Course Descriptions

German – language

We regret that we are unable to offer courses in German to the student body at-large during the 2011-2012 academic year due to budgetary issues.

DEUT 1005 N – Introductory German

(This course is taught in English)

An intensive study of the basic elements of German grammar; development of the four language skills (reading, listening-comprehension, writing and speaking).  The tutorial hour is an essential component for oral practice and pronunciation.  (lec 3, lab 1) cr 6

 

DEUT 2005 N – Intermediate German

(This course is taught in German)

A thorough review of the principles of grammar.  Intensive practice in conversation and composition.  Laboratory work concentrates on practice in pronunciation, grammar and listening-comprehension.

PREREQ: DEUT 1005 or equiv.  (lec 3, lab 1) cr 6

 

DEUT 3005 N – Advanced German

(This course is taught in German)

Intensive practice in the skills of reading, listening-comprehension, writing and speaking.  PREREQ: DEUT 2005 or equiv.  (lec 3) cr 6

 

German – culture

 

DEUT 2106 N – German Culture and Civilization from Charlemagne to 1848

(This course is taught in English only)

Examines the development of German literature and civilization from Charlemagne to 1848.  A study of selected literary and cultural texts, art and architecture.  Readings, discussions, reports and essays.  Students may not retain credit for DEUT 2805, 3106 and 2106.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

DEUT 2107 N – German Culture and Civilization from the Mid-19th Century to the Present

(This course is taught in English only)

Examines the development of German literature and civilization from the mid-19th century to the present.  A study of selected literary and cultural texts, art and architecture.  Readings, discussions, reports and essays.  Students may not retain credit for DEUT 2805, 3107 and 2107.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

DEUT 2116 N – The Age of Goethe and Schiller

(This course is taught in English only)

Examines the development of German literature from Sturm und Drang to Romanticism with an emphasis on the writings of Goethe and Schiller.  A study of selected literary texts and cultural texts.  Students may not retain credit for DEUT 4206, 3206, 4207, 3207 and 2116.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

 DEUT 2216 N – German Cinema

(This course is taught in English only)

An introduction to German cinematographic culture.  The course examines the relationship between culture and cinematic representation through the analysis of a variety of German films.  Directors studied may include Lang, Herzog, Fassbinder, von Trotta, Wenders.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

 

Italian – language

 

ITAL 1005 N – Introductory Italian

(This course is taught in English and French)

An intensive study of the basic elements of Italian grammar and development of the four language skills (reading, listening-comprehension, writing and speaking).  The tutorial hour is an essential component for oral practice and pronunciation.  (lec 3, tut 1) cr 6

 

ITAL 2005 N – Intermediate Italian

(This course is taught in Italian)

A thorough review of the principles of grammar with intensive practice in conversation and composition.  The tutorial hour concentrates on conversation and cultural issues.  Unless otherwise indicated, this course (or equiv.) is the prerequisite to all ITAL culture and literature courses. 

PREREQ: ITAL 1005 or equiv.  (lec 3, tut 1) cr 6

 

ITAL 3005 N – Advanced Italian

(This course is taught in Italian)

Provides intensive practice in the skills of reading, listening-comprehension, writing and speaking.  Extensive discussions focusing on cultural issues and literary writings.  PREREQ: ITAL  2005 or equiv.  (lec 3) cr 6

 

ITAL 4006 N – Intensive Oral Practice

(This course is taught in Italian)

Provides students with advanced oral skills through the intensive examination and performance of expressive strategies. 

PREREQ: ITAL 3005.  Students may not retain credit for both ITAL 4006 and 3905.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 4007 N – Advanced Composition

(This course is taught in Italian)

A study of prose-writing strategies with a focus on the problems relating to syntactic structures, lexical choice and stylistic registers as they arise from individual compositions and from selected reading passages.

PREREQ: TAL 3005.  Students may not retain credit for both ITAL 4007 and 3905.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 4016 N – Modern Italian Linguistics

(This course is taught in Italian)

A focus on a synchronic analysis of contemporary Italian and its dialects.  Special attention is given to questions of phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon. 

