MA-thesis in Spanish (SPÆ441L)

MA-thesis in Spanish.

Individual Project (SPÆ709F)

Individual project.

Seminar C: Lexicographia (SPÆ714F)

Seminar C. Lexicografía

Objetivo

En este seminario se pretende ofrecer una introducción a la lexicografía teórica (metalexicografía) como base para estudiar, valorar y usar los diccionarios del español tanto en formato impreso como electrónico. También se presenta el diccionario como herramienta pedagógica.

Languages and Culture I (MOM301F)

This course concerns the diverse connections between culture and language, as seen from the perspective of cultural history, social sciences and linguistics. Ancient and modern world languages will be introduced and their origins, influence and effects investigated. Written and spoken language will be discussed: what sorts of things are written, why and how? Rules and alternate perspectives on the nature of langauge will be considered, raising the question of how we understand man with respect to thought and language.

Introduction to Spanish Linguistics (SPÆ102M)

The course offers a general introduction to Spanish Linguistics: Spanish phonetics and phonology, Spanish morphology and word formation, semantics, etc.

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En este curso se presentan los conceptos básicos de la lingüística general y se estudian los componentes de la estructura de la lengua española: el estudio de los sonidos (fonética/fonología), la organización interna de las palabras (morfología), las relaciones de las palabras en la oración (la sintaxis), el conjunto de palabras de que dispone el español (lexicología) y el significado de las palabras (semántica). Asimismo, se abordan los conceptos de variación lingüística y adquisición de la lengua materna y lengua extranjera.

Latin American Cinema (SPÆ303M, SPÆ101M)

Special Theme: Contemporaneity: Social Contexts in Recent Visual Texts

This course will offer an introduction to a range of films from Latin America while examining cinema as a format embedded in the visual culture of the continent. From a sociological standpoint and in light of various strands of influential theoretical models, this course will consider the centrality of movies and television programs as cultural expressions of contemporaneity. This course embraces forms other than feature films or short films, images from media other than scenes from a film, and audience response platforms other than academic articles or reviews from critics. The emphasis is placed on visual texts released in the last decade. The focal points are cross-border / global production and reception, digitization of cinema and recent approaches to cultural identity (identity branding migratory displacement, films as artefacts of contestation, new understanding of gender and ethnicity, memory, neoliberalism and markets, mediatized narcoculture, social inclusion, core-periphery relations, new video cultures and affect). The class will be mainly taught in English

Spanish Film Studies (SPÆ303M, SPÆ101M)

This course will explore the history of Spanish cinema in twentieth century Spain, with particular emphasis on the post-Franco period. (The Cine-Club Hispano will be operated during the semester).

MA-thesis in Spanish (SPÆ441L)

MA-thesis in Spanish.

MA-seminar B: Literature indigenista/indígena (SPÆ801F)

MA-seminar: literature

Languages and Culture II: The European Intellectual Tradition (MOM402M)

The European intellectual tradition is characterized by the strong links between academia and society. Many of the most important European thinkers of the 19th and 20th Centuries worked outside of the universities – and many of those who did pursue an ordinary academic career also were public commentators frequently intervening in political discussion of the day and in some cases gaining considerable influence. In this course we present a selection of European thinkers who have been important both as scholars and as public intellectuals. We read and discuss samples of their work and look at critical discussion of their ideas. We also reflect on the time and place of the "European" – to what extent their work is quinessentially Eurocentric and to what extent awareness of cultural contingency emerges.

History of the Spanish Language (SPÆ202M)

An overview of the history and developments of the Spanish language.

Translation (Spanish) (SPÆ401M)

This course will focus on the history of translation and methods available in the field of translation. Students will try their hand at the different methods of translation working with technical- periodical- as well as literary texts.

Literature and Culture of the Mexico-US Border Region (SPÆ402M, SPÆ501M)

A survey of literature and history of the Mexico-USA boarder regions. Works by Mexican and Mexico-American (Chicano) authors read.

Colonial Literature (SPÆ402M, SPÆ501M)

This course will explore literature from the colonial period, with particular emphasis on the role of the conquest gaze as a promoting factor in the image making for the new world. Geographic, literary, and ethnic issues will be examined.

Latin American Literature: The 20th Century Novel (SPÆ405M)

An introductory course in Latin American Literature. Literary works include poems, short stories and novels.

The Latin American Literature: Short stories (SPÆ412M)

An introductory course in Latin American Literature. Literary works include poems, short stories and novels.

Individual Project (SPÆ806F)

Individual project.

Adaptations (ENS217F)

This class will focus on film and television adaptations, with scripts derived from short stories, canonical works, popular and pulp fiction, as well as graphic novels and comics.

In this course we will focus on various literary works and corresponding adaptation theories relating to film adaptations and current television series. Key issues and concepts in this course  will be taught in relation to Modernism/Postmodernism and Origin/Intertextual play in Adaptation Theory and Cinema semiotics.

Course requirement:
Apart from the obligatory course text Adaptations and Appropriation by Julie Sanders, we will read significant articles on adaptation as well as selected short stories (provided by the tutor) that have undergone the transition process and been adapted to into films. Students are encouraged to participate in discussions in class.