Course Descriptions

SOU 310 - India: Past and Present

This course investigates how an understanding and experience of religion has influences the history and culture of modern India and its people.  Attention will be given to the social, political, and cultural milieu in which religion is practiced in India.  Central to the course is a contextual examination of religion and its influence on social relations, and how religion ameliorates or impedes social change for the common good.

Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Offered as part of the Semester-in-India Program.

SOU 354 - Issues in Contemporary India

Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Offered as part of the Semester-in-India program.

SOU 375 - Urban India

This course is offered as part of the Davidson College semester-in-India Program. Using Hyderabad as the site from which to contextualize Indian cities, students will explore a diverse array of issues facing cities in the global South. Through guest lectures on the history of Hyderabad’s urbanization, students will learn about the city’s many transformations in the twentieth and twenty-first century, focusing specifically on: labor flows and migration; geographical dislocations of the urban poor; intersection between linguistic, religious, caste, and regional communities; urban political economy; transportation; waste management; gender and public space; environmental and ecological impacts of urbanization; mapping urban developments over time.

Satisfies a minor requirement in South Asian Studies.
Satisfies a requirement in the History major.
Satisfies the methodology course requirement for students in the social science track of the Enironmental Studies major.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

SOU 385 - Public Health in India

Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Offered as part of the Semester-in-India program.

SPA 101 - Elementary Spanish I

An introduction to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing Spanish. Requires attendance at Assistant Teacher sessions twice a week and online work through the Language Resource Center. Conducted in Spanish.

Prerequisites & Notes
Placement required. Students who have completed up to Spanish 2 in high school may register in SPA 101 and do not need to take the Spanish Placement Exam. Students who have taken Spanish 3 or higher in high school, must take the placement exam. 

SPA 102 - Elementary Spanish II

Development of further skills in speaking, understanding, reading and writing Spanish through a review of grammar and readings in the literature and culture of Spain and/or Latin America. Requires attendance at Assistant Teacher sessions twice a week and online work through the Language Resource Center. Conducted in Spanish.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 101, or its equivalent, or Placement Exam.

SPA 103 - Intensive Elementary Spanish (2 credits)

Intensive introductory course equivalent to Spanish 101 and 102. Meets six class-hours per week plus four hours weekly with an Assistant Teacher. Completes two semesters of Spanish in one semester. Counts as two courses. Conducted in Spanish.

SPA 201 - Intermediate Spanish

Extensive reading and discussion in Spanish of texts of moderate difficulty in the cultures and literatures of Spain, Latin America and US Latino; grammar study; extensive conversation practice. Requires attendance at Assistant Teacher sessions once a week and online work through the Language Resource Center. Service learning may be required. Meets the degree requirement for proficiency in foreign language. Conducted in Spanish.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 102, or its equivalent, or Placement Exam.

SPA 203 - Advanced Intermediate Spanish Abroad

SPA 219 - Independent Study: Language and Linguistics

Study under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who approves the topic(s) and determines the means of evaluation.

SPA 241 - Latin American Literature in Translation

Selected works of Latin American literature in English translation. Readings and class discussions are in English.

Students entering before 2012 and after: satisfies the Literature requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

SPA 260 - Conversation and Composition

Writing-intensive course in Spanish. Training and practice to develop fluency, accuracy, and expressiveness in oral and written communication. Requires conversation session with an Apprentice Teacher once a week. Latin American fiction and non-fiction readings and films. Strongly recommended for students planning to study abroad. This course should be taken before taking 271 and/or 272. Conducted in Spanish.

Counts towards the major and minor in Hispanic Studies.

 

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 201 or its equivalent.

SPA 261 - Introduction to Latin American Culture and Globalization

This is a one-year Living and Learning Community Course in which all participants live together on a floor in Duke, commit to a language pledge, and attend events together with the professor in addition to completing readings and assignments and meeting weekly. Course conducted entirely in Spanish.

Satisfies a major requirement in Hispanic Studies.
Satisfies a requirement in the Ethnic Studies Interdisciplinary Minor.

Prerequisites & Notes
All students must be at least at the Spanish 260 level. 

SPA 271 - Hispanic Humanities

Spanish 271 / Spanish 272 is a two-course sequence designed to be a more in-depth introduction to the foundational knowledge and theoretical approaches to Hispanic cultural production from the Middle Ages to the present across primary sources, genres, geographical and temporal borders. The overarching goal is to ensure both breadth and depth before students take more focused upper-level classes at the 300 and 400 level

271 is more focused on texts from the Hispanic Literary and Cultural Traditions of the Medieval Ages to the 1800s.

Satisfies a requirement in the Hispanic Studies major and minor.
Satisfies the Methods requirement for the Gender and Sexuality Studies major in the Literary and Cultural Representations track.
Satisfies a requirement in the Latin American Studies major and interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 or its equivalent.

SPA 272 - Hispanic Humanities

Spanish 271 / Spanish 272 is a two-course sequence designed to be a more in-depth introduction to the foundational knowledge and theoretical approaches to Hispanic cultural production from the Middle Ages to the present across primary sources, genres, geographical and temporal borders. The overarching goal is to ensure both breadth and depth before students take more focused upper-level classes at the 300 and 400 level.

272 is primarily centered on texts from the Hispanic Literary and Cultural Traditions of the 19th-21^st Centuries.

Satisfies a major or minor requirement in Hispanic Studies.
Satisfies the Methods requirement for the Gender and Sexuality Studies major in the Literary and Cultural Representations track.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Global Literary Theory.
​Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Latin American Studies.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 or its equivalent.