PREREQ: ITAL 3005 or instructor’s permission.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 4017 N – History of the Italian Language

(This course is taught in Italian)

An intensive study of the evolution of Italian language in its various stages of development.  Students may not retain credit for both ITAL 4017 and 3017. 

PREREQ: ITAL 3005 or instructor’s permission.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

Italian – culture & literature

 

ITAL 2216 N – Italian Cinema

(This course is taught in English only)

An introduction to Italian cinematographic culture.  Explores the major periods of Italian film history.  Directors studied may include Rossellini, Fellini, De Sica, Pasolini, Amelio, Benigni, Traviani, Tornatore, Wertmüller.  (lec 3) cr 3

  

ITAL 2407 N - Italian Music as Literary Text

(This course is taught in English only)

A focus on the Italian musical tradition, from the Renaissance to present day, as seen through the lyrics and the libretti of song and opera.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 2516 N - Evolution of Italian Culture in Canada

(This course is taught in English only)

Examines the evolution, patterns of immigration and settlement, acculturation and linguistic development of the Italian-speaking population of Canada.  Students may not retain credit for both ITAL 2506 and 2516.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 2526 N – Italian Images in North American Film and Television

(This course is taught in English only)

Examines how Canadian and American film and TV portray the figure of the Italian.  Films/programs to be considered may include La Sarracine, Café Montréal, Analyze This, The Sopranos.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 2616 N – Everyday Life in Contemporary Italy

(This course is taught in English only)

Examines cultural practices of contemporary Italy as made manifest in everyday life.  Attention may be given to Italian Social Institutions, sport, culinary habits and other practices including fashion and the production and consumption of cultural artifacts. 

(lec 3) cr 3


ITAL 2646 N – Eating Italian Culture

(This course is taught in English only)

This course explores significant moments of Italian cultural history through the perspective of its food culture.  With reference to a wide variety of sources, the course examines how culinary practices provide important insight into the major developments that characterize Italy’s cultural profile. (lec 3) cr 3
 

ITAL 3557 N – Italian-Canadian Literature

(This course is taught in Italian only)

Examines the novels, theatre and poetry of Italian-Canadian authors such as Ricci, Duliani, De Cicco, Di Michele, Paci or Edwards.  Students may not retain credit for both ITAL 2517 and 3557.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 3716 N – Italian Romanticism

(This course is taught in Italian only)

Examines the Italian Romantic movement.  Authors may include Foscolo, Leopardi, Manzoni or Aleramo.  Students may not retain credit for both ITAL 3716 and 2606. 

(lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 3747N – Reading Italy through its Scandals

The aim of this course is to present Italian culture through the dynamic of the scandals that in many ways anticipated and provoked the changes in the country’s cultural climate.  The course will study (through the analysis of literary works, journalist writings, films and television) the major scandals of postwar Italy that occurred in the spheres of politics, culture, soccer and other domains. (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 3806 N – Modern and Contemporary Italian Novel

(This course is taught in Italian only)

A study of Italian literature from the beginning of the 20th century to the present.  Authors may include Svevo, Moravia, Vittorini, Maraini, Ginzburg, Calvino or Eco.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 3807 N – History of Italian Theatre

(This course is taught in Italian only)

Examines the major theoretical and practical developments in Italian theatre from the Renaissance to the present day.  Authors my include Machiavelli, Della Valle, Alfieri, Goldoni or Pirandello.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 3827 N – Italian Literature and Film

(This course is taught in Italian only)

This course will focus on analyzing the process of adaptation of anumber of Italian novels and short stories from the XIX and XX century into film.  The study will concentrate not only on the transposition of plot and ideology from one genre to the other, but also on the translation of literary stylistic elements into cinematic discourse and techniques.  Some of the authors studied may include Verga, Tomasi di Lampedusa, and Pirandello and some of the directors studied may include Visconti, De Sica and Pastrone.  This course will be taught in Italian and all books read and films watched will be in Italian. (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 4105 N – Undergraduate Thesis

