Spanish 215: Special Topics - El español como lengua heredada en los Estados Unidos: Teoría y praxis
Cecilia Colombi, Professor (W 4:10-7:00, 263 Olson) CRN 63405
Descripción del curso: Seminario: debates, presentaciones individuales y grupales.
Objetivo: Este curso examina aspectos sociolingüísticos y pedagógicos del desarrollo del español en los Estados Unidos como lengua heredada desde la perspectiva de la investigación y la enseñanza. El curso se conducirá principalmente en español a través de presentaciones individuales, videos y actividades grupales y debates. La evaluación será continua y se basará en la asistencia, participación y los trabajos presentados.
Contenido:
- ASL (Adquisición de una segunda lengua) y DLH (desarrollo de una lengua heredada: teoría y praxis. Lingüística educacional
- Perspectivas socio-históricas del español en los Estados Unidos: ideologías, políticas educacionales y actitudes lingüísticas con respecto al uso del español en espacios públicos y privados
- Cambio de código, extensiones semánticas, prestámos.
- Variedades del español en los EE. UU.
- El español del Suroeste.
- El español chicano/mexicano-americano.
- El españo de los centroamericanos.
- El español neoyorquino/puertorriqueño en los Estados Unidos.
- El español cubano-americano.
- Desarrollo del español académico y profesional en los Estados Unidos
- Teoría de género/ registro
- Gramática sistémico- funcional
- Integración/conexión entre las comunidades hispanohablantes y la comunidad académica.
Seminario - 3 horas; Term Paper.
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing OR Consent of Instructor
Textbooks:
- Glenn A. Martinez, Mexican American and Language: Del Dicho al Hecho (The Mexican-American Experience) (U of Arizona, 2006)
- Ana Roca and Cecilia Colombi, Mi Lengua: Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States, Research and Practice (Hopkins, 2003)
- Artículos en SmartSite
Spanish 252: Medieval Spanish Literature - The Origins of Castilian Prose Literature
Sam Armistead, Professor (T 7:10-10:00, 712B Sproul) CRN 63406
This seminar course will trace the origins of the Castilian prose literature. Particularly important is the character of the oral traditions as a dynamic, ongoing process of literature creativity. For more information, please contact Prof. Armistead at koolson@ucdavis.edu.
Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper.
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing OR Consent of Instructor
Textbooks:
- Don Juan Manuel, El Conde Lucanor. Edited by Jose Manuel Blecua (Castalia, 2003)
- Alfonso Martinez de Toledo, Arcipreste de Talavera: Corbacho. Edited by J. Gonzalez (Castalia, 2003)
- Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina. Edited by Dorothy Severin (Alianza, 1998)
- Abdala Benalmocaffa, Calila y Dimna (Alianza, 2007)
Spanish 274: The Literary World of Jorge Luis Borges
Leopoldo Bernucci, Professor (Section 1, R 4:10-7:00, 144 Olson) CRN 60858
This seminar course will study the select works of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. For more information, please contact the instructor directly at lmbernucci@ucdavis.edu.
Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper.
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing OR Consent of Instructor
Textbooks:
- Jorge Borges, Obras Completas - Volume I (Buenos Aires: Emcee, 1989)
- A Course Reader
Spanish 274: Studies of a Major Writer - Sor Juana Ine's de la Cruz
Linda Egan, Associate Professor (Section 2, T 4:10-7:00, 144 Olson) CRN 60859
In this monographic seminar we will read as much of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz as time permits, sampling a generous portion of her poetry and drama and analyzing as well her few prose works (a series of letters). This Mexican nun produced her works at the height of the Barroco de Indias, in a Mexico just beginning to seek an independent national identity in the idealized Aztec past and becoming increasingly outspoken as criollos seeking political independence. Still deep in the militant religiosity of the Counter Reformation, Sor Juana’s New Spain roiled with contradictory tendencies in science, philosophy, theology, socioeconomic and political conditions, and in artistic expression. Sor Juana herself exemplifies at once the exaggerated floridness of the baroque and the cheerful, “paganized” simplicity of the carnivalesque, and a thematics at once secular and sacred. Her metaphysical thought rivals the complexity of John Donne’s; her baroque inventiveness surpasses that of Góngora and gleefully competes with Quevedo’s.
She undoubtedly represents colonial Mexico’s literary best and is arguably its most prestigious aesthetic figure as well of the nineteenth century and first part of the twentieth. She exercises a considerable influence on such contemporary giants as Rosario Castellanos and Carlos Fuentes. She has become a literary icon throughout Spanish America and among Spanish speakers of the United States. We will enrich our rigorously textual analyses with readings on the historical context in which Sor Juana worked, while being guided by notable critical and theoretical studies on this seminal figure in Hispanic letters, with special consideration of recent documentary findings.
Seminar - 3 hours; Term Paper.
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing OR Consent of Instructor
Textbooks:
- Sor Juana, Obras Completas - Volume I - IV (Fondo de Cultura Econo'mica)
- Sor Juana, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz o las trampas de la fe (Fondo de Cultura Econo'mica, 1995)
- A Course Reader
Spanish 291: Foreign Language Learning in the Classroom
Bruce Anderson, Assistant Professor of French (R 1:00-4:00, 144 Olson) CRN 63797
This course will provide an overview of approaches to university-level foreign language instruction in the United States and the theoretical notions underlying current trends in classroom practices across commonly taught foreign languages. Course objectives are the following: (1) to acquaint students with issues and research in foreign language teaching; (2) to show ways of using that research to achieve more effective classroom instruction; (3) to develop students’ skills in evaluating teaching performance and instructional materials; and (4) to prepare students for continued professional development, including the use of technology in the classroom. Class meetings will be devoted to lectures by the course instructor and invited guest speakers, student-led discussion, and short presentations and/or demonstrations by students and the instructor. Students will use professional journals to explore topics of interest; prepare their own classroom materials; evaluate the instructional materials developed by others; and complete a final exam. This course is cross-listed with German 291 and French 291. For more information, contact Prof. Anderson at bcanderson@ucdavis.edu.
Seminar - 3 hours.
Textbook:
A Course Reader on SmartSite