Español Avanzado (Advanced Spanish) - FENHI
This course offers an in-depth review and study of the more problematic aspects of Spanish grammar for English speakers. The lessons are presented in cultural contexts and include vocabulary expansion exercises and ample communicative activities. Writing activities integrate and recycle communicative functions in short essays and opinion pieces with the Cuban experience as the backdrop for creative expression.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 4
Contact Hours: 64
Estudios Cubanos y Caribeños - (Cuban and Caribbean Studies) - FENHI
This course, which is structured around a cycle of conferences, provides an overview of some of the main problems faced by contemporary Cuban society, particularly the major changes to Cuba's economic system, social re-stratification, youth issues, interracial relations, and gender relations. The course concludes with an updated analysis of the country's international relations.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Recommended US semester credits: 4
Contact Hours: 60
Apreciación Literaria I (Literary Appreciation I)
This course is an introduction to the study and analysis of poetry. It starts from a systemic conception of the poem and takes into account elements that have integrated and configured the notion of poetry.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Arte Africano (African Art)
This course addresses the main theoretical-methodological problems with respect to the historiography of African art. Students will study early examples of African symbolic production, including kingdoms and empires, the colonization and impact of European culture, West Africa transactions and cultural exchange, influences of Islam on Sudanese culture, problems and perspectives of contemporary art, struggle for decolonization, etc.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Arte Asiático (Asian Art)
This course will address the cultural problems of the Asian world and the most significant manifestations of its countries. It will also consider the prevalence of Eastern religion in the region's art and contributions to universal culture.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Arte Caribeño II (Caribbean Art II)
This course will study the 19th century Caribbean through its most important exponents in architecture and painting.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Arte Cubano II (Cuban Art II)
Students in this course will study artistic expressions in Cuba during the first half of the 20th century. Topics to be covered include Fine Arts and the BeauxArts system; modernity in the city and architecture; the Cuban plastic vanguard; illustration, caricature, and the rebirth of engraving; urban transformations of the 50s, etc.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Arte Cubano IV (Cuban Art IV)
Cuban Art IV is an analysis of the dynamic artistic production that has taken place in Cuba from the penultimate decade of the 20th century to the present. The course will cover a number of topics including the so-called "Nuevo Arte Cubano" experiences of social insertion and artistic activism; the Special Period and its impact on the Cuban artistic scene, etc.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Arte Español (Spanish Art)
This course focuses on art from Spain, a country that served as the colonial power behind Cuban, most of Latin America, and a significant portion of the Caribbean region. The course will consider Spanish artistic expressions, either as artistic models imposed on the Latin American region by colonial domination or as essential cultural examples. It will focus on aspects specific to Spanish art (and not just European art in general) such as the influence of Islam and the specific problems of the Renaissance, Mannerism, and Baroque as models that expanded to America by virtue of the process of colonization.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Arte I (Art I)
The course focuses on early art history. Topics to be covered include prehistoric symbolic production, the contributions of ancient cultures - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome - to the history of art, Eastern Paleochristian art, Romanesque art, Gothic art, etc.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Arte III (Art III)
This course covers European and US art of the late 18th century and 19th century. Some topics to be covered include borgeois nobility relations expressed in art, the emergence of the English school of painting and the neoclassical school in France, urbanism and architecture in Europe and the U.S., Goya and the Spain of his time, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, etc.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Arte V (Art V)
["Art V addresses the study of art in the postmodern age, from the 1960's to the present. Some of the many topics to be covered include postmodern sensibility and artist attitudes to the prevailing system of promotion and distribution of artwork","the paradigm of modern art, its manipulation, and postmodern transgressions","American Pop Art","New Realism","the dematerialization of the artistic object","multiplicity of tendencies in response to the mencantile phenomenon, etc."]
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Arte Latinoamericano II (Latin American Art II)
This course will cover art history from the conquest of Latin america through the 18th century. Some topics to be covered include main expressions of Latin American art development during the centuries of colonial domination, Spanish-American urbanism, art in the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru, the schools of Cuzco, Lima, and Quito, art during the Portuguese colonization, etc.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Arte Latinoamericano IV (Latin American Art IV)
The course covers Latin American art from the 1930s through the present. Topics to be covered include the continuitation of modernization processes of Latin American visual arts during the 1930s and 1940, "fantastic" painting, indigenous art, abstract art from the Second World War and its links with the international social, cultural, and artistic context, new paths of plastic discourse during the '60's and '70's, main problems and strategies of Latin American art during the last 25 years, etc.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Estudios de Cultura Caribeña (Caribbean Cultural Studies)
This course addresses the establishment of interartistic relations and thought for an integrated understanding of Caribbean culture.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Historia de Cuba I (History of Cuba I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Historia de Cuba II (History of Cuba II)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Historia de la Lengua Española (History of the Spanish Language)
Students in this course will study the formation and development of the Spanish language from its origins to the modern era. The course seeks to present the threads of Spanish language diachrony from the point of view of unity and differentiation and from a perspective that combines the linguistics themself, the extralinguistics that condition it, and the analysis of texts.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Historia del Cine (History of Cinema)
This course addresses the first cinematographic productions and their evolution in Europe and North America and the continued integration of these productions in dissimilar geographic regions. It is therefore a panoramic study encompassing the historical artistic development of the main movements, schools, and tendencies of world cinematography and their contributions to the evolutionary development of this medium.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Lingüística General I (General Linguistics I)
This course will cover the basic linguistics. Essential concepts of linguistics - in addition to information on the development of the science of language - are taught for a thorough understanding of linguistic processes. The study of language as a system will start from phonological level.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Lingüística General III (General Linguistics III)
This course seeks to perform an analysis of the lexical and semantic resources that operate within a language system, as well as provide a structural and systemic description of linguistic levels and planes. It takes into account the indissoluble interrelation of both, and their link with the remaining levels and plane of expression.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Literatura Cubana I (Cuban Literature I)
This course is an introductory course to the evolutionary tendencies of Cuban literature. Through the course, students should acquire knowledge, research, and analysis of colonial era writing, from its first manifestations to the turn the 19th to 20th century.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Literatura Cubana II (Cuban Literature II)
In addition to providing a recap of Cuban Literature I, this course will cover the second modernist renewal, the vanguards, post-vanguard and anti-vanguard tendencies, literature from 1959 to 1976, etc..
