Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Description: Based on a task-oriented approach to language and culture learning, Spanish 101 allows the beginning student to develop the necessary abilities to communicate satisfactorily in Spanish in everyday situations. Students are expected to be active participants in the learning process. Class meetings are not based on lectures, but rely heavily on student interaction. Section 7 is an intensive course (3 weeks) that runs from July to mid-August. Prerequisite(s): No prior knowledge of Spanish. Credit may not be received for both SPAN 222 and SPAN 101.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II ***** Continuation of SPAN 101. ***** Enrollment limited to 20 per section. ***** Prerequisite(s): SPAN 101, placement test, or permission of the instructor. Credit may not be received for both SPAN 223 and SPAN 102.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: LATIN AMERICAN SHORT FICTION (EMPHASIS ON BORGES & CORTAZAR) ***** Readings of classic works of short fiction by modern Latin American masters, with special emphasis on the stories of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar. Close reading, interpretive essays. Taught in English. Open to first-year students only, except by permission of the instructor. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Also offered as FSEM 150. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kauffmann.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE HISPANIC ESSAY ***** Readings (in English translation) from major modern Spanish and Latin-American essayists, including Miguel de Unamuno, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Maria Zambrano, Jose Marti, Jose Enrique Rodo, Alfonso Reyes, Victoria Ocampo, Gabriela Mistral, Jorge Luis Borges, and Octavio Paz. Close reading and appreciation of essays will be the focus of discussion, presentations, and short interpretive papers. Taught in English. ***** Open to first-year students only, except by permission of the instructor. ***** Also offered as FSEM 152. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kauffmann.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I ***** Based on a task-oriented approach to language and culture learning, Spanish 201 allows the intermediate students to improve and expand their communicative skills. Students are expected to be active participants in the learning process. Class meetings are not based on lectures, but rely heavily on student interaction. ***** Enrollment limited to 20 per section. ***** Prerequisite(s): SPAN 102, placement test, or permission of the instructor. Credit may not be received for both SPAN 225 and SPAN 201.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II ***** Continuation of SPAN 201. SPECIAL NOTE Section 5: Three week intensive course taught the last three weeks of May in Granada, Spain. Proficiency-based instruction focused on further developing the four communicative skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening). Particular emphasis on development of cultural competence. Requires separate registration with the Office of International Programs; see http:/www.ruf.rice.edu/~abroad/. ***** Prerequisite(s): SPAN 201, placement test, or permission of the instructor.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: SPANISH I FOR BI-CULTURAL STUDENTS ***** SPAN 203 is intended for students who have been exposed to Spanish in homes or communities and want to improve their fluency and formal knowledge of the language and Hispanic cultures. The class will explore the structural elements necessary to begin to speak and write with confidence. ***** Prerequisite(s): No previous formal instruction in Spanish is required. Placement Test or permission of the instructor. ***** Enrollment limited to 20 per section. ***** Instructor(s): Brogdon-Gomez

