This course examines the complex systems and values influencing land-use decision-making in both rural and urban settings throughout the U.S. and abroad. Students learn how government agencies and local citizens often conflict in their attitudes and values regarding the costs and benefits of growth and development. Particular attention is paid to forest conversion issues on the South Cumberland Plateau. Students attend local planning sessions and meetings with local officials.
An examination of the events, people, movements, and themes of the region's past, from earliest known human habitation to the present. The course explores contrasting ways of life expressed by native and European peoples; implications of incorporating the area into the United States; the agricultural, industrial, and transportation revolutions of the nineteenth century; popular culture within and about Appalachia; contemporary issues of regional development and preservation; and ways the unique environment of these mountains has shaped and frustrated notions of regional identity.
Spanish
Part II of a year-long intensive, introductory course with emphasis on the fundamentals of grammar (both written and spoken) and extensive practice in listening comprehension and reading. Four class hours per week.
An accelerated Spanish review course for those students with at least two years of high school Spanish. The course emphasizes the fundamentals of grammar (written and spoken) and practice in listening comprehension and reading. Four class hours per week. This course is not open for credit to students who have received credit for SPAN 104.
An accelerated Spanish review course for those students with at least two years of high school Spanish. The course emphasizes the fundamentals of grammar (written and spoken) and practice in listening comprehension and reading. Four class hours per week. This course is not open for credit to students who have received credit for SPAN 104.
An accelerated Spanish review course for those students with at least two years of high school Spanish. The course emphasizes the fundamentals of grammar (written and spoken) and practice in listening comprehension and reading. Four class hours per week. This course is not open for credit to students who have received credit for SPAN 104.
An intensive grammar review. Emphasis is on correct expression, vocabulary acquisition, and reading facility. Four class hours per week.
An intensive grammar review. Emphasis is on correct expression, vocabulary acquisition, and reading facility. Four class hours per week.
An intensive grammar review. Emphasis is on correct expression, vocabulary acquisition, and reading facility. Four class hours per week.
An intensive grammar review. Emphasis is on correct expression, vocabulary acquisition, and reading facility. Four class hours per week.
This course advances Spanish speaking, writing, and listening skills at the advanced - intermediate level while introducing students to topics in Spanish-speaking cultures.
This course advances Spanish speaking, writing, and listening skills at the advanced - intermediate level while introducing students to topics in Spanish-speaking cultures.
An introduction to the study of literature and culture of the Spanish-speaking world, taught at the advanced-intermediate language level. Students improve reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills through textual and audiovisual analysis. The course prepares students for advanced courses in the Spanish major and minor.
An introduction to the culture of Spain emphasizing literature, the arts, and history from 1700 to the present. This course, along with SPAN 301, SPAN 303, and SPAN 304, constitutes the core of the major in Spanish. Students are strongly encouraged to take all four of these courses before undertaking more advanced study.
An introduction to the study of Latin America emphasizing literature, history, and the arts from the independence period to the present. This course, along with SPAN 301, SPAN 302, and SPAN 303, constitutes the core of the major in Spanish. Students are strongly encouraged to take all four of these courses before undertaking more advanced study.
An introduction to the study of Latin America emphasizing literature, history, and the arts from the independence period to the present. This course, along with SPAN 301, SPAN 302, and SPAN 303, constitutes the core of the major in Spanish. Students are strongly encouraged to take all four of these courses before undertaking more advanced study.
This course introduces students to Spanish cinema, from Luis Buñuel’s first films of the 1920s and 30s to the present. Studying both masterpieces and lesser-known works, the course focuses on the representation of national, ethnic, gender, and class identities. It provides students an overview of Peninsular cinema and the critical tools to analyze filmic language.
This course examines U.S. Afro-Latinx culture alongside works by Afro-Latin American authors from the Caribbean. Students will study black cultural production from Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the US. Students will also reflect on concepts such as race, colonialism, gender, religion, and kinship to understand contemporary dynamics of displacement and social exclusion. Taught in Spanish. Materials in both Spanish and English.
Based on decolonizing theoretical approaches and following a chronological order, this course examines and analyzes a series of visual and auditory artistic manifestations developed by artists in Latin America Topics include painting, sculpture, architecture, and music of the Indian Baroque; the Casta Paintings; Mexican Muralism; the rise of the Bolero; photojournalism; the Third Cinema and the documentary tradition; the dictatorship aesthetic; the identity politics of telenovelas (soap operas); and pop music.
Shared readings on key topics and concepts related to the Hispanic world. Each student also engages in research on a topic of interest, culminating in a critical research paper and an oral presentation. This seminar serves to fulfill the writing-intensive requirement within the major.