novels afford a
distinctive kind of knowledge about society, history, psychology,
human beliefs, ethical and spiritual experiences? How do fictional
works retain their interest and vitality over time? How are perennialy
provocative topics such as power, politics, love, sexuality, social
concerns, symbolic figures renewed through formal inventions in
narrative. We will consider the interelation of the form and content
of novels, reading some major fictions by Balzac, Hugo, Dickens,
Flaubert, Melville, Perec…
Gilman Lecture Course in Humanities |
Sec. 01
|
MT 2-3:30 |
| 212.201
(H)
(W) |
INTRODUCTION
À LA LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE I (3) Russo/ Roos Limit 20
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 coregister with an upper-level
course during their second semester.
Course conducted in French
Note: 210.301-302 are prerequisites for all upper-level undergraduate
courses |
Sec. 01
02
|
ThF 10:30-12
MTW 12 |
| 212.302 (H)
|
LOVE,
DEATH, AND THE SUPERNATURAL (3) Nichols Limit 20 L’amour, la mort,
et l’irréel-three themes connected by the belief that love
and death operate in a zone apart from the everyday world. Some
of the most extraordinary and little-known works of the Middle
Ages explore the links between love and death passing through
the space of fantasy known in French as l’irréel. Beginning
with the development of these themes in four medieval works, the
course will then show the transformation of the same impulse in
19th-and 20th-century French novels. Among the works read will be Le Roman de Tristan, Mélusine, Le Coeur mangé,
La Manekine, Victor Hugo: Notre Dame de Paris, Flaubert:
Saint Julien l’Hospitalier, Jean Giono: Le Hussard sur
le Toit, Montherlant: La Reine Morte, Céline: Guignol’s
Band.
Cross-listed
with Studies of Women, Gender & Sexuality |
Sec. 01
|
T 3-5 |
| 212.310 (H)
|
VERSAILLES ET LA COUR (3) Jeanneret Limit
15 The extravagant construction
of Versailles, the rigorous order imposed through it on life at
court are both part of Louis XIV’s strategy to establish and demonstrate
his absolute control over France. Acknowledging the power of public
media such as the arts and literature, the king also mobilises
the writers and artists in his political agenda. Molière produces plays for the festivals
at Versailles and La Fontaine describes the marvels of the park
as it is being constructed. Others, like La Bruyère and Saint-Simon, analyse the complexities
and eccentricities of the courtly society. Some admire the brilliance
of the Sun King’s universe, others discreetly denounce the growing
tyranny of the Crown and ridicule the submissive behaviour of
puppet-like courtiers. The underlying theme of the class will be a reflexion on the complex relationship
between literature and power at a time when most freedoms are
curtailed. Course conducted in French |
Sec. 01
|
W 1-3 |
| 212.423 (H) |
IMAGES,
SYMBOLES ET MYTHES SURREALISTES (3) Delacampagne
Limit 12 A travers des romans, des films, des peintures et des poèmes, on examinera
les grands thèmes et les principales orientations du mouvement
surréaliste qui s’est développé en Europe entre les deux guerres
mondiales. |
Sec. 01 |
F
12-2 |
| 212.501 |
FRENCH INDEPENDENT STUDY - LITERATURE Staff |
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| 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
Year course Must complete both semesters successfully
in order to receive credit Lab Req'd.
Limit 24 (Sec. 01); Limit 17 per section (Secs. 02-06) Development
of the four basic language skills of reading, writing, listening
and speaking. Extensive use of an online component delivered
via WebCT, sustained class participation, and three hourly exams
(no midterm and no final). Section 01 (Fall semesters) is offered
totally online. In order to receive credit for Spanish 111, Spanish
112 must also be completed with a passing grade.
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 Prereq: 210.111 or placement exam Lab
Req’d.
Limit 17 per section
Continuation of Spanish Elements I. Further development
of the four basic language skills of reading, writing, listening
and speaking. Extensive use of an online component delivered via WebCT
, sustained class participation, and three hourly exams (no midterm
and no final). Section 01 (Spring semesters) is offered
totally online. 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 Prereq: 210.111-112
or equivalent Limit 23 (Sec. 01); Limit 17 per section (Secs.