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH FOR BI-CULTURAL STUDENTS ***** Consolidates and builds on students' existing knowledge of Spanish in order to enable them to speak and write with greater proficiency. Authentic cultural materials- short stories, newspaper articles, internet, films, etc.- will be used to enhance ability to read, write and speak Spanish and increase knowledge of Hispanic cultures. ***** Prerequisite(s): SPAN 203, significant exposure to Spanish, placement test, or permission of the instructor. ***** Enrollment limited to 20 per section.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: CULTURE, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ***** Three week intensive course taught in May in Seville, Spain. Open to any students interested in Spanish language in cultural and/or scientific contexts. Proficiency-based instruction. Requires separate registration with the Office of International Programs. See http://lang.rice.edu/CSL/study_Abroad/Span214.pdf ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Prerequisite(s): SPAN 201 or 202, or placement test, and permission of instructor required. ***** Instructor(s): Narbona.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED SPANISH I ***** This course aims to bring students from an intermediate towards an advanced level of proficiency in Spanish. Students will develop fluency and communicative competence through exposure to literary texts, newspaper and web articles, films and videos, in their cultural context. Emphasis will be on conversation strategies, vocabulary expansion and the writing of essays. ***** Enrollment limited to 20 per section. ***** Prerequisite(s): SPAN 202, placement test, or permission of the instructor.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED SPANISH II ***** Continuation of SPAN 301. ***** Enrollment limited to 20 per section. ***** Prerequisite(s): SPAN 301, placement test, or permission of the instructor.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED SPANISH FOR BI-CULTURAL STUDENTS ***** SPAN 303 aims to bring students to advanced proficiency in Spanish, enabling them to interact confidently in a wide variety of contexts, while providing them with cultural insights about the Hispanic world. It is designed for students who come with bi-cultural exposure and at least intermediate proficiency in Spanish. ***** Instructor(s): Salas.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OF HISPANICS IN THE UNITED STATES ***** The aim of this course is to to achieve advanced level of proficiency. The course will explore issues of the cultural identity of Spanish speakers by studying Hispanic culture in the U.S. Based on the study of Hispanic culture in the U.S. from three different viewpoints: historical, literary, and sociolinguistics. ***** Prerequisite(s): SPAN 303, placement test, or permission of instructor. ***** Enrollment limited to 20.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COMMERCIAL SPANISH I ***** This course will familiarize students with the world of business in Spanish through activities dealing with current socio-economic events in Latin America and Spain, commercial correspondence, cross cultural awareness issues presentations. Supranational organizations in the area will be topic of a final project for the class. ***** Prerequisite(s): Placement test (300 or higher) or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Narbona.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COMMERCIAL SPANISH II ***** Further development of SPAN 305 goals: vocabulary, concepts, language and cultural skills necessary to communicate successfully in the socio-economic and cultural milieu of contemporary Hispanic countries. A practical case of marketing will be the final project for the class. SPAN 305 is not required for the class. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Prerequisite(s): Placement test (300 or higher) or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Narbona.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE LANGUAGE & CULTURE OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE ***** An exploration of the differences between Anglo-American and Latin-American cultures of medicine. This course will navigate the treacherous socioeconomic and cultural rift between high-tech Anglo-American medical institutions and rural Latin-American conceptions of the role of doctors, medicine, and health care. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Instructor(s): Albin.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: THE LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE ***** Students will continue to study the body's major organ systems and apply their knowledge to the translation of patient education materials, case reports, and other clinical documents. Students enrolled in this course will be required to work 40 clock-hours as clinical interpreters in the Texas Medical Center and other approved institutions and organizations. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Prerequisite(s): Placement test or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Albin.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SPANISH PRACTICAL PHONETICS ***** The Phonetics presented in this course will help students improve their Spanish pronunciation. We discuss specific problems that English speakers have in learning to produce Spanish sounds. Students will learn about the regional Spanish spoken in different countries. They learn to describe Spanish sounds and write phonetic transcriptions. Taught in Spanish.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: THE LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE PRACTICUM ***** The number of credits is based on the number of internship hours. This class is taken in conjunction with SPAN 308. However, special permission to take separately may be granted by instructor. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Albin

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SCIENTIFIC SPANISH I ***** Content-based course in Spanish in which the student will be familiarized with uses of the language necessary to deal with scientific issues in the Spanish-speaking world. Activities in class will include reading current, scientific texts, presentations and special issues concerning the fields in which the student is interested. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Prerequisite(s): Placement test (300 or higher) or permission of the instructor.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SCIENTIFIC SPANISH II ***** Continuation of SPAN 313. Content-based course in Spanish dealing with vocabulary and scientific issues in the Spanish-speaking world. Activities in class will include reading current scientific texts, presentations, authentic tasks and special issues concerning the fields in which the student is interested. SPAN 313 is not required. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Prerequisite(s): Placement test (300 or higher) or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Narbona

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ART AND MECHANICS OF TRANSLATION I ***** An introduction to the craft of translation. Working with various types of texts in English and Spanish, students will begin to acquire the theoretical, linguistic, and research tools to solve common translation problems. This course will improve Spanish proficiency, broaden cross-cultural understanding, and students' communicative abilities. ***** Prerequisite(s): SPAN 302, 303, placement test, or permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Albin.

