Romance Languages & Literature

Chair:
Alison Rice

Director of Graduate Studies in Italian:
Theodore J. Cachey Jr.

Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish:
Vanesa Miseres

Director of Undergraduate Studies:
Keith Schaefer

Graduate Liaison of French:
Fr. Gregory Haake

Associate Directors of Undergraduate Studies:
French—Claire Reising
Italian—Kathleen Boyle
Portuguese—Marcio Bahia
Spanish—Katherine Oswald

Professors:
Thomas F. Anderson; Theodore J. Cachey Jr.; Joshua Lund; Marisel C. Moreno; María Rosa Olivera-Williams; Alison Rice

Associate Professors:
Fr. Gregory Haake; Ben Heller; Carlos Jáuregui; Charles Leavitt; Vanesa Miseres; Juan Vitulli

Assistant Professors:
Pedro Aguilera-Mellado; Laura Banella; Sara Boezio; Madison Mainwaring; Johannes Junge Ruhland

Teaching Professors:
Alessia Blad-Miller; Tatiana Botero; Kathleen Boyle; Elena Mangione-Lora; Rachel Parroquin; Tiziana Serafini; Shauna Williams

Associate Teaching Professors and Concurrent Lecturers:
María Coloma; Marcio Bahia; Monica Jancha; Katherine Oswald; Andrea Topash Ríos; Anne Schaefer; Patrick Vivirito

Assistant Teaching Professors and Concurrent Lecturers:
Ana Fauri; Azeb Haileselassie; Lesley Marcantonio; Claire Reising; Keith Schaefer

Program of Studies

The Romance languages derive from Vulgar Latin spoken throughout the Roman Empire. A major course of study is offered in French, Italian, and Spanish. Minors are offered in French, Italian, and Portuguese. The study of languages, literatures, and cultures provides educational opportunities relevant to an increasingly interdependent world. A crucial component of a liberal education, the acquisition of language skills enhances our powers of communication and serves to introduce us to the enduring cultural achievements of other peoples. Moreover, the study of languages, literatures, and cultures broadens our mental horizons, encourages us to think and act more globally, and stimulates our understanding of the traditions of other people. Elementary and intermediate courses develop the students’ ability to understand, speak, read, and write French, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish language with facility and confidence.

Upper-division courses present a wealth of literary, historical, and cultural traditions and emphasize the nature and development of cultures. Many courses focus on the literature and culture of certain historical periods. Others trace the development of literary genres or examine a theme across periods and genres. All courses inculcate the critical and analytical skills necessary for an informed interpretation of texts. Participation in Notre Dame’s international study programs in Brazil, Chile, France, Italy, Mexico, and Spain (see the International Study Programs section of this Bulletin) is highly recommended although not required to pursue a major in Romance languages and literatures. Majors and supplementary majors in French, Italian, and Spanish must complete 50 percent of their credit hours in the major in residency at Notre Dame and meet the following program requirements. For current information visit the department website: romancelanguages.nd.edu.

The Department of Romance Languages and Literature offers their courses under the subject codes of: Romance Languages and Literature (LLRO), French (ROFR), Italian (ROIT), Portuguese (ROPO), and Spanish (ROSP). Courses associated with their academic programs may be found below. The scheduled classes for a given semester may be found at classearch.nd.edu.

Romance Languages & Literature (LLRO)

LLRO 10100 Falling for Romance Languages (1 Credit Hour)

This course is designed to open the door into the world of Romance Languages and Literatures at Notre Dame. Over the four-week session, students will be able to explore new cultures, learn new languages, and engage in an international community. Each week, students will view ab authentic, culturally relevant movie followed by two 60-minute meetings on Zoom-a discussion about the movie in English and an hour of interactive and fun elementary language activities. Each week focuses on one of the four main languages offered in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures: French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. No prior language is necessary

LLRO 10101 Beginning Quechua I (3-6 Credit Hours)

The principal aims of this beginning-level Quechua Language course are to encourage the development of competency and proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and to generate cultural understanding. LLRO 10101 is followed by LLRO 10102.

LLRO 10102 Beginning Quechua II (3-6 Credit Hours)

LLRO 10112 Creole Language and Culture I (3 Credit Hours)

This course introduces students to the vivid, sonorous language of Kreyòl, or Creole, and to the fascinating culture of its speakers. This intensive, beginning-level course is intended for students with no knowledge of Creole. In small-group teaching sessions, students will be prepared for conversational fluency with basic reading and writing skills, emphasizing communicative competence as well as grammatical and phonetic techniques. Our study of Kreyòl is closely linked to our anthropological exploration of how the language is tied to Caribbean society and culture. The course takes a holistic, anthropological approach to the history, political economy, and religion of Haiti. In addition to class work, audio recordings, music and video enhance the study of the Haitian language and culture.

LLRO 10118 Beginning II Creole (3 Credit Hours)

Creole is spoken by an estimated seventeen million people. Creole is spoken on the islands of the Caribbean and the western Indian Ocean that were former or current French colonial possessions and in the countries where many of these former island residents have emigrated, including the United States, Canada, France, Dominican Republic, Bahamas and other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. Haitians are the largest Creole speech community of approximately eleven and a half million speakers. Creole language courses provide a valuable foundation for Notre Dame faculty, staff and students working to understand and address critical issues related to Haiti and the Francophone world, from language and culture to history and education, from engineering to public health. Creole language and literature are of increasing interest in the dynamic field of Francophone studies. Creole has also become a major area in the field of linguistics, especially in areas of language evolution, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. This is a three-credit introductory language course. The instructor will balance both spoken and written Creole as well as exercise reading and listening.

LLRO 10650 Learning and Teaching Beyond the Classroom (LTBC) (1 Credit Hour)

LTBC is an interdisciplinary and experiential-learning 1 credit course on refugee issues and basic principles of foreign language pedagogy (how to teach a foreign language). Its purpose is to teach you about refugee crises in the world, and provide you with the knowledge and professional development needed to work as coaches/teaching assistants in language courses for refugees. Open to students who will have at least a 102 level by the end of the Spring 2023 semester. Co-taught by Tiziana Serafini and Suzanne Shanahan, Director of the Center of Social Concerns. A selected number of students from the LTBC course will be given the possibility to work as teaching assistants with Professor Serafini in a Basic Italian course that will be offered in the Summer of 2023 to African refugees planning to study in Italian universities.

LLRO 11301 Beginning Quechua I (1-3 Credit Hours)

This course is for learners who have not taken Quechua before and are starting as complete beginners. Each year, a native Quechua speaker on the Fulbright program come to ND to be the instructor for the Quechua sections. Students will practice the four main linguistic skill areas: reading, writing, listening, and speaking in the context of learning about the Quechua people, culture in the Andes mountains, and more.

LLRO 11302 Beginning Quechua II (1-3 Credit Hours)

Building on Quechua I foundations, students will continue to practice the four main linguistic skill areas: reading, writing, listening, and speaking by building vocabulary, engaging in role plays and simulated conversations, writing for the purpose of achieving tasks, and gist listening. Each year, a native Quechua speaker on the Fulbright program come to ND to be the instructor for the Quechua sections. Students can expect authentic learning from a cultural ambassador to round out their foundations of learning the Quechua language.

LLRO 11303 Int/Adv Spoken Quechua (1-2 Credit Hours)

This course is for learners who have completed Beginning Quechua I and II. As a traditionally spoken indigenous language, learners of Quechua often focus most on speaking and listening skills. This class will build on the foundations covered in the first year of Quechua courses and continue to incorporate grammar structures with limited activities related to reading or writing in Quechua. Primary attention will be placed on listening comprehension and speaking/pronunciation. Repeatable for advanced learners.

LLRO 11304 Int/Adv Quechua Reading and Writing (1-2 Credit Hours)

This course is for learners who have completed Beginning Quechua I and II. Although Quechua is a traditionally spoken indigenous language, reading and writing can be empowering and important for documenting endangered languages. This class will build on the foundations covered in the first year of Quechua courses and incorporate literature authored by Quechua people. Repeatable for advanced learners.

LLRO 11305 Topics in Quechua Language and Culture (1 Credit Hour)

This is a topics course that covers a variety of cultural learning lectures and discussions related to the Quechua indigenous people. Led by our visiting Fulbright instructor, participants will have the opportunity to gain authentic insights, perspectives, and experiences from a Quechua person. Conducted in English, no Quechua language proficiency required.

LLRO 13186 Literature University Seminar (3 Credit Hours)

An introduction to the seminar method of instruction, emphasizing the analysis of literary texts.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: USEM - University Seminar, WKAL - Core Art & Literature

Students in the Holy Cross College or St. Mary's College colleges may not enroll.

LLRO 20212 Intermediate Creole I (3 Credit Hours)

This course is intended for students who have completed Beginning level Creole or who have attained equivalent competence in the language. In small-group teaching sessions, students will be prepared for conversational fluency with basic reading and writing skills, emphasizing communicative competence as well as grammatical and phonetic techniques. Our study of Kreyòl is closely linked to our exploration of how the language is tied to Caribbean society and culture. Evaluation of student achievement and proficiency will be conducted both informally and formally during and at the conclusion of the course. Those looking to develop or improve their language skills are welcome to the class. The program is designed to meet the needs of those who plan to conduct research in Haiti or in the Haitian diaspora, or who intend to work in a volunteer or professional capacity either in Haiti or with Haitians abroad.

Prerequisites: LLRO 20112 or ROFR 20680

LLRO 20222 Intermediate Creole II (3 Credit Hours)

This course is intended for students who have taken one semester of Intermediate Creole Language and Culture. In small-group teaching sessions, students will be prepared for conversational fluency with enhanced reading and writing skills, emphasizing communicative competence as well as grammatical variety and phonetic acumen. Our study of Kreyòl is integrated with an exploration of how the language is tied to Haitian society, culture, economy and politics and history. Evaluation of student achievement and proficiency will be conducted both informally and formally during and at the conclusion of the course. Those looking to develop or improve their language skills are welcome to the class. The program is designed to meet the needs of those who plan to conduct research in Haiti or in the Haitian diaspora, or who intend to work in a volunteer or professional capacity either in Haiti or with Haitians abroad.

LLRO 20420 Urban Ethics (3 Credit Hours)

What are cities, and how do they work? How do present (and how will future) societies respond to the challenges of pollution, sustainable development, exploitation of natural resources, equal access to infrastructure, education and welfare, human rights, food production and distribution, and energy consumption? This course welcomes students to reflect on these questions and respond to these challenges through the emerging field of urban ethics. Through lectures and readings, we will ask: 1.) Can we define an “ancient urban ethics?" 2.) Which disciplines are involved in urban ethics, and what strategies—from environmental to social ethics—should inform it? 3.) What policies, planning documents, and environmental and information technologies from the past and present can we avail from around the world to understand urban ethics? To ground our discussions, we will read excerpts from classical literature, philosophy, and cross-disciplinary works. We will also engage resources including maps, drawings, art, photographs, and videos. As we will discover through discussion and participation, urban ethics is a field in which everyone is involved.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKSP - Core 2nd Philosophy

LLRO 20612 Genesis of the Italian-American Identity (3 Credit Hours)

At the turn of the twentieth century the US experienced one of the largest immigration waves in its history. Millions of Italian immigrants who made their way through Ellis Island at the time would leave a permanent imprint on the American landscape and social texture, just as the American experience would shape their identity. This course explores in an interdisciplinary way the many cultural aspects that define Italian-Americans, including religion, language, family structure and gender roles, traditions and celebrations, cuisine, political and social worldview, and artistic representations. The aim of this course is for students to analyze how these cultural facets created the Italian-American identity.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

LLRO 20650 From the "Sea in the Middle": Medieval Mediterranean’s Stories (3 Credit Hours)

In the intricate and interconnected society of the Late Middle Ages in the Mediterranean Basin (12th-15th Centuries), the short story emerged as a dominant literary genre, transcending cultural and geographic boundaries. The Mediterranean’s bustling commercial networks served as a conduit for stories, knowledge, and people, bridging distant shores. During this era, Italians held sway as the Mediterranean’s foremost commercial and naval power, a dominance reflected in the multitude of short story collections written from the 12th to the 14th Centuries. Figures like Giovanni Boccaccio, Franco Sacchetti, and Giovanni Sercambi skillfully portrayed the sociological, geographical, historical, and psychological intricacies of this cultural crossroads. The short story explored diverse themes, including courtly love, the Crusades, the interplay of the three Monotheistic Religions, class struggles, varied perspectives on women’s roles from Spain to the Arabic domains, and encounters between different cultures. This genre provided a window into the era’s multifaceted facets. This course aims to delve into the historical tapestry of the multiethnic and multicultural Italian peninsula during the Late Middle Ages. Through Italian short stories, we will explore its cultures, geography, and traditions, gaining insights into this captivating period.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 30076 Disease and the American Experience (3 Credit Hours)

This class is dedicated to the contemplation and analysis of American (in the hemispheric sense) narratives that trace the trajectory of outbreaks of widespread illness to their subsequent mitigation. A major source of reflection and analysis will be the instructors experience nursing in an ICU during the first and second COVID-19 surges in New York City. Drawing upon literature, film, philosophy, history, and medical science, the focus will be on medicine and healing as a hinge point between politics and life. The class will analyze medicine as power; specifically, in what Michel Foucault described as biopower or ?making live and letting die.? In short, we will study theories, practices and stories of healing. However, instead of focusing on European texts such as Bocaccios The Decameron (1353), Shelley's The Last Man (1826), or Albert Camus's The Plague (1947), this class draws on the tensions between the Eurocentric canon and its deconstruction in the Americas (Machado de Assis, Bellatin, Cuarón, Poe, Cazals, Porter). These tensions manifest at the points where bare life and political life converge, where class, race, geography, and the economics of healing complicate an intervention so simple as quarantine. Nevertheless, and as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us, some whose daily circulation provide essential goods and services to society cannot afford to quarantine, and it is their stories that fall outside the scope of Europe's literary grasp.

LLRO 30219 Societal Challenges in Europe: Global Responses to a Changing World (3 Credit Hours)

EURO 30219: "Societal Challenges in Europe: Global Responses to a Changing World" (3 credits) Prof. Maro Grazzi Economic policy affects us all. That is why the best approach to solving the challenges that arise from it is an interdisciplinary one. From political science to economics to global affairs, each discipline offers something to this conversation that transcends national borders. Traditionally, they have operated in silos, but this course seeks to bring them together to address six multidisciplinary challenges facing contemporary society, including: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 (𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝) 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞-𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲/𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲— How do societies balance the need for efficiency with a view to preventing or reducing inequality? Is this perceived trade-off actually a trade-off? 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞, 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡: 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 — What is the root of innovation? How do external motivators and intrinsic motivations interact to stimulate growth? What is the role of government in these questions, and how has the European Union approached them? 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 — How can we protect the environment and ensure a thriving ecosystem for generations to come while meeting our socio-economic needs? What is the relationship between sustainability and innovation in today’s rapidly evolving green tech market? 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐬, 𝐀𝐈, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 — To what extent will the rapid iteration of AI technology affect the world of work? How is the deployment of generative AI unique compared to previous automation movements? 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 — How do nations and businesses fit a value chain that occurs across borders? 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐩 — How does the growing wage gap, even across firms in the same sector, relate to questions of inequality? Students will learn about how the European Union is addressing each challenge, as well as offering space for reflection on global responses. Students will come away from the course with a strong understanding of how Europe and the world see each topic and the implications for future policy decisions, ethics, and diplomacy.

LLRO 30310 Between the Lines: An Introduction to French Literary Analysis (3 Credit Hours)

In this class you will learn how to interpret a variety of genres and media in different styles and modes of analysis. Not only will you gain proficiency in the traditional French explication de texte, but we will explore various modes of critique, including feminist, post-colonial, and eco-critical frameworks. Through a series of short composition and presentation assignments, you will strengthen your skills in debate and argument in spoken and written French. While one of the aims will be your apprenticeship in close reading, the primary objective will be exploring the rhetorical tools that will empower you to effectively share your perspective with others.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 30312 Creole Migrations (3 Credit Hours)

Creole is the quintessential language of migration. This elective explores the multidirectional interplay of Creole narrative expression and transnational migration. How do Creole texts imagine and influence the experiences of migration, long-distance belonging and immigrant settlement? How, in turn, does the changing experience of diaspora affect the evolution of the vernacular at home (lakay)? In what ways do Creole writers and performers express struggles with xenophobia and racism abroad and oppression and poverty in Haiti? We engage these questions through study of Creole fiction, poetry, theatre, story telling and music. Among the Creole works we explore are the novels and poetry of Maude Heurtelou, Felix Morriseau-Leroi, Baudelaire Pierre, Patrick Sylvain and Denizé Lauture, stories by Jean-Claude Martineau and Kiki Wainwright, musical lyrics of Emeline Michele, Beethova Obas, Ti Corn and Wyclef Jean and Rap Kreyòl groups like Barikad Crew. The class is intended for students who have completed Intermediate Creole II or have reached the equivalent level of competence in speaking, reading and writing the language.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

LLRO 30520 The Role of the Witness in Italian Culture: Testimonies of Fascism, the Mafia, and Terrorism (3 Credit Hours)

Italian literature and cinema have sought throughout the modern era to give testimony and bear witness to the crises of Italian history and society. This course aims to explore the role of the witness and the function of testimony in the representation of the crises of modern Italian society, including Fascism, the Mafia, and Terrorism. Analyzing literature and cinema that bear witness to the anti-Fascist Resistance, the Holocaust, the victims of Mafia violence, and Terrorist attacks, in this course, you will consider questions such as: Who is the witness of the event? Can a fictional character bear witness? What kind of testimony can the witness provide? Can testimony objectively define the event even as it reflects the subjective position of the witness? What are the meanings and the implications of the witness's narration? What role do we, as readers and viewers, have in the testimonial narrative? Together, we will reflect on the political, social, and ethical implications of testimony in the modern age. Among the texts and films we will consider in this course are works by Marco Bellocchio, Italo Calvino, Giacomo Debenedetti, Marco Tullio Giordana, Ada Gobetti, Liana Millu, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Leonardo Sciascia, and Michele Soavi

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 30542 Cinema and Migration (3 Credit Hours)

Cinema and hospitality in a broad sense: how do films embody the art of welcoming, of hosting, of including and caring? Three months after his election in 2013, Pope Francis visited the Island of Lampedusa (Italy), one of the world’s deadliest forefronts of the humanitarian catastrophe often referred to as the global “refugee crisis.” He denounced the “globalization of indifference” in which no one wants to take responsibility for “our brothers and sisters” migrants who suffer and die. Ten years later, while the Pope is again addressing the “crisis” in Marseilles, in the month of August 2023 alone, 2,095 “migrants” have lost their lives in their attempts to cross the Mediterranean Ocean. Through a general concept of “hospitality,” our class will offer a holistic, cinematic approach to a world scene in which an unprecedented number of individuals are forced to flee their homes. We will focus on the (extremely) old notion of hospitality (a decisively matrixial one) and analyze films that put this concept at their core both formally and narratively. One critical goal will be to explore the various cultural understandings and practices that forge the highly cultural, both idiosyncratic and universal art of inviting, including, unconditionally hosting, and caring for the guest, the stranger, the child, the unknown. An ideal of protection, empathy, and compassion without which there is no responsibility, no ethics, all concepts that are the cornerstone of a feminist ethics that will nourish our research. This class will, in most parts, consist of seminar discussions and lectures. Two written assignments, group work, oral presentations as well as active participation in our class will constitute the basic requirements.

LLRO 30600 All Roads Lead to Rome (3 Credit Hours)

This is a three-credit foundational course for students interested in studying about Rome. The course is designed to satisfy the University of Notre Dame's literature, history, and fine arts requirement (old and new core). Students in this course build a foundation for understanding Rome's twenty-eight centuries of history through its cultural production (architectural, artistic, cinematic, and literary) by studying the complexity of its urban network; by examining the ruins of antiquity and the splendors of Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical art and architecture; by tracing the epic adventure that reunited Italy and led to the establishment of Rome as its capital, so that today it is at the heart of both the Italian Republic and the Vatican; by revisiting the tragedies of modern times, including fascism and the civil war; and by learning about the Rome of postwar and contemporary Italy. A writing intensive course, at the end of the semester students submit a research paper on a topic of his or her choosing. Taught in English.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKHI - Core History, WRIT - Writing Intensive

LLRO 30603 Civilizations, Nations and Identities in Modern Europe. (3 Credit Hours)

"Civilizations, Nations and Identities in Modern Europe aims to examine European modern history of civilizations, nationalism, religions, identities and ideologies through symbols and facts, in the field of social and cultural studies, with particular attention to many elements related to the social and cultural life of people, in their own environment. The cultural international history approach devotes particular attention to the period between 15th and 20th centuries, putting emphasis on the "delay of modernity" in Eastern Europe compared to West as well as to modernization factors (urbanization, centralization, cultural standardization, women empowerment)." Taught In English.

LLRO 30604 A Cultural History of Italian Fashion (3 Credit Hours)

The course outlines cultural, historical and social factors have contributed to the development of fashion in Italy. After a short introduction about the birth of modern fashion in Europe, the focus is on the development of Italian fashion from 1950 up to the 2000 in comparison with other western fashion styles in France, the United Kingdom, and in the U.S.A. The historical and analytical framework will enable students to acquire a sophisticated understanding of the diachronic and synchronic developments of fashion and the key reasons why fashion is now recognized as an integral part of cultural history all over the world.

