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Spanish and Portuguese (SPPT) Courses

Academic Unit: Spanish & Portuguese Studies

SPPT 3600 - Topics in Spanish and Portuguese Studies (Taught in English) (Topics course)

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

Latin American, Iberian, or Lusophone topics related to culture, society, art, or linguistics. Taught in English.

SPPT 3601 - 'Race' in Brazil & Latin America

(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)

As cultural, national and racial mixings have become the celebrated norm in our society, it is instructive to reflect upon the radically historical, contingent role that the idea of racial mixings has played in the construction of national imaginaries. The idea that Latin America is a continent of mestizos looms large in the US as elsewhere, but generally without the contextual understanding of how that racial category came to be, and as imaginaries of national mesticagem/mestizaje were consolidated, developed and questioned in the twentieth century and, finally, transplanted to other geographical and epistemological sites, as is the case with Chicanx in the USA. Rather than contributing to the invisibility of Brazil by generalizing from Spanish-speaking Latin America, the present course aims to introduce students to racial thinking in Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in a comparative frame with racial thinking elsewhere in Latin America, particularly in Mexico. Aside from understanding how the Spanish ?mestizo? construction is not equivalent to that of ?mestico? or ?pardo? or ?mulato? in Portuguese, nor to contemporary multicultural US-branded notions of racial mixings, the course aims to query how the imaginaries of nationhood that have prevailed in Latin America contribute not only to the social exclusion of black people, even where they are a majority, but also to the systematic racism that is still dominant and difficult to combat. We will go over the social and anthropological concepts, the literary and artistic representations, and the political uses of racial ascriptions with attention to changing historical contexts and locations. The main topics covered are the idea of the mixed-race nation in romanticism; post-emancipation, modern nation-making and whitening; modernism and the ideals of ?la raza cosmica? (Jose Vasconcelos, in Mexico) and racial democracy (Gilberto Freyre, in Brazil); the problem of forging a black consciousness in

SPPT 5930 - Selected Topics in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultural Discourse (Topics course)

(1 cr [max 3]; Prereq-Reading knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 9 credits; may be repeated 3 times)

Cultural discourses in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking areas. Historical intersections/divergences. Taught in Spanish or Portuguese, and in English when cross-listed. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

SPPT 5995 - Directed Teaching

(1 cr; Prereq-Grad student with concurrent enrollment in 5999; S-N only; offered Every Fall)

Taken in conjunction with SPPT 5999. Language acquisition theory as applied to foreign language instruction at college level. How current theory translates into practice through hands-on practical application particular to communicative language instruction practiced in Department of Spanish/Portuguese Studies.

SPPT 5999 - The Teaching of College-Level Spanish: Theory and Practice

(3 cr; Prereq-Grad or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall)

Theoretical grounding in the general principles of second language acquisition and guidance with their practical applications to the teaching of first- and second-year Spanish at the college-level.

SPPT 8400 - Topics in Modern Hispanic and Lusophone Culture (Topics course)

(3 cr; Prereq-Three 5xxx SPAN or PORT courses; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 9 credits; may be repeated 3 times)

Advanced research in methods of analysis of cultural products, including but not limited to literature. Emphasizes historical, ideological, and theoretical frameworks within which representative texts/events may be interpreted.

SPPT 8920 - Introduction to Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

(2 cr; Prereq-Graduate Student; S-N only; offered Every Spring; may be repeated for 9 credits)

This two-credit seminar will familiarize beginning doctoral students in the areas of Hispanic/Lusophone literary and cultural studies and Hispanic linguistics. Course must be taken during spring semester of the first year. Topics to be covered include: expected milestones and progress prior to reaching ABD status; methods for writing conference abstracts and presentations; the basics of academic writing in cultural studies and linguistics; how to transform a seminar paper into a publishable piece of scholarship; best practices for determining appropriate conference and publication venues; how to start formulating a dissertation project in the early stages of the graduate career; tactics for requesting funding and completing scholarship/grant applications; collegiality and professionalism in the discipline

SPPT 8930 - Dissertation & Professionalization Workshop

(1 cr; Prereq-Grad student, instr consent; S-N only; offered Every Spring; may be repeated for 6 credits)

Critical/supportive forum for issues related to dissertation research/writing. Conceptualizing the dissertation. Shaping one's topic. Audience. Uses of language. Feedback. Producing the dissertation prospectus.

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