ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES SPRING 2023 COURSES

ROMANCE

AND LITERATURES SPRING 2023 COURSES

SPRING 2023 COURSES in FRENCH ITALIAN SPANISH

FRENCH LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION (FRLT)

ITALIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION (ITLT) ITALIAN STUDIES (ITST)

SPANISH LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION (SPLT) LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES

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Email the professor if you have questions about a particular class Make an appointment with your advisor in the department to decide on what classes you should take.

ROMANCE

AND LITERATURES SPRING 2023 COURSES

FREN COURSES ARE TAUGHT IN FRENCH

They can serve to fulfill your language requirement and major or minor requirement. All French majors and minors should consult with a department faculty advisor when selecting courses.

FOR FREN 1 2 SEE THE ONLINE BULLETIN

FREN 003: INTERMEDIATE FRENCH 1

Professor Colette M. Sumner (Colette.M.Sumner@hofstra.edu) CRN 20987 TR 2:40-4:05

Professor Sabine Loucif (Sabine.Loucif@hofstra.edu) CRN 20047 MW 2:40-4:05

Description: Continued development of the fundamentals of structure, sound system, vocabulary building for effective communication and understanding. Speaking, understanding, reading and writing techniques are further developed.

FREN 107: CONVERSATION SKILLS

Professor Denis Jean (denis.j.jean@hofstra.edu) CRN 21557

Professor Colette Sumner (colette.m.sumner@hofstra.edu) CRN 21556

Professor Steve Verolla (Steven.M.Verolla@hofstra.edu) CRN 21829

Meeting Times: TBA (0.5 Semester Hours)

Description: Stresses authentic intonation patterns, oral proficiency and listening comprehension. Students meet once a week for twenty five minutes with a French speaking instructor. Syllabi are established between instructor and student in the first week and focus upon areas where student requires more practice and improved competency (grammatical and/or cultural).

FREN 123: THE FRANCOPHONE EXPERIENCE IN THE CARIBBEAN

Professor Sabine Loucif (sabine.loucif@hofstra.edu) TBA CRN 23297

Description: An introduction to Caribbean cultures from the colonial era to post colonialism through an analysis of literature and film.

FREN 165: FRENCH PHONETIC DEVELOPMENT

Professor TBA CRN 23298 MW 11:20-12:45

Description: Systematic study of sounds and intonation patterns. Class sessions will include explanation of the formation of sounds and the phonology rules as well as group exercises. Regular laboratory sessions will be assigned to drill and reinforce classroom work. Weekly phonetic dictations and tape recordings will check student's progress in acquiring the correct speech habits necessary for effective communication.

FRENCH LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION: ALL MATERIALS ARE READ AND DISCUSSED IN ENGLISH

They can serve to fulfill your French major or minor, distribution requirement, and to complete the Alternate Language Option of the Foreign Language Requirement

FRLT 043: (LT, CC) DECOLONIZING THE MIND: CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE FROM AFRICA TO SOUTHEAST ASIA

Professor Sabine Loucif (sabine.loucif@hofstra.edu) MW 6:00 7:25 CRN 21356

Description: Examination of literary voices from Francophone countries including Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia. Topics include decolonization and the African identity, the search for self, the contradictions of life in the colonies and racism. Readings include works by Memmi, Ben Jelloun, Snow Fall, Senghor. All works are read and discussed in English.

FRLT 046: (LT) SEX, GENDER, AND LOVE IN 20TH CENTURY FRENCH PROSE

Professor Sabine Loucif (sabine.loucif@hofstra.edu) MW 4:20-5:45 CRN 20720

Description: Selected narrative and experimental texts examined to show the deconstruction and evolution of traditional concepts of sex, gender and love in 20th century French literature. Gender reading techniques constitute the principal methodological approach, along with close textual analysis. Readings include works by Andre Gide, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Monique Wittig and Jean Genet. All works are read and discussed in English.