LLRO 30605 Images of the Priest in French Culture (3 Credit Hours)

From country pastor to cathedral villain, from merciful bishop to weaselly lecher, the image of the Roman Catholic priest in French culture is nothing if not versatile. But what purpose does that versatility serve? Is the image of the priest simply all things to all people as a matter of utility, an easy target - for good or for ill - that provides to authors, artists, or directors a shortcut to a good laugh or to a character that their audience will love to hate? This course will explore the image of the priest in France from the Middle Ages to the present day in its varied manifestations in literature, film, and art. We will examine what the broad spectrum of representations reveals about the state of the French Church at any given moment in history, about the theology of the priesthood, or about clericalism and anticlericalism in a political or social context. In a moment when the meaning of the priesthood in the Catholic Church and beyond continues to be contested, a study of the French context will yield a deeper understanding of the priest and his role as an embodiment of the Church and its authority. Taught in English, with course materials available both in English and the original French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines

LLRO 30613 Italy and Islam: Cultural Encounters from Dante to Today (3 Credit Hours)

The class will explore the representation of Islam and Muslims in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to the present, and will investigate how the perception of Islam has influenced and shaped the Italian identity. The course will start with an examination of the representation of the Islamic "other" in medieval Italian literature, especially in Dante's Divine Comedy and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. Besides literature, we will also explore the impact of medieval Islamic architecture in Southern Italy, especially in Sicily. We will then deal with the Italian Renaissance and analyze both the relationship between Christian and Muslim characters in epic poems by authors such as Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, and the representation of the mori ("Moors") in some of the most relevant Italian paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries. We will then investigate nineteenth-century Italian culture, through the analysis of some influential lyric operas of the time. Finally, we will deal with the representation of the relationship between Italians and Muslims in 20th- and 21st-century Italian films and narratives by directors and writers such as Mohsen Melliti, Igiaba Scego, and Amara Lakhous. Students will appreciate how Islam has deeply influenced Italian culture and how Italy, a center of Mediterranean culture, has been meaningfully linked with Islam throughout the centuries. Students will develop an understanding of Italy in a global context thereby increasing their intercultural competency. Taught in English.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 30710 The Quest for Nature in Italy (3 Credit Hours)

By reading works that range from St. Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the Creatures to the existential meditations of Giacomo Leopardi, this course explores how nature—and by extension, the natural order—was conceived and imagined within the Italian peninsula, from the Middle Ages to the Romantic period. We will trace the continuities and evolution of nature as a literary, philosophical, and theological idea and ask how past perspectives can inform our thinking about nature and its associated problems today. Questions to be pursued include: what is nature to begin with, and what parts of reality does it encompass? To what extent does it ground human ethics and craft? What trials and perils do humans face in their efforts to know, to master, and to care for, all things that move and grow? Do natural disasters and other forms of cosmic disarray threaten our belief in the order and goodness of the natural realm? And how do our representations of nature and its inhabitants shape our understanding of them and ultimately, of ourselves?

LLRO 30718 The Literature of the Journey to Italy: From the Renaissance to Today (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores the rich traditions of travel writing about Italy, covering the Renaissance through contemporary times. Through readings of major authors—including Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Lord Byron (1788-1824), Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), Stendhal (1783-1842), Mark Twain (1835-1910), Henry James (1843-1916), Edith Wharton (1862-1937), D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), and contemporary travel writers—students will explore how Italy has been imagined, experienced, and portrayed. Topics include cultural encounters in Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples, and Milan, the artistic inspirations drawn from Italy's immense architectural and artistic heritage, the Grand Tour, the evolution of travel to Italy as a literary genre, and cinematic interpretations of the journey to Italy theme ("Journey to Italy" [1954], directed by Roberto Rossellini; "Roman Holiday" [1953], directed by William Wyler, etc.). The course combines historical perspectives with close textual analysis, investigating how the journey to Italy has influenced European and global literary and cultural traditions.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 33000 Exploring International Economics and Romance Languages (1 Credit Hour)

In this special course designed for inquisitive international economics / romance language majors, students will attend a number of lectures, panels, and seminars on campus during the semester, with a follow-up discussion for each led by either a visitor or a member of the economics or romance languages faculty. Before each session, students will be expected to complete a short reading assignment. At each follow-up session, the students will submit a 1-2 page summary and analysis of the talk, with a critical question for discussion. The goal is to encourage students to enrich their major experience by participating in the intellectual discussions that occur amongst ND and visiting scholars across the campus, distinguished alumni, and professionals in the field.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in International Economics - LLR.

LLRO 34584 The Company: London and the Political Economy of Empire (3 Credit Hours)

This course is a cultural and critical history of the East India Company: its evolution, its transformations, and its cultural impact, from the city of London to the consolidation of the modern world economy. The East India Company is a curious institutional formation. The result of private merchant consolidation, it actively engaged in the work of the overseas expansion of state power. Conceived as an organ of political economy (namely, trade), it was at the same time a war machine, with private security that morphed into militias and ultimately a colonial force that can only be described as a conquering army. The Company’s power was so massive in scale that the commodity chains that it articulated would transform the human shape of the globe, and so intimate that they would transform everyday London life in ways that ranged from culinary taste to fashion. When we hear the cliché about the sun never setting on the British Empire, what we are really sensing is the echo of the material reach of the Company. The largest prize in the tragic history of violence that we call colonization—India—was both captured and administered by the Company. But the East India Company’s operations moved in all directions, south to Africa, out to East Asia, and west to the Americas, which it also approached from the east, across the Pacific. Working to expand the reach of the crown through its chartered monopolies, at times it stood as the crown’s chief rival for political, economic, and military power.

LLRO 35150 RGG Virtual Practicum in English (1 Credit Hour)

Students participate in virtual engaged learning activities with organizations in the city of Rome in a variety of educational and institutional settings in keeping with their academic and disciplinary areas of interest. One initial, mid-term and final meeting with the instructor aim at providing context for guided reflection on the students' experiences as interns with organizations in Rome.

LLRO 40102 Global Hispaniola: Empire to Exodus (3 Credit Hours)

Images of Hispañiola conjure up extreme contrasts. Romantic, sun-drenched beaches, heroic exploration and discovery, quaint relics, tourists, and happy-go-lucky natives merge in pleasing portraits of one side of the island. Rebellion and revolution, chaos and neglect coalesce menacingly at the other end. This course interrogates the taken-for-granted narrative of the antimony between the Dominican Republic versus Haiti and opens possibilities of recognizing the shared histories, politics, economies, and traditions of the two societies. In the first part of the semester, we examine how Spain’s neglected, undeveloped colony became a rising economic power, while the wealthiest “Pearl of the Antilles,” once freed of slavery and French colonial rule, confronted relentless depletion of its human and material resources. In the second part of the semester, we study the causes of the massive exodus from both countries over the past century. We focus on unanticipated consequences of diaspora, including the inspiration for those “outside” to transcend the borders dividing the “inside” of the island. We learn about innovative formations of transnational communities that span multiple sites linked by constant circulation of digital messages, videos and money, and the comings and goings of people, politicians, and spirits. We appreciate examples of the dynamic, expressive cultures of diasporan Haitians and Dominicans in prose, poetry, film, music, visual arts, and, last but never least, cuisine.

LLRO 40116 Dante II (3 Credit Hours)

Dante I and Dante II are an in-depth study, over two semesters, of the entire Comedy, in its historical, philosophical and literary context, with selected readings from the minor works (e.g., Vita Nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia). Dante I focuses on the Inferno and the minor works; Dante II focuses on the Purgatorio and Paradiso. Lectures and discussion in English; the text will be read in the original with facing-page translation. Students may take one semester or both, in either order.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

LLRO 40145 Dante I (3 Credit Hours)

Dante I and Dante II are an in-depth study, over two semesters, of the entire Comedy, in its historical, philosophical and literary context, with selected readings from the minor works (e.g., Vita Nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia). Dante I focuses on the Inferno and the minor works; Dante II focuses on the Purgatorio and Paradiso. Lectures and discussion in English; the text will be read in the original with facing-page translation. Students may take one semester or both, in either order.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines

LLRO 40210 Imagining Henry VIII (3 Credit Hours)

This course will explore how the reign of Henry VIII has been viewed in the imaginary landscapes of early modern literature (16th-17th centuries) originally written in English, French, and Italian. We will examine poems, plays, short stories, and other narrations as literary constructs that recreate the geographically and/or temporally distant space of England in the Henrician era. All foreign texts discussed as a class will be read in English translation, but will be made available in the original language for students wishing to sharpen their foreign language skills. Students with proficiency in Italian, French or Spanish will also have an opportunity to develop their expertise through personalized assignments and the final project. In addition to our key primary sources, we will read a number of critical analyses of these works. Special attention will be given to writing and research skills. We will also consider one modern film, A Man for All Seasons, to provide some contrast to these early modern written texts. Furthermore, we will also consider material culture, print culture, art (paintings, sculpture, and tapestries), architecture, music, and religion as a complement to the study of literary texts. The College of Arts and Letters and the Nanovic Institute are highly subsidizing an optional fall break trip for students enrolled in this course (more information provided later). The trip would include visits to the National Gallery, Hampton Court Palace, the Tower of London, Hever Castle (Anne Boleyn's childhood home), Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle, and relevant walking tours of London, to provide greater context to the class and to enrich the final project. IMPORTANT: Students enrolled under ROFR for the French major will be required to write one paper and do some readings in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WRIT - Writing Intensive

LLRO 40224 The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (3 Credit Hours)

What does it mean to paint oneself in prose? This was the great project of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592), a selection of whose famous essays will constitute the object of study in this course. The first essayist and arguably the first real Modern, his texts on subjects as wide-ranging as friendship and fear, as cannibals and coaches, have made him a subject of praise and controversy in equal measure. In this course, we will explore the essays themselves, but also the phenomenon that is Montaigne in French culture and beyond. Taught in English, with texts available both in French and English.

LLRO 40511 Introduction to Film Analysis through Brazilian Cinema (3 Credit Hours)

Students will be able to improve their argumentative and analytical skills through the study of key issues and concepts in film studies. Film form and narrative, gender, class, stereotypes, the film auteur, cultural industry, violence and social denunciation will be some of the topics explored with relevant Brazilian case studies. Special emphasis will be given to the retomada -the rebirth of Brazilian cinema from the mid 1990s on - with in-depth analyses of feature films such as Carlota Joaquina (Carla Camurati, 1995), Central do Brasil (Walter Salles, 1998), CIdade de Deus (Fernando Meirelles, 2002) and Tropa de Elite (José Padilha, 2007); documentary movies such as Edifício Master (Eduardo Coutinho, 2002) and Santiago (João Moreira Salles, 2007) , as well as short movies such as Recife Frio (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2009) and Eu não Quero Voltar Sozinho (Daniel Ribeiro, 2010). Taught in English.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 40596 Women Filmmakers in Europe: A New Wave (3 Credit Hours)

Shortly after Agnès Varda had passed away on March 29, 2019, the subject made the headlines during the Cannes film festival. In the footsteps of Varda, of Akerman, of Wertmüller and Denis, there is a "New Wave" of women filmmakers in Europe (for example, Maren Ade, Frederikke Aspöck, Ester Gould, Barbara Eder, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Ines Tanovic, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Céline Sciamma, Mati Diop, Alice Winocour...). This "wave" is not only reshaping a whole cinematic tradition and language, it is also profoundly transforming a highly masculine and macho film industry, not to mention... European societies as a whole. We will analyze works, working conditions and modes of production while discussing the lasting impact of the recent feminist movements on the industry. This will offer a window to a European culture and society in which until recently, the word "feminist" had tended to be outmoded...This course is taught in English

LLRO 40598 Cinema of Portugal and Luso-Africa (3 Credit Hours)

This course aims to evaluate how major cultural, social and historical events are portrayed in cinematographic productions of Portugal, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde. We will explore issues such as gender, racial and social disparities, the legacies of dictatorship and the colonial wars, the Luso-African struggles for independence, the role of the language in building a nation, and the influence of the Portuguese culture in its former colonies. Our goal is to investigate how film productions from and about those countries contest hegemonic accounts, and to examine the interconnections between history, memory and cultural identity and praxis. Films such as All is Well, by Pocas Pascoal (Angola), Dribbling Fate, by Fernando Vendrell (Cape Verde), Sleepwalking Land by Teresa Prata (Mozambique), Cats Don't Have Vertigo, by Antonio Pedro Vasconcelos, April Captains, by Maria de Medeiros (Portugal), as well as the documentaries Lusitanian Illusion, by Joao Canijo, and Hope the Pitanga Cherries Grow, by Kiluanje Liberdade and Ondjaki will serve as a vehicle for a deeper and broader understanding of how social, racial and cultural issues play a role in the past and present time in Portugal, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde. Conducted in English.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLRO 40599 Bridging the Gap: Cinema, Music and Literature in Portuguese-Speaking Countries (3 Credit Hours)

This course primarily examines cinema, music and literature of Brazil, Portugal, and Luso-African countries such as Cape Verde, Angola and Mozambique. Despite historical differences and geographical distance, these Portuguese-speaking countries share a common legacy in regards to cultural and artistic manifestations. Throughout the course, we will discuss issues related to the contrasts between stereotype and reality, rural and urban lives, as well as race and gender struggles, and how ideological and political changes affect culture and the arts in those countries. Special attention will be given to the artistic exchanges between Portugal and its former colonies. Andrucha Waddington, Eduardo Coutinho, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Vinicius de Morais, João Canijo, José Fonseca e Costa, Mia Couto, José Eduardo Agualusa, Ondjaki, José Saramago, and Fernando Pessoa are among the authors and film directors we will study. Conducted in English.

LLRO 40909 Dangerous Liaisons: Migration, Racial and Cultural Tensions in the Portuguese-African Context (3 Credit Hours)

This course aims to understand some of the aspects that deeply affected the relations between Portugal and Lusophone Africa in the 20th and 21st century through fiction, cinema, essay and primary sources. We will explore issues such as the link between race and migration, the development of cultural identity, the struggle to belong, and the complex connection between Portugal and Africa. Despite the geographical distance, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde share a common legacy of colonialism, racism, gender gap, language and war. We will take an interdisciplinary approach to examine the ways in which these struggles are corroborated and/or contradicted by official narratives, and analyze the contemporary context of Portugal-African relations. Conducted in English.

LLRO 40952 The Giant of the South: Brazil in the 21st Century (3 Credit Hours)

What are the new challenges for the Brazilian democracy and human development post-impeachment? What are the current issues in race, religion, class, gender and politics that are shaping the present and the future of the Giant of the South? (offered in English).

LLRO 40953 Contemporary Brazil Beyond Stereotypes (3 Credit Hours)

Images of Brazil often evoke stereotypical images of soccer and carnaval. In this course, we will study these staples of Brazilian culture beyond the shallow confines of stereotypes. History, Sociology, and Cultural Studies will all contribute for an interdisciplinary approach to understand the complexities of Contemporary Brazilian society. (offered in English)

LLRO 46000 Directed Readings (1-3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the student's area of study.

French (ROFR)

ROFR 10101 Beginning French I (4 Credit Hours)

For students who have had no previous exposure to French. An introductory, first-year language sequence with equal focus on the four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. An appreciation for French culture is also encouraged through readings and discussions. This course is to be followed by ROFR 10102.

ROFR 10102 Beginning French II (4 Credit Hours)

The second-semester course of the beginning French sequence. Focus is on a balanced approach to acquisition and appreciation of French language and culture. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 231 and 300 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: ROFR 10101

ROFR 10112 Creole Language and Culture I (3 Credit Hours)

This course introduces students to the vivid, sonorous language of Kreyol, or Creole, and to the fascinating culture of its speakers. This intensive, beginning-level course is intended for students with no knowledge of Creole. In small-group teaching sessions, students will be prepared for conversational fluency with basic reading and writing skills, emphasizing communicative competence as well as grammatical and phonetic techniques. Our study of Kreyol is closely linked to our anthropological exploration of how the language is tied to Caribbean society and culture. The course takes a holistic, anthropological approach to the history, political economy, and religion of Haiti. In addition to class work, audio recordings, music and video enhance the study of the Haitian language and culture.

ROFR 10115 Accelerated Beginning French (6 Credit Hours)

Intensive Beginning French follows a hybrid format. The course is computer-enhanced and involves a combination of the traditional classroom and online instruction. Students will work independently to complete online assignments at home two days a week (Tuesday/Thursday) as well as participate in in-class sessions three days a week (Monday/Wednesday/Friday).

ROFR 10118 Beginning Creole II (3 Credit Hours)

ROFR 20201 Intermediate French I (3 Credit Hours)

ROFR 20201 course fulfills the language requirement. This is a third-semester second-year language sequence, with equal focus on oral and written production. It includes a review of basic grammar and then transitions into more difficult features of French. Students learn to discuss and write about French cultural topics, current events, and literary texts. This course is to be followed by ROFR 20202. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 301 and 350 to enroll in this class. Students who do not meet the prerequisites need to contact department DUS for approval.

Prerequisites: ROFR 10102 or ROFR 10110 or ROFR 10115

ROFR 20202 Intermediate French II (3 Credit Hours)

A fourth-semester college language course. Includes review and expansion of basic grammatical structures, extensive practice in speaking and writing, and readings and discussions of a variety of literary and nonliterary text of appropriate difficulty. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 351 and 400 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20201

ROFR 20212 Intermediate Creole I (3 Credit Hours)

ROFR 20215 Accelerated Intermediate French (6 Credit Hours)

A two-semester sequence of intensive, comprehensive training in the language skills necessary for residence and study in France. Includes review of grammar, readings, civilization, and specific orientation for international study. For students with two to three years of high school French (with satisfactory achievement) preparing for the Angers international study program. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 301 and 350 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: (ROFR 10102 or ROFR 10115) or ROFR 10110

ROFR 20222 Intermediate Creole II (3 Credit Hours)

This course is intended for students who have taken one semester of Intermediate Creole Language and Culture. In small-group teaching sessions, students will be prepared for conversational fluency with enhanced reading and writing skills, emphasizing communicative competence as well as grammatical variety and phonetic acumen. Our study of Kreyol is integrated with an exploration of how the language is tied to Haitian society, culture, economy and politics and history. Evaluation of student achievement and proficiency will be conducted both informally and formally during and at the conclusion of the course. Those looking to develop or improve their language skills are welcome to the class. The program is designed to meet the needs of those who plan to conduct research in Haiti or in the Haitian diaspora, or who intend to work in a volunteer or professional capacity either in Haiti or with Haitians abroad.

ROFR 20300 Conversational French (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed to further develop students’ conversational skills and grasp of styles and registers in French. Through French and Francophone films, students will be exposed to contemporary spoken French, as well as current and historical events in the French-speaking world. Spoken French will be practiced through various types of classroom activities and assignments. Through general class discussions, small group conversations, voice recordings, and debates where students learn how to defend their opinion, there will be many opportunities for everyone to express themselves in French. Taught in French. Pre-req: ROFR 20202 or 20215 or a CEFR score between 401 and 500.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 27500

ROFR 20400 Business French (3 Credit Hours)

This course will focus on the practical use of French in an international professional environment. Emphasis will be placed on developing communicative skills and cultural knowledge necessary for the professional world. Students will review relevant structures and vocabulary needed to accomplish specific tasks and skills necessary in a broadly-defined formal professional setting.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 20300 or ROFR 27500

ROFR 20600 French Identities (3 Credit Hours)

Beret, baguette, Marcel Marceau, Edith Piaf are images and icons that one associates with the French identity. But what does it mean to be French? What does it mean to be Francophone? What is this French "je ne sais quoi" ?This course will focus on the multi-faceted question of French identity in France and in the Francophone world, but also in America. French is intrinsically linked to the history of America and its people, but how? Why is there such an important French presence in the US and what does it mean from an identity standpoint? This course is taught in English, but students counting it towards the French major or minor will complete a portion of the assignments in French.

ROFR 20601 In Sickness and in Health: French for medical professions (3 Credit Hours)

This course, taught in French, is designed for students (and future professionals) interested in the medical field. Participants will develop and acquire skills as well as communication strategies through active, task-based learning activities and authentic situations, taken directly from professional scenarios in the healthcare sector.

ROFR 20603 Facets of France, French and the French (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed specifically as a bridge between intermediate language courses and the offerings in literature and culture more common at the 30000 and 40000 levels. It will be organized around 4 "modules" conceived as individual "mini-course": 1) La presse actuelle; 2) l'œil cinématographique; 3) Initiation à l'analyse littéraire ; 4) interprétation orale (public performance). It will also feature formal work on grammar and expression, both oral and written.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 20300

ROFR 20608 Read all about it: Media in the French-Speaking World (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores journalism and media from French-speaking countries, deepening students’ understanding of cultural diversity within the Francophone world. Students will analyze media in different forms, such as online newspapers, videos, political cartoons, and social media. Each class unit will explore a current event in a French-speaking nation, examining how topics are presented across various media outlets. We will also gain insights into French and Francophone perspectives on global issues. The course will develop students’ French proficiency, as we build vocabulary to discuss journalism and current affairs. Students will increase reading and listening comprehension skills by analyzing media and will practice writing and speaking through reflections, presentations, and discussions. Taught in French.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 20300 or ROFR 30310 or ROFR 30320

ROFR 20610 French Food for Thought (3 Credit Hours)

“Let them eat cake” and “bon appétit” are common expressions used in English to either refer to Marie-Antoinette’s faux pas before the hungry revolutionary crowd asking for bread in front of the Versailles palace, or to traditionally tell somebody to enjoy their meal. More than mere food, French cuisine and dishes have become an art and an inspiration throughout the world. But how are food and cuisine at the core of French culture? How is food such a savoir-vivre for the French people? Brillat-Savarin said in the 18th century: “Tell me what you eat: I’ll tell you who you are.” How did/do French people eat? How did/does that define them? This course aims at better understanding the representations and the symbolic aspects of food and cuisine in French culture. Providing starters from the Middle-Ages, we will take our culinary discovery through the tasty 17th century to the spicy 18th century, adding a dash of table manners and theory in the 19th century, to modern diets and regimens, mixing a variety of formats and recipes. Taught in French.

