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HISPANIC STUDIESDepartmental Office:

101 Casa Hispánica | 612 W. 116th Street | (212) 854-4187http://www.laic.columbia.edu/

Director of Undergraduate Studies:

Prof. Seth Kimmel | 408 Casa Hispánica | (212) 854-6238 |[email protected]

Director of Graduate Studies:

Prof. Alessandra Russo | 405 Casa Hispánica | (212) 854-4187 |[email protected]

Director of the Spanish Language Program:

Dr. Lee B. Abraham | 402 Casa Hispánica | (212) 854-3764| [email protected]

Director of the Portuguese Language Program:

José Antonio Castellanos-Pazos | 501 Casa Hispánica | (212) 854-0277 |jc846 ([email protected])@columbia.edu ([email protected])

The Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures (LAIC)at Columbia, located in the Casa Hispánica, has long enjoyed aninternational reputation as a center for Hispanic and Lusophone studies.The department provides linguistic preparation in Spanish, Portuguese,and Catalan, and offers a flexible program to study manifestations ofthe Hispanic and Lusophone worlds in all historical periods—from themedieval to the globalized present—and in a variety of cultural contexts:the Iberian Peninsula, Latin America, the former colonies of Portugal, andthe United States.

Students can enter the program at any level of linguistic and culturalpreparedness. The department offers a placement exam to determine thelevel at which students may either begin or continue study. Majors andconcentrators in Hispanic studies and Portuguese studies are typicallydouble majors who bring insights and methods from fields such ashistory, political science, women's studies, anthropology, economics,Latino studies, Latin American studies, etc., which fosters engagingdiscussions.

Academic ProgramsThe department offers two majors. The major in Hispanic studies givesstudents a well-rounded preparation in the history and culture of theHispanic world. The second option, a major in Hispanic studies withspecialization, allows students to study the Hispanic world through anumber of fields, among them Latin American studies, gender studies,political science, economics, history, and sociology. The department alsooffers two concentrations: Hispanic studies and Portuguese studies.

The language and major programs have also been designed in closeconsultation and cooperation with Barnard's Department of Spanishand Latin American Cultures. All courses taken in one program may beused to fulfill the requirements of the other. Hence, Columbia and Barnardstudents may move freely between departments of both institutions forcourses that best fit their intellectual interests and schedules.

Advanced PlacementThe department grants 3 credits for a score of 5 on the AP SpanishLanguage exam, which satisfies the foreign language requirement. Creditis awarded upon successful completion of a 3300-level (or higher) coursewith a grade of B or higher. This course must be for at least 3 points ofcredit and be taught in Spanish. Courses taught in English may not beused for language AP credit.

The department grants 0 credits for a score of 4 on the AP SpanishLanguage exam, but the foreign language requirement is satisfied.

The department grants 3 credits for a score of 5 on the AP SpanishLiterature exam, which satisfies the foreign language requirement. Creditis awarded upon successful completion of a 3300-level (or higher) coursewith a grade of B or higher. This course must be for at least 3 points ofcredit and be taught in Spanish. Courses taught in English may not beused for language AP credit.

The department grants 0 credits for a score of 4 on the AP SpanishLiterature exam, but the foreign language requirement is satisfied.

Study AbroadThe department strongly recommends that all Hispanic and Portuguesestudies majors/concentrators study abroad. Most courses taken abroadcan be used to fulfill the requirements for the major and concentration,and with adequate planning, even some of the requirements for a secondmajor or concentration. A maximum of four (4) courses taken abroad maybe applied to the major, and a maximum of three (3) to the concentrationin Hispanic or Portuguese studies.

All students are strongly advised to take either SPAN UN3349 HispanicCultures I: Islamic Spain through the Colonial Period or SPAN UN3350Hispanic Cultures II: Enlightenment to the Present before studyingabroad. Actual or potential majors and concentrators in Hispanic orPortuguese studies should seek tentative approval of their programs fromthe director of undergraduate studies before their departure.

InternshipsThe department maintains an updated list of internship resources andvolunteer opportunities in New York City, the United States, and abroad.No academic credit is given for internships.

The Hispanic InstituteThe department hosts the Hispanic Institute at Columbia. Foundedin 1920 as the Instituto de las Españas, the Institute sponsors anddisseminates research on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian culture. Since1934, the Institute has published the Revista Hispánica Moderna, adistinguished journal in Hispanic criticism and theory.

In Fulfillment of the LanguageRequirementFor students with no knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese, or Catalan, atleast four terms of the language are required: UN1101-UN1102 (or UN1120)and UN2101-UN2102 (or UN2120). All courses must be taken for a lettergrade to fulfill the language requirement.

Students with prior knowledge of Spanish who plan to continuestudying Spanish are required to take the department’s on-lineplacement examination (http://laic.columbia.edu/programs/placement-examination/) before registering for courses. Students with prior

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knowledge of Portuguese or Catalan should speak with the director oflanguage programs.

Students may be exempted from the language requirement in one of fourways:

1. Present a score of 4 or 5 on the AP Spanish Language or SpanishLiterature Exams. Students who receive a score of 5 in either examare awarded 3 AP credits upon successful completion of a 3300-level(or above) course with a grade of B or higher. AP credit is not grantedfor a score of 4.

2. Present a score of 780 or above on the SAT Subject Test. Studentswith a score lower than 780 should take the department's on-lineplacement exam and follow the placement advice received.

3. Present a score of a 7, 6, or 5 on the International BaccalaureateHigher Level Exam in Spanish.

4. Obtain a score of 625 or higher in the department's on-line placementexam (http://laic.columbia.edu/programs/placement-examination/).If the score in the on-line test qualifies a student for exemption fromthe language requirement, they are required to take a written versionof the placement exam during orientation (for entering students) orduring the semester (for continuing students). This written exam isoffered every year on the Thursday before the beginning of classesin the fall semester from 10:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. in Room 352 ofthe International Affairs Building (the Language Resource CenterComputer Lab). Students do not need to make an appointment totake the exam.

Departmental HonorsBeginning in Spring 2015, the department put in place a new timelineand training program for juniors, to assist students with planning andcompleting the Honors Thesis during their senior year. The Honors Thesisis an excellent option for any student interested in pursuing a Master'sdegree or Ph.D.; but, above all, it is a highly formative research and writingexperience—one that can bear unexpected fruits toward any path thestudent decides to take in the future.

All students pursuing a major through the department may apply towrite an Honors Thesis. The department envisions the thesis as anintellectually challenging and rewarding experience that crowns fouryears of undergraduate studies with an original contribution in the fieldchosen by the student.

The department supports students in shaping their research topic andprovides frequent advising throughout the research and writing process.The timeline is as follows:

• During the junior year, students take into consideration the possibilityof writing an Honors Thesis in the following year. The topic of theHonors Thesis may likely originate in an advanced course takenduring the junior year; students may also choose to develop ideasdiscussed or papers written in courses taken in previous years.Juniors schedule a meeting (or, if the student is studying abroad, aSkype conversation) with the director of undergraduate studies todiscuss their proposed topic and faculty adviser.

• By May 15, juniors who have decided to write an Honors Thesisin their senior year send a formal proposal to the director ofundergraduate studies, which includes:

• A title and a one-page abstract;• The name of the proposed faculty adviser;

• An application for departmental partial funding support (for thosewho would like to pursue research during the summer).

• By May 30, the Honors Thesis committee reviews the proposals andinforms the students of its decision.

• In the fall of the senior year:• Seniors selected to write the Honors Thesis enroll

in SPAN UN3998 Supervised Individual Research (Spring) withtheir faculty adviser and write the Honors Thesis during the entiresenior year under the direction of their adviser. For the purposesof the major, this independent study counts as a 3-point coursetowards elective courses.

• Faculty advisers organize Honors Thesis Workshops to discussstudents' ongoing projects and provide advising on researchtools, methodological and theoretical frames, and overall writingprocess.