ITAL COURSES: ALL MATERIALS ARE READ AND DISCUSSED IN ITALIAN:

Next semester the ITAL program will offer two courses to help you improve your speaking skills and your reading skills: ITAL 108 (Individual Conversation) and ITAL 116 (Advanced, Directed Readings). Please enroll in ITAL 108 with Professor Colletti for a ½ credit and ITAL 116 with Professor Costa for a full credit. We are currently re designing the major and minor in ITAL. So, the new re design of the ITAL minor and major will require a combination of coursework in ITAL and ITST/ITLT (more info on that when everything is administratively approved!). To keep working on your language skills and make timely progress in your ITAL major/minor, be sure to enroll in these two courses for Spring 2023!

FOR ITAL 1 2 See Online Schedule

ITAL 003: INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN I

Professor Simone Castaldi (Simone.Castaldi@hofstra.edu) MW 2:40 4:05 CRN 21151

Professor Rosetta Urgo (Rosetta.urgo@hofstra.edu) TR 2:40 4:05 CRN 20790

Description: Brief structural review followed by emphasis on the expression of opinions, ideas, desires and hypothetical scenarios both in short compositions and small group communicative

activities. Reading and analytical skills in the target language are also developed further through the reading and discussion of short cultural passages and authentic materials.

ITAL 108: CONVERSATION SKILLS

Professor Lorenza Colletti (lorenza.colletti@hofstra.edu) CRN 21558 Meeting Times: TBA (0.5 Semester Hours)

Description: Stresses authentic intonation patterns, oral proficiency, and listening comprehension. Students meet once a week for 25 minutes with an instructor who is a speaker of standard Italian. Syllabi are established between instructor and student in the first week and focus upon areas where student requires more practice and improved competency (grammatical and/or cultural).

ITAL 116: ADVANCED READINGS

Professor Riccardo Costa (Riccardo.Costa@hofstra.edu) Meeting Time TBA CRN TBA

Description: Designed to help the student maintain proficiency in Italian and at the same time enhance the reading facility within the specific field.

ITALIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION: ITLT--ALL MATERIALS ARE READ AND DISCUSSED IN ENGLISH

They can serve to complete your LT distribution requirement, and to complete the Alternate Language Option.

ITLT 030: (LT) ITALIAN AMERICAN IDENTITY

Professor Gregory Pell (Gregory.M.Pell@hofstra.edu) MW 2:40-4:05 CRN 23300

Description: Taught in English and in English translation, this course will introduce the struggles and achievements of Italians and Italian Americans in North America. Students will be assigned films, poetry, critical essays, short stories or short novels. This will be augmented by the use of texts by Black, Latinx, Native American, Jewish, and Asian artists/authors. In addition, we will explore the contradictions of cultural pride and the notions of stereotyping groups, including the “color line” and the question of whether Italians are “white” or “black,” since many of the early immigrant waves were considered “black.” Students will study such writers and filmmakers as Spike Lee, Emmanuele Crialese, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Pascal D’Angelo, Janice Mirikitani, Michael Warr, Joe Baca, Martin Espada, Sherman Alexi, Amiri Baraka, Pietro Di Donato, and Sonia Sanchez.

ITLT 041: TO HELL AND BACK

Professor Lori Ultsch (Lori.J.Ultsch@hofstra.edu) TR 11:20 12:45 pm CRN 23734

Description: The story is simple, yet powerful: a man is frightened. He has lost everything: home, family, and livelihood. Forced from his city, he is condemned to wander in exile for 19 years until his death. The inferno is an amazing epic journey and a powerful meditation on the

first step toward finding meaning in a life that has disappointed so deeply it no longer seems worth living. By facing all the fears hell holds, the frightened traveler exorcises his own and ultimately emerges from the bowels of the underworld, renewed, aware, and ready to face what life brings him! All works are read and discussed in English.