ROFR 20692 "La Beurgeoisie": Race, Class, and Sex in France Today (3 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on diversity in contemporary France, paying special attention to questions of race, sex, and class, and the challenge of climbing the social ladder in various professions to gain notoriety and respect. We examine films, short stories, and essays in an examination of how traditional French culture is currently evolving thanks to multicultural influences.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 20300

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 20710 Speak like a Francophone: Introduction to French Pronunciation (3 Credit Hours)

Through a variety of activities (individual and in small groups) that include transcriptions, audio work, and listening practice, students will get to improve their pronunciation. Lab exercises will be conducted in DeBartolo Hall Language Lab. Students will assimilate the material of the target pronunciation (Standard French), through poem/fable readings and récitations. Students will be able to self-assess their progression through a corrective pronunciation using the short film (court-métrage) "14e arrondissement" from the film Paris je t’aime.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 20300

ROFR 20810 French EL (3 Credit Hours)

This course will give students a hands-on opportunity and experience to use their French language skills at Clay International Academy. Through this service learning, students will assist the main teacher with teaching French to young children. The goals of this course are: 1) provide students authentic learning opportunities to improve their speaking proficiency 2) provide a platform to use their language competence in a professional setting 3) give students valuable teaching experience. This service learning will thus shape student personal, academic and professional journeys.

ROFR 21205 France (Paris and Angers): Atelier (1 Credit Hour)

From living with a host family to exploring a new city, your time abroad will bring you many opportunities and challenges. This pre-study abroad workshop will prepare you for study, residency, and travel in France. You will learn ways to understand and negotiate the challenges of a cultural and linguistic immersion experience. Throughout the class, faculty members and previous study abroad participants will introduce you to the remarkably rich history and culture of France. The workshop will also address practical questions, such as navigating French universities. These presentations will help you engage in your own academic and personal discovery while in France. The class is graded on a “Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory” basis, and no previous knowledge of French is required.

ROFR 22005 French and Francophone Film Series (1 Credit Hour)

The French and Francophone Film Series will meet on Thursday nights in the Browning Cinema to watch a curated series of films sponsored by an Albertine Cinemathèque Festival grant from the FACE Foundation, followed by a discussion with guest speakers.

ROFR 23300 Let's Talk French (1-2 Credit Hours)

This mini-course in French offers both informal and structured conversation practice. Conversation on a variety of topics such as French politics, society, and culture will be based on authentic materials. This course meets for group discussions on contemporary issues and with guest speakers. Conducted in French.

ROFR 30310 Between the Lines: An Introduction to French Literary Analysis (3 Credit Hours)

Through hands-on discussions, writing activities, and presentations, all in French, students will learn the nuts and bolts of textual analysis and strategies for elaborating and supporting interpretations. They will also familiarize themselves with a wide range of literary and cultural works from French and Francophone cultures across the ages.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 20300 or ROFR 27500 or ROFR 30320

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 30312 Creole Migrations (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 30320 Creative Writing in French (3 Credit Hours)

This course, taught in French, is designed for students who wish to improve their writing skills, and for students who seek additional assistance with grammar. It is aimed at students who are already at the 30000 or 40000 level in French. We will study different methods and styles of writing in French and conduct writing workshops in class. Throughout the course, we will: -Review and reinforce your knowledge of grammar -Study different methods and styles of writing in French -Improve your reading comprehension and your spoken and written French This course is recommended for the minor, major, or supplementary major in French. Students are recommended to take Conversational French or another 20000-level elective before taking this course.

Prerequisites: ROFR 20202 or ROFR 20215 or ROFR 20300 or ROFR 27500 or ROFR 30310

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 30505 La Chanson française (3 Credit Hours)

This course will examine the rich traditions of French folk, popular and liturgical music. Songs (secular and religious) and musical styles from the Medieval to the modern period will be considered in examples of specific songs as well as in songbooks from the 18th century to the present. Among the themes considered will be: the role of music and songs in the establishment of cultural identity and in the process of cultural transmission, the role of songs and music in various films and texts, the musical adaptation of poetic texts and the fitting of lyrics (secular and sacred) to classical or popular melodies. In this class, emphasis will be on pronunciation and articulation of song lyrics and in some cases on the development of harmonies on simple melodies. No musical experience or knowledge is necessary. French level 20202 or higher is required. Taught in French. Readings will include works of: Hémon, Makine, Baudelaire, Nerval, and others as well as several films.

ROFR 30605 Images of the Priest in French Culture (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines

ROFR 30652 French Tensions Today: Graphic Novels between journalism, cinema, and literature (3 Credit Hours)

Whether it is non-fiction graphic novels or traditional comics, the French and Francophone "bande dessinée" is extremely popular with a strong economic sector, a fast growing adult audience and a crucial influence on the public sphere. While cartoonists were targeted in January 2015, many graphic novels describe a difficult present. This course's goal not only consists of studying contemporary graphic novels in French, but also meet with young authors of the French scene with a special interest on intersections with literature, journalism and cinema.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 30680 The French and Their Discontents: Legacies of Revolution (3 Credit Hours)

From the sans-culottes of the French Revolution to the gilets jaunes (2018-....) and beyond, this course will examine how the people of France have voiced their dissatisfaction with the status quo and with their leaders, and elicited lasting political and social changes. Drawing from historical sources, films, fiction, and art, we will track and analyze recurring themes, images, and representations of French unrest and resistance to societies of control from 1789 to the present. We will also consider how gender, race, class, and socio-economic status intersect with the desire to see change and hinder or make possible the ability to obtain it. We will investigate the legacies of and challenges to French republican values (valeurs républicaines) and the debates around universalism in order to question what it means to be French today. Taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 30710 Expressions of France: Humor through the Ages (3 Credit Hours)

The English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, described life outside civilization as "nasty, brutish, and short." During the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and seventeenth century, life inside civilization was more or less the same. Laughter offered a comfort, a means of escape, or of critique. From the carnivalesque to satire, the comic tradition tells us much about the hopes, fears, and the mortally serious of all of these periods. In this course, students will discover the richness of the comic tradition and how it manifests itself in all its gravity. Taught in French.

Prerequisites: ROFR 30310 or ROFR 30320

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 30712 Expressions of France: Love and Marriage in French Literature before 1800 (3 Credit Hours)

We tend to think about marriage as uniting two persons who love each other — but how did love and marriage combine before “love marriages” were a thing? In this course, taught in French, you will read and learn about some of the masterpieces of French literature from before 1800 to answer this question. By analyzing and contextualizing some key literary works, you will learn how love and marriage were often viewed as incompatible; what it took to combine the two; how jealous husbands dealt with open relationships; how faking one’s death, cross-dressing, or hiding in a religious house might have been the best way to escape an unwanted marriage; and how people in love strove to get married to consecrate their union. By the end of the course, you will walk away with a strengthened sense of the French literary canon and you will be ready to take advanced French literature and culture courses. Students are encouraged though not required to have taken ROFR 30310 “Between the Lines” prior to or during this course. Students in their Senior year should consider taking courses at the 40000 level instead.

ROFR 30720 Overview of French Literature and Culture II (3 Credit Hours)

Reading of selections and complete works of outstanding French authors from major genres and periods. All majors are required to take this sequence, or equivalent advanced courses. Students are expected to have already taken 30310 or to take ROFR 30310 concurrently with the first survey taken.

Prerequisites: ROFR 30310 or ROFR 30320

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 30781 French Politics Today: The 2022 Presidential Election in Context (3 Credit Hours)

In this class, we will examine the French presidential election that will take place in April 2022. To better understand its stakes, we will study the French political system, the institutions of the Fifth Republic, and recent electoral history. We will also consider key questions that are currently debated in France: work and unemployment, environmental issues, French secularism, the future of social programs, education, immigration, and France's place in the European Union. Taught in French.

ROFR 33300 An Introduction to French Culture from Couture to Cuisine (1 Credit Hour)

Eight sessions of 90 minutes, twice a week. Students will watch a film before each session that introduces that session's topic and come prepared for a presentation by the professor on the topic followed by a discussion of the film, and a general question-and-answer period. A variety of visual materials will be integrated into the course sessions, including art, clips from films, music videos, and short reading assignments will be included in the coursework as well. The course will be in English.

ROFR 33360 Sorin Translation and Digital Exhibit (1 Credit Hour)

In this course, under the guidance and supervision of French Studies faculty and the University Archives, students will transcribe and translate (French to English) the letters sent and received by Father Edward Sorin between the years 1839-1893. These letters will become part of a digital exhibit on the history of the University of Notre Dame.

ROFR 33501 Singing the French Liturgy (1 Credit Hour)

With a view to establishing a regular choral group and building a repertoire of hymns for the monthly French Masses, this one-credit class will focus on learning, practicing and rehearsing about 35 hymns from which the entrance, offertory, communion, and concluding musical pieces for the Mass will be drawn. Practice in pronunciation and articulation and developing harmonies on simple melodies will account for the greater portion of the classroom activities. Musical expertise, experience or ability is less important than a good level of French (20202 or higher) and a willingness to participate. Participation in the choir of the French Mass is encouraged though not obligatory for the enrolled students.

Course may be repeated.

ROFR 33502 French Liturgical Choir II (1 Credit Hour)

This one-credit course is dedicated to cultivating a rich appreciation of liturgical music and of the Holy Mass in the French and global francophone tradition. It will include two tracks. For students who have not already taken ROFR 33501 "Les Chants de Messe," the course is an introduction to the range of the French sacred music tradition. You will develop great confidence in your ability to read, recite, and sing in French and make time to refine your pronunciation and intonation in ways few other classes can afford. For students who have already taken "Les Chants de Messe" in a previous semester, the course will be dedicated to taking on greater leadership and responsibility towards the cultural treasure of French liturgical music. In consultation with the professor, students will propose and execute a capstone project. It may range from conducting the choir for one or more of the semesterly masses in the Basilica to composing and performing/recording an original work of French sacred music. Students enrolled in the course are not required to attend the four French masses of the semester to get full credit for participation.

Course may be repeated.

ROFR 40115 Why Arguing Is Good for You: Debating Love and Gender in Medieval French (3 Credit Hours)

In this course, taught in French, you will examine how love and gender were debated in French and Occitan literatures from before 1500. Debates appear everywhere and they often convey the idea that arguing is intellectually, socially, and emotionally beneficial to those involved. So in this class, we will ask ourselves: How might arguing be good for you? Through the lens of debates on love and gender, we will survey some of the most important works of medieval French literature and unpack a range of thought-provoking texts. Questions that we will examine include: What does a woman know that a man doesn’t? Is it better for a man to be faithful while being cheated on or should he be promiscuous? What are the limits of mansplaining? Can a man convince a woman to love him through reasoning? Is the best type of man brave or wise, pushy or patient, braggy or humble? What are the terms of an open relationship? Where does happiness fit in with love and marriage?

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40117 When Humans Meet Animals in Medieval French Literature (3 Credit Hours)

This advanced undergraduate seminar examines the fluid boundaries between humans and non-human animals in medieval French and Occitan literatures. Combining literary texts and manuscripts with modern scholarship and theoretical thinking, we will explore how medieval people thought about animals and placed themselves in relation to them through texts and books. Sources will range from lyrics, bestiaries, and encyclopedic treatises to romances and fables in text and manuscript, and the course includes an optional, free trip to the Newberry Library in Chicago, where we will examine relevant medieval manuscripts and rare prints. The course is taught in French, with readings in modern French or modern English translation.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40210 Imagining Henry VIII (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WRIT - Writing Intensive

ROFR 40223 Renaissance Lyric Poetry (3 Credit Hours)

This course will constitute an in-depth examination of the French lyric tradition primarily during, but not limited to, the sixteenth century. Students will begin by exploring the Italian origins of the French tradition before tracing its development through the Rhetoriqueurs, the Ecole lyonnaise, the Pleiade, and beyond. Through a close analysis of primary literary texts and through exposure to some salient works of secondary literature, students will not only engage the poetry but also broader questions about imitation, originality, and meaning during a dynamic but somewhat unstable period of literary production. Taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROFR 40310 Pride Before the Fall: Seventeenth-Century French Theater (3 Credit Hours)

This seminar constitutes quite simply an introduction to seventeenth-century French theater. Considered the golden age for the genre in France, with the ‘Big Three’ playwrights Molière, Corneille, and Racine, this period produced the greatest tragedies and comedies in the French tradition. We will ride the highs of the tragic heroes, descend with them into the depths of their lows, and then learn to laugh at these ups and downs with our study of some of the most famous comedies in Western literature. While we will primarily approach these plays as literature––for the text is usually the star––we will also explore their embodiment as a living, breathing work of art. Taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40315 Auteurs autour de Port-Royal (3 Credit Hours)

Jansenism, a conservative movement within the Catholic Church, was at the center of the intellectual life and literary production of the 17th Century. Its preoccupation with free will, the self, and determinism make it a subject that reaches well beyond the boundaries of a "local" theological querelle. Authors to be studied: Corneille, Racine, Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere, Lafayette; in other words, the biggies.

ROFR 40531 Filming the Text: on Cinema as a Literary Form (3 Credit Hours)

What is the point of contact between creative writing and cinema? What does it mean when Agnès Varda indicates that her main impulse to make La Pointe Courte (1955) at the age of 26 was the structure a novel by Faulkner? What kind of an indictment is it when Michael Haneke states that today's cinema is still far behind the literary innovations of the 20th and 21st Centuries? Starting with the filmmaker precursor Robert Bresson, the idea behind "filming the text" consists of a deconstruction the concept of "adaptation." From a reflection on the notion of "trace" and to what extent this concept might also be a cinematic one, we will study forms of proto-cinema (for ex. prehistoric paintings, Plato's Cave, Magic Lanterns') in conjunction with a study of theories of writing, literary texts and poetry. While attempting to refine a concept of general grammatology of cinema our goal will be to examine the porosities that lie between literary notions, literary texts and films. We will read novels, poetry and watch films! My dream was to "film her texts." This course originates from my creative endeavors, and especially the work I engaged between 2012 and 2018 when I directed a feature-length so-called "documentary film" with the writer, poet, playwright, activist and theorist H'l'ne Cixous (evercixousmovie.com).

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROFR 40596 French Female Filmmakers: "A New Wave" (3 Credit Hours)

Shortly after Varda had passed away on March 29, 2019, the subject made the headlines during the Cannes film festival 2019: "New Wave of French Female Filmmakers Hit the Festival Circuit" (Variety, September 2019). In the footsteps of Alice Guy and Germaine Dulac, of Chantal Ackerman and Agne's Varda, legendary filmmakers like Claire Denis, leading figures like Agnes Jaoui and Julie Delpy, are now inspiring a whole generation of contemporary French and Francophone female filmmakers like Celine Sciamma, Mati Diop, Alice Winocour, Emmanuelle Bercot, Rebecca Zlotowski and many, many others who help reinvent the French cinema today. This "wave" is not only reshaping a whole cinematic tradition and language, it is also profoundly transforming a highly masculine and macho film industry in France, not to mention... the French society as a whole. Our class will be entirely devoted to female filmmakers in French. We will both analyze their works and conditions of production while discussing the lasting impact of the recent feminist movements (Me-too/Balance to porc) on the industry. This will offer a window to a culture and society in which until recently, the word "feminist" had tended to be passe' de mode (outmoded)... Two French female directors as well as a feminist activist (whose work influenced the Cannes film festival) will join our class and discuss their works and the topic. Two written assignments, oral presentations as well as active participation in our class will constitute the basic requirements.

ROFR 40605 Images of the Priest in French Culture (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines

ROFR 40610 Vichy France: Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance (3 Credit Hours)

This course will examine the period of the Second World War known as the Vichy regime (1940-1944). We will explore France's complex history through sources of the period as well as through representations of the Vichy regime in contemporary cultural productions; course materials will be drawn from primary sources such as testimonies, novels, memoires, newspapers, documentaries, paintings, German and Vichy propaganda. The course will address the myth of "la France résistante" (a resisting France); the relationship of France to its empire in the colonies (de Gaulle and the Free French Forces); anti-Jewish legislation and the deportation of Jews; as well as the memory of the period from amnesia and negationism to the "devoir de mémoire" (the duty to remember). We will conclude the course by exploring the contemporary legacies of such figures as the Général de Gaulle and the Maréchal Pétain in French politics. Taught in French.

ROFR 40635 Phantasmes et fantastique: 19th Century Short Story (3 Credit Hours)

This course will focus on the development of the genre of short narrative during the nineteenth century in France. Representative works of Balzac, Nerval, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Flaubert, Gautier, Mérimée, Maupassant, Nodier and Villiers de l'Isle Adam will be considered. We will examine distinctive features of the various aesthetics of Romanticism, Realism and Symbolism as well as generic considerations relating to the conte fantastique.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40651 French Tensions Today: Graphic Novels between journalism, cinema, and literature (3 Credit Hours)

Whether it is non-fiction graphic novels or traditional comics, the French and Francophone "bande dessinee" is extremely popular with a strong economic sector, a fast growing adult audience and a crucial influence on the public sphere. While cartoonists were targeted in January 2015, many graphic novels describe a difficult present. This course's goal not only consists of studying contemporary graphic novels in French, but also meet with young authors of the French scene with a special interest on intersections with literature, journalism and cinema.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40681 The French and Their Discontents: Legacies of Revolution (3 Credit Hours)

From the sans-culottes of the French Revolution to the gilets jaunes (2018-. . . .) and beyond, this course will examine how the people of France have voiced their dissatisfaction with the status quo and with their leaders, and elicited lasting political and social changes. Drawing from historical sources, films, fiction, and art, we will track and analyze recurring themes, images, and representations of French unrest and resistance to societies of control from 1789 to the present. We will also consider how gender, race, class, and socio-economic status intersect with the desire to see change and hinder or make possible the ability to obtain it. We will investigate the legacies of and challenges to French republican values (valeurs republicaines) in order to question what it means to be French today. Taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40710 Public Women: Gender, Celebrity, and History (1789-1914) (3 Credit Hours)

Britney Spears. Anna Nicole Smith. Janet Jackson. We thought we knew their tragic stories; we thought they only had themselves to blame. In recent years, however, we have reappraised these maligned women and the pervasive misogyny to which they were subjected in a supposedly post-feminist era. In this seminar, we will examine the gendering of celebrity in France and its former colonies over the course of the long nineteenth century, engaging with legacies of famous women from Marie Antoinette to Aïssa Maïga. Each week, we will study conflicting depictions of a public figure, seeking to understand the structures with which commentators controlled women’s narratives—and how women in turn developed their own strategies of resistance. Drawing from a range of sources including sculptures, choreographies, films, and autobiographies, we will engage with interpretive approaches that interrogate hierarchies of memory, history, and culture. Taught in French.

ROFR 40715 From Whispers to Worldviews: Gossip and the Social Network in Nineteenth-Century France (3 Credit Hours)

The nineteenth century saw the rise of print media and professional institutions. Old-fashioned whisper networks came to be viewed suspiciously as a dangerous, “feminine” pastime for those without lives of their own. Yet the enduring popularity of gossip—in society columns, romans-à-clef, communal laundry rooms, and political caricatures—meant that informal social networks thrived, fueled by a heightened interest in the private lives of famous people. The learning goals of this class extend beyond those of textual analysis and the researched argument to media literacy. Following several scandals across a variety of sources, we will study how information was transmitted via different genres, spaces, and voices in nineteenth-century France, looking at a range of texts from broadsheets to Offenbach operettas. While reinforcing social mores, gossip also provided a means of resistance to the status quo, a way for the marginalized to reframe official narratives and point to the humanity shared across classes and identities. Taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture, WRIT - Writing Intensive

ROFR 40780 The French at Work: Unemployment and Precarious Jobs (3 Credit Hours)

The enviable “French work week,” long lunch-breaks, the numerous holidays and paid vacations come readily to mind when we think about French policies and attitudes towards work. In this course, we will focus, however, on crucial contemporary issues: unemployment, mental health and corporate culture, and the rise of so-called precarious jobs. Through French literature and film, and with a particular emphasis on representations of gender and racial disparity in certain types of precarious work (nannies, maids, security guards, and nuclear plant workers, among others), we will examine what it takes to work in France today. We will also look at how these questions are discussed in the press, and follow current events and ongoing social movements. Taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40853 Francophone Peace Studies: Worldwide Activism in Literature and Film (3 Credit Hours)

This course closely examines Francophone works of literature and film that grapple with the difficulties of promoting peace in various locations around the world today. Not only are activism and peacebuilding crucial questions in the creative texts we study, but they are also the focus of discussions that extend "beyond" the text, as we explore the efforts of writers and filmmakers to serve as advocates for positive change in very real ways. Various concepts of "engagement," as well as relationships between language and politics, are at the center of our reflections. There is a substantial theoretical component to this course, including works by French thinkers Pierre Bourdieu, Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Serge Margel, alongside the writings of postcolonial critics and recent publications in the area of peace studies. Taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40855 Francophone Migrations and Nations (3 Credit Hours)

"Francophone Migrations and Nations" examines transnational travel in a contemporary global context affected by factors ranging from climate change to genocide. We will focus on migrant movements in different Francophone settings (ranging from France to Rwanda), providing perspectives on the myriad motivations to leave one's homeland and take up residence elsewhere, and studying the subsequent challenges that migrants face in the places where they end up. Novels, short stories, articles, and a number of films will shed light on the current dynamics and profound questions that are created by migration. We will focus on issues related to language and identity in relation to larger inquiries into human rights and peace studies in a world where a sense of society and a commitment to community are uprooted and unsettled more and more by migrations that put into question the nature of the nation. The course will be taught in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WRIT - Writing Intensive

ROFR 40906 French Literature Goes to the Opera (3 Credit Hours)

In this course, the full title of which is Taking Liberties: From Book to Libretto, or French Literature Goes to the Opera and which is taught in French, we will be looking a series of parent texts, written originally in French, and their operatic offspring. Works include The Barber of Seville (Beaumarchais/Rossini); The Marriage of Figaro (Beaumarchais/Mozart); Don Juan (Molière) and Don Giovanni (Mozart); Manon Lescaut (Prévost/Puccini), Carmen (Mérimée/Bizet).

