Modern Languages

As needed. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2302

LANG2315 Today’s Italy: A Journey through Literature, Cinema and Everyday Life

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

Students will analyze and discuss some masterpieces of Italian literature and some movies inspired by them. The course is comprised of two parts of four weeks each. The first four weeks will be at Emmanuel, the second four weeks will be in Milan (Italy). During the first part of the course, students will be reading and discussing some of the masterpieces of Italian literature from the 19th and 20th centuries, with a specific focus on Milan. The readings will include two plays by Nobel Prize winners Luigi Pirandello and Dario Fo, Primo Levi’s masterpiece “If This Is A Man” and Calvino’s “The Invisible Cities.” The cultural voyage will culminate in Milan, during the second part of the course, where students will visit some of the actual sites described in their readings and will view movies inspired by the works they read. The virtual images from the literary pages and the “real” ones from the movies will help them discover how modern city life in Italy is strictly intertwined with and deeply rooted into the nation’s historical, artistic and cultural background. This course, taught in English, travels to Milan, Italy during the summer where students will complete the course-work started at Emmanuel, as well as take 4 credits in intensive Italian language at the Universita Cattolica. Program is open to COF students. Prerequisites: None Travel component required. As needed. 4 credits Spanish

LANG1401 Beginning Spanish I

Language & Culture (LC)

Beginning Spanish I introduce students to the Spanish language and to the different cultures in the Spanish-speaking world. The course is designed for students who with little or no previous knowledge of Spanish and are committed to the study of the language. It will emphasize the spoken language while developing students basic reading and writing skills in Spanish. It will also present grammatical structures in context, relating abstract concepts to practical skills, and explore relevant cultural knowledge. Fall semester. 4 credits

LANG1402 Beginning Spanish II

Language & Culture (LC)

Beginning Spanish II will continue to introduce students to the Spanish language and to the different cultures in the Spanish-speaking world. The course is designed for students who have completed Beginning Spanish I or its equivalent and are committed to the study of the language. It will emphasize the spoken language while students continue to develop basic reading and writing skills in Spanish. It will also present grammatical structures in context, relating abstract concepts to practical skills, and explore relevant cultural knowledge. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG1401 or equivalent

LANG1411 Beginning Spanish for Healthcare Professionals I Beginning Spanish for Healthcare Professionals I is the first semester of an elementary-level course designed for people currently employed in the medical field or for those students planning a career in a health-related field. This course would be beneficial for anyone in the field of medicine, nursing,pharmacology, radiographic

technology, physical therapy, and dentistry as well as for those working as receptionists or office managers in a medical facility. Fall semster. 4 credits

LANG1412 Beginning Spanish for Healthcare Professionals II Beginning Spanish for Healthcare Professionals II is the second semester of an elementary level course sequence designed for people currently employed in the medical field or for those students planning a career in a health-related field. This course builds on the skills and knowledge acquired in LANG 1403 and trains students for more advanced linguistic tasks, such as making recommendations, discussing past events and giving advice about possible medical treatments. It is designed for students with some previous knowledge of Spanish who need to learn specialized medical vocabulary. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: LANG1411 Beginning Spanish for Healthcare Professionals I or permission from the instructor

LANG2401 Intermediate Spanish I This course is a language immersion program that emphasizes oral communication through interpersonal activities. Class work and home assingments further develop basic comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing skills. A video program provides the basis for classroom dicussion. Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG1402 or equivalent

LANG2402 Intermediate Spanish II This course is a continuation of LANG2401. Conversation skills are emphasized through role playing and interpersonal activities. Literary readings are incorporated into the course. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2401 or equivalent LANG 2412 Spanish at Work in the Health Care Community Spanish at Work in the Health Care Community is an intermediate-level Spanish course that promotes linguistic fluency through advance Spanish grammatical structures as well as a better understanding of the culture of the Latino communities in the United States. This course explores topics related to health care disparities, patient-provider communications, and healthcare accessibility of the country’s biggest minority group. In addition, other relevant topics, such as linguistic and cultural barriers, identity, and socioeconomic and demographic trends, will also be explored. To exploration of these topics will be conducted via scholarly articles and class discussions. The course will also include a review of key grammatical structures and vocabulary relevant to the health care field. Students are required to dedicate two hours per week (approximately twenty hours in total) of volunteer community service at a local hospital, clinic, or medical practice serving the Latino community. This internship will allow students to put their Spanish-language skills to practice while helping Spanishspeaking patients navigate the complex health care system. Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: LANG 1412 Beginning Spanish for Healthcare Professionals II or permission from the instructor.