(This course is taught in Italian only)

A closely supervised research leading to the writing of a substantial final paper in Italian on a topic to be decided on an individual basis.  The topic may be literary, linguistic or historical-cultural.  (tut) cr 6

 

ITAL 4116 N – Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Medieval Tradition

(This course is taught in Italian only)

A study of the Divine Comedy with emphasis on its roots in the European literary and philosophical tradition, and on the critical problems of the medieval mind.  Selections from Dante’s minor works are also considered.  Students may not retain credit for both ITAL 4116 and 3106.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 4216 N – Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Invention of Humanism

(This course is taught in Italian only)

This course will examine the writings of Petrarch and Boccaccio within the context of the emergence of Renaissance Humanism and modernity. (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 4226 N – Italian Literary Culture in the Age of the Baroque and of the Enlightenment

(This course is taught in Italian only)

Examines the literary culture of 17th and 18th – century Italy.  Authors may include Marino and the Marinisti, Chiabrera and the classicists, Tesauro, the Arcadian poets, Metastasio, Vico.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 4247 N – The Idea of the Italian Renaissance

(This course is taught in Italian only)

This course examines Italian Renaissance writings with the objective of formulating an idea of the Italian Renaissance.  The topics may include philosophy, literature, art, architecture, science, religion, magic or linguistic issues.  The authors studied may include Guicciardini, Ficino, Castiglione, Stampa.  Students may not retain credit for both ITAL 3506, 3517 and 4247. (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 4256 N – The Italian Presence in the World

This course will examine the phenomenon of the Italian diaspora, that is, the fact that approximately twelve million people emigrated from Italy between circa 1850 and 1970.  After considering the reasons for this mass emigration, we will focus on the social, cultural and linguistic impact Italian immigrants and their descendants had on the countries to which they immigrated, in particular, Canada, the United States, Argentina, Bracil, and Australis. (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 4586 N – Special Topics in Italian Studies

(This course is taught in Italian only)

This course will focus on a particular theme or subject pertinent to the field of Italian Studies.  Possible topics could include: the figure of the intellectual in Italy; philosophical thought in Italy; and others dealing with the general field of Italian human sciences.  Students will be required to submit all written work in Italian.

PREREQ: ITAL 3005.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ITAL 4717 N – Issues in the Italian Lyric

(This course is taught in Italian only)

This course focuses on the treatment of a specific theme or topic in texts selected from the Italian poetic tradition.  Students may not retain credit for both ITAL 3717 and 4217. (lec 3) cr 3

 

 

Spanish – language

 

ESPA 1005 N – Introductory Spanish

(This course is taught in English)

An intensive study of the basic elements of Spanish grammar and development of the four language skills (reading, listening-comprehension, writing and speaking).  An introduction to Spanish and Latin American culture.  The language laboratory is an essential component for oral practice and pronunciation.  (lec 3, lab 1) cr 6

 

ESPA 2005 N – Intermediate Spanish

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

A thorough review of the principles of grammar with intensive practice in conversation and composition.  Laboratory work concentrates on practice in pronunciation, grammar and listening-comprehension.  Unless otherwise indicated, this course is the prerequisite for all ESPA courses taught in Spanish. 

PREREQ: ESPA 1005 or equiv.  (lec 3, lab 1) cr 6

 

ESPA 3005 N – Advanced Spanish

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

Provides intensive practice in reading, listening-comprehension, writing and speaking.  Includes extensive reading and discussion of literary and cultural texts.

PREREQ: ESPA 2005 or equiv. (lec 3) cr 6

 

ESPA 4006 N – Intensive Oral Practice

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

Develops advanced oral skills through the intensive examination and performance of expressive strategies. 