• In the fall of the senior year, students enroll in a Senior Seminar.• By April 15 of the senior year, students complete and present their

Honors Thesis for consideration towards departmental honorsand prizes. Students submit their thesis in hard copy, followingthe formatting specifications provided on the LAIC website (http://laic.columbia.edu/programs/formatting-specifications-for-the-senior-thesis/).

To be considered for departmental honors, a student must write anHonors Thesis and maintain a GPA of at least 3.6 in major courses.Normally no more than 10% of graduating majors receive departmentalhonors in a given academic year.

Undergraduate PrizesThe faculty awards an undergraduate prize every year:

Dr. Antonio G. Mier PrizeAwarded for excellence in Hispanic Studies to a major degree candidatein the School of General Studies at Columbia University.

ProfessorsCarlos J. AlonsoBruno BosteelsPatricia E. GrieveAlberto MedinaGraciela R. MontaldoGustavo Pérez-FirmatAlessandra RussoJesús R. Velasco

Associate ProfessorsSeth Kimmel

Assistant ProfessorsJerónimo Duarte-RiascosAna M. Fernández-CebriánAna Paulina Lee

Senior LecturersGuadalupe Ruiz-FajardoJosé Antonio Castellanos-PazosAngelina Craig-FlórezReyes Llopis-García




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Francisco Rosales-VaroJosé Plácido Ruiz-Campillo

LecturersLee B. AbrahamFrancisca Aguiló MoraLeyre Alejaldre BielIrene Alonso-AparicioDolores Barbazán CapeánsLorena García BarrosoAna Paula HubackJuan Pablo Jiménez-CaicedoFrancisco MeizosoJoão Nemi NetoDiana P. RomeroElsa Úbeda

Major in Hispanic StudiesStudents who declared this program before March 2016 (whenrequirements changed) should contact the Director of UndergraduateStudies to confirm their correct course of study.

Students may only register once in each of the Core Courses (SPANUN3300, SPAN UN3349 and SPAN UN3350).

The major in Hispanic studies requires 11 courses (minimum of 33points) as follows:

Core Courses

SPAN UN3300 Advanced Language through Content [inSpanish]

SPAN UN3349 Hispanic Cultures I: Islamic Spainthrough the Colonial Period

SPAN UN3350 Hispanic Cultures II: Enlightenment tothe Present

Elective Courses

Select seven elective courses (21 points): a minimum of three 3000- or4000-level electives must be chosen within the department and up tothree electives related to Hispanic Studies may be taken outside thedepartment.

Senior Seminar

SPAN UN3991 SENIOR SEMINAR

Major in Hispanic Studies withSpecializationStudents who declared this program before March 2016 (whenrequirements changed) should contact the Director of UndergraduateStudies to confirm their correct course of study.


The major in Hispanic studies with specialization requires 14 courses(minimum of 42 points) as follows. Students should consult the directorof undergraduate studies to plan their program and refer to the HispanicStudies Major Worksheet.

Core Courses




Elective Courses

Select ten elective courses (30 points): four of which must bechosen within the department and six of which must be in the fieldof specialization. Approved courses taken abroad may be counted asinside or outside the department for the specialization. A maximum offour courses taken abroad may be counted toward the major.

Senior Seminar *

SPAN UN3991 SENIOR SEMINAR

* In exceptional cases and with the director of undergraduate studies'approval, students may take a senior seminar in their area ofspecialization as a seventh course outside the department, ifthey have completed enough foundational courses to managethe demands of an advanced seminar. In such cases, the directorof undergraduate studies must receive a letter or e-mail from theseminar instructor indicating approval of a student's membership inthe course; the seminar project must be on a Hispanic topic; and acopy of the project must be turned in to the director of undergraduatestudies for the student's file upon completion of the course. Studentswho complete the senior seminar in another department may alsocount it as the third elective course on a Hispanic topic outside thedepartment, in which case they may take a fourth 3000- or 4000-levelcourse in the department.

Concentration in Hispanic StudiesStudents who declared this program before March 2016 (whenrequirements changed) should contact the Director of UndergraduateStudies to confirm their correct course of study.


The concentration in Hispanic studies requires eight courses (minimumof 24 points) as follows:

Core Courses




Elective Courses

Select five elective courses (15 points): a minimum of four 3000- or4000-level courses must be chosen within the department and upto one elective related to Hispanic Studies may be taken outsidethe department. A maximum of three courses taken abroad may becounted toward the concentration. Students may only register once forSPAN UN3300.

Concentration in Portuguese StudiesThe concentration in Portuguese studies requires eight courses(minimum 24 points) as follows:

Core Courses

PORT UN3101 Conversation about the Lusophone World

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PORT UN3300 Advanced Language through Content

PORT UN3330 Introduction to Portuguese Studies

PORT UN3350 Lusophone Africa and Afro BrazilianCulture

Elective Courses

Select four elective courses (12 points): at least two must have a PORTdesignation and be chosen from the department’s 3000-level offerings.Electives taken outside of the department must have the director ofundergraduate studies' approval and be related to Portuguese studies. Amaximum of two courses taught in English may be counted toward theconcentration overall. Refer to the Portuguese Concentration Worksheet.

Fall 2020SpanishSPAN UN1101 Elementary Spanish I. 4 points.Prerequisites: a score of 0-279 in the department's PlacementExamination.An introduction to Spanish communicative competence, with stress onbasic oral interaction, reading, witting, and cultural knowledge. Principalobjectives are to understand and produce commonly used sentencesto satisfy immediate needs; ask and answer questions about personaldetails such as where we live, people we know and things we have;interact in a simple manner with people who speak clearly, slowly andare ready to cooperate; and understand simple and short written andaudiovisual texts in Spanish. All Columbia students must take Spanishlanguage courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

Fall 2020: SPAN UN1101

CourseNumber

Section/CallNumber

Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

SPAN 1101 001/13843 M W F 8:40am - 9:55amOnline Only

FranciscaAguilo Mora

4 13/15

SPAN 1101 002/13844 M W F 10:10am -11:25amOnline Only


4 15/15


Lee Abraham 4 13/15

SPAN 1101 004/13846 M W F 11:40am -12:55pmOnline Only

Omar Duran-Garcia

4 13/15

SPAN 1101 005/13847 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55amOnline Only

Juan Jimenez-Caicedo

4 14/15

SPAN 1101 006/13848 T Th F 10:10am -11:25amOnline Only


4 14/15

SPAN 1101 007/13849 T Th F 11:40am -12:55pmOnline Only


4 11/15

SPAN 1101 008/13850 T Th F 2:40pm - 3:55pmOnline Only

GuadalupeRuiz-Fajardo

4 15/15



4 12/15



4 13/15

SPAN 1101 011/24654 M W F 2:40pm - 3:55pmOnline Only

BenjaminJohnson

4 12/15

SPAN 1101 020/00572 M W Th 8:40am - 9:55amRoom TBA

Maria Lozano 4 13/12

SPAN 1101 021/00573 M W Th 10:10am -11:25amRoom TBA


SPAN 1101 022/00574 M W Th 11:40am -12:55pmRoom TBA

Maria Arce-Fernandez

4 15/12

SPAN 1101 023/00575 M W Th 1:10pm - 2:25pmRoom TBA


4 15/12

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SPAN UN1102 Elementary Spanish II. 4 points.Prerequisites: SPAN UN1101 or a score of 280-379 in the department'sPlacement Examination.An intensive introduction to Spanish language communicativecompetence, with stress on basic oral interaction, reading, writing andcultural knowledge as a continuation of SPAN UN1101. The principalobjectives are to understand sentences and frequently used expressionsrelated to areas of immediate relevance; communicate in simple androutine tasks requiring a direct exchange of information on familiarmatters; describe in simple terms aspects of our background andpersonal history; understand the main point, the basic content, and theplot of filmic as well as short written texts. All Columbia students musttake Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.