LANG2413 Spanish Conversation and Composition I This course encourages the student to integrate the grammatical structures already learned into meaningful communication in the context of practical settings. Varied activities and audiovisual material will supplement literary readings, readings of cultural interest, and readings on public events as a stimulus to everday oral and

written language use. Fall semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2402 or equivalent

LANG2414 Spanish Conversation and Composition II This course is a continuation of LANG 2413. It continues to emphasize oral and written expression while strengthening key grammatical structures necessary for meaningful communications. Varied activities will supplement cultural and literary readings. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or equivalent or permission of instructor.

LANG2415 Spanish at Work in the Community This is an upper-level language course that will promote linguistic fluency and better cultural understanding of the Latin American and Latino communities in the United States. The course’s content will focus on Hispanic immigration, emphasizing the experiences of the Latin American and Latino communities of the United States. It will concentrate on the largest groups of immigrants, those from Mexico, Puerto Rico and Cuba, exploring issues related to language, identity, socioeconomic realities and demographics. Class discussions will center on cultural and literary readings and films. Students will provide community service to non-profit organizations within the Boston area, as well as to local schools, where they will be using their language skills while assisting Spanish-speakers. Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor LANG2416 Latin American Peoples and Cultures

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

This Latin American culture course will introduce students to the cultures and peoples of the region from pre-Columbian to modern times. Following a thematic approach, students will gain a better understanding of significant historical events, geographical regions, indigenous cultures, regional languages, religious customs and beliefs, music, and other forms of artistic expression. Literary texts from different Spanish-speaking countries will illustrate the richness and diversity of this complex world. Students will read Inca Garcilaso de la Vegas account of Pizarro’s conquest of Peru, José Martís vision of Cuba, Marta Truebas’s gripping narrative of military repression in the Southern Cone, and Nellie Campobello’s fiction of the Mexican revolution. They will also read a selection of poetry and short stories relevant to the content of the course. Music and film will also be incorporated into the program. Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor

LANG2417 Hispanic Culture and Language through Film This course will introduce students to the heterogeneous culture of the Hispanic world through the use of films and other selected materials provided by the instructor. The course aims to provide students with a panoramic appreciation of Hispanic cultures as well as to develop their linguistic proficiency through the use of films and other assorted materials. The course will place special emphasis on the links that tie the films with the broader economic, sociopolitical and historical landscape of the Hispanic world. All movies will be shown in their original language with subtitles. The

course will be conducted in Spanish. Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor

LANG2418 The Art of Spain This course provides students with a broad survey of Spanish art. It examines artistic masterpieces from different periods highlighting their social and historical implications. In this course students will further develop listening, reading, speaking and writing skills. There will also be field visits to the Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum. The course will be conducted in Spanish. Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413

LANG2419 Approaches to Hispanic Literature

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

The last half of the 20th century witnessed a revolution in literary theory and criticism. Drawing on a vast network of other disciplines such as philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, political economy, sociology, women’s studies, religion, etc., this course will introduce students to this vast and varied present-day field. The critical and theoretical concepts presented in this class aim to provide undergraduate students with the tools to conduct in-depth study of literary texts. Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor

LANG2605 Spain: A Cultural Approach

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

This course presents an overview of Spanish culture in the physical reality of the geography of Spain, the trajectory of its history and the rich values of its art. Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor LANG3411 Latin American Literary Giants

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

This course will focus on the most influential Latin American authors. It will engage students in literary analysis of representative texts by Borges, Neruda, Paz, Garcia Marquez and others. Readings will include a wide range of poetry, short stories and novels. Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor

LANG3417 Spanish American Experience: An Overview

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

This course examines the developments of Spanish American literature through the study of the most representative literary movements and cultural periods. Fall semester, even years. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor

LANG3427 Contemporary Spanish American Women Novelists

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

This course introduces the student to outstand- ing women novelists of the contempory period, such as Rosio Castellanos, Elena Poniatowska, Marta Traba, Rosario Ferre and Isabell Allende. Discussions will focus on literary analysis, socio-political context and feminist perspective. Spring semester, even years. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor Arts and Sciences Course Descriptions for