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ART AND MECHANICS OF TRANSLATION II ***** Continuing the aims and methods of SPAN 315, this course takes into account that effective translators are first good readers, critically aware of the rhetorical strategies and cultural assumptions of writers. The goal of this sequence is to train students in the exacting craft of reading and analyzing source texts, and in producing faithful translations. ***** Prerequisite(s): SPAN 315 or permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Albin.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SPANISH CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION ***** Topics relating to Spain's history and the development of social, political and economic institutions form the basis for extensive conversation, discussion, and composition. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Castaneda.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MASTER WORKS OF SPANISH ART & LITERATURE ***** Selected masterpieces of Spanish art and literature; emphasis on specific aesthetic achievement of each work in its European and Spanish contexts, and on how the work reflects important cultural, social, and ideological issues of its times. Exemplary pairs (an author and an artist) from key historical moments will be studied. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor; no prerequisite when course offered in English. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kauffmann Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WRITING WORKSHOP ***** Course designed to develop students' competence in written expression through close readings of poems, short stories, plays and newspaper articles. Students will learn the functions and strategies of different writing styles. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Perez

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MAPPING LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE ***** Explores key issues in Latin American culture. Important aspects of the contemporary situation in Latin America are also studied, including phenomena such as globalization, the rise of mega-cites, migration, authoritarianism, the impact of colonization and the rise of national states. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONTEMPORARY MEXICO ***** Topics discussed include: the Mexican political system, the debate on national identity, border culture, urbanization, regionalism, and indigenous cultures. Uses a wide range of texts to introduce students to the richness and complexity of contemporary Mexican culture. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): van Delden, Gaytan

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1

Description: CONTEMPORARY MEXICO: STUDY TRIP ***** A one-week study trip to Zacatecas, Mexico intended as cultural immersion program. Course objectives are: perfecting effective communicative skills, learning about the institutions, culture and traditions of Mexico and doing research and field work in Spanish. Taught in conjunction with SPAN 346. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Prerequisite(s): Completion of SPAN 346 or 311 or approval of instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gaytan

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE SEARCH FOR EL DORADO ***** From the time of Columbus to today, the lands we call Latin America have been imagined as a place of riches waiting to be discovered. This course will begin with diaries and chronicles of the conquistadores, and extends through to twentieth-century accounts of exploration and exploitation, including works by figures such as Neruda, Vallejo, Arguedas. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Jenckes

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF SPANISH ***** Analysis of the modern varieties of Spanish covering phonetics, vocabulary, morphosyntax, and pragmatics. The course requires the completion of a research project with an empirical database. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Also offered as LING 421. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Salaberry

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SPAIN'S GOLDEN AGE ***** This course will deal with the history, politics, culture, art, and literature which justify the use of the term Golden Age for the period of the Hapsburg Dynasty (1517-1700). ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Castaneda

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GOLDEN AGE DRAMA ***** Emphasis on the birth of the modern Spanish theater and the primary role played by Lope de Vega. Other dramatists to be studied are Guillen de Castro, Tirso de Molina, Mira de Amescua, and Ruiz de Alarcon. Taught in English. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Castaneda.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE DON JUAN THEME ***** Studies the impressive trajectory of one of the world's most popular and intriguing legends. Works by Tirso de Molina, Moliere, Mozart, Lord Byron, George Bernard Shaw, and others. Several film versions of the Don Juan story will also be shown. Taught in English. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Castaneda

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SURVEY OF SPANISH LITERATURE ***** A genre-based (poetry, narrative fiction, drama, essay) survey of the main movements in Spanish literature from medieval times to the present. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Perez.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE INVENTION OF SPAIN (1868-1936) ***** Diverse constructions of national identity in Spanish painting, literature, and philosophy from the Revolution of 1868 to the Spanish Civil War. Emphasis on cultural and social conditions during this formative period, and the competing visions of Spain offered by leading artists and intellectuals. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kauffmann.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR ***** Prelude to World War II and culmination of perennial struggles between the so-called "two Spains," the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) is a watershed moment in modern Spanish and European history. Interdisciplinary, multi-media approach: the war seen through spanish and foreign novels, poetry, film, painting, journalism, songs, and posters. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kauffmann