ITLT 042: (LT) LIE, CHEAT AND STEAL

Professor Lori Ultsch (Lori.J.ultsch@hofstra.edu) TR 2:40 4:05 CRN 23534

Description: The course studies the vastly entertaining "human comedy" known as The Decameron and its place in the birth of the Italian short story tradition. With amusing tales populated by thieves, liars, adulterers, wily servants, scheming wives, princes, kings, pining lovers, con artists and fools, the class gauges The Decameron's significance from a variety of perspectives: the social upheaval wrought by the 14th century bubonic plague; the challenge to medieval stereotypes concerning gender, nobility, religion and sex; the prominent role played by women in the tales; the themes of love, fortune, and intelligence; Boccaccio's art of storytelling and self conscious narration; the rise of realism in early Renaissance Italian literature; and, perhaps, the suggestion of a formula for living well in troubled times. All works are read and discussed in English.

ITALIAN STUDIES ITST: ALL MATERIALS ARE READ AND DISCUSSED IN ENGLISH

ITST 141A: (AA) FILM HEROES AND VILLIANS ITALY

These courses can serve to complete your major in Italian, your minor in Italian Studies, fulfill your AA or IS distribution requirement, and to complete the Alternate Language Option. They can serve to complete your major in Italian, your minor in Italian Studies, fulfill your AA or IS distribution requirement, and to complete the Alternate Language Option.

Professor Simone Castaldi (Simone.Castaldi@hofstra.edu) MW 4:20 5:45 CRN 23301

Description: A rotating series of courses investigating various aspects of Italian cinema. Topics include mafia cinema, race, gender, gothic and horror cinema, cinema and fascism, historical representations, migration in contemporary Italian cinema, and America as seen by Italian directors, taught in English. All movies are in English or Italian with English subtitles.

SPAN COURSES: ALL MATERIALS ARE READ AND DISCUSSED IN SPANISH. They can serve to fulfill your language requirement and major or minor requirement. Those marked (LT) can fulfill Literature distribution credit. All SPAN courses in this flyer count towards Spanish major (33 s.h) or minor (18 s.h), and many of them count towards the LACS major or minor as well. Spanish majors and minors should see an advisor to decide on their courses.

FOR SPAN 1-3 See the online schedule

2023 COURSES

SPAN 004: GATEWAY TO COMMUNICATION

Professor Manuel Galofaro (manuel.s.galofaro@hofstra.edu) TR 1:00-2:05 CRN 20026

Description: This course is intended for students who have achieved an intermediate level of Spanish (the equivalent of SPAN 003 at Hofstra). The course will help students improve in the three modes of communication: Interpersonal, Interpretive and Presentational. The class emphasizes communication, while at the same time reviewing some of the most challenging aspects of grammar. At the end of the course, students will have increased their ability to communicate in Spanish and will be eligible to take the whole array of advanced level Spanish courses.

SPAN 005: ADVANCED SPANISH READING

Professor Benita Sampedro (Benita.sampedro@hofstra.edu) CRN 21035 MW 4:20 5:45

Description: The main goal of this course is to enhance student's Spanish language skills through reading, discussion and analysis of a range of texts: essays, investigative reports, chronicles, poetry, short novels, films and documentaries from across the Spanish-speaking world. Besides reading, and the acquisition of new vocabulary, the course emphasizes conversation and writing skills. This course, as all courses with the SPAN prefix, is taught in Spanish.

SPAN 106: (WI) SPANISH IN THE MEDIA

Professor Alvaro Enrigue (alvaro.enrigue@hofstra.edu) CRN 23304 TR 11:20 12:45

Description: This is an intensive non fiction writing language course based on a communicative approach, and is designed to help professionals in communication and the media, and pre professionals preparing to work in these areas, allowing them to develop real life Spanish language skills they can use in their professions. The course will be structured as a content generating workshop that will enhance aural, oral, and written communication skills through a focus on multimedia outcomes. It will expose students to multimedia platforms in Spanish, and demand student responses in similar formats: written journalism pieces, podcasts, streaming newscasts and documentaries. This course, as all courses with the SPAN prefix, is taught in Spanish.