CourseNumber

Section/CallNumber



Miguel AngelBlancoMartinez

4 15/15


Maria AgustinaBattezzati

4 15/15


VeredEngelhard

4 15/15


BenjaminJohnson

4 15/15


AlmudenaMarín-Cobos

4 14/15



4 15/15



4 14/15


Jose PlacidoRuiz-Campillo

4 15/15


BenjaminJohnson

4 12/15


Leonor PonsColl

4 15/12


Leonor PonsColl

4 16/12

SPAN UN1113 Spanish Rapid Reading and Translation. 3 points.Open to graduate students in GSAS only.

This course, conducted in English, is designed to help graduate studentsfrom other departments gain proficiency in reading and translatingSpanish texts for scholarly research. The course prepares students totake the Reading Proficiency Exam that most graduate departmentsdemand to fulfill the foreign-language proficiency requirement in thatlanguage. Graduate students with any degree of knowledge of Spanishare welcome. A grade of A- or higher in this class will satisfy the GSASforeign language proficiency requirement in Spanish.

SPAN UN1120 Comprehensive Beginning Spanish. 4 points.Prerequisites: This course is an intensive and fast-paced coverageof both SPAN UN1101 and SPAN UN1102. Students MUST meetthe following REQUIREMENTS: 1. A minimum of 3 years of highschool Spanish (or the equivalent) AND a score of 330 or above in theDepartment's Placement Examination, OR 2. fluency in a language otherthan English (preferably another Romance language). If you fulfill theabove requirements, you do not need instructor's permission to register.HOWEVER, the instructor will additionally assess student proficiencyduring the Change of Program Period. Students who do not have thenecessary proficiency level may not remain in this course. Replaces thesequence SPAN UN1101-SPAN UN1102. All Columbia students must takeSpanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

SPAN UN2101 Intermediate Spanish I. 4 points.Prerequisites: SPAN UN1102 or SPAN UN1120 or or a score of 380-449 inthe department's Placement Examination.An intensive course in Spanish language communicative competence,with stress on oral interaction, reading, writing, and culture as acontinuation of SPAN UN1102 or SPAN UN1120. All Columbia studentsmust take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.


CourseNumber

Section/CallNumber



David Mejia 4 10/15


Analia Lavin 4 15/15


Nicole Basile 4 12/15


AlexandraMendez

4 14/15


Anne Freeland 4 10/15






FranciscoMeizoso

4 11/15


FranciscoMeizoso

4 9/15


FranciscoMeizoso

4 10/15


Leyre AlejaldreBiel

4 10/15


Leyre AlejaldreBiel

4 13/15


Leyre AlejaldreBiel

4 12/15


AntoniFernandezParera

4 15/12

SPAN 2101 021/00605 T Th F 2:40pm - 3:55pmRoom TBA

Javier PerezZapatero

4 13/12


Leonor PonsColl

4 15/12



4 13/12

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SPAN UN2102 Intermediate Spanish II. 4 points.Prerequisites: SPAN UN2101 or a score of 450-625 in the department'sPlacement Examination.An intensive course in Spanish language communicative competence,with stress on oral interaction, reading, writing and culture as acontinuation of SPAN UN2101. All Columbia students must take Spanishlanguage courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.


CourseNumber

Section/CallNumber



Lorena GarciaBarroso

4 12/15



4 14/15

SPAN 2102 003/13881 M F 11:40am - 12:55pmOnline Only


4 9/15


DoloresBarbazanCapeans

4 14/15



4 14/15



4 15/15


Angelina Craig-Florez

4 15/15



4 15/15



4 15/15


Juan PabloCominguez

4 14/15


Juan PabloCominguez

4 14/15



4 8/12



4 13/12

SPAN UN2103 HEALTH-RELATED TOPICS IN THE SPANISH-SPEAKINGWORLD. 4 points.Prerequisites: SPAN UN2101 or a score of 380-449 on the Department’splacement examination.This is an intensive course in Spanish language communicative competencewith an emphasis on oral interaction, reading, writing, and culture at anIntermediate II level with focus on health-related topics in the Spanish-speaking world.

In an increasingly interconnected world, and in multilingual global citiessuch as New York City, the study of a foreign language is fundamentalnot only in the field of the humanities but also in the natural sciences.This interdisciplinary course analyzes the intersection between these twodisciplines through the study of health-related topics in Iberian and LatinAmerican cultural expressions (literature, film, documentaries, amongother sources) in order to explore new critical perspectives across bothdomains. Students will learn health-related vocabulary and usage-basedgrammar in Spanish. Students will develop a cultural understanding ofmedicine, illness, and treatment in the Spanish-speaking world. Finally,students will be able to carry out specific collaborative tasks in Spanishwith the aim of integrating language, culture, and health.

* This course fulfills the last semester of the foreign languagerequirement. Therefore, students who have taken SPAN UN 2101(Intermediate Spanish I), or have a score of 380-449 on the Department’splacement exam, and are interested in health-related topics may proceedand enroll in SPAN UN 2103 (Intermediate Spanish II: Health-RelatedTopics in the Spanish-Speaking World). Pre-med and pre-health students,as well as those students majoring in the natural sciences—includingbiology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and physics—will be given registration priority. All Columbia students must takeSpanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.


CourseNumber

Section/CallNumber



Juan PabloCominguez

4 13/15

SPAN UN2108 Spanish for Spanish-Speaking Students. 4 points.Prerequisites: heritage knowledge of Spanish. Students intending toregister for this course must take the department's on-line PlacementExamination. (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/spanish/undergraduate/placeexam.html) You should take this course if your recommendedplacement on this test is SPAN UN2102 (a score of 450-624). If you placebelow SPAN UN2102 you should follow the placement recommendationreceived with your test results. If you place above SPAN UN2102, youshould choose between SPAN UN3300 and SPAN UN4900. If in doubt,please consult with the Director of the Language Programs.Designed for native and non-native Spanish-speaking students whohave oral fluency beyond the intermediate level but have had no formallanguage training.


CourseNumber

Section/CallNumber



Diana Romero 4 14/15


Diana Romero 4 15/15

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SPAN UN2120 Comprehensive Intermediate Spanish. 4 points.Prerequisites: This course is an intensive and fast-paced coverage ofboth SPAN UN2101 and SPAN UN2102. Students MUST demonstrate astrong foundation in Spanish and meet the following REQUIREMENTS: ascore ABOVE 480 on the Department's Placement Examination; or A- orhigher in SPAN UN1120. If you fulfill the above requirements, you do notneed the instructor's permission to register. HOWEVER, the instructor willadditionally assess student proficiency during the Change of ProgramPeriod. Students who do not have the necessary proficiency level maynot remain in this course. Replaces the sequence SPAN UN2101-SPANUN2102. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN1101-3300) for a letter grade.

SPAN UN3300 Advanced Language through Content [in Spanish]. 3points.Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score.An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar andstructure through written and oral practice, along with an introductionto the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Eachsection is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves asthe organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult theDirectory of Classes (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb/) forthe topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and theconcentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPANBC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannottake SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish languagecourses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.


CourseNumber

Section/CallNumber


SPAN 3300 001/13781 M W 10:10am - 11:25amOnline Only

Ramon FloresPinedo

3 11/15

SPAN 3300 002/13782 T Th 8:40am - 9:55amOnline Only

EduardoAndresVergara Torres

3 11/15

SPAN 3300 003/13783 M W 1:10pm - 2:25pmOnline Only

JavieraIrribarren Ortiz

3 13/15

SPAN 3300 004/13784 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pmOnline Only

ManuelaLuengasSolano

3 7/15

SPAN 3300 005/13785 T Th 1:10pm - 2:25pmOnline Only

Tamara Hache 3 7/15


FranciscoRosales-Varo

3 14/15


Daniel Saenz 3 8/15

SPAN 3300 020/00614 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pmRoom TBA


3 14/15

SPAN 3300 021/00615 M W 11:40am - 12:55pmRoom TBA


SPAN UN3349 Hispanic Cultures I: Islamic Spain through the ColonialPeriod. 3 points.CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement

Prerequisites: L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion oflanguage requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300).Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanicworld, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern perioduntil about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spainand the Americas.


