-Dr. Susan Larson
-T 3:30 pm to 6:20 pm, CMLL 105

An introduction to the global world of classic films produced in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. 

ADDITIONAL DESCRIPTION:  Latin America is one of the most highly urbanized regions of the world. Its oldest cities were built by European colonizers on the ruins of even older, highly developed empires and in the twenty-first century, Latinos in the United States are revitalizing and redefining key aspects of urban life. This course explores how Spanish and Portuguese language films envision cities as complex spaces of economic and political centralization, civic action and identity. This course fulfills TTU’s Language, Philosophy & Culture and Multicultural requirements.

-Dr. Antonio Ladeira
-Online, Asynchronous

Introduction and development of the four language skills in Portuguese: Listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. It includes an overview of the cultures of Portuguese-speaking countries such as Brazil, Portugal, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Angola and Mozambique.

Access to clean drinking water affects every region across the globe.  This course is an introduction to water studies with a special focus on Hispanic literature and Spanish-speaking cultures.  Projects include a study of water through linguistic and cultural landscapes based on water issues.  Requirements include collaborating with an international team and designing a water pedagogy for elementary age students.   

Fulfills core Language, Philosophy and Culture requirement. Fulfills Multicultural requirement.

This course offers an introductory survey of the cultural history of the Spanish-speaking world, from the colonial period to the contemporary era. Interdisciplinary in methods and scope, this course incorporates Latin American and Iberian cultural studies as well as literary and cultural theory to approach some of the key socioeconomic processes that have shaped the past and present of Spanish-speaking societies. We will make use of primary and secondary sources to navigate the region’s history, with an emphasis on periods of social transformation. Similarly, we will pay close attention to the specificity of different literary and artistic forms, including prose fiction, film, painting, architecture, and music. Throughout the course, you will develop analytical skills and broaden your working knowledge of Hispanic cultures and societies. This course prepares students for upper-level courses in Latin American, Hispanic, and Iberian literary and cultural studies.

-Dr. Ana Hernandez
-MWF 9:00 am to 9:50 am, CMLL 0001

The main purpose of this course is to provide the context and opportunities to improve your grammar through the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This course provides an intensive review of the fundamentals of Spanish grammar (with an emphasis on verb tenses and moods.) It is designed to help students perfect their knowledge and usage of the Spanish language. The content and pace of this course are based on the assumption that you have formally and successfully studied Spanish grammar in the recent past. In addition, new grammar content will be presented. The course is primarily conducted in Spanish. After completing this course, students will achieve an intermediate-high proficiency level.

-Dr. Ana Hernandez
-Online, Asynchronous

This asynchronous course will be conducted primarily in Spanish. It is 100% online. The course content is divided by week.

The main purpose of this course is to provide the context and opportunities to improve Spanish grammar through the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This course provides an intensive review of the fundamentals of Spanish grammar (with an emphasis on verb tenses and moods.) Additionally, it presents new grammar concepts to help students perfect their knowledge and usage of the language. The content and pace of this course are based on the assumption that students have formally and successfully studied Spanish grammar in the recent past. After completing this course, students will achieve an intermediate-high proficiency level.

This fully online, asynchronous class will give you an introduction to the diversity of Latin American cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective. Through the overarching theme of “Power, Community, and Justice,” we will think together about the foods, activities, and practices that create spaces of community belonging. We will examine questions of race, gender, and power through an analysis of Latin American and U.S. Latinx sports, music, arts, food, and history. We will study these themes through a variety of media including film, poetry, photography, podcasts, music, and recipes.

The main goal of this course is to provide a first approach to the Hispanic literature in three key genres: narrative, poetry and drama. The course will present a varied sample of works by Spanish and Spanish American authors. The selected texts will be discussed following the fundamental concepts of literary analysis presented at the beginning of each genre. Reading and discussions will be complemented with compositions, oral presentations, exams, homework, and other varied exercises. Active participation will be a crucial component of the evaluation.

