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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Spanish & Lat. Amer. Studies
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof. Aldina Quintana Rodriguez
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wednesday, 14:15-15:15 (by appointment via email)
Teaching Staff:
Prof Aldina Quintana-Rodriguez
Course/Module description:
An introduction to some major diachronic and synchronic sociolinguistic issues within the study of the languages spoken in Spain, Portugal and the nations that emerged as a result of the independence of their colonies in America and Africa.
Course/Module aims:
• Enable students to relate essential factors, organize information, and reconstruct knowledge about Ibero-Romance languages, their importance and value in the regional and global contexts.
• Provide students with basic concepts to understand the functioning of languages in general and of Spanish and Portuguese in particular.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
• Display basic knowledge of the methodology in the study of languages, especially the external history of the Ibero-Romance languages.
• Explain the ways in which different dialects of spoken Latin arose in a Romanized and Christianized cultural space, developed and consolidated into regional or national languages in the Iberian Peninsula, and from the 16th century were exported to America and Africa as a result of the conquest and colonisation of territories outside the old continent.
• Relate all kinds of factors involved in creating these linguistic and cultural spaces.
• Show proficiency in using the main sociolinguistic terms explained throughout the semester.
• Communicate all of the above in an end-of-year written exam.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures, screenings, readings, discussions, exercises, short presentations, final take-home.
Course/Module Content:
The course is divided into two blocks:
1. Current situation
• Languages spoken in Spain and Portugal
• The Spanish in America and the rest of the world
• Portuguese in Portugal, Brazil, Africa and the rest of the world
• The international economic value of Spanish and Portuguese in the era of globalization
2. External history of Spanish and Portuguese
• Formation of the languages of the Iberian Peninsula
• Expansion of Spanish in America and the rest of the world
• Expansion of Portuguese in America and Africa
Each class will be completed by learning the appropriate terminology depending on the topic.
Required Reading:
Reading will be given at the beginning of the semester.
Works not in the library may be obtained from the course coordinator.
Additional Reading Material:
In the reading lists distributed through Moodle.
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Home Exam / Referat 40 %
Active Participation / Team Assignment 5 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 15 %
Mid-terms exams 20 %
Attendance / Participation in Field Excursion 20 %
Additional information:
There are no requirements needed before taking this course.
*Using ChatGPT or another type of artificial intelligence in this course is strictly forbidden.
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