Our department offers a wide variety of courses in four languages—Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and English. They help you to discover and learn about rich cultural, literary, and linguistic traditions across the globe—from Latin America to the Iberian Peninsula, and from Africa and Southeast Asia to the United States.
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Our curriculum is designed to give you the freedom to explore cultural geographies, historical periods, and topics of interest. We offer broad courses on medieval and modern Iberia, on colonial and modern Latin America and Lusophone Africa, on contemporary Latino literature and culture, and on all areas of Spanish and Portuguese linguistics. These are complemented with more focused courses on the literary and cultural production of specific countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Spain, and the U.S.
We take a deep look at masterpieces of world literature such as Cervantes’ Don Quijote. We also offer courses on specific genres, topics, or media—studying poetry, theater, gender, memory, bilingualism, and Hispanic and Brazilian cinemas.
We offer courses on Spanish for Health and Business. Our Experiential Learning courses provide an exciting opportunity to earn credits bridging your academic work in Spanish and Portuguese with the broader Bloomington community.
Drawing on primary texts from the Middle Ages through the 17th Century, we will investigate these cultural icons and what they mean in contemporary times. Examples include the El Cid, Don Quixote, La Celestina, Saint Theresa, the pícaro (or antiheroic rogue), and Don Juan.
First, we will consider late medieval thinking about the past, and in the second part of the semester go on to examine the legacy of these ideas in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries
In this course we will look at how Spanish American cultural production responds to experiences of violence during the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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.
An introduction to Brazilian cinema and society, focusing on Brazil’s New Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as contemporary films, including City of God, Elite Squad, and Bacurau.
Learn Catalan! Barcelona has become a successful global city, a combination of vibrant economy and relaxed lifestyle. At the heart of this success lies the presence and vitality of the Catalan language.
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