printer friendly pageILAC 132E: Introduction to Global Portuguese: Cultural Perspectives
Portuguese is the sixth most-spoken language in the world (roughly 250 million speakers now, with expected growth to 400 million by 2050) and the most-spoken language south of the Equator. It is the official language of nation-states on four continents, making it truly global in scope. Beyond Brazil, there are tens of millions of Portuguese speakers in Africa and Europe as well as smaller communities in Asia and North America. In this course, students will learn about the cultures and communities that make up the Portuguese-speaking world, even as they learn to critique the idea of linking these communities by means of a language that became global (like Spanish and English) through violent colonial expansion. Topics include art and music, film, poetry, short story, post-colonialism, indigeneity, crioulismo, empire, diaspora, semi-peripherality, modernism. Course taught in English with optional Portuguese section.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
ILAC 149: The Laboring of Diaspora & Border Literary Cultures (COMPLIT 149, CSRE 149)
Focus is given to emergent theories of culture and on comparative literary and cultural studies. How do we treat culture as a social force? How do we go about reading the presence of social contexts within cultural texts? How do ethno-racial writers re-imagine the nation as a site with many "cognitive maps" in which the nation-state is not congruent with cultural identity? How do diaspora and border narratives/texts strive for comparative theoretical scope while remaining rooted in specific local histories. Note: This course must be taken for a minimum of 3 units and a letter grade to be eligible for Ways credit
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Saldivar, J. (PI)
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Giovanni, C. (TA)
ILAC 157: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literatures
From roughly 1000 to 1700 CE. A survey of significant authors and works of early Iberian literatures, focusing on fictional/historical prose and poetry. Topics include lyric poetry and performance, the rise of European empire, Islam in the West, the rise of the novel, early European accounts of Africa and the Americas. Authors may include: Andalusi lyric poets, Llull, the Archpriest of Hita, Zurara, March, Rojas, Vaz de Caminha, Cabeza de Vaca, Sá de Miranda, Monte(ay)or, Teresa of Ávila, Camões, Mendes Pinto, Góngora, Sóror Violante do Céu, Sor Juana, Calderón, and Cervantes. Taught in Spanish.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
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Ward, C. (TA)
ILAC 193: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most recognizable auteur directors in the world today. His films express a hybrid and eclectic visual style and the blurring of frontiers between mass and high culture. Special attention is paid to questions of sexuality and the centering of usually marginalized characters. This course studies Pedro Almodóvar's development from his directorial debut to the present, from the "shocking" value of the early films to the award-winning mastery of the later ones. Prerequisite: ability to understand spoken Spanish. Readings in English. Midterm and final paper can be in English. Majors should write in Spanish.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Resina, J. (PI)
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Guinart Lopez, P. (TA)
ILAC 199: Individual Work
Open only to students in the department, or by consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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Units: 1-12
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
ILAC 255: Women Authors: Feminism in Iberia
Women Authors: Feminism in Iberia
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
ILAC 265A: Theater in Spanish: The Performance of Love
What is love? How do we perceive love in its many forms? This course, taught in Spanish, considers the question of love in dramatic literature and theatrical space, in works of Iberian drama written in Spanish from 1500 to the present with a theoretical and critical focus on performance. Taught by Prof. Laura Mier.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
ILAC 278A: Senior Seminar: Shepherds and Butchers, or The Iberian Pastoral
Open to seniors in ILAC and Spanish; juniors by permission of instructor. What does pastoral literature -- with its lovesick shepherds, acts of self-immolation, and aquatic nymphs -- have to do with imperial expansion? For early modern Portugal and Spain, it formed a surprisingly indispensable (if somewhat perverse) foundation for their respective colonial projects. From the earliest African slave markets to the rise of the modern novel, the pastoral is everywhere, a true companion of empire. Through a close analysis and discussion of early modern texts in Spanish and Portuguese (translations of Portuguese texts will be made available), as well as some theoretical/philosophical texts in English, we will explore the bizarre place of the pastoral in early modern Iberian Empire and reckon with its impact on our own sense of the colonial past. Authors include: Joanot Martorell, Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Garcilaso de la Vega, Joan Boscà, Jorge Montemor, Luisa Sigea, Luís de Camões, and Miguel de Cervantes. NOTE: This course must be taken for a minimum of 5 units and a letter grade to be eligible for WIM credit.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (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
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Units: 1-12
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
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Briceno, X. (PI)
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Hoyos, H. (PI)
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Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
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Briceno, X. (PI)
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Hoyos, H. (PI)
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Resina, J. (PI)
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Saldivar, R. (PI)
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Santana, C. (PI)
ILAC 303: Topics of: Early Modern Theories of History
From the 15th to the 17th centuries, European expansion projects, especially the Iberian ones, prompted new constructions of the past, present, and future. This proliferation of history writing was complicated by the fact that the various populations of the global Iberian monarchies, particularly those of New Spain, Peru, and Brazil, did not share the same concepts of historicity or temporality. In this course, students will explore a great diversity of primary sources (chronicles, reports, annals, pictographic codices, theater, paintings, feather mosaics, murals, etc.) and discover the unexpected social memories and theories of history that they created.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Hughes, N. (PI)
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