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

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

Note: This course is combined with HISP-S 413 (11545)

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  #11629   3:55P-5:10P       TR       BH 133     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

Prerequisite: HISP-S 326 or equivalent

Note: This class meets with HISP-S 422 (29781)

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    #30970   11:10A-12:25P    MW     BH 342   Prof. Alejandro Mejias-López

Description for HISP-S 422:
Did you know that the oldest preserved “talkie” (film with synchronized sound) featuring a human voice was filmed in Spanish? Since then, some of the greatest movies of the 20th and 21st centuries have spoken Spanish. In this course, we will explore this vital part of world cinema history, focusing our class discussions on critically acclaimed feature films by some of the most creative, provocative, engaged, and influential directors from Spanish speaking countries. Paying attention to both formal and thematic elements, students will further develop their appreciation of film as an artistic medium with the power to affect our world views and spark critical reflection. We will learn about groundbreaking filmmakers, their contributions to world cinema, and the choices they made when representing individual and collective realities in Spanish speaking countries. Although film theory and film analysis are part of this course, previous knowledge is not required. Class preparation time will include watching one to two films per week outside of class. Students will be required to attend one movie showing at IU Cinema during the semester. With few exceptions, all films are in Spanish and class will be conducted in Spanish.
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HISP-S 498  READINGS FOR HONORS        (3 credits)            Linguistics

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 423 (30974)      

HISP-S 498  #30972   11:10A-12:25P      TR           LH 120              Prof. Ryan Giles

Description of HISP-S 423:
A practical approach to the problems and techniques of Spanish/English and English/Spanish translation, using a variety of texts and concentrating on such critical areas of stylistics as tone, rhythm, imagery, nuance, allusion, etc. Language and translation theory will also be studied.
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HISP-S 498 READINGS FOR HONORS   (3 credits)                 Linguistics

Note: This class meets with HISP-S 425 (9144)

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   #10295   2:20P-3:35P           TR          TV 186         Prof. Erik Willis

Description for HISP-S 425:
This course studies on the sound system of Spanish.  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.  A secondary goal of the course is a more native-like pronunciation as a result of a deeper understanding of how the Spanish sound system works.  Course evaluation is based on participation, homework assignments, a class project and presentation, and two exams.
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HISP-S 498  READINGS FOR HONORS     (3 credits)        Literature
VT: Sociolinguistics Variation: Spanish Speaking World

Note: This course meets with HISP-S 429 (29780)

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  #30971   12:45P-2:00P      TR      GY 4069   Prof. Manuel Diaz-Campos

Description for HISP-S 429:
This undergraduate course introduces the basic concepts in sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics focuses on the symbolic value of language as an expression of group identity based on region, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, age, or other ways of defining group affiliation. Notions such as speech community, sociolinguistic variable, phonological and syntactic variation, and field methods, will be included. The course also surveys other related topics such as language in contact, bilingualism and Spanish in the U.S., Spanish as heritage language, language attitudes and language identity particularly in the U.S., language and the law, language and age, and language and gender. We will focus on research examining the use of Spanish in Latin America and Spain as well as in the U.S. Class time will be divided in lectures, discussion, and analysis of problem-solving cases. The evaluation will be based on participation, homework activities, experimental activities, and exams.
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HISP-S 498  READINGS FOR HONORS  (3 credits)      Literature                       

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 S479 (29782)

This course carries CASE AH Breadth of Inquiry credit.

HISP-S 498   #13038    9:35A-10:50A    TR      BH 336        Prof. Deborah Cohn

Description of S479:

This course will explore key trends and texts in twentieth- and twenty-first century Mexican literature and cultural production.  Topics include representations of the Mexican Revolution, critiques of its failure and institutionalization, and efforts at democratization; the relationship and power dynamics between Mexico and the US; migration, border crossing—and impediments to such crossings—and the crises that result; questions of citizenship and agency, and who has—and does not have—access to them; debates over what it (supposedly) means to be Mexican and who is—and who is not—allowed to claim that identity, as well as the sheer range of ways to be or see oneself as Mexican both within and outside of the nation; Chicanx identities; representations of indigeneity and the indigenous; mestizaje in Mexican culture and politics, and how the concept both includes and excludes; changing conceptions of gender and sexuality, including, in particular, refutations of ideas about malinchismo and different dimensions of the women's movement(s); countercultural and student movements and activism of the 1960s, culminating in the 1968 massacre at Tlatelolco; questions of power and political control, and the globalization of Mexican culture; and others.  We will, additionally, examine how revolutionary activism, resistance, and democratizing efforts have often been entwined in broader, transnational movements, including student movements, anti-establishment protests and counterculture, and the environmental movement.

We will examine the ways that content and structure/techniques work together in artistic texts to convey themes, and we will explore how texts respond to, criticize, and, often, seek to change their historical, cultural, social, and/or political contexts.

We will read and analyze fiction, films, testimonial works, essays, murals by Diego Rivera and others, and more.  Daily reading assignments, attendance, active participation, discussion board postings, and frequent study questions are required, as well as other assignments (papers, midterm exam, etc.).  The course will be conducted in Spanish.

We will also focus on strengthening writing skills, including thesis development and follow-through, analysis, and organization, among others.
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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 481 (29783)

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   #29785    9:35A-10:50A      MW      WH 104       Prof. Patrick Dove

Description for HISP-S 481:
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.