13. Advanced Conversation. Language Resident. Open to all students except native speakers. Credit for satisfactory participation in Oldenborg Center activities and two conversation classes weekly. Prerequisite: two years of college-level language study or equivalent. Cumulative, one-quarter course credit; graded P/NC. Does not satisfy the foreign-language requirement. Limited to one enrollment per semester and a cumulative total of one course credit. Each semester.

22. Intensive Introductory Spanish. Staff. Designed for beginning students with some basic knowledge of the language who are too advanced for Spanish 1 but do not yet qualify for Spanish 33. Emphasis on the spoken language and acquisition of basic grammar. Students will complete the equivalent of Spanish 1 and 2 in one semester. Prerequisite: placement examination. Each semester.

33. Intermediate Spanish. Ms. Dávila-López, Mr. Cahill, Staff. Review and reinforcement of four basic skills. Emphasis on conversation, reading ability, and writing. Prerequisite: Spanish 2 or equivalent. Each semester.

44. Advanced Spanish. Mr. Cahill, Ms. Coffey, Ms. Dávila-López, Ms. Kim, Ms. Montenegro, Staff.  Development of correct personal style and vocabulary in oral and written Spanish. Reading and discussion of literary and non-literary texts to develop oral expression and review and refine advanced grammar. Prerequisite: Spanish 33 or equivalent. Each semester. 

50. Chévere: Advanced Spanish for Heritage Speakers. Mr. Cartagena-Calderón. Designed for students whose greater exposure to Spanish has been at home rather than the classroom. Students will produce writing in various formats, while continuing to develop skills in the correct6 use of spelling, the written accent and other grammatical aspects. Prerequisite: 33. Each fall.

Transitional Courses

Prerequisites. SPAN 44 is required for admission to transitional courses. Courses may be taken in any order.

100. Orale Language, Cultural and Writing for Heritage Speakers. Ms. Chavez-Silverman. Designed for students with advanced oral and written language skills who wish to further develop their Spanish for academic and/or professional purposes. Heritage learners will develop skills for preparing and presenting information through discussions and written essays aimed at an academic or professional audience. Provides the necessary skills to successfully undertake courses that require strong competence in academic Spanish. Prerequisite: 44-50. Each spring.

101. Introduction to Literary Analysis. Mr. Cahill, Mr. Cartagena-Calderón, Ms. Chavez-Silverman, Ms. Coffey, Ms. Montenegro.  Analysis of literary genres and styles. Introduction to methods of literary criticism; practice in interpretation of texts. Lecture, discussion, and written essays. Required of majors. Prerequisite: 44 or 50. Each semester.

102. The New Spain: Introduction to Spanish Cultural Studies . Ms. Coffey . Explores cultural production in contemporary Spain (post-1975). Issues of national and regional identity; elite and popular expressions of culture. Prerequisite: Spanish 44 or 50. Next offered 2009-10. Offered alternate years.

106. Images of Latin America In Fiction and Film. Ms. Montenegro. Explores the construction and dissemination of predominant images of Latin America through topics such as women, family, sexuality, religion and violence. A close examination of both narrative and film. Emphasis on the development of oral and writing skills, including several oral presentations. Spanish 44 or 50. Spring 2009. Offered alternate years.

107. Identity Matters in Latin American Literature and Culture. Ms. Dávila-López . A writing course that explores the topic of identity in the context of national cultural productions. Emphasis on oral discussion of texts and techniques that challenge models of self-representation. Includes works by María Luisa Bombal, Ernesto Sábato, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Luisa Valenzuela, Arístides Vargas, Carmen Boullosa, Magali García Ramis and others. Prerequisite: Spanish 44 or 50. Fall 2008. Offered alternation years. .

Upper-level Courses

Prerequisites: 101, or a score of 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Spanish Literature exam, is a prerequisite for all upper-division classes numbered 110 or higher..

