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Social Issues in Japan Through Online News — JPN4119.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
The course is designed for students to deepen their understanding of Japanese language and culture through analysis of Japanese newspapers online and examination of Japanese articles from various contexts.  Students will practice various reading strategies, which will help them become independent learners.  Mass media is the reflection of a society and the mirror of a
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Special Projects in Advanced Japanese — JPN4801.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to research/ complete a project in their field of study/interest. In order to take this course, students are required to write a proposal of their project and be accepted by the instructor. Corequisites: Language Series
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Special Projects in Advanced Japanese — JPN4705.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: ikuko yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to research/complete a project in their field of study/interest. In order to take this course, students are required to write a proposal of their project and be accepted by the instructor. Advanced level. Conducted in Japanese.
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Special Projects in Advanced Japanese — JPN4705.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to research/ complete a project in their field of study/interest. In order to take this course, students are required to write a proposal of their project and be accepted by the instructor. Advanced level. Conducted in Japanese.  
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Special Projects in Advanced Japanese — JPN4801.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to research/ complete a project in their field of study/interest.  In order to take this course, students are required to write a proposal of their project and be accepted by the instructor. Corequisite: Students must attend at least two Language Series events (Mondays, 7:00pm – 8:00pm)
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Special Projects in Advanced Japanese — JPN4705.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to research/complete a project in their field of study/interest. In order to take this course, students are required to write a proposal of their project and be accepted by the instructor. Corequisite: Students are required to attend Language Series.
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Special Projects in Spanish — SPA4703.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
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 and
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Sport in Latin America — SPA4496.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This course will analyze the symbolic and practical meaning of a range of sports and their commodification (both imported and exported), not least in the apparently perpetual definition and redefinition of national ideologies and regional identities, the continuation or disruption of collective memory, agency or lack thereof, race, class, and politics, thus contextualizing
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Teaching Languages and Cultures K-6 — FLE2107.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly, Ikuko Yoshida Sarah Harris
Credits: 2
Early exploration of foreign languages and cultures is gaining increasing attention nationwide. This seven-week course is intended to help students gain a basic understanding of language and culture teaching to young children. Students will explore theories and pedagogical techniques, develop lesson plans and units, and implement them in class. Students will create, share, and
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Teaching Languages K-6 — MOD2162.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Sarah Harris, Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly, Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 1
Early exploration of foreign languages and cultures is gaining increasing attention nationwide. This three-week module is intended to help students gain a basic understanding of foreign language teaching to young children.  Working with local language teachers and program administrators, students will have an opportunity to teach foreign languages in the
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The Art of Brevity: Linguistic Conciseness in the Spanish and Latin American Traditions — SPA4129.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
Baltasar Gracián, master of the aphorism, summed it up this way: "Something good, if brief, is twice as good." Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares sought in the microrrelato (a very short story) "the essence of narrative". In our time, compressed political slogans or tweets compete to attract the fragmented attention of the public. This course will explore the
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The Art of Brevity: Linguistic Conciseness in the Spanish and Latin American Traditions — CANCELLED

Fall 2015
Instructor: Luis Gonzalez Barrios (See Sarah Harris or Jonathan Pitcher for registration.)
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Baltasar Gracián, master of the aphorism, summed it up this way: "something good, if brief, is twice as good." Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares sought in the microrrelato (a very short story) "the essence of narrative." In our time, compressed political slogans or tweets compete to attract the fragmented attention of the public. This course will explore the
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The Art of Spanish — SPA2106.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
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’ 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
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The Art of Spanish I: Language Through Painting — SPA2107.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
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' 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
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The Creation of Spain's Image: Myths Archetypes — SPA4102.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset once remarked of his compatriots, 'We prefer the lively sensation of things to the things themselves.' This course will focus on these 'lively sensations,' national myths of Spain that may or may not maintain much direct connection to the original 'things themselves.' National myths contain symbolic cultural significance and can
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The Creation of Spain's Image: Myths and Archetypes — SPA4301.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset once remarked of his compatriots, ‘We prefer the lively sensation of things to the things themselves.’ This course will focus on these ‘lively sensations,’ national myths of Spain that may or may not maintain much direct connection to the original ‘things themselves.’ National myths contain symbolic cultural significance and can
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The Culture of Italian Opera — ITA4215.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
This course explores Italian culture through one of its most celebrated traditions--opera. Students will discuss plots, settings, characters, and themes while strengthening their speaking skills and acquiring new vocabulary. Through the comparison of past and present cultural norms and habits, and through the relationship between those cultural norms and romantic love, students
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The Film Trailer Project — FRE4119.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding  of the French language and cultural
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The Film Trailer Project — FRE4603.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French language and cultural realities
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The French Eye — FRE4121.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: noëlle rouxel-cubberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
***Time Change*** In this course, students will examine specific visual representations within the context of French culture. Through the reading of a wide variety of French images, including Chartres cathedral's stainglasses, La Tour's chiaroscuro paintings, cartoon hero Tintin, Cocteau's drawings and films, and Sophie Calle's installation, Prenez soin de vous, students will
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The History of Argentina — SPA4217.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will chart the last two centuries of Argentine history, chronologically, from textbooks to slogans, philosophy to politics, with a particular focus on nationalist discourse. Perhaps the only consistent ideology of the period, and doubtless one of the more persuasive, does Argentine nationalism represent an autochthonous spirit, the legitimate identity of
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The Japanese Language and its Reflection of Values and Morals in Folktales — JPN2110.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Satomi LaFave
Credits: 4
Folktales are very interesting sources through which to gain an increased understanding of the cultural values and morals passed on from generation to generation. Gaining insight through these tales can improve comprehension of modern Japanese and the common cultural foundations upon which it is built. In this beginning Japanese course, students will be introduced to some
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The Language of Persuasion — SPA2103.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
Students with little or no background in Spanish will learn the language through an immersion in the study of political propaganda, tourist campaigns, and advertising from the Spanish-speaking world. An examination of Spanish and Latin American print, radio, film, and television advertisements, as well as political cartoons and speeches, will allow students to consider
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The Latin American Short Story — SPA4006.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jonathan pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Along with intermittent textual analysis and some socio-historical context, the intention is to obsess over the ideology of that most lauded of genres, the Latin American short story, from modernismo to its contemporary forms. Students will develop their oral and written skills, progressing from paragraph-level exposition to imitation to an initial defense of ideas. The course
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