SPAN 108: CONVERSATION SKILLS (0.5 Semester Hours)

Professor Manuel Galofaro (manuel.s.galofaro@hofstra.edu) CRN 21559

Professor Benita Sampedro (benita.sampedro@hofstra.edu) CRN 23302

Professor Teresa Sarabia (Teresa.Sarabia@hofstra.edu) CRN 23303

Meeting Times: TBA (0.5 Semester Hours)

Description: In this course, students converse in Spanish in a relaxed environment where they feel comfortable making mistakes and thereby improve their speaking skills. Topics may include art, culture, literature, sports, music, health, education, jobs and occupations, current events, or

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anything else that the student finds interesting. No textbook is required, only the desire to speak Spanish. Students meet once a week for 25 minutes with a Spanish speaking instructor

SPAN 113A: CULTURES OF SPAIN

Professor Vicente Lledo Guillen (Vicente.lledoguillem@hofstra.edu) MW 11:20 12:45 CRN 20301

Description: In this course students will learn about the coexistence and the tensions between the different cultures of Spain throughout history. Students will also learn about how these tensions have shaped Iberian culture, including language, literature, art, music, etc. At the same time, students will learn about the physical and political environment that has made possible the existence and development of these different cultures. This course, as all courses with the SPAN prefix, is taught in Spanish.

SPAN 113B: CULTURES OF LATIN AMERICA

Professor Miguel Angel Zapata(Miguel angel.zapata@hofstra.edu) TR 4:20-5:45 CRN 23306

Description: This course is an introduction to the history and cultures of the nations that comprise the Latin American continent today. Students will study the politics, the social structures, the traditions, the artistic movements from pre-Columbian civilizations to the present. This course, as all courses with the SPAN prefix, is taught in Spanish.

SPAN 114B: (LT) INTRODUCTION TO SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE I

Professor Alvaro Enrigue (alvaro.enrigue@hofstra.edu) TR 1:00-2:25 CRN 23305

Description: An overview of Spanish American literature and historiography from the pre Columbian through the Colonial time to the 1880s. Theoretical and critical discussions of readings, films, documentary and other available materials on the period. One of the main goals of the course includes the revision and challenge of certain traditionally accepted concepts such as discovery, New World, Indian, or even Latin America, and their relocation in a non eurocentric perspective.

SPAN 145C: (LT) THE SOUL AND THE BODY IN HISPANIC LITERATURE: FROM MYSTICISM TO EROTIC LOVE

Prof. Miguel Angel Zapata (Miguel angel.zapata@hofstra.edu) TR 2:40-4:05 CRN 23521

Description: Mystical love mostly refers to the spiritual union of the soul with God. Mystical poets seek closeness with a latent spirituality, whose purpose is to approach the invisible. On the other hand, erotic love is essentially bodily, and has its fate in the expression of the body and its multiplicity of sensations. Erotic love is more grounded, and emotional. In this course, we will study mystical writers such as Santa Teresa de Ávila, Fray Luis de León and San Juan de la

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Cruz. As well as poets and writers such as Delmira Agustini, Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Ana Maria del Río. Taught in Spanish.

SPAN 151: (LT) MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN IDENTITIES

Prof. Vicente Lledo Guillem (Vicente.Lledoguillem@hofstra.edu) MW 2:40 4:05 CRN 23533

Description: This course focuses on the main topics of Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature, including gender, sexuality, identity, religion, and witchcraft. By questioning the concept of canon, students will read and analyze texts that have been excluded from college level survey courses. Attention will be paid to the historical, cultural, and political reasons for their exclusion. What identities do canonical works represent and what identities are rejected and why? This course, as all courses with the SPAN prefix, is taught in Spanish.

SPAN 171: (LT) CERVANTES’ DON QUIXOTE

Professor Alvaro Enrigue (alvaro.enrigue@hofstra.edu) TR 4:20 5:45 CRN 23308

Description: Close analysis and discussion of Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quixote. A study of the principal critical works and readings. This course, as all courses with the SPAN prefix, is taught in Spanish.

LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES COURSES Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) at Hofstra University offers a wide array of courses on Latin America, the Caribbean, and related diasporas in the United States. The LACS major requires 33 semester hours, while the minor requires 18 total semester hours. Additionally, these courses may also be used to fulfill the interdisciplinary course or cross cultural course requirement at Hofstra.

LACS 001: (IS, CC) PUTTING LATIN AMERICAN AND THE CARIBBEAN ON THE MAP: GEORGRAPHY, POLITICS, AND LITERATURE

Professor Benita Sampedro (Benita.sampedro@hofstra.edu) MW 2:40-4:05 CRN 21501

Description: This course is intended to introduce students to the two diverse regions with which North Americans share the Western hemisphere: Latin America and the Caribbean. The course offers a multi faceted approach to various dimensions of the countries lying to the south of the United States. The geography, history, politics, socioeconomic projects, cultures, languages and literatures of these societies will be analyzed in an interdisciplinary fashion. In this course students will demonstrate the ability to think critically and creatively, will apply analytical reasoning across academic disciplines, and will demonstrate an awareness of and sensitivity towards Latin American and Caribbean issues in a global context.

LACS 014S: (CC, IS) Flipping Bats: Latin American Popular Culture

Professor Brenda Elsey (brenda.elsey@hofstra.edu) MW 11:20 12:45 CRN 23449

This course introduces students to the history of Latin America and the diaspora through popular cultural practices including sports, food, and dance. We will study major political events, such as European colonization, slavery, and the Cuban Revolution through the lens of popular culture. The course texts will focus on such topics as the history of samba and carnival in Brazil, baseball in the Caribbean, and Mexican women’s art. The impact of migrations, including the African Diaspora, Asians to the Caribbean, and Latinx to the United States will be central to our case studies. In addition, we will explore the ways in which Latin American creators and producers have influenced the global marketplace of cultural commodities.

LACS 015U: (CC, IS) JOURNEYS THROUGH LATIN AMERICA: GLOBAL RACISM

Professor Santiago Slabodsky (Santiago.Slabodsky@hofstra.edu) TR 2:40 4:05 CRN 23450

Departing from the colonization of “the Americas,” this course explores the discourses and politics that led to the racialization of Natives, Africans, Jews, and Muslims throughout modernity. Topics will include colonialism and imperialism, the role of music, film, philosophy and the internet in the construction of otherness, the Olympics of suffering, and the responses different collectives have had against their racialization. This class will be of interest to students exploring Latin American and Caribbean studies, religion, anthropology, philosophy, literatures, history, Middle Eastern and European studies.

LACS 015V: (CC, IS) JOURNEYS THROUGH LATIN AMERICA: The Political Economy of Revolutionary Cuba: Crisis and Transition

Professor Conrad Herold (Conrad.Herold@Hofstra.edu) M 4:20 5:45 CRN 23618

An interdisciplinary exploration of the political economy of modern Cuba, covering the history, politics, and economics of Cuba, in particular since the revolution of 1959. Special attention is given to the challenges of crisis and transition in the immediate post revolutionary period, in the restructuring of the post U.S.S.R. period, and in the contemporary period of monetary reunification and limited liberalization. This course will be cross listed with ECO 145

Comparative Economic Systems.

LACS 198: Honors Essay

Professor Santiago Slabodsky (Santiago.Slabodsky@hofstra.edu) Time TBA CRN 23161

This honors course entails the research for and the writing of a substantial essay in the field of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS), engaging with current theoretical frameworks in LACS, in any of the various disciplines comprising the LACS program. In consultation with the adviser, essays may be written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: Open only to qualified seniors majoring in LACS who wish to graduate with departmental honors. Permission of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies co directors, and of the professor who will supervise the essay. Candidates for departmental honors

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must attain a 3.4 cumulative GPA and a 3.5 in major course work. May not be taken on a Pass/D+/D/Fail basis.

LACS 199: Senior Seminar-LACS

Professors Brenda Elsey (brenda.elsey@hofstra.edu) and Santiago Slabodsky (Santiago.Slabodsky@hofstra.edu) Time TBA CRN 21533

The Senior Seminar is an interdisciplinary capstone course that focuses on a changing series of issues fundamental to Latin American and Caribbean societies. Students are required to produce a substantial research paper by the end of the course, reflecting consultation with two Latin American and Caribbean Studies faculty members as well as the reading of primary and secondary source materials.

Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: Open to seniors only.