41 courses with the subject SPAN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
SPAN 121Elementary Spanish I
The SPAN 121,122 sequence invites students to an introductory-level communication with the Spanish- speaking world. In SPAN 121, students become familiar with the mechanics of the spoken and written language while sharing information about themselves and their surroundings. Exercises and projects focus on learning about people, cities and music in Latin American and Spain through basic language structures. Students are strongly encouraged to continue into SPAN 122 to complete the year-long sequence.
SPAN 122 builds upon the skills acquired in SPAN 121 by enhancing mastery of the language through the use of short stories, video and audio exercises, and the exploration of other forms of cultural production in the Spanish-speaking world. Language Placement Guidelines SPAN course. Students with a placement score higher than 2 are encouraged to consult the department before registering. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Senior Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Not open to students with more than 2 years of study or who have taken a highter a level
Corequisite
None
SPAN 195Elementary-Level Spanish Language Abroad1
Elementary-level language courses taken abroad with a Colgate study group, an approved program, or in a foreign institution of higher learning. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Designed to improve the student's ability to understand, speak, read, and write Spanish and to expand students' knowledge of Spanish culture. It includes a comprehensive review of grammar, regularly scheduled vocabulary study, conversational practice, short compositions, cultural and literary readings, and films. Language Placement Guidelines SPAN course. Students wiht a placement score higher than 3 are encouraged to consult the department before registering. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Recommended: Students with more than 3 years of high school Spanish should not register for this course Students with a grade of D+ or below in SPAN 122 are urged to repeat the course before taking SPAN 201.
Not open to students with more than 3 years of study or who have taken a higher level
Corequisite
None
SPAN 202Intermediate Spanish: Language and Literature1.00
Continues to improve the student's ability to understand, speak, read, and write Spanish and emphasizes development of reading comprehension. It includes a review of the more difficult points of intermediate grammar and focuses on the acquisition of skills necessary for the study of literature. Vocabulary study, conversational practice, and short compositions based on readings are included. Instructors will determine eligibility of students with more than 3 or 4 years of secondary school Spanish following review of language background. Language Placement Guidelines SPAN course. Students with a placement score higher than 4 are encouraged to consult the department before registering. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Restrictions: Not open to students who receive credit for SPAN 202 by scoring 4 on the AP language exam or 4 on the AP literature exam. Students with more than four years of high school Spanish should select a 300-level course instead. Recommended: Recommended for students who have a good background in grammar but need further training in reading before taking courses at the 350 level. Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
Not open to students with more than 4 years of study or who have taken a higher level
Corequisite
None
SPAN 291Independent Study
Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
SPAN 295Intermediate-Level Spanish Language Abroad1
Intermediate-level language courses taken abroad with a Colgate study group, an approved program, or in a foreign institution of higher learning. Major/Minor Restrictions: None
SPAN 351Spanish Literature: Knights and Troubadours in Medieval Spain1.00
Offers an introduction to Spanish literature from its medieval origins through the 15th century, with emphasis on the relations among literature, culture, and civilization. Works from different genres are studied, including epic poetry, Hispano-Arabic poetry, folk ballads, early theater, historical works, and short stories. Students explore issues of authorship, as well as the cultural, religious, and historical contexts that produced each work. Language Placement Guidelines
Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Restrictions: Students who complete a 400-level course may not register for this course. Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
Corequisite
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SPAN 352Spanish Literature: Love and Honor in the Golden Age1.00
This survey examines the interrelated notions of love, sex, and honor as they appear in the prose, theater, and poetry of Spain. Emphasis is placed on the Renaissance and the Baroque, the so-called Golden Age of Spanish literature (16th and 17th centuries). Language Placement Guidelines
Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Restrictions: Students who complete a 400-level course may not register for this course. Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
Corequisite
None
SPAN 353Spanish Literature: Modern Spain in Crisis1.00
Beginning with the loss of the empire in the 19th century and moving through a series of political upheavals, including civil war and fascism, the history of modern Spain has been one of turmoil and continual conflict. The numerous political crises resulted in larger crises of a social, spiritual, and moral nature. Questions of national identity, generational gaps, and gender, as they appear in Spanish literature from the late 19th century to the present day, are the focus of this course. Readings include works of prose, theater, and poetry drawn from a range of literary movements, and emphasis is placed on the socio-historical context and its relationship with literary innovation. Language Placement Guidelines Prerequisites:
SPAN 354Latin American Literature: Colonialism, Mestizaje, and Independencies1.00
Through a survey of Latin American literature from its origins through the 19th century, students examine the many forms of alternative reality that Latin American writers have created and explored. Students relate those realities to the cultural and sociological history of Latin America as well as to larger Western literary modes, such as the Baroque, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism. Literary texts studied and analyzed are drawn from the pre-Columbian period through 1850. Language Placement Guidelines Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Restrictions: Students who complete a 400-level course may not register for this course. Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
At least four years of high school Spanish or SPAN 202
Corequisite
None
SPAN 355The Many Voices of Latin American Literature: from Modernismo to
the 21st Century Explores the diversity of literary voices in Latin America, from 1880 (the beginning of Modernismo) to the writings of Quiroga, Mistral, Borges, Cortázar, Castellanos, Rulfo, García Márquez, and other contemporary writers. This survey introduces students to the most important developments in Latin American literary history as it examines questions of cultural, ethnic, gender, and class identities. Literary texts studied and analyzed are drawn from 1880 (Modernismo period) through the 21st century. Language Placement
Structured as an intensive composition class. Emphasis is placed on reviewing the fine points of Spanish grammar in order to improve writing and speaking skills. In addition to regular class meetings, students may have the opportunity to attend cultural events, such as films, theater performances, exhibitions, etc.