120a,b. Survey of Spanish Literature. Mr. Cartagena-Calderón, Mr. Cahill..  Selected readings in Spanish literature from earliest examples to modern times. Emphasizes historical and cultural background. Fall: the jarchas through the Siglo de oro; development of the novel and theatre; Spring: the 18th century to the contemporary period; examples of rationalism, romanticism, and the Generation of '98. 120a, Fall 2008; 120b, Spring 2009. Offered alternate years at Scripps/CMC.

125a,b . Survey of Spanish American Literature. Ms. Chavez-Silverman, Ms Montenegro. Introduction to the principal authors, works, and movements of Spanish American literature from its origins to modern times. 125a, Fall 2009; 125b, Spring 2010. Offered alternate years at Scripps/CMC.

126. In Short: Latin American Story Telling. Ms. Montenegro . Explores major fictional trends characterizing the contemporary Latin American short story. Emphasis on the fantastic, the magical, the surreal, the feminist, and the realist. Authors include Horacio Quiroga, Lydia Cabrera, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, Julio Cortázar, and Angeles Mastretta. Fall 2008.

128. Poverty, Literature and Social Justice. Mr. Cartagena-Calderón. A study of picaresque fictions as tales exploring the relationship between literature, society and its poor, including a growing number of vagabonds, beggars, delinquents, prostitutes and other disenfranchised groups that inhabited the emerging urban centers in Spain and Colonial Latin America during the 16th and 17th centuries. Spring 2009.

129. Early Modern Women Writers. Mr. Cartagena-Calderón. How women writers in Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America asserted authority to write when discouraged from doing so; how they defined and negotiated their relationship to Imperial Spain; the representation of gender and sexual dissidence; and the development of a proto-feminist consciousness advocating social justice. TBA.

130. Spectacles of the Body: Theory, Discourse, and Performance in Contemporary Latin/o American Literature and Culture . Ms. Montenegro .  TBA.

135. Contemporary Spanish American Fiction. Ms. Montenegro . Major critical trends characterizing contemporary narrative. Emphasis on narcissism, humor, parody, popular culture, and gender issues in the construction of the self. Readings and films include works of Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Manuel Puig, Gabriel García Márquez, Angeles Mastretta, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Zoé Valdéz.  Next offered 2009-10.

140. From the "Boom" to "Literatura Lite": Gender and Genre in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture. Ms Chávez-Silverman. Describes and interrogates two moments in Latin American literary and cultural history: the "Boom" and the as-yet undertheorized "present". Issues explored will include: difficulty versus easy ("lite") forms of writing and their relationship to representations of the writer and reader, to literary history and "the" canon, the market, popular culture, natinal and ethnic identity, gender and genre. Fall 2008.

142. Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad. Ms. Chávez- Silverman . Problematizes self/other dichotomy among Latin Americans, U.S. Chicano/Latinos, and Anglo Americans. Readings in literary, cultural, and gender theory. Special emphasis on subjectivity and sexuality. Prerequisite: Spanish 101 or equivalent; a course in Women's/Ethnic Studies highly recommended. Spring 2009.

145. 20th-Century Spanish American Theatre. Ms. Dávila-López . TBA.

146. El deseo de la palabra: Poetry or Death. Ms. Chávez-Silverman . Readings in modern and contemporary Latin American and U.S. Chicano/Latino poetry, from modernismo through the millennium, including canonical as well as extra-canonical poets. Special attention to presentation of gendered subjectivity and sexuality. Theoretical readings in cultural, literary, and feminist theory. Next offered 2009-10.

160. Nation and Novel in Early 20th-Century Spain. Ms. Coffey. TBA.

170. Literature and Life: Don Quixote. Mr. Cartagena-Calderón. No other literary work except The Bible has had a greater influence on modern Western literature than Don Quixote. Examine questions about the novel central to our understanding of all Western fiction: Is it possible to achieve 'realism' in literature? (i.e., can words adequately represent reality, and if so, how?); is there a single valid interpretation of Don Quixote, or is its meaning ultimately unknowable?; Can literature communicate values or is its function merely to entertain? Next offered 2009-10.

