Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Various topics.

CASE requirements vary.

Note: S498 requires permission from the department, contact Jennifer Howard at howard21@iu.edu

Note: There are seven sections/topics.

S498  READINGS FOR HONORS    (3 credits)                Culture
Variable title: Hispanic Culture in the U.S.

Prerequisites: One course from S324, S328, S331, S333, S334

Note: This course is combined with HISP-S 413 (13568)

This course carries CASE AH and CASE DUS distribution credit.

This course requires permission from the department. Students must have applied to the department's honors program and be approved before enrolling.

HISP-S 498  #13713  9:45A - 11:00A  MW    BH 336     Prof. Andrés Guzman

Description of HISP-S 413:
This course explores Latina/o/x culture in the United States from the 19th century until today. We will analyze a diverse body of Latina/o/x cultural production (including literature, visual culture, music, advertising, and food) in relation to various socio-historical contexts. Among the topics we will cover are the representations of legendary resistance figures after the Mexican-American War; language and identity; racial, ethnic, and political conflict; civil rights; the creation and commodification of Latina/o/x identity; Latina/o/x popular culture; gender and sexuality; and immigration. In addition, students will further develop the concepts and skills necessary to analyze the particular ways in which different cultural texts produce meaning. 
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HISP-S 498  Readings for honors    (3 credits)       Linguistics
Variable title: Spanish Phonetics

Prerequisite: HISP-S 326 or equivalent

Note: This class meets with HISP-S 425 (9871)

This class carries COLL (CASE) N&M Breadth of Inquiry credit.

This course requires permission from the department. Students must have applied to the department's honors program and be approved before enrolling.

HISP-S 498      #11824      9:45A - 11:00A   TR    LH 030      Prof. Erik Willis

Description for HISP-S 425:
This course examines the sound system of the Spanish language. Topics include the articulatory system, the characteristics and description of Spanish sounds, the patterns of Spanish sounds, the historical development of modern Spanish from Latin, and the variation of the Spanish sound system. Attention will also be given to differences between Spanish and English sounds. This course will also provide students with the opportunity to improve their Spanish pronunciation through greater understanding of how the Spanish sound system works. Course evaluation is based on homework assignments, two exams, and a final course project.
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HISP-S 498  READINGS FOR HONORS        (3 credits)            Linguistics
Variable title: THE STRUCTURE OF SPANISH

Prerequisite: HISP-S 326; or equivalent

This course carries CASE N & M Natural and Mathematical credit.

This course requires permission from the department. Students must have applied to the department's honors program and be approved before enrolling.

Note: S498 is combined with HISP-S 427 (9836)      

HISP-S 498  #9837    3:00P-4:15P      MW      PH 154      Prof. Patricia Amaral

Description of HISP-S 427:
In this course we study the grammatical structure of Spanish, with a focus on the structure of words (morphology) and the rule-based combination of words to form sentences (syntax). After studying the fundamental concepts of morphology with regard to the properties of lexical categories (e.g. noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition), we analyze the ways in which words combine to form syntactic categories at the phrase level (noun phrase, verb phrase, adjectival phrase, adverbial phrase, prepositional phrase), and then at the sentence level. We analyze the syntactic and semantic properties of both simple and complex sentences. Some of the topics discussed in the course include: argument structure, word order, negation, tense and aspect, and information structure.

Student evaluation is based on class participation, weekly homework assignments, midterm and final exam, and two small research projects in which students will explore topics in morpho-syntactic variation within the Spanish speaking world.
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HISP-S 498 READINGS FOR HONORS   (3 credits)                 Linguistics
Variable title: BILINGUALISM AND SPANISH IN THE U.S.

Note: This class meets with HISP-S 431 (30368)

This course carries CASE S&H and DUS distribution credits. 

This course requires permission from the department. Students must have applied to the department's honors program and be approved before enrolling.

HISP-S 498   #30554    1:15P-2:30P   TR      BH 015     Prof. Leslie Del Carpio

Description for HISP-S 431:
The main objective of this course is to present a view of Spanish in the United States from a theoretical perspective that incorporates sociolinguistics and critical language awareness. First, we will debunk common misconceptions about plurilingualism and linguistic variation, linguistic attitudes, and linguistic ideologies. Next, we will study the history of Spanish in the US, with a focus on the socio-historical and socio-political factors that influence linguistic maintenance and linguistic shift in Spanish-speaking regions such as the Southwest and the Midwest. The second half of the course will concentrate on the use and representation of Spanish in the US and some of its linguistic characteristics. The final project for this course is the building of a linguistic landscapes project in which students will utilize Google Maps to assess how Spanish is used in various regions of the nation.
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HISP-S 498  READINGS FOR HONORS     (3 credits)        Literature
Topic: U.S. Latino Literatures and Culture 

Note: This course meets with HISP-S 435 (30371)

This course carries inquiry credit and CASE DUS2 Diversity in the US credit.

