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2012 Courses

Spanish

SPAN 2010: Intermediate Spanish [3]

Sarah Bogard, Instructor

Enrollment in SPAN 2020 is required in Spring 2012. Students must register for SPAN 2020 when registering for this J-Term course.

Prerequisite: Passing grade in SPAN 1020 or 1060; a score of 520-590 on the SAT II test; 326-409 on the UVa placement test; or permission of the department.

This course will meet for five hours each day for ten days. January 3-7 and January 9-13. The hours will be 9:00 - 12:00 each morning and 1:30 - 3:30 each afternoon. Student learning will be assessed through the following activities: participation, homework, exams, quizzes, compositions, oral exam, and a learning portfolio.

Further develops the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. SPAN 2010 enables students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., narrating present, past and future activities, and expressing hopes, desires, and requests). Students also read journalistic and literary selections designed for Spanish-speaking audiences.

SPAN 4600: Literature and Cinema (generic). Screening Macondo, Latin American Literature and the Art of Film Adaptation    

Daniel Chavez, Assistant Professor

The relationship between Latin American literature and cinema has been very prolific. However, the transposition of texts to the screen is not a simple exercise of turning words into images. What operations–technical, verbal, and visual–should be applied to the written page in order to make a successful film? How can the reader/spectator appreciate and criticize both texts, the visual and the verbal, without privileging one over the other? What can we learn about a short story, a play or a novel from its film adaptation and vice versa? Along with an introduction to the basic concepts and tools for the analysis of films in Spanish, this course answers the previous questions and presents a panoramic view of some of the main movements of Latin American film.