SPA 302 - Advanced Grammar

Problems in Spanish grammar and idiom-building, particularly those faced by English-speaking people; problems of translation; an overview of Spanish phonetics; and a brief study of the evolution of the Spanish language. Conducted in Spanish.

Counts towards the major and minor in Hispanic Studies.

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite 260 or its equivalent, unless has chair’s approval. 

SPA 303 - Advanced Grammar and Composition

Writing-intensive course. Review, expansion, and fine-tuning of grammatical knowledge; building and use of a growing body of vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. Conducted in Spanish.

Counts towards the major and minor in Hispanic Studies.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 or its equivalent.  Placement exam may be required. 

SPA 304 - Spanish Sociolinguistics

This class explores language as a social and dynamic phenomenon that reflects the idiosyncrasies of those who produce it. Drawing on both theory and direct analysis of primary sources, we will study the linguistic behavior of Spanish speaking communities in Latin America, Spain and the United States as determined by sociocultural factors that influence linguistic production: historical, ethnic and cultural factors, contexts of production, and individual features such as gender, age, social class, economic status, or professional occupation. Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies a major and minor requirement in Hispanic Studies.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 

SPA 305 - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics

This course is an introduction to the study of human language with an emphasis on Spanish. The main goal of the course is to get students familiar with the various ways in which Spanish “works” and to expose them to the basic characteristics of the language. The course introduces the Spanish sound system (phonetics and phonology), word formation (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), and meaning (semantics). The course discusses, as well, some of the reasons why these systems may change among Spanish speakers (variation).

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 should be taken in advance of this class.

SPA 306 - Hispanic Bilingual Communities

This is a linguistics course on child and adult bilingualism with a focus on the Spanish-speaking world. The course explores different types of bilingualism, as well as the phenomenon of language contact in Latin America, Spain, and the U.S. from a historical, social, and structural perspective.

Satisfies Hispanic Studies major requirement.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies Cultural Diversity requirement.

 

Prerequisites & Notes
Conducted in Spanish.

Prerequisites & Notes

Spanish 260 or its equivalent.

SPA 307 - The Bilingual Mind

This course exposes students to the psycholinguistics of bilingualism, by presenting a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of bilingualism, language processing, language acquisition, as well as cognition and the bilingual brain. This course is accessible to students with little or no previous exposure to the field, but it will also challenge and expand the knowledge of students who already took SPA 305 (intro de Hispanic Linguistics) and/or SPA 306 (Bilingual Hispanic Communities, which focuses on the social and educational aspects of bilingualism). This course will be taught to a group of bi/multilingual students (as it will be conducted in Spanish). 

Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirements
Satisfies Social-Scientific Thought requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
SPA 260

SPA 310 - Survey of Literature of Latinx Jews

Examining the works of Jewish writers hailing from Mexico, Argentina, the United States, Cuba and more, this course offers students a survey of contemporary literature, theatre, and film.

Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
SPA 260 and 270 or 271 should be taken before taking this class.

SPA 311 - Teaching Spanish in the Elementary School

In this course, students will read theoretical material about language learning and language pedagogy as specifically related to children learning Spanish as a foreign language and put the readings into practice through participation in the Davidson SK8S (Spanish in K-8 School) program. Students will learn how to plan a curriculum, develop lesson plans, implement lessons, and assess their students’ learning. Teaching in SK8S is required. Conducted in Spanish with readings in English and Spanish.

Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement.
Satisfies Educational Studies minor requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
SPA 260 or equivalent required. Students concurrently enrolled in SPA 260 are eligible. SPA 271 or SPA 272 is strongly recommended. 

SPA 315 - Lost Children of Spain

The class explores texts from Spain and the expulsion of the Jews, moving forward to the present day. It studies Sephardic communities around the world, including in Latin America and the USA.

Satisfies Hispanic Studies major requirement.
Satisfies “Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric” requirement
Satisfies Cultural Diversity requirement.
Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor.

Prerequisites & Notes
Conducted in Spanish

Preprequisites- Spanish 260 and 270, 271, 272 or their equivalents.

SPA 320 - Spanish Literature Through the Golden Age

Major works from medieval times through the seventeenth century, studied against a background of historical developments and literary currents. Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Area I for the major in Hispanic Studies and counts towards the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory.
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies the Literature requirement.
Satisfies the Pre 1800 requirement

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents.

SPA 321 - Theater of Spain’s Golden Age

Development of 16th and 17th century Spanish theater, including works by Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Tirso de Molina, Ruiz de Alarcón, and Calderón de la Barca. Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Area I for the major in Hispanic Studies and counts towards the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies the Pre 1800 requirement

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 271 or 272.

SPA 322 - Cervantes’ Don Quijote

Advanced study of Don Quixote and the literary criticism it has generated. Other works by Cervantes may be included. Conducted in Spanish.

Counts towards the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies the Pre 1800 requirement

 

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 271 or 272 or their equivalents.
 

SPA 323 - Spanish Picaresque Novel

This course principally examines Spain’s Golden Age Picaresque Novels in conjunction with specific socio-historico-cultural contexts.  We begin by defining genre and the picaresque, as well as by exploring the times in which these great works of social criticism were written by studying the circumstances of early modern Spain. Later, we read texts less often referred to as “picaresque” to explore the continuity of the picaresque in Hispanic Letters and in world literature. Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies Area I for the major in Hispanic Studies.
Satisfies a requirement in the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory.
Satisfies the Pre 1800 requirement

Prerequisites & Notes
SPA 260 and 270 or equivalents.