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Literatura Española I (Spanish Literature I)
This is an introductory course to the study of the evolutionary tendencies of Spanish language literature. The course will investigate the literary Middles Ages, from the first poetic manifestations in the Castilian language to the literature of the Catholic monarchs. Reference ill be made to other Peninsular literature, such as the Portuguese Galician, to emphasize the importance of the literary development of the period.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Literatura Española III (Spanish Literature III)
This course will study modernity in contemporary Spanish literature, as well as the different tendencies that have developed from the post-war period to the present.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Literatura Latinoamericana II (Latin American Literature II)
This course continues the study of basic evolutionary trends of Latin American literature. Students will research and analyze literature from the period of Latin American romanticism to the early twentieth century, when Latin American literature opens up to modernity.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Teoría de la Cultura Artistica II (Cultural Artistic Theory II)
The main theme of this course is thought and artistic culture in postmodern times. Some topics to be covered include the theoretical discussion on dynamics of modernity-postmodernity, high modernity and late modernity, and the historical (non-linear) montage of 5 genealogies: modernity-postmodernity, the development of the avant-garde tradition, the historical vanguard, neo-avant-garde, and transavantgarde.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Antropología Biológica (Anthropological Biology)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Filosofía de los Sistemas de Control (Philosophy of Control Systems)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Economía Política I (Political Economics I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Historia de las Ideas Políticas (History of Political Ideas)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Introducción a la Ciencia Política (Introduction to Political Science)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Pensamiento Cubano (Cuban Thought)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Pensamiento Filosófico Contemporáneo (Contemporary Philosophical Thought)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Tendencia del Capitalismo Contemporáneo (Trend of Contemporary Capitalism)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Teoría e Historia de la Filosofía Marxista Leninista I (Theory and History of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Economía Política I (Political Economy I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Filosofía y Sociedad I (Philosophy and Society I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Historia de América Latina y El Caribe III (History of Latin American and the Caribbean III)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Historia de Cuba I (History of Cuba I)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Historia de Cuba III (History of Cuba III)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Historia de Cuba V (History of Cuba V)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Historia de la Cultura Cubana II (History of Cuban Culture II)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Historia social de la Literatura y el Arte I (Social History of Literature and Art)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Teoría Sociopolítica (Socio-Political Theory)
This course will address different notions of politics with a special focus on the conception of Marxist-Leninist politics.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Antropología Social (Social Anthropology)
Course offered with Spanish students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Filosofía y Sociedad (Philosophy and Society)
["This course will approach the study of philosophy as a theoretical and practical approach of reality. Concepts to be covered include the rupture and continuation that Marxism represents with prior and current philosophical thought","the concept of social-economic formation","the subjects and social actors, social classes, and the State","class struggle and the Social Revolution, etc."]
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Historia de Cuba (History of Cuba)
This history course covers aboriginal culture in Cuba, the process of conquest and colonization, the emergence of criollo culture, slave society, the concept of homeland and the defence of nationality, the independence struggles of the 19th century, José Martí and the culture of liberation, the end of Spanish colonialism, and North American intervention and occupation.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Advanced
Historia del Pensamiento Filosófico-Social I (History of Philosophical and Social Thought)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Problematica Estructural Social y Desigualdades (Social Structural problems and Inequalities)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Sociología Ambiental (Environmental Sociology)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Sociología de Género (Sociology of Gender)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Sociología de la Cultura (Sociology of Culture)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Sociología de la Comunicación (Sociology of Communication)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Sociología del Trabajo (Sociology of Work)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Sociología del Desarrollo (Sociology of Development)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Sociología Política (Political Sociology)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Sociología Urbana (Urban Sociology)
Course offered with Cuban students.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Cultura Cubana (Cuban Culture) - FENHI
This course offers a panorama of the 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.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Recommended US semester credits: 4
Contact Hours: 64
Estudios Lingüísticos II – Lexicología del Español (Linguistics II – 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.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Recommended US semester credits: 4
Contact Hours: 64
Estudios Lingüísticos III – Estilística Lingüística (Linguistics III – 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.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Recommended US semester credits: 4
Contact Hours: 64
Español Intermedio (Intermediate Spanish) - FENHI
This intermediate course begins with a quick overview of essential grammatical construction learned in first-year courses. 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. 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.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Recommended US semester credits: 4
Contact Hours: 64
Panorama de la Historia de Cuba (Panorama of Cuban History) - FENHI
This course is designed for non-native Spanish speakers who are interested in learning about the history of Cuba. The fundamental objective is the reconstruction of the history on a scientific basis that allows the study of the material and spiritual life of the Cuban people from its formation, development until its consolidation as a nation.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
Estudios Lingüísticos - Fonética y Fonologia del Espanol (Linguistics - Spanish Phonetics and Phonology) - FENHI
This course aims to contribute to the student's knowledge of the Spanish language system. The course provides the necessary conceptual apparatus to understand the production of articulated sound. During the course, students must make phonetic and phonological transcriptions, as an effective means for learning, teaching, and research.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Language Level Required: Intermediate