CourseNumber

Section/CallNumber



Brais LamelaGomez

3 14/15


Juan CarlosGarzonMantilla

3 17/15


Patricia Grieve 3 12/15

SPAN UN3350 Hispanic Cultures II: Enlightenment to the Present. 3points.CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement

This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish Americafrom the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquirethe knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations ofthe Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues andevents studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice,the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish Americanindependence, the fin-de-siècle and the cultural avant-gardes, the warsand revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexicanand Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanicpresence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study somekey moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representativetexts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situatethe works studied within the political and cultural currents and debatesof the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments arein Spanish. This course is required for the major and the concentration inHispanic Studies.


CourseNumber

Section/CallNumber


SPAN 3350 001/10519 M W 11:40am - 12:55pmOnline Only

Sara GarciaFernandez

3 13/15


Juan CadenaBotero

3 7/15


KatrynWilliamsEvinson

3 9/15


Elvira Blanco 3 13/15

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SPAN UN3991 SENIOR SEMINAR. 4.00 points.Prerequisites: Seniors (major or concentrator status).The course is a requirement for all the LAIC majors. In this seminar,students develop an individual research project and write an essayunder the guidance of the course’s instructor and in dialogue withthe other participants’ projects After an introductory theoretical andmethodological section, and a research session at the library, the syllabusis entirely constructed on the students’ projects. Every participant isin charge of a weekly session. Essay outlines and drafts are discussedwith the group throughout the semester. The final session is a publicsymposium with external respondents.


CourseNumber

Section/CallNumber


SPAN 3991 001/10739 M 10:10am - 12:00pmOnline Only

Seth Kimmel 4.00 7/15

SPAN UN3315 New York as Theatre of Spanish Modernity. 3 points.From the beginning of the XXth Century some of the key figures ofSpanish contemporary culture, writers, filmmakers or architects,had a very close relationship to New York, sometimes as travelers,sometimes living in the city for long periods of time. That transatlanticcontact, far from anecdotal, turned into an essential element of the self-understanding of those authors and a crucial presence in their work. Thecontact with New York modernity would be an unavoidable componentin their own versions of modernity but their presence would also leavean important trace in the city. As yet more Spanish cultural travelersgot in contact with the city a different phenomenon developed: from the1950’s, New York would be used as a privileged stage to project a certaininstitutional idea of Spain, to sell a refurbished image of the nation assophisticated and modern after decades of international marginalizationunder Francoism. This course will develop a comparative study of bothprocesses as seen in literary sources, film and architecture (García Lorca,Camba, Dalí, Tápies, Buñuel, Loriga, Sert, Calatrava…)


CourseNumber

Section/CallNumber



Alberto Medina 3 11/15

SPAN UN3366 Unseen Things: Fantastic Narratives in ContemporarySpain. 3 points.This course is a survey of Spanish literature and cinema that offersa glimpse to the Spanish canon through the cultural topology of“Fantasy”. By conceiving fantasy as a historically produced—andtherefore historically changing—notion, we will travel across fivecenturies to examine how phenomena associated with the supernaturaland the paranormal were understood in their time and how they areunderstood today. Haunting memories and spaces, ghosts and imaginaryrepresentations, supernatural events, monsters, spiritistic practices, andphantasmagorias will parade before our eyes as we try to come up witha comprehensive account for what we could call the “Spanish unevendevelopment”. The discussions over differential temporalities, social andpolitical imaginaries, collective memories, the role of fiction and symbolicrepresentations, and the connection between fantasy and the economic,political, and ideological practices in a determinate social formation willbe interrogated in our seminar from different historical vantage points.Readings (most of them by major authors) will be the center of thediscussion, whereas visual materials, documentary, art and movies will dotheir part to illustrate the readings. Several questions will be raised (andhopefully answered) along this journey: How can we explain proliferationof fantastic narratives in Contemporary Spain? And, finally, how can weexamine the recent boom and success of Spanish fantastic, supernaturaland horror pieces, particularly in film and in the novel? Is there such thingas a “Spanish fantastic” genre?

SPAN UN3731 Environment and Citizenship: Cultures of Nature in theIberian Peninsula. 3 points.This course examines the role of nature and the environment inboth contemporary literature and the arts, and attempts to explorea conceptual framework for the definition of environment as acultural and material production. Environmental peculiarities andhistorical discontinuities and continuities have created social andpolitical conjunctures in the Iberian Peninsula in which questionsconcerning nature, space, landscape, and urban and rural experienceshave become central to the cultural and the critical imagination inthe 20th & 21st Centuries. From the debate over the privatization anderosion of communal rights and the environmental dispossession (andrepossession) of the resources to the history of the constructions ofnature(s) in literary and cinematic landscapes, the guiding question ishow cultural and social practices interfere in the production of what RobNixon has called ‘slow violence’, that is, the incremental dynamics ofenvironmental violence that intensify the vulnerability of populations andnatural ecosystems. To address this issue, we will not only read a numberof novels, essays, poems, short stories and theoretical production,but also engage in the study of artwork and new Iberian democraticexperiences, and the development of the cultural environmental studiesand ecocriticism in literature and the arts today. The class will beconducted in Spanish and all written assignments will also be in thatlanguage.

SPAN GU4010 LANGUAGE CROSSING IN LATINX CARIBBEAN CULTURALPRODUCTION. 3 points.Prerequisites: Intermediate reading knowledge of SpanishFall 2020: SPAN GU4010

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3 7/15

Hispanic Studies 9

SPAN G4030 Spanish Pragmatics. 4 points.In one sense, Pragmatics is concerned with how we use the language,why and how the speakers communicate in social interactions. Theinterpretation of meaning in context is probably the main field of studyof this multidiscipline, considering the speaker-meaning as the centralpoint of departure. The term Pragmatics refers to a broad perspectiveon different aspects of communication, including linguistics, but alsocognitive psychology, cultural anthropology, philosophy, sociology andrhetoric among others. Through this course we will study chronologicallyand apply in specific cases of study of the Spanish language the mostmeaningful pragmatic theories, such as: Context, Deixis, Speech acts,Implicature, Cooperative Principle, Politeness, Relevance, Pragmaticmarkers, Metaphors and Cross-cultural pragmatics. Pragmatics, as weknow, is a most helpful criterion in the interpretation of many differenttypes of texts. As a course within our Department’s curriculum thisinstrument of rhetoric analysis is a basic tool in the comprehensionof our students’ discourse in their literary, cultural, and critical papers.This discipline goes beyond the analysis of strictly forms or verbalutterances, hence its multidisciplinary applicability to a wide rangeof fields of studies in Spanish. Whichever the student’s field of studymight be, Pragmatics provides a valuable and accurate vocabularythat can be applied to any textual interpretation. In this course, thepragmatic perspective is a starting point to delve into the processes ofcommunication in Spanish. After this first approach, the student will gainan insight into new aspects of the linguistics of language use in generaland the use of Spanish in particular.

CPLS GU4810 Theories of the Subject. 4 points.This seminar will revisit some major texts and concerns in the theoreticalhumanities that develop genealogical, psychoanalytical or politicaltheories of the subject, roughly from Marx until today. The goal is to cometo a critical understanding of the centrality of this notion of the subjectas one of the founding concepts of modernity, as well as to draw out allthe consequences of its crisis in radical humanistic (or even so-calledposthumanist) thought today. Thinkers to be discussed further includeFreud, Foucault, Badiou, Butler, Althusser, Rozitchner, Žižek and Zupančič.

Fall 2020: CPLS GU4810

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Section/CallNumber


CPLS 4810 001/13055 Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm206 Casa Hispanica

Bruno Bosteels 4 17/15

PortuguesePORT UN1101 Elementary Portuguese I. 4 points.A beginning course designed for students who wish to start their studyof Portuguese and have no proficiency in another Romance language.The four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing aredeveloped at the basic level.

