Graduate Courses, Spring 2002

LIN 5772
Computational Linguistics
Wyatt, TR 2:00-3:15

Description: Programming the computer for research involving human language in such areas as theoretical and applied linguistics, literary analysis, and content analysis.

Text: Language, Linguistic, and Literary Programming with SNOBOL/SPITBOL (for sale at Target Copy)

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SPN 5060
Graduate Reading Knowledge in Spanish
Rehder, MW 3:35 - 4:50

Description: Preparation for GRK exam (SPN 5069). Designed to present structures of the Spanish language and vocabulary to assist graduate students majoring in other disciplines to read journals, books, and monographs written in Spanish useful to the students' research.  May be repeated to a maximum of nine (9) hours.

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SPN 5845
History of the Spanish Language
Dangler, MW 2:30 - 3:20

This course offers students a broad overview of the sociohistoric and linguistic factors related to the history of the Spanish language.  The course is divided into eight parts:
1. what is at stake in language change?  Language, identity, and nations;
2. phonology and phonetics;
3. historical phonology;
4. historical morphosyntax;
5. lexicon and semantics;
6. the Spanish of America;
7. comparative romance linguistics;
8. linguistic thought then and now.

Texts: Ralph Penny, Gramática histórica del español; Harris and Taylor, Landmarks in Linguistic Thought I; John M. Lipski, El español de América; David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (optional).  Secondary readings include those by Paul Lloyd, Antonio de Nebrija, Ralph Penny, Alfonso de la Torre, Roger Wright.

Evaluation: five quizzes; oral presentations; a final group project comparing Spanish to another Romance language.

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SPW 6934-1
Mapping Colonial Spanish America 
Arias, W 3:35 - 6:05

This course will center on the experience, culture and identity of Spanish explorers, Amerindians, Mestizos and Criollos from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.  We will read primary sources that offered the spatial and cultural configuration and construction of colonial Spanish America and its inhabitants as they relate to issues of alterity, identity, geographical representation, gender, and the construction of the colonial city.  

We will take on the social and philosophical questions raised by the so called “encounter” and exploration, the indigenous, Spanish and Creole vision of the conquest, and the religious and secular cultural interventions in the development of an autonomous Latin American identity. Class discussions will focus on the reading and critical assessment of the primary texts with a special cluster devoted to Spanish Florida that will culminate with a visit to the first Spanish city of the New World, San Agustín. A secondary objective of the course is to provide students with a theoretical framework and historical context that will help address new and meaningful problems of the literary corpus of the colonial period.

Primary Sources: Cristóbal Colón, Diarios del primer y tercer viaje; Bartolomé de las Casas, Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias; Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Tratado de las justas causas de la guerra; Catalina de Erauso, La historia de la monja alférez; Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Naufragios; Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, La Florida del Inca; Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, Memorias; Film: Nicolas Echevarría’s Cabeza de Vaca (Mexico, 1992)

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SPW 6934-2
Theatre and Performance in Early-to-Modern Spanish America: Pre-Hispanic Tradition, Colonial Imitation and Subversion, and National Innovation.
Graham-Jones, T R 3:35 - 4:50

The study of performance and theatre in Spanish America, from the pre-Columbian period through the nineteenth century, with a particular theoretical focus on Spanish American theatre as the site of ongoing transcultural encounters.  Students will be introduced to texts from a wide variety of periods, genres, and aesthetics: pre-Hispanic indigenous performance-scripts (Rabinal Achí and El güegüense); “indigenous” theatre (Ollantáy); colonial plays built upon and subverting metropolitan models (Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s La verdad sospechosa, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s El divino Narciso and Los empeños de una casa); colonial evangelical and historico-mythological theatre (Matías de Bocanegra’s Comedia de don Francisco de Borja and Eusebio Vela’s Apostolado en las Indias y martirio de un cacique); neoclassical tragedy (Juan Cruz Varela’s Dido); romantic drama (Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Baltasar); and the one-act género chico: entremeses, sainetes, teatro bufo, and dramas gauchescos (Fernán González de Eslava’s Entremés del ahorcado, Nemesio Trejo’s Los políticos, and Gutiérrez/Podestá’s Juan Moreira).  Students will become acquainted with the concept of the dramatic/theatrical text as a cultural phenomenon as well as an object of literary study, in addition to the application of contemporary literary/critical theories to the general study of drama and performance.

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SPW 6934-3
The African Diaspora in Cuba and the Caribbean
Gomariz, T R 9:30 - 10:45

 The course will examine the narration of slavery and racial relations in a socio-historical context. Key postcolonial issues will be discussed, among them cultural resistance, hegemonic violence, race relations, slavery, racism, colonialism. Although most texts and materials will be in Spanish, there will be a selection of critical and creative texts in English. Class discussion and writing assignments will be in Spanish. Diffenbaugh 234. Tuesday and Thursday at 9:30am.

 Texts and Materials

• "Mi raza," by José Martí.
• Caliban, by Roberto Fenández Retamar. Selections.
• A Tempest, by Aimé Césaire.
• Black Skin, White Masks, by Franz Fanon. Selections.
• Marriage, Class, and Gender, by  V. Martínez-Alier. Selections.
• El reino de este mundo, by Alejo Carpentier.
• Autobiografía de un esclavo, by Juan Francisco Manzano.
• Sab, by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.
• Biografía de un cimarrón, by Montejo-Barnet.
• "Petrona y Rosalía," by Félix Tanco y Bosmeniel.
• Film. La última cena, by Manuel Gutiérrez Alea.
• Documentary. In the Land of the Orishas.

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