Douglas J. Fife & Benjamin D. Fox & Graciela Agnela Javier with Don Bloxham, Spanish & Portuguese The preliminary report of the findings of this study were written in Spanish so that the data could be of use to the local health organizations and the University of Acapulco Medical School in Guerrero, Mexico. Although the […]
Introduction To Romance Philology— A Computer-Aided Tutorial
Denise Batchelor and Dr. Jeffrey Turley, Spanish and Portuguese Philology is a broad field that includes the study of a language’s history, especially that language’s process of evolution over an extended period of time. Romance Philology specifically covers the Romance languages, i.e. those European languages that have Latin roots. These languages include Spanish (Castilian), Catal<n, […]
Conversations in The South: Latin American Fiction And Rewriting Historical Reality in Three Novels
Bryce A. Suzuki and Dr. Dale J. Pratt, Spanish and Portuguese In his 1982 Nobel acceptance lecture, Gabriel García Márquez describes the plight of the Latin American artist as a “solitary” calling, seldom understood by those not living within the cultural framework that fuels the work: It is only natural that [the rest of the […]
Five Points for Teachers to Help Dominican Transfer Students
Daniel E. Ralphs and Dr. Thomas Lyon, Spanish and Portuguese Alfredo had been in the United States for only three weeks when he began in the local public school in Provo, Utah. Native to central Mexico, Alfredo spoke no English. Assigned to work with Alfredo as a volunteer, I began by asking his teacher how […]
La dama duende: Re-creation of Spanish Golden Age Theatre
Jason Yancey and Dr. Dale Pratt, Department of Spanish and Portuguese During the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain experienced a literary explosion of unequalled comparison. Dozens of authors lent their pens to create some of the most brilliant and influential works of all time, such as Cervantes’ Don Quijote de la Mancha, or characters such […]
The Evolution of the Gaucho
Josh Whitlock and Dr. David Laraway, Spanish and Portuguese The term gaucho refers to the national hero of Argentina and Uruguay—a once free-roaming and self-sufficient individual, roughly the equivalent of the cowboy in the United States. These heroes are of central importance to the countries they have traditionally inhabited. A quote at the entrance of […]
A Multimedia Collection of Spanish Dialectical Variations
Jonathan Whiting and Dr. Orlando Alba, Spanish and Portuguese At least twenty countries on three different continents recognize Spanish as an official language and this doesn’t include countries like the United States that still have a sizeable Spanish-speaking population. With so much ethnic and geographic diversity in the Spanish-speaking world, it is only natural to […]
A Journey to the Land of Jorge Luis Borges
Susan Stewart and Dr. Thomas Lyon, Spanish and Portuguese My relationship with Jorge Luis Borges and his prose and poetry began on a river trip I took two months after I had purchased his work of fictions Labyrinths. I had many hours floating down the river to read, digest and love his thrilling, enigmatic prose. […]
The Gender Roles of Rural Mexican Women
Caroline Victoria Raynor and Dr. Doug Weatherford, Spanish and Portuguese The gender roles of Mexican women seem rather obvious to most people. You envision submissive women, cooking, cleaning and raising children. While this is in most part true, life is changing in the rural villages near Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. As I began this research, I […]
The Portuguese Presence in Early Cartographical Toponymics of the United States
Jason Y Moyes and Dr. Christopher C Lund, Spanish and Portuguese Although many individuals of varying nationalities are responsible for the eventual exploration and mapping of what is now the United States, it was the Portuguese who played the primary role in the discovery of the New World during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Portugueseborn […]