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: POETRY AND CULTURE ***** Study of contemporary poetry and its cultural functions. Students engage with poetry through analysis and interpretation of selected Spanish poets. Students also practice writing and translating poems. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Perez

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CURRENT ISSUES IN SPAIN ***** Exploration of diverse cultural aspects of today's Spain through films and newspaper articles. The topics discussed will serve as a springboard for further development of writing skills. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Perez

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LITERARY TRANSLATION ***** Overview of modern theories of literary translation, and practice in Spanish-English (and limited English-Spanish) literary translation, using examples from diverse genres of Spanish and Latin American literature. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or equivalent. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Kauffmann

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE EVOLUTION OF SPANISH ***** This course provides an introduction to (1) major historical changes that led to the evolution of Proto-Romance (Vulgar Latin) to the Castillian dialect of Spanish (espanol or castellano), and (2) current developments and expected changes in the future of the various representatives of former Castillian dialect. ***** Also offered as LING 424. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Salaberry

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THEORIES OF L2 DEVELOPMENT ***** This course surveys and critiques various theories of second language acquisition. Major topics are: analysis of linguistic, cognitive and social processes in the development of second languages, formal hypotheses of non-academic and classroom L2 learning, analysis of various SLA research methodologies and interpretation of findings from SLA research. ***** Also offered as LING 314. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Salaberry

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ACQUISITION OF L2 SPANISH ***** This course reviews the available research on the acquisition of the phonology, vocabulary, morphosyntactic and discursive-pragmatic features of Spanish as a second language. Aims to provide students with a thorough understanding of second language acquisition processes that are specific to Spanish but generalizable to other languages as well. ***** Also offered as LING 418. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Salaberry

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FOUNDATIONS OF SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE ***** How did Spanish American literature acquire an identity of its own? This course attempts to answer this question by analyzing a number of foundational works of Spanish American literature in conjunction with later works that revise and rewrite key themes in the continent's literary tradition. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): van Delden.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURE AND POWER IN LATIN AMERICA ***** This course uses a variety of materials and sources to examine the epistemologies of coloniality in Latin America, with a focus on their European and Western origins. Explore various aspects of the discourses of coloniality and subalternity in a range of cultural productions (cinema, poetry, narrative, salsa, Latin rock music). ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE LATIN AMERICAN SHORT STORY ***** Latin American writers have achieved great distinction in the genre of the short story. This course studies texts by some of the continent's best-known short-story writers, such as Cortezar, Borges, Monterroso, Rulfo, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Elena Garro, Ana Lydia Vega, Clarice Lispector, Benedetti, Uslar Pietri, Massiani, Lemebel, Asis, and Carpentier. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISPANIC CINEMA ***** This course examines the ways in which films in both Spain and Latin America have represented the cultural contexts of their countries. Focus is on the theme of power, and the consequences on social and individual lives. ***** Also offered as WGST 390. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DECLARING THE NEW: THE POLITICS OF THE AVANT-GARDE IN LATIN AMERICA ***** This course considers the literary, historical, and political implications of an artistic practice based on novelty. Readings ranging from Borges, Huidobro, Mariateque and the Chilean neo-avant-garde of the 1970's and 80's. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Jenckes

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CARIBBEAN FICTION ***** In spite of the region's political fragmentation and linguistic diversity, the Caribbean in many ways constitues a unified literary region. This course examines differences and commonalities in the responses to the distinctive features of Caribbean history and geography in works by English-, Spanish-, French-, and Dutch-speaking authors. Authors studied include Alejo Carpentier, Reinaldo Arenas, Rosario Ferre, V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Cristina Garcia, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Frank Marinus Arion. Taught in English. ***** Instructor(s): van Delden

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BORGES AND HIS SUCCESSORS ***** Jorge Luis Borges is widely regarded as one of the most important "universal" writers of the twentieth century. This course will examine how other writers interpreted, resisted, and/or continued his interrogations of origins, narrative, tradition, and other institutions. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Jenckes

