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First Year Seminars The 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students. These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate the students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. Details here.
SPA100Y1 Introduction to the Spanish language for beginning students; overview of basic grammatical structures, development of vocabulary and oral and written expression. SPA220Y1 Intermediate Spanish for non-natives. Intensive grammar review of the structures of Spanish integrated with an introduction to reading authentic Spanish material, with practice designed to build vocabulary and to improve oral and written expression. SPA254H0 Survey of Mexican culture and society, with attention to central issues in history, politics, education, and popular tradition, and important thinkers of twentieth-century Mexico: Paz, Fuentes, and others. (Offered only in Guadalajara) SPA258H1 Introduction to university literary studies in Spanish. Critical terminology and methods. Representative selections of modern Spanish and Spanish American prose, poetry, and drama. (Offered in alternate years) SPA259H1 Forms of cultural expression in Spain, Latin America and Spanish-speaking North America, with study of representative media, including literature, journalism, film, visual art, and the urban environment. Introduction to methods of cultural analysis. (Offered in alternate years). SPA281Y0 Art and culture since the period of the Mexican Revolution, studied in the context of political and social developments. Lectures and readings in English. Field trips around the city of Guadalajara are offered as part of the course. (Offered only in Guadalajara) SPA299Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details here. SPA317H0 Communication practice in small groups, with an emphasis on skills in speaking, listening, and writing. Selective review of grammatical structures and active vocabulary. (Offered only in Guadalajara) SPA319Y1 Survey of the mechanics of writing and basic grammar for fluent speakers of Spanish with limited or no exposure to written Spanish; English/Spanish spelling differences, written and spoken registers of Spanish, basic aspects of the grammatical system. SPA320Y1 Advanced Spanish for non-natives. Selective review of grammar with emphasis on the complex sentence; intensive practice in written and oral expression to improve proficiency. SPA321H1 An introduction to articulatory phonetics, Spanish sound patterns, phonetics, phonology; the basic concepts of phonetic description and transcription; the study of Spanish vowel and consonant systems, stress and intonation. SPA322H1 The basic concepts and analytic tools of linguistics applied to the study of Spanish, with a focus on the Spanish phonological, morphological, and syntactic systems. Theoretical discussion and practical exercises in analytic techniques. (Offered in alternate years) SPA323H1 Practical uses of spoken and written Spanish for business contexts. This course builds on grammar and vocabulary knowledge already acquired at the intermediate level, and is directed primarily at students pursuing a second major in Latin American Studies or European Studies. (Offered in alternate years) SPA324H1 Spanish bilingualism from three different perspectives: linguistic, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic. Analysis of typical language contact phenomena with materials from Spanish. Case studies of Spanish in contact and discussion of the psychological consequences of bilingual childhood. Introduction to survey methods in sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics, and basic techniques for conducting language interviews. SPA325H1 Study of Catalan language through an overview of grammatical structures and exercises in proficiency skills, complemented by readings in Catalan history and society to attain interdisciplinary cultural literacy . Analysis of works by Llull, March, d’Ors, Gaudi, Rodoreda, and others. (Offered in alternate years) SPA341H1 Literary and artistic movements in Spain fROM 1890 to 1940, with special attention to the convergence and mutual mediation of politics and art. Materials to be studied include novels, poetry, the urban environment, graphic art, literary journals and manifestos, and some early Hispanic film. (Offered in alternate years) SPA345H1 Analysis of the development of Spanish Cinema within its social and political contexts. Directors studied include Buñuel, Bardem, Erice, Saura, Almodóvar and Bigas Luna. (Offered in alternate years). SPA352H1 Representative literary and cultural texts from the early modern period, studied in relation to the history and society of imperial Spain. Discussion will centre on such issues as the formation of the state, urbanization, court culture, social order and disorder, and cultural discourses of identity and difference. (Offered in alternate years) SPA375H1 Latin American cinema within the framework of cultural studies, film theory, and film criticism. Analysis of representative films from Argentina (Solanas, Puenzo), Brazil (Babenco, Camus, Salles), Cuba (Ichaso, Gutiérrez Alea, Solás), Mexico (Ripstein, Cuarón, González Iñárritu), and Venezuela (Román Chalbaud). (Offered in alternate years) SPA381H1 Analysis of poetry, short stories, essays, and graphic art in the context of nation-building and the question of identity during the nineteenth century. Modernismo studied as the first literary movement of Spanish American origin. (Offered in alternate years) SPA382H1 Study of different creative expressions by women in Spanish America from the colonial period to the present; analysis of selected works of visual art, film, essays, poetry, and fiction. (Offered in alternate years) SPA384H1 Study of representative works of major artistic and literary movements in 20th and 21st