This course requires permission from the department. Students must have applied to the department's honors program and be approved before enrolling.

HISP-S 498  #30560   11:30A-12:45P    MW   BH 344   Prof. Andrés Guzman

Description for HISP-S 435:
This course will deepen students’ knowledge of Latinx literary and cultural production. By closely analyzing the interactions between content, form, and context, we will develop grounded readings attuned to factors that have shaped and continue to shape particular Latinx experiences in the United States. Beginning by reflecting on the unstable category of “Latinx” itself, the course approaches literary and cultural production in its intersection with issues of revolution, immigration, identity, labor, the Vietnam War and Latinxs in the armed forces, civil rights, nationalism, urban life, the politics of language, and the U.S./Mexico border. In analyzing these issues, we will devote special attention to questions of race, class, nation, gender, and sexuality. Though some readings will be in English, class discussions, presentations, and all written work will be conducted in Spanish.
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HISP-S 498  READINGS FOR HONORS  (3 credits)      Literature                       
Topic: Don Quijote

Prerequisite: HISP-S 328.

This course requires permission from the department. Students must have applied to the department's honors program and be approved before enrolling.

Note: This course meets with S450 (30374)

This course carries CASE AH Breadth of Inquiry credit.

HISP-S 498   #30571    1:15P - 2:30P     MW    BH 232    Prof. Steve Wagschal

Description of S450:
If you read Spanish, then you are prepared to read one of the most important and potentially life-altering books every written! Take it from Thomas Jefferson, who read Cervantes' novel in the original and counseled his daughters to learn Spanish so they could too. Jefferson and the founding fathers often referred to the current events of their day through the prism of conversations between the gentleman from La Mancha and his squire Sancho Panza. Mary Wollstonecraft  viewed the fight for feminism as “Quixotic,” while her daughter, Mary Shelley, compared herself to Sancho. Or take it from Sigmund Freud, who learned Spanish so that he could read Don Quixote in the original. In fact, Freud was so obsessed with Cervantes that, in letters to a friend, he would regularly sign his name "Berganza" after one of the Spanish author’s characters. John Steinbeck named his truck "Rocinante" after Don Quixote's horse. When asked about influences on his film-making, Martin Scorcese explained that Cervantes did “everything” first. Don Quixote continues to be a crucial point of reference for modern and postmodern culture, with films, novels, posters, restaurants, bars, operas, ballets, video games, musicals, theatrical works, documentaries, travel routes, paintings, sculptures, cocktails, comic books, ceramics, and more all bearing the name or the profound influence of Cervantes' creation. This course explores the complex fictional worlds of Miguel de Cervantes’ El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha. We will read the complete novel in the original language, in its social, cultural and historical contexts, and investigate the questions it continues to raise about human existence, literary creation, and self-consciousness in fiction, as well as explore.
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HISP-S 498    READINGS FOR HONORS       (3 credits)        Literature
Topic: Argentine Literature and Culture

Note: This class meets with HISP-S 480 (30376)

This course requires permission from the department. Students must have applied to the department's honors program and be approved before enrolling.

HISP-S 480   #30577    11:30A - 12:45P   TR      SB 140     Prof. Patrick Dove

Description for HISP-S 480:
This course provides an in-depth exploration of Argentine literature and culture from the mid-19^th century through the present. We will look at how literary works and visual culture (film, photography, painting) respond to social conflicts and transformations beginning with the post-independence civil wars through the brutal military dictatorship of the 1970s and the economic and social crisis of the end of the millennium. Key contexts include civil war, nation-building, modernization, genocidal war against Argentina’s indigenous groups, immigration, populism, socialist revolution, dictatorship and democracy, and globalization.

Primary texts will include essays, short stories, poems, plays, and novels by such authors as Echeverría, Sarmiento, Gorriti, Mansilla, Hernández, Borges, Cortázar, Walsh, Rozenmacher, Piglia, Gambaro, Kohan, Enriquez, and Schweblin. Films may include works directed by Bechis, Bielinsky, Caetano, Carri and Santiago. There will also be short critical and contextual readings.

Evaluation will be based on class participation, short and medium length written assignments, a presentation, and exams.