ILAC 110N: Brazil: Musical Culture and Films
An audiovisual introduction to Brazilian cultural and regional diversities. Films and Music from Samba to Bossa Nova to Tropicália to Hip-Hop. Rhythms and Spirituals of Capoeira and Candomblé. Amerindian songs. Dances and Rituals. Final visual-sonorous exhibition and performance by students. Taught in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Librandi Rocha, M. (PI)
ILAC 117Q: The Short Story in Latin America
What is a short story? How is it different from a nouvelle or a short novel? What represents the greatest achievement in its practice? How is the social function and literary standing of cuentos different in the region from elsewhere in the world? Read and think about short stories while cultivating core critical skills: close-reading, aesthetic appreciation, and good Spanish expository prose. Taught in Spanish.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Hoyos, H. (PI)
ILAC 134: In the First Person: Women's Self Writing in Latin America
Why is self-narrative a particularly daring form for the feminine voice? How can a woman writer affect notions of identity in her narrative? The course examines different expressions of feminine self-portrayal in Latin America from the 1920s to the present. We study women's self-writing across different formats: diaries, memoirs, fiction, and comics. Authors include: Rosario Castellanos, Victoria Ocampo, Norah Lange, Frida Kahlo, Tununa Mercado, Marcela Trujillo, Power Paola, and Gabriela Wiener. Taught in Spanish.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Briceno, X. (PI)
ILAC 157: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literatures
Survey of Iberian literature from the medieval and early modern periods. When covering texts in languages other than Spanish, translations into English or Spanish will be made available. Taught in Spanish; prerequisite: SPANLANG 13 or equivalen
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
;
Schiess, A. (SI)
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 220E: Renaissance Africa (AFRICAST 220E, COMPLIT 220, ILAC 320E)
Literature and Portuguese expansion into Africa during the sixteenth century. Emphasis on forms of exchange between Portuguese and Africans in Morocco, Angola/Congo, South Africa, the Swahili Coast, and Ethiopia. Readings in Portuguese and English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
ILAC 240E: Borges and Philosophy
Analysis of the Argentine author's literary renditions of philosophical ideas. Topics may include: time, free will, infinitude, authorship and self, nominalism vs. realism, empiricism vs. idealism, skepticism, peripheral modernities, postmodernism, and Eastern thought. Close reading of short stories, poems, and essays from Labyrinths paired with selections by authors such as Augustine, Berkeley, James, and Lao Tzu. The course will be conducted in English; Spanish originals will be available. Satisfies the capstone seminar requirement for the major in Philosophy and Literature.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Hoyos, H. (PI)
;
Gibson, S. (TA)
ILAC 246: Critical Issues of Human Rights through Literature
This course seeks to explain some of the most relevant contemporary problems of contemporary human rights through the eyes of literature. Through novels, the course problematizes some issues of human rights that, from a legal perspective, are simplified or captured merely through legal forms i.e. rules. These novels highlight the social and political tensions involved in the rise of human rights and in some of its most urgent problems during their short history. Human rights legal forms generally simplify a wider array of tensions that this course brings to the foreground. Taught in Spanish. INSTRUCTOR: Jorge González-Jacome.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Gonzalez Jacome, J. (PI)
ILAC 278: Senior Seminar: Spanish Poetry
Open to seniors in ILAC and Spanish: others by permission of instructor. nnThis course will study the poetry of Lorca and his generation, the so-called Generation of 1927. We will concentrate on the rediscovery of the poetry of Luis de Góngora and its impact in revolutionizing poetic language in modern Spain. Special attention will be given to close stylistic analysis and to the historical and social conditions out of which arose the progressive intellectual and educational movement that gave rise to this renaissance of brilliant poetry. Taught in Spanish.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
| Repeatable
for credit
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
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