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Fall 2024  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Indigenous Thought and Literature of the Americas (32964)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
9 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Span 3104W or Span 3105W or Tldo 3104 or Tldo 3105 or Venz 3104 or Venz 3512 or Argn 3104W
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 127
Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course focuses on a wide gamut of intellectual, literary, and artistic movements in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries across eras. Engaging with the most up-to-date trends of critical and methodological tools in cultural, literary, and philosophical analysis, students will examine a variety of issues in conversation with the political and social conditions that have influenced shifts in art, cultural, and intellectual praxis among different groups of peoples, writers, and artists across disciplines and continents. Topics vary and are specified in the class schedule. prereq: SPAN 3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent
Class Notes:
Whereas Latin American governments have been prone to create a "forget and forgive policies" - a sort of an "official amnesia" - for the past decades, intellectual, artistic, political, and grass-roots organizations have generated a whole range of techniques and projects in order to explore the effects of social fragmentation and political terrorism creating a collective's philosophy that encourages the writing of powerful war/postwar-related literary and political discourses, testimonies, and memory plays. For these communities, the power of memory and the past are not something that must remain silenced or superseded by the present and/or the future, as if each temporal phase would exist independently along an inexorable continuum. As oral and written memory of the past provides the roots of a culture's collective identity - an identity that has been forged by frequent violent encounters between indigenous, colonial, national, immigrant, and multinational imaginaries - this "memory-in-action" course will serve to mark not only cultural gaps and transitions but to explore forged amnesic cultural discourses in order to contribute to a long-term goal of establishing a shared and functional national historical narrative.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32964/1249

Fall 2024  |  SPAN 3920 Section 002: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Spanish American Theater: Memory in Latin Performa (33264)

Instructor(s)
No instructor assigned
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
9 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Span 3104W or Span 3105W or Tldo 3104 or Tldo 3105 or Venz 3104 or Venz 3512 or Argn 3104W
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 119
Enrollment Status:
Open (1 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course focuses on a wide gamut of intellectual, literary, and artistic movements in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries across eras. Engaging with the most up-to-date trends of critical and methodological tools in cultural, literary, and philosophical analysis, students will examine a variety of issues in conversation with the political and social conditions that have influenced shifts in art, cultural, and intellectual praxis among different groups of peoples, writers, and artists across disciplines and continents. Topics vary and are specified in the class schedule. prereq: SPAN 3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent
Class Notes:
This course focuses on a wide gamut of philosophical, literary, and artistic Indigenous movements across the Americas. Engaging with the most up-to-date trends of critical and methodological tools in decolonial, cultural, literary, and philosophical analysis, students will examine a variety of issues around human and non-human life, displacement, migration, community education, Indigenous knowledge, self-determination, and identity.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33264/1249

Spring 2024  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Cuban Political Discourse: Felix Varela (67269)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
9 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Span 3104W or Span 3105W or Tldo 3104 or Tldo 3105 or Venz 3104 or Venz 3512 or Argn 3104W
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 16
Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course focuses on a wide gamut of intellectual, literary, and artistic movements in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries across eras. Engaging with the most up-to-date trends of critical and methodological tools in cultural, literary, and philosophical analysis, students will examine a variety of issues in conversation with the political and social conditions that have influenced shifts in art, cultural, and intellectual praxis among different groups of peoples, writers, and artists across disciplines and continents. Topics vary and are specified in the class schedule. prereq: SPAN 3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent
Class Notes:
This topic course examines FeÌlix Varela's political discourse to understand the place of Nation in 19th-century Cuba. This course will attempt to explore recent theoretical works on 19th-century Cuban political discourse in a manner that will move beyond traditional and simplistic interpretations of nationalistic and/or critical discourses.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67269/1243

Spring 2023  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Slavery & literature in 19th-century Cuba (66155)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
9 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Span 3104W or Span 3105W or Tldo 3104 or Tldo 3105 or Venz 3104 or Venz 3512 or Argn 3104W
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 32
Enrollment Status:
Open (22 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: SPAN 3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66155/1233

Fall 2022  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Indigenous Thought and Literature of the Americas (33553)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
9 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Span 3104W or Span 3105W or Tldo 3104 or Tldo 3105 or Venz 3104 or Venz 3512 or Argn 3104W
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Kolthoff Hall 133
Enrollment Status:
Open (14 of 17 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: SPAN 3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33553/1229