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROFR 40909 A Passion for Fashion: Dressing up French Literature and Cinema (3 Credit Hours)

Whether we "dress for success" or wear our pajamas to the grocery store, the clothes we are putting on our body all have a meaning. Though clothes are an essential part of our everyday life, do we really stop and think about what they really signify, how they are perceived by people who look at them? In urban environments, where millions of fellow city-dwellers can scan the clothes that everyone is wearing, fashion often has a more significant meaning. Dressing up is such a mundane action we barely wonder why we do it, but shouldn't we consider this act an art? Fashion has been a crucial aspect of literature, cinema, paintings, and graphic novels. Text and textile both mediate a form of language, and fashion is indeed an idiom in itself. In this course, you will explore the representation of fashion in literature, cinema and the arts. We will dive into a range of texts, films, paintings, and graphic novels that will enable us to better grasp the importance of clothing surfaces, their meaning, implication, and significance regarding issues related to gender, social class, sexuality, and (post-) colonialism. An individual's identity, personality, and desires are both inscribed on and influenced by the clothes he or she is wearing. The large set of signs that are carried by fashion therefore constitute a closed system of signification, linked with culture itself as well as the senses. The course aims to give students an insight into a broad range of visual and textual materials, as well as to develop their analytical and critical skills. During each class, students will be asked to discuss the themes emerging from the visual and textual materials, supported by the critical readings related to them. The objective of this interdisciplinary course is also, through materials spanning across a broad variety of genres, media, places and periods, to provide the students with an open and intercultural approach of the humanities. Finally, the course aims to develop the students' awareness of their place within a globalized world in which the image of the self - often carried by clothes - is predominant. This puts into perspective the socio-political questions of gender, race, class, colonialism, and sexuality. Taught in French.

ROFR 40922 French Poets on Poets in Poetry (3 Credit Hours)

In this course, we will be looking at French poetry, from early to recent, through a particular lens: the theme of the poet him or herself. An organizing principle will be the "life" (birth, work, suffering, adventure, death) of a fictive poet drawn from the texts we will be examining. As our main work will be on poems, the readings will be short. It would be useful, but is not a prerequisite, that the students have already taken "The Art of Interpretation." If not, this course will train them (you) in the techniques and joys of close reading. Taught in French.

ROFR 40940 Prizes, Publishers, Plagiarism: Decolonizing Literary Legacies in French (3 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on literary works in French that have received illustrious prizes, from the Nobel Prize to the Prix Goncourt, and it examines questions related to the prestige of publishing houses and the role of marketing techniques meant to package and sell books alongside questions of influence and imitation, and of possible accusations of plagiarism. The course’s tripartite emphasis on the ways in which authors and their textual creations are celebrated, circulated, and questioned is complemented by an analysis of how these award-winning attempts to decolonize literature in French constitute a contemporary quest with profound historical and intertextual resonances. We read literary works of a great variety, including novels by Nobel prizewinning authors Annie Ernaux (the first Frenchwoman ever to win this award in 2022) and Jean-Marie Le Clézio, Goncourt prizewinning authors Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (the first Sub-Saharan African to win this award in 2021) and Leïla Slimani, as well as works by other writers who are caught up in telling striking stories that involve intersecting understandings of the complexities of race, class, and gender that have too often been missing from the literary landscape in French.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROFR 40950 Refugees & Migrants: Globally Engaged Learning in French (3 Credit Hours)

This course involves the close study of novels, films, and essays that examine the evolving realities of refugees and migrants in the French-speaking world today. It explores what it means for so many individuals to leave their homeland behind and seek asylum in France, and it focuses on the stories of these global movements and their implications for identities, whether the protagonists wind up in Paris — or in another location, such as South Bend, Indiana. This is the first course of its kind to incorporate engagement with Francophone families who live near Notre Dame and who lack knowledge of the English language and American customs. Once every two weeks, students will meet with local refugees who speak French and need assistance with learning English as well as with a number of other aspects of life in the United States. Tutoring and providing information, as well as assisting in practical tasks like filling out forms will make up some of the activities that students participate in with refugees, but another crucial component of these interactions will entail becoming familiar with their stories and putting them to paper in creative form, in French. Listening to and valorizing the personal narratives of people from Francophone Africa will be an important aspect of the time spent with them, and hearing these oral accounts may give new resonance to the French-language books and films on our syllabus that constitute creative contemporary renditions of migration.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture, WRIT - Writing Intensive

ROFR 40958 Global Francophone Cinema (3 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on French-language films that transcend national boundaries, depicting movements - and individuals - that go beyond borders and allow us to understand how current cinematic creations are not limited to "Franco-French" actors and productions, but extend around the globe. We study a number of films that deal with questions of immigration and migration in the French context, recent films that reveal the current multicultural environment within the hexagonal space of France. We also examine films that come from the larger francophone world, from locations such as Algeria and Senegal. Assignments include brief written responses to each of the films under study, an oral presentation, two short papers, and a final paper. We will read two novels that are related to very recent films as well and explore the relationship between the written work and the cinematic creation. The goals of this course are not limited to increasing students' knowledge and understanding of the art (and the politics) of filmmaking; they are also are meant to enhance their appreciation of diverse cultural settings that interact and intersect with France in important ways in a contemporary world marked by postcolonial tensions and "globalized" transnational relations. Taught in French.

ROFR 40960 Worldwide Women Writers in Paris (3 Credit Hours)

Women writers from around the world, from places as diverse as Algeria and Vietnam, Slovenia and South Korea, are currently exerting an influence on the Parisian literary landscape. These singular individuals hail from very different locations, but many of their experiences as French-language authors in the French capital are quite similar, particularly when it comes to perceptions of them as foreigners. Even if they often feel excluded and even ostracized, these writers continue to write, pouring their creative energies into innovative texts that are transforming the publishing world and adding layers of depth to what it means to be a Francophone author today. In this course, we will read a variety of publications by such women writers as Nathacha Appanah, Bessora, Hélène Cixous, Maryse Condé, Julia Kristeva, Anna Moï, Pia Petersen, Zahia Rahmani, Leïla Sebbar, Shumona Sinha, and Brina Svit. Our readings of primary texts will be complemented by a series of interviews with these authors (http://francophonemetronomes.com and an accompanying critical volume (Oxford University Press, December 2021). We will also address the process of literary and academic publishing in our discussions. Taught in French.

ROFR 40970 Tahiti and the Colonial Imagination (3 Credit Hours)

Blue lagoons and white sand beaches: we are all familiar with the idyllic image associated with Tahiti. But do you see the mushroom cloud in the distance? If the island’s beauty is undeniable, the depiction of Tahiti as a tropical paradise is linked to, and makes possible, a darker side: that of two centuries of French colonial occupation and three decades of atomic testing. Where, then, does this representation come from and how was it shaped? How have settler and Indigenous actors sustained and resisted this image? In this class, we will explore the complex and multifaceted representations of Tahiti and its inhabitants through both the European and the Polynesian lenses. From 18th-century philosophical reflections to 19th-century paintings and contemporary novels written by Indigenous Francophone writers, we will discuss and critically analyze the political and environmental stakes of representation in Mā’ohi Nui/French-occupied Polynesia. Taught in French.

ROFR 43224 Essays of Michel de Montaigne (3 Credit Hours)

ROFR 43910 The Republic and its Doubles (3 Credit Hours)

“Liberté, égalité, fraternité” — with these three words, the French motto is powerfully evocative. Born from the Revolution, France would be a nation whose commitment to justice, equality, and the universality of Human Rights constitute the bedrock of its democracy. Yet, if the revolutionary ideals have been the ideological underpinnings of the Republic for more than two centuries, France was also largely consolidated through its material investments in slavery and colonialism, a historical reality that has been consistently silenced. To what extent, then, can the fictions of universalism continue to hold in light of the past? What might it mean to bring back the imperial and racial memory of France, and think through the postcolonial stakes of its present? How might we think of race and colonialism in a country that denies the reality of both? Through a wide array of artifacts, ranging from political speeches to manifestos, paintings, movies, theoretical texts, and novels, we will explore how colonialism and race — the Republic’s “doubles” — have contributed to the development of France and French identity since the 19th century, but also how contemporary artists, authors, and activists have challenged this haunting legacy in the present. Taught in French.

ROFR 45999 Language-Based Internship (3 Credit Hours)

Students will complete an internship in the country of their choice, working in the target language. Students who participate in the program will: -Increase their marketability in a competitive job market by developing unique skills including intercultural communication, language skills, and other skills that cannot be directly taught in the classroom -Build an international network of contacts in their chosen field -Develop interpersonal skills in addition to the technical skills necessary to compete in a global market -Learn to communicate effectively in a professional setting with people from other languages and cultures

ROFR 46000 Directed Readings (1-3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the student's area of study.

Course may be repeated.

ROFR 47000 Special Studies (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed with the purpose of allowing students to engage in an individual or small group study under the direction of a departmental faculty member.

ROFR 48000 Senior Thesis (1-3 Credit Hours)

This course may cover an in-depth study of a particular author, theme, genre, or century. In addition to primary texts, some critical material will be required reading. This course culminates in a substantial research paper.

Course may be repeated.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in French and Francophone Studies.

Italian (ROIT)

ROIT 10101 Beginning Italian I (4 Credit Hours)

This is an introductory, first-year language sequence with equal focus on the four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. An appreciation for Italian culture is also encouraged through readings and class discussion. The sequence 10101-10102 is to be followed by ROIT 20201 or ROIT 20215.

ROIT 10102 Beginning Italian II (4 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: ROIT 10101 or ROIT 14101

ROIT 10110 Beginning Italian (6 Credit Hours)

This is a six-credit hybrid introductory language course, which combines traditional classroom with on-line instruction. Students attend class with an instructor (MWF) and work on-line (T-TH). Equal emphasis is placed on spoken and written Italian. The course is followed by ROIT 20201 or 20215.

ROIT 10180 Italian Learning & Teaching Beyond the Classroom: Coaching in Italian for Refugees Learning Experien (1 Credit Hour)

This is a one-credit interdisciplinary and experiential learning course offered through Summer Online in June 2022 to qualified Notre Dame students. This course prepares students to serve as language coaches for immigrants in Italy participating in the Italian for Immigrants non-credit training program. Students will tackle issues of immigration and foreign language pedagogy and will learn how to use their language knowledge for service to the underprivileged. This course is open to all language students who have reached a 102 level in their foreign language. Precedence will be given to students of Italian. Approximately 4 Notre Dame students will be hired to participate in this course. Students who are not hired will be prepared to support language training for immigrants.

ROIT 20111 Intensive Italian (6 Credit Hours)

ROIT 20111 is a six-credit hybrid Intensive course that combines second and third semesters of Italian language study, offering both traditional classroom instruction (MWF for 50 minutes each) and on-line work on the textbook Supersite on TTh. This course focuses on refining skills in all communicative aspects of Italian: reading, writing, listening and speaking. By the end of this intensive course, students will be able to better express themselves in Italian, and be culturally aware and engaged users of the language. ROIT 20111 is followed by ROIT 20202.

ROIT 20201 Intermediate Italian I (3 Credit Hours)

Welcome to ROIT 20201 - Intermediate Italian I. This is an intermediate language course focusing on oral and written production. It includes a review of some basic introductory-level grammar and transitions into more difficult features of Italian grammar and vocabulary. Students discuss and write about Italian cultural topics and current events. This course meets three hours per week on MWF and completes the remaining chapters of the Sentieri textbook and online platform.

Prerequisites: ROIT 10102 or ROIT 10106 or ROIT 10110 or ROIT 10115 or ROIT 14102

ROIT 20202 Exploring Italian Culture: Intermediate Italian II (3 Credit Hours)

ROIT 20202 is a fourth-semester Italian course that is designed to develop written and oral communication skills and to prepare students for upper-level courses in the Italian department. Throughout the semester, students will work towards obtaining linguistic fluency while exploring Italian culture through the films of some contemporary well-known directors. Each film will be presented in its historical and cultural context, which will provide us with the starting point of our class discussions. Cultural readings and literary excerpts drawing upon the themes of each unit and the themes presented in the films will be provided to supplement our discussion of the film.

Prerequisites: ROIT 20201 or ROIT 20215

ROIT 20300 Let's Talk Italian (1 Credit Hour)

This mini-course in Italian offers both informal and structured conversation practice. Conversation on Italian politics, society, and culture will be based on authentic materials. This course meets one hour per week for group discussions on contemporary issues and with guest speakers. Conducted in Italian. Recommended for students returning from Italy. Does not count towards Italian major or minor requirements.

Prerequisites: ROIT 20201

Course may be repeated.

ROIT 20612 Genesis of the Italian-American Identity (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

ROIT 20650 From the "Sea in the Middle": Medieval Mediterranean’s Stories (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROIT 20690 The World in Rome: Pathways of Migration and Citizenship (3 Credit Hours)

How and why do some of the roads taken by migrants (including refugees) lead to Rome and Italy? What are the challenges faced by migrants upon their arrival, and on their path to citizenship? How does civil society intervene to mitigate those challenges, and to facilitate mutual integration and engagement? What are the distinctive features of Roman lay and Catholic approaches to migration? The course addresses such questions, building on contemporary Rome both as a compelling case study and as a gateway to the causes, lived experiences, and consequences of global migrations. Migrants' reception and integration happens at the local level, and in interaction with residents and existing communities. Attention to the realities of the host civil society is therefore fundamental: migration is not an issue that can simply be delegated to experts, bureaucrats, and politicians. Students investigate how the experience of the city is at the same time the experience of globalization, embodied in older and new residents' everyday life in the built environment; and they appreciate situated social engagement and its potentialities.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WRIT - Writing Intensive

ROIT 21205 Pre-Study Abroad (1 Credit Hour)

A mini-course that prepares students accepted for study abroad in Notre Dame's programs in Italy. Students are prepared for various cultural and day-to-day challenges that await them in Italy. Class runs the second half of the semester.

ROIT 23300 Let's Talk Italian (1-2 Credit Hours)

This mini-course in Italian offers both informal and structured conversation practice. Conversation on a variety of topics such as Italian politics, society, and culture will be based on authentic materials. This course meets for group discussions on contemporary issues and with guest speakers. Conducted in Italian.

ROIT 27201 Independent Study: ROIT Intermediate I (1-3 Credit Hours)

This independent study covers the intermediate second-year language sequence with equal focus on oral and writing skills. It includes a review of basic grammar and then transitions into more difficult features of Italian. Students learn to discuss and write about Italian cultural topics, current events, and literary texts.

ROIT 30300 Let's Talk Italian II (1 Credit Hour)

This mini-course in Italian meets one hour per week for group discussions on varied contemporary issues in Italian culture, society, and politics. Conducted in Italian. Recommended for students in their third or fourth year of Italian. Does not count towards Italian major or minor requirements.

Prerequisites: ROIT 27500 or ROIT 20215 or ROIT 24202 or ROIT 30310 or ROIT 20202

Course may be repeated.

ROIT 30310 Passage to Italy: Textual Analysis and Advanced Grammar (3 Credit Hours)

In this fifth-semester course you learn to analyze and understand works drawn from the major literary and artistic genres (lyric poetry, prose, theatre, epic, novel, film, opera, contemporary song). At the same time you will review and consolidate your grasp of the Italian language at an advanced level.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 30520 The Role of the Witness in Italian Culture: Testimonies of Fascism, the Mafia, and Terrorism (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROIT 30603 Civilizations, Nations and Identities in Modern Europe (3 Credit Hours)

ROIT 30613 Italy and Islam: Cultural Encounters from Dante to Today (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROIT 30710 The Quest for Nature in Italy (3 Credit Hours)

ROIT 30711 Medieval-Renaissance Italian Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course helps you to understand and interpret the most important works of medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, as well as painting, sculpture, architecture, and music, in their historical, social, and cultural context. We will analyze key texts from Cavalcanti, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Poliziano, and Ariosto, among others, and learn to appreciate key works of art and architecture by Duccio, Giotto, Ghiberti, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Alberti, Masaccio, Botticelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael, among others. The course is taught in Italian, and also aims to help you speak, understand, and write Italian with more confidence, accuracy, and ease. Counts as a Lit-Culture course; required for majors and supplementary majors in the Lit Culture concentration; this course or ROIT 30721 required for majors in the Italian Studies concentration. Cross-listed with MI 30577.

Prerequisites: ROIT 20215 or ROIT 27500

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 30713 What is Love? (3 Credit Hours)

What do we mean by the word Love? Is it passion? Madness? Is it friendship? Can it exist only among human beings? Love shapes communities, can promote war or peace, and raises fundamental questions about life. In the pre-modern world, love was conceived as a force that moved the individual and governed not only the body but the entire universe. Love was God and the quest for the Absolute. Love was also desire and the cause of many problems. By reading literature from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (from early lyric to Dante's universal love, Petrarch's exploration of the self, Boccaccio's legitimation of female desire, Michelangelo's homoerotic poetry, Machiavelli's comic impulses, Vittoria Colonna's spiritual rhymes), along with philosophical, religious, and rhetorical texts on love (from Plato and Augustine to Andrea Cappellanus, Richard of St. Victor, and Marsilio Ficino), we will see what has changed and what has persisted, and ultimately come to understand what we mean when we talk about Love.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 30718 The Literature of the Journey to Italy: From the Renaissance to Today (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROIT 30721 Modern Italian Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

Renowned for its rich past but full of contradictions that persist to the present day, Italy has one of the most fascinating histories and abundant cultures in the modern world. This course provides a unique perspective onto Italian modernity by exploring the wealth of Italy's modern and contemporary cultural production. We will focus on key issues that unveil the unique "spirit" of modern Italy, such as the weight of the past, the tension between political realism and idealism, the recurrence of social and political crises, immigration, revolution, and youth culture. We will investigate how issues of gender, class, race, identity, and faith have shaped Italian literature, film, and theatre in the modern age. Through the study of texts, films, and other media, the course seeks to understand the development of modern Italy and its future trajectory. Authors studied will include Dario Fo, Natalia Ginzburg, Eugenio Montale, Elsa Morante, Anna Maria Ortese, Luigi Pirandello, Igiaba Scego, and Elio Vittorini. This course is taught in Italian and satisfies the Ways of Knowing requirements for Advanced Language and Culture as well as Fine Arts and Literature.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 30750 Italian Women Writers: Female Voices in Modern and Contemporary Italy (3 Credit Hours)

This course offers a deep dive into the remarkable, yet frequently marginalized, works of women authors in Italian literature from the nineteenth century to contemporary times. How have these writers influenced discourses surrounding women’s emancipation and pressing social issues? What do their contributions reveal about women’s struggle to establish their voices, and claim their identity and power? Through our exploration of novels, poems, and short stories, we will uncover the unique perspectives and influences of these authors, highlighting how they have actively shaped the cultural landscape. The course will be conducted entirely in Italian, providing an immersive experience as we study works that have redefined the Italian literary canon.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 35150 RGG Virtual Practicum in Italian (1 Credit Hour)

Students participate in virtual engaged learning activities with organizations in the city of Rome in a variety of educational and institutional settings in keeping with their academic and disciplinary areas of interest. One initial, mid-term and final meeting with the instructor aimed at providing context for guided reflection on the students' experiences as interns with organizations in Rome. Work to be completed in Italian.

ROIT 36000 Directed Reading (1-3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the student's area of study.

ROIT 40114 Dante's Divine Comedy: The Christian Universe as Poetry (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores the work of Dante's Divine Comedy, looking at the Christian universe as poetry. Taught in English

ROIT 40115 Dante I (3 Credit Hours)

Dante I and Dante II are an in-depth study, over two semesters, of the entire Comedy, in its historical, philosophical and literary context, with selected readings from the minor works (e.g., Vita Nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia). Dante I focuses on the Inferno and the minor works; Dante II focuses on the Purgatorio and Paradiso. Lectures and discussion in English; the text will be read in the original with facing-page translation. Students may take one semester or both, in either order.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines

ROIT 40116 Dante II (3 Credit Hours)

Dante I and Dante II are an in-depth study, over two semesters, of the entire Comedy, in its historical, philosophical and literary context, with selected readings from the minor works (e.g., Vita Nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia). Dante I focuses on the Inferno and the minor works; Dante II focuses on the Purgatorio and Paradiso. Lectures and discussion in English; the text will be read in the original with facing-page translation. Students may take one semester or both, in either order.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKCD-Core Cathol & Disciplines, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 40330 Seeing Things: Vision Across Text and Image in Medieval Italy (3 Credit Hours)

In the Italian Middle Ages, vision was more than a physical process, it was a way of understanding the world, navigating society, and expressing devotion and desire. Fascinated by mystical experience but saturated with social conventions that sought to control as well as to captivate the gaze, theories and mythologies of vision shaped social life and self-expression, illuminating the centuries traditionally known as the “Dark Ages” with a rich discourse on sight and perception. This course explores the theme of vision across texts and images from medieval Italy, investigating whose visions got to be recorded. Readings include poetic, devotional, and scientific texts and the study selected visual artifacts from illuminated manuscripts to major fresco cycles, ecclesiastical artworks, and domestic decorations. In addition to exploring how ‘seeing’ shaped the medieval mind, students will uncover how authors and artists investigated the space between what could be seen and what could only be imagined.

