西班牙语和葡萄牙语

学部简介

西班牙语和葡萄牙语 are two of the most widely spoken languages in the world. Spanish-speaking cultures extend from Spain’s Judeo-Christian and Islamic heritage to Latin America’s roots to the United States today. 葡萄牙语 is spoken in countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America, and the U.S. 葡萄牙语很重要, 巴西, 佛得角社区, 特别是在新英格兰地区, 加州, Florida, 和新泽西.

Students in our language classes work in small groups to build oral proficiency and encourage individual expression. Literature classes include analyses and discussions of writing from different periods. We examine past and present civilizations through courses on history, film, music, and culture. 经常的活动包括tertulia(聚会), lectures, symposia, films, 还有作家和艺术家的表演.

学习目标

Understand and effectively interact with people across cultures.
识别电影中的关键主题, music, 以及社会中的文学, 政治, and historical contexts of the modern Hispanic or Lusophone world.
Recognize pivotal events and representative figures in Hispanic or Lusophone history.
Develop the ability to participate in a multilingual and multicultural community.

学习项目

西班牙语专业

Students will develop an advanced level of linguistic fluency in Spanish.

西班牙语专业要求

全球葡萄牙语辅修课程

Students will learn to communicate effectively in written and spoken 葡萄牙语.

全球葡萄牙语研究的次要要求

课程强调

强化初级葡萄牙语

PORT103

Introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in 葡萄牙语. 正宗的文化阅读, art, music, 和来自安哥拉的电影, Brazil, 佛得角, 几内亚比绍, 莫桑比克, Portugal, 将包括东帝汶、Príncipe和东帝汶. The course covers the full-year elementary language curriculum in one semester.

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Spanish Around the World Tpc: Culture, Politics and Creativity

SPAN241

练习口语和书面西班牙语，达到高级水平. 旨在提高交际能力, this course will provide an intensive review of advanced grammatical structures within cultural contexts of the Spanish-speaking world. Each section will explore a specific theme through the examination of Hispanic literary texts and the arts, 以及其他文化现象. Varied oral interactions, technological applications, and critical writing will be stressed.. Culture, Politics, and CreativityThis course studies cultural expressions as invigorating glimpses into socio-政治 realities of Latin America 和西班牙. 我们将探讨作家如何, 电影导演, poets, 艺术家回应社会需求, 政治变革, 以及特定时期的文化变迁, places, 和社区. Selected works engage students with diverse cultural repertoires of the Hispanic world in interdisciplinary ways. We will spotlight the relationship between 政治 violence and literature in Argentina and Chile; displacement and photography in Spain and Uruguay; domestic workers and film in Mexico and Peru; 教育 and artistic activism in El Salvador and Nicaragua; and exile and poetry in Cuba and Paraguay.
阿根廷小说和电影中的青年

SPAN251

This course explores the construction of the child and adolescent voices in Argentine contemporary fiction and film. 我们将考虑年轻主人公的好奇心, 担忧, and transgressions in adult-regimented worlds have critical implications for class, gender, 性别和种族政治. Our discussions will center on diverse portrayals of children and adolescents as navigators of their settings, 从棚户区到乡村俱乐部都有哪些, 从农村到城市中心, 无家可归者的庇护所. 短篇小说, films, novels, 以及阿里尔·马格努斯的闪电小说, 马特尔Lucrecia, 马里亚纳Enriquez, 丹妮拉Seggiaro, Paula Markovitch, Andres纽曼, Agustina Bazterrica将被考虑.

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地点和空间

Casa塞万提斯

每年有8名学生住在La Casa塞万提斯, where they commit to speaking Spanish in all public areas of the house. Activities include visits from the Spanish faculty, game nights, and holiday celebrations.

研究突出了

安东尼奥J教授. Arraiza-Rivera的专著 En voz de pluma:在未来的时间里，在未来的时间里 (胡安·德·拉·奎斯塔, 2023) explores self-referentiality in the work of three authors of the Spanish, 葡萄牙语, and Novo-Hispanic Baroque: Juan de Tassis y Peralta (Count of Villamediana), 弗朗西斯科·曼努埃尔·德梅洛, 和胡安娜·伊萨梅斯·德拉·克鲁兹.
高级讲师安东尼奥Igrejas的文章 “Writing the Father into Textual Existence: The Biographer in Through a Portagee Gate,” published in Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of 葡萄牙语-North American Letters and Studies/Revista Bilingue de Letras e Estudos Luso-Norte-Americanos (2023), examines how Charles Reis Felix uses tools of fiction to write “the creative facts” of his father’s biography.
Professor Koichi Hagimoto’s research centers on the relationship between Asia and Latin America. Hagimoto的新书， Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho: Transpacific Modernity and Nikkei Literature in Argentina 范德比尔特大学出版社, 2023), explores how diverse literary and cultural approaches to Japan have defined and defied the concept of modernity in Argentina.

机会

出国留学

Qualified juniors are encouraged to spend a semester or a year in a Spanish- or 葡萄牙语-speaking country with our study abroad partners (学习葡萄牙语网络, 米德尔伯里留学)，或其他获批准的计划. During Wintersession, our faculty run short-term study abroad programs. These have included trips to Barcelona and Cuba for students with proficient Spanish.
实习

The 西班牙语和葡萄牙语 Department offers several funded internship opportunities in 佛得角, Portugal, 波多黎各, 和西班牙, and at El Observatorio Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University. 其他地区也有可能. 我们也鼓励学生申请 Gilman-FLAD葡萄牙奖学金.
西班牙桌和葡萄牙桌

对韦尔斯利社区的所有成员开放, the tables offer an opportunity to share a meal with others who speak or are learning to speak Spanish or 葡萄牙语.