Spring 2022  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Forgotten voices of colonialism: African, Asian, R (68418)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
9 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Span 3104W or Span 3105W or Tldo 3104 or Tldo 3105 or Venz 3104 or Venz 3512 or Argn 3104W
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 8
Enrollment Status:
Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: SPAN 3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68418/1223

Fall 2021  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Memory & Amnesia in L.A. Literary Discourses (34479)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
9 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Span 3104W or Span 3105W or Tldo 3104 or Tldo 3105 or Venz 3104 or Venz 3512 or Argn 3104W
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 18
Enrollment Status:
Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: SPAN 3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34479/1219

Spring 2021  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Slavery & literature in 19th-century Cuba (67641)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
9 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
Delivery Mode
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Span 3104W or Span 3105W or Tldo 3104 or Tldo 3105 or Venz 3104 or Venz 3512 or Argn 3104W
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
Enrollment Status:
Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: SPAN 3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67641/1213

Fall 2020  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Race in Latin America (34218)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
9 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Span 3104W or Span 3105W or Tldo 3104 or Tldo 3105 or Venz 3104 or Venz 3512 or Argn 3104W
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Tate Laboratory of Physics B20
Enrollment Status:
Open (18 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: SPAN 3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34218/1209

Spring 2020  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Fragments of Self in 20th-Century Latin Amer Lit (67371)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 12
Enrollment Status:
Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: SPAN 3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67371/1203

Fall 2019  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Literary Ethnography in 20th-Century Latin America (33871)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 8
Enrollment Status:
Open (20 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: SPAN 3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33871/1199

Spring 2019  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Corporeality & Violence in 20C LA Lit & Film (68238)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Mon 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 8
Enrollment Status:
Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: SPAN 3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent
Class Notes:
If you cannot register please add your name to the waitlist. If there are remaining seats we will start moving some minors off the waitlist starting Dec. 7, 2018.
Class Description:
Literary Ethnography in Twentieth-Century Latin America This course examines the influence of ethnography on the development of Latin American literary production during the twentieth century. The emergence in Europe of ethnological and anthropological fields?of which Latin American intellectuals were often students and contributors?inspired a new lens through which to revalorize the importance of African and indigenous cultures in the region's colonial and postcolonial legacies. Through discussion and textual analysis of a wide range of essays, poetry, and novels all informed to some degree by an ethnographic view, the class will examine the ways in which this particular mode of discourse reflects and renegotiates the dynamics of dominance and resistance in Latin America.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68238/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
9 April 2010

Fall 2018  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Law & Literature in Latin America Independence (34580)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 5
Enrollment Status:
Open (22 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: SPAN 3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or ARGN 3104W or SPAN 3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or instructor consent
Class Notes:
If you cannot register please put your name on the waitlist. The Department requires students meet the prerequisites required of the course which is Span 3015W AND either Span 3104W or SPAN 3105W.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34580/1189

Spring 2018  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Armed Conflict and Post-Conflict in Colombian Lit (69052)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Thu 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 12
Enrollment Status:
Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 3015, [3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or instr consent]
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69052/1183

Fall 2017  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Memory & Amnesia in L.A. Literary Discourses (17774)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 112
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 3015, [3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or instr consent]
Class Notes:
If you cannot register please put your name on the waitlist. The Department requires students meet the prerequisites required of the course which is Span 3015W AND Span 3104W.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17774/1179

Spring 2017  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Human Rights in Latin American Literary Discourses (65097)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 103
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 3015, [3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or instr consent]
Class Notes:
Any remaining seats will be open to DECLARED & PROCESSED MINORS beginning...tba.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65097/1173

Fall 2016  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature (31799)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 30
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 3015, [3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or instr consent]
Class Notes:
Remaining major only seats will become available to declared and processed Span minors on 5/6/16.. The Department requires students meet the prerequisites required of the course which is Span 3015W AND Span 3104W.
Class Description:
TITLE: Global Spanish Imperialism in the 16th-century Through an interdisciplinary approach, this course aims to provide a new interpretation of Spanish imperialism during the 16th-century. The course, will examine the legacies of imperialist discourse as producer of the epistemic colonial difference. Furthermore, this course not only identifies the global nature of Spanish imperialism, but also analyses the indigenous accounts of resistance to the conquest and colonization. By focusing on the cultural production and practices of Spanish imperialism in Africa, the Americas, and Asia, the course argue that Colonial Latin American cannot be understood in isolation from other geographical regions, and from the transatlantic and global exchange from which it emerged. In other words, the cultural, economic, legal, political, and social interaction that occurred between the colonial territories was crucial in shaping the Spanish Empire in the early modern world. The course provides training in analytical thinking and cultural critique of imperialism and colonialism, bringing a global perspective to our curriculum. The course will focus on critical readings and discussion of cultural artifacts, maps, texts and documents of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Spain. Studies will include material pertaining to the aural and visual production of the period, including European accounts of the conquest, and indigenous accounts of resistance to the conquest. Primary reading materials are in Spanish and critical readings are in English, and Spanish. All required readings are available as E-Book with the specific link.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31799/1169
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 May 2015