ROIT 40350 Boccaccio's Decameron: God, Sex, Money, and Power (3 Credit Hours)

In this course students will make a close and critical reading of Giovanni Boccaccio's collection of one hundred short stories, the Decameron. A founding work of Italian literature, recognized for centuries as its best example of prose writing, its author wanted it to be an ethical manual for critically understanding reality and its political, social, and religious tenets, under the appearance of a mere entertaining work. From the experience of the 1348 Black Plague to daily issues in protocapitalist Florence, from tales of magicians and enchanted gardens to tongue-in-cheek stories, from relationships between husband and wives, children and parents, to those between kings, sultans, and their subjects, Boccaccio's stories allow us to better understand our past, while challenging our views on the self, faith, society, and the other.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture, WRIT - Writing Intensive

ROIT 40370 Modernist Italy: Decadence, Avant-garde, and the Crisis of the Self (3 Credit Hours)

The turn of the twentieth century was a period of electrifying transformation. Yet, modernity – promising progress and innovation – also revealed its darker facets: inequality, division, and existential crisis. How did Italy adapt to this rapidly evolving world? This course delves into the vibrant cultural responses of the era, from the introspective works of Nobel Prize-winning authors to the bold, revolutionary manifestos of the avant-garde. We will examine Decadent and Modernist literature alongside disruptive movements like Futurism, uncovering how Italian writers and artists confronted literary and artistic conventions. Through textual and visual analysis, we will explore how the contradictions exposed by Modernism redefined the Italian cultural tradition and continue to resonate in contemporary times. Taught in Italian.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 40510 Italian Cinema 1: New Realisms in the Old World (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores the history of Italian film from the silent era to the 1960s, an epoch stretching from Francesca Bertini's Assunta Spina to Federico Fellini's La dolce vita. At the center of this period is the age of Italian neorealism, when directors such as Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, and Luchino Visconti invented new ways of looking at the world that radically transformed the history of world cinema. Focusing their attention on issues and individuals that had gone unseen in Fascist and post-Fascist Italy, the neorealists challenged established norms by making the experiences of ordinary Italians increasingly visible, developing techniques for representing reality that continue to influence filmmakers across the globe. We will analyze how questions of class, faith, gender, identity, and ideology intersect on screen as Italian directors explore and attempt to intervene in a rapidly transforming modern world. With a filmography featuring both masterpieces of world cinema and cult classics, this course will investigate how the quest to capture reality reshaped every genre of Italian film, including action & adventure, comedy, crime, documentary, melodrama, mystery, thriller and more. The course is taught in English and all films will have English subtitles.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROIT 40512 Italian Cinema II: The World of Illusions (3 Credit Hours)

This course begins in the 1960s, when Italy stood at the center of the film world, and traces the history of Italian cinema to the present day. We will focus on the heyday of Italian auteurs – Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, and Pier Paolo Pasolini – examining how each brought a singular vision to the collective medium of cinema. Working against the hegemony of Hollywood, Italian filmmakers in the twentieth century created new forms of representation that inspired audiences worldwide. They continue to do so in the new millennium, building on the innovations of illustrious predecessors like Bertolucci and Pontecorvo, Wertmüller and Cavani to reveal new realities to moviegoers across the globe. We will analyze how questions of class, faith, gender, identity, and ideology intersect on screen as Italian directors seek both to expose and to recreate the illusions by which we live. With a filmography featuring both masterpieces of world cinema and cult classics, this course will investigate how pioneering Italian directors reshaped every genre of film, including action & adventure, comedy, crime, documentary, melodrama, mystery, thriller, horror, and more. The course is taught in English and all films will have English subtitles.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROIT 40548 Italian Cinema: Realities of History (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores the construction and development of the Italian cinematic realist tradition from the silent era to the early 1970s, although its primary focus is on the period 1934-1966, which stretches from the appearance of Blasetti's openly fascist "historical" reconstruction, La vecchia guardia, to Pasolini's eccentric exercise in left-wing commitment, Uccellacci e uccellini, with its mix of expressionist and hyper-realist techniques. At the centre of this period are found some of Italy's most highly regarded films made by directors, such as Vittorio DeSica, Roberto Rossellini, and Luchino Visconti, who belonged to the neo-realist movement (1945-53). These filmmakers rejected escapist cinema and tried to make films that examined the contemporary experiences of ordinary Italians. As well as analyzing the films in themselves, the course examines the formal and ideological continuities and differences between neo-realist films and their silent and fascist predecessors. In a similar way, it analyzes neo-realism's impact on later filmmakers, such as Federico Fellini, Pietro Germi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gillo Pontecorvo, Dino Risi, and Francesco Rosi, who attempted to develop new versions of cinematic realism. Finally, the course aims to locate the films in their historical and cultural contexts and to address theoretical issues arising from the concept of "realism."

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 40617 Literary Translation in Italian (3 Credit Hours)

In this course, we will explore different ways of approaching the work of literary translation as we practice the art of translation itself. Practicing translation will allow us to improve our linguistic abilities in reading, writing, and speaking and will increase our intercultural competencies. Translation requires not only a comprehension of the relationship between two languages and their related cultures but also a linguistic and literary analysis of texts at multiple levels: from the nuances of the single word to the structure of a sentence or text to the possible meanings of the translated text. We will examine questions of register, tone, style, rhythm, rhyme, and meter in prose and verse texts from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era. Taught in Italian.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 40810 Fascism and Resistance (3 Credit Hours)

In this seminar we will investigate how Fascism emerged in Italy in the twentieth century, and how some Italians resisted the rise of totalitarianism. Reflecting on the role of culture throughout Italy's "difficult modernity," we will examine how leading artists and intellectuals worked to support or to combat the Italian dictatorship. Against the backdrop of the historical crises that both preceded and outlasted the Fascist period, we will engage with Italian literature, cinema, theatre, and art in order to evaluate the complex relationships between culture and power. Authors studied include Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, and Cesare Pavese. Filmmakers studied include Bernardo Bertolucci, Vittorio De Sica, and Roberto Rossellini. Course is taught in Italian

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture, WRIT - Writing Intensive

ROIT 40914 Primo Levi: Literature and Life (3 Credit Hours)

Primo Levi has been called "a major, universally recognized, icon in Holocaust literature" (Geerts), indeed "the witness-writer par excellence," because "his narrative, poetry and essays about his time in Auschwitz are among the most widely read and most widely lauded of all writings on the Holocaust" (Gordon). Levi was this and more: witness and storyteller, scientist and writer, he was among the greatest authors and moral authorities of the twentieth century. In this course, taught in Italian, we will read Levi's first and most famous work, Se questo - un uomo (If This is a Man, 1947), a masterpiece and milestone in the Italian tradition, in which Levi recounts his internment in Auschwitz. With Levi, we will ask what it means to live, what it means to be human, in and after the Nazi death camps. With Levi, too, we will broaden our exploration to address vital questions of faith, identity, meaning, truth, responsibility, love, friendship, freedom, diversity, survival, science, and salvation as we read selections from such fundamental works as La tregua (The Truce, 1963); Il sistema periodico (The Periodic Table, 1975); Lillit e altri racconti (Moments of Reprieve, 1978); and I sommersi e i salvati (The Drowned and the Saved, 1986). Throughout the course we will also make use of materials from the Primo Levi Collection of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library, one of the world's foremost collections dedicated to the study of Primo Levi.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROIT 40960 The Italian Atlantic (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines how Italian culture has imagined, internalized, and engaged with the African-American struggle for freedom and equality from the nineteenth century to the present day. Exploring a range of texts and films by Italian and African-American authors, we will consider how they intersect to construct a discourse of solidarity, of common cause and a common front across continents and cultures. We will analyze and contextualize this discourse as it is made manifest across the modern history of Italy, from the Risorgimento to the First World War, from Fascism to Resistance, from 1968 to the Years of Lead, and into the new Millennium. Taught in English.

ROIT 42115 Dante I LAC Discussion Group (1 Credit Hour)

Students of the Italian language are eligible to sign up for an additional single credit discussion section as part of the Languages across the Curriculum (LAC) initiative in the College of Arts and Letters. Choosing this option means that students will read a canto per week of the Comedy in Italian and meet once a week with a section leader who will guide a discussion in Italian and grade some brief writing assignments. The LAC discussion section in Italian associated with this course will be graded on a pass/fail basis and credited to the student's transcript.

ROIT 42116 Dante II LAC Discussion Group (1 Credit Hour)

Students with Italian enrolled in Dante II have the option of also enrolling in a one-credit un/satisfactory Languages Across the Curriculum section, which will meet one hour per week to read and discuss selected passages or cantos in Italian.

ROIT 46000 Directed Readings (1-3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the student's area of study.

ROIT 47000 Special Studies (1-3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed with the purpose of allowing students to engage in an individual or small group study under the direction of a departmental faculty member.

Course may be repeated.

ROIT 48000 Senior Thesis (1-6 Credit Hours)

Portuguese (ROPO)

ROPO 10103 Brazilian Portuguese Language and Culture I (4 Credit Hours)

This beginning Portuguese hybrid course combines the traditional classroom format with online instruction. This course introduces students to contemporary Brazilian and Lusophone cultures through film, music, news media and internet resources. Along with the acquisition of language skills, ROPO 10103 emphasizes the active use of written and spoken Portuguese in context. This course meets three times in the classroom plus online requirements.

ROPO 10104 Beginning Portuguese II (4 Credit Hours)

This is an introductory, first-year language sequence with equal focus on speaking, listening, reading, and writing. An appreciation for the diverse cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world is also encouraged through readings, music, videos, and class discussion.

Prerequisites: ROPO 10102

ROPO 10105 Portuguese for Spanish Speakers I (3 Credit Hours)

This course sequence is designed for students with at least intermediate-level proficiency in Spanish. Classroom activities emphasize the acquisition of basic language structures, vocabulary, and sound systems, as well as the active use of spoken language in context. Students are introduced to the diverse cultures of the Portuguese-speaking countries through current video, printed media, music, and short fiction. This sequence is followed by ROPO 20201 or ROPO 20202. ROPO 10105 - 10106 and either ROPO 20201 or ROPO 20202 together fulfill the language requirement.

ROPO 10106 Portuguese for Spanish Speakers II (3 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: ROPO 10105

ROPO 10115 Intensive Beginning Portuguese for Study Abroad (6 Credit Hours)

Designed for highly motivated students this intensive course along with the acquisition of language skills emphasizes the active use of written and spoken Portuguese in communicative contexts: dialogues, songs, movies, TV, etc..Students attend class regularly with an instructor M W & F, and practice Portuguese through daily online activities. ROPO 10115 is followed by ROPO 20201, and together they fulfill the language requirement and prepare students to study abroad in Brazil.

ROPO 20201 Intermediate Portuguese I (3 Credit Hours)

Through selected readings in Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African literatures, films, newspaper and magazine articles, and popular music, students discuss a variety of cultural issues and expand their vocabulary. Particular attention is placed on reviewing major topics in Portuguese grammar and on developing students' writing abilities. ROPO 20201 fulfills the language requirement and prepares students to study abroad in Brazil.

Prerequisites: (ROPO 10102 or ROPO 10106 or ROPO 10115 or ROPO 10104)

ROPO 20202 Intermediate Portuguese II (3 Credit Hours)

This is a continuation of ROPO 20201 but it may be taken separately. ROPO 20202 is a fourth-semester language course designed to develop facility in speaking, reading, and writing at an advanced level. Discussions and writing assignments are based on films as well as on short stories, chronicles and newspaper articles.

Prerequisites: ROPO 20201

ROPO 20205 Intensive Intermediate Portuguese (3 Credit Hours)

ROPO 20205 is a 3-credit intensive intermediate course that focuses on developing all communicative skills in Portuguese, that is, reading, writing, listening and speaking. The course will focus on authentic material (short stories, movies, music, TV News, series, soap operas, chronicles, etc.) to prepare students to communicate more effectively in Portuguese. By the end of this intensive course, students will be able to express their ideas in a more sophisticated and advanced level. ROPO 20205 is followed by any 30000 course in Portuguese or above. Pre-requisites: ROPO 10106 (Portuguese for Spanish Speakers II), ROPO 10115 (Intensive Beginning Portuguese) or placement test.

ROPO 27201 Independent Study: ROPO Intermediate I (1-3 Credit Hours)

This independent study covers the intermediate second-year language sequence with equal focus on oral and writing skills. It includes a review of basic grammar and then transitions into more difficult features of Portuguese. Students learn to discuss and write about Lusophone cultural topics, current events, and literary texts.

ROPO 30551 Brazilian Pop Culture: Music, Television, Cinema & Sports (3 Credit Hours)

Students will hone their oral and written skills through the study of a myriad of the most popular cultural activities in Brazil. MPB, Música Sertaneja, Pop, Funk, Soap Operas, Popular Movies, Soccer and Volleyball will provide students with a rich panorama of Contemporary Pop Culture in Brazil while revealing deeper conflicts and tensions within Brazilian society. Offered in Portuguese.

Prerequisites: ROPO 20202

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROPO 30651 Brazilian Music, Culture and Society (3 Credit Hours)

Understanding Brazilian complex social and cultural issues through the study of diverse music genres, from the traditional Samba, Bossa Nova, and MPB to the more contemporary and daring Funk Carioca and Tecnobrega (offered in Portuguese).

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROPO 30810 Brazilian Literature in dialogue with new arts and media. (3 Credit Hours)

In this course, students will have a broad introduction to the masterpieces of Brazilian Literature, from colonial times to modernismo. Our corpus will include works by great masters such as Gregório de Matos, José de Alencar, Machado de Assis, Clarice Lispector, and Jorge Amado. Furthermore, the close reading of these texts will be enriched by the analysis of contemporary music, graphic novels, TV shows and movies that adapt, reshape, recycle and remediate Brazilian literary classics. Taught in Portuguese.

Prerequisites: ROPO 20202

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROPO 30814 Introduction to Contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian Literature: Trends, Topics and Themes (3 Credit Hours)

In this course we will explore trends, topics and themes present in contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian literature. We will discuss how they reflect contemporary issues in culture and society. We will also analyze the way fictional narratives and poems are reconfigured in the cinema and music of Portugal and Brazil. Gender, race, social disparity and censorship struggles are some of the topics we will discuss.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROPO 30816 Women’s Voices in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literature (3 Credit Hours)

This course is an introduction to contemporary literature written by women in Portugal, Brazil, and Lusophone Africa. We will start by asking the question “What is women’s literature?” and throughout the course we will discuss a variety of literary genres that will aid in our discussions about the portrayal of women’s lives, aspirations, and concerns in literature. We will examine the formal structure of crônicas, short stories, novels, and poetry and will evaluate how women from different cultures portray their role as individuals as well as in family and society. The course will also examine how their fictional works voice similar or differing concerns depending on the writers’ race, class, landscape, and origin. Some of the writers we will study include Natália Correia, Maria Judite de Carvalho, Clarice Lispector, Conceição Evaristo, Cíntia Moscovich, Lídia Jorge, and Paulina Chiziane. Taught in Portuguese.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROPO 33300 Introduction to Portuguese and Brazilian Culture through Cinema and Music (1 Credit Hour)

This course examines 20th and 21st Century Portuguese and Brazilian culture through cinema and music. As we explore the artistic achievements of Portuguese and Brazilian writers, musicians, and filmmakers over the last one hundred years, students will examine topics such as social inequalities and power struggle, the importance of soccer, carnival, music and religion, as well as major historical events that have impacted popular cultural productions in Brazil and Portugal. Our goal is to evaluate how films and music portray the culture of these countries, and to discuss how artistic manifestations offer a reference or a different perspective on the interpretation of the society and the culture of Brazilians and Portuguese. Conducted in English.

ROPO 34955 History, Art, and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Portugal (3 Credit Hours)

From the Roman and Muslim roots to the Portuguese Empire, from Monarchy to Democracy, this course examines the impact of history in Portugal's cultural identity. In the course students will discuss how major cultural and historic events played a role in the development of the country, as well as observe the presence of multiple cultural voices in contemporary cultural productions. Students will experience and develop an in-depth perspective of the historical, social, ethnic, and cultural layers that make Portugal a vibrant and unique country. History, architecture, arts, and sports will provide an in-depth perspective of this multicultural country, and the ways in which all these voices come together to make Portugal the center of the Lusophone world. Our course will also emphasize the struggles that the Portuguese society still faces, and the current discussions and solutions found to remediate such inequities. The course will be taught in English.

ROPO 36000 Directed Readings: Portuguese (3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the student's area of study.

ROPO 40511 Introduction to Film Analysis through Brazilian Cinema (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROPO 40598 Cinema of Portugal and Luso-Africa (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROPO 40599 Bridging the Gap: Cinema, Music and Literature in Portuguese-Speaking Countries (3 Credit Hours)

ROPO 40750 Portugal Unchained: Politics, Culture, and Resistance from Estado Novo to Democracy (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines the political, social, and cultural history of Portugal from the establishment of the Estado Novo dictatorship in 1933 to the consolidation of democracy in the 1980s and beyond. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws on historical documents, literature, music, and film, students will explore the mechanisms of authoritarian control, the effects of the colonial wars, the transformative Carnation Revolution of 1974, and the complex process of democratic transition and today’s current political dynamics in the country. Special emphasis will be placed on resistance movements, censorship, and the politics of memory. The course also considers how these legacies continue to shape contemporary Portuguese society and political life today. This course will be taught in English.

ROPO 40810 The Making of a Country: Race and Social Inequality in Brazil (3 Credit Hours)

This course will focus on metanarratives of racial formation in Brazil and their correlation with social inequality. An interdisciplinary approach will be used to examine how the notion of "racial paradise" was created in the first half of the 20th century, and how it has been challenged and deconstructed over the last decades by the Brazilian intelligentsia. (offered in English).

ROPO 40820 Portuguese Pop Culture (3 Credit Hours)

Portugal’s cultural identity has been shaped by a unique interplay of religion, music, and sport—three defining elements encapsulated in the iconic trio: Fado, Futebol, and Fátima. This course explores the historical and contemporary significance of these cultural pillars, examining how they have influenced national identity, collective memory, and social dynamics in Portugal. We will delve into Fado, Portugal’s soulful musical tradition, to understand its role in expressing themes of nostalgia, longing (saudade), and resilience. We will analyze how Futebol (soccer) has transcended sport to become a symbol of national pride and social unity, reflecting class, politics, and globalization. Finally, we will examine the significance of Fátima, one of the most important Catholic pilgrimage sites in the world, as a focal point of Portuguese religiosity and cultural heritage. In the second half of the course, we will shift our focus to Afro-Brazilian influences on contemporary Portuguese culture, exploring how diasporic, colonial legacies, and cultural exchange have shaped Portugal’s modern identity. Through primary sources, music, media, and contemporary debates, students will gain a deeper understanding of Portugal’s evolving cultural identity and the ways in which tradition and modernity intersect in a globalized world. Taught in English.

ROPO 40909 Dangerous Liaisons: Migration, Racial and Cultural Tensions in the Portuguese-African Context (3 Credit Hours)

ROPO 40952 The Giant of the South: Brazil in the 21st Century (3 Credit Hours)

ROPO 40953 Contemporary Brazil Beyond Stereotypes (3 Credit Hours)

ROPO 43810 The Making of a Country: Race and Social Inequality in Brazil (1 Credit Hour)

In this dynamic and interactive course, students will develop their oral skills by discussing current issues and hot topics in Brazil and beyond through Brazilian news outlets. TV news shows, newspaper websites and online portals will be used to discuss contemporary Brazilian politics, economy, society, entertainment and much more! Pre-requisite: Portuguese Intermediate 1 (ROPO20201).

ROPO 46000 Directed Readings (1-3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the student's area of study.

Spanish (ROSP)

ROSP 10101 Beginning Spanish I (4 Credit Hours)

This is an introductory, first-year language sequence with equal focus on the four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. An appreciation for Hispanic cultures is also encouraged through readings and class discussion. The sequence is to be followed by ROSP 10102. The first step in obtaining approval for this class is to take the Spanish Language Placement Exam.

ROSP 10102 Beginning Spanish II (4 Credit Hours)

This is an introductory, first-year language sequence with equal focus on the four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. An appreciation for Hispanic cultures is also encouraged through readings and class discussion. The sequence is to be followed by ROSP 20201 or ROSP 20215. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 281 and 340 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: ROSP 10101

ROSP 10110 Beginning Spanish (6 Credit Hours)

This is a six-credit hybrid introductory language course which combines traditional classroom with online instruction. Students attend class with an instructor (M-W) and work on-line (T-R-F). Equal emphasis is placed on spoken and written Spanish. The course is followed by ROSP 20201 or 20215. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 0 and 340 to enroll in this class.

ROSP 20201 Intermediate Spanish I (3 Credit Hours)

This is an intermediate second-year language sequence with equal focus on oral and writing skills. It includes a review of basic grammar and then transitions into more difficult features of Spanish. Students learn to discuss and write about Hispanic cultural topics, current events, and literary texts. Student must have a Language Exam Score between 341 and 393 to register for this class.