02-06) Continues building on the four essential skills for
communication presented in Spanish Elements courses. Extensive
use of an online component delivered via WebCT, sustained class
participation, and three hourly exams (no midterm and no final).
No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01
02
03
04
05
06 |
Online
MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 12
MTW 12 |
| 210.212 (H) |
INTERMEDIATE
SPANISH II (3.5) I.
Gonzalez Prereq: 210.211 or appropriate
Webcape score
Limit 17 per section Continues building on the four essential
skills for communication presented in Spanish Elements courses
and in Intermediate Spanish I. Extensive use of an online component
delivered via WebCT, sustained class participation, and three
hourly exams (no midterm and no final). No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01
02
03
04 |
MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 12 |
| 210.213 (H) |
ADVANCED
INTERMEDIATE SPANISH (3.5) I. Gonzalez Limit
17 per section Prereq: Appropriate Webcape score
Continues building on the foundation of the four essential skills
for communication that was laid in introductory courses taken
outside of JHU. Extensive use of an online component delivered
via WebCT, sustained class participation, and three hourly exams
(no midterm and no final). No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01
02 |
MTW 9
10
MTW 11 |
| 210.311 (H)
(W) |
ADVANCED
SPANISH I (3)
Encinas Prereqs:
210.212 or 210.213 or appropriate Webcape score Limit 15 per
section Advanced Spanish I is designed to improve the four
skills: Reading, writing, listening and speaking, essential for
communication. This third-year course aims to improve the students'
reading and writing skills by focusing on various types of texts.
Students will also engage in more formal levels of written communication.
This course also focuses on refinement of grammar. Students are
exposed to a deeper understanding of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking
world. Extensive use of an online component delivered via WebCT,
sustained class participation, and three hourly exams (no midterm
and no final). No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory
|
Sec. 01
02
03
04
05 |
MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 12 |
| 210.312 (H) |
ADVANCED SPANISH II (3) Encinas Prereq: 210.311 or appropriate WEBCAPE score
Limit 15 This third-year course aims at improving the students'
oral skills by focusing on the use of standard, spoken Spanish
with an emphasis on colloquial and idiomatic expressions. Students
will also engage in more formal levels of communication by discussing
assigned literary and non-literary topics. They will increase
their listening skills through movies and other listening comprehension
exercises. The course will also focus on vocabulary acquisition.
No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01
02
03
04 |
MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 12 |
| 210.313 (H) |
MEDICAL
SPANISH (3) Sánchez
Limit
22 Prereqs: 210.311 Webcape score above 650 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. There will be
an intensive on-line component.
No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01 |
MTW 11 |
| 210.314 (H) |
BUSINESS
SPANISH (3) Sánchez Limit
15 Prereqs: 210.311 Webcape score above 650 Students will
increase their vocabulary and practice grammar structures closely
related to trade and business practices in the public and private
sectors. All language skills are equally emphasized. Highly
recommended to students majoring in Business and International
Relations. There will be an intensive on-line component.
No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01 |
MTW
10 |
| 210.316 (H) |
CONVERSATIONAL
SPANISH (3) Encinas Limit 15
Prereqs: 210.311 or Webcape score above 650 This course is
designed for students who have attained an advanced level of proficiency
in Spanish 210.312 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 |
MTW 10 |
| 210.411 (H)
(W) |
SPANISH
TRANSLATION FOR THE PROFESSIONS (3) Sánchez/ Gonzalez Limit
15 Prereqs:
210.313, 210.314, or 210.315 Students will leans the basics
of translation theory and be presented with the tools needed (specialized
dictionaries, web resources, etc) for the translation of literature,
business, medical, legal, technological, political, and journalistic
texts from Spanish to English and English to Spanish.