century Spanish America: avant-garde poetry, theatre of the absurd, surrealist art, neo-realism, postmodernism. (Offered in alternate years) SPA385H1 Modern literature in its critical relation to social conditions. Emphasis on socio-historical context, ideologies of the period and writers’ views of their social responsibility as a framework for literary analysis (Offered in alternate years) SPA387H0 Social change and literary innovation in Mexican literature since THE 1950s; analysis of selections from Agustín, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, Fernando del Paso, Octavio Paz, Laura Esquivel, and others. (Offered only in Guadalajara) SPA398H0 SPA399Y0 An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details here. SPA420H1 Linguistic analysis with the objective of improving students’ command of Spanish grammar. Advanced review of traditional grammatical topics, including the verbal and pronominal systems, and Spanish copulas and embedded clauses. This course assumes familiarity with the grammatical terminology introduced in SPA220Y1. SPA421H1 Study of Spanish morphology and syntax: syntactic categories in Spanish, the structure and interpretation of simple and complex sentences. (Offered in alternate years) SPA422H1 Study of linguistic variation across the Spanish-speaking world; central issues in phonological, morphological, and syntactic variation, analyzed from a geographical as well as from a social point of view. (Offered in alternate years) SPA423H1 Theoretical and experimental approaches to Spanish phonology. Topics include: Spanish phonemic inventory, sound patterns, suprasegmentals (stress and intonation), synchronic and diachronic variation. Methods of data collection and analysis in the discipline, with practical applications. SPA425H1 The evolution of Spanish. The dialectalization of Hispano-Latin through inherent linguistic changes and influences from other languages and the development of Castilian into one of the world’s most important languages. (Offered in alternate years) SPA435H1 Study of major currents in narrative fiction during the last twenty years, a period of return to democratic government, the relaxing of censorship and the opening up of Spanish culture. Analysis of works from several generations of male and female writers. (Offered in alternate years) SPA438H1 A course on a specific topic in modern Spanish literature, designed for advanced students. Course content and instructor are established on a yearly basis. SPA439H1 A course on specific topics in Spanish studies, designed for advanced students. Course content and instructor are established on a yearly basis. SPA440H1 A course on specific topics in Spanish culture, designed for advanced students. Course content and instructor are established on a yearly basis. SPA450H1 Medieval works studied in relation to literary and cultural traditions. Issues of genre, discourse, and ideology are scrutinized in various texts, including lyric, narrative, and moral and didactic writings. (Offered in alternate years) SPA452H1 Study of theatre and the idea of representation, with reference to parallels in lyric poetry and visual art. Emphasis on the Spanish comedia as a genre, and on its interaction with other artistic forms in the Golden Age. (Offered in alternate years) SPA454H1 Detailed study of Don Quixote as a foundational text in the European literary tradition, with attention to the conventions, genres, and literary techniques that inform the text. Parallel readings in romance, picaresque fiction, and the ballad tradition. SPA467H1 A course on a specific topic in Spanish American culture, designed for advanced students. Course content and instructor are established on a yearly basis. SPA468H1 A course on a specific topic in Spanish American literature, designed for advanced students. Course content and instructor are established on a yearly basis. SPA471H1 Issues of nationalism, historical awareness, and the rewriting of the past in Spanish American fiction, with detailed study of representative texts. (Offered in alternate years) SPA480H1 Theories of cultural identity and production, as articulated by Latin American thinkers since the Independence period. Issues for study will include civilization and barbarity, cultural imperialism, the commodification and consumption of cultural icons, museums, the mass media and national identity, processes of transculturation and cultural hybridity. (Offered in alternate years) SPA482H1 Detailed study of the major movements in Spanish-American narrative, including magic realism, fantastic literature, women’s writing, and testimonial literature, through analysis of representative novels and short stories. (Offered in alternate years) SPA486H1 Literature studied as a socio-political space for the articulation of new concepts of cultural identity; examination of cultural change and aesthetic innovation in selected poetic, dramatic, and narrative texts from different national traditions (Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico). (Offered in alternate years) SPA487H1 Detailed study of key moments and texts in Spanish American culture from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focussing on such topics as the creation of new nations, indigenismo, Caribbean anti-slavery literature, and the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions. (Offered in alternate years) SPA488H1 The end of civil and military conflicts in the last decade of the 20th century reshapes the political landscape of Central America. Through selected readings of novels and short stories from representative writers, issues of immigration, displacement, and globalization are discussed to understand these changes in the region. SPA490H1 SPA491H1 Individual study with a member of staff on a topic of common interest including readings, discussion and written assignments. |