SPA 324 - Emotional Communities in Medieval Iberia Cultures

This course examines the history of emotional communities during the Iberian Middles Ages, with special emphasis on the ways in which emotions were instrumental in assertions of political power, religious identity, and social inclusion or exclusion. We will study the intersection of emotions with devotional practices, materiality, corporeality, aesthetics, cultural politics, and medical knowledge in the narratives that Iberian Medieval authors and artists crafted with messages intended to be inscribed into the collective memory of their contemporaries.  Additionally, we will examine how these narratives have ultimately shaped the modern Hispanic emotional collective imaginary.  Interdisciplinary theoretical approaches.  Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Area I / Pre-1800 requirement for the major in Hispanic Studies.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric Requirement.
Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites include Spanish 260 and 270, 271, 272 or their equivalents

SPA 329 - Independent Study: Spanish Literature prior to 1700

Independent study under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who approves the course content, and the research project, and determines the means of evaluation.

SPA 330 - Modern Spain

This course explores the culture, history, and literature of Spain from the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Based on the reading of primary and secondary sources, we examine Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment of the 18th century, Romanticism and Realism of the 19th century, and the Generation of ‘98 at the beginning of the 20th century. Primary texts may include works by Francisco Goya, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Duque de Rivas, José de Espronceda, Carolina Coronado, Emilia Pardo Bazán, and Miguel de Unamuno. Course is conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies the Post-1800 requirement for the Hispanic Studies major
Satisfies the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Thoery
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric Distribution requirement

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites- SPA 271 or SPA 272

SPA 331 - Contemporary Spanish Literature

Satisfies the Post-1800 requirement for the Major in Hispanic Studies
Counts towards the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric Distribution Requirement

 

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites- SPA 271 or SPA 272

SPA 332 - Comics & Graphic Novels of Spain

In this course we will examine contemporary graphic novels from Spain. We will pay particular attention to the relationship between form and content, focusing on key issues in 21^st century Spain, such as memory of the Spanish Civil War and immigration. How do the artists and writers respond to and engage with history and contemporary culture? What do their works tell us about racism in Spain? Sexism? Homophobia? Generational differences? Course conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies the Foreign Language requirement

Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement

Prerequisites & Notes
SPA 270 or 271 or 272 or permission of the instructor.

SPA 333 - Spanish Civil War

In this course, we will examine literary and cultural expressions of memory and forgetting involving the Spanish Civil War. Why do we, individually and collectively, sometimes engage with the past and sometimes choose not to? We will study the periods leading up to and following the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) as well as present-day representations and recollections. Fiction and non-fictional works including poetry, prose, a graphic novel, and film will inform our conversations about Socialist, Communist, and Fascist perspectives, as well as those from everyday men, women, and children.

In our goal to understand the Spanish Civil War not only as a civil war but also in its international dimension, we will consider Spanish Communism vis-à-vis Russian Communism, Spanish Fascism vis-à-vis Hitler, the role of the Lincoln Brigade, and other responses from Americans such as Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Upton Sinclair, as well as works from the Chilean poet-diplomat Pablo Neruda and Peruvian writer César Vallejo. We will pay special attention to marginalized groups of people including Spanish women and African Americans fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

Satisfies the post-1800 requirement for the major in Hispanic Studies and elective for the minor.
Satisfies Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor requirement.
Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric Ways of Knowing requirement.

 

Prerequisites & Notes
SPA 271, or SPA 272

SPA 334 - Women in Contemporary Spain

In this class, we will study women in Spanish culture from the 20th and 21st centuries. We will consider women as writers, politicians, artists, and everyday people. The historical framework of this course follows the trajectory of women’s movements in Spain. Some of the broader questions we will explore are: What does it mean to be a woman in Spain now? What has it meant historically? How does the “angel in the house” vs. “new woman” tension play out? How are women constricted and liberated by their roles as mothers, sisters, daughters, wives? What implications do these definitions have? What do these questions matter to men? How do they matter to society as a whole? How do representations of women change at different moments in history? Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement.
Satisfies Gender and Sexuality Studies major and minor requirement.
Satisfies Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor requirement.
Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric Ways of Knowing requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: SPA 271 or SPA 272.

SPA 335 - Spanish Drama for Social Change

The theatre landscape in twenty-first century Spain points to a growing consciousness to engage with current issues that reflect our everyday lived experiences and societal contexts. In this course we will read a selection of plays representative of contemporary modalities and genres such as documentary theatre, verbatim theatre, fact-inspired drama, and forum theatre. As we consider theatre’s ability to enact social change, we will examine the ways in which Spanish playwrights actively seek to engage issues related to historical memory, gender, sexuality, bullying, migration, law, and politics on both the page and the stage. We will look at the efforts made at innovation in stagecraft and performance and will explore how these works respond in critical and aesthetic fashion to the artistic, political, and social contexts from which they emerge.

Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement. -post 1800 for new major
Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies Justice, Equality and Community requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Conducted in Spanish

Prerequisites
Spanish 260 and 270, 271, 272 or their equivalents.

SPA 336 - U.S. Hispanic Theatre and Performance

Paralleling the steady rise over the recent decades of the Hispanic population, a growing number of playwrights and performance groups seek to stage, represent, and visibilize the experiences what it means to live and create as a Latina/o/x living in the United States. In this course we will read a selection of plays that explore topics related to bilingualism and linguistic identity, familial relations, politics, gender and sexuality, and migration. We will examine the ways in which these dramatists mix Spanish and English within their texts in order to showcase how a bilingual experience relates to the process of identity formation and the negotiation of social and interpersonal relationships. We will complement these plays with performance groups and artists in order to expand our ways of ‘seeing’ art, and explore how performance can provide an alternative method of artistic expression and production. 

Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement.
Satisfies Visual and Performing Arts Requirement
Satisfies Cultural Diversity requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Conducted in Spanish.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270, 271, 272 or their equivalents.

SPA 339 - Independent Study: Spanish Literature since 1700

Independent study under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who approves the course content and the research project, and determines the means of evaluation.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents.
 

SPA 340 - Latin American Literature I

Satisfies Area IV for the major in Hispanic Studies.
Counts towards Latin American Studies as well as the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies the Literature requirement.
Satisfies the Pre 1800 requirement

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents. (Fall)

SPA 341 - Latin American Literature II

Ideas, aesthetics, and theoretical interpretations that have shaped modern Latin American literature and other cultural expressions from 1900 to the present. Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Area V for the major in Hispanic Studies.
Satisfies a requirement in the Latin American Studies major and minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies the Post 1800 requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents. (Spring)

SPA 342 - The Latin American City: Historical Narratives & Cultural Representations (= LAS 342)

This course will study the Latin American city through historical and cultural perspectives. Students will learn about the history of select cities and then analyze the relationship between historical context and cultural production through texts offering historical, cultural and literary representations of the cities. The course will emphasize comparison of cities over time, with attention to the phehispanic city, the modern city and the contemporary Latin American City, as well as US cities with a strong Latino influence.

Satisfies an Area III requirement for the Hispanic Studies major.
Counts as an upper-level elective in the Latin American Studies major.

Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement
Satisfies a requirement in the History major and minor.
Satisfies Post 1800 requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
SPA 260 and/or SPA 270

SPA 343 - Contemporary Latin American Novel

Most important literary works of major contemporary writers from Latin America studied against a background of recent history and relevant ideologies and theoretical interpretations. Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Area V for the major in Hispanic Studies.
Counts towards Latin American Studies as well as the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies the Literature requirement.
Satisfies Post 1800 requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents.

SPA 344 - Latinx Culture: Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

This survey course will explore the development of a distinctly Latinx culture in the U.S. beginning in the nineteenth century and ending in the present day, with a focus on how constructions of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship have shaped this development. We will consider the long history and shifting borders of Anglo and Latina/o cultural and political interaction, countering the idea that U.S. Latina/o literary presence is a recent phenomenon in this country. Reading different genres alongside each other and exploring the relations between them, we will pay special attention to how these texts represent the interaction of minority and dominant cultures. Meanwhile, we will strive for analyses that consider the intersectionality of race, gender, class, and other social markers. Topics covered will include: the recovery of early Latina/o texts; the history and legacy of racism, colonialism, and zenophobia; the construction of canons; the effect of immigration and exile in the construction of ethnicities; the role of resistance in the formation of Latina/o culture; the politics of bilingualism; Chicana and Latina feminisms; culturally specific manifestations of gender and sexuality; the exoticization and marginalization of Latina/o culture; and the changing borders around nation and identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

Satisfies major in Hispanic Studies requirement
Satisfies Latin American Studies major requirement
Satisfies Gender and Sexualuity Studies major requirement
Satisfies the Justice Equality and Community requirement

 

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents. (Spring)

SPA 345 - Latinx Digital Cultures

This course introduces students to the shifting formations of Latinx culture by centering the question: How does thinking through the lens of the digital illuminate the past, present, and future of Latinx culture? The formulation “Latinx culture” includes cultures that communities and scholars have described using terms like Hispanic, Latino, Afro-Latino, Latina/o, Latin@, Chicana/o, and/or Xicana). Our first task will be to pool existing knowledge, among class members, of how different formations of Latinx culture have been understood and defined. Then, we will explore how digital tools enable the telling and re-telling of Latinx history, starting with the colonial period, and considering how the deterritorialization of indigenous peoples, settler colonialism, chattel slavery, white supremacist nationalist discourse, and language use (especially Spanish vs. English) set up the conditions and boundaries of what is considered “Latinx” today. Our foray into the nineteenth century will introduce a unit on “Testimonio and Technology” that will take us into the 20th century. Subsequent discussions of the role of media technology in the 1960s and 70s Chicano movement will culminate in an exploration of Chicanafuturism and Afrofuturism. In our final unit, we will explore how contemporary Latinx poets and cultural critics use social media to disseminate their decolonial, anti-racist work. We will analyze the role that language and code-switching plays in the dissemination of Latinx media online. The course focuses on the United States, but features significant forays into borderland and transnational areas of cultural encounter. Students will be asked to observe and reflect on how the digital projects and readings we study display the diverse methodologies of both cultural studies and the digital humanities. All course units center the analysis of the intersections of racialization, ethnicity, class, disability, gender, and sexuality. As part of their work for the course, students will either create a new digital artifact or contribute to an existing public-facing digital humanities project featuring Latinx culture. 

Pre-requisites: SPA 101 or the equivalent; students with Spanish proficiency will be encouraged to use their language skills in their project work.

Course will be conducted primarily in English, but some familiarity with Spanish is required.

Counts for the post-1800 course in Hispanic Studies; counts in the Literary and Cultural Representations Track of Gender & Sexuality Studies; counts as an elective for the Latin American Studies major; counts for the Digital and Screen Media CIS major under the “criticism, theory, or history” category; and counts as an elective toward the Digital Studies minor.

Satisfies Hispanic Studies-Post 1800 course requirement
Satisfies Latin American Studies major requirement.
Satisfies Gender and Sexuality Studies major in the Literary/Cultural Representations Track requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement

SPA 346 - Latin American Theatre

Study of the most important Latin American playwrights, plays, and performances within the ideologies and aesthetics that have shaped contemporary Latin American theatre. Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies the Literature requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents. 