No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01 |
MTW 12 |
| 210.412
(W) |
SPANISH
LANGUAGE INTERNSHIP (3) Sánchez Limit
12 Prereq: 210.411 The Spanish Language 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. No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01 |
MW 1 |
| 211.291 (H) |
MODERN
CENTRAL AMERICAN AND HISPANIC CARIBBEAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
(3) Hatfield Limit 20 Prereq: 210.228
or 210.212 (Intermediate Spanish II) An
introduction to the literature and culture of Central America
and the Hispanic Caribbean - from the formation of independent
states through the present - in light of the social, political,
and economic histories of the region. Taught in Spanish. Course
added 5/12/06 |
Sec. 01 |
T 2-4
|
| 212.339 (H) |
BORGES
& PHILOSOPHY (3) Egginton Limit 25 In
this course we will read some of the most important works of the
Argentinian writer, thinker, and critic Jorge Luis Borges, as
they intersect with fundamental questions in modern philosophy.
The relation of Borges to thinkers like Kant, Leibniz, Heidegger,
and Derrida will be at the core of our discussions. |
Sec. 01 |
Th 12-2
|
| 212.356 (H) |
LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE THROUGH THE STUDY OF POETRY,
SHORT FICTION, TESTIMONIO, AND VIDEO (3) Castro-Klaren Limit
35 An examination of the key ideas that constitute the idea of
Latin American Culture though the study of poetry, short fiction,
testimonio and video.
Cross-listed with the Program in Latin American Studies
|
Sec. 01 |
T 12-2 |
| 212.357 (H) |
REALISM,
MAGIC, RELIGION, AMOR Y LOCURA (3) E. Gonzalez Limit 25 Three
classics of realismo mágico studied in reference to
religious and magical phenomena and cross-cultural conceptions of
madness and passion. Gabriel García Márquez (El amor en los tiempos del cólera
and El amor y otros demonios; Isabel Allende (La
casa de los espíritus); and Laura Restrepo (Delirio).
Taught
in Spanish.
Cross-listed with the
Program in Latin American Studies |
Sec. 01 |
W 1-3 |
| 212.369 (H)
(W) |
SPANISH
NEW YORK (3) Galasso
Prereq: 210.228 or 210.229 or Webcape placement in 210.326 Limit 15 This
course traces New York's significance to the work of major Hispanic
writers, examines the various ways in which New York has functioned
as a complex contact zone for Spanish speakers (to the United
States, to Anglophone U.S. culture and literature, and to each
other), and interrogates the different constructions of Hispanic
identity vis-à-vis New York. This course will be taught in Spanish.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship
Course |
Sec. 01 |
M 1-4 |
| 212.386 (H)
(W) |
SPANISH-AMERICAN
MODERNISMO AND ITS CRITICS (3) Hatfield Prereq: 210.326 or 210.311 (Advanced Spanish)
From its beginnings in the 1880s through the present, Modernismo has been one of Spanish-America's most controversial and widely-debated
literary movements. In this seminar we will study the not only
the major figures of the movement (González Prada, Martí,
Gutiérrez Nájera, Silva, Darío, Freyre, Nervo,
Valencia, Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, Chocano) but also its most
influential critics (including Rodó, Blanco Fombona, Henríquez
Ureña, Arqueles Vela, Rama, Brotherston, Ellis, Kirkpatrick,
Aching). We will examine the grounds and terms of the debate surrounding Modernismo—focusing in particular on detachment,
utilitarianism, cosmopolitanism, mundonovismo, nationalism,
pan-Hispanism, and the autochtonous—and interrogate the
uses of Modernismo in national and trans-national cultural
and political agendas. Taught in Spanish. Course added
5/12/06 |
Sec. 01 |
Th 2-4 |
| 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 Limit 17 per section Year
course; must complete both semesters for credit. 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.
All classes are conducted in Italian; oral participation is encouraged
from the beginning. No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory Sec.