Spring 2016  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- 21st Century Fiction: A Short Story Compendium (53488)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 6
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 3015, [3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or instr consent]
Class Notes:
TOPIC for Spring 2016: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FICTION: A SHORT STORY COMPENDIUM COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course explores the thematic and stylistic variety of twenty-first century Spanish and Latin American fiction. Students will focus on themes of individualism, life and death, family and home, lost love, and dehumanization through the analysis of representative contemporary short stories and the influence of mass culture. Experimental and fantastic fiction will also be considered. Any remaining seats will be open to DECLARED & PROCESSED MINORS beginning Dec. 4. The Department requires students meet the prerequisites required of the course which is Span 3015W AND Span 3104W.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53488/1163

Fall 2015  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Stories of Love and Hate: A Contemporary Reader (17045)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 116
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 3015, [3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or instr consent]
Class Notes:
Remaining major only seats will become available to Span minors on 4/4/2015. The Department requires students meet the prerequisites required of the course which is Span 3015 AND Span 3104W.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17045/1159

Spring 2015  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Limits of Normal: Fictions of Otherness & Madness (53949)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 04/05/2015
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 105
 
04/06/2015 - 04/09/2015
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 116
 
04/10/2015 - 05/08/2015
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 105
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 3015, [3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or instr consent]
Class Notes:
Any remaining seats will be open to DECLARED & PROCESSED MINORS beginning Dec. 5. The Department requires students meet the prerequisites required of the course which is Span 3015 AND Span 3104.
Class Description:
TOPIC TITLE for SPRING 2015 with Salvador Raggio: LIMITS OF THE NORMAL: FICTIONS OF OTHERNESS AND MADNESS -- DESCRIPTION: We will study the idea of `otherness? and how majority and minority identities are constructed through discourses of purity and impurity, normality and abnormality, similarity and difference, and gender politics. Within this conceptual framework, themes of social marginality, perversion, body disfigurement, and madness will be central to our debates. Selected short stories, comic books, and novels include works by Clemente Palma, Rosario Castellanos, Salvador Elizondo, and Miguel Angel Martin, and twenty-first century authors like Mariana Enriquez, Ivan Humanes, and Tatiana Goransky.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53949/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 October 2014

Fall 2014  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature (17662)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 116
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
TOPIC TITLE: RELATOS DE LO EXTRA?O, NARRATIVA INSOLITA IBEROAMERICANA. The Department requires students meet the prerequisites required of the course which is Span 3015 AND Span 3104W.
Class Description:
FALL 2014 TOPIC TITLE: RELATOS DE LO EXTRA?O, NARRATIVA INSOLITA IBEROAMERICANA DESCRIPTION: For many years, Latin American and Spanish writers have contributed to non-realistic literary subgenres such as the fantastic and the marvelous, conceiving stories about physical oddities, supernatural phenomena, haunted spaces, uncharted islands, and parallel universes. In this course we will study the main elements of ?narrativas de lo insolito? (a blend of fantasy, horror, absurdist fiction, and science fiction) through the work of canonical authors such as Pablo Palacio, Maria Luisa Bombal, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Julio Cortazar, and Mario Levrero. Our discussions will also focus on 21st century tales of the ?unspeakable? and the uncanny, including works by Cecilia Eudave, Marina Perezagua, and Laura Fernandez. (IN SPANISH)
Grading:
30% Midterm Exam
40% Reports/Papers
15% In-class Presentations
15% Class Participation
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17662/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
27 June 2014

