2010-2011 - Sweet Briar College

2010-2011 Catalog modern languages and literatures202 or above or placement. An advanced intermediateSpanish course that introduces studentsto historical and cultural issues in Spain throughthe reading and commentary of relevant texts.Reading strategies to enhance comprehensionand analytical skills are emphasized. Offeredalternate years. V.3.SPAN 221 (3)–Hispanic Themes: LatinAmericaPrerequisite: One course in Spanish numbered202 or above or placement. An advanced intermediateSpanish course that introduces studentsto historical and cultural issues in Latin Americathrough the reading and commentary of relevanttexts. Reading strategies to enhance comprehensionand analytical skills are emphasized. V.3, V.4.SPAN 222 (3)–Introduction to HispanicLiteraturesPrerequisite: One course in Spanish numbered202 or above or placement. An advanced intermediateSpanish course that introduces studentsto the reading, discussion, and analysis of literarytexts from throughout the Hispanic world.III.W, V.2, V.3.SPAN 240 (3)–Spanish for BusinessPrerequisite: SPAN 215 or SPAN 216. A coursethat introduces students to business culture inthe Hispanic world (with an emphasis on LatinAmerica), the vocabulary of business, and businesscorrespondence in Spanish. Weekly classmeetings will be supplemented with extensiveuse of computer-based materials for communicationand research. III.O, V.3, V.4.SPAN 255 (3)–Topics in HispanicLiterature in TranslationPrerequisite: First-year students with permission.A study of significant Latin American and/or Spanish writers and the relationship betweentheir work and society. This course may becounted as the one course in English allowed forthe major in Spanish. Taught in English. Offeredalternate years. V.2.SPAN 261 (1, 2, or 3)–Directed StudyPrerequisites: One SPAN course and permissionof the instructor. The study of introductorylevel material by an individual student or by asmall group of students under the immediatesupervision of a faculty member.SPAN 304 (3)–Spanish-English TranslationPrerequisite: SPAN 222. An introduction to themethods, techniques, and problems involvedin translation from Spanish to English andEnglish to Spanish with regard to sentencestructure, vocabulary, idioms and colloquialphrases. Emphasis is on general material withsome consideration of specialized material (ex.:business, journalistic or literary texts).SPAN 312 (3)–Spanish Literature of theGolden AgePrerequisite: SPAN 222. A study of the majortrends in Spanish Golden Age Literature, includingthe emergence of new narrative forms, the Spanishcomedia, and Spanish poetry of the 16th and 17thcenturies. Offered alternate years. III.W, V.2.SPAN 316 (3)–Cervantes: Don QuijotePrerequisite: SPAN 222. A close reading of “DonQuijote” and its inter-relation with the literatureof the 16th and 17th centuries. Emphasis on thenotions of narrative voice and autonomous character,which prefigure the world of contemporaryfiction. Offered alternate years. V.2.SPAN 326 (3)–Early Spanish Culture:Heritage and IdentityPrerequisite: SPAN 222. An advanced coursein which students read and analyze literary andhistorical texts that helped to shape the valuesand sense of Spanish identity as a nation fromthe early middle ages through the seventeenthcentury. Topics of discussion will include theimpact of multi-culturalism (Islamic, Jewish,Christian), the development of the conceptof the hero, the changing role of women, theemergence of the Catholic state, and the riseand decline of Imperial Spain. Offered alternateyears. V.2.SPAN 330 (3)–Topics in HispanicCulture, Language, and LiteraturePrerequisite: SPAN 222. Topics will varyby semester. Topic for Spring 2011: “FightingTradition: Spanish American Women Writers.”This course will examine works in a varietyof genres by notable contemporary Spanish159­