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DIALOGUE OF THE AMERICAS ***** The history of Latin America since the nineteenth century has been profoundly shaped by its relationship to the "North" (the United States of America), as a model either to be imitated or rejected. This course examines both positions (emulation and detraction) as reflected in literature, painting, film, and political texts. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WE THE PEOPLE: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE POPULAR IN THE AMERICAS ***** This course will consider different representations of "the people" from the inceptions of U.S. and Latin American independence to twentieth-century approaches to populism. Readings include Jefferson, Bolivar, Emerson, Marti, Diego Rivera, WPA art, Neruda, Peron, MLK, Menchu. Taught in English. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Jenckes

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LITERARY THEORY/HISPANIC TEXTS ***** Overview of major schools in contemporary literary theory (e.g., Formalist, Structuralist, Post-structuralist, Marxist, Feminist, Neo-historicist), including Hispanic contributions to and adaptations of such theory where relevant, using texts from Spain and Latin America as study examples. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kauffmann

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE PICARESQUE NOVEL ***** This course will deal with the relationships connecting the picaresque genre with the Libros de caballerias, the Novela pastoril, and Don Quijote. Among the principal texts: Lazarillo de Tormes, Guzman de Alfarache, El buscon, Gil Blas de Santillana, and Nuevas andanzas de Lazarillo. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Castaneda

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DON QUIJOTE ***** Cervantes's masterpiece is studied in its relationship to the books of knight errantry, and to the picaresque and pastoral novels, with emphasis on the innovative techniques of Cervantes which contribute to the birth of the modern novel. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Castaneda

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CALDERON'S THEATER ***** This course will cover the principal dramatic works which have earned for Calderon the distinction of being the most important philosophical and religious dramatist of the Golden Age. Among other dramatists to be studied are Moreto and Rojas Zorilla. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Castaneda.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE DISPUTED GENERATION OF 1898 ***** The origins and fortunes of the Generation of 1898 as a historiographic concept. What have been the conceptual and historiographic gains and losses, and the main ideological functions of the concept of the Generacion del 98 since it was invented (separately, by Ortega y Gasset and Azorin, and with differing referents!) in 1913? ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kauffmann.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: UNAMUNO AND ORTEGA ***** Intellectual relations and mutual influences of two figures whose confrontation played a crucial role in defining the situation of Spain from 1900-1936. Reception of their thought by major writers of their time and ours (A. Machado, M. Zambrano, F. Ayala, J.L. Borges, O. Paz, L. Zea). ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Kauffmann

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE SPANISH AVANT-GARDE ***** This cross-genre, multimedia course examines the contributions of major figures (Picasso, Gris, Dali, Diego, Alberti, Lorca, Bunuel, Gomez de la Serna) to the Spanish avant-garde in the 20th century. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Perez.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONTEMPORARY SPANISH LITERATURE ***** This course considers in detail specific problems, figures, movements, works, or literary genres. Examples: Torrente's trilogies; Poets of 1927; Social Conscience in Literature. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Perez.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 20TH-CENTURY SPANISH NOVEL ***** This course examines the evolution of the Spanish novel as a work of art while exploring how cultural issues are incorporated into fictional worlds. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Perez

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE MODERN SPANISH ESSAY ***** Readings from representative essayists who attempt to define Spain's situation in response to the challenges of European modernity. Spanish "Europeanizers" vs. defenders of Spain's "differences" from Europe, scientific vs. anti-scientific rhetorical models, hierarchies of gender and genre, interpretations of Spanish landscape. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kauffmann