SPA 347 - Imperial Cities

Focused study of the way urban space becomes the staging ground for the conquest of the New World, and ultimately, the administration and consolidation of global imperial order throughout the viceregal period. Although much of the semester focuses on Mexico City, this course develops a general vocabulary to talk about the ways urban literary and intellectual culture were inextricable from a discourse about empire and the increasingly urban character of imperial modernity. Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Area IV for the major in Hispanic Studies and counts towards Latin American Studies.
Satisfies the Pre 1800 requirement

Prerequisites & Notes
SPA 260 and 270 or their equivalents.

SPA 348 - Hispanic Theatre and Performance

The course expands the communicative, interpretive, and analytical Spanish language skills of the students by using the most recent studies about contemporary Hispanic theatre theories and practices. Conducted in Spanish.

 

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents. 

SPA 349 - Latin American Literature - Independent Study

Study under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who approves the course content and the research project, and determines the means of evaluation.

SPA 352 - Contemporary Latin American Cinema

This course is a discussion-intensive, interdisciplinary class that will cover ideas, events and aesthetics that have shaped the modern and contemporary Latin American film production. A selection of the most significant works by major filmmakers will be studied in the context of historical and socio-political developments from 1950’s to the present time. Through an examination of relevant films, the course will present an overview of the historical themes and cultural tensions arising in Latin America during the last 70 years. 

Satisfies Area III for the major in Hispanic Studies.
Counts towards the Film & Media Studies as well as Latin American Studies.
Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts requirement.
Satisfies Post 1800 requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 or 271 or their equivalents. 

SPA 353 - Contemporary Spanish Film

Study of Spanish film from the 1950s into the new century, within the complex matrix that is twentieth- and twenty-first-century Spain.  Cinematic theory and the lexicon of film analysis.  Spain’s cinematic response to the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent exile and dictatorship years, gender definitions, and changing national identity during the democratic era. Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Area III for the major in Hispanic Studies.
Counts towards Film & Media Studies.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents. 

SPA 354 - Dying of Love in Medieval Iberia

This course examines literary and iconographic representations of love and death during the Iberian Middle Ages, with special emphasis on the 15th century sentimental novel. Within the artistic tradition of the cults of love and death that characterize the Iberian Middle Ages, this course reflects upon the ways in which authors and artists created a distinctive tradition depicting the attitudes towards love and death that have ultimately shaped the modern Hispanic collective imaginary of these concepts. Interdisciplinary theoretical approaches. Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Area I for the major in Hispanic Studies.
Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies the Pre 1800 requirement

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 271 or their equivalents.

SPA 357 - Latin American Icons, Gender & Representation

Latin American Icons, Gender & Representation

Satisfies Area III for the major in Hispanic Studies.
Satisfies a requirement in the Latin American studies major and interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies the Literary Studies Creative Writing and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies Post 1800 requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or the equivalents. (Spring)

SPA 358 - Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Spanish Theatre and Performance

This course surveys foundational plays and performance groups from the Spanish theatre landscape of early twentieth-century Spain through to the present day. We will explore the efforts made at innovation in playwrighting and stagecraft, examining how these works respond in critical and aesthetic fashion to the artistic, political, and social contexts in which they were produced. We will employ the language and terminology of theatre analysis in order to better appreciate dramatic textual construction, at the same time engaging with staging and performance production as determining factors to better understand the totality of the theatre experience.

Conducted in Spanish.
Satisfies the Post 1800 requirement

 

Prerequisites & Notes
SPA 270 or its equivalent is a prerequisite, unless student has chair’s approval.

SPA 359 - Contemporary Latin American /Latino Short Story

This upper level course is designed to engage the student in a complex process of critical thinking and cross cultural interpretation as we explore a relevant body of milenio Latin American/Latino short narratives. Concentrating on analytical, creative, and argumentative reading practices, we will identify relevant textual, ideological, and cultural representational strategies of postmodern short narratives, sudden fiction, micro-fiction, film and animation adaptations. Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies Post 1800 requirement.
 

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or the equivalents. 

SPA 360 - Cultures of Southern Spain

Interdisciplinary seminar that examines the concept of the South in 21st Century Spain as an ideological construction of hierarchical dichotomies such as the real and the imagined, tradition and modernity, the native and the foreign, cliché and factual, the African-Oriental and the European: the old South and the new South. By the end of the semester students will have an appreciation of cultural nuances and distinctions that will allow them to understand why Spanish Southerners are the way they are, how they see the world and themselves, and how they are imagined by others. Additionally, we will adopt a comparative approach in order to uncover connections and patterns between the South in Spain and the South in the United States. Conducted in Spanish. 

Satisfies Area III for the major in Hispanic Studies and the cultural diversity requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.
Satisfies the Post 1800 requirement.
Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish Language Proficiency

SPA 361 - Civilization of Spain

Reading, discussion, visual representations, and student research on Spain’s social, economic, political, and religious life, and the fine arts. May follow a thematic or historical model. Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Area III for the major in Hispanic Studies.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents. 

SPA 369 - Hispanic Cultures - Independent Study

Independent study under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who approves the course content and the research project, and determines the means of evaluation.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents.
 

SPA 372 - Walls and Bridges: Mexico/US Border Culture

US/Mexico Border Culture will explore the ways in which artists have depicted the diversity of experiences of crossing, settling or living in the border regions between the U.S. and Mexico.  We will focus on fiction poetry, essays, and films from the beginning of the 20^th century to the present. We will reflect on: How and why have representations of the border changed over time?  How are political, social and economic events influencing artistic representations of it? How does national identities are constructed in the border context? What alternative cultural discourses have emerged from the contemporary of border artists?

