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Through this immersive course, students will advance all four language skills -- listening, speaking, reading, and writing -- exploring the culture and history of Colombia鈥檚 iconic Coffee Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Students will gain comparative insights into how global forces have shaped local cultures鈥攁nd how language reflects those changes.
Contemporary cultures have been radically transformed by the 鈥渧isual turn鈥 and the constant circulation of images. This course explores how Spanish-speaking communities across Latin America and Spain use graphic novels to address cultural fabrics. Organized around five engaging themes -- National Identities, Social Conflicts, Testimony, History and Memory, and Canon
Students with little or no Spanish will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American painting. While there will be some discussion of standard tactics such as stylistic nuances and artists鈥 biographies, it is expected that we will rapidly develop sufficient linguistic ability to focus on movements, ranging from the republican art of nation-building in the 19th
In lieu of more conventional advanced Spanish classes, paralleling a series of often disparate tutorials, with tutees working in relative isolation, the proposal is to allow students free reign over an idea for a final, term-long project, while concurrently offering them an educated, exoteric audience to assist in fleshing out their work. Faculty will provide key secondary