PREREQ: ESPA 3005.  Students may not retain credit for both ESPA 4006 and 3905.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 4007 N – Advanced Composition

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

A study of prose-writing strategies with a focus on the problems relating to syntactic structures, lexical choice and stylistic registers as they arise from individual compositions and from selected reading passages.

PREREQ: ESPA 3005.  Students may not retain credit for both ESPA 4007 and 3905.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 4016 N – Applied Spanish Linguistics

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

Deals with the application of linguistic theories to the study of Spanish texts and the Spanish language in general.

PREREQ: ESPA 3005 or instructor’s permission.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 4017 N – History of the Spanish Language

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

A study of the evolution of the Spanish language in its various stages of development.

PREREQ: ESPA 3005 or instructor’s permission.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 4055 N – The Hispanic World Online

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

Includes reading selected Spanish-language newspapers available online, focusing on specific national, regional and international topics that command media attention during the semester in which the course is given.  Students regularly present summaries of their readings to the class, as well as research and write an in-depth report that contextualizes a topic of current interest.  Emphasis is placed on advanced communication and writing skills in Spanish, as well as critical thought.

PREREQ: ESPA 3005.  (lec 3) cr 6

 

Hispanic – literature and culture

 

ESPA 2306 N – Aspects of Spanish American Culture and Civilization

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

A focus on selected aspects of Spanish American culture and civilization.  Topics may include salient historical themes such as the meeting of the European with the Meso-American and Andean civilizations, Spanish colonization, Independence, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions, as reflected in significant developments in literature, the arts and trends in popular culture.

PREREQ: ESPA 2005 or equiv. (may be taken concurrently). Students may not retain credit for both ESPA 2306 and 2305.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 2706 N – Aspects of Peninsular Culture and Civilization

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

A focus on selected aspects of culture and civilization in Spain.  Topics may include salient historical themes such as the Moorish occupation and the Reconquest, the demise of the Empire, the Spanish Civil War, as reflected in significant developments in literature, the arts and trends in popular culture.

PREREQ: ESPA 2005 or equiv. (may be taken concurrently).  Students may not retain credit for both ESPA 2706 and 2705.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

 

 

 

ESPA 3226 N – Film in Spain and Latin America

(This course is taught in English only)

A focus on selected films by significant directors in the history of Spanish-language cinema from the 1920s to the present, such as Luis Buñuel, Carlos Saura, Icíar Bollaín, Alejandro Amenábar, Raúl Ruiz, Adolfo Aristarain or others.  The movies are viewed on video, in Spanish with English subtitles.  Classes are in English.  Students with a concentration in Spanish submit course work in Spanish to fulfill degree requirements.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 3356 N – Contemporary Spanish Identity

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

The 20th century was a time of great turmoil, change and redefinition for Spain.  This course examines the Spanish search for a modern identity through selection of poetry, drama, short stories, essays and film.  Spain’s relationship with Europe, the Franco years, changes in traditional values and roles are some of the issues considered, among other, in literature and film. 

PREREQ: ESPA 2005 or equiv. (may be taken concurrently).  Students may not also retain credit for 3255 and 2356.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 3456 N – The Short Story in Spain and/or Spanish America

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

Selected short stories by Spanish and/or Spanish American writers will be studied in various contexts.  The focus may be on particular periods, countries or themes.  Students will be introduced to critical theory and encouraged to apply it in their analyses of literary texts. 

PREREQ: ESPA 2005 or equiv. (lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 3506 N – Evolution of Hispanic Culture in North America

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

Examines the evolution, patterns of immigration and settlement, acculturation and linguistic developments of the Spanish-speaking population in the United States and Canada. 

PREREQ: ESPA 2005 or equiv. (may be taken concurrently).  Students may not also retain credit for ESPA 2505 or 2506.  (lec 3) cr 3

ESPA 3507 N – Hispanic Imagination in North America

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

A survey of the literature, drama and other creative works of art being produced by Hispanics in the United States and Canada. 