Prerequisites: ROSP 10102 or ROSP 10110 or ROSP 10115 or ROSP 19105

ROSP 20202 Intermediate Spanish II (3 Credit Hours)

This is an intermediate second-year language sequence with equal focus on oral and writing skills. It includes a review of basic grammar and then transitions into more difficult features of Spanish. Students learn to discuss and write about Hispanic cultural topics, current events, and literary texts. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 394 and 439 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20201 or ROSP 20215

ROSP 20215 Intensive Intermediate Spanish (6 Credit Hours)

This course is an accelerated language and culture course, combining the study of more complex language structures, communication tasks and cultural concepts in a stimulating classroom environment. This course covers Intermediate I and II content in one semester, and completes the language requirement. It is also recommended for students who wish to advance their linguistic preparation before studying abroad. Pre-requisites: ROSP 10102, 10110 or by placement.

Prerequisites: ROSP 19105

ROSP 20237 Conversation and Writing (3 Credit Hours)

Intended to develop writing proficiency through literary and nonliterary texts from Spain and Spanish America while continuing to promote the development of oral skills in Spanish.

Prerequisites: ROSP 10101 or ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20220 or ROSP 20603 or ROSP 20604 or ROSP 20605 or ROSP 20608 or ROSP 20660 or ROSP 20661 or ROSP 27500

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 20450 Spanish for Business (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for the student who wants to learn and study Spanish terminology, phrases, and cultural conventions used in business situations in Spain and Latin America.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202 or ROSP 30310 or ROSP 30320

ROSP 20460 Spanish for Medical Profession (3 Credit Hours)

This course introduces students who have mastered the rudiments of Spanish grammar to a vocabulary allowing them to discuss medicine and health care with the Spanish-speaking population in the United States.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20603 or ROSP 20604 or ROSP 20605 or ROSP 20608 or ROSP 20660 or ROSP 20661

ROSP 20500 Conversation and Writing for Heritage Speakers of Spanish (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for learners who have a personal connection to the Spanish language, having been exposed to it at home or in their community from a young age, and as such already understand and/or speak the language. The main focus is on language awareness, with the goal of enhancing language skills and deepening cultural understanding. Emphasis will be placed on practical language use, cultural exploration, and critical analysis of cultural artifacts. This course is founded on the principle of respecting, validating and legitimizing all modes and registers of speech that students bring with them to the classroom. Students will be introduced to linguistic variants of Spanish in the pursuit to foster awareness of linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects related to Spanish in the United States. The specific objectives are to further develop proficiency/competence in reading and writing skills, while expanding the whole linguistic repertoire needed in academic settings. Students will become aware of certain norms of written Spanish, such as the use of spelling, punctuation, accent marks and certain grammatical points particular to heritage speakers. It will expose students to a variety of text formats: short stories, poetry, songs, visual arts and film from the Spanish-speaking world.

ROSP 20502 La Telenovela (3 Credit Hours)

Telenovelas are a major form of entertainment in Latin America and around the world. In this course, we will study the telenovela in an integrated multidisciplinary learning environment. We will begin by exploring the genre of the telenovela and its significance as a social, cultural, political, and economic force in Latin America and in the United States by reading about the genre (in Spanish) and watching two condensed telenovelas (also in Spanish). We will learn the formulas of the classic telenovela and its archetypal characters. You will demonstrate your understanding of the telenovela and its place in Hispanic culture through writing and discussion, and you will also engage in the linguistic and technical aspects of screenwriting, production (basic videography), acting, and post-production (computer based video and audio editing) techniques through the creation of a class telenovela; This course taught in Spanish.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

ROSP 20600 Cultural Conversations and Writing (3 Credit Hours)

This is an upper-intermediate cultural conversation and writing course designed to follow the four-semester language sequence and to act as a bridge to more advanced courses. In order to improve oral and writing language skills, this course engages students intellectually by using challenging, authentic materials and focusing on the exchange of ideas. Through the reading, discussion, and analysis of these materials, students will develop more sophisticated oral expression and expository writing as well as critical and abstract thinking skills. Being a content-driven course, topics could include, but are not limited to questions from the domains of politics, history, art, music, literature, film, religion, pop culture, etc. This course may be used as one of the two 20000-level electives for the Spanish major. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 440 and 600 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20450 or ROSP 20460 or ROSP 20810

Course may be repeated.

ROSP 20602 Monstruos y Miedo: Terror, Power and Society in Latino and Latin American Film (3 Credit Hours)

Horror movies have historically been much more than a genre of fear: they can be a powerful medium of social critique and cultural analysis. In this course, students will explore and analyze the genre of horror films beyond surface-level scares – they will learn approaches and theoretical frameworks to unravel the complexity of social, political, and cultural meaning hidden behind monsters, zombies, vampires, and other icons of the genre. We will also investigate the literary tropes and influences for many of these films. Through a multidisciplinary learning environment, students will analyze horror films from Latin America and the United States, studying how these films address issues such as social inequality, racism, sexism, institutional violence, power dynamics, and cultural tensions. The course will combine cinematographic analysis, critical theory, cultural studies, and hands-on audiovisual production.

ROSP 20604 Civilization and Culture of Spain (3 Credit Hours)

This course is a comprehensive study of Spain's cultural identities from prehistoric to contemporary times. Civilization and Culture of Spain offers the possibility of getting to know the most important intellectual aspects of Spanish society while furthering the student's knowledge of the Spanish language. We will examine the geography, the history, the art, the literature, and the social development of Spain from its beginnings to the present period. We will also analyze the salient characteristics of the autonomic regions that represent the Spain of the new millennium. Popular culture will also be introduced in the form of music, typical cuisine, main holidays and celebrations, and relevant traditions. In order to complement the readings and class discussions, students will watch movies or documentaries, create oral presentations and projects, and examine closely each of the most representative communities that comprise Spain today.

Prerequisites: (ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20215 or ROSP 20237 or ROSP 20211 or ROSP 20220)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 20810 Community-Based Spanish: Language, Culture and Community (3 Credit Hours)

This fifth-semester language and culture course is designed for students who want to improve their communication skills in Spanish and broaden their understanding of the Hispanic world through connecting with the local Spanish speaking community. Each section may focus on different topics, such as health care, education, social services, history of immigration, and intercultural competence. The course has a required Community-Based-Learning component in which students engage with the Latino community through placements in such areas as health care, youth mentoring or tutoring programs, English as a New Language (ENL) classes, and facilitating educational workshops with parents. In this course, students integrate their service experiences with the academic components of the class through readings, research, reflective writing, and discussion. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 440 and 600 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20237 or ROSP 20603 or ROSP 20604 or ROSP 20605 or ROSP 20608 or ROSP 20660 or ROSP 20661 or ROSP 27500

ROSP 20815 CEL: Breaking Down the Barriers: Conversations Near and Far (3 Credit Hours)

This is a fifth semester Community-Based Spanish course that bridges the language and literature sequences in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. The course is intended to develop and promote oral and written proficiency and cultural awareness. In this AI dominant era, people are increasingly lonely. In this class, we will correspond locally with elders from an assisted living facility and internationally with young people experiencing incarceration in Costa Rica. By employing the nearly lost art of letter writing (in the target language, with some in-person meetings with our local partner), our embrace of the low tech approach will yield high impact outcomes by fostering academic growth while combating the global epidemic of social isolation. This class will take you on a journey of connection as you improve your Spanish while exploring a variety of texts, reflective assignments, and community engagement.

ROSP 23300 Let's Talk Spanish (1-2 Credit Hours)

This mini-course in Spanish offers both informal and structured conversation practice. Conversation on a variety of topics such as politics, society, and culture will be based on authentic materials. This course meets for group discussions on contemporary issues and with guest speakers. Conducted in Spanish.

ROSP 30017 Introduction to Translation and Interpreting, Theory and Practice (3 Credit Hours)

Students will explore translation theory, ethics, preparations, procedures and techniques by means of Monica Baker's In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation. Together with an advanced language text to improve language skills, and selected readings to provide a strong preparation for meaningful interaction with their community partners, the course will provide real-world opportunities for application and feedback for the skills the students develop. Students will be expected to work with the community partner for 10-12 hours per semester, which typically entails a visit once per week to the partner site.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20450 or ROSP 20460 or ROSP 20600 or ROSP 20810

ROSP 30035 CEL: Immigration and the Construction of Memory (4 Credit Hours)

This is an advanced-intermediate fifth-semester culture-based Spanish course designed for students who want to improve their communication skills in Spanish and broaden their understanding of the Hispanic world. Students will work with selected Latino families to preserve and document their histories, creating a lasting record that they can proudly pass down to future generations. By being involved in this important project, students will not only enhance their language skills, but also their cultural awareness, of and sensitivity to, this growing demographic group, as well as further develop their civic engagement. Through literature, film, current events, and guest speakers, students will develop knowledge about migration issues, family immigration histories, and problems facing our Latino communities in general, and particularly in South Bend. Students through ethical engagements will work on a collaborative creation and preservation of memory (memory of an experience that shapes everyday life and the future). Using storytelling techniques, students will work with families to create a collaborative book detailing their life and path to our community. The dispositions that the students will further develop through this class are a better understanding of the Latino culture and appreciation for our customs, an awareness of the diversity of Latino culture, an intercultural competence as well as a reflective sensibility.

ROSP 30051 CEL: Once Upon a Time: Children's Literature and Community Connections (4 Credit Hours)

Students will be introduced to Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (LIJ) in the Spanish-speaking world through a combination of considerable reading of LIJ across genres and levels and a critical perspective of LIJ via academic text and articles. Books read will include many award winners by prolific writers and illustrators of LIJ, as well as widely known writers for adults who have also written children's books. Among genres read will be folklore, narrative, fiction (representing afro-latino, indigenous and other multi-cultural groups; contemporary, realistic, historical), short story, and poetry. In addition, students will develop criteria for evaluating quality LIJ through a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Finally, there is a Community-Based Learning (CBL) component where students will share LIJ with the local Latino community through CBL projects and a reading program with Latino youth. Pre-requiste: ROSP 20202 or above or placement by exam. This course can count as an advanced elective towards the major. Taught in Spanish. Students must have a Language Exam Score between 440 and 600 to enroll in this class.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20600 or ROSP 20810 or ROSP 30310 or ROSP 30320

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30101 Caribbean Diasporas (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines the development of Creole societies in the French, Spanish, Dutch, and British Caribbean in response to colonialism, slavery, migration, nationalism and, most recently, transnationalism. The recent exodus of as much as 20 percent of Caribbean populations to North America and Europe has afforded the rise of new transnational modes of existence. This course will explore the consciousness and experience of Caribbean diasporas through ethnography and history, religion, literature, music, and culinary arts.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

ROSP 30201 Introduction to Latino Studies (3 Credit Hours)

This course will examine the Latino experience in the United States, including the historical, cultural, and political foundations of Latino life. We will approach these topics comparatively, thus attention will be given to the various experiences of a multiplicity of Latino groups in the United States. This course has an optional community-engaged learning component with La Casa de Amistad.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History, WKSS - Core Social Science

ROSP 30209 Central American Narratives in the United States (3 Credit Hours)

Despite the growing presence of Central Americans in the United States in the last four decades, Central America and its people have occupied a paradoxical presence in the popular U.S. imaginary. As noted by literary scholar Yajaira Padilla, they are hypervisible as “threatening guerillas,” undocumented migrants, domestic workers, and “gang-bangers,” yet their lived experiences remain illegible in the dominant culture. This course traces the literary and cultural narratives of Central American experience within and in relation to the United States. We read fiction, poetry, film, literary nonfiction, theater, performance art, and music alongside literary and cultural studies scholarship. We begin by anchoring ourselves in key scholarship of U.S. Central American literary and cultural studies and the travel narratives of those who “witnessed” Central America in the mid 19th century. We fast-forward to writers from the U.S. and Central America who witnessed and experienced the effects of U.S. imperialism in the region, from the making of the Panama Canal to Cold War-era military interventions. We then focus on the creative narratives of Central American diasporas from the 1990s to the present. Each week is anchored by a short lecture that situates readings in historical context. We cover works by and about Central Americans from El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Panama, as well as Garífuna and Maya territories. In final papers/projects, students will have the opportunity to explore authors, topics, and regions of interest not included on the syllabus.

ROSP 30310 Introduction to Hispanic Literature and Cultures (3 Credit Hours)

This is an upper-division course for students with advanced preparation. It serves as the introduction to the analysis and explication of Spanish-language literary texts. Short texts in prose, poetry, and theatre from a variety of periods and countries within the Hispanic world are read, presented, and discussed. The course is a prerequisite for the survey courses, and must be completed by the end of the junior year.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20237 or ROSP 20450 or ROSP 20460 or ROSP 20810 or ROSP 30320

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30320 Advanced Grammar and Writing (3 Credit Hours)

Advanced Grammar and Writing offers an intensive review and refinement of Spanish grammar and instructs students in the nuances of specific genres of composition: description, report, complex narration, and argumentation. The composition genres studied directly inform the application of grammar and vocabulary; with respect to vocabulary, special emphasis is placed on problematic translations from English. This course is taught in Spanish.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20215 or ROSP 20237

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30710 Early Peninsular Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

A survey of Spanish literature through 1700. Readings of selected texts in prose, poetry, and theater from the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods. Recommended prerequisite: ROSP 30310.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 30713 A Baroque Podcast (3 Credit Hours)

Telling a story can be done in different ways. The stories we tell shape who we are, how we relate to our community, and help us understand the complexities of our culture and our time. Currently, one of the most popular ways to tell a story is the podcast phenomenon, where a group of people research, discuss, and present, using different strategies, an attractive story to an audience eager to learn about and enjoy a good oral narration. This class proposes an original and innovative approach to the literature and culture of the Spanish Baroque. During the semester, we will explore the different ways a life was recounted in the 17th century. At the same time, we will explore the podcast format as a model of contemporary mass communication. The final objective of the class will be to create a series of original podcast episodes, composed by the students, about different figures of the Spanish Baroque.

ROSP 30715 Imagined Worlds: Now and Then (3 Credit Hours)

Since its first uses in the Sixteenth Century, the term utopia meant both "good place" and "no place." Thus, the concept carried two different ideas in its own meaning, an ideal society and an unreachable one. In the past years, the concept—as well as its opposite, dystopia—has been applied to explain literary representations of imagined worlds that hold a mirror up to our own "real" world. Analyzing and discussing cultural products that create, depict, and represent invented societies is, without a doubt, a good path to understand and to critique key aspects of this complex world we live in today. In this class, we will study Early Modern Hispanic texts (written by Late Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque authors) as well as contemporary fictions (films, short stories, plays) that have in common their way to create and describe imagined/utopian/dystopian universes. We will pay specific attention to descriptions of imagined places in order to see how they explore real tensions around class, gender, society, religion, racial identities, imperial subjects, and power. During the semester, we will read texts written by Cervantes, Colón, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Cortés, Gracián, Vespucio, Nieremberg, and Fuentelapeña and will watch and analyze films such as Children of Men, Blade Runner, Pan's Labyrinth, Avatar, Elysium, among other contemporary works.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 30717 Brains, Brawn, and Heart: Women in Medieval Iberian Literature (3 Credit Hours)

This course will examine a panorama of vastly differing depictions of women in Medieval Iberia, in texts written almost exclusively by men. Through a selection of prose and verse from the 13th to 16th centuries, we will consider questions such as loyalty and betrayal, submission and rebellion, piety and blasphemy, and love and rejection.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30718 Love, Betrayal, and Vengeance in the Spanish Epic (3 Credit Hours)

This course will address the development of the legends of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (el Cid), the Seven Knights of Lara, and Bernardo del Carpio, from the thirteenth century to the twenty first. Our analysis will center on the portrayals of love and affection, betrayal, and vengeance, and how and why the presentations of such concepts change throughout the legends’ retellings in chronicles, narrative poetry, ballads, theater, and film.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30720 Modern Peninsular Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course is an invitation to explore problems of social representation and aesthetic expression through contemporary Spanish literature and cultures. Readings include texts produced since the beginning of Spanish democracy in 1978 through the present, and draw from different literary styles and overlapping themes, including: the self, the question of alterity or ‘the other', violence, memory, biography, feminism and post-feminism, nation and racism, the European community, globalization, colonialism and migrations, rural life, and contemporary capitalism. In order to consider voices that traditionally have been excluded for nation building discourses in Spanish democracy, a variety of genres (poetry, articles, columns, novel, short stories, tales, drama, film) are incorporated in this course. Taught in Spanish.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 30722 Catalan Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course aims to provide students with an introduction to Catalan culture and to the major authors, works, and trends in Catalan literature from the medieval period to the 21th century. We will be reading representative work from such vibrant cities as Barcelona and Valencia, as well as the Balearic Islands, and other Catalan-speaking territories. The study of Catalan literature represents a dynamic and unique opportunity for students to enhance their knowledge of the Iberian Peninsula, and to foment a better understanding -particularly in light of the recent developments in the conflict between Catalonia's regional government and the central Spanish government- of the cultural, linguistic and political reality of today's Spain. While learning about Catalan literature and culture students will also have the opportunity to explore a wide array of topics, such as history, sociolinguistics, politics, the origins of Catalan nationalism, the Catalan separatist movements, and identity politics. This course will place special emphasis on the relationship between Catalan and Spanish literary traditions from the Middle Ages to the present. No previous knowledge of Catalan language is required: Spanish will be the language of class instruction and readings. Primary and secondary sources will be complemented with the use of films and other audiovisual materials. Fulfills 30710 or 30720 requirements or can count as a 30000-level elective.

Prerequisites: ROSP 20201 or ROSP 20202 or ROSP 20237 or ROSP 20810 or ROSP 27500 or ROSP 30310 or ROSP 30320

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30725 Religion in Modern Spanish Lit (3 Credit Hours)

During the 19th and 20th centuries many European intellectuals attempted to explain and define “religion” often in an effort to explain it away. Friedrich Nietzsche’s madman famously declared that God was dead and Sigmund Freud maintained that religion was nothing more than an illusion. Others assured that religion was soon to disappear and that science and art would occupy the space that it once held. In this course we will examine how several 19th- and 20th-century Spanish writers attempted to represent the changing definitions of religion, challenges to them, and religion’s supposed disappearance. Through an exploration of the fictional worlds these authors create, we will grapple with the questions these writers so desperately tried to answer: Was religion disappearing? Was it being replaced? Was it transforming? If so, what did this mean for Spain during this time? What would it mean for Spain’s future?

ROSP 30726 Gender, Identity and Violence: Female Representations in Early Modern Spanish Literature (3 Credit Hours)

What do female characters from 16th-17th century Spanish literature have in common with contemporary women facing challenges such as gender inequalities or the Me-Too Movement? This course allows students to explore the portrayal of women in connection to gender violence as an element that shapes their individual identities according to socio-cultural and religious expectations. We will read canonical Early Modern Spanish works by authors such as Cervantes, Zayas, Lope de Vega, Calderon de la Barca, and Fray Luis de Leon. Besides studying the sociohistorical context in which these texts are produced, we will approach this corpus from feminist theories, disability and violence studies. By engaging in discussion and critical thinking, students will reflect on topics such as marriage, gender, body representations, inequality, identity and violence in both Early Modern and contemporary periods. This course can fulfill the Modern Peninsular area requirement. Taught in Spanish.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30727 Democracy and its Others in Contemporary Spanish Writing and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course is an invitation to explore problems of social representation and aesthetic expression through contemporary Spanish literature and cultures. Readings include texts produced since the beginning of the Spanish democracy in 1978 through the present, and draw from different literary styles and overlapping themes, including: the self, the question of alterity or "the other," violence, memory, biography, feminism and post-feminism, nation and racism, the European community, globalization, rural life, contemporary capitalism, and migrations. In order to consider voices that traditionally have been excluded from nation building discourses in Spanish democracy, a variety of genre (poetry, novel, short stories, tales, drama, film) are incorporated in this course. Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 30728 Fascism in Spain (3 Credit Hours)

Fascism as a political movement and ideology emerged in Europe in the 1920s and reached the peak of its power in the 1930s before its "official" institutional collapse in 1945. In Spain, its legacy survived longer than in any other European country as one of the foundations of General Franco's prolonged dictatorship (1936-1975/78). This course will explore the history of fascism in Spain, from its roots in Spanish and European political developments in the 1920s and 30s to its rise to power under General Francisco Franco. It will also consider the mutations of fascism during the recent decades. We will try to define fascism in general and map its Spanish iterations as manifested in art, literature, photography, history, philosophy and film. The guiding questions of this class include but will not be limited to: what is fascism? what were the core ideas of the movement? What were its roots and who formed its social basis? How was an ideal society envisioned by Spanish fascists? What is the role of violence and power in fascist ideology? How did it reach the government? How did Franco's dictatorship transform society? What does fascism mean today? What are the remnants and/or mutations of Spain's fascism today? Taught in Spanish.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30790 Contacts, encounters and exchanges: Iberian identities and (in)visible legacy of a Medieval frontier (3 Credit Hours)

As one of Europe's main frontiers, Medieval Iberia was a space characterized by constant contacts, encounters, and exchanges between ‘East' and ‘West', and between different political, national, cultural, linguistic, and religious identities. Long after the Spanish Reconquista was officially completed in 1492, and the actual frontier had disappeared, however, the notion of inhabiting a liminal space that emerged from the reality, as well as the idea, of being Europe's frontier continued to shape not only the Iberian imagination, but also the way in which different Iberian communities constructed and codified their collective identities. This course is devoted to exploring the legacy, both visible and invisible, of the Iberian past and how the notion of being a ‘frontier' has shaped, and continues to shape not only Spain's identity as a nation, but also other Iberian and Mediterranean national identities. Class materials will focus on Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Iberian literatures and cultures, but will also include readings and/or films that explore the notion of ‘frontier' as a theoretical framework by comparing Iberia with other ‘frontiers', both Medieval and Contemporary. Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 30810 Early Latin-American Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

A general introduction to and survey of major works of colonial and 19th-century literature up to Modernismo. Recommended prerequisite: ROSP 30310.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 30820 Modern Latin-American Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

A survey of literary trends and major figures in modern Spanish-American literature from 1880 to the present. Readings of selected texts in prose, poetry, and theatre. Recommended prerequisite: ROSP 30310.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 30825 Crime Narratives Memory & Identity (3 Credit Hours)

The crime narrative, a large category that includes the mystery novel, detective fiction, testimonial, and other subgenres, is often thought of as a minor genre limited by its formulas. It may be entertaining, but it isn't "serious" fiction. This course pays serious attention to the genre and its development in Latin America from its origins in the late 19th century to today. We focus on crimes stemming from dictatorships, crimes against women and LGBTQ people, drug trafficking, and abuse of the rights of indigenous peoples. We also look back at some key earlier texts that expand the genre and make it even more relevant. The goal is to see what these narratives can tell us about the societies they represent, the traumas and conflicts they dramatize, and the losses and mysteries that attend them. Taught in Spanish. Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Sophomore and Juniors only. This course can fulfill either the Early or Modern Latin-American area requirement.