This course delivers an overview of the culture, history, and language of Spain with an emphasis on Andalucía (the autonomous community of which Sevilla is the capital). The course aims to provide students with grammatical and lexical knowledge as well as cultural and pragmatic skills to use Spanish in everyday interactions across a variety of social contexts (service encounters, debates, informal conversations, etc.). Specifically, the course will cover Spanish history from Medieval to Contemporary Spain, Andalusian sociocultural and pragmatic norms, and local linguistic practices. In-class discussion will be conducted in Spanish. No previous knowledge of linguistics is needed. All are welcome.

A third-year course designed for different degrees of bilingual students in which oral and written communication skills are developed through the study of language and culture in bilingual contexts. This course includes a virtual linguistic and cultural exchange with Mexican, college students.

This course provides students an overview of the sound system of Spanish as well as the socio-phonetic variation that exists across the Spanish speaking world. The course will begin with an overview of the sound inventory and phonological organization of the Spanish language, with particular focus given to differences between Spanish and English. The course will examine the phonetics of bilingualism, with an emphasis on the phonetics of bilingual Spanish-English speakers. Then the course will focus on socio-phonetic variation that exists between dialects throughout Latin America, Spain, and the United States as well as socio-phonetic variation that exists between individual speakers due to social factors (i.e., gender, age, identity, etc.). Additionally, the course will examine how certain sounds acquire social evaluations (that is, how people socially perceive different sounds), which can lead to sound change. The course will provide hands-on activities using the open-sourced acoustic phonetics software program Praat to produce and visualize sounds, allowing students to analyze their own speech. Therefore, the course aims to provide students with the acoustic and articulatory knowledge of the sounds of Spanish, how sounds vary based on geographic and social factors, as well as the social associations of sound variation in the Spanish speaking world. No previous knowledge of linguistics is needed. All are welcome.

This course offers a survey of Mexican cultural history from the early days of the Mexican Revolution to the entry into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We will engage a wide range of media, including film, photography, music, literature, and architecture, to analyze the accelerated transformation of Mexican life and culture between 1910 and 1994. We will explore questions regarding national identity, mestizaje, indigenismo, urbanization, industrial development, and everyday life. Throughout the course, we will consider how artists, writers, and filmmakers engaged with the nation-building program of the Mexican state, and how they helped transform Mexico into an international hub for progressive politics in the mid-decades of the twentieth century. We will spend time charting the transformation of Mexico City into a global megalopolis and the ascendancy of the port city of Acapulco as an iconic resort destination. We will similarly consider the rise of counterculture, rock en español, and the changes in the experience of everyday life that marked the Mexican 1960s and 70s. Finally, we will examine how Mexican cultural production has registered the exhilarations and dissatisfactions generated by the advent of globalization and neoliberal capitalism. Taught in Spanish. Readings in Spanish and/or English. All assignment submissions in Spanish.

What do an indigenous colonial translator, a ghost, a goddess, and a soldier all have in common? They are archetypal female figures that operate as foundational symbols of national identity in Mexico, and that migrate beyond Mexico as icons of Chicana empowerment or cultural identity. In this course, we will study the colonial legacies and paradigms of womanhood constructed and challenged through 20^th and 21^st century adaptations of La Malinche, the Virgin of Guadalupe, La Llorona, Sor Juana, and La Adelita in Mexican and Chicana/o literature and popular culture. By examining key Mexican images and writings on these figures alongside Chicana/o texts, we will trace the movement of these iconic female figures from Mexico into the United States, and from elite to popular culture. We will ask: How do these icons establish cultural constructs of national identity and norms of good and bad motherhood and femininity, and how do they transgress those norms? What are the contemporary ways in which these mythic Mexican figures find renewed relevance in the United States? Taught in English.

This class examines the Guatemalan Maya K’iche’ immigrant and refugee community in the Texas High Plains region. Many of these residents were impacted by the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996), a conflict marked by genocide against Indigenous peoples. While building new lives in Texas, this community navigates the challenges of maintaining their cultural traditions and language while adapting to a new societal demands. Today, their contributions are vital to the region's agricultural economy, where they form an essential part of the workforce. We will study the historical events that led to their displacement and/or immigration, their cultural heritage, and their ongoing experiences in establishing communities in the Texas High Plains.