PREREQ: ESPA 2005 or equiv. (may be taken concurrently).  Students may not also retain credit for ESPA 2505 or 2507.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 3516 N – Women in the Hispanic World

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

A study of woman as cultural protagonist in Spain and Latin America, this course considers women in literature both as character and author, in film both as actor and director, and in art both as subject and artist.  Outstanding figures such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (poet and thinker), Emilia Pardo Bazán (novelist and critic), Frida Kahlo (painter), and María Luisa Bemberg (filmmaker), among others, are studied. 

PREREQ: ESPA 2005 or equiv. (may be taken concurrently).  Students may not also retain credit for ESPA 3505 or 2516.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 4105 N – Undergraduate Thesis

(This course is taught in Spanish only)
A closely supervised research leading to the writing of a substantial final paper in Spanish on a topic to be decided on an individual basis.  The topic may deal with literature, linguistics or cultural history.  cr 6

 

ESPA 4116 N – Love and Death in Medieval Spain

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

Love (patriotic, sexual, divine) and Death (violent, glorious, fated) are the two quintessential themes which spring from the historical and cultural context of the Spanish Middle Ages.  Works considered include “Canta de Mio Cid,” “Libro de Buen Amor,” and “Danza de la Muerte” among others.

PREREQ: ESPA 3005.  Students may not also retain credit for ESPA 3105 or 3106.

(lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 4126 N – The City as Palimpsest in Latin America and/or Spain

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

 

Great cities such as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Mexico City or Sevilla can be “read” as living, multi-layered (con)texts which have been written over again and again across the dimensions of time and cultural diversity.  Focusing on a given major city, this course reads its urban palimpsest – its successive yet coexisting cultural accumulations – through its literature, architecture, music, visual arts and film.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

ESPA 4136 N – The 20th – Century Spanish American Novel

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

This course will focus on selected novelists whose work has informed the development of literature and culture in both Spanish America and abroad in the course of the past century.  Representative works of such novelistic genres as the telluric novel, the urban novel, the nativist novel, the nueva novella of the Boom or the various post-Boom tendencies will be studied. 

PREREQ: ESPA 3005 or equiv. (lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 4156 N – Cervantes’ Don Quijote: From the Renaissance to a Modern Vision

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

A study of Cervantes’ master work El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quinjote de la Mancha with emphasis on its roots in the European literary and philosophical traditions of the Renaissance and Humanism and its universality.  Students may not retain credit for both ESPA 4156 and 3155.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 4157 N – Don Juan: The Original “Latin Lover”

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

A study of the myth of Don Juan through the ages from Tirso’s “Burlador de Sevilla” to Zorilla’s “Don Juan Tenorio” among others, this course examines representations of the various incarnations of this archetypal figure in Spanish thought and culture.  Students may not retain credit for both ESPA 3155 and 4157.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 4426 N – The Romance of Nation Building: Foundational Fictions in 19th-Century Spanish America

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

A focus on major novels and other Romantic texts that were instrumental in forging national identities in the newly formed nation-states of post-Independence Spanish America.  Readings may include works by Andrés Bello, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, José Marti, Domingo F. Sarmiento or others.

PREREQ: ESPA 3005.  Students may not retain credit for both ESPA 3426 and 4426.  (lec 3) cr 3

 

ESPA 4586 N – Special Topics in Hispanic Studies

(This course is taught in Spanish only)

This course will focus on a particular theme or subject pertinent to the field of Hispanic studies, such as one of the following: the figure of the intellectual in the Hispanic world, philosophical thought in Spain and/or Latin America, the reception of postmodernist discourse in Spain and/or Latin America, post-colonial studies in the Hispanic context, nativist discourse in Latin America, the historical avant-garde in Spain and Latin America, or others.  In cases where a Special Topics course doubles as a graduate course in the Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. program, undergraduate students with a concentration in Hispanic Studies will be required to submit all written work in Spanish.

PREREQ: ESPA 3005 or equiv. (lec 3) cr 3

 

 


 
 
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