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FALL 2022 COURSES in FRENCH ITALIAN SPANISH FRENCH LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION (FRLT) ITALIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION (ITLT) ITALIAN STUDIES (ITST) SPANISH LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION (SPLT) LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES Courses at RLL merge the study of language with the study of literature, film, media, history, political thought, etc. to address questions of historical and contemporary relevance. Email RLL@hofstra.edu if you have any questions Email the professor if you have questions about a particular class Make an appointment with your advisor in the department to decide on what classes you should take
ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES FALL 2022 COURSES FREN COURSES ARE TAUGHT IN FRENCH They can serve to fulfill your language requirement and major or minor requirement. All French majors and minors should consult with a department faculty advisor when selecting courses. FOR FREN 1-2 SEE THE ONLINE BULLETIN FREN 003: INTERMEDIATE FRENCH 1 Professor Colette M. Sumner (Colette.M.Sumner@hofstra.edu) TR 2:40-4:05 CRN 90341 Professor Sabine Loucif (Sabine.Loucif@hofstra.edu) MW 2:40-4:05 CRN 90341 Professor Denis J. Jean (denis.j.jean@hofstra.edu) MW 4:20-5:45 CRN 91334 Description: Continued development of the fundamentals of structure, sound system, vocabulary building for effective communication and understanding. Speaking, understanding, reading and writing techniques are further developed. FREN 107: CONVERSATION SKILLS Professor Denis Jean (denis.j.jean@hofstra.edu) CRN 91900 Professor Colette Sumner (colette.m.sumner@hofstra.edu) CRN 91718 Professor Steve Verolla (Steven.M.Verolla@hofstra.edu) CRN 92877 Meeting Times: TBA (0.5 Semester Hours) Description: Stresses authentic intonation patterns, oral proficiency and listening comprehension. Students meet once a week for twenty-five minutes with a French-speaking instructor. Syllabi are established between instructor and student in the first week and focus upon areas where student requires more practice and improved competency (grammatical and/or cultural).
FREN 112: FRENCH COMPOSITION Professor Denis Jean (denis.j.jean@hofstra.edu) MW 11:20- 12:45 CRN 93547 Description: Designed to improve the student’s ability to write correct French. Stylistic and linguistic studies of selected texts. Exercises in French composition, outside readings.
FREN 180F: (LT) POLITCAL & CULTURAL FRENCH ICONS Professor Sabine Loucif (Sabine.Loucif@hofstra.edu) TBA CRN 93548 Description: This course introduces students to major French political and artistic figures of the 20th and 21st century, including Charles de Gaulle, François Mitterrand, Simone Veil, Johnny Hallyday, Josephine Baker. The intent is to put forward what constitutes French identity through the analysis of the achievements of these politicians and artists but also through the official ceremonies dedicated to them postmortem.
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FRENCH LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION: ALL MATERIALS ARE READ AND DISCUSSED IN ENGLISH They can serve to fulfill your French major or minor, distribution requirement, and to complete the Alternate Language Option of the Foreign Language Requirement FRLT 043: (LT, CC) DECOLONIZING THE MIND: CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE FROM AFRICA TO SOUTHEAST ASIA Professor Sabine Loucif (sabine.loucif@hofstra.edu) MW 6:00-7:25 CRN 91406 Description: Examination of literary voices from Francophone countries including Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia. Topics include decolonization and the African identity, the search for self, the contradictions of life in the colonies and racism. Readings include works by Memmi, Ben Jelloun, Snow-Fall, Senghor. All works are read and discussed in English. FRLT 046: (LT) SEX, GENDER, AND LOVE IN 20TH- CENTURY FRENCH PROSE Professor Sabine Loucif (sabine.loucif@hofstra.edu) MW 4:20-5:45 CRN 91362 Description: Selected narrative and experimental texts examined to show the deconstruction and evolution of traditional concepts of sex, gender and love in 20th-century French literature. Gender reading techniques constitute the principal methodological approach, along with close textual analysis. Readings include works by Andre Gide, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Monique Wittig and Jean Genet. All works are read and discussed in English.