A substantial final research project will be conducted.  Conducted in Spanish.
Satisfies Post 1800 requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 or 271/272 or their equivalents.

SPA 373 - Writing Amerindian Americas

This course examines the European imperial project in the Americas through the lens of Indigenous writing
and cultural responses. By examining indigenous texts from throughout the Americas, we will trace the way
native orality and writing has negotiated the impact of imperialism, as well as the various ways in which these
responses have helped to shape hybrid, autochthonous cultures throughout the western hemisphere. We will
examine both primary texts and engage in a critical reappraisal of the framework we use to understand the
origins, genesis and afterlife of European and American imperial projects. Although the bulk of the materials
will be from the 16th through the 19th centuries, we will also examine more contemporary texts and cultural
artifacts, as well as consider the ways in which genre and period insufficiently address the slipperiness and
adaptability of the imperial project.

Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement.
Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies Justice, Equality and Community requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
SPA 271 or SPA 272

SPA 374 - Caribbean Peoples, Ideas, and Arts

Literature and arts, ideas, and socio-economic structures in the Caribbean islands and rimlands (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, and Central America). Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Area III for the major in Hispanic Studies.
 

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents. 

SPA 375 - Latin American Women Writers

An examination of genre, gender, and representation in women’s writing in Latin America from the 20th century to the present.  Latin American women’s textual and visual narratives: Practices and Theoretical Frameworks. Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Area V for the major in Hispanic Studies.
Counts towards Gender & Sexualities Studies, the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory, and Latin American Studies.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies the Post 1800 requirement

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents.

SPA 390 - Course in Special Topics

This course will not only guide students in developing cultural analyses of key Spanish films, but also ask them to learn how film works by practicing some filmmaking techniques (equipment provided).  Our study of Spanish film will be enhanced by experiential travel that will deepen our understanding of several films’ cultural context.  Putting into practice the principle that creating is a means of understnading, we will reinforce and expand our understanding of film’s visual language by making short films. Our on-site experiences in different Spanish cities and towns will also give us several different opportunities to think about and arrange mise-enscène, and our use of iMovie will give us the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of film editing. Conducted in Spanish.

Counts as a course in residence towards the major and minor in Hispanic Studies.

Prerequisites & Notes
SPA 260 or its equivalent.  

SPA 393 - Advanced Language Seminar

(Summer Program in Cadiz, Spain) Advanced language and composition course. Students will take advantage of their immersion experience for their writing and discussion. Conducted in Spanish.

Counts as a course in residence towards the major and minor in Hispanic Studies.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and concurrent enrollment in Spanish 394.
(Summer)

SPA 394 - Advanced Seminar in Spanish Cultures

(Summer Program in Spain) This course presents historical and contemporary issues in Spanish society and culture through art, film, literature, music, geography, and the press. Half of the course focuses on the history of Spanish art beginning with prehistoric cave painting and ending in the avant-garde of the 20th century. Students will learn about artistic movements and apply critical terms to the analysis of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Course includes visits to museums and sites in Cádiz. Counts for the Visual and Performing Arts Ways of Knowing requirement.

Satisfies Area III for the major in Hispanic Studies.
Counts for the Visual and Performing Arts Ways of Knowing requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spanish 260 and concurrent enrollment in Spanish 393.

SPA 400 - Seminar on Special Topics, SPA 401-411

Research-oriented advanced seminar in an area of literature or culture outside the content of other core courses. Specific topics listed as 401-411. A substantial final research project will be conducted.

Prerequisites & Notes
Any two literature or culture courses. Limited to juniors and seniors. Priority will be given to majors, then minors. (Fall and Spring)

SPA 400 - Speaking Spanish in the US

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SPA 401 - Seminar: Contemporary Latin American Neo-Fantastic Narratives

This course, we will focus precisely on XX and XXI Century Latin American Fantastic and Neo-fantastic narratives.  We will explore and understand some of the approaches to, and concepts involved in, the study of diverse forms of contemporary Fantasy, Science-fiction, Horror, Terror, Neo-Gothic, Cyberpunk. We will watch, read and discuss the works of Horacio Quiroga, Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Juan Villoro, Juan García Ponce, Luisa Valenzuela, Mariana Enriquez,among others-, films by Guillermo del Toro, Eliseo Arriaga, and representative TV programs and graphic novels dealing with these topics.  

 

Prerequisites & Notes
Designed for junior and senior majors

SPA 402 - Travel and Transform in Spain

Research-oriented seminar that examines cultural representations of travels and pilgrimages in Spain as transformational experiences for the individual.  Interdisciplinary methodology to examine these concepts in an eclectic group of primary texts and artifacts from a variety of theoretical approaches across disciplines.  Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Area III for the Hispanic Studies major.
Satisfies Cultural Diversity requirement.
Satisfies the Philosophical and Religious Perspectives requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Unless given special permission, this class is limited to Juniors and Seniors.  Students must have already taken any two 300-level culture or literature classes in Spanish .  Enrollment priority is given to seniors and majors.

SPA 403 - Latinx American Sexualities

This course explores theories of gender and sexuality from both North and South and their dialogue with transnational American cultural production. Throughout the semester, we will consider a diverse group of U.S. Latina/o and Latin American literary texts, films, and performances and investigate their construction of sexual, gendered, national, and ethnic identities.

A substantial final research project will be required. Conducted in Spanish.

Prerequisites & Notes
Limited to juniors and seniors. Instructor permission required.

SPA 404 - Writing and Rewriting the Hispanic Tradition

This course explores one of the most basic, yet complicated concepts of story-telling: re-telling. Using various literary theories–from Renaissance imitation to the neobarroco–this class examines two (or more) texts in tandem to better appreciate various interpretations of some of the foundational figures, texts, and myths of the Hispanic literary tradition. 