Provides students with a comprehensive review of the finer points of the Spanish language, with an emphasis on fostering near-native pronunciation, correctness of grammar in speech and writing, and the idiomatic use of the language in a variety of contexts. Placement in this course is determined by the Director in consultation with the Santiago de Compostela faculty following the two-week introductory session there. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study and The Process of Writing Core Component: None
Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
Advanced-level language courses taken abroad with a Colgate study group, an approved program, or in a foreign institution of higher learning. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression
An advanced study of the history, art, theater, and film in Spain. Offered as part of the Madrid Study Group and counts for the Spanish major and minor. When Offered: Fall study group Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
Explores the writings of Black and Indigenous subjects in colonial Latin America. Using Ángel Rama's concept of la ciudad letrada ("the lettered city"), students examine how significant racialized figures participated in the imperial and renowned intellectual sphere. Through their own writings, students investigate the construction of the "Other" and uncover how cultural encounters, transculturation, traditions, and Western science are reinterpreted and revealed in the works of these writers, chroniclers, and thinkers from what is known today as Colombia, Cuba, México, Perú, and Uruguay. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation and The Process of Writing Core Component: None
SPAN 459'Nuns Having Fun' in Colonial Latin America1.00
Delves into the lives of nuns during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, revealing their diverse roles as writers, mystics, and leaders in transmitting European Catholicism to the New World. Students explore themes of race, gender, and power dynamics in nuns' texts and connects these historical narratives to contemporary cultural expressions. A foundation is provided for understanding early modern women's literary tropes and the enduring influence of figures like Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz on colonial Latin American literature. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression
SPAN 460Spanish Renaissance and Baroque Poetry1.00
This seminar studies Spanish poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries. Particular attention is paid to three currents: the Petrarchan tradition of love poetry, Neo-stoic moral poetry, and the burlesque. Emphasis is placed on the works of Garcilaso, Fray Luis de León, Góngora, Lope de Vega, and Quevedo. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
This seminar studies the techniques and themes of the comedia as exemplified primarily in the works of Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, and Tirso de Molina. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
A contextualized, in-depth reading of Cervantes' masterpiece. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
Examines the rise of Romantic modes of expression in 19th-century Latin American letters. Works are studied in the context of the continent's struggle for political and cultural independence, anti-slavery sentiment, political dissent and the experience of exile, and the project of nation building.
