Advanced Spanish Language
This course offers an in-depth review and the study of the more problematic aspects of Spanish grammar for English speakers. After an overview of the subjunctive and past tense narration rules, the course proceeds with intense work in consolidating the multiple uses of the subjunctive in nominal, adjectival and adverbial clauses and practice in perfecting skills in past tense narration. Other grammatical points include a sequence of tenses, passive voice, conditional, prepositions and future perfect. All of the above is presented in cultural contexts and includes vocabulary expansion exercises and ample communicative activities. Writing activities integrate and recycle the above communicative functions in short essays and opinion pieces with the Cuban experience as the backdrop for creative expression. Sociocultural knowledge will include discussions of the following themes: Cuban history; developments in Science and Technology; the Environment and the energy revolution in Cuba; social interaction and relationships in Cuba; linguistic particularities and idiomatic expressions; and ethical values in Cuban culture.
Cuban and Caribbean Studies
This course will focus on the place of Cuba in the Caribbean, with the aim of giving students an overview of the larger region and how different aspects of it manifest in Cuba. Topics covered by professors and invited lecturers will include: Caribbean Studies in Cuba, Caribbean history, the African influence in the Caribbean, Haiti and Cuba, Caribbean culture and identity, Caribbean music, women’s role in the Caribbean, Caribbean cinema, economic organizations in the Caribbean, tourism in the Caribbean, relations between the US and the Caribbean, and cultural diversity and migrations within the Caribbean. In addition to lecture sessions and seminars, students will participate in related cultural visits in Havana and surrounding areas. The course will also include a week-long excursion to different cities in Cuba, during which students will be able to experience firsthand some of the places and topics they’ve studied over the course of the semester.
This course will also present some of the main processes that have developed in Cuban society from the 1990s until present-day, with the aim of giving students a multi-disciplinary overview of Cuban contemporary society. Topics covered by professors and invited lecturers will include: the Triumph of the Revolution, the Cuban political system and organization of the Cuban State, economic and social policies of the Party and the government, economic development and recent changes, issues related to Cuban youth and their role in Cuban society, the role of women in Cuban society, current issues of race, and elements of Cuban International Relations in the Caribbean, Latin America, and beyond. In addition to lecture sessions and seminars, students will participate in related cultural visits in Havana and surrounding areas. The course will also include a week-long excursion to different cities in Cuba, during which students will be able to experience firsthand some of the places and topics they’ve studied over the course of the semester.
Apreciación Literaria I (Literary Appreciation I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Arte Africano (African Art)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Arte Asiático (Asian Art)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Arte Caribe II (Caribbean Art II)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Arte Cubano II (Cuban Art II)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Arte Cubano IV (Cuban Art IV)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Arte Español (Spanish Art)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Arte I (Art I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Arte III (Art III)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Arte V (Art V)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Arte Latinoamericano II (Latin American Art II)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Arte Latinoamericano IV (Latin American Art IV)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Corrientes Linguisticas (Current Linguistics)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Estudios de Cultural Caribeña (Caribbean Cultural Studies)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Filosofía y Sociedad I (Philosophy and Society I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Historia de Cuba I (History of Cuba I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Historia de Cuba II (History of Cuba II)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Historia de la Lengua Española (History of the Spanish Language)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Historia del Arte I (Art History I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Historia del Cine (History of Cinema)
Course with international students.
Lingüística General I (General Linguistics I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Lingüística General III (General Linguistics III)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Literatura Caribeña (Caribbean Literature)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Literatura Cubana I (Cuban Literature I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Literatura Cubana II (Cuban Literature II)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Literatura Española I (Spanish Literature I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Literatura Española III (Spanish Literature III)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Literatura Latinoamericana II (Latin American Literature II)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Teoría de la Cultura Artistica II (Cultural Artistic Theory II)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Teoría Literaria I (Literary Theory I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Antropología Biológica (Anthropological Biology)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Fisiología de los Sistemas de Control (Philosophy of Control Systems)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Economía Política I (Political Economy I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Historia de las Ideas Políticas (History of Political Ideas)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Introducción a la Ciencia Política (Introduction to Political Science)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Pensamiento Cubano (Cuban Thought)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Pensamiento Filosófico Contemporáneo (Contemporary Philosophical Thought)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Tendencia del Capitalismo Contemporáneo (Trend of Contemporary Capitalism)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Teoría e Historia de la Filosofía Marxista Leninista I (Theory and History of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Economía Política I (Political Economy I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Filosofía y Sociedad I (Philosophy and Society I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Historia de América Latina y El Caribe III (History of Latin American and the Caribbean III)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Historia de Cuba I (History of Cuba I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Historia de Cuba III (History of Cuba III)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Historia de Cuba V ((History of Cuba V)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Historia de la Cultural Cubana (History of Cuban Culture)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Historia social de la Literatura y el Arte I (Social History of Literature and Art)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Teoría Sociopolítica (Socio-Political Theory)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Antropología Social (Social Anthropology)
Course offered with Spanish students.