05 canceled 8/21/06 |
Sec. 01
02
03
04
05
|
MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 12
MTW 12
|
| 210.251 (H) |
INTERMEDIATE
ITALIAN (3.5)
Zannirato Limit 17 per section Prereq: 210.151-152 or
placement exam Lab Req'd. Intensive review of grammatical
and syntactical structures; improvement of reading and composition
skills through the use of contemporary texts, reinforcement of
the student's knowledge of the language through oral and written
presentations on predetermined subjects. All classes are conducted
in Italian. Class participation is essential. No Satisfactory/
Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01
02
03
04 |
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 12
MTW 12 |
| 210.351
(H)
(W) |
ADVANCED
ITALIAN COMPOSITION AND CONVERSATION (3.5) (3) Zannirato Limit 12 per section
Prereq: 210.251-252 or placement exam 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.
No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01
02 |
MTW 11
MTW 12 |
| 210.652
(H) |
CORSO
INTENSIVO DI PERFEZIONAMENTO Zannirato Limit 8 Prereq: Undergraduate
students: 210.352 or equivalent AND interview with program director
/ Graduate students: GTA language diagnostic score This course
is designed to help students attain very high levels in reading,
writing, speaking, and listening. Intensive use will be made of
sight translation, written translation, paraphrasing, active reading,
memory training and text analysis techniques. The course seeks
to acquaint the students with a wider range of idiomatic expression
and usages than they have previously managed, and to help them
convey finer shades of meaning while consistently maintain grammatical
control of complex language. Course added 8/22/06 |
Sec. 01
|
W 3-5
|
| 211.357
(H) |
MAFIA
WARS IN LITERATURE AND FILM: FROM LEONARD SCIASCIA'S MAFIA NOVELS
TO THE SOPRANOS (3)
Wegenstein Limit 20 The course will examine the discourse
of and about mafia wars in literature, film, and television. We
will read the mafia novels of Sicilian authors Vitaliano Brancati
and Leonardo Sciascia, analyze the legendary films made from their
novels (e.g., Cadaveri Eccellenti by Francesco Rosi),
as well as discuss possibilities of the translation of the classic
mafia tale into comedy as in such films as Mio cognato
(2003) by Alessandro Piva. The representation of the mafia in
the U.S. will be a theme of the course as exemplified in Coppola's
Godfather trilogy, or in the format of evening entertainment
in the mafia soap TV series The Sopranos. Course taught
in Italian. Course added 3/23/06 |
Sec. 01
|
ThF
9-10:30
|
| 212.361
(H) |
WORLD
OF DANTE (3)
Forni Limit 15 This course focuses on the social,
political, and moral concerns that shape Dante's Divine Comedy.
Close readings of selected cantos from the Comedy are
at its core. (Taught in Italian). |
Sec. 01
|
M 1-3
|
| 212.373
(H) |
ITALIAN
COMEDY (3)
Stephens Prereq: 210.251-252 Limit 12 Readings and discussion,
in Italian, of the grand tradition of comedy, satire, and humor
in Italian literature and culture: from the humor of the Middle
Ages through the reinvention of the theater by Italian authors
around 1500, to the modern classics of opera, stage, and film.
Class will be paced to build linguistic and literary competence.
Emphasis on reading, writing, speaking, and recitation. If enrollment
suffices, a one-act play can be produced. Readings in Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Ariosto,
Goldoni, Mozart/Da Ponte, Pirandello, Calvino; films by Totò,
Roberto Benigni, and others. |
Sec. 01
|
ThF 10:30-12 |
| 212.379
(H) |
THE
INTELLECTUAL WORLD OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE (3) Celenza Limit
20 15 This course
will allow students to explore the intellectual background to
the fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance. Most Italian intellectuals
from the late fourteenth century through to the early sixteenth
century wrote, not in Italian, but in a “new” Latin, like the
Latin used in ancient Rome, rather than (what they saw as) the
inauthentic Latin of medieval universities and the Church. Recent
scholarship has allowed us to have greatly increased access to
these authors who wrote in the era between Dante (1265-1321) and
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Thinkers such as Leonardo Bruni
(perhaps the best-selling author of the fifteenth century), Lorenzo
Valla (who is now emerging as a major philosopher of language),
and Marsilio Ficino (whose influence on literature and the arts
in his own era is comparable to that of Freud in ours), are comparatively
little known today. But their work represented the intellectual
backbone of Renaissance Italy and was widely diffused in succeeding
centuries in early modern Europe. This course will allow students
to explore this forgotten legacy and thus to understand a missing
chapter in the history of western thought.
