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Did you know that Spanish is the fourth most widely spoken language in the world? And that the United States ranks fourth among countries with the highest population of Spanish speakers, with Mexico in first place? To keep pace with the rising national and international importance of Spanish, the Department of Spanish at San Diego State University, Imperial Valley campus offers ample opportunities to develop a career in Spanish or to acquire a solid background in Spanish that could be extremely useful in virtually all professional areas. At San Diego State University, Imperial Valley, students can pursue a Bachelors Degree with a major in Spanish, a minor in Spanish or a Certificate in Court Interpreting. In addition, they can enroll in elective Spanish courses and also complete some of the course requirements for the Master of Arts degree in Spanish offered at the San Diego campus.
San Diego State University, Imperial Valley campus is situated in Calexico, within blocks of the United States-Mexico border, an area with a long history of cross-cultural exchanges. At the Imperial Valley campus, students have hands-on experiences and interactions with Hispanic culture and Spanish language to reinforce their studies in a wide range of courses. Students may choose both canonical and non-canonical literature courses that cover everything, from Cervantes’ Don Quixote to the Mexican narcocorrido and, of course, the literature of the Chicano people, among many other fascinating offerings. In addition to courses in Peninsular and Latin American literature, the faculty of the Department of Spanish at the Imperial Valley campus teach a variety of courses in conversation, composition, civilization, linguistics, and several options of Spanish for the professions.
DEPARTMENT
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Pablo Picasso, Don Quijote y Sancho (1955). |
Early twentieth century broadside with the corrido of Macario Romero. |
Los Tigres del Norte. |
Mission
The mission of the Department of Spanish at San Diego State University, Imperial Valley campus is to help students achieve their personal and professional goals by providing them with quality teaching and other intellectual resources and academic opportunities they might need to achieve success.
Major, minor, certificate
Please see the General Catalog for information about degree and certificate requirements and course offerings.
Class schedule
Please see the class schedule for courses offered during the Fall 2008 semester.
Study abroad
For study abroad opportunities, please contact:
Miriam C. Castañón, MSBA
International/Graduate Programs Coordinator
Phone: (760) 768-5505
castanon@mail.sdsu.edu
http://www.ivcampus.sdsu.edu/International_Programs/Study_abroad/
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Pablo Picasso, The Spanish writer and musician Federico García Lorca with Encarnación López, La Argentinita. (1955). |
A bestseller from the Spanish Golden Age: Cancionero de romances (1550).. |
The Mexican writer Octavio Paz, Nobel Prize in Literature (1990). |
The faculty of the Department of Spanish at the Imperial Valley campus has a joint appointment with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese of the San Diego campus.
Full-time faculty
Dr. Magdalena Altamirano (Spanish Peninsular literature)
Assistant Professor
Office: Faculty East 105
Phone: (760) 768-5614
altamira@mail.sdsu.edu
http://www.ivcampus.sdsu.edu/faculty/maltamirano/
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~magdalen/
Dr. Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta (Latin American literature)
Associate Professor
Office: Faculty East 103
Phone: (760) 769-5613
jcramire@rohan.sdsu.edu
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jcramire/
You can learn more about the Spanish faculty at San Diego State University, Imperial Valley in the NEWS (Recent accomplishments) section of this site.
FERP faculty
Dr. Sergio Elizondo
Professor
Office: Library 12B
Phone: (760) 768-5530
selizond@mail.sdsu.edu
Certificate in Court Interpreting
Dr. Rogelio Reyes
Professor
Office: West Faculty 160
Phone: (760) 768-5532
rreyes@mail.sdsu.edu
Part-time faculty
Carmina Contreras (Commercial Spanish)
Aracely Bojorquez
Office: Student Affairs 110
Phone: (760) 768-5506
abojorqu@mail.sdsu.edu
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The Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar. |
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of Don Quijote de la Mancha. |
RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS
Foreign Languages Associations
*The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese: http://www.aatsp.org/
*American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: http://www.actfl.org/
*The Modern Language Association of America: http://www.mla.org/
Dictionaries, grammar, spelling
* Real Academia Española: http://www.rae.es.
* Academia Mexicana de la Lengua: http://www.academia.org.mx (includes Diccionario breve de mexicanismos and Refranero mexicano).
* Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española:
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irizarry/academia/glosas.html (information on false cognates).
*El País: http://www.elpais.com/diccionarios/ (dictionaries in Spanish, English, French, plus synonyms).
* Agencia Efe: http://www.agenciaefe.com/esurgente/lenguaes (urgent questions about language use).
General information about language and culture
* Instituto Cervantes: http://www.cervantes.es.
* Centro Virtual Cervantes: http://cvc.cervantes.es.
* La página del idioma español: http://www.el-castellano.com (with links to newspapers from all Spanish-speaking countries).
* Mundo latino: www.mundolatino.org.
Authors, texts, bibliographies, criticism and more
* Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes: www.cervantesvirtual.com.
* Biblioteca Virtual Mundo Hispano: http://www.angelfire.com/pa/biblioven.
* Cibertextos: http://www.duke.edu/web/cibertextos.
* Clubcultura: http://clubcultura.com/clubliteratura.
* Internet para Hispanistas: http://www.wellesley.edu/Spanish/hispanistas/index.html
Newspapers
*El Clarín: http://www.clarin.com (Argentina).
* El Comercio: http://www.elcomercioperu.com.pe (Perú).
* La Jornada: http://www.lajornadausa.com (México).
* El Mercurio: http://diario.elmercurio.com (Chile).
* El País: http://www.elpais.es (España).
And remember, you can search http://www.el-castellano.com for a wide variety of newspapers published in Spanish.
NEWS
Recent Accomplishments
*Dr. Magdalena Altamirano
2008 University Grants Program Awards recipient. San Diego State University.
Project: The Other Side of Early Hispanic Literature: Popular Lyrics and Ballads.
“‘No me habléis, conde, / d’amor en la calle’: los espacios femeninos en las canciones populares antiguas.” Temas, motivos y contextos medievales. Ed. Aurelio González, Lillian von der Walde and Concepción Company. México: El Colegio de México-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2008. 101-123.
“La otra rama de la canción popular antigua: las aportaciones de Margit Frenk al estudio del romancero.” Homenaje a Margit Frenk. Coord. Nieves Rodríguez Valle, María Teresa
Ruiz and Gabriela Nava. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2008. 171-177.
*Dr. Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta
“Geografías delictivas: la narrativa porteña de Juan José Rodríguez.” Estudios sobre narrativa sinaloense. Ed. Ilda Elizabeth Moreno Rojas. Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa. Forthcoming in 2008.
“Sinaloa cowboys: estereotipos y contraestereotipos del narco en Mi nombre es Casablanca de Juan José Rodríguez.” Escena del crimen. Estudios sobre narrativa policiaca. Ed. Miguel G. Rodríguez Lozano. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Forthcoming in 2008.
Radio interview with Peter Laufer and Markos Kounalakis on the subject of narcocorridos (drug trafficking ballads) and border culture. Washington Monthly on the Radio show. San Diego. June 1, 2008.
Radio interview with Daniel Mermet on the subject of narcocorridos (drug trafficking ballads). Là-bas si j’ y suis radio show, Radio France. Tijuana, México. March 2, 2008.
Around Campus
These are pictures of some of our Spanish majors who recently graduated (Spring, 2008).
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