Fall 2020: PORT UN1101

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PORT 1101 001/11074 M W Th 1:10pm - 2:25pmOnline Only

Ana Huback 4 9/15

PORT UN1102 Elementary Portuguese II. 4 points.Prerequisites: PORT W1101 or the equivalent.A course designed to acquaint students with the Portuguese verbal,prepositional, and pronominal systems. As a continuation of ElementaryPortuguese I (PORT W1101), this course focuses on the uses ofcharacteristic forms and expressions of the language as it is spoken andwritten in Brazil today.


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Section/CallNumber


PORT 1102 001/11075 M W F 11:40am -12:55pmOnline Only

TulioBucchioni

4 2/15

PORT UN1320 Comprehensive Elementary Portuguese I and II forSpanish Speakers. 4 points.Prerequisites: knowledge of Spanish or another Romance language.An intensive beginning language course in Brazilian Portuguese withemphasis on Brazilian culture through multimedia materials related toculture and society in contemporary Brazil. Recommended for studentswho have studied Spanish or another Romance language. The courseis the equivalent of two full semesters of elementary Portuguese withstress on reading and conversing, and may be taken in place of PORTW1101-W1102. For students unable to dedicate the time needed cover twosemesters in one, the regularly paced sequence PORT W1101-W1102 ispreferable.


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Section/CallNumber


PORT 1320 001/11076 M W 6:10pm - 8:00pmOnline Only

JoseCastellanos-Pazos

4 8/15

PORT 1320 002/11080 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pmOnline Only


4 4/15

PORT UN2101 Intermediate Portuguese I. 4 points.Prerequisites: PORT W1120 or the equivalent.General review of grammar, with emphasis on self-expression throughoral and written composition, reading, conversation, and discussion.


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Ana Huback 4 7/15

PORT UN2120 Comprehensive Intermediate Portuguese. 4 points.Prerequisites: PORT UN1102 or PORT UN1320.Prerequisites: this course is an intensive and fast-paced coverage ofboth PORT UN2101 and PORT UN2102. Students MUST demonstrate astrong foundation in Portuguese and meet the following REQUIREMENT:A- or higher in PORT UN1102 or PORT UN1320. If you fulfill the aboverequirement, you do not need the instructor's permission to register.HOWEVER the instructor will additionally assess student proficiencyduring the Change of Program Period. Students who do not have thenecessary proficiency level may not remain in this course. This coursereplaces the sequence PORT UN2101-PORT UN2102.


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Ana Huback 4 8/15

10 Hispanic Studies

PORT UN3101 Conversation about the Lusophone World. 3 points.Prerequisites: PORT W1220.This conversation class will help students develop their oral proficiencyin Portuguese. We will discuss current events, participate in challengingpronunciation exercises, improve understanding of Portuguese idioms,develop conversation strengths, confront weaknesses, and increasefluency in spoken Portuguese.


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Section/CallNumber


PORT 3101 001/11081 T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pmOnline Only

Joao NemiNeto

3 7/15

PORT UN3300 Advanced Language through Content. 3 points.Corequisites: PORT UN1220An intensive exposure to advanced points of Portuguese grammar andstructure through written and oral practice, along with an introductionto the basic principles of academic composition in Portuguese. Thiscourse is required for the concentration in Portuguese Studies. "Thiscourse is intended to improve Portuguese language skills in grammar,comprehension, and critical thinking through an archive of texts fromliterature, film, music, newspapers, critical reception and more. To do so,we will work through Portuguese-speaking communities and culturesfrom Brazil, to Portugal and Angola, during the twentieth and twenty-first century, to consider the mode in which genre, gender and sexualitymaterialize and are codified, disoriented, made, unmade and refiguredthrough cultural productions, bodies, nation and resistant vernacularsof aesthetics and performance, always attentive to the intersections ofgender with class and racism.


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PORT 3300 001/11082 M W 10:10am - 11:25amOnline Only


3 1/15

PORT UN3490 Brazilian Society and Civilization. 3 points.Each week, a historical period is studied in connection to a particulartheme of ongoing cultural expression. While diverse elements ofpopular culture are included, fiction is privileged as a source of culturalcommentary. Students are expected to assimilate the backgroundinformation but are also encouraged to develop their own perspective andinterest, whether in the social sciences, the humanities (including the finearts), or other areas.


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PORT 3490 001/11083 M W 11:40am - 12:55pmOnline Only

Iuri BaulerPereira

3 15/15

PORT UN2102 Intermed. Portuguese II. 4 points.Prerequisites: PORT UN1120 or PORT UN1320 or the equivalent.Prerequisites: PORT UN1120 or PORT UN1320 or the equivalent. Generalreview of grammar, with emphasis on self-expression through oral andwritten composition, reading, conversation, and discussion.

CatalanCATL UN1120 Comprehensive Beginning Catalan. 4 points.An extensive introduction to the Catalan language with an emphasis onoral communication as well as the reading and writing practice that willallow the student to function comfortably in a Catalan environment.

CATL UN2102 Intermediate Catalan II. 4 points.Prerequisites: CATL UN2101 or equivalent.Catalan UN2102 is the second part of Columbia University's intermediateCatalan sequence. Course goals are to enhance student exposure tovarious aspects of Catalan culture and to consolidate and expandreading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.

CATL UN2101 Intermediate Catalan I. 4 points.Prerequisites: CATL W1120.The first part of Columbia University´s comprehensive intermediateCatalan sequence. The main objectives of this course are to continuedeveloping communicative competence - reading, writing, speaking andlistening comprehension - and to further acquaint students with Catalancultures.

Of Related InterestArt History and Archaeology

AHIS G4085 Andean Art and Architecture

American Studies

AMST UN3920 American Studies Senior ProjectColloquium

AMST UN3931 Topics in American Studies

Anthropology

ANTH UN3983 Ideas and Society in the Caribbean

Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

CSER UN1601 Introduction to Latino/a Studies

Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

CPLS UN3900 INTRO TO COMP LIT # SOCIETY

Poltical Science

POLS UN3245 Race and Ethnicity In American Politics

POLS UN3260 LATINO POLITICAL EXPERIENCE

POLS GU4461 Latin American Politics

POLS V3313 American Urban Politics

Sociology

SOCI V3247 The Immigrant Experience, Old and New

Hispanic Studies 11

Spring 2020SpanishSPAN UN1101 Elementary Spanish I. 4 points.Prerequisites: a score of 0-279 in the department's PlacementExamination.An introduction to Spanish communicative competence, with stress onbasic oral interaction, reading, witting, and cultural knowledge. Principalobjectives are to understand and produce commonly used sentencesto satisfy immediate needs; ask and answer questions about personaldetails such as where we live, people we know and things we have;interact in a simple manner with people who speak clearly, slowly andare ready to cooperate; and understand simple and short written andaudiovisual texts in Spanish. All Columbia students must take Spanishlanguage courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.


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4 13/15



4 15/15


Lee Abraham 4 13/15


Omar Duran-Garcia

4 13/15



4 14/15



4 14/15



4 11/15



4 15/15



4 12/15



4 13/15


BenjaminJohnson

4 12/15



SPAN 1101 021/00573 M W Th 10:10am -11:25amRoom TBA




4 15/12



4 15/12

SPAN UN1102 Elementary Spanish II. 4 points.Prerequisites: SPAN UN1101 or a score of 280-379 in the department'sPlacement Examination.An intensive introduction to Spanish language communicativecompetence, with stress on basic oral interaction, reading, writing andcultural knowledge as a continuation of SPAN UN1101. The principalobjectives are to understand sentences and frequently used expressionsrelated to areas of immediate relevance; communicate in simple androutine tasks requiring a direct exchange of information on familiarmatters; describe in simple terms aspects of our background andpersonal history; understand the main point, the basic content, and theplot of filmic as well as short written texts. All Columbia students musttake Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.


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Miguel AngelBlancoMartinez

4 15/15


Maria AgustinaBattezzati

4 15/15


VeredEngelhard

4 15/15


BenjaminJohnson

4 15/15



4 14/15



4 15/15



4 14/15


Jose PlacidoRuiz-Campillo

4 15/15


BenjaminJohnson

4 12/15


Leonor PonsColl

4 15/12


Leonor PonsColl

4 16/12

SPAN UN1113 Spanish Rapid Reading and Translation. 3 points.Open to graduate students in GSAS only.

