SPA480.56 The Aesthetic of Film

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course examines the cinematic system including production structures, language strategies, theories of reinforcement and resistance. The late but overwhelming eruption of Modernism in cinema forces the study of its significance and of cinema as an experience and of its relation with other art forms. We start with the history of world cinema, looking at major film theories and strategies of cinematic expression. (UC code: EST241D)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course provides an overview of Latin America, much of its geographical location and its natural environment with its contrasts. We will analyze the evolution of the population, economic development, and finally the process of integration (UC code: GEO 2900)

Conducted in Spanish. Continuing, proficiency-based language course that further develops language skills introduced during the program prequel or a previous semester. Structured to take advantage of living in a Spanish-speaking environment and taught by U Católica language professors. Students are placed according to results of an on-site language exam administered by U Católica.

Prereq: Five semesters of college-level Spanish.

Taught in Spanish at Universidad Pontificia Católica. Continuing, proficiency-based language course that further develops language skills introduced during the program prequel or a previous semester. Structured to take advantage of living in a Spanish environment and taught by U Católica language professors. Students are placed according to results of an on-site language exam administered by U Católica.

(PUC #LET074P)

Prereq: SPA 202, four semesters of college-level Spanish, or the equivalent

The course offers a critical overview of Latin American cinema since the 1960s, trying to identify recurrent themes and discourses that allow the distinction of a cultural identity. The objective of the course is to vindicate cinematographic expression as a way to access particular conceptions of the world that are in force in the Latin American cultural environment. Students will reflect on mythical and religious paradigms as sources of cultural identity in our societies and socio-cultural instability. El curso ofrece un panorama crítico del cine latinoamericano desde 1960, intentando identificar temas y discursos recurrentes que permiten distinguir uno identidad cultural. El objetivo del curso es la vindicación de la expresión cinematográfica como una de las maneras de acceder a visiones particulares del mundo que tienen vigencia en el ambiente cultural latinoamericano. Los estudiantes considerarán paradigmas míticos y religiosos como fuentes de identidad cultural en nuestras sociedades y nuestra inestabilidad sociocultural. Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester.

This course provides an integral vision of the short story genre in Spain and Latin America since the 19th century, paying attention to the historical and cultural landmarks of this period. Students analyze different literary movements in America (e.g. romanticism, modernism, realism, naturalism, criollismo, surrealism, magic realism, the Latin American boom) and the most influential short stories and authors of the period, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel García Marquez, and Maria Vargas Llosa, among others. Este curso muestra una visión integral del genero del cuento en España e Hispanoamérica desde el siglo XIX, prestando atención al los hitos históricos y culturales de la época. Los estudiantes analizarán diversos movimientos literarios en América (e.g., el romanticismo, el modernismo, el realismo, el naturalismo, el criollismo, el surrealismo, el realismo mágico, el boom latinoamericano) y los cuentos y autores más influyentes de la época, entre otros, Jorge Luís Borges, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez y Mario Vargas Llosa. Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester.

The course aims to integrate historical analysis with digital and analog photography. Contents are developed diachronically, examining the principal historical milestones of photography in Chile, its evolution over time,  and the analysis of its visual and aesthetic clues.

Upon successful completion of this class, you will be able to:

• Describe  a diachronic vision of Chilean photographic tradition, its main exponents, and its principal creative propositions,
• Recognize and express systems, topics, and rhetorical strategies that integrate the visual specifics of historical Chilean photography
• Understand and enumerate the particularities that shape a visual identity through diverse photographic genres
• Describe how the process of photographic expansion is a phenomenon of aesthetic consumption renewing the cultural symbolic universe of Chile.

Topics covered in the class will include:

• The origin of photography and its establishment in Chile
• The modern photographic portrait in a traditional society
• Development of family and geographic albums
• Wartime photojournalism
• End of the Century and the new Century: Chile in multiple images
• Artistic photography and the creative process
• Social photojournalism
• New trends in Chilean photography
• The new digital paradigm

(PUC #EOS2882)

Matriculated Syracuse students: This course counts toward the Spanish major or minor.

The course studies the historical and cultural background that led to the emergency of the crime-fiction genre. The course includes writings by the main representatives of the detective fiction whodunit novel and black comedy, such as Poe, Doyle, Chestertone, Christie, Hammet, Chandler, Simenon, and Highsmith. The course includes the study of the main representatives of the crime fiction genre in Europe and Latin America, such as Robbe-Grillet, Durrenmatt, Bernhard, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Piglia, Soriano, Diaz Eterovic, Ampuero, Gomez, Serrano and Rojas. El curso estudia el trasfondo histórico y cultural que dio lugar a la aparición del género del crimen ficción. El curso incluye obras de los principales representantes de la novela policial, y la comedia negra, tales como Poe, Doyle, Chestertone, Christie, Hammet, Chandler, Simenon, y Highsmith. El curso incluye el estudio de los principales representantes del género en Europa y Latinoamérica, como Robbe-Grillet, Durrenmatt, Bernhard, Borges, García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Piglia, Soriano, Díaz Eterovic, Ampuero, Gómez, Serrano y Rojas. Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester.

This course analyzes the accounts of (im)migrant voices in Chilean literature. The course includes texts of Arabic, Jewish, and Croatian immigrants, as well as the work of exiled people and/or travelers. Students read tales of immigrants (e.g. Walter Garib, Sonia Guralnik, Nicolas Mihovilovic and Jorge Sherman, referred to family, ethnic, linguistic, and religious memories of diverse cultural groups), tales from exile (e.g. Antonio Skarmeta and Leandro Urbina); tales of adventurers (e.g. Isabel Allende); tales of drifters (e.g. Roberto Bolaños); and tales of indigenous nations (e.g. the voice of the mapuches in Sonia Montecino). El curso analiza los relatos de las voces de emigrantes en la literatura chilena. El curso incluye textos de inmigrantes árabes, judíos y cróatas, y asimismo la obra de gentes exiliadas y/o viajeros. Los estudiantes leerán relatos de inmigrantes (e.g. Walter Garib, Sonia Guralnik, Nicolás Mihovilovic y Jorge Sherman, narrados a sus familias, memorias de diversos grupos étnicos lingüísticos y religiosos); relatos escritos en el exilio (e.g., Roberto Bolanos); relatos de aventuras (e.g., Isabel Allende); cuentos de vagabundos (e.g., Roberto Bolanos); y cuentos de naciones indígenas (e.g., la voz de los mapuches en Sonia Montecino). Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester.

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester.  The course examines the main subjects and cultural models proposed by Jose Martí (1853-1895), Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1884-1946), Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959), Octavio Paz (1914-1998), and Luis Oyarzún (1920-1972) that created a cultural tradition in Hispanic America capable of giving a singular identity to the continent. El curso examina los temas principales y modelos culturales propuestos por José Martí (1853-1895), Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1889-1959/, Octavio Paz (1914-19980, y Luis Olarzún (1920-1972), temas y modelos que crearon una tradición cultural en Hispanoamérica capaz de otorgarle un identidad singular al continente. Class taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica and may not be available every semester.

(PUC #LET 201E)