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• ESP 300: Latin-American Culture and Civilization (In English)

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Cultural, geographic, literary, philosophical, and artistic manifestations of the Hispanic-American world. No knowledge of Spanish is required.
  ShareESP 300 - Latin-American Culture and Civilization (In English)

• ESP 303: Convivencia: Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course focuses on the culture of the southern portion of the Iberian Peninsula (today, Spain and Portugal), known as Al-Andalus, where Christians, Jews, and Muslims lived together from the 8th to the 15th centuries. Through the study of historical, religious, and artistic materials, political and social events, and architectural and literary works, the course examines the display of multicultural identities in Medieval Europe. All course materials are in English.
  ShareESP 303 - Convivencia: Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain

• ESP 305: Spanish Cinema

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will investigate the ways in which films participate in and create debates about the relationship between national identification, class, and gender. No knowledge of Spanish is required; taught in English.
  ShareESP 305 - Spanish Cinema

• ESP 306: Representations of the Spanish Civil War

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  A study of how political activism in and outside of Spain created debates about the relationship between national culture(s), society, politics, and "official" versions of history.
  ShareESP 306 - Representations of the Spanish Civil War

• ESP 309: Latin America on Film (in English)

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course explores contemporary Latin American film production in order to foster a better understanding of Latin American cultures and history while investigating complex power dynamics in Latin American societies. Films will be the points of departure to address critical issues such as history, culture, politics, economics, and religion; ethnic diversity, gender, class-based and racial conflicts; violence, dictatorship, and revolution; and the place of Latin America in an increasingly globalized world. No knowledge of Spanish is required.
  ShareESP 309 - Latin America on Film (in English)

• ESP 310: Latin American Narrative from the European Conquest to 1930s

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is an overview of the literature of Latin America from the arrival of European conquerors through the early 20th century. Throughout the semester, students will focus on narratives of encounter and conquest, life in the Colonial period, early republican literatures in Spanish American countries, and life in Imperial Brazil, as well as texts from the first half of the 20th century. Students will reflect on geographic ideological perspectives on "America" and "Latin America," cultural and religious mixes (hybridism, syncretism), indigenismo, and the concept of identity in regional, national, ethnic, and gender matters.
  ShareESP 310 - Latin American Narrative from the European Conquest to 1930s

• ESP 311: Contemporary Latin American Narrative

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  An examination of Latin American narrative (short story, novella, novel, and testimonial literature). Spanish- and Portuguese-language writers from South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean will be studied, from the period of magical realism (1950s and 1960s) through the present. They may include Isabel Allende, Jorge Amado, Miguel Angel Asturias, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Clarice Lispector, Elena Poniatowska, and Luis Rafael Sanchez.
  ShareESP 311 - Contemporary Latin American Narrative

• ESP 316: Latin American Avant-Gardes and Mass Media

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  An exploration of the groundbreaking avant-garde artistic practices and the technological innovations of mass media from the early 1900s to today in Latin America with a focus on structural inequality in the region. Course studies the historical origins and transformation of concepts such as "originality," "individuality," and "the new" to understand how they acquired political, economic, social, and cultural value in modern Latin America. No knowledge of Spanish is required.
  ShareESP 316 - Latin American Avant-Gardes and Mass Media

• ESP 317: Utopia and Apocalypse in the Americas

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  What will the future hold in store for humanity: utopia or apocalypse Toward what type of future society should we aim in the present This course is taught from multiple perspectives and will foster thoughtful reflection on what it means to belong to a community as expressed in cultural texts and media from the Spanish-speaking Americas, including travel narratives to unknown lands, utopian treatises, science-fiction and fantasy stories, and real-world attempts to construct utopian societies. No knowledge of Spanish is required.
  ShareESP 317 - Utopia and Apocalypse in the Americas

• ESP 318: Speaking Spanish in the United States

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  A course on the different historical, social and cultural issues related to the use of Spanish in the United States alongside other languages, mainly English, including the centuries-long presence of the language, and phenomena such as bilingualism, code-switching, language shift and language death. This course is taught entirely in English.
  ShareESP 318 - Speaking Spanish in the United States