Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I

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 students to develop the abilities to communicate satisfactorily in Spanish in everyday situations. Students are expected to be active participants in this process. Class meetings are primarily based on student interaction. No prior knowledge of Spanish. Credit may not be received for both SPAN 222 and SPAN 101.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 101 OR SPAN 222 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: Continuation of SPAN 101. Credit may not be received for both SPAN 223 and SPAN 102.

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: LATIN AMERICAN SHORT FICTION (EMPHASIS ON BORGES AND CORTAZAR)

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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, interpretation and appreciation of stories (in English translation) will be the focus of class discussion, presentations and short interpretative essays. Taught in English. Open to first-year students only, except by permission of the instructor. Cross-list: FSEM 150.

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE HISPANIC ESSAY

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Readings in English from modern Spanish and Latin-American essayists, including Miguel de Unamuno, Jose Marti, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Victora Ocampo, Maria Zambrano, Alphonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, Fernando Savater, Ariel Dorfman, Roger Bartra, et al. Close reading, discussion, short interpretive papers. Taught in English. Open to first-year students only, except by permission of the instructor. Cross-list: FSEM 152.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 102 OR SPAN 223 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: Based on a task-oriented approach to learning language and culture, 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. Credit may not be received for both SPAN 225 and SPAN 201.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 201 OR SPAN 225 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: Continuation of SPAN 201 based on a task-based approach to language learning. Proficiency-based instruction focused on expanding vocabulary and further developing the four communicative skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening). Credit may not be received for both SPAN 226 and SPAN 202.

Long Title: SPANISH I FOR BI-CULTURAL STUDENTS

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This course is intended for students who have been exposed to Spanish at home, through relatives and/or in the community and who wish to improve their confidence and fluency by expanding their formal knowledge of the language and of Hispanic cultures. Authentic materials such as short stories, poetry, films and articles will be used to develop reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. No previous formal instruction is required.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH FOR BICULTURAL STUDENTS

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 203 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: Continuation of SPAN 203. This course is for students who have been exposed to Spanish at home, through relatives and/or in the community and who wish to improve their confidence and fluency by expanding their formal knowledge of the language and of Hispanic cultures. Authentic materials such as short stories, poetry, films and articles will be used to develop reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Recommended prerequisite(s): SPAN 203 and/or Significant exposure to Spanish.

Long Title: AP CREDIT IN SPANISH LANGUAGE

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Course indicating credit given for advanced placement in Spanish. Credit may not be received for both SPAN 222 and SPAN 101.

Long Title: AP CREDIT IN SPANISH LANGUAGE

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Course indicating credit given for advanced placement in Spanish. Credit may not be received for both SPAN 223 adn SPAN 102.

Long Title: AP/IB CREDIT IN INTERMEDIATE SPANISH

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course indicating credit given for advance placement in Spanish. Credit may not be received for both SPAN 225 and SPAN 201.

Long Title: AP/IB CREDIT IN INTERMEDIAE SPANISH

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course indicating credit given for advanced placement in Spanish. Credit may not be received for SPAN 226 and SPAN 202.

Long Title: ADVANCED SPANISH I

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 202 OR SPAN 226 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: 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.

Long Title: ADVANCED SPANISH II

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 301 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: Continuation of SPAN 301.

Long Title: ADVANCED SPANISH FOR BI-CULTURAL STUDENTS

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OF HISPANICS IN THE UNITED STATES

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 303 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: The aim of this course is 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 sociolinguistic.

Long Title: COMMERCIAL SPANISH I

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: COMMERCIAL SPANISH II

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: THE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An exploration of the differences between Anglo-American and Latin-American cultures of medicine. This course will explore socioeconomic and cultural difference between Anglo-American medical institutions and rural Latin-American conceptions of the role of doctors, medicine, and health care.

Long Title: THE LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 307 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: 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 volunteer 40 clock-hours as clinical interpreters.

Long Title: SPANISH PRACTICAL PHONETICS

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 201 OR SPAN 225

Description: 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.

Long Title: THE LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE PRACTICUM

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: The number of credits is based on the number of internship hours. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SCIENTIFIC SPANISH I

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: SCIENTIFIC SPANISH II

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: THE ART AND MECHANICS OF TRANSLATION I

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 302 OR SPAN 303 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: Working with various 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.

Long Title: THE ART AND MECHANICS OF TRANSLATION II

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 315 or permission of instructor

Description: 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.

Long Title: SPANISH CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics relating to Spain's history and the development of social, political and economic institutions form the basis for extensive conversation, discussion, and composition. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor.

Long Title: MASTER WORKS OF SPANISH ART AND LITERATURE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor; no prerequisite when course offered in English. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: WRITING WORKSHOP

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: MAPPING LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY MEXICO

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY MEXICO: STUDY TRIP

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 346 OR SPAN 311 or permission of instructor

Description: 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.