Prerequisites: ROSP 30320 or ROSP 30310

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30832 Trans* Latin American Literatures and Cultures (3 Credit Hours)

This course will explore a representative corpus of Latin American cultural production from the 20th-21st centuries that questions the politics of representation of trans*-travestis subjectivities: how have trans*-travestis subjectivities and corporealities been represented in the Latin American cultural archive and how are they self-represented in the present? Through various cultural artifacts (short stories, poetry, short novels, graphic novels, films, performances, songs, and photography), the course will trace a journey from the external representations of trans*-travesti subjectivities -often constructed as a mere trope- to the self-representations that show us the current scene of trans* figurations produced in the continent. Some of the topics to be discussed are: construction of trans*-travesti subjectivity/identity, body and nominal politics, trans*-travesti motherhood and kinship, community, care, regimes of visibility/opacity, transnormativity and neoliberalism, migration, among others. These issues will be discussed and analyzed, based on a transhemispheric and localized dialogue between Latin American travesti theory and trans of color critique.

ROSP 30837 It is Useless. Why Doesn't It Disappear? Questioning Poetry Today (3 Credit Hours)

This course starts with an assumption: poetry is useless. Unlike medicine, it does not cure sick people. Unlike engineering, it does not help us build bridges. Unlike data scientists, it does not help a business sell more. In the past, poetry might have played a very important role in society, but that is definitely not the case today. At bookstores, poetry shelves are the smallest, and poetry books rarely (if ever) make it to a bestseller list. There are many novelists and non-fiction writers who make a living out of their work, but no poet makes a living out of poems (some might make a living out of teaching poetry, but not out of solely writing poems). People who try to read poetry often complain about its difficulty; they feel that they do not understand it. Even poets complain about a lack of audience. It is not an absurdity to ask whether poetry today has any readers beyond poets themselves. However, it still exists: dozens of poetry collections are published each year (including new translations of classical works), poetry readings are organized at universities, bookstores and coffee shops, dozens of prizes are awarded each year to poets, and many articles are published by scholars who specialize in the field. In the Spanish-speaking world, most prestigious literary journals do not pay poets anymore when they publish one of their poems, signaling that the genre is not in good shape when it comes to readership. Heriberto Yépez, an important literary critic and a poet himself, famously wrote at the beginning of this century, "the verse is an anachronistic structure, a historically exhausted structure". Focusing on Hispanic poetry, this course will trace the role played by poetry since its beginnings until the early XXI century, aiming to answer the following questions: How did poetry lose its fundamental role in our societies? What does that mean for literature, culture, and poets themselves? What motivates poets to write even when they know that only a few (at best) will read their work? Will poetry become a field like Logic in mathematics, where only a handful of experts publish and read among themselves? If so, what knowledge is the one possessed by those experts in poetry? Will poetry lose something by becoming a specialized field? Or will poetry just disappear due to a lack of general interest? If so, will society lose something? All these questions will be treated within the context of larger debate on how we assign value today and the distinction between that which is useful and that which is not in our lives.

ROSP 30845 All Monuments Must Fall and Be Forgotten (3 Credit Hours)

We have recently witnessed a wave of debates about monuments (statues of military figures, explorers, conquerors, rulers, etc.). Moreover, many of those monuments have been intervened, "vandalized" moved, covered, and even topped down, fueling a series of controversies that invite us to reflect about the constantly shifting politics of memory and about the political effectiveness of pursuing symbolic justice in the public space. This is a Cultural Studies undergraduate research seminar devoted to a selection of important public monuments in Latin America; this is, statues, monoliths, and architectural visual signs that attempt to memorialize historical events and people as well as cultural and political values. We will examine their history as well as their paradoxical semiotic fate: no monument is able to install the memory it pretends to make eternal. Monuments are floating signifiers destine to be appropriated, re-signified, toppled down, and, eventually, forgotten.

ROSP 30865 Jorge Luis Borges and Matrix of Uncertainty (3 Credit Hours)

This course offers a panoramic yet focused review of the literary work of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), commemorating the 35th anniversary of his death. The goals of this class are twofold: 1) a literary interrogation of the limits of moral, religious, political, philosophical and scientific certainty through a critical survey of Borges's work and of the fluid relation of his writings with twentieth-century philosophy and cultural theory; and 2) a study of the paradoxes, crises, and dangers of certainty vis - vis Borges's radical emphasis and corrosive poetics of indetermination. Rather than making an argument for nihilism or postmodern disenchantment we will study how Borges' epistemological, metaphysical and philosophical "unavoidable option" of uncertainty may entail (and even uphold) a myriad of other ethical, religious, and political options. Taught in Spanish. This course may count for either the Early or Modern Latin-American area requirement.

ROSP 30871 Luxury and Extraction in South American Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on understanding literary expressions of luxury and natural resource extraction in South America. Through a reading of colonial, modern, and contemporary texts, we will explore the representation of the acquisition, manipulation, and circulation of natural resources and their derivatives within and from South America. This course will offer an opportunity to examine the relationships between the productivity of the region, the influence of the market on cultural production, and contemporary environmentalist conversations. The course also seeks to develop the skills of writing, critical analysis and teamwork to generate informed opinions that students can communicate effectively. The course is taught in Spanish.

ROSP 30890 Race and Human Rights in the Caribbean and Diaspora (3 Credit Hours)

This course invites students to consider traditional and emerging definitions of race and human rights, and contextualizes these concepts against the history of literary depiction of slavery, abolition, Blackness, mulatez and mestizaje in late 19th- to 21st-century texts. The novels, short stories, and poetry included in the course come from Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the 20th-century Caribbean diaspora to the US, covering a range of related topics. Can fulfill Modern Latin-American area and taught in Spanish.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 30895 Race, Communication, and Technology in the Dawn of Latin America (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines the material and discursive relation between race and communication technologies in Latin American literatures and cultures. It focuses on the contributions made by indigenous and Afro-descendant people’s political actions and communicational tactics to the foundation and transformation of the Latin American literary canon. Through readings of literature, film, and other cultural artifacts, students will explore the ways in which race and communication technologies were intertwined throughout the birth of Latin American “writing”, and how the political and artistic practices performed by racialized groups shaped the cultural production of the region. Additionally, students will analyze how new media technologies have influenced power dynamics and cultural production in contemporary Latin America. By the end of the course, students will have developed a basic understanding of the foundation of Latin American literary tradition, focused on the tense and dynamic relation that it had with racialized groups, and communication technologies.

ROSP 30983 Race and Violence (3 Credit Hours)

Departing from Michel Foucault's controversial theory of "race war", this class will examine the historical relations between the idea of race and material practices of violence. To do this we will focus on a selection of "debates about race" from across the Americas that in many ways define American modernity. These might include: Las Casas and Sepúlveda on the humanity of indigenous Americans; slavery and the formation of American nation-states; nineteenth-century race science, eugenics, and their rejection; the race-and-culture debates (e.g. Boas, Dubois, Freyre, against the race scientists); the so-called "problema indígena" debates in Latin America; race and rights struggles in the post-WWII era; immigration and migrant labor; Negro Sim (Brazil), Black Lives Matter (USA), and related protest movements worldwide; social media and the consolidation of white supremacist paramilitarism. Which selection of these topics we pursue will be guided by student interest. Language of instruction is Spanish and English. Comparative work is encouraged. This course can count for the Modern Latin-American area requirement for Spanish Major/Supplementary Major.

ROSP 30990 Indigenous Representation and the Question of Latin American Identity (3 Credit Hours)

The focus of the course will be on representations of indigenous peoples and the issue of Spanish American identity. This course may count for either the Early or Modern Latin-American area requirement, depending on the subject of the student's final paper. Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 32051 Once Upon a Time CBL (0 Credit Hours)

Required co-reg for ROSP 30051

ROSP 32300 LAC Spanish Discussion Group (1 Credit Hour)

Students wishing to enroll in this section MUST be enrolled concurrently in ROSP 30201/ILS 20710: Introduction to Latino Studies. Students who have completed the Notre Dame language requirement in Spanish are eligible to sign up for an additional single credit discussion section as part of the Languages Across the Curriculum (LxC) initiative of the College of Arts and Letters. Choosing this option means that students will do some additional reading in Spanish language materials (approximately 20-25 pages a week), and meet once a week with a graduate student or faculty tutor from the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures who will guide a discussion in Spanish and grade some brief writing assignments. The LxC discussion section in Spanish associated with this course will be graded on a pass/fail basis and will be credited on the student's transcript. Up to three LxC discussion sections can be applied toward a major, secondary major or minor in Spanish. Please talk to the instructor if you are interested in adding this supplemental credit.

Corequisites: ROSP 30201

ROSP 37000 Special Studies (3 Credit Hours)

This course provides students with an opportunity to pursue special studies under the direction of an assigned faculty member.

Course may be repeated.

ROSP 40231 Cervantes: Don Quijote (3 Credit Hours)

A close textual analysis of Cervantes' novel in its literary, historical, and cultural contexts.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40253 Amazing Lives Of The Baroque Era (3 Credit Hours)

What constitutes an extraordinary life? What can we learn about a particular historical moment by examining the fictional and real lives of the remarkable characters who populated their society? This seminar will analyze the various modes of representation and social control exerted by Spanish institutions during the Baroque period. Specifically, we will read a series of real and imaginary lives of men and women who challenged this power structure by living and writing extraordinary lives. These fictional accounts of an individual's life together with real accounts of imaginary individuals will give us the opportunity to face the complexity of Baroque Spain. Infamous men and women, marginalized subjects, persecuted personae are some of the examples of the extraordinary characters that we are going to meet in the class. Through the looking glass of their fantastic lives, we will analyze important concepts and categories such as subjectivity, subject formation, power/knowledge relations, gender, race, religious intolerance, persecution. We will focus on the creative responses forged by a heterogeneous community of people who wanted to reaffirm their individual freedom. The seminar will pay special attention not only to the discursive mechanisms used by the Spanish elite in order to maintain the status quo, but also will analyze how persecuted people of the same era were able to resist and challenge the dominant discourse. During the semester, we will read canonical literary texts (Poetry, drama, narrative) as well as other cultural artifacts (Manuals, treatises, chronicles, biographies, autobiographies, inquisitorial cases and movies).

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40414 Regarding the Spain of Others: Framing Modern Spanish Citizenship (3 Credit Hours)

This course departs from Erving Goffman's notion of "cultural frame", which shows how social existence is an ongoing "negotiation" about which cultural frame should encompass and thus ascribe meaning to various events and actions. Bearing this perspective in mind, this seminar focuses on different models of Spanish citizenship by examining the educational emotional value of various modern Spanish cultural artifacts, whose representational mode (melodrama and/ or comedy) provides a peculiar affective frame within which ordinary socio-historical experience was interpreted and given meaning.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40431 Anthropocene in Iberian literature and culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course offers an introduction to some of the recent thinking and cultural phenomena on the Anthropocene. Although we will pay particular attention to the Iberian Peninsula and contemporary Spain in particular, we will ultimately attempt to come to terms with our current geological and civilizational epoch as mainly humanly driven. For that purpose, under examination and question will be primitive accumulation and Capitalism, humanism and posthumanism, rural depopulation, consumerism, energy use, industrial relocation, technology (social networks, smartphones, big data, Google, etc.); droughts, wildfires, human and planetary finitude, etc. This discourse will combine literary and cinematographic studies with conceptual perspectives that will ultimately seek to bear witness through thinking and the arts to the Anthropocene, if such thing is still possible. Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 40435 Anthropocene and Existence in Iberian Cinema & Critical Theory (3 Credit Hours)

This course offers an introduction to some of the recent thinking and cultural phenomena on the Anthropocene. In order to do that, we will pay particular attention to contemporary Iberian Cinema, Cultural Critique, and Critical Theory. Although we will focus on contemporary Spain in particular, we will ultimately attempt to come to terms with our current geological and civilizational epoch as mainly humanly driven. For that purpose, under examination and question will be primitive accumulation and Capitalism, humanism and posthumanism, rural depopulation, consumerism, energy use, industrial relocation, technicity (social networks, smartphones, big data, Google, etc.); droughts, wildfires, human and planetary finitude, etc. We will ultimately seek to bear witness to the Anthropocene and its consequences through cinema, culture and thought, if such a thing is possible. Taught in English and Spanish

ROSP 40440 Contemporary Iberian Literature: ‘Writing’ Reading Technics (3 Credit Hours)

This course studies how contemporary Iberian literature and culture is trying to come to terms with the coming of “Surveillance Capitalism;” namely, a new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction and sales. Thanks to Google, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, etc., this “Surveillance capitalism” could be also understood as an economic and societal logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to an unprecedented global architecture of behavioral modification (Heidegger, Stiegler, Zuboff, Balibar, etc.). Ultimately, we will ask what kind of civilization the third modernity of technics and surveillance foretell, and we will explore how literature and culture bear witness to the subsequent shifting of the fundamental inherited notions of modernity such as: human self-representation and artistic expression, progress, social bond, sovereignty, freedom, planetary finitude, inequality, as well as to the new discontents of civilization. We will combine literary and film studies with conceptual perspectives and will closely examine: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Zuboff, 2019) as well as the novels Kentukis (Schweblin, 2019) and Horda (Menéndez Salmón, 2021). Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 40457 Cinema of Spain: An Introduction to Classical, Mainstream and Experimental Spanish Film (3 Credit Hours)

Through the use of film and text, students will gain a better understanding of late 20th and 21st Centuries in Spain. Students will develop an understanding of cinematic tools, strengthen argumentative Spanish, and cultivate a critical awareness towards cinema and Spain's cultures. The course is divided into three parts: the "classical filmmakers" of Spanish cinema (such as Bu'uel, Berlanga and J. A. Bardem); mainstream and popular movies; and contemporary independent and experimental cinema of the country. Class meetings will help to develop and better understand the art of filmmaking, grasping the specificities of each film genre and style, while critically reviewing some of the most important landmarks of the nation building and social life in contemporary Spain. Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 40580 Mexican Cinema (3 Credit Hours)

This course will introduce the student to modern Mexican film. The trajectory of the course covers a basic canon of essential works from the incipient years of Mexico's so-called "Golden Age" up until the present (roughly 1930 - 2015). Lecture and discussion will be driven by the aesthetic, cultural and political problems and themes invited by the films themselves, which will be the center of the course: no less than fifteen feature films will define our agenda for the semester. Alongside the films we will read two kinds of documents: on the one hand, a selection of film scholarship, dealing with both the specific films and the history of Mexican cinema more generally; on the other hand, a set of essays on Mexican cultural politics relevant to the themes engaged in the cinematic work. Comparative work is encouraged. Language of instruction: Spanish. Readings in Spanish and English, films generally in Spanish with English subtitles.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Romance Languages Lit., Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40663 Conquest of Yucatan (3 Credit Hours)

Colonial Modernity and the Conquest of Yucatan. This is a class that focuses on a selection of historical and literary narratives as well as modern texts and films about different forms of colonialism and counter-colonial resistance in the Yucatan Peninsula since the 16th century until today; from the invasion of Cortés in 1519 ato the contemporary cyclical invasion of 16 million tourists a year.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40713 Latin American Feminism, Women Writers, and the Feminist Novel in the Twentieth Century (3 Credit Hours)

The twentieth century was the century of women, feminism, and the feminist novel in Latin America. The history of Latin American feminism presents three milestones: first, the women's movements that demanded political and civil equality at the beginning of the century and culminated in the 1950s with what Julieta Kirkwood called "the years of silence"; second, the violent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, when women challenged their historic exclusion from political life, showed how authoritarian regimes replicated patriarchal oppression, and developed feminist theories and practices; and third, the 1990s, when women focused on the damaging effects of neoliberalism, which impacted the activism of women and the development of feminist ideas. This course, designed as a seminar for advanced students in Spanish, will focus on the feminist novel since the 1950s, when women ventured into a genre they had barely published in the past, and will trace its course through the multiple positions that Latin American feminism took during the twentieth century. This course will be taught in Spanish and requires the active participation of all students.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40720 The Modernist Chronicle in Latin America (3 Credit Hours)

The goal of this undergraduate seminar is to analyze Latin American literature in the cultural-historical period of the so-called "modernizing impact," which covers the last two decades of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century and is commonly known as Modernismo. The journey will focus on the birth of the genre of the modern chronicle, a hybrid zone between literature and journalism, between information and imagination, between politics and the market. In Latin America, this complex object has brought together numerous critical perspectives that read local modernization against the backdrop of global modernity, whether as a dyschronic modernity (Ángel Rama), a disconnected modernity (Julio Ramos), a peripheral modernity (Beatriz Sarlo), a dissonant modernity (Gwen Kirkpatrick), a translinguistic modernity (Julio Ortega), or a modernity in translation (Mariano Siskind). From the discussion of these fundamental perspectives for the study of the field, specific prose texts by Rubén Darío, José Martí, Julián del Casal, and Julio Herrera y Reissig will be addressed. The chronicles of modernity will serve as a platform to reflect on current and relevant problems in literary studies, such as the representation of American cities, the crisis of modern subjectivity, the tension between the Eurocentrism of global modernity and American nationalisms, migratory processes, the phenomenon of secularization, the emergence of mass culture, the transition from the model of the "nineteenth-century literary man" to that of the "professional writer," the role of translation, and the assimilation of cultural traditions foreign to the Latin American sphere.

ROSP 40725 Two Nobel Prize-Winning Poets: Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda (3 Credit Hours)

The objective of this undergraduate seminar is to analyze the work of two Chilean Nobel Prize winning poets from the present. This means that we will reread their poetic work from the urgencies of our present to see if the poets illuminate with their aesthetics particular and universal concerns, among them sexism, racism, classism, nature and the persistent legacy of the colonial past. Both authors were misunderstood at different times. Mistral, Nobel laureate in 1945, was read as an asexual teacher/mother of the nation, silencing her rich, profound and complex poetics. The 1971 Nobel, Neruda, occasion in which he was identified as "the poet of violated human dignity", and who in life had to face many times the State for his political and ideological convictions and his love for the people, now, after his death, must face the judgment of women, part of the people he loved, but whose rights and voices were generally disregarded by patriarchal societies and their idiosyncrasy, as a sexual predator. Their poetry read from different theoretical perspectives will show us their universal voices as Latin American authors and intellectuals of the 20th century.

ROSP 40728 100 Years After Desolación (3 Credit Hours)

One hundred years ago, Chile's greatest poet, Nobel Laureate Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) published Desolación (1922) in New York. This upper-level seminar will celebrate the centenary of the publication of her first book by analyzing Mistral's work in light of the political, social and economic crises of the new millennium, which will allow us to appreciate the validity of her thought: equal rights for women, the recognition of indigenous American peoples, the struggle for democracy and peace in contexts of war, the protection of children, the care and defense of the environment, among others. Mistral was read and misread, understood, and misunderstood, in different contexts and times, however, the beauty and strength of her poetry and her essays create a voice that is an undeniable contribution to the debates of our present. The seminar will try to answer questions such as: Why Gabriela Mistral is today an indisputable figure for thinking about indigenous struggles; What are the reasons to understand Mistral as a woman of vanguard; What are the reappropriations that social movements such as feminism and sexual dissidence in Chile and Latin America have made of Mistral's figure and work; Why her thought attracts new generations of young people; Is it possible to think of Mistral as a "trans" author because she crosses different borders (geographical, gender, social); According to the readings of Mistral's work, what advantages does it give the Chilean poet to elaborate a poetics of ambiguous writing; Can we think of Gabriela Mistral within the panorama of Latin Americanist thought, what would be her contributions to the discussions made by her male peers, among others. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of Mistral's development as a writer and historical subject, as well as the geopolitical history in which she writes. Students will hone their ability to think critically about literature by receiving a variety of critical and theoretical approaches. The language of the class is Spanish.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40737 One hundred years of solitude. (3 Credit Hours)

This course is dedicated to a semester-long study of a masterpiece of narrative fiction: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's _Cien años de soledad_ (1967). Through careful and systematic reading, our discussions will move in two directions: On the one hand, toward the ways in which the central themes of the text--including but not limited to love, family, war, nation, science, travel, narrative, and writing itself--both illuminate and are illuminated by questions central to Western philosophy. On the other hand, the way in which the novel negotiates its own specific context--Western culture, the Cold War, the Americas, Latin America, Colombia--and how it confronts us to rethink that context. At the end of the course, besides having experienced one of the great artworks of the modern age, you should feel that your perspective on the world has been altered, at least a little. Students will write papers. Comparative and interdisciplinary work is encouraged. Language of instruction: Spanish.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40764 Jorge Luis Borges and the Ethics of Betrayal (3 Credit Hours)

The goals of this class are twofold: 1) an introductory yet focused review of the literary work of renowned Argentine poet, essayist and writer of short stories Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986); and 2) the literary interrogation of moral, religious, political, and cultural betrayal through a critical survey of Borges? work (poetry, essay and short story) and the study of the fluid relation of his writings with 20th century philosophy and cultural theory. We intend to explore in his work the fragile discursive boundary that both separates and connects perfidy and fidelity, traitors and converts. This course satifies the Modern Spanish-American Literature requirement or the 40000-level elective.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40771 Cuba and Puerto Rico: Two Wings of a Bird (3 Credit Hours)

While she was living in exile in Cuba in the 1890s, Puerto Rican Poet Lola Rodríguez de Tió wrote the following lines, which are among the most iconic in Hispanic Caribbean verse: "Cuba y Puerto Rico son de de un pájaro las dos alas, / reciben flores y balas en un mismo corazón...". At the time these lines were seen as a testament to the the similar histories that these two Caribbean islands had developed after some four centuries of Spanish rule, but, as one critic has put it, "they can also be seen as a chilling presage of what was to come after the U.S. won the Spanish American War in 1898 and became a consistent presence in the future of both countries." In this class we will explore, through the study of Cuban and Puerto Rican History and Literature, the islands' many shared legacies such as colonialism, slavery, political unrest, and US intervention. Moreover, through readings of works by a variety of authors and literary genres, we will examine the many political, economic, social and cultural factors that have served to shape each island's identity over the past five centuries. Students will be required to write journal entries for each class, several short papers, and a final essay. There will also be a mid-term exam.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40774 Good Neighbors?: Hispanic Caribbean and Central American Literary Representations of the United Stat (3 Credit Hours)

In this course we will examine the relationships between the United States and the Hispanic Caribbean and Central American nations as seen through the eyes of writers, intellectuals, political figures, etc.. Though we will focus primarily on literary texts, we will also consider works from other fields such as politics, history, economics, law, anthropology, and music. Through their readings, students will come to appreciate that despite the diversity of opinions that the people of the Caribbean and Central America have of the United States, there has long been an overwhelming sentiment that their neighbor to the north is an aggressive nation with self-serving and imperialistic ambitions. We will study works by authors, political figures, musicians, historians, etc. who hail from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, and Puerto Rico.

