As a single department with two majors—one in Spanish, the other in Portuguese and Brazilian studies—our delivery to intercultural studies reaches across traditional fields of national literatures, genres and languages to embrace cultural studies, ecology studies, gender and sexuality studies, the arts and more. Our courses encourage students to reconsider traditional notions of identity, nation, geography and civilization from integrative and transcultural perspectives. Our curriculum reflects the fact that Spanish and Portuguese are increasingly recognized as domestic U.S. languages. We aim to integrate the heterogeneous languages and cultures we research and teach, from their inceptions on the Iberian Peninsula and in the Americas, to current linguistic and cultural manifestations in Europe, Africa and the Americas (including the United States), the Caribbean area, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

Announcements

Global Flex Brazil: Contemporary Art Parks and Cultural Centers

This kinesthesia-led plan will explore thriving arts scenes and museums in São Paulo and then travel to Minas Gerais to visit the Inhotim Gimmicky Fine art Institute, a 5,000-acre fine art park and botanic garden. Prior study of Portuguese non required (though encouraged). Students can apply now and through Feb. 4, 2022 through Smith's International Travel Experiences System, using the keyword "Flex" to locate the application.

Neilson Professor Miguel Angel Rosales To Offer Three Lectures

The section is hosting this semester Neilson Professor Miguel Angel Rosales, a Spanish filmmaker and anthropologist. He will deliver three public lectures, each at 5 p.grand. in the Nielson Library Browsing Room: "Submerged Stories," on Tuesday, February 22; "Surviving Stories," on Tuesday, March 29; and "A Focus on the Environment as a Source for the Recuperation of Retentivity," on Tuesday, April v. Learn more on the provost'southward website.

Film Screening and Q & A

Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, seven p.yard., Feb 17, 2022

Film Screening and Q & A with the director of Street Heroines. Directed by Alexandra Henry, this 2021 award-winning documentary celebrates the backbone and creativity of female street artists from around the world, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Republic of ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Spain.

Faculty Publications

Senior Lecturer Emerita Patricia González, with Ivor Miller, edited a critical edition of Lydia Cabrera'southward The Sacred Language of the Abakuá, nominated for an Elliott P. Skinner Book Award from the Association for Africanist Anthropology.

Requirements

Spanish & Portuguese Learning Goals

Spanish Major Learning Goals:

Upon graduation our students are able to call back critically and to speak, read and write with accurateness at an avant-garde level in Castilian, and at a depression-intermediate level or college in Portuguese. They have the power to negotiate diverse academic, professional and social situations in Castilian with high chatty capacity. To this stop, virtually of our classes are held in the target language, as is all student work produced in these classes, including discussions, oral presentations and written work. Our majors are able to place and analyze a range of forms and styles of cultural expression, including various literary genres, visual art, film, performance and drama. Majors graduate with the capacity to think historically, to identify and utilize a diverseness of literary and cultural theories, to interpret original creative works, as well as develop comparative and interdisciplinary analyses.

Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Major Learning Goals:

Upon graduation, our students are able to speak, read and write with accuracy at a high-intermediate to avant-garde level in Portuguese and to negotiate diverse academic, professional and social situations with effective chatty capacity. To this end, a number of core classes are held in the target linguistic communication and appoint students in a variety of advice activities, including informal conversation, discussion of accurate texts, presentations, personal essays and research papers. Beyond linguistic competency, majors graduate with a high degree of intercultural literacy, having studied aspects of Brazilian and Lusophone cultures and societies through a combination of humanities and social science perspectives.

The Majors

Majors, as well every bit non-majors interested in gaining intensive linguistic and cultural proficiency, are strongly encouraged to go abroad for one semester or one year.

The S/U grading option is non allowed for courses counting toward the majors.

The Major in Spanish

Directorate for the Castilian Major: Silvia Berger, Ibtissam Bouachrine, Molly Falsetti-Yu, Maria Estela Harretche, Michelle Joffroy, Reyes Lázaro, and Maria Helena Rueda.

X (10) semester courses: Five of them volition have the post-obit requirements, to be taken at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Smith Higher:

  • One 200-level course, SPN 245 or to a higher place
  • One course focused on writing in Castilian. Can be fulfilled with any course designated by the section equally meeting the Spanish writing requirement. Designation will be included in the class clarification.
  • I semester of Portuguese (POR 110, Beginning Portuguese through Music I or POR 125, Unproblematic Portuguese for Castilian-speakers).
  • 2 300-level SPN courses, taken at Smith, normally during the senior year.

The remaining 5 courses will exist electives dealing with the languages and cultures of the Castilian-speaking world, offered past or cross-listed with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Smith or in canonical Castilian linguistic communication programs abroad. 1 of these electives can be a form taught in English if it deals with the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world--this includes bilingual or English-speaking U.S. Latinx communities. The English language-language class tin can be taken at Smith or the Five Colleges. SPN 112Y can be counted towards the major every bit one course. For classes taken abroad, credit will be granted at the 200-level.

The Major in Portuguese–Brazilian Studies

Advisers for the Portuguese-Brazilian Studies Major: Marguerite Itamar Harrison, Malcolm One thousand. McNee

Eight semester courses. POR 100Y or POR 110 and POR 111, or POR 125; POR 200 or POR 215; and one 200-level grade in Brazilian or Comparative Lusophone Studies taught in Portuguese. Five other semester courses related to the Portuguese-speaking earth, ane of which must be at the 300-level. Courses may be selected from any number of fields such as literature and language, history, Africana studies, anthropology, art, dance, music, economic science and authorities.