A substantial final research project will be required. Conducted in Spanish. 

Prerequisites & Notes
Any two literature or culture courses. Limited to juniors and seniors. Priority will be given to majors, then minors. 

SPA 405 - Latin American Modernities

What constitutes the modern? What is the relationship between progress and modernity? How does literary and artistic form respond to notions of modernity and innovation? How does modernity respond to, incorporate or reject notions of history and tradition? Examining a host of foundational and transformative literary and artistic works, we will put to use the research and analytical skills honed throughout the major and produce original research projects that illuminate our understanding of how the notion of “modernity” is at once proleptic and persistent, a paradoxical component of culture itself. We will focus on a broad range of works from canonical novels (100 Years of Solitude, Kiss of the Spider Woman), short stories (Borges, Cortázar, Mercado),  and poetry (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz) to plays (Antigona furiosa), films (Zama) and performance art (Regina José Galindo).

Can count for area requirements with permission of instructor.
Satisfies Foreign Language requirement.
Satisfies Cultural Diversity requirement.
Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.

SPA 406 - Life-writing, Gender, Performativity

Interdisciplinary research oriented seminar designed to engage students in the politics of unsettling modes of life-writing, gender, and representation. Life-writing theory and cultural analysis of contemporary Latin American/Latino fictional and non-fictional narratives.

A substantial final research project will be required. Conducted in Spanish.

Satisfies Gender and Sexuality Studies major and minor requirement.
 

Prerequisites & Notes
Any two literature or culture courses. Limited to juniors and seniors. Priority will be given to majors, then minors. 

SPA 407 - Medicine and Gender in 20th Century Spain

In this course, we will analyze the medical discourse in fiction and non-fiction texts insomuch as it creates the framework for constructing and justifying definitions of gender and sexuality. We will focus on the first half of the 20^th century, particularly the Second Republic (1931-1936), the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the Franco Dictatorship (1939-1975). We will consider both liberal and conservative viewpoints as well as contemporary perspectives.

Prerequisites & Notes
Completion of a 300-level course in Spanish, or permission of the instructor. Limited to juniors and seniors. Priority will be given to majors, then minors. 

SPA 408 - Speaking Spanish in the US

This course is an introduction to the fundamental issues in the study of contact linguistics with particular emphasis on English-Spanish bilinguals and the Latino experience in the US. Students will explore the particularities of linguistic contact including the linguistic outcomes and the processes underlying them, the ideologies and policies that effect the linguistic spaces in which Spanish is used, and the complexity of the relationship between minority and majority languages. 

Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement.
Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Completion of a 300-level course in Spanish, or permission of the instructor. Limited to juniors and seniors

Classes will be taught in Spanish. 

SPA 409 - Race and Empire in the Hispanic Atlantic

The course examines the origins of race and what might make race one of the modern period’s more salient categories. The class focuses on the late medieval and early modern periods in the Hispanic Atlantic, but always with an eye to contemporary racial politics, trying to underscore the long history that makes questions of race today such thorny, complex issues. Through careful analysis of cultural artifacts from interdisciplinary perspectives, we will attempt to tease out the way religion, culture, ethnicity and race form the crucible in which Spain crafted a specifically European brand of modernity. Additionally, the class explores how it is that imperialism, for all the ways it might seem to be a thing of the past, structures our experience of the world today. 

Satisfies Area IV for the Hispanic Studies major.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

 

Prerequisites & Notes
Any two literature or culture courses. Limited to juniors and seniors. Priority will be given to majors, then minors.

SPA 410 - Writing and Righting the Cuban Revolution

“Writing/Righting the Cuban Revolution” examines literary texts, films, art and other cultural artifacts related to the “writing” and “righting” of the 1959 Cuban Revolution. We will find that the search for ideals, the hope for utopian place, was a part of the Cuban imagination long before 1959. For, Cuba has been part of the dialogue around notions of “Paradise lost” (and found?) since Columbus first sailed for the New World; many of those same ideals would be later rewritten in the lofty dreams the Cuban Revolution.
 
This class explores critical and literary works that expose the frustrations and social divisions that led up to Castro’s Revolution, both the elation and the regret of the early days of the Revolution, along with that uncover much about the resilience of the contemporary pueblo cubano. The majority of the works studied are from the 1940s through contemporary Cuba, with some earlier texts that reveal struggles of the former colony, first made wealthy by exploration and slavery.

Satisfies the Area V requirement for the Hispanic Studies major.
Satisfies the Literary Theory, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Satisfies a requirement in the Latin American Studies major and interdisciplinary minor.
 

Prerequisites & Notes
Unless given special permission, this class is limited to Juniors and Seniors, and student must have already taken any two 300-level culture or literature classes in Spanish.
Enrollment priority is given first to seniors and majors.

Conducted in Spanish

May include a week-long trip to Cuba in May

SPA 412 - Conflicts and Crises in Contemporary Spanish Cultural Production

This seminar takes as a point of departure a theoretical examination of the concepts of ‘conflict’ and ‘crisis’ with an eye towards answering the question of how do we define what is a ‘conflict’ and what is a ‘crisis’? From there, we will examine a series of historical events that have been categorized as either a conflict or a crisis in Spain throughout the 20th and 21st centuries that include historical memory, law, environmental studies, economics and finance, racism and xenophobia, and gender violence. We will look at the literary and artistic representations of these events and their portrayal in contemporary Spanish cultural production through theatre, prose, poetry, and film. Finally, we will examine to what extent the authors, playwrights, and directors engage with these conflicts and crises and what, if any, solutions can be achieved in the immediate future as an avenue toward social change.

Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement.
Satisfies the Foreign Language requirement
Satisfies Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

 

Prerequisites & Notes
Completion of a 300-level course in Spanish, or permission of the instructor. Limited to juniors and seniors. Priority will be given to majors, then minors.

SPA 429 - Independent Study

Special topics, themes, genre, or a single figure in literature, history, or culture, outside the content of other courses under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who approves the topic(s), the research project, and determines the means of evaluation. Open to Senior Majors.

Prerequisites & Notes
Any two literature or culture courses, or approval of the chair and the instructor.
 

SPA 430 - Independent Study

Special topics, themes, genre, or a single figure in literature, history, or culture, outside the content of other courses under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who approves the topic(s), the research project, and determines the means of evaluation. Open to Senior Majors.

Prerequisites & Notes
Any two literature or culture courses, or approval of the chair and the instructor.

SPA 490 - Senior Seminar Capstone

Required of all majors in Hispanic Studies.

Prerequisites & Notes
Limited to senior majors in Hispanic Studies. (Fall only)

SPA 498 - Senior Honors Thesis and Tutorial, SPA 498-499

Both SPA 498 and 499 are required to be eligible for Honors. Research and writing of the honors thesis begins in SPA 498 (in the spring of the junior year or the fall of the senior year) and is completed in SPA 499 during the last semester of the senior year. SPA 498 requires a thesis outline, annotated bibliography, progress reports, and an introductory chapter. An oral defense of the honors thesis proposal is held at the end of SPA 498. An oral presentation of the completed honors thesis is conducted at the end of SPA 499. Details of these requirements can be found on the department website.

THE 011 - Applied Theatre

THE 012 - Applied Theatre

THE 021 - Applied Theatre

THE 022 - Applied Theatre

THE 031 - Applied Theatre

THE 032 - Applied Theatre

THE 041 - Applied Theatre

THE 042 - Applied Theatre

THE 045 - Applied Theatre

THE 050 - Production Experience

This non-credit “course” represents one of the two Production Experience requirements for the major and minor.

THE 060 - Stage Management Experience

This non-credit “course” represents the Stage Mangement production requirement for the major.

THE 101 - Introduction to Theatre Arts

Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts requirement.
 

Prerequisites & Notes
First-year and sophomore students only until first day of class.

THE 110 - Thinking Creatively

What do Lady Gaga, Jeff Bezos, and Leonardo DaVinci have in common? Creative thinking. While creativity might seem a little like the mythical unicorn, with fundamental training, it is possible to discover and hone a creative mindset. This class introduces students to the skills and strategies associated with the creative process as a means to increase productivity and bring deeper and richer meaning to life, both professionally and personally.  Students will explore the definition of creativity and examine it as a fundamental component for success and innovation in many fields. By researching various theoretical approaches to the creative process, students will explore how to build their own creative workflow that allows the generation of exciting ideas and the incorporation of flexibility and problem solving skills to bring those ideas to fruition. 

Satisfies Visual and Performing Arts Ways of Knowing requirement. 

Prerequisites & Notes
No prerequisite required and open to students from all disciplines.

THE 111 - The Power of Play: Exploring Performance

In this course, students will learn the constituent elements of multiple performance techniques and how to apply those to various theatrical and non-theatrical projects. Through theatre games, exercises, improvisation, group projects, and creative assignments students will develop skills in spontaneity, vocal and physical creativity, active listening, character analysis, role-playing, applying research to creative processes, and group collaboration.

SatisfiesVisual and Performing Arts requirement.

THE 200 - Production Technology

Audience expectations for production quality have risen steadily since the days of Greek drama and the demand for technically literate artists and creators has never been higher. This course aims to empower you, the creator, with both technical and analytical skills you need to turn your idea into a live performance, art installation, or design. Explore how the history of stagecraft can be applied to contemporary challenges. Communicate technical information clearly with both drawings and writing. Utilize industry standard, professional resources to create high quality production elements. No shop or theatre experience required.

Satisfies Visual and Performing Arts Ways of Knowing requirement.

THE 201 - Exercises in Playcrafting and Performance

Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts requirement.

THE 210 - Leadership & Management in the Arts (=THE 310)

The goal of this course is to introduce you to the methods of management of non-profit cultural institutions in the United States in order to further your understanding of how you fit into this environment, either as an administrator or an artist.  You will learn practical skills for the successful management of arts organizations that will also translate into tools for your personal success.  Topics we will cover include leadership, marketing, fundraising, financial management and board governance.  This class will provide a new perspective on the role of arts managers and an understanding of how capable management practices can strengthen the arts in our country.

Satisfies a requirement in the Music major and minor.
Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Theatre majors should register for THE 310.

THE 221 - Ensemble Theatre Making

The course is an experiential and critical study of contemporary devised theatre. Students will develop and create original theatre work in an ensemble setting through a series of exercises, documentary research, basic film techniques, acting and creative writing.

Satisfies Visual and Performing Arts requirement.
Satisfies a Theatre major and minor requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Offered every other year.

No previous acting or theatre experience necessary

THE 230 - Fashion Statement: Couture to Costumes

From Dior to Lady Gaga, what we wear says something about who we are. This course explores the specific silhouettes and details in fashion from 1900 to the present with a focus on the artistic, social, cultural and political forces that drive design. We will also look at how some theatrical costume designers have created exciting modern performance by translating fashion trends onto the stage. Through lecture, presentations, and hands on projects we will better understand past and existing movements and create our own designs based on historical research. No theatre, design, or drawing experience required!

Satisfies Visual and Performing Arts requirement.