Cross-listed with History, Classics, the Humanities Center, and
Philosophy |
Sec. 01
|
W 11-1 |
| 212.561 |
ITALIAN INDEPENDENT STUDY |
|
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| 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
Limit 20 15 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. Language
lab is required. Both semesters must be completed with passing
grades to receive credit. No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory
|
Sec. 01 |
MWF 11 |
| 210.277 (H) |
INTERMEDIATE/
ADVANCED PORTUGUESE (3.5) Bensabat-Ott Limit 20 15
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. Language
lab is required. Both semesters must be completed with passing
grades to receive credit. No
Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory |
Sec. 01 |
MWF 10 |
| 210.391 (H)
(W) |
PORTUGUESE
LANGUAGE & LITERATURE (3.5) Bensabat-Ott Limit 20
15 This third year Advanced Portuguese 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. |
Sec. 01 |
MWF 12 |
| GRADUATE COURSES |
| 210.610 |
METHODS
OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING Beauvois Limit
30 Required for all in-coming teaching assistants in the Dept.
of RL&L, this course will focus on an overview of the tenets
of second language acquisition (SLA) and the research which informs
current teaching practice. Students will study the state of the
L2L profession past and present, and will look at different methods
and techniques for effective second language teaching and learning.
The basis of the course is a balance between the practical and
the theoretical. |
Sec. 01 |
Th 11-1 |
| 212.692
|
RESEARCH
METHODS Waterman
Department
majors only
Limit 20 Seminar and lab in the methods, resources, and systems
of research for graduate students of literature.
Course canceled 6/29/06
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Sec. 01
|
Th 9-10:30
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| FRENCH |
| 210.601
|
FRENCH
FOR READING AND TRANSLATION 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. Course canceled 9/05/06
|
Sec. 01
|
MTW 9
|
| 212.609 |
LE
THEATRE ET SES CENSEURS (XVIIE SIECLE) Jeanneret Limit 12 Far from being the expression
of wisdom and order, as literary history would have it, XVIIth
century theatre, either tragic or comic, challenged the morality
and rationality of the time. Its assault on conventional values,
whether those of religion, of sex or of poetics, upset censors
of different sorts, who tried to tame or silence it. We will meditate
on the flamboyance and courage of the great playwrights and show
that their plays allow the expression of what is usually repressed
– the world of desires and fantasms. The quarrels around Corneille’s
Le Cid and Molière’s infamous trilogy (L’Ecole des femmes,
Tartuffe, Don Juan) will be centre stage. Under such pressure,
self-censorship was also active; the balance between provocation
and restraint will be studied through the example of Racine. The
seminar will be held in French.
|
Sec. 01 |
T 1-3 |
| 212.610 |
THE
SACRED AND THE SECULAR: THE MANUSCRIPT CODEX 1200-1500 Nichols / Noel Limit 14 18
This
course discusses manuscript production and consumption in the
high middle ages, including relations of text and image. It concentrates
particularly on manuscript evidence for reading practices, in
monastic, private and courtly contexts. After
the initial meeting (Sept. 11) classes will be held in
the Walters Art Museum, where students will be able to examine
original manuscript material, and will be introduced to the many
different ways in which manuscripts can be displayed and studied
to provide insights into medieval art and culture.