Spring 2014  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Memory & Amnesia in Latin Amer Literary Discourses (59024)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 105
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focus on central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
Any remaining seats will be open to Minors beginning Dec. 6. The Department requires students meet the prerequisites required of the course which is Span 3015 AND Span 3104.
Class Description:
SPRING 2014 with Prof. Ramos-Garcia TOPIC: MEMORY & AMNESIA IN LATIN AMERICAN LITERARY DISCOURSES DESCRIPTION: Whereas Latin American governments have been prone to create a `forget and forgive policies? ?a sort of an ?official amnesia?-- for the past decades, intellectual, artistic, political and grass-roots organizations have generated a whole range of techniques and projects in order to explore the effects of social fragmentation and political terrorism creating a collective's philosophy that encourages the writing of powerful war/postwar-related literary discourses, testimonies and memory plays. For these communities, the power of memory and the past are not something that must remain silenced or superseded by the present and/or the future, as if each temporal phase would exist independently along an inexorable continuum. As oral and written memory of the past provides the roots of a culture's collective identity --an identity that has been forged by frequent violent encounters between indigenous, colonial, national, immigrant, and multinational imaginaries-- this ?memory-in-action? course will serve to mark not only cultural gaps and transitions but to explore forged amnesic cultural discourses in order to contribute to a long-term goal of establishing a shared and functional national historical narrative. This course will offer an introduction to contemporary literary and political discourses in Latin America, focusing specifically on fiction, testimonial and drama genres. Beginning with representative selections from XX-XXI century literary movements, students will examine the evolution of a cultural discourse that explores national identity, human rights discourses, historical/cultural amnesia, and the recovery of historical and mythical memories. The readings will be studied and discussed in Spanish and in their literary, cultural and political contexts. Supplementary readings (all in Spanish) will be suggested or provided when appropriate. The evaluation of students will comprise instructional strategies that represent current trends for assessing student outcomes such as take-home exams, oral presentations, performance attendance, and cooperative learning projects.
Grading:
Other Grading Information: Grading system: A/F: A= 90 or more; B= 80-89; C= 70-79 S= C (70-79) or more D= 60-69; N= D (69-00) F= 59 or less S/N:
Workload:
Other Workload: Exam # 1: 25%. take-home Exam # 2: 25%. take-home Exam # 3: 25%. take-home Oral presentation: 10 % Participation & attendance: 15 %
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59024/1143
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
30 September 2013

Fall 2013  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature -- Human Rights and Latin American Theater (23642)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 18
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focuses on a central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
Remaining major only seats will become available to Span minors on 5/3/2013. The Department requires students meet the prerequisites required of the course which is Span 3015 AND Span 3104W.
Class Description:
Fall 2013: TOPIC: HUMAN RIGHTS AND LATIN AMERICAN THEATER DESCRIPTION: This course will offer an introduction to contemporary academic discourses in Latin America, focusing specifically on Human Rights and drama. Students will examine the evolution of a theater discourse that explores national identity, civil rights, gender issues, human rights discourses and the recovery of historical and mythical memories. The readings will be studied and discussed in Spanish and in their literary, cultural and political contexts. Supplementary readings (all in Spanish) will be suggested or provided when appropriate.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/23642/1139
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
8 March 2013

Spring 2013  |  SPAN 3920 Section 001: Topics in Spanish-American Literature (54366)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Wulling Hall 220
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Focuses on a central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
TOPIC: Global Spanish Imperialism in the 16th Century. Any remaining seats will be open to Minors beginning Dec. 7. The Department requires students meet the prerequisites required of the course which is Span 3015 AND Span 3104.
Class Description:
TITLE: Global Spanish Imperialism in the 16th-century Through an interdisciplinary approach, this course aims to provide a new interpretation of Spanish imperialism during the 16th-century. The course, will examine the legacies of imperialist discourse as producer of the epistemic colonial difference. Furthermore, this course not only identifies the global nature of Spanish imperialism, but also analyses the indigenous accounts of resistance to the conquest and colonization. By focusing on the cultural production and practices of Spanish imperialism in Africa, the Americas, and Asia, the course argue that Colonial Latin American cannot be understood in isolation from other geographical regions, and from the transatlantic and global exchange from which it emerged. In other words, the cultural, economic, legal, political, and social interaction that occurred between the colonial territories was crucial in shaping the Spanish Empire in the early modern world. The course provides training in analytical thinking and cultural critique of imperialism and colonialism, bringing a global perspective to our curriculum. The course will focus on critical readings and discussion of cultural artifacts, maps, texts and documents of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Spain. Studies will include material pertaining to the aural and visual production of the period, including European accounts of the conquest, and indigenous accounts of resistance to the conquest. Primary reading materials are in Spanish and critical readings are in English, and Spanish. All required readings are available as E-Book with the specific link.
Grading:
30% Midterm Exam
40% Reports/Papers
15% In-class Presentations
15% Class Participation
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54366/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
9 November 2010

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