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SPANISH (L38)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2017
L38 Span 405WMajor Seminar3.0 Units
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77M-W----1:00P-2:30PCupples II / 230 PalafoxMay 10 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM1280
Desc:THE MANY FACETS OF LOVE: FROM THE JARCHAS TO THE DESTAPE. In this course we will study the different metaphors, ideas and social attitudes about love that have appeared in the Iberian Peninsula from the eighth to the twenty-first centuries in various cultural artifacts. We will start with the poetic traditions brought by the Arabs, which were a mix of learned and popular culture, and Ibn Hazm's EL COLLAR DE LA PALOMA, an eleventh century Moorish love treatise, and will end with the movies, literature and TV programs produced after 1975, the year Spain entered into its last democratic period, after 36 years of Franco's dictatorship. We will learn about matchmakers, courtly love, romantic love, love sickness and its cure, heterosexual and same sex relationships, and the ways in which these issues have been viewed and treated in poetic, social and legal terms during the past thirteen hundred years, since the Muslims arrived in Spain (711 A.C.) to the present time.This is a writing-intensive course, which requires a minimum of 3 papers of approx. 4-5pp. length, with rewrites; 50% of the grade must come from written work. In Spanish.
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92M-W----10:00A-11:30AEads / 203 AcreeMay 8 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM12170
Desc:FROM GAUCHOS TO GOLES: POPULAR CULTURE AND POWER IN ARGENTINA (AND URUGUAY). Considered first as nomadic plainsmen, gauchos or the cowboys of the Río de la Plata became celebrated insurgent fighters during the independence wars of the 1800s and then integral members of political factions. Only after the modernization of the countryside in the late nineteenth century that radically altered cultural practices did gauchos become national icons and their stories fodder for tales like Martín Fierro and Juan Moreira. Similarly, the first goles scored in the region's soccer matches did not garner much attention. Yet early in the twentieth century fútbol began attracting more players and spectators. The popularity of the game skyrocketed, and with it grew the intertwining of the sport with political power. This course explores the trajectories of gauchos, goles, and a range of cultural practices in between, such as , to understand the intimate connections between popular culture and power. We will consider popular poetry and narratives; stories of melodrama and Peronism; social identity and forms of popular culture; films and plays that engaged life under dictatorship and its memory; and the relationship of fútbol to nation, gender, and political power. This is a writing intensive course, which requires a minimum of 3 papers of approx. 4-5 pp. length, with rewrites; 50% of the grade must come from written work. In Spanish.
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