Fall Semester 2015A Latin American Adventure

Program Cost

• Transportation to and from airport during arrival and departure from Puebla

• Orientation activities• Welcome and farewell dinners• 2-3 field trips• Special events• Administrative support• Shared apartment

Ready to apply?Go to studyabroad.ou.edu

Application DeadlineFebruary 27, 2015

Questions?Contact Alex Spellis

aspellis@ou.edu

$1,850 program fee$2,000 housing fee

plusAirfair to and from Puebla

OU Tuition and Fees

Fees Include:

Faculty-in-ResidenceCarolina Rueda received her Ph.D. in Latin American literature with an emphasis in film from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013. Her dissertation focused on contemporary Latin American cinema, in

particular, the urban setting and its function in the production of significations (forms of individual and collective survival, traumatic memory, the idea of besieged cities, and issues associated with diaspora, among others). She is currently working on her first book manuscript about urban Latin American cinema in the new millennium, while starting to develop her future investigation on contemporary Latin American women filmmakers. Carolina previously worked professionally in the fields of film and video. She co-founded LatinEyes, a television program that focuses on Latino culture in such a way as to break down the stereotyped images of Hispanic people living in the United States. LatinEyes received an Emmy Award for Best Cultural TV Show in 2006 (San Francisco, California). In 2005 she co-produced the Colombian feature film Visitas. This film was exhibited at several international film festivals including the Festival des Films du Monde (Montréal), the Freiburg International Film Festival (Switzerland), the Chicago Latino Film Festival, and the Festival de Cine de Granada (Spain).

Marcelo Rioseco received his Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Cincinnati in 2008. He joined the faculty of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma in August 2009. His primary areas of interest are 20th century poetry and narrative from the Latin American Southern Cone. His first single author book Maquinarias deconstructivas. Poesía y juego en Juan Luis Martínez, Diego Maquieira y Rodrigo Lira was published in June of 2013. This book explores how the elements of playfulness function in the poetic expression of these Chilean poets. This book was nominated for the Altazor Prize 2014 in Chile. Professor Rioseco is co-editor of an on-going literary project, Martínez Total, on the works of Juan Luis Martínez, one of the most experimental poets in 20th Century Latin America literature. This project involves more than 25 scholars, researchers, and authors from Chile, the United States, and France. This book, which is part of a project devoted to recover the legacy of several important 20th century Chilean poets, will be published in 2015 by Editorial Universitaria UP (Santiago, Chile). The first book of this collection Anguita 20/20 on the poet Eduardo Anguita was published in 2012, and the second one, Teillier Crítico, came out in 2014. Marcelo also worked in television as creative assistant for La belleza de pensar Santiago’s leading cultural program, in which more than 300 Latin American writers (including Mario Vargas Llosa, José Saramago, Roberto Bolaño, and Isabel Allende) were interviewed. In radio he was co-moderator for Barrio latino a radio program sponsored by WRCT 88.5 F.M. at Carnegie Mellon University. “Barrio Latino” was a program devoted to the Latino community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

OU in Puebla 2015

FMS 3243Hispanic Cinema

IAS 3003Transnational Cinema

SPAN 3423Spanish Composition

SPAN 3073Conversation in Spanish

Professor: Carolina Rueda

This course gives students an overview of some of the most important cinematic trends in Latin American cinema: i.e. Luis Buñuel in Mexico, the radical Cuban and Brazilian films from the 60s; the innovative New Argentine Cinema; and other twenty-first century productions including genre films (such as science fiction and the detective genre). Major sociopolitical circumstances as well as cultural and aesthetic influences will be addressed through lectures, readings, student presentations, and active class discussion. Special attention will be given to distributed and not distributed (innovative and experimental) contemporary productions. The course will also include and overview of films and filmmakers from Spain as well as Latin American and Spanish filmmakers filming in the United States. Theoretical concepts and aesthetic influences on the cinema of Latin America and Spain throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries will be studied through a broad variety of visual examples and critical perspectives from academic scholars.

Professor: Carolina Rueda

This course explores the production of film in the twenty-first century addressing the different settings through which local cinema can benefit from international exchanges. We will address topics of film production in transnational scenarios with regard to narrative and aesthetics on the one hand, and negotiations and individual experiences, on the other. In the twenty-first century, many Latin American filmmakers and producers have become involved internationally, especially with Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, and the United Estates. The films of Mexican directors Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, and Guillermo Del Toro are solid examples of this dynamic “moving border” scenario. This course will feature the works of these directors (this includes sociopolitical content and the development of stories within different genres such as horror, drama, fantasy, and documentary), along with the works of other producers and artists from the United States and Europe associated with these types of visual dialogues. The theoretical framework for this course includes texts by Néstor García Canclini, Deborah Shaw, and Gilles Deleuze.

Professor: Marcelo Rioseco

This course is designed for intermediate learners of Spanish as a second language. It aims to further develop their communicative skills as well as to increase their knowledge and ability to comprehend a variety of forms of cultural production in the Spanish language. Students will learn writing as a process that includes brainstorming, organization, outline, drafts, and revisions. They will also become familiar with authentic texts written in different styles and they will develop the ability to produce different types of texts such as descriptions, expositive and argumentative essays, among others. Students will practice different methods for gathering evidence and citing sources. Grammatical forms and functions will be reviewed and incorporated as they pertain to each type of text. This course will provide students with a contextualized content-based approach to written communication.

Professor: Marcelo Rioseco

This course is designed for intermediate learners of Spanish as a second language. It aims to improve students’ conversational skills through an active use of the Spanish language. Instead of learning about the language itself, students will have the opportunity to use the language to express themselves in a natural way, with increasing fluency and accuracy in real-life settings. We will focus on seven core communicative functions and will be engaged in meaningful communicative practices through listening and speaking activities related to a variety of forms of cultural production. This course will provide students with a contextualized content-based approach to oral communication. Although the emphasis of the course is on oral proficiency, reading and writing will also be involved. These materials will provide opportunities for students to be exposed to authentic language use, and to integrate these forms into their speaking and writing.

Courses available at our partner university – UPAEP

• Spanish language learning at all levels• 2-3 courses taught in English• Several popular courses taught in Spanish