Combines historical and literary approaches to examine early representations and interpretations of the Spanish discovery and conquest of the Caribbean and Mexico. The first half of the course compares texts produced by indigenous and Spanish actors during the Conquest period. The analysis of letters, chronicles, treatises, codices and other documents offers insight on the diverse Spanish and Native understandings of the events and ways of portraying them, and on the fierce legal and moral debates that the Conquest engendered among Spaniards. The second half of the course focuses on retrospective representations of the Conquest during the established colonial regime. The analysis of plays, poetry, works of art, and other texts of the 16th and 17th centuries reveals how the Conquest and its aftermath were reimagined by Spanish and Creole subjects, enabling them to articulate new forms of power, authority and hybrid identity. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
What do literary subjects and contemporary cities have in common? Students explore the connections between the two of them, placing special emphasis on the role that imagination plays in the construction of space. Through the analysis of novels, short stories, diaries and hybrid texts, students question the notion of authorship, problematizing the relationship between fictional characters, authors and readers with urban landscapes and spatial theories. A close analysis of literary representations of cities such as Madrid, Barcelona and New York, as well as the subjects who inhabit them, leads students to examine the fine line that separates the real from the fictional realm. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
SPAN 471Spanish in Society: Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics
Studies the use of Spanish language in social context across the Spanish-speaking world. Topics explored include but are not limited to social factors (e.g., gender, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic background) in
SPAN 473Women and Censorship in Contemporary Spanish Novels1.00
In post-Civil War Spain, the prolonged tenure of Franco led to almost 40 years of strict censorship on the part of the government. The death of Franco in 1975 brought a cultural regeneration to the country, which was renowned for its literary innovation and fresh relationship to a new sociocultural context, especially for female writers and female representation. This course analyzes themes of oppression and social injustice from a gender perspective in the literary works of post-war novelists, as well as the novelistic representations of women undergone by Spain during the transition to democracy. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
In 20th and 21st century Spain, short fiction has grown and evolved in numerous exciting directions. This course focuses on several of these new developments, which include the emergence of micro-fiction, the increasingly prominent place of female writers, and the blurring of the boundaries between fiction and reality through hybrid pieces that stand between stories and opinion columns. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
Explores the historical, social, and cultural elements represented in the dialectal diversity of the Spanish language. Some of the issues studied are the development of Spanish as the national language of Spain; the contemporary status of regional languages and dialects within Spain; the spread of Spanish in the Americas, Africa, and Asia through conquest and colonization; language policies toward indigenous languages in Latin America; and the future of the role of Spanish as a minority language in the United
This seminar provides advanced-level language students with the understanding of the evolution of the Spanish language. It focuses on the external history (i.e., cultural, social, historical, and political factors that contributed to the evolution of Spanish from Latin to early romance, and then to the modern language), as well as the internal linguistic changes (i.e., changes in sounds, word formation, sentence structure, and vocabulary). These external and internal developments are considered within the context of linguistic diversity of pre-modern Iberia. Special attention is paid to historical explanations of "irregularities" found in modern Spanish. Therefore, the course is of interest to students who wish to improve their understanding of the idiosyncrasies of the Spanish language. The class also linguistically analyzes a selection from pre- modern texts. This analysis is of particular interest to students who plan to take courses in medieval, Golden Age, and colonial Spanish literature. The course does not presuppose knowledge of linguistics or languages other than Spanish. Taught in Spanish. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
A close study of the Hispanic literature of the island nations of the Caribbean, with particular attention to ethnic and cultural diversity. Representative authors in the various genres are studied within the general framework of their social and literary contexts. Emphasis is placed on contemporary writers. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
This seminar provides the opportunity for extensive study of the works of the most distinguished authors writing in the Spanish language before 1900. It is taught by a staff member who has particular interest and expertise in the literature to be examined. When Offered: On an irregular basis Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
This seminar provides the opportunity for extensive study of the works of the most distinguished authors writing in the Spanish language after 1900. It is taught by a staff member who has particular interest and expertise in the literature to be examined. When Offered: On an irregular basis Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
Undertakes an in-depth study of selected novels written before the Latin American Boom of the 1960s. These highly experimental texts, covering a wide range of geographical regions, will be situated within relevant cultural and socio-political contexts, which include topics related—but not limited to—technology and mass media, urbanization and public spaces, working-class movements, and critiques of Hollywood's culture industry. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
Offers students a close study of theater, performance, history, and cultural politics during the dictatorships in Latin America from the 1950s. Special emphasis is given to the military regimes in Argentina (1976-83), Chile (1973-90), Uruguay (1973-85), Paraguay (1954-1989), and the Dominican Republic (1930-1961). This is a practice-based seminar that seeks to engage students in performance practices such as stage readings or short plays adaptations. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
Offers a close study of Latin American women who have worked in and written for the theater since the 1950s. Through the analysis of plays and performing arts, students observe and reflect on how women dramatists redefine the theatrical space to resist, challenge, and dismantle masculine structures of power and political repression, including race and gender-based violence. Students critically respond to these topics through an in-depth study of plays that have been influenced by theoretical/conceptual approaches derived from influential theatrical movements such as the theater of the absurd, as well as experimental and postmodernist theater. This is a practice-based seminar that seeks to engage students in performance practices such as stage readings or short plays adaptations. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Language Study Core Component: None
Students pursuing honors in Spanish enroll in this course. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Language Study Core Component: None
