| Course Title: Seminar in Romance Languages and Cultures: 'About Vanguards and Revolutionary Ideas' |
| Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2025 |
| Description: This course addresses cultural relations between Latin America and Romance languages and cultures through the concept of vanguard: the Latin American poetic vanguardias of the early twentieth century and controversies with the Italian and Spanish vanguardias; the influence of the Négritude anti-colonial movement in Latin American decolonial thinking and the political avant-garde movements and guerrillas of the '60s and '70s; the intersections between French surrealism and Latin American magic realism; and the emergence of the Cinema Novo and New/Third Cinema (the vanguard of political cinema in Latin America) in the context of Italian neo-realism and the French nouvelle vague. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , LANG - Language , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Adriana Pitetta | apitetta@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025 | Seminar | Thursday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | CIRU - Ciruti | 202 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits at the 200 level in language or literature. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Taught in English. Students wishing to obtain 300-level credit in French, Italian, or Spanish must read texts and write papers in the Romance language for which they wish to receive credit. |
| Course Tags | ||
| LATAM0001 | LATAM: Latin American Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Latin American Studies major and/or minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| ROMLG-375AV-01 Vanguards&Revolutionary Ideas |
| FREN-321AV-01 Vanguards&Revolutionary Ideas |
| ITAL-361AV-01 Vanguards&Revolutionary Ideas |
| SPAN-360AV-01 Vanguards&Revolutionary Ideas |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 17 | Available: 1 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |