2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Course Numbers
Courses numbered 100 are open to all students without prerequisites. Ordinarily, courses numbered 200, 300, and 400 have prerequisites and may not be taken by freshmen. Consult the individual department course listing for exceptions to this general policy.
Students are advised to check the course offerings before each advisement period.
The following courses may be offered during the academic year—including Summer, Fall, Intersession, and/or Spring semesters/sessions/trimesters at both SJC Brooklyn and SJC Long Island, unless otherwise noted. Not all of these courses will be available at night or on weekends at SJC Brooklyn and SJC Long Island. Consult the semestral course offerings for more specific information, including the SJC Long Island Weekend College Trimester Program.
Online Courses: Academic departments offer courses in an online format. Check the semester course offerings for details.
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Spanish Courses that are not scheduled can be made available on sufficient demand.
Majors, Concentrates, and Minors may only take one of the following: SPN 211 , SPN 212 , or SPN 215 .
Survey courses offered each semester on a rotating schedule.
Advanced Courses
SPN 221 , SPN 222 , and SPN 260 are prerequisites for all courses 300-level and above conducted in Spanish. |
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SPN 350 - Hispanic Women Writers
A study of the contributions of Latin American, Latina, and Spanish women authors to contemporary Hispanic literature. Readings and discussions of essays, plays, poetry, short stories, and testimonies explore current social, cultural, and political issues by contrasting different voices and points of view. Conducted in Spanish.
1 semester 3 credits.
Fall
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SPN 351 - Reading Resistencia: Social Movements in Latin America
An in-depth study of how ordinary citizens, artists and intellectuals challenged their governments from the late 19th century to the present day. The course examines how grassroots mobilization and cultural production (literature, film, art, songs, etc.) have shaped social and political movements in Latin America. Conducted in Spanish.
1 semester 3 credits.
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SPN 352 - Latin America at the Crossroads
(RS 352 )
Offered as an interdisciplinary course between Spanish and Religious Studies, this service-learning course explores the human condition and human rights issues in the Americas, both in the classroom and through hands-on experience. Topics include the legacies of the conquest and colonization of the Americas, indigenous movements, liberation theology, women’s rights, immigration, globalization, and trade. Students provide a minimum of 20 hours of service through agencies working with the Hispanic community in the New York area or in León, Nicaragua over Winter or Spring Break. Conducted in English and Spanish.
1 hour of service. 1 semester 3 credits.
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SPN 353 - From Macondo to Mcondo: Visions of Modern Latin America
A study of different cultural forms of portraying modern Latin America, from the magical town of Macondo in García Márquez’ Cien años de soledad to the hyper-globalized world of McOndo described by contemporary Chilean writer Alberto Fuguet. The course analyzes texts by Latin American writers from the Boom to the present, which refer back to and question canonical readings of the identity of the region made throughout history. Conducted in Spanish.
1 semester 3 credits.
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SPN 355 - Beyond Walls: The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
This course explores the various representations of “el México de afuera” (Mexicans living abroad), the differences and interconnectedness between metaphorical and material borders, and the effects of globalization as it pertains to the United States-Mexico border region. Through analysis of works by Chicano, Anglo-American, and Mexican writers and filmmakers, the course analyzes themes and realities such as migration towards the northern Mexican border and immigration to the US, transnationalism, trade and globalization. Conducted in Spanish.
1 semester 3 credits.
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SPN 356 - Deconstructing the Caribbean
This course explores the various factors that have contributed to the formation of Hispanic Caribbean subjectivities and identities. With a focus on Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the course questions stereotyped notions of Caribbeanness, through a postcolonial approach to their literature and culture. Conducted in Spanish.
1 semester 3 credits.
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SPN 357 - The Cuban Revolution: Reinvention of a Dream
A study of the Cuban Revolution through the analysis of its aesthetic products, from 1959 to the present, in the context of international relations between Cuba, the US and the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe. Readings and discussions analyze the cultural and literary heritage that has shaped post-revolutionary Cuba, keeping in mind its complexities, ambiguities and contradictions. The course does not support a particular political agenda but seeks to understand the intersections between art and politics from an interdisciplinary perspective.
1 semester 3 credits.
Fall
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SPN 358 - The City of Borges
Through the gaze of Jorge Luis Borges and other Argentine writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals, this course analyzes the two forms in which we can interpret the idea of the city, or better yet, the cities of Borges. On the one hand, the course examines texts by Borges and others, in which the theme is his neighborhood, Palermo, and his city, Buenos Aires. On the other, it considers what Borges tells us about his “political” cities: Buenos Aires, Latin America, and the world. With a Global Studies component in Buenos Aires. Conducted in Spanish.
1 semester 3 credits.
Spring
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SPN 370 - Special Topics in Hispanic Literature and Culture
This course will include Latin American and Spanish writers, as well as aspects of Hispanic culture not covered in depth in the regular course offerings. It will enable students to take advantage of faculty expertise in diverse areas which are of interest to both faculty and students. Possible topics include: “Revolutions: Cuba and Nicaragua,” “Reading the Andes,” and “Latin American Popular Culture.”
1 semester 3 credits.
Spring
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SPN 401 - Senior Thesis Seminar I
Students conduct research for an extended paper on a Spanish or Spanish-American literary or cultural topic. Required of all majors. Conducted in Spanish. For Fall semester Seniors. Adolescent Education students should take Spring semester of Junior year.
1 semester 2 credits.
Fall and Spring
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SPN 402 - Senior Thesis Seminar II
Continuation of SPN 401 . Students write an extended research paper on a Spanish or Spanish-American literary or cultural topic. Required of all majors. Conducted in Spanish. For Spring semester Seniors. Adolescent Education students should take Fall semester of Senior year.
1 semester 1 credit.
Fall and Spring
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