172. Sex, Power and Religion in Golden Age Drama. Mr. Cartagena-Calderón.  TBA.

175. Romantics and Realists: 19th-Century Spanish Literature. Ms. Coffey . Poetry, short stories, novels, and essays addressing the conflict between individual and society, between visions of male and female behavior, the rise of popular historical consciousness, and the desire to render the realities of daily life into literature. Next offered 2009-10.

185. The Avant Garde in Spain : The Civil War and Its Effect on Spanish Literature. Ms. Coffey. Explores the unusual nature of the Spanish avant garde. Includes the poetry of Lorca, Salinas, and Guillén and the plays of Lorca and Valle-Inclán. Studies the tension between dictatorship and society in the novels of Laforet, Cela, Delibes, and Martín Gaite. Fall 2008.

99/199. Reading and Research in Spanish. Staff . Open to students capable of independent study. Permission of instructor required. Course or half-course. May be repeated. Each semester.

Senior Exercises

191. Senior Thesis. Mr. Cartagena-Calderón. An independent research project culminating in a paper at least 30 pages in length written in Spanish under the guidance of a department faculty member and read by one additional reader. Year-long course, half-credit per semester. Each semester.

192. Senior Paper.  Mr. Cartagena-Calderón. An independent research project culminating in a paper at least 12-15 pages in length written in Spanish under the guidance of a department faculty member and read by one additional reader. Half-course. Each semester.

193. Senior Oral Presentation.  Mr. Cartagena-Calderón. A 15- to 30- minute public oral presentation in Spanish on the topic of the senior thesis or paper. No credit. P/NC grading. Spring 2009.

Spanish Literature in Translation

Spanish Literature in Translation courses (SPNT) are conducted in English and satisfy Area 1 of the Breadth of Study Requirements.

SC 126A CH. Chicano Movement Literature. Ms. Alcalá . Readings in Chicano literature from 1940s to 1970s. Special emphasis will be placed on historical context within which texts were written, i.e., post-World War II and Civil Rights era. Recently discovered novels by Américo Paredes and Jovita González and poetry, narrative, and theatre produced during Chicano movement will be subjects of inquiry. In English. Next offered 2008-09.

SC 126B CH. Contemporary Chicana/o Literature. Ms. Alcalá . Beginning with the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back (1981), this survey examines how contemporary Chicana/o literature focuses on questions of identity, specifically gender and sexuality. Theoretical readings in feminism and gay studies will inform our interpretation of texts. In English. Next offered 2008-09.

186CH. Contemporary Chicana Literature Seminar. Ms. Alcalá . Analyze how Chicana writers have negotiated with and against symbolic inheritance (and material social consequences) of four Mexican cultural icons of womanhood: La Malinche, La Virgen de Guadalupe, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and La Llorona. Furthermore, explores process of icon construction in Mexicano-Chicano culture by studying post-mortem representations of Selena Quintanilla. In English. Next offered 2008-09.

Spanish/Spanish American Literatures and Related courses offered at the Other Claremont Colleges

CM 101. Introduction to Literary Analysis.
CM 102. Latin American Culture and Civilization.
CM 125a. Survey of Latin American Literature I.
CM 125b. Survey of Latin American Literature II.
CM 182. Latin American Documentary Cinema.
PZ 31. Community-Based Spanish Practicum.
PZ 51. Spanish in the community.
PZ 152. Indigenous Peoples of Central America.
PZ 156. Banana Republics.
PZ 174. Lost in Translation.
PZ 187. Latin American Popular Cultures.
SC 101. Introduction to Literary Analysis.
SC 103. Advanced Conversation and Composition.
SC 110. Introduction to Spanish Civilization.  

Italian

Offered at Scripps College only. Italian (ITAL) courses numbered 100 and above satisfy Area 1 of the Breadth of Study Requirements.

SC 1. Introductory Italian.
SC 2. Elementary Italian.
SC 33. Intermediate Italian.
SC 44. Advanced Italian.
SC 131. Early Twentieth Century Italian Literature.
SC 133. Contemporary Italian Literature.