Advisers for Written report Abroad

Students interested in approved programs for Castilian in Latin America or Kingdom of spain should consult faculty who teach our Castilian classes. Students interested in Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries should consult our Portuguese kinesthesia: Marguerite Itamar Harrison and Malcolm One thousand. McNee.

The Minors

The Minor in Spanish

Advisers for the Castilian Minor: Silvia Berger, Ibtissam Bouachrine, Molly Falsetti-Yu, Maria Estela Harretche, Michelle Joffroy, Reyes Lázaro and Maria Helena Rueda.

Vi semester courses in Spanish. Two of these six courses will be the following requirements, to be taken at the Department of Castilian and Portuguese at Smith Higher:

  • One 200-level course, SPN 245 or above
  • One class focused on writing in Spanish. Can be fulfilled with any class designated by the department as meeting the Spanish writing requirement. Designation will be included in the class description.

The remaining four courses will be electives dealing with the languages and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world, offered by or cantankerous-listed with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Smith, at Spanish programs in the Five Colleges, or in approved Spanish linguistic communication programs abroad. SPN 112Y can be counted towards the minor equally i class.

The Minor in Portuguese & Brazilian Studies

Advisers for the Portuguese-Brazilian Studies Small-scale: Marguerite Itamar Harrison, Malcolm K. McNee

Five semester courses. POR 100Y or POR 110 and POR 111, or POR 125; POR 200 or POR 215; and one 200-level course in Brazilian or Comparative Lusophone Studies taught in Portuguese. 2 other semester courses related to the Portuguese-speaking earth, one of which must exist at the 300-level. Courses may be selected from any number of fields such as literature and linguistic communication, history, Africana studies, anthropology, art, dance, music, economics and regime.

Honors

A Spanish or Portuguese-Brazilian studies major may desire to conduct an independent honors projection. Please consult the honors directory to learn more almost the requirements.

Directors

Marguerite Itamar Harrison(Portuguese and Brazilian Studies)
Reyes Lázaro(Spanish)

SPB 430D Honors Project
Credits: 8
Normally offered each autumn

SPB 431 Honors Projection
Credits: 8
Unremarkably offered each fall

SPN 430D Honors Project
Credits: 8
Normally offered both fall and spring semesters

SPN 431 Honors Project
Credits: eight
Normally offered each autumn

Courses

Course Offerings

The department has ii abbreviations for the language and culture of iii wide areas of written report: POR (Portuguese-speaking world), and SPN (Kingdom of spain and Spanish America). All courses are taught in Castilian or Portuguese unless otherwise indicated. Students with prior Spanish language feel must take the placement test.

In addition to the courses listed in the Smith catalog under SPN (Spanish) and POR (Portuguese), you may search for relevant courses taught in English by our faculty, listed nether LAS (Latin American and Latino/a Studies), CLT (Comparative Literature) and SWG (Written report of Women and Gender).

The maximum enrollment in all language course sections is 18 students unless otherwise indicated. Also, please notation that the S/U choice is not commonly granted for language classes.

See the Smith College Course Itemize for complete information and form listings.

Courses available at Amherst, Hamsphire and Mount Holyoke colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst can be institute in the Five College Course Guide.

Affiliated Courses & Programs

The department'southward transdisciplinarity is reflected in the diverse academic affiliations and collaborative relationships that faculty members hold across the Smith campus and the 5 Colleges. We piece of work with Latin American and Latino/a studies, Iberian and European studies, comparative literature, Jewish studies, medieval studies, Center East studies, environmental science and policy, theatre, art, and the report of women and gender, too equally with the concentrations in poetry, translation studies, women's education and sustainable food.

See the Smith College Catalog for cantankerous-listed courses.

Kinesthesia

We strongly encourage students to spend one semester or a twelvemonth studying abroad in a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking country. Many students take benefited from the full cultural immersion and the wide array of specialized courses offered at universities in nine dissimilar countries.

Advisers for Study Away

  • For Spanish-speaking countries: Members of the department
  • For Brazil & Portugal: Malcolm McNee and Marguerite Itamar Harrison

Castilian, Portuguese & Brazilian Studies Abroad

An channel in Segovia, Spain, provided the inspiration for this photo by Giovanna Sabini-Leite '21, exhibited in the 2017 Global Encounters Photo Contest.

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Photograph of Spain by Giovanna Sabini-Leite

The banner at the acme of the page includes several images displayed at random on each visit. Recognition of intellectual property rights is an important component of the bookish enterprise. Each of these photos is shared under a license that allows the use of the epitome. (ane) Havana, Cuba, sourced from Pixabay, prototype 4027210, free for commercial employ, no attribution required; (two) 2018 - Mexico - Merida - Monument to the Fatherland, photo by Ted's photos, made available under the CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license, this paradigm was cropped to fit the brandish surface area; (3) Lisbon main square, photo by Deensel, made available under the CC BY 2.0 license, this image was cropped to the display area; (four) CENU, São Paulo, Brasil, fabricated available under the CC0 1.0 license.

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