This course, conducted in English, is designed to help graduate studentsfrom other departments gain proficiency in reading and translatingSpanish texts for scholarly research. The course prepares students totake the Reading Proficiency Exam that most graduate departmentsdemand to fulfill the foreign-language proficiency requirement in thatlanguage. Graduate students with any degree of knowledge of Spanishare welcome. A grade of A- or higher in this class will satisfy the GSASforeign language proficiency requirement in Spanish.

12 Hispanic Studies

SPAN UN1120 Comprehensive Beginning Spanish. 4 points.Prerequisites: This course is an intensive and fast-paced coverageof both SPAN UN1101 and SPAN UN1102. Students MUST meetthe following REQUIREMENTS: 1. A minimum of 3 years of highschool Spanish (or the equivalent) AND a score of 330 or above in theDepartment's Placement Examination, OR 2. fluency in a language otherthan English (preferably another Romance language). If you fulfill theabove requirements, you do not need instructor's permission to register.HOWEVER, the instructor will additionally assess student proficiencyduring the Change of Program Period. Students who do not have thenecessary proficiency level may not remain in this course. Replaces thesequence SPAN UN1101-SPAN UN1102. All Columbia students must takeSpanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

SPAN UN2101 Intermediate Spanish I. 4 points.Prerequisites: SPAN UN1102 or SPAN UN1120 or or a score of 380-449 inthe department's Placement Examination.An intensive course in Spanish language communicative competence,with stress on oral interaction, reading, writing, and culture as acontinuation of SPAN UN1102 or SPAN UN1120. All Columbia studentsmust take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.


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David Mejia 4 10/15


Analia Lavin 4 15/15


Nicole Basile 4 12/15


AlexandraMendez

4 14/15








FranciscoMeizoso

4 11/15


FranciscoMeizoso

4 9/15


FranciscoMeizoso

4 10/15


Leyre AlejaldreBiel

4 10/15


Leyre AlejaldreBiel

4 13/15


Leyre AlejaldreBiel

4 12/15



4 15/12



4 13/12


Leonor PonsColl

4 15/12



4 13/12

SPAN UN2102 Intermediate Spanish II. 4 points.Prerequisites: SPAN UN2101 or a score of 450-625 in the department'sPlacement Examination.An intensive course in Spanish language communicative competence,with stress on oral interaction, reading, writing and culture as acontinuation of SPAN UN2101. All Columbia students must take Spanishlanguage courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.


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4 12/15



4 14/15

SPAN 2102 003/13881 M F 11:40am - 12:55pmOnline Only


4 9/15



4 14/15



4 14/15



4 15/15



4 15/15



4 15/15



4 15/15


Juan PabloCominguez

4 14/15


Juan PabloCominguez

4 14/15



4 8/12



4 13/12

Hispanic Studies 13

SPAN UN2103 HEALTH-RELATED TOPICS IN THE SPANISH-SPEAKINGWORLD. 4 points.Prerequisites: SPAN UN2101 or a score of 380-449 on the Department’splacement examination.This is an intensive course in Spanish language communicative competencewith an emphasis on oral interaction, reading, writing, and culture at anIntermediate II level with focus on health-related topics in the Spanish-speaking world.

In an increasingly interconnected world, and in multilingual global citiessuch as New York City, the study of a foreign language is fundamentalnot only in the field of the humanities but also in the natural sciences.This interdisciplinary course analyzes the intersection between these twodisciplines through the study of health-related topics in Iberian and LatinAmerican cultural expressions (literature, film, documentaries, amongother sources) in order to explore new critical perspectives across bothdomains. Students will learn health-related vocabulary and usage-basedgrammar in Spanish. Students will develop a cultural understanding ofmedicine, illness, and treatment in the Spanish-speaking world. Finally,students will be able to carry out specific collaborative tasks in Spanishwith the aim of integrating language, culture, and health.

* This course fulfills the last semester of the foreign languagerequirement. Therefore, students who have taken SPAN UN 2101(Intermediate Spanish I), or have a score of 380-449 on the Department’splacement exam, and are interested in health-related topics may proceedand enroll in SPAN UN 2103 (Intermediate Spanish II: Health-RelatedTopics in the Spanish-Speaking World). Pre-med and pre-health students,as well as those students majoring in the natural sciences—includingbiology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and physics—will be given registration priority. All Columbia students must takeSpanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.


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Juan PabloCominguez

4 13/15

SPAN UN2120 Comprehensive Intermediate Spanish. 4 points.Prerequisites: This course is an intensive and fast-paced coverage ofboth SPAN UN2101 and SPAN UN2102. Students MUST demonstrate astrong foundation in Spanish and meet the following REQUIREMENTS: ascore ABOVE 480 on the Department's Placement Examination; or A- orhigher in SPAN UN1120. If you fulfill the above requirements, you do notneed the instructor's permission to register. HOWEVER, the instructor willadditionally assess student proficiency during the Change of ProgramPeriod. Students who do not have the necessary proficiency level maynot remain in this course. Replaces the sequence SPAN UN2101-SPANUN2102. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN1101-3300) for a letter grade.

SPAN UN3300 Advanced Language through Content [in Spanish]. 3points.Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score.An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar andstructure through written and oral practice, along with an introductionto the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Eachsection is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves asthe organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult theDirectory of Classes (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb/) forthe topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and theconcentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPANBC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannottake SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish languagecourses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.


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Section/CallNumber



Ramon FloresPinedo

3 11/15


EduardoAndresVergara Torres

3 11/15


JavieraIrribarren Ortiz

3 13/15


ManuelaLuengasSolano

3 7/15


Tamara Hache 3 7/15


FranciscoRosales-Varo

3 14/15


Daniel Saenz 3 8/15

SPAN 3300 020/00614 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pmRoom TBA


3 14/15

SPAN 3300 021/00615 M W 11:40am - 12:55pmRoom TBA


SPAN UN3349 Hispanic Cultures I: Islamic Spain through the ColonialPeriod. 3 points.CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement

Prerequisites: L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion oflanguage requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300).Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanicworld, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern perioduntil about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spainand the Americas.


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Section/CallNumber



Brais LamelaGomez

3 14/15


Juan CarlosGarzonMantilla

3 17/15


Patricia Grieve 3 12/15



14 Hispanic Studies

SPAN UN3350 Hispanic Cultures II: Enlightenment to the Present. 3points.CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement

This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish Americafrom the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquirethe knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations ofthe Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues andevents studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice,the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish Americanindependence, the fin-de-siècle and the cultural avant-gardes, the warsand revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexicanand Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanicpresence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study somekey moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representativetexts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situatethe works studied within the political and cultural currents and debatesof the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments arein Spanish. This course is required for the major and the concentration inHispanic Studies.


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Section/CallNumber


SPAN 3350 001/10519 M W 11:40am - 12:55pmOnline Only

Sara GarciaFernandez

3 13/15


Juan CadenaBotero

3 7/15


KatrynWilliamsEvinson

3 9/15


Elvira Blanco 3 13/15

SPAN UN3361 Artistic Humanity. 3 points.CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement

Prerequisites: This is an advanced class in Spanish.Between the 15 th and 17 th centuries, in the context of the Iberianexpansion, the presence and observation of unexpected artistic forms,media, and monuments triggered a new space of inquiry. Novel objects,surfaces, architectures, materials, and ideas about artistry were observedfar and near—in the Americas, in Asia, in Africa, and in Europe. Theytraveled between continents in physical and textual forms: sent andoffered as proofs of the new territories, desired and collected as uniquetreasures, but also described, compared and analyzed in letters, histories,or inventories. All around a sphere that could now be mentally embraced,missionaries, collectors, travelers, historians, and artists felt under thepower of novel creations: body painting, gold byobu, intricate sculptures,but also turquoise masks, feather mosaics, painted manuscripts, fish-bone necklaces, ivory spoons, carved temples, monumental cities, and soon. These splendid artworks deeply challenged conceptual boundariessuch as those between idol and image, beautiful and frightening, civilizedand barbarian, center and periphery, classic and modern, and ancientand new. But most importantly, these artworks and their descriptions inchronicles, histories, and inventories contributed to define humanity asimmanently creative—and to conceive artistic creation as a distinctiveform of thought.

