This class will study recent Latin American films in their portrayal of bodily identities and practices that carry political weight.  Students will interrogate these films' attention to issues of race, gender, and sexuality, as well as their portrayal of people's interaction with the spaces they inhabit.  Most of the films will come from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Peru, but will be studied within the broader regional film landscape.

Offered as ITL 299, POR 299, FRN 299 and SPN 299. The course explores the issues in world language instruction and research that are essential to the teaching of Romance languages. Special focus will be on understanding local, national and international multilingual communities as well as theories, methods, bilingualism, and heritage language studies. Topics include the history of Romance languages, how to teach grammar/vocabulary, the role of instructors, and feedback techniques.

This course examines Spanish colonialism and its aftermath in Morocco and Equatorial Guinea. Topics
include the development of Spanish imperialism, the Rif War of resistance (1919-26), the Civil War (1936-39), African immigration, the rise of Spanish right-wing populism, and the so-called “War on Terror” in Spain and in the rest of Europe.

This course challenges the dominant presentism by exploring understandings of race and racism in the
context of premodern Iberia (present-day Spain and Portugal). Themes include intellectual and physical
encounters between medieval kingdoms from West Africa and Europe, the construction of sameness and otherness in Iberia, and the intersection of race, class, and indigeneity in the Middle Ages.

In March of 2012, an initiative known as Women at Arts was launched in Buenos Aires. With a name based on the well-known phrase “men at arms,” it aims to use artistic innovation to initiate a debate over issues too often subject to an unbalanced approach. Mujeres de Artes Tomar dramatizes ideas related to gender, focuses on women as creators and explores art as an instrument of social transformation. The course will move thematically. Dramatic, musical, visual and poetic texts will be staged, each with a distinct focus and drawn from various disciplines.

A quest for the self and its relation to otherness through a one-poem per class approach. Readings in modern and contemporary works by poets from both sides of the ocean, complemented by the study of related music and visual art. We examine the consequences of political exile as a journey to the unknown (Jiménez, Cernuda, Cortázar, Neruda, Alberti) as well as the voluntary exile of the artist in search of a new aesthetic identity (Darío, Lorca, Vallejo).

This class investigates questions of contact between people in contemporary Latin American texts and films. Students will analyze how experiences of travel and migration appear in Latin American culture, configuring identities and negotiating conflicts raised by the transit of people, objects and ideas in the region. Assignments include texts written since the late 20th century, and films from several countries, representing internal and transnational journeys. Some theoretical writings on the cultural means of travel are also included. Meets the Writing Requirement for the SPN major.

This course explores the realities and representation of women’s domestic labor from the thematic perspectives of precariousness (a condition and expression of subjectivity under globalization) and intimacy (understood as both an experience of affect and a condition of labor).

This is a high-intermediate course that aims at increasing students’ ability to communicate comfortably in Spanish (orally and in writing). The course explores an array of issues relevant to the Spanish-speaking world, and prepares students to think more critically and in depth about those issues, with the goal of achieving a deeper understanding of the target cultures. Materials used in the class include visual narratives (film), short stories, poems, plays and essays. Prerequisite: SPN 200 or Spanish Placement Exam (https://www.smith.edu/aboutsmith/ registrar/placement-exams).

This is a high-intermediate course that aims at increasing students’ ability to communicate comfortably in Spanish (orally and in writing). The course explores an array of issues relevant to the Spanish-speaking world, and prepares students to think more critically and in depth about those issues, with the goal of achieving a deeper understanding of the target cultures. Materials used in the class include visual narratives (film), short stories, poems, plays and essays. Prerequisite: SPN 200 or Spanish Placement Exam (https://www.smith.edu/aboutsmith/ registrar/placement-exams).