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40775 Hispanic Caribbean Identity in Literature and Performance (3 Credit Hours)

This course invites the students to explore the issue of identity as it is lived and thought by a number of Hispanic Caribbean thinkers and artists (essayists, playwrights, film makers, poets, and performance artists). We will pose the following questions: Is "identity" a useful concept for thinking about the culture of a nation, territory, region or community? How are the following factors used in identity politics or in the project of thinking identity: landscape and place, history (heroic history, the histories of suffering), the body, sacrifice? We will consider essays by Fernando Ortiz, Antonio Benítez Rojo and José Esteban Muñoz; poetry by Virgilio Piñera, Nicolás Guillén and Reinaldo Arenas; performances by Ana Mendieta, Carmelita Tropicana, Tania Bruguera and Carlos Martiel. All class discussions in Spanish. This course satisfies the modern Spanish-American area requirement.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40776 Literature and Popular Culture in Modern Cuba (3 Credit Hours)

In this class we will study a number of aspects of popular culture in the modern Cuban literature.

ROSP 40781 Women in South America: Between Medicine and Feminism (3 Credit Hours)

The first waves of feminism in South America during the late 19th and early 20th century were led by many women in the medical profession. Julieta Lanteri and Sara Justo in Argentina, Ernestina Lopez in Chile, or Paulina Luisi in Uruguay, to name a few, claimed for women's rights in terms of health and hygienism. At the same time, medicine emerged as a dominant and masculinized discourse within the nation-states that sought to control women's and non-binary bodies and behaviors. In the 20th and 21st century, medical discourse was also in the center of feminist debates about motherhood, reproductive rights, obstetric violence, among others. This course will explore the connections between medicine and feminism through the life and works of women writers and activists from South America, from the late 19th to the 21st century. We will read fictions, essays, journal articles, and medical treatises from the 19th and 20th century and debate on the role of medical knowledge in the context of recent feminist movements. Theoretical readings include Donna Haraway, Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, and numerous scholarly works on feminism, the history of medicine, and gender and sexualities in South America (Salessi, Lavrin, Marino, Guy, Ben, among others).

ROSP 40790 Women’s Culture 19thC Lat. Am. (3 Credit Hours)

This advanced Spanish course explores the cultural and intellectual contributions of women in 19th- and early 20th-century Latin America, examining how gender ideas shaped ideas of citizenship, sexuality, and education in post-independence societies. Through literary texts written by women, alongside essays, fiction, and other cultural narratives that portray women’s roles in nation-building, we will critically analyze the category of woman and question traditional binaries of womanhood. Course materials include novels, essays, films, visual culture, albums, cookbooks, correspondence, diaries, and periodicals. Students will engage in archival research at the Hesburgh Library Special Collections and participate in a series of curated events in collaboration with the library. The final project will involve original research, encouraging students to connect historical women’s culture with contemporary gender debates.

ROSP 40845 All Monuments Must Fall and Be Forgotten (3 Credit Hours)

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40851 Deleuzemania (3 Credit Hours)

Throughout a series of heterogeneous Latin American texts (short stories, movies, performances, paintings, songs) we will explore some of the key concepts proposed by Guilles Deleuze, one of the most intriguing and important philosophers of the 20th Century ("territorialisation" / "deterritorialisation", "assemblage", "Body without Organs", "lines of flight" "affect", "becoming", "rhizome" , "desire," "nomadism," and so on). Taught in Spanish.

ROSP 40864 Colonial Renegades in Yucatán (3 Credit Hours)

"Gonzalo Guerrero's Offspring. Colonial Renegades in Yucatán." This is a seminar that focuses on a selection of historical and literary narratives about the figure of Guerrero (the Spanish conquistador that went native and fought on the side of the Maya) as well as on what I call Guerrero's progeny: a series of renegades who - like Guerrero in the 16th century - went native and ended up fighting against different forms of colonialism since the 16th century until today.

ROSP 40875 Migrant Voices: Latino/a Literature Through Service-Learning (4 Credit Hours)

What can literature teach us about the local Latino community? How does immersion in the community enhance your understanding of concepts such as migration and biculturalism? How can literature combined with experience in the "real world" allow you to connect the dots between politics, economics, history, culture, and the arts? Migrant Voices is a course designed to bridge together the study of U.S. Latino/a literature and the pedagogy of community-based learning. Students will read foundational and contemporary works by U.S. Latinos/a authors from various backgrounds and nationalities (Mexican/Chicano, Salvadoran, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Colombian, Peruvian, etc.) that are representative of the local Michiana U.S. Latino population. Issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and transnationalism will be central to our discussions and will be examined through both a literary lens and an experiential perspective. For the CBL aspect of the course, students are required to engage in a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of tutoring/mentoring, once a week, at La Casa de Amistad. Programs are available M-T-W-R from 3-5 pm and Mon. and Thurs. from 4-6 pm. The final grade will be calculated based on: class participation, class journal, essays, quizzes, exam, and a final paper. This class will be conducted in Spanish. Offered to Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Cross-listed with: ILS, LAST, AFST.

Prerequisites: ROSP 27500 or ROSP 30310 or ROSP 30320

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40876 Race & Ethnicity in U.S. Latino/a Literature (4 Credit Hours)

If something has become clear following the recent termination of Mexican-American studies courses by the Tucson Unified School District (AZ) is that race and ethnicity matter when considering the condition of Latinos/as in the US. In this course students will begin by examining the events related to the AZ law and will explore how these issues are played out in Latino literature and our local Latino community. Literature by Afro-Latina/o, Andean-Latina/o (and other Latinos of indigenous descent), and Asian-Latina/o authors will provide a lens through which to explore the racial and ethnic complexities that are erased by the umbrella term "Latino." Tutoring/mentoring at La Casa de Amistad will provide an opportunity for students to see the issues studied at work in the "real world," while also fostering stronger ties between Notre Dame and the South Bend community. For the Community-Based Learning segment of the course, students will spend two hours per week volunteering and will participate in a local immersion weekend. This course will be conducted in Spanish. Spanish heritage speakers are welcome. This course can fulfill the Modern Latin-American area requirement.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40892 Borders and Bridges: US Latino/a Literary and Cultural Production (4 Credit Hours)

What is a border? Who inhabits the borderlands? What function does the border play in the construction of a national or cultural identity? How do we bridge communities? How are borders represented, established, and challenged in the works of US Latino/a writers? These are some of the questions that this course will address within the context of US Latino/a literature and culture. Most of the course will focus on two geographical areas that we tend to associate with these concepts: the traditional US-Mexico border and the lesser studied Caribbean. Students will watch films and read literary works by Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Dominican-American and Cuban-American authors in order to gain a deeper understanding of how borders and borderlands inform contemporary discourse and culture. This course has a Community-Engagement Learning (CEL) requirement. Students are expected to sign up for tutoring at La Casa de Amistad once a week for 2 hours. The course will be taught in Spanish and is open to advanced non-majors . This course is for undergraduate students only.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40893 Afrolatinidades (3-4 Credit Hours)

This course centers Blackness within latinidad. In it, students will learn about the history of Blackness in Latin America, and how that history continues to shape the experiences of AfroLatina/os in the US today. We will approach Blackness from a transhemispheric perspective, paying attention to how it is erased through the discourses of mestizaje and latinidad. We will analyze literary and cultural works by AfroLatina/os with roots in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Perú. This is a CBL course and students will volunteer at La Casa de Amistad once a week. Open to non-Spanish majors who are fluent in Spanish or are Spanish heritage speakers. Taught in Spanish and can count as Modern Latin-American Area requirement.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

ROSP 40894 Migrant, Bridge, Border, Wall (3 Credit Hours)

This course takes up the relations between aesthetics and politics as they pertain to traffic, migrancy and the international movement of people. Politico-philosophical categories such as freedom, containment, refugee, civilian, (in)equality, nation, hate and hospitality will be at the center of our conversations. Our approach will be interdisciplinary and our objects of study will include recent literature, film, television and historical research that deal with these themes in a sustained way. Language of instruction: English. Spanish majors taking this course for major credit will complete written assignments in Spanish.

ROSP 40901 Human Rights and Social Justice in Latin American Literature and Film (3 Credit Hours)

In this course we will focus on the themes of Human Rights and Social Justice in modern Latin American literature and film. The class will be structured around geographical areas, with approximately equal time divided among the Hispanic Caribbean, the Andean Region and the Amazon, the Southern Cone, and Central America. For each class students will read literary texts and related secondary readings that deal specifically with human rights issues such as torture, poverty, economic exploitation, women's and children's rights, racism, religious and cultural oppression, etc. Students will also be required to watch several films, all of which will be related to the readings.

ROSP 40905 From Texts to Table: Food, Literature and Culture in Latin America (3 Credit Hours)

If the saying "We are what we eat" is true, then food reflects and determines our identity, our subjectivity, and our very being. Through the study of Latin American canonical and less-known literary texts from Colonial to contemporary times, this course focuses on food as a cultural artifact shaped by the dynamics of colonialism, modernization, immigration, and globalization. From a multidisciplinary perspective that includes Literary, Cultural and Gender Studies, as well as History and Anthropology, we will explore topics such as food exchange value, regional and indigenous traditions, social behavior and consumption, cooking imaginaries and social structure, culinary technologies, and gender correlations, among others. Primary sources include texts by Cristóbal Colón, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Ricardo Palma, Esteban Echeverría, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Soledad Acosta de Samper, Rubén Darío, Rosario Castellanos, Gabriel García Márquez, and Isabel Allende. We will read these works together with theoretical approaches by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Walter Mignolo, Pierre Bordieu, and Walter Benjamin.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40907 Fút(e)bol: A Cultural History (3 Credit Hours)

O futebol, fútbol, football: The beautiful game, the people’s game, the world’s game. Soccer is the most popular sport on the globe, a massive, international corporate enterprise whose outlays—from player salaries to stadiums—make it by far the biggest business in sport. Soccer is also popular in the other sense, del pueblo, a game played around the world on the smallest pitches imaginable, with improvised nets, bare feet, and any reasonably kickable object standing in as a ball. If sport tells us something about who we are and offers a window into our historical reality, then the massive scope of soccer, perhaps, can tell us something about the world. On the eve of FIFA World Cup 26ä, when the world’s game will be centered in a country that has turned its back on globalization and where the United States, Mexico and Canada will be asked to work together in the name of internationalism, we will take up the modern history of soccer (fútbol, futebol) by focusing on its aesthetics, politics, economics, and interactions with society. Soccer is big enough to comprise the world’s dreams and its nightmares and we will consider its controversies head on: race, gender, class, labor, inequality and social violence will be in play. We’ll also take plenty of time to contemplate the sport as an aesthetic object, and its relations to art, poetry and music. Objects of study include literary and journalistic texts, academic research, and video (films, shows, clips, and so on). This course satisfies electives in both the Spanish major and the Sports, Media and Culture (SMAC) minor. The language of instruction is English. Spanish majors, or students of French or Portuguese, may conduct their assignments in the respective language. Interdisciplinary and comparative work is encouraged.

ROSP 40909 American Plagues (3 Credit Hours)

The so-called Black Death was an outbreak of highly virulent Bubonic plague that tore through Africa, Asia and Europe during the fourteenth century. It killed a third, perhaps as much as half, of the European population, and is remembered in the popular and historical imagination as the mother of all plagues. But while the Old World suffered a highly storied and ritualized plague that transformed its politics, culture and identity, it would be the other half of the globe, America, whose very existence as a geopolitical formation would be founded on an even more vicious plague: the toxic cocktail of fever, nausea and boils that, like a slow-moving apocalypse creeping along over centuries, decimated America's indigenous inhabitants, wiping out entire civilizations, reducing some regional communities by over 90 per cent. America's long history of violence is founded on a great plague, an emissary of the conquest itself, and American writers, artists and intellectuals have rethought, reimagined, and given aesthetic and cultural shape to plagues, large and small, ever since. This class is dedicated to the contemplation and analysis of the relations between outbreaks of widespread illness (broadly conceived) and aesthetic representation. Our objects of study will be literary texts (mostly) from the American and Iberian worlds (e.g. Borges, Camus, Garcia Marquez, Saramago, Whitehead, Wright), films (e.g. Anderson, Cazals, Cuaron, Eggers, Gilliam, Guerra, Kaufman, Kazan), cultural history (Barry, Diamond, Fen, Tuchman), and a range of visual-cultural artifacts. Language of instruction: Spanish. Narrative objects of study will be in Spanish or English. Student production will be in Spanish. Comparative work is encouraged.

ROSP 40921 War, Revolution and Illness in Spanish and Spanish-American Poetry, Painting and Film (3 Credit Hours)

This course will be an interdisciplinary exploration of the social function of art in Spain and the Americas, focusing on poetry and the visual arts in particular (painting and film, specifically) and their relations to moments of extreme social conflict such as wars and revolutions. We will also cast a critical eye on representations of illness and medical conditions which attend some of these moments of conflict. Our discussions will center on a series of key dates: 1898, 1922, 1936, 1959, 1973 - which indelibly mark the history of Spain and of the Americas and which have given rise to a wide range of artistic responses. Conflicts: the Spanish-American War, the Spanish Civil War, the Cuban Revolution, the Chilean coup. Authors: Jose Marte, Cesar Vallejo, Miguel Hernendez, Pablo Neruda, Nicoles Guillen, Rael Zurita. Illnesses and medical conditions: Yellow Fever, hunger and malnutrition; forgetting and amnesia.

ROSP 40923 Caribbean Discourse, Caribbean Poetry: (Dis)-Identity and Landscape (3 Credit Hours)

Caribbean societies are diverse, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual. They also share a common history of colonization and slavery, neo-colonization, and plantation and tourist economies that are in stark contrast to the stereotypes of sun, sand, etc. This course examines high points in 20th and 21st Century Caribbean discourse (meta-theoretical texts about the Caribbean) and Caribbean poetry from the three major linguistic traditions (Spanish, English and French). We will focus on the poetry itself, the place of land and seascapes in Caribbean discourse, as well as issues of identity, difference and disidentification. We will read theoretical texts by Fernando Ortiz, Antonio Benítez Rojo, Édouard Glissant, Silvio Torres Saillant, and José Esteban Muñoz, and poetry by José Martí, Nicolás Guillén, Aimé Césaire, José Lezama Lima, Virgilio Piñera, Derek Walcott, Rosario Ferré, Julia Álvarez, Juan Carlos Flores, Víctor Fowler, and Damaris Calderón. Class to be conducted in Spanish.

ROSP 40976 Modernization and Modernity in the Rio de la Plata: From Popular Culture to High Cultural Responses (3 Credit Hours)

This graduate seminar will analyze the processes of modernization in the Rio de la Plata countries: Argentina and Uruguay. Using an interdisciplinary and comparative approach (literary criticism, cultural theory, ethics, philosophy), we will focus on how popular culture, especially tango, gave voice and images to European immigration, rural migration to the urban areas, space transformations due to technological and scientific advances, among other social and economical phenomena of the turn of the twentieth century. We will also investigate the complex dynamics between popular and high cultural responses to modernization and the creation of a modern culture in the region. To this aim, we will pay particular attention to the transformation of tango from a manifestation of the harbor slums to popular and mass culture as well as the development of the modernista literary aesthetic to the avant-garde. Concepts of nationalism/exoticism; authenticity/copy; belonging/banishment will occupy our discussions on the creation of modern subjectivities.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

Enrollment is limited to students with a major in International Economics - LLR, Romance Languages and Lit, Spanish (Supp.) or Spanish.

ROSP 40985 The End of Work (3 Credit Hours)

What is the status of "work" today? This course takes up the history and current crisis of the idea of work by focusing on its philosophy and its aesthetic representation. We are at the cusp of a civilizational shift that has work at its center: the implacable rise of automation and artificial intelligence suggests that by the next decade there will be many, many more people than there will be jobs. And yet why should we think of this as a crisis at all? Since work's emergence as a modern idea, dreams of human emancipation have revolved around the liberation from the toil that it implies. John Maynard Keynes, the foundational bard of post-Depression capitalism, saw in the free market the opportunity to reduce "work" to a few hours per week; a century later the World Health Organization has identified "overwork" as a public health crisis, with its most consequential symptom—"death by overwork"—common enough to be reducible to a concept, what in Japan is called karoshi. And a major world language reminds us that negócio, the modern frame for all work, is precisely a negation: of ócio, idleness, leisure, pleasure. Nation-states themselves take on as a major function of their administrative existence the regulation of who can work within their borders, and entire regions of the world—such as Latin America, which will be of special interest in this course—are thought about in the popular imagination as warehouses of work, the mano de obra of the global economy. In posing the question "what is work?", this course will move to some basic concepualizations of its form (Marx, Freyre, Keynes, Lévi-Strauss, Arendt, Sennet, Ehrenreich, Graeber, etc) to a set of topics where work is at stake, for example: work and inequality; forced work (e.g. slavery); work and (im)migration; work and race; unremunerated work (‘house work'); sex work; violence work; work as commodity; work and identity; global divisions of labor; the end of work. As a way of getting into these topics, we will draw on their problematization in contemporary film, including works by, for example, Mendonça, Herzog, Reygadas, Rivero, González Iñárritu, Martel, Cuarón, Joon-ho, Loach, Reichardt, Zhao. Language of instruction is English. Comparative work is encouraged.

ROSP 40987 Capitalism and Its Discontents (3 Credit Hours)

Since the financial collapse of 2008, it has been common to declare that capitalism is in “crisis”. But capitalism was born in crisis: from its earliest moments, it has been associated with boom-and-bust cycles, breathtaking stock bubbles, financial ruin, forced labor, and conquest. Moreover, as a historical social relation that in ways large and small organizes our lives, it is notoriously difficult to explain. Scholars of capitalism—historians, economists, sociologists—do not at all agree on what capitalism is; less agreement stands on its origins, its development, its future possibilities, even its current existence (more than one prominent thinker has declared capitalism “as we know it” to have ended). And yet at the same time, so overwhelming is the elusive presence of capitalism in our lives that one philosoher’s pithy remark has been repeated to the point of cliché: it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Which begs the question: is human civilization, simply, capitalism? With particular focus on the comparative experience of historical capitalism in the Americas, this course revolves around three broad problems: the contested origins of capitalism; the bifurcation of experiences of capitalism through uneven development; and the possible futures of capitalism. Each problem will be dealt with through a set of texts. On the one hand, we will engage some basic scholarly (historical and philosophical) texts in order to build conceptual language and identify points of controversy. On the other hand, we will draw on creative (narrative fiction and film) texts in order to contemplate the lived experience of capitalism and its contradictions in a range of settings. Language of instruction is English. Comparative work is encouraged.

ROSP 43580 Mexican Cinema (1 Credit Hour)

Mexican cinema has been one of the most vibrant, influential national film cultures of the past century. This seminar will introduce the student to the rich history of this art through the viewing and analysis of six essential films: Maria Candelaria (1943), Los olvidados (1950), El lugar sin limites (1977), Amores perros (2000), Luz silenciosa (2007) and Roma (2018). Alongside their aesthetic innovations, these films will also provide a window into transformations in Mexican culture, society and politics. Class time (4 hours per week) will be introduced with a very brief lecture and then dedicated to a discussion of the assigned film. The language of instruction is English. All students, all majors, all levels are welcome.

ROSP 46000 Directed Readings (1-3 Credit Hours)

Specialized reading related to the student's area of study.

ROSP 47000 Special Studies I (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed with the purpose of allowing students to engage in an individual or small group study under the direction of a departmental faculty member.

Course may be repeated.

ROSP 48000 Senior Thesis (1-6 Credit Hours)