Name: Tatjana Pavlovic

Institution: Willamette University

Language: Spanish

Status: Full-time, tenure track

Type: CourseRelease

Type1: StudentAssistant

Type2: SoftwareGrants

Type3: TravelFellowship

Title: Romancing the web: a literature course on Federico Garcia Lorca's Romancero Gitano and it's connections to other fields of study

Duration: Fall 1999

Description:

1)Creation of third year course material (introduction to literature) via Lorca’s 1924 collection of poems Romancero gitano (Gypsy romancero).

The objective of this course material is to introduce students to reading poetry in combination with the use of contemporary literary theory. The goal of this course would be to bridge between intermediate 300 level courses and advanced literature courses. Lorca’s Romancero gitano contains 18 poems, and lends itself to the discussion of most of the topics pertinent to both Spanish cultural discussion and sophisticated literary analysis. In addition, all of Lorca’s materials include themes highly relevant to the culture of Spain in general and to Andalucia specifically.

2) Web page created as a guided reading of the materials above, including connections to other areas of study outcome:

This course material would be presented in the form of a web-page in guided reading format, including annotation plus additional secondary materials such as music, sound files, photographs, and theoretical analysis. In addition, this page would present a system of cross-disciplanary justifications for the pursuit of Spanish as a field of study. The need for this was recently demonstrated when the majority of Willamette students declared that they had no clear purpose in mind when beginning their Spanish studies. This lack of motivation translates directly to a lack of interest in the application of the foreign language as anything other than an esoteric study. By showing cross-disciplanary connections to the material of Lorca’s Romancero gitano, it will be possible to introduce further applications for the study of the language as a tool in other areas of interest. The current list of connections includes feminist studies, through Barbara Zechi at Saint Mary’s of California, historical literary connections, with Harry Velez from University of Puget Sound, and cultural studies with the aid of Alfonso Martinez in Granada at CLM; with more to be added as the project develops.

This course material would be presented in partnership with my Lorca’s Granada model site (located at http://www.mellon-nwlc.org/willamette/Granada/index.html) which will be completed during summer.

timeline:

Beginning of Semester:
Research and information gathering
Evaluate textbooks and source material
Develop curriculum objectives
Simultaneously and end of Semester:
Web page development of guided reading exercises
Multi-media integration
Creation of exercises and annotative text
Copywrite clearance
The project will be test simultaneously with it's creation

Amount: $7250.00

Breakdown:
Course release: $3000.00
Student assistant: $2500.00
Software grant(for updates to Photoshop, claris Homepage, and to OS-X): $750.00
Travel fellowship(for visits with collegue scholars, and to other institutions working on similar guided reading projects): $1000.00