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ITAL COURSES: ALL MATERIALS ARE READ AND DISCUSSED IN ITALIAN They can serve to fulfill your language requirement and major or minor requirements. All Italian majors and minors should consult with a department faculty advisor when selecting courses. FOR ITAL 1-2 See Online Schedule ITAL 003: INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN I Professor Simone Castaldi (Simone.Castaldi@hofstra.edu) TR 1:00-2:45 CRN 91173 Professor Rosetta Urgo (Rosetta.urgo@hofstra.edu) MW 2:40-4:05 CRN 91088 Description: Brief structural review followed by emphasis on the expression of opinions, ideas, desires and hypothetical scenarios both in short compositions and small group communicative activities. Reading and analytical skills in the target language are also developed further through the reading and discussion of short cultural passages and authentic materials. ITAL 104: 12 FAMOUS ITALIANS Professor Simone Castaldi (Simone.Castaldi@hofstra.edu) TR 2:40-4:05 CRN 93549 Description: From poet Dante Alighieri to fashion designer Ermenegildo Zegna, students learn about important Italians in different fields such as science, fashion, cinema literature, art, and history. By using linguistically accessible readings, videos, and songs, students will familiarize themselves with the history and culture of Italy while expanding their knowledge of grammar structures and vocabulary. ITAL 108: CONVERSATION SKILLS Professor Lorenza Colletti (lorenza.colletti@hofstra.edu) CRN 91919 Meeting Times: TBA (0.5 Semester Hours) Description: Stresses authentic intonation patterns, oral proficiency, and listening comprehension. Students meet once a week for 25 minutes with an instructor who is a speaker of standard Italian. Syllabi are established between instructor and student in the first week and focus upon areas where student requires more practice and improved competency (grammatical and/or cultural).
ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES FALL 2022 COURSES ITALIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION: ITLT--ALL MATERIALS ARE READ AND DISCUSSED IN ENGLISH They can serve to complete your LT distribution requirement, and to complete the Alternate Language Option. ITLT 041: (LT) LOVE AND EROS IN ITALIAN LITERATURE Professor Lori Ultsch (Lori.J.Ultsch@hofstra.edu) TR 6:00-7:25 CRN 92585 Description: The course focuses on love and eros in works of Italian literature in the early modern period and how the treatment of these two themes gives voice to shifting perspectives on sin, virtue, the body, and the soul. Students read recognized masterpieces by male and female authors and explore topics such as romantic love, tragic love, love as caritas, courtly love, neoplatonism, lust, prostitution, pornography, and adultery. All works are read and discussed in English. This course is cross-listed as WST 151K for credit toward the minor in Women’s Studies. ITALIAN STUDIES-- ITST: ALL MATERIALS ARE READ AND DISCUSSED IN ENGLISH These courses can serve to complete your major in Italian, your minor in Italian Studies, fulfill your AA or IS distribution requirement, and to complete the Alternate Language Option. ITST 142: (IS) ITALIAN MAFIA HISTORICAL REALITY AND FICTIONAL REPRESENTATIONS Professor Simone Castaldi (Simone.Castaldi@hofstra.edu) TR 4:20-5:45 CRN 93658 They can serve complete your major in Italian, yourofminor in Italian Studies, fulfill Description: Thistocourse examines the wide spectrum representations of Italian organized your AA IS distribution requirement, to complete the Alternate Language crime, fromorhistorically oriented works toand fictional popularizations. Some of the major narratives Option.with southern organized crime is presented. At the same time, students will learn about dealing the origins and the development of the Mafia and its economic and political background, with a special focus on the period between the post-war years to the present.