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BILINGUALISM ***** This course analyzes bilingualism from a variety of perspectives including cognitive, linguistic, and sociocultural viewpoints. Topics to be covered include conceptual representations of the lexicon, sentence parsing, levels of activation of bilingual modes, lexical, phonological, syntactic and pragmatic interference, code- switching, cultural identity, bilingual education, language and thought, etc. ***** Also offered as LING 419. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Salaberry.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COGNITION AND L2 ACQUISITION ***** This course provides an in-depth analysis of general cognitive processes in second language development and cognitive based theories of second language acquisition. Some of the issues to be discussed in detail are perception, attention, memory, automaticity, restructuring, sentence processing, learnability theories, language and intelligence, critical periods for language acquisition, etc. ***** Also offered as LING 420. ***** Prerequisite: Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Salaberry.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TENSE AND ASPECT IN L2 ACQUISITION ***** This course provides an introduction to (1) the morphosyntactic analysis of tense-aspect systems, (2) the development of inflectional morphology among first and second language learners, (3) the sequence and rate of aspectual contrasts, (4) the differences between natural and academic learning settings, and (5) the impact of pedagogical manipulations. ***** Also offered as LING 422. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Salaberry.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF CASTILIAN SPANISH ***** The Romance languages come from the language spoken by the populace of Rome at the time of the Empire. This spoken language, known a Vulgar Latin, began to be used in Spain around 197 A.D. The objective of this course is to analyze the developmnet of the reconstructed form of spoken Latin into Hispano-Romance and into present-day Castilian. The importance of the Arabic contribution will be studied. Samples of literary texts will be discussed as linguistic documents. ***** Offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Urrutibeheity

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM ***** Since the Conquest, Latin America has been viewed by the European imagination as an "empty" continent, lacking in culture and history. This image of a "savage" continent has been interiorized by Latin America's own intellectuals. This course examines and deconstructs various manifestations of these ideological representations of Latin America. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: (UN) DISCIPLINED BODIES ***** This course studies nineteenth-century and twentieth-century texts that contributed to nation-building in Latin America by developing images of the model citizen, in his/her manners, physical appearance, behavior, health, and ethnic identity. These texts also offer representations of those citizens regarded as undesirable. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MACHO CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICA ***** This course examines the works of patriarchal ideology in a variety of cultural forms (literature, film, painting, photography). Studies the ways in which this ideology, which manifests itself in works by both men and women, defines male and female roles in Latin American culture. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN'S CULTURE ***** Studies the cultural production (literary, artistic, cinematic) of intellectual women in Latin America. Examines the struggles for interpretive power in works by women from the colonial period to the present. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: POETRY AND TESTIMONY ***** This course looks at what it means to try to represent unrepresentable experiences such as horror, death, and war. We will consider the hypothesis that testimony is always somehow poetical, and study a series of poetic texts that interrogate the limits of testimonial discourse. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Jenckes

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA ***** Definitions of Latin American literature and culture often take as their point of departure a consideration of the continent's relationship to Europe. This course examines works-essays, stories, and novels-that analyze and exemplify diverse aspects of this relationship. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): van Delden.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN SPANISH AMERICAN NOVEL ***** Works by Asturias, Carpenter, Rulfo, Onetti, Vargas Llosa, Cortazar, Fuentes, and others. Examines how Spanish American novelists from the 1940s onward appropriated the techniques of European modernist literature and infused them with new cultural content. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): van Delden

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LITERATURE AND THE STATE ***** Is literature a mere extension and apparatus of state constitution and sovereignty, or is it a potentially subversive space where institutions of power can be disarticulated? If it is the latter, in what does such a disarticulation consist? Readings will include Borges, Rulfo, Roa Bastos, Arguedas, Piglia and F. Vallejo. ***** Prerequisite(s):: Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Jenckes

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 20TH CENTURY MEXICAN NARRATIVE ***** Examines the innovations in narrative form developed by twentieth-century Mexican novelists and short-story writers, as well as the social and political subjects with which they grappled in their work. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): vanDelden