SPAN UN3462 Spanish Grammar: From Rules to Laws and Beyond. 3points.From a cognitive and operational point of view, this course aims toreflect on the theoretical and, mainly, practical limits of traditionalgrammar explanations, contributing with a new meaningful, experientialand representational understanding of Spanish as a human mean ofcommunication. Within this framework, some of the most representativeaspects of the grammar of Spanish will be studied from a fully practicalperspective, favoring the comparison with the grammar of English.In each case, the reflection will lead to turn the traditional rules andtheir exceptions, into operational laws without exceptions, as well as tohighlight the natural logic underlying every single grammar decision in theuse of language.

SPAN UN3533 Women, Culture, Activism & Gender in Latin America. 3points.The course focuses on women, culture, and activism in contemporaryLatin America through the discussion of manifestos, essays, visualworks, films, literature, blogs, music, and new cultural experiences. Wewill approach two main demands of women on the streets: claims againstviolence (“femicidios”) and the expansion of rights.

Students will be introduced to theoretical writing on Latin Americanfeminisms in different contexts (mainly Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay,Mexico, Chile, Peru). This course will provide students with an accurateunderstanding of some of the topics of contemporary Latin Americanfeminism and activism related to new subjectivities, politics, and culture.The course develops a wide range of cultural practices and includestopics as practices of resistance, representation of violence, gender asspectacle, and new phenomena such as urban protests. We will also tracea relevant genealogy of women struggles in Latin America. The class willbe conducted in Spanish and all written assignments will also be in thatlanguage.

SPAN UN3692 Labor Culture in Twentieth-Century Latin America. 3points.Industrial modernization often went hand-in-hand with the constitutionof a new kind of national-popular culture during the twentieth centuryin Latin America .For many such projects, becoming a political subjectmeant being a worker. This course will interrogate the ways in whichlabor and culture informed and produced one another, from the Mexicanmuralists’ use of industrial materials and techniques in the 1920s inthe constitution of a their spectators to the creation of the “credit cardcitizen; of consumption in the late 1990s. Class discussions and writingassignments will analyze novels, essays, short stories, chronicles, filmsand works of visual art in order to pose and answer some of the followingquestions: How is work imagines and represented at different historicalmoments and what ideaological role might such representations play?How do artists and writers think about the nature, organization andpolitical import of their work in relation to other kinds of intellectualand manual labor? In what ways and in what contexts do labor andlabor movements become the protagonists of radical political change?Alternatively, to what extent do the tactics of political revolution imply alaborious exercise of their own? How do such artists, writers and thinkersconceive of work before and after capitalism? Authors to be studiesmay include Diego Rivera, Alfaro Siqueiros, Jorge Luis Borges, EduardoCoutinho, José Carlos Mariátegui and Ernesto Guevara, among others.

Hispanic Studies 15

SPAN UN3998 Supervised Individual Research (Spring). 3 points.Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies' permission.Students register in this course while they pursue independent studywork under the supervision of a faculty member during the springsemester.

SPAN GU4011 Conversation in Spanish: Practice and Analysis. 3 points.This is a course in Spanish conversation. Students will study and practicefeatures of social interaction in Spanish that are crucial to participate inthe new culture. This means the course has two learning objectives: Oneis learning to engage in regular conversations in Spanish; the other is tounderstand how conversation works. We will cover conversational issuessuch as gesture, narratives, intonation, opening and closing interactions,turn taking, etc., both in linguistics and social terms. Practice andanalysis will be connected: Every week we will consider an aspect of oralinteraction in Spanish. We will study those features in naturally occurringconversations among native speakers and we will practice in actualconversations inside and outside the classroom, by means of role play,simulation, film making, debates and interviews. We will use topics ofconversation to provide a meaningful environment for the conversationpractice.

PortuguesePORT UN1101 Elementary Portuguese I. 4 points.A beginning course designed for students who wish to start their studyof Portuguese and have no proficiency in another Romance language.The four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing aredeveloped at the basic level.


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Ana Huback 4 9/15

PORT UN1102 Elementary Portuguese II. 4 points.Prerequisites: PORT W1101 or the equivalent.A course designed to acquaint students with the Portuguese verbal,prepositional, and pronominal systems. As a continuation of ElementaryPortuguese I (PORT W1101), this course focuses on the uses ofcharacteristic forms and expressions of the language as it is spoken andwritten in Brazil today.


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Section/CallNumber


PORT 1102 001/11075 M W F 11:40am -12:55pmOnline Only

TulioBucchioni

4 2/15

PORT UN1320 Comprehensive Elementary Portuguese I and II forSpanish Speakers. 4 points.Prerequisites: knowledge of Spanish or another Romance language.An intensive beginning language course in Brazilian Portuguese withemphasis on Brazilian culture through multimedia materials related toculture and society in contemporary Brazil. Recommended for studentswho have studied Spanish or another Romance language. The courseis the equivalent of two full semesters of elementary Portuguese withstress on reading and conversing, and may be taken in place of PORTW1101-W1102. For students unable to dedicate the time needed cover twosemesters in one, the regularly paced sequence PORT W1101-W1102 ispreferable.


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Section/CallNumber


PORT 1320 001/11076 M W 6:10pm - 8:00pmOnline Only


4 8/15

PORT 1320 002/11080 T Th 10:10am - 12:00pmOnline Only


4 4/15

PORT UN2101 Intermediate Portuguese I. 4 points.Prerequisites: PORT W1120 or the equivalent.General review of grammar, with emphasis on self-expression throughoral and written composition, reading, conversation, and discussion.


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Ana Huback 4 7/15

PORT UN2102 Intermed. Portuguese II. 4 points.Prerequisites: PORT UN1120 or PORT UN1320 or the equivalent.Prerequisites: PORT UN1120 or PORT UN1320 or the equivalent. Generalreview of grammar, with emphasis on self-expression through oral andwritten composition, reading, conversation, and discussion.

PORT UN2120 Comprehensive Intermediate Portuguese. 4 points.Prerequisites: PORT UN1102 or PORT UN1320.Prerequisites: this course is an intensive and fast-paced coverage ofboth PORT UN2101 and PORT UN2102. Students MUST demonstrate astrong foundation in Portuguese and meet the following REQUIREMENT:A- or higher in PORT UN1102 or PORT UN1320. If you fulfill the aboverequirement, you do not need the instructor's permission to register.HOWEVER the instructor will additionally assess student proficiencyduring the Change of Program Period. Students who do not have thenecessary proficiency level may not remain in this course. This coursereplaces the sequence PORT UN2101-PORT UN2102.


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Section/CallNumber



Ana Huback 4 8/15

16 Hispanic Studies

PORT UN3101 Conversation about the Lusophone World. 3 points.Prerequisites: PORT W1220.This conversation class will help students develop their oral proficiencyin Portuguese. We will discuss current events, participate in challengingpronunciation exercises, improve understanding of Portuguese idioms,develop conversation strengths, confront weaknesses, and increasefluency in spoken Portuguese.


CourseNumber

Section/CallNumber


PORT 3101 001/11081 T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pmOnline Only

Joao NemiNeto

3 7/15

PORT UN3300 Advanced Language through Content. 3 points.Corequisites: PORT UN1220An intensive exposure to advanced points of Portuguese grammar andstructure through written and oral practice, along with an introductionto the basic principles of academic composition in Portuguese. Thiscourse is required for the concentration in Portuguese Studies. "Thiscourse is intended to improve Portuguese language skills in grammar,comprehension, and critical thinking through an archive of texts fromliterature, film, music, newspapers, critical reception and more. To do so,we will work through Portuguese-speaking communities and culturesfrom Brazil, to Portugal and Angola, during the twentieth and twenty-first century, to consider the mode in which genre, gender and sexualitymaterialize and are codified, disoriented, made, unmade and refiguredthrough cultural productions, bodies, nation and resistant vernacularsof aesthetics and performance, always attentive to the intersections ofgender with class and racism.