LANG3429 Great Figures of Spanish Literature

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

The study of selected texts of the most outstanding Hispanic authors across the centuries will bring the student into contact with the evolution and artistic richness of the literary history of Spain. Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor

LANG3431 Contemporary Spanish Novel

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

The student will read and discuss relevant works of the most outstanding contemporary novelists of Spain, noting particularly the changed social, political and cultural environment of present day Spain as evidenced in these novels. Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor

LANG3433 Modern Hispanic Drama

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

This is an approach to the study of Hispanic society and culture of the contemporary period through the reading, discussion of, and analysis of selected works of outstanding dramatists of the period. Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits Prerequisite: LANG2413 or permission of instructor

LANG4478-4479 Directed Study Fall and spring semesters. 4 credits Prerequisite: Permission of instructor

LANG4999 Senior Seminar Students will conduct in-depth research of a chosen topic that will result in a significant senior paper. There will be regular peerreviewed oral presentations of progress. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: Two 3000-level Hispanic literature courses and senior status LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

LANG2103 Literary Mirrors: Introduction to World Literature

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

Emabark on a literary journey to Africa, Europe, Asia and Central and South Americas with major world authors who treat in short novels the triumphs and tragedies of the human condition. This course, conducted in English, is designed to foster critcal thinking and to improve writing skills. Spring semester, odd years. 4 credits

LANG2105 Contemporary Latin American Fiction

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

Conducted in English, this literature in translation course introduces students to major contemporary authors from the Latin American Boom to the present. Students will engage in literary analysis of representative prose from Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico. Reading selections will expose students to literary styles characteristic of Latin American writers as well as to the sociopolitical reality of the Americas. Conducted in English. Fall semester, even years. 4 credits

LANG2215 Paris: City and its Contrasts in Modern French Literature and Culture

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

As a source of inspiration, romance, and sheer delight, the city of Paris, France has exerted a profound influence on generations of artists and writers. In the fall prior to our travel, students will take a preparatory course introducing them to history and culture of the city of lights. Through novels, novellas, short stories, poems, and films, contrasting accounts of life in the city of Paris will be studied, offering often radically opposing views of the French capital as expressed by realist and surrealist writers, artists, and filmmakers (Hugo, Balzac, Maupassant, Baudelaire, Jeunet). The

cultural voyage will conclude in Paris where the students will experience firsthand a city which elicits both optimistic and pessimistic reflections on modern urban life. This course, conducted in English, travels to Paris in January. Travel component required. Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits

LANG2315 Today’s Italy: A Journey through Literature, Cinema and Everyday Life

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

Students will analyze and discuss some masterpieces of Italian literature and some movies inspired by them. The course is comprised of two parts of four weeks each. The first four weeks will be at Emmanuel, the second four weeks will be in Milan (Italy). During the first part of the course, students will be reading and discussing some of the masterpieces of Italian literature from the 19th and 20th centuries, with a specific focus on Milan. The readings will include two plays by Nobel Prize winners Luigi Pirandello and Dario Fo, Primo Levi’s masterpiece “If This Is A Man” and Calvino’s “The Invisible Cities.” The cultural voyage will culminate in Milan, during the second part of the course, where students will visit some of the actual sites described in their readings and will view movies inspired by the works they read. The virtual images from the literary pages and the “real” ones from the movies will help them discover how modern city life in Italy is strictly intertwined with and deeply rooted into the nation’s historical, artistic and cultural background. This course, taught in English, travels to Milan, Italy during the summer where students will complete the course-work started at Emmanuel, as well as take 4 credits in intensive Italian language at the Universita Cattolica. Travel Component Required. Program is open to COF students. Prerequisites: None Spring semester, even years. 4 credits LANG3421 Spanish Caribbean Literature

Aesthetic Inquiry Literature (AI-L)

This course will introduce students to the literature of the Spanish Caribbean, engaging them in literary analysis of major authors from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Special attention will be given to the author’s literary style, themes developed and to the ideological content of each piece. Students will also get a glimpse of this region’s historical and sociopolitical conditions. At the end of the semester paticipants will have acquired an appreciation of the literature of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean as well as a better understanding of the complex issues affecting this interesting region. Conducted in English. Fall semester, odd years. 4 credits