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: OCTAVIO PAZ ***** Studies the literary and intellectual career of Nobel prize- winning Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz. Topics to be covered include: poetry and modernity; literature and national identity; art and the avant-garde; Paz's role in political debates in Mexico; the reception of his work at home and abroad. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): van Delden.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL THEORY ***** This course analyzes the main theoretical positions within contemporary cultural criticism. We will also study the reflection of these theories in fiction and film. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY ***** Research in Hispanic literature, Hispanic linguistics, Hispanic culture and civilization. Open to qualified juniors and seniors interested in a topic not covered in other courses. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered both semesters. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HONORS THESIS ***** Independent research projects by outstanding Spanish majors leading to a substantial honors essay, undertaken in close cooperation with a departmental faculty member, who must first approve the thesis proposal. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered both semesters. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LITERARY THEORY/ HISPANIC TEXTS ***** Graduate version of SPAN 401. ***** Prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kauffmann.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: TEACHING COLLEGE SPANISH (PRACTICUM) ***** Study of pedagogical principles applicable to the teaching of Spanish. Includes practice teaching and performance reviews, design of pedagogical activities and peer observation. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Salaberry Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE PICARESQUE NOVEL ***** Graduate version of SPAN 410. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Castaneda.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DON QUIJOTE ***** Graduate version of SPAN 412. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Castaneda

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CALDERON'S THEATRE ***** Graduate version of SPAN 414. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Castaneda.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE DISPUTED GENERATION OF 1898 ***** Graduate version of SPAN 420. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kauffmann.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: UNAMUNO AND ORTEGA ***** Graduate version of SPAN 422. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Kauffmann

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE SPANISH AVANT-GARDE ***** Graduate version of SPAN 426. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Perez.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONTEMPORARY SPANISH LITERATURE ***** Graduate version of SPAN 428. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Perez.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 20TH-CENTURY SPANISH NOVEL ***** Graduate version of SPAN 430. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Perez

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE MODERN SPANISH ESSAY ***** Graduate version of SPAN 435. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Kauffmann

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BILINGUALISM ***** Graduate version of SPAN 440. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Salaberry

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COGNITION AND L2 ACQUISITION ***** Graduate version of SPAN 442. ***** Instructor(s): Salaberry.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TENSE AND ASPECT IN L2 ACQUISITION ***** Graduate version of SPAN 444. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Salaberry.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF CASTILIAN SPANISH **** Graduate version of SPAN 446. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Urrutibeheity

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM ***** Graduate version of SPAN 450. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: (UN) DISCIPLINED BODIES ***** Graduate version of SPAN 452. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MACHO CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICA ***** Graduate version of SPAN 454. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN'S CULTURE ***** Graduate version of SPAN 456. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: POETRY AND TESTIMONY ***** Graduate version of SPAN 458. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Jenckes.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA ***** Graduate version of SPAN 460. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s):van Delden.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN SPANISH AMERICAN NOVEL ***** Graduate version of SPAN 462. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): van Delden

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LITERATURE AND THE STATE ***** Graduate level of SPAN 464. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Jenckes

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 20TH CENTURY MEXICAN NARRATIVE ***** Examines the innovations in narrative form developed by twentieth-century Mexican novelists and short-story writers, as well as the social and political subjects with which they grappled in their work. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): vanDelden

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: OCTAVIO PAZ ***** Graduate version of SPAN 468. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): van Delden

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL THEORY ***** Graduate version of SPAN 470. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Gonzalez-Stephan

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY ***** Research in Hispanic literature, Hispanic linguistics, and Hispanic culture and civilization. Open to graduate students interested in a topic not covered in other courses. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of department. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Staff. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY ***** Research in Hispanic literature, Hispanic linguistics and Hispanic culture and civilization. Open to graduate students interested in a topic not covered in other courses. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of department. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: SUMMER GRADUATE RESEARCH ***** Research leading to candidacy. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: FALL RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY ***** Topics in Spanish and Latin American literary theory and Spanish Linguistics. To be taken after a student has completed departmental course requirements for the Masters, and before being admitted to candidacy. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: SPRING RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY ***** Topics in Spanish and Latin American Literary theory and Spanish Linguistics. To be taken after a student has completed departmental course requirements for the Master's degree, but before being admitted to candidacy. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: THESIS RESEARCH ***** Research and thesis. Taken after a student has been approved for candidacy. Can be repeated for credit. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: FALL RESEARCH AND THESIS ***** Research for the M.A. thesis. Taken after approval for candidacy. Can be repeated for credit. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: SPRING RESEARCH FOR M.A. THESIS ***** Taken after approval for candidacy. Can be repeated for credit. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.