This course is designed to enhance oral and written communication in Spanish in the medical field in order for students to have greater interaction among medical service providers and their clientele. It will also make reference to health-related issues facing Hispanic communication.  The purpose of this course is to enhance the knowledge of Spanish of those who work in the medical/healthcare fields or intend to do so. It will provide the students with skills to better communicate with the ever-growing Spanish-speaking community of the United States in situations commonly encountered by medical professionals in the different areas of healthcare

How has cultural production animated the Latin American revolutionary imagination? How have art, literature, and film accompanied radical processes of social transformation and helped expand the horizons of utopianism in Latin America? How does art help us conceive, model, and build something different than what already exists? Focusing on three key moments of revolutionary transformation (the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the Cuban Revolution of 1959, and the truncated project of the Chilean Road to Socialism of 1970-3), this upper-level course will examine the close relationship between art and revolution in twentieth-century Latin America. We will explore the aesthetic ideas and social processes that continually challenged and transformed notions of revolution and internationalism in the so-called Third World. Movements include Mexican estridentismo, muralism, proletarian literature, Third Cinema, New Song Movement, and testimonio, among others. Taught in Spanish. Readings in Spanish and/or English. All assignment submissions in Spanish.

This course focuses on representations of indigenous people around the world in film and television series from the past two decades. We will learn about the histories of survival of indigenous communities in the United States, Bolivia, Guatemala, Colombia, Australia, Canada, and Sweden. While Hollywood films have often reduced native people to stereotypes, we will study how cinema can showcase the cultural legacies and resilience of indigenous communities. We will learn to appreciate the mechanics and artistic strategies of the films by utilizing introductory film analysis skills, examining details such as mise-en-scene, cinematography, narration, sound, lighting, and editing. 

Social Change in the Hispanic World through Film, Literature, Art and Music 

This class examines culture and social change in Spanish, Latin American, Latinx, and U.S.-Mexico Border cultures through different cultural expressions such as language, text, image and music. 

Hispanic Culture and Society-History of Andalusian Rock

By the end of the Francoist dictatorship, a seismic shift occurred in Spanish music and popular culture, catalyzed by the emergence of long-haired musicians. This course delves into the phenomenon of rock andaluz, which blossomed in the early 1970s through the harmonious fusion of progressive rock from Great Britain and the United States with the rhythms of flamenco, reshaping the musical landscape of Spain indelibly. Throughout this journey, we will uncover the genre's intricate tapestry, spanning its inception, the trailblazing pioneers such as Triana, Alameda, Mezquita and Medina Azahara, and the subsequent wave of visionary Andalusian rock artists who carried the torch forward.

How the Spanish Language Works

This course introduces students to the core areas of Spanish linguistics: the sounds of Spanish and their mental representations (phonetics and phonology), the processes of word formation and classification (morphology), the grouping of words to form phrases and sentences (syntax), the meaning of words and phrases (semantics), and their use in context (pragmatics). We trace the historical evolution of Spanish from Latin, survey the different varieties of Spanish in the world (including Spanish in the United States), and explore the processes that go into acquiring a language. This is an essential course for all students interested in the Spanish language.

Spanish Language Studies-Special Topics- Exploring Seville through Spanish Literature

MWF 10:00 am - 10:50 am, CMLL 118
Dr. Katherine Ward

The Sounds of Spanish

This introductory course in Spanish phonetics and phonology explores the sound system of the Spanish language, with a focus on regional and sociolinguistic variation of pronunciation in the Spanish-speaking world. It outlines the classification and description of the principal sounds of the language, including segmental features (e.g., vowels and various types of consonants) and suprasegmental features (e.g., syllables, intonation, and rhythm). We carry out basic acoustic analyses using PRAAT software to visualize common sounds in Spanish and analyze our own speech. The course contextualizes subtle characteristics of "accent" within larger implications of pronunciation in language teaching/learning, bilingualism, and social contexts.

Spanish Language Studies-Special Topics: Spanish for Health Professionals - Medical Spanish

Hispanic Literature-Special Topics: Water, Agua, and the Environmental Humanities

Access to clean drinking water affects every region across the globe. This course is an introduction to water studies. Projects include a collaboration with a dual language school in Lubbock and the designing of a water pedagogy that focuses on conservation and ecology for elementary age students. Primary texts include a film shot in Bolivia, as well as literature from Spain, Argentina, Mexico, the American Southwest, and poetry written by Mexican American women poets.