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ILAC 102: Spanish Through Poetry

This Spanish poetry course is designed for intermediate and advanced speakers interested in environmental issues. It examines how poetry reflects and reimagines the environment, specifically in Latin America, including Latinx poetry, from the 70s to the present. The course explores different aesthetic and theoretical approaches to poetry related to nature, ecopoetry, postnatural poetry, and poetry of place. Students will analyze and discuss poetry in different media and formats, including single-authored, collective, serial, and multimedia poems. We will explore how environmental concerns are expressed through formal language and imagery. We will examine whether poetic devices obscure or reveal environmental inquiries and how poetic language can highlight power dynamics and promote ecological consciousness. We will delve into the formal aspects of poetry and the material processes involved in creating environmental poetic imagery and connect poetry to environmental activism. Students must also enroll in the related course SPANLANG 121 "Concurrent Writing Support" for language learning.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors: ; Castro, A. (PI)

ILAC 106: From Disney to Telenovelas: Latin America in Popular Film and TV (CHILATST 106)

Popular film and media have represented Latin America in various ways, including as a geographical region, a homogeneous culture, and a form of racialization. In this course, we will investigate these representations to understand how Latin America, its people, and its diaspora imagine themselves and how others have conceptualized the region. We will pay particular attention to the myths and stereotypes that cinema and television have sustained as well as Latin America's history of colonization to examine the prevalence of anti-blackness, anti-indigeneity, and other forms of erasure and social exclusion. Sources include Disney's Saludos Amigos and Encanto, Pixar's Coco, and the telenovela Yo soy Betty la fea, among others. Taught in English. Students are welcome to complete work in Spanish.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Alpert, J. (PI)

ILAC 107N: History in Images: Scenes from the Franco Dictatorship in Spanish Cinema

A restrospective of films from the 1950s to the early 21st century dealing with the troubled representation of the Spanish Civil War and the postwar "iron years". The seminar will analyze the distortion of the past through both censorship and individual recollection under conditions of personal and collective trauma, while exploring the relation between history and film. We will also discuss the ways in which objective images can be used to explore subjectivity. Outstanding films by Luis Garc¿a Berlanga, Luis Bu¿uel, Carlos Saura, V¿ctor Erice, Pilar Mir¿, Julio Medem, Pedro Almod¿var, Guillermo del Toro, Agust¿ Villaronga and Alejandro Amen¿bar. Spanish comprehension is necessary for the required class films.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Resina, J. (PI)

ILAC 130: Introduction to Iberia: Cultural Perspectives

The purpose of this course is to study major figures and historical trends in modern Iberia against the background of the linguistic plurality and cultural complexity of the Iberian world. We will cover the period from the loss of the Spanish empire, through the civil wars and dictatorships to the end of the Portuguese Estado Novo and the monarchic restoration in Spain. Particular attention will be given to the Peninsula's difficult negotiation of its cultural and national diversity, with an emphasis on current events. This course is designed to help prepare students for their participation in the Stanford overseas study program in Spain. Taught in Spanish.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI

ILAC 161: Modern Latin American Literature

A survey of significant authors and works of Hispanic and Brazilian Portuguese literatures, focusing on fictional prose and poetry. Topics include romantic allegories of the nation; modernism and postmodernism; avant-garde poetry; regionalism versus cosmopolitanism; Indigenous and indigenist literature; magical realism and the literature of the boom; Afro-Hispanic literature; and testimonial narrative. Authors may include: Bol¿var, Bello, G¿mez de Avellaneda, Isaacs, Sarmiento, Machado de Assis, Dar¿o, Mart¿, Agustini, Vallejo, Huidobro, Borges, Cort¿zar, Neruda, Guillon, Rulfo, Ramos, Garc¿a Marquez, Lispector, and Bola¿o. Taught in Spanish.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors: ; Hughes, N. (PI); Kim, Y. (TA)

ILAC 181: Philosophy and Literature (CLASSICS 42, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENCH 181, GERMAN 181, ITALIAN 181, PHIL 81, SLAVIC 181)

Can novels make us better people? Can movies challenge our assumptions? Can poems help us become who we are? We'll think about these and other questions with the help of writers like Toni Morrison, Marcel Proust, Jordan Peele, Charlie Kaufman, Rachel Cusk, William Shakespeare, and Samuel Beckett, plus thinkers like Nehamas, Nietzsche, Nussbaum, Plato, and Sartre. We'll also ask whether a disenchanted world can be re-enchanted; when, if ever, the truth stops being the most important thing; why we sometimes choose to read sad stories; whether we ever love someone for who they are; who could possibly want to live their same life over and over again; what it takes to make ourselves fully moral; whether it's ever good to be conflicted; how we can pull ourselves together; and how we can take ourselves apart. (This is the required gateway course for the Philosophy and Literature major tracks. Majors should register in their home department.)
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

ILAC 199: Individual Work

Open only to students in the department, or by consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-12 | Repeatable 15 times (up to 12 units total)

ILAC 212: Curing the Institutions with Francesc Tosquelles: Politics and exile, de-alienation and outsider art (ARTHIST 212A, DLCL 212, FRENCH 212E)

In the occupied France of the 1940s, Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles used culture (amateur cinema, theater, and literature) and politics (self-management, cooperatives, and anti-Stalinist communism) to "cure" the institutions rather than patients. In his work he engaged with avantgarde poets like Paul ¿luard, Antonin Artaud and Tristan Tzara, the post-colonial philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon and philosopher F¿lix Guattari. His project was shaped by radical politics in Catalonia during the 1930s and his own practice of treating the therapeutic community rather than the patients themselves. Tosquelles worked with people outside the medical profession: musicians, writers, lawyers and even prostitutes. These experiences resonate in the book he wrote on poet Gabriel Ferrater and the Spanish Civil War. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5

ILAC 218: Shipwrecks and Backlands: Getting Lost in Literature (COMPLIT 214, COMPLIT 314A, ILAC 318)

This course takes students on a journey through tales of getting lost in the Portuguese and Spanish empires. We will read harrowing stories of being caught adrift at sea and mystical interpretations of island desertion. The course begins with sea-dominated stories of Portuguese voyages to Asia, Africa, and Brazil then turns to how the Amazon and the sertão, or backlands, became a driving force of Brazilian literature. Official historians, poets, and novelists imbued the ocean and the backlands with romanticism, yet these spaces were the backdrop to slavery and conquest. Instead of approaching shipwreck and captivity narratives as eyewitness testimonies, as many have, we will consider how they produced 'the sea' and 'the wilderness' as poetic constructions in Western literature while also offering glimpses of the 'darker side' of Iberian expansion. Taught in English with all texts offered both in English and the original Portuguese or Spanish. Optional guest lectures in Portuguese.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors: ; Hughes, N. (PI)

ILAC 222: Latin American Avant-garde Narrative

This course aims to outline a general understanding of the Latin American avant-garde narrative following its representative themes. I will establish a map of avant-garde narrative considering the plurality of its expressions and temporalities, the proposals for renewal or rupture and the interest in readjusting its character to the sensitivity of the new. We will focus on the study the avant-garde narrative that operates with small scenarios, common and strangers, closer to everyday life, treating trivial issues, recreating the disputes around the relationships between experience and narration. We will also work on the formats of the detective story, science fiction, and the fables of modern artists and their links with modernity to understand how in avant-garde narratives, the referential world is transformed into oneiric materiality. We will discuss works by Teresa de la Parra, Arqueles Vela, Pablo Palacio, Julio Garmendia, Efrén Hernández, Felisberto Hernández, Roberto Arlt, José Martínez Sotomayor, María Luisa Bombal, Jorge Luis Borges, Armonía Sommers, Jesús Enrique Lossada, Marta Brunet and Vicente Huidobro. Taught in Spanish.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5

ILAC 277: Senior Seminar: The Power of Chisme--Gossip, Rumor, and Hearsay in Latin America

This course explores gossip, rumor, and hearsay in cultures and histories of the Hispanic world. From asserting hegemonic moral values to organizing subversive movements and uprisings; from intrusions in people's private lives to community building, gossip, rumors, and hearsay have helped produce worlds and knowledge in different periods of Spanish and Latin American histories. We will examine plays, novels, short stories, historical documents, telenovelas, and other cultural objects from the seventeenth to the twentieth century in which chisme - or its cousins murmuraci¿n, rumor, and ciza¿a - operates as a device that either helps maintain or destabilize power relations. In doing so, we will consider the role of gossip, rumor, and hearsay in narrative-making; the multiple definitions of chisme and the values associated with it in different historical periods, as well as the relationship between rumors and official or "legitimate" sources of information. Ultimately, we aim to address questions such as the following: How did chisme become such a fundamental feature in different Latin American cultures? What are the tropes and stereotypes associated with gossip, and what are their histories? Are we readers of literature mere chismosos? In addressing these questions, we will also confront matters related to orality, trustworthiness, intimacy, race, and gender. Classes will be a mixture of short lectures, discussions, student presentations, and conversations with invited scholars. Taught in Spanish. Students must have taken SPANLANG 13 or equivalent.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors: ; Fraga, I. (PI)

ILAC 299: Individual Work

Open to department advanced undergraduates or graduate students by consent of professor. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-12 | Repeatable for credit

ILAC 318: Shipwrecks and Backlands: Getting Lost in Literature (COMPLIT 214, COMPLIT 314A, ILAC 218)

This course takes students on a journey through tales of getting lost in the Portuguese and Spanish empires. We will read harrowing stories of being caught adrift at sea and mystical interpretations of island desertion. The course begins with sea-dominated stories of Portuguese voyages to Asia, Africa, and Brazil then turns to how the Amazon and the sertão, or backlands, became a driving force of Brazilian literature. Official historians, poets, and novelists imbued the ocean and the backlands with romanticism, yet these spaces were the backdrop to slavery and conquest. Instead of approaching shipwreck and captivity narratives as eyewitness testimonies, as many have, we will consider how they produced 'the sea' and 'the wilderness' as poetic constructions in Western literature while also offering glimpses of the 'darker side' of Iberian expansion. Taught in English with all texts offered both in English and the original Portuguese or Spanish. Optional guest lectures in Portuguese.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
Instructors: ; Hughes, N. (PI)

ILAC 371: Graduate Colloquium: Explorations in Latin American History and Historiography (HISTORY 371)

Introduction to modern Latin American history and historiography, including how to read and use primary sources for independent research.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5
Instructors: ; Wolfe, M. (PI)

ILAC 399: Individual Work

For Spanish and Portuguese department graduate students only. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-12 | Repeatable for credit

ILAC 680: Curricular Practical Training

CPT course required for international students completing degree. Prerequisite: ILAC Ph.D. candidate.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1-3 | Repeatable for credit

ILAC 802: TGR Dissertation

Doctoral students who have been admitted to candidacy, completed all required courses and degree requirements other than the University oral exam and dissertation, completed 135 units or 10.5 quarters of residency (if under the old residency policy), and submitted a Doctoral Dissertation Reading Committee form, may request Terminal Graduate Registration status to complete their dissertations.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 0 | Repeatable for credit
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