|
Sec. 01 |
M 4:30-6:30pm W 1-3 |
| 212.621 |
FLAUBERT,
FROM BOVARY TO BOUVARD Neefs Limit 12 The
seminar will propose a reading of the first published novel of
Flaubert, Madame Bovary and the last novel he was writing
when he died, Bouvard et Pécuchet. The others works by
Flaubert will be occasionaly considered. The new fiction patterns
that Flaubert invented, the deep irony of those novels, the narrative
integration of knowledge and sciences, will be ones of the main
topics that will be examined in those two novels. Drafts, scenarios,
manuscript materials will be examined to stress on the strongness
that Flaubert gave to the art of Prose .October 2006 will be the
150 years anniversary of Madame Bovary. Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Le Livre de poche classique Flaubert, Bouvard et Pécuchet,
GF Flammarion |
Sec. 01 |
W 3-5 |
| 212.707 |
TRUST
AND TRUTH: ARTISTICAL VALUE AND AESTHETICAL PROPERTY Cohn Limit 18 The impact of photography,
cinema and even television on the system of Fine Arts as well
as their social success lead to a question on the veracity of
art. The compassion that images produce and the disgust they arouse
beyond their historical value as documents, take us back to their
truth content. What can truth mean outside the realm of propositions?
Can we say that trust is the sensible quality of truth? From an
analysis of literary, plastic and musical works, we shall wonder
about the possibility of a morality of art works. We shall confront
this "ethical" view with the close of the paradigm of
art's autonomy. Course added 4/20/06 |
Sec. 01 |
TTh 3-5pm |
| 212.741 |
JEAN-JACQUES
ROUSSEAU: ENLIGHTENMENT AND DISSENT Russo Limit 12 A reading of Rousseau’s major works in light
of the debates they have triggered both within the Enlightenment
and in postmodernism. Secondary readings by Starobinski, De Man,
Derrida. |
Sec. 01 |
F 1-3 |
| 212.748 |
IMAGINER
L’ÀVENIR
Delacampagne Limit 12 Ce qui est à venir est par définition impossible à imaginer. Et pourtant l’art
et la littérature européenne ne cessent de tenter de représenter
l’irreprésentable, mettant ainsi en œuvre une esthétique de la
représentation qu’on s’efforcera de reconstruire. |
Sec. 01 |
Th 1-3 |
| 212.774 |
TRAVAIL,
ÉCRITURE ET PENSÉE DE LA FIN Noudelmann Limit 12 L'idée de la fin a hanté
l'Occident qui s'est représenté sa propre histoire en termes de
mort et de renaissance. Elle est devenue constitutive d'un geste
artistique, littéraire et philosophique cherchant à promouvoir
une ère régénératrice sur le deuil affirmé d'une époque révolue.
À partir de la fin du XIXe siècle, ce fantasme apocalyptique,
manifesté par les avant-gardes, n'est plus seulement une prophétie
mais un travail consistant à mener au bout le processus de l'achèvement.
On étudiera les machines conceptuelles et textuelles visant à
réaliser la fin, à la fois terminus et finition, augurant une
possible recomposition à partir des figures déchues de l'humanisme.
L'objectif du séminaire consistera à suivre des œuvres-vie (Nietzsche,
Artaud, Sartre, Beckett) qui se sont confrontées à la question
de la fin, pour montrer ce qui les différencie de la thématique
largement repérable de la génération corrompue, et pour dégager
à partir d'elles une perspective post-généalogique. |
Sec. 01 |
MW 1-3 M 1-5 |
| 212.801 |
FRENCH INDEPENDENT STUDY |
|
|
| 212.802 |
FRENCH DISSERTATION RESEARCH |
|
|
| 212.803 |
FRENCH PROPOSAL PREPARATION |
|
|
| SPANISH |
| 212.758 |
LA
NOVELA Y DE LA TIERRA EN AMERICA Y ESPAÑA E. Gonzalez Limit 12 Novels
written in Spanish America and Spain in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries characterized by rural and pastoral themes, barbarism
and civility, and the question of nationhood. Ignacio Manuel
Altamirano (México), La navidad en las montañas (1871); Emilia
Pardo Bazán (Spain), Los pazos de Ulloa (1886); José Eustacio
Rivera (Colombia), La vorágine (1924); Ricardo Güiraldes (La Argentina),
Don Segundo Sombra (1926); Rómulo Gallego (Venezuela), Doña Bárbara
(1929); Alejo Carpentier (Cuba/Venezuela), Los Pasos perdidos
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