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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. nnAfter 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 sustained 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. nnIn this course, a team of experienced instructors will help students 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.

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 freshmen. For students with at least two years of language preparation. Focus is on principal elements and expressive devices of lyric poetry:multi-dimensional use of language, denotation,connotation, image, metaphor, symbol, paradox, irony, meaning, idea, rhythm, and meter. Readings include the best of major poets of Spain and Latin America: Becquer, Rosalia de Castro, Ruben Dari­o, Unamuno, Antonio Machado, GarcÃia Lorca, Neruda, and Gabriela Mistral Bilingual in English and Spanish with an emphasis on Spanish.

Praised by Woody Allen and Salman Rushdie as the greatest Brazilian novelist of the 19th Century, Machado de Assis (1839-1908) became a recent pop star of "world literature." To Harold Bloom he is "a kind of miracle ," as the grandson of freed slaves in Brazil, who deserved to be included in Bloom's book Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds. In his texts, a paradoxical combination of guilt and innocence, jealous and love challenges the reader to make risk choices wisely. This course presents Machado de Assis masterpieces: the novels, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1881), and Dom Casmurro (1900), the short novel The Alienist (1882) and a selection of his short stories. Key critical concepts and an overview of his reception in Brazil and in the US will support our discussions.

Strategies and tactics for research and writing in the humanities; focus is on the Spanish-speaking world. How to write a research proposal; how to conduct research online and in the library; annotated bibliographies; bibliographical essays; rhetorical strategies; and common logical fallacies. (Meets Writing-in-the-Major requirement)

A growing number of contemporary Latin American novels and films focus on precarious forms of life and narratives of care, beyond the disciplinary discourses of medicine and psychiatry. This course takes stock of these narratives to explore the literary dimension of care. Parting from theorizations of affect, we explore varieties of emotions, modes of care, and caring identities, as well as the emphasis on human-animal and human-plant relations. Authors and film directors may include: Mario Bellatin, Alejandro Zambra, Alan Pauls, Sergio Chejchec, Lina Meruane, Diamela Eltit, Mario Cohn, Gaston Dupratt, Lucrecia Martel. Taught in Spanish

The historical dynamics, linguistic plurality, and social complexity of the Iberian world. Topics include: empire, independence Civil war; republicanism; the crisis at the end of the century: the year 98; the civil war; dictatorships, Franco, and Salazar. Major figures include Larra, Esproceda, Béquer, Rosalía de Castro, Verdaguer, Galdós, Maragall, Unamuno, Valle-Inclán, Machado, and Lorca.

Major theoretical debates about the construction of Latin American identities, from the 19th century to the present. Readings by writers, poets, philosophers, and historians, including Rodo, Retamar, O'Gorman, Vasconcelos, Henríquez-Ureña, Ramos, Paz, Carpentier, Lezama Lima, Borges, and Fuentes.