Long Title: SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF SPANISH

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: LING 421. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: SPAIN'S GOLDEN AGE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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). Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: GOLDEN AGE DRAMA

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: THE DON JUAN THEME

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: SURVEY OF SPANISH LITERATURE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A genre-based (poetry, narrative fiction, drama, essay) survey of the main movements in Spanish literature from medieval times to the present. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: FROM EL GRECO TO PICASSO: PAINTING IN SPAIN 1561-1974

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores the extraordinary development of the art of painting in Spain from its emergence as a world power in the 16th century to its reintegration into the European community in the 20th century. The course will examine works by El Greco, Zurbaran, Velazquez, Ribera, Murillo, Goya, Picasso, Gris, Miro, Dali, Tapies among others. Taught in English.

Long Title: THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: POETRY AND CULTURE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: CURRENT ISSUES IN SPAIN

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: LITERARY TRANSLATION

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or equivalent.

Long Title: THE EVOLUTION OF SPANISH

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: LING 424. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: THEORIES OF L2 DEVELOPMENT

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: LING 314. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: THE ACQUISITION OF L2 SPANISH

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: LING 418. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: FOUNDATIONS OF SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: CULTURE AND POWER IN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Explores various aspects of the discourses of coloniality and subalternity in a range of cultural productions (cinema, poetry, narrative, salsa, Latin rock music). Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: THE LATIN AMERICAN SHORT STORY

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 Cortazar, Borges, Monterroso, Rulfo, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Elena Garro, Ana Lydia Vega, Clarice Lispector, Benedetti, Uslar Pietri, Massiani, Lemebel, Asis, and Carpentier. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: HISPANIC CINEMA

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: WGST 390. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: MEXICAN AVANT-GARDE NARRATIVE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course looks at two key moments in the history of the Mexican avant-garde. We will begin by looking at the "historical" avant-garde of the 1920s and 30s, focusing on the estridentistas and on the Contemporaneos group, and reading works by Arqueles Vela, Xavier Icaza, Slavador Novo, Xavier Villaurrutia and Gilberto Owen. We will also study the emergence of a second avant-garde, represented by works such as La semana de colores by Elena Garro and ?Aguila o sol? by Octavio Paz. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Third year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: CARIBBEAN FICTION

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In spite of the region's political fragmentation and linguistic diversity, the Caribbean in many ways constitutes 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.

Long Title: DIALOGUE OF THE AMERICAS

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: LITERARY THEORY/HISPANIC TEXTS

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 501. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: THE PICARESQUE NOVEL

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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". Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 510. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: DON QUIJOTE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 512. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: CALDERON'S THEATER

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 Zorrilla. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 514. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: THE DISPUTED GENERATION OF 1898

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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? Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 520. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: UNAMUNO AND ORTEGA

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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). Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 522. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: THE SPANISH AVANT-GARDE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 526. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY SPANISH LITERATURE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course considers in detail specific problems, figures, movements, works, or literary genres. Examples: Torrente's trilogies; Poets of 1927; Social Conscience in Literature. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 528. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY SPANISH NOVEL

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the evolution of the Spanish novel as a work of art while exploring how cultural issues are incorporated into fictional worlds. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 530. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: THE MODERN SPANISH ESSAY

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 535. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: BILINGUALISM

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: LING 419, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 540. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: COGNITION AND L2 ACQUISITION

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: LING 420, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 542. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: TENSE AND ASPECT IN L2 ACQUISITION

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: LING 422, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 544. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: CASTILIAN SPANISH

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The Romance languages come from the language spoken by the populace of Rome at the time of the Empire. This spoken language, known as Vulgar Latin, began to be used in Spain around 197 A.D. The objective of this course is to analyze the development 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 546. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 550. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: (UN) DISCIPLINED BODIES

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 552. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: MACHO CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 554. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN'S CULTURE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 556. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 560. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: MODERN SPANISH AMERICAN NOVEL

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Works by Asturias, Carpentier, 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 562. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY MEXICAN NARRATIVE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 566. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: OCTAVIO PAZ

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 568. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL THEORY

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course analyzes the main theoretical positions within contemporary cultural criticism. We will also study the reflection of these theories in fiction and film. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 570. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: SPANISH AMERICAN POETRY AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE LIMIT

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines twentieth-century Spanish American poetry from the perspective of the poet's struggle to articulate experiences that exist at the limit of the inexpressible. Poets studied include Cesar Vallejo, Vicente Huidobro, Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Olga Orozco, Raul Zurita, Carmen Boullsa, Marosa di Giorgio and Francisco Hernandez. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 574. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: HONORS THESIS

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: LITERARY THEORY/HISPANIC TEXTS

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: TEACHING COLLEGE SPANISH (PRACTICUM)

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: Study of pedagogical principles applicable to the teaching of Spanish. Includes practice teaching and performance reviews, design of pedagogical activities and peer observation. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE PICARESQUE NOVEL

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: DON QUIJOTE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: CALDERON'S THEATRE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: THE DISPUTED GENERATION OF 1898

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: UNAMUNO AND ORTEGO

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: THE SPANISH AVANT-GARDE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY SPANISH LITERATURE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: 20TH-CENTURY SPANISH NOVEL

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: THE MODERN SPANISH ESSAY

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: BILINGUALISM

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: COGNITION AND L2 ACQUISITION

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: TENSE AