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Wouldn't it be great if you could quickly increase your Spanish proficiency through an intensive immersion experience right here at Stanford? Wouldn't you love to gain the cultural and historical knowledge necessary to begin taking literature and culture courses generally reserved for advanced students? This intensive Spanish immersion course is designed to help students who have completed a year of Spanish to move forward quickly toward greater linguistic and cultural competence. After a year of Spanish, students tend to be able to handle straightforward interactions related to basic needs and personal information, but they generally lack the ability to handle more abstract discussions or to combine short utterances into longer presentations of their ideas. Most students likewise have little knowledge of the rich and complex history that surrounds the Spanish language or the central role that Spanish has played in the cultural and political life of California. In this course, a team of experienced instructors will help students to improve their Spanish through intensive lessons that incorporate film, literature, and social issues. Through a focused discussion of the themes of immigration and democracy in Spain, Latin America, and the United States, as well as excursions and guest lectures by Stanford faculty and community leaders, this course will immerse students in Spanish and help them to gain advanced proficiency much more quickly.

Provides critical language and tools for analyzing visual culture, specifically art by Americans of Mexican descent. Emphasis on the three central aspects of visual studies: the image, the viewer, and the social relations governing the production, distribution and consumption of images. Focus on the power of image to shape who we are and how we think, and the capacity of viewers to interpret images in ways inflected by their social positioning.

In 2002, a panel of writers from over 50 countries named Miguel, de Cervantes's Don Quixote the "most meaningful book of all time." Along with Dante's Commedia and Shakespeare's Hamlet, it was chosen by the same panel as one of the three greatest works of the Western canon. Such praise from one's peers is no small achievement for an author who spent more time in prison than in school, and it speaks to the lasting impact of a 400-year-old work aimed as much at confounding as delighting its readers. In this course, students will engage in a close reading and discussion of this "modern classic," examining both its many "meanings" and the ways in which it works to elude meaning altogether.

What is "contemporary" in Latin American literature? Which books are translated into English, and why? What to make of the gap between their publication in Spanish and their reception in the United States? The course invites students to think and write about these issues in light of translation and globalization theories. Works include a representative selection of recent fiction by Aira, Bellatin, Bolano, and Vallejo, as well as films by Schroeder and Ospina. Readings in English; Spanish originals available.

Preference to sohomores. Life stories and portraits of Eva Peron, Frida Kalho, Che Guevara, Michelle Bachelet, sub-comandante Marcos, Lula , Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez, Pele, and Victor Jara. The dynamics of Latin American culture. Sources include documentaries, film, video, news, readings, and archives.

Open to undergraduates with an interest in 21st Century Film and the social reality of Spain nowadays. Explores how Spain has evolved from being one of the most undeveloped European countries to become a first mover in social issues such as gay marriage or women's public role. Topics include racism, migration, the reconstruction of the past and the vision of the other. Themes are analyzed through movies directed by Spanish and American filmmakers such as: Cesc Gay, Bollain, Bigas-Luna, González-Iñárritu and Woody Allen. Class taught in Spanish, readings both in Spanish and English.

A study of urban issues in Latin American cities, such as Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Lima, Medellin, Quito, Mexico City, Santiago, La Paz and Sao Paulo using literary works and films, using literary works and films. Books and films by Javier Vásconez, Mario Benedetti, Sebastián Cordero, Alicia Scherson, Antonio Serrano, Gisela Kozak, Francisco Lombardi, Veronica Chen, Fernando Vallejo, Barbet Schroeder, Walter Salles, and Roman Chalbaud, Santiago Roncagliolo among others.

A basic introduction to the elements of lyric poetry--image, metaphor, symbol, connotation, denotation, irony, rhyme and meter-drawing upon a selection of poems from major poets of the Hispanic World, including, G. A. Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Rubén Darío, Miguel de Unamuno, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Gabriela Mistral. Prerequisites: Two years of college-level Spanish. This is a bilingual course, taught both in English, and Spanish, with an emphasis on Spanish.

A survey of Iberian cinema in the second half of the 20th century. Traces the slow making of an international success with directors like Saura, Almodóvar, Amenábar,Medem, Pons, Bollaín and Villaronga. Starting with the early Buñuel, the course examines cinema's shaping of the national imaginary and its articulation of collective memories suppressed during the Franco dictatorship, as well as the challenges of cultural continuity. Taught in Spanish.