ITST 144: (IS) ITALIAN FOOD CULTURE Professor Gregory Pell (Gregory.M.pell@hofstra.edu) CRN 93550 MW 2:40-4:05 Description: This course examines the importance of food as a key to understanding the building of Italian identity throughout the country's history, from the late middle ages to present time. Special attention is given to the representation of food, and its shifting symbolic and cultural value, in art, literature, and cinema. DECLARE A MINOR OR A MAJOR IN ITALIAN OR ITALIAN STUDIES MORE INFO HERE
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SPAN COURSES: ALL MATERIALS ARE READ AND DISCUSSED IN SPANISH. They can serve to fulfill your language requirement and major or minor requirement. Those marked (LT) can fulfill Literature distribution credit. All SPAN courses in this flyer count towards Spanish major (33 s.h) or minor (18 s.h), and many of them count towards the LACS major or minor as well. Spanish majors and minors should see an advisor to decide on their courses. FOR SPAN 1-3 See the online schedule SPAN 004: GATEWAY TO COMMUNICATION Professor Manuel Galofaro (manuel.s.galofaro@hofstra.edu) TR 1:00-2:05 CRN 90703 Description: This course is intended for students who have achieved an intermediate level of Spanish (the equivalent of SPAN 003 at Hofstra). The course will help students improve in the three modes of communication: Interpersonal, Interpretive and Presentational. The class emphasizes communication, while at the same time reviewing some of the most challenging aspects of grammar. At the end of the course, students will have increased their ability to communicate in Spanish and will be eligible to take the whole array of advanced-level Spanish courses. . SPAN 102: SPANISH FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Professor Luis Chaves (Luis.R.Chaves@hofstra.edu) MW 4:20-5:55 CRN 91527 Description: This course provides students with the specific Spanish language skills and terminology essential for working effectively with Spanish-speaking patients and health professionals. It will be particularly useful for future physicians, nurses, EMTs, medical attendants and lab technicians. The course will also cover the vocabulary of fields such as dentistry, ophthalmology, psychiatry and counseling. Students will acquire the vocabulary, grammar, and oral and written skills necessary for medical professionals and will enhance their ability to engage with diverse cultural attitudes towards health, well-being, and the body.
SPAN 108: CONVERSATION SKILLS (0.5 Semester Hours) Professor Manuel Galofaro (manuel.s.galofaro@hofstra.edu) CRN 91922 Professor Gabriel Pastrana (Gabriel.Pastrana@hofstra.edu) CRN 92323 Professor Teresa Sarabia (Teresa.Sarabia@hofstra.edu) CRN 93726 Meeting Times: TBA (0.5 Semester Hours) Description: In this course, students converse in Spanish in a relaxed environment where they feel comfortable making mistakes and thereby improve their speaking skills. Topics may include art, culture, literature, sports, music, health, education, jobs and occupations, current events, or anything else that the student finds interesting. No textbook is required, only the desire to speak Spanish. Students meet once a week for 25 minutes with a Spanish-speaking instructor
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SPAN 109: ADVANCED CONVERSATION Professor Maria Anastasio (Maria.J.Anastasio@hofstra.edu) MW 9:40-11:05 CRN 93552 Description: The course will help students develop oral communication skills through participation in a Spanish-speaking environment. The course addresses cultural issues as presented in literature, media, films, songs, and TV programs. Students learn to express complex ideas through oral reports and presentations while refining their understanding of everyday speech in Spanish. This course, as all courses with the SPAN prefix, is taught in Spanish. SPAN 111: ADVANCED SPANISH GRAMMAR Professor Manolo Galofaro (Manuel.s.galofaro@hofstra.edu) TR 9:40-11:05 CRN 93553 Description: Students will investigate some of the more difficult grammatical rules that underlie the Spanish language. Students will be expected to identify parts of speech, describe the rules of grammar and memorize regular and irregular verb forms. Attention given to the function of preterite vs. imperfect to describe past events, the use of the verbs ser vs. estar, and the use of the subjunctive vs. the indicative mood. This course, as all courses with the SPAN prefix, is taught in Spanish. SPAN 114A: (LT) INTRODUCTION TO SPANISH LITERATURE I Professor Vicente Lledo-Guillem (Vicente.Lledoguillem@hofstra.edu) MW 11:20-12:45 CRN 93659 Description: An overview of works of literature written in Spanish between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The works will be analyzed by studying the literary texts as well as the historical, political and linguistic context in which the works were written. Iberian works written in other languages such as Arabic, Mozarabic, Catalan, and Galician-Portuguese will also be analyzed in translation to provide a more detailed account of the context in which Spanish literature was written during this period.