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PORT 3300 001/11082 M W 10:10am - 11:25amOnline Only


3 1/15

PORT UN3301 Advanced Writing and Composition in Portuguese. 3points.Prerequisites: PORT W1220.This course focuses on three elements: 1) the main elements of formaldiscourse in Portuguese (grammar, vocabulary, expressions, etc.); 2)discourse genres, based on the theoretical bases laid out by TextualLinguistics and Discourse Analysis; 3) cultural, economic, social, politicalthemes related to the reality of Brazil or other Portuguese-speakingcountries. However, students should be able to define their areas ofinterest and shape their experience in the course according to them.Such an approach takes advantage of the diversity in the classroom,stimulates participation, and promotes independent academic research.Therefore, students will start a weblog, where their writing activitieswill be posted, so that their colleagues may read and comment onthem. The mandatory genres-forms for all students are in the modulesof discourse genres and academic writing, and the correspondingforms, the pronominal system and semelfectives. Students will thenchoose one more genre among biographical texts (resumé, facebook,biography), lyrical texts (music, poetry), subjective texts (description,narrative, commentary, editorial), and journalistic texts, as well as thecorresponding forms assigned to those modules: indirect speech,mandates, past verbal tenses, conjunctions, redundancy/repetition, andsemelfactives (conditionals). Every student will study and practice allgenres and forms, but they will be responsible for larger assignments(module notes, to be posted on their blogs) on the two mandatorymodules and the optional one. At the beginning of the semester theywill choose a thematic topic for the course (in their field of study or areaof personal interest), and will select a literature list with the assistanceof the instructor. All assignments in the course must be related to thechosen thematic topic and will involve research based on the literaturelist. At the end of the semester, they will produce an essay on theirthematic choice.

PORT UN3330 Introduction to Portuguese Studies. 3 points.This course presents the students with the information and basic toolsneeded to interpret a broad range of topics and cultural production fromthe Portuguese-speaking world: literary, filmic, artisitic, architectural,urban, etc. We will use a continuing cross-disciplinary dialogue tostudy everyday acts as a location of culture. This course will center oninterpretation as an activity and as the principal operation though whichculturally sited meaning is created and analyzed. Among the categoriesand topics discussed will be history, national and popular cultures,literature (high/low), cultural institutions, migration, and globalization.Students will also acquire the fundamental vocabulary for the analysisof cultural objects. This course is required for the concentration inPortuguese Studies.

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PORT UN3325 Slavery, Free Labor, and Cultural Memory. 0-3 points.This course will examine the historical period of gradual emancipationto free labor in Brazil. Course readings include literary and culturalproduction as well as historical narratives and literary theory. We willquestion how ideas of racial labor transform alongside new notions offreedom and nation. By drawing mostly on literature, history, and film,this course investigates the issue of cultural memory as related to thehistory of slavery, racial formation, and national forgetting. Our coursediscussions will center on questions as, how is the history of slaveryremembered or forgotten? How do we ethically remember a past thatwe can never understand completely? Is it possible to separate culturalrepresentations of race, ethnicity, sexuality and gender from their politicaland economic contexts? How are “race,” “liberty,” “property” and “life”understood during slavery, and how do those ideas continue to influencethe post-slavery nation? Although the course will focus heavily on theBrazilian historical context, we will also comparatively examine howthese histories are remembered and forgotten in the U.S. and other partsof Latin America.

PORT UN3350 Lusophone Africa and Afro Brazilian Culture. 3 points.CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement

This course focuses on Lusophone African and African Brazilian culturesand the relations, continuities, ruptures and influences between them.Brazil is the result of the miscegenation of Ameridians, African andEuropeans, and this means that is also a cultural mélange of thesegroups. The African cultural contribution to Brazilian culture and grand-narrative is the primary focus of this course, however, to understandBrazil one needs to understand the cultural diversity found in LusophoneAfrica, with which Brazil has had a long relationship. The readings forthis course include texts from different disciplines and genres. We willstudy texts, movies and other forms of visual arts from the followingauthors: José Eduardo Agualusa, Pepetela, Mia Couto, Jorge Amado,Achille, Mbembe, Hilton Costa, Jocélio Teles dos Santos, Livio Sansone,José Luis Cabaço, Benedita da Silva and Solano Trindade.

PORT UN3490 Brazilian Society and Civilization. 3 points.Each week, a historical period is studied in connection to a particulartheme of ongoing cultural expression. While diverse elements ofpopular culture are included, fiction is privileged as a source of culturalcommentary. Students are expected to assimilate the backgroundinformation but are also encouraged to develop their own perspective andinterest, whether in the social sciences, the humanities (including the finearts), or other areas.


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PORT 3490 001/11083 M W 11:40am - 12:55pmOnline Only

Iuri BaulerPereira

3 15/15

CatalanCATL UN1120 Comprehensive Beginning Catalan. 4 points.An extensive introduction to the Catalan language with an emphasis onoral communication as well as the reading and writing practice that willallow the student to function comfortably in a Catalan environment.

CATL UN2101 Intermediate Catalan I. 4 points.Prerequisites: CATL W1120.The first part of Columbia University´s comprehensive intermediateCatalan sequence. The main objectives of this course are to continuedeveloping communicative competence - reading, writing, speaking andlistening comprehension - and to further acquaint students with Catalancultures.

CATL UN2102 Intermediate Catalan II. 4 points.Prerequisites: CATL UN2101 or equivalent.Catalan UN2102 is the second part of Columbia University's intermediateCatalan sequence. Course goals are to enhance student exposure tovarious aspects of Catalan culture and to consolidate and expandreading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.

CATL UN3300 Advanced Catalan Through Content: Language and Identityin Contemporary Catalonia. 4 points.An examination of the political, cultural, and artistic history inModern and Contemporary Catalonia and its role in the building of itssociolinguistic identity. Material includes literary, academic, and mediareadings and audiovisual and online resources.

CATL W3330 Introduction to Catalan Culture. 3 points.This is a content course covering topics regarding Catalan history,society, literature and visual arts. The objective of the course is toexamine the main socio-cultural manifestations in the Catalan-speakingterritories. Topics to be discussed include: bilingualism and language asthe marker of "authentic" national identity; the influx of immigration andthe constant redefinition of all things Catalan; the very locally rooted andat the same time very international outlook of the Catalan avant-gardefrom Foix to Tàpies; the protest song and the cultural manifestationsduring the Franco repression, and the crucial role of the city of Barcelonaas a cultural focus and its impact on literature, film, and arts. By the endof the semester students will be familiar with the main social and culturalissues of the Catalan-speaking territories. The course will be taughtin Spanish and counts as an elective towards the major in HispanicCultures. No previous knowledge of the Catalan language is required.

CATL UN3500 Literature in Catalan Cinema. 3 points.Prerequisites: CATL UN3300 The course will be taught in Catalan.The main goal of this course is to study the close relationship betweenCatalan literature and cinema during the 20th century. Through thereading and viewing of the selected works, the students will exploreexamples of Modern Catalan Literature and Film in the Catalan-speakingterritories, while deepening their understanding of the cultural, historical,and sociopolitical aspects of each period. At the end the course studentswill be able to analyze how literary procedures are translated into film, inaddition to the formal and cultural implication of each particular work.The course will be taught in Catalan.The objectives of the course are:To acquire a basic knowledge of the history of modern Catalan cinemaand literature and their cultural and historical contexts.To be able to recognize and analyze the main literary procedures used inmovies.To analyze the influence of Catalan literature on Catalan cinemaTo develop an awareness of critical and technical terminology fordiscussing literature and film

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