Filosofía y Sociedad (Philosophy and Society)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Historia de Cuba (History of Cuba)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Historia del Pensamiento Filosófico-Social I (History of Philosophical and Social Thought)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Problematica Estructural Social y Desigualdades (Social Structural problems and Inequalities)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Sociología Ambiental (Environmental Sociology)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Sociología de Género (Sociology of Gender)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Sociología de la Cultura (Sociology of Culture)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Sociología de la Comunicación (Sociology of Communication)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Sociología del Trabajo (Sociology of Work)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Sociología del Desarrollo (Sociology of Development)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Sociología Política (Political Sociology)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Sociología Urbana (Urban Sociology)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Cultura Cubana (Cuban Culture) - FENHI
This Cuban Culture course offers a panorama of the process of gestation and development of Cuban Culture, of its richness and complexity, from its origins to the present day. The course will share foundational knowledge about the cultural, artistic, economic, political, and social facts that have determined the historical destiny of Cuba, as well as a vision of the diverse ethnic and cultural components that make up the “mestizaje” of the Cuban nation, heir of multiple traditions. This course is designed for Spanish learners who wish to expand their understanding of the expression and way of life of the Cuban people, while at the same time improving their linguistic skills.
Course with international students.
Estudios Lingüísticos – Fonética y fonologia del español (Linguistics – Spanish Phonetics and Phonology)
This course aspires to contribute to students’ explicit understanding of the systems of Spanish language, emphasizing the first of its levels. The course will provide the student with the conceptual tools to understand the factors that intervene in the production of articulated sounds, as well as to carry out both segmental and suprasegmental descriptions. During the course, students will also do phonetic and phonological transcriptions, which have proven to be an efficient means of learning, teaching, and research. The teaching process is designed to contribute to the development of communicative competency on the part of students, especially their oral expression. As a result, students must be capable of expressively reading different types of texts. The class will present existing variations in Spanish- speaking countries, emphasizing the Cuban variety of Spanish. Students will read and critically interpret different linguistic materials. In this course, the communicative approach will be used, keeping in mind the characteristics of the topic of study and the students themselves.
Estudios Lingüísticos II – Lexicología del español (Linguistics – Spanish Lexicology) - FENHI
This course aspires to contribute to a more profound understanding of the Spanish language, with students focusing on the lexical level and the units that form it, with special attention to diaphasic and diastratic levels of the Spanish lexicon. Students will develop their communicative competence, not only through a study of the course content but also through the system of practical classes and seminars, which will demand active participation in all teaching activities.
Course with international students.
Estudios Lingüísticos III – Estilística Lingüística (Linguistics – Linguistic Style) - FENHI
This course aspires to contribute to a more profound understanding of the Spanish language. It emphasizes the study of different styles of discourse and contemporary linguistic conceptions of language styles, centering attention on the language in use, its theoretical foundations, and its practical applications in a variety of different texts. Students will develop their communicative competence through an analysis of linguistic examples of communicative situations with differing contexts, with the aim of improving their own skills and developing creativity and cognoscitive independence alongside accuracy and intentionality. It is necessary to clarify that the discursive/functional analysis (or communicative/functional description of a text) rests on the characterization of linguistic approaches used to create meaning in different contexts, requiring a consideration of the relationship between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in discourse analysis.
Course with international students.
Intermediate Spanish Language
This intermediate course begins with a quick overview of essential grammatical construction learned in first-year courses. Structures are reviewed through written exercises and communicative activities that require students to use basic grammatical constructions to accurately describe people, places, and activities in the present tense and express likes, dislikes, and opinions. There will also be a review of preterite and imperfect verb forms, future tense, and commands. The course then proceeds with a strong emphasis on past tense narration and the multiple uses of the subjunctive mood, with work on reported speech, connectors, prepositional phrases and comparisons, hypothesis and conjecture. All of the above is presented in cultural contexts and includes vocabulary expansion exercises and ample communicative activities.
The principal objective of this intermediate course is to help students become comfortable and accurate in expressing the following communicative functions: describing, comparing, expressing likes and dislikes, narrating in the past, reacting and recommending, hypothesizing and narrating in the future. Writing activities integrate and recycle the above communicative functions in short essays and opinion pieces with the Cuban experience as the backdrop for creative expression. Sociocultural knowledge will include discussions of the following themes: daily life in Cuba; Cuban Spanish; the formation of Cuba (history, politics, and traditions); tourist destinations in Cuba; health in Cuba and the world; Cuban music (nueva trova and son); and Cuban youth.
Panorama de la Historia de Cuba (Panorama of Cuban History) - FENHI
Course with international students.
Estudios Linguisticos - Fonética y Fonologia del Espanol (Linguistics - Spanish Phonetics and Phonology) - FENHI
Course with international students.