SPAN 132: (LT) POETRY AND VISUAL ARTS Prof. Miguel-Angel Zapata (Miguel-angel.zapata@hofstra.edu) TR 2:40-4:05 CRN 93554 Description: This course is designed to discover the transformation of the brush stroke into the written word and the new image that reappears as a new work of art. This encounter between poet and painter opens new doors of research into the intrinsic relation between the arts. It is not on a mere whim that so many poets have felt themselves attracted to works of visual art, and at the same time have expressed their interior selves through the contemplation of paintings. This exploration has caused them to work their way into the canvas itself, and to reside inside the brilliant house of color. After the explorations and readings of other poets in relation to visual arts, students will write personal essays about the relationship between poetry and paintings, photographs or sculptures. Like all SPAN classes, SPAN 132 is taught in Spanish.
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SPAN 133: (CC, LT) THE LATIN AMERICAN FANTASTIC SHORT STORY Prof. Miguel-Angel Zapata (Miguel-angel.zapata@hofstra.edu) TR 4:20-5:45 CRN 93555 Description: This course analyzes in-depth the presence of the fantastic genre in certain remarkable short stories by Spanish-American authors from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. These stories denote the presence of unusual events, which can be supernatural or paranormal, recreating different levels of meaning as diverse as dissimilar. Among the authors to study are: Rubén Darío (Nicaragua) Leopoldo Lugones, Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina), César Vallejo (Perú), Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay), Augusto Monterroso (Guatemala), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia), José Emilio Pacheco (México), among others. This course, as all courses with the SPAN prefix, is taught in Spanish. SPAN 145B: (LT) THE PRESENCE OF THE DEVIL IN SPANISH LITERATURE Prof. Vicente Lledo-Guillem (Vicente.Lledoguillem@hofstra.edu) MW 2:40-4:05 CRN 93556 Description: The Devil appears as a character in many works of Spanish literature. It is still a recurrent topic in contemporary art, literature, and media. In this course we will focus on books written in Spanish between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries where the Devil plays an important role. We will analyze how this character is represented and how these representations relate to the historical, cultural, and ideological context of the period, with special attention to issues such as gender, sexuality, magic, religion, and witchcraft. We will learn how the Devil as a concept and as a character has been used to support a particular ideology and distribution of power that brings with it different views of the world and humankind. The course will be taught in Spanish and it counts towards your minor or major in Spanish. It also fulfills the LT distribution requirement.
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SPANISH IN TRANSLATION (SPLT) COURSES: ALL MATERIALS ARE READ AND DISCUSSED IN ENGLISH They can serve to fulfill your literature (LT) distribution requirements and to complete the Alternate Language Option of the Foreign Language Requirement. 3 SPLT sh can be applied towards the Spanish major. SPLT courses do not count towards the minor in Spanish, but many of them count towards the major and minor in LACS.
SPLT 014F: (LT) STAR TREK & ANCESTORS Prof. Alfonso Garcia-Osuna (Alfonso.J.Garcia-Osuna@hofstra.edu) TR 9:40-11:05 CRN 93415 Description: In this course we will analyze how, in modern Hollywood productions like Star Trek and 3rd Rock from the Sun as well as in ancient narratives like The Epic of Gilgamesh, the traveler interacts with what is alien, strange and extraordinary. We will focus not only on the way the voyage story provides imaginative speculation about what “there is out there,” but also, and more importantly, on how it reveals our own values as “we” gaze at “the other.” Our analysis begins with the earliest extant examples of fantastic voyage narratives and continues with medieval and modern works, concluding with contemporary science fiction. Class readings and discussions are all in English. Please note: This course satisfies a University graduation requirement in the Humanities category.
SPLT 050B: (LT) LATIN AMERICAN VOICE UNDER 50 Professor Alvaro Enrigue (Alvaro.Enrigue@hofstra.edu) TR 1:00-2:25 CRN 93559 Description: Reading others is the only way to internalize their experience –Albert Camus said in The Myth of Sisyphus. Literature is a voyage through other people inner, secret life. What it feels to be a young person from Latin America today? In this class we will trace a map of pleasures and responsibilities, dreams and nightmares, of the young Latin American writers breaking it, as we speak, in the English publishing market. Class readings and discussions are in English. SPLT 050K: (LT) POPULAR MUSIC IN LATIN AMERICA Professor Maria Anastasio (Maria.J.Anastasio@hofstra.edu) MW 11:20-12:45 CRN 93558 Description: In this course we look at popular musical genres in Latin America and Latinx USA in 20th and 21st Centuries to investigate how the creation, circulation, and consumption of popular music engage with the social and the political. In order to describe and analyze the creation and consumption of music as a complex cultural act, students will become familiar with basic theoretical principles of the disciplines of popular culture studies and popular music studies. Musical properties of songs or genres — e.g., instrumentation, dynamics, harmony, etc. — will be approached from the perspective of the non-musician. Class readings and discussions are in English.
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LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES COURSES Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) at Hofstra University offers a wide array of courses on Latin America, the Caribbean, and related diasporas in the United States. The LACS major requires 33 semester hours, while the minor requires 18 total semester hours. Additionally, these courses may also be used to fulfill the interdisciplinary course or cross-cultural course requirement at Hofstra. LACS 001: (IS, CC) PUTTING LATIN AMERICAN AND THE CARIBBEAN ON THE MAP: GEORGRAPHY, POLITICS, AND LITERATURE Professor Brenda Elsey (Brenda.Elsey@hofstra.edu) MW 4:20-5:45 CRN 90720 Description: This course is intended to introduce students to the two diverse regions with which North Americans share the Western hemisphere: Latin America and the Caribbean. The course offers a multi-faceted approach to various dimensions of the countries lying to the south of the United States. The geography, history, politics, socioeconomic projects, cultures, languages and literatures of these societies will be analyzed in an interdisciplinary fashion. In this course students will demonstrate the ability to think critically and creatively, will apply analytical reasoning across academic disciplines, and will demonstrate an awareness of –and sensitivity towards— Latin American and Caribbean issues in a global context. LACS 015R: (CC, IS) POPULAR MUSIC IN LATIN AMERICA Professor Maria J. Anastasio (Maria.J.Anastasio@hofstra.edu) MW 11:20-12:45 CRN 93398 Description: In this course we look at popular musical genres in Latin America and Latinx USA in 20th and 21st Centuries to investigate how the creation, circulation, and consumption of popular music engage with the social and the political. In order to describe and analyze the creation and consumption of music as a complex cultural act, students will become familiar with basic theoretical principles of the disciplines of popular culture studies and popular music studies. Musical properties of songs or genres — e.g., instrumentation, dynamics, harmony, etc. — will be approached from the perspective of the non-musician. Class readings and discussions are in English. LACS 015S: (CC, IS) LATIN AMERICAN GLOBAL HISTORY Professor Brenda Elsey (Brenda.Elsey@hofstra.edu) MW 2:40-4:05 CRN 93399 Description: Interdisciplinary exploration of specific issues in the study of Latin America and the Caribbean. Themes may include decolonization of knowledge, globalization and Latin American cultures, nation-building literatures, travel writing, borderlands, U.S.-Latin American relations, natural resources and politics, indigenous communities and nation states, or media and politics. Topics will vary.
ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES FALL 2022 COURSES LACS 015T: (CC, IS) LATIN AMERICAN VOICES UNDER 50 Professor Alvaro Enrigue (Alvaro.Enrigue@hofstra.edu) TR 1:00-2:25 CRN 93400 Description: Reading others is the only way to internalize their experience –Albert Camus said in The Myth of Sisyphus. Literature is a voyage through other people inner, secret life. What it feels to be a young person from Latin America today? In this class we will trace a map of pleasures and responsibilities, dreams and nightmares, of the young Latin American writers breaking it, as we speak, in the English publishing market. (Cross-listed with SPLT 50B.) This course would satisfy the Cross Cultural distribution requirement.
LACS 120: (CC, IS) HOW DO YOU SAY ‘QUEER’ IN SPANISH? GENDER, SEXUALITY, IDENTITY AND CITIZENSHIP? Professor Maria Anastasio (Maria.J.Anastasio@hofstra.edu) MW 2:40-4:05 CRN 93397 Description: The course seeks to explore the ways in which Spanish-speaking cultures have negotiated the categorizations of sexual orientation and gender identity. Materials for the course include literature, film, performance, and theory from Latin America, Latino USA and Spain. All readings and discussions will be in English.