In this course students will think critically about the various "wild tongues" that have defined U.S. Latinx literature and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Our analysis will center on issues of power as they are experienced by diverse U.S. Latinx populations. Specifically, we will focus on Latinx writers, performers, and scholars that push the boundaries of acceptable gender, sexuality, and racialization within U.S. Latinx cultures, focusing specifically on Caribbean and Chicanx populations in the United States.

Discussion, guided conversation in Spanish on specific topics. Emphasis on further development of listening and speaking skills.

In recent years, there has been an anxiety in Catalonia and the Spanish state over becoming a modern European nation. Playwriting has responded by dealing with topics such drug use, sexualities, youth culture, and social problems. This course examines the social, historical and cultural transformation Spain and Catalonia have undergone by studying plays of the last twenty-five years. We will read plays by Lluisa Cunille, Juan Mayorga, Paloma Pedrero and Sergi Belbel among others. Readings will be supplemented with adaptations of the plays in theatre, film, and television.

Curso/Taller/Laboratorio de escritura creativa en espanol. Dirigido a estudiantes con dominio del idioma, pasion literaria, e interes en desarrollar su propia escritura y capacidades creativas. Es un lugar de encuentro donde se practica la constante ejercitacion con las palabras mediante la escritura y la reescritura, entendiendo la creacion como un camino de conocimiento estetico y a la vez de autoconocimiento y autodeterminacion.

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The purpose of this course is to help students reconsider their experience abroad, in an internship or in community service learning, understanding this experience to include their preparation, travel, return and future possibilities. We will consider the relationship between these experiences and students daily lives. We will explore the ways in which people with different training and life histories have approached issues of intercultural and international exchanges while considering the possibilities and constraints of learning across boundaries.

The purpose of this class is to introduce you to opportunities in study abroad, service learning and internships in the Spanish-speaking world. By the time you finish this course you should be able to think critically about these opportunities and to make an informed decision about the type of program you would like to join as part of your Spanish Integrative Experience. This course, plus a linguistic and cultural immersion experience and Spanish 494RI taken after the experience, satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Span majors.

Second of a sequence of four courses providing students with skills necessary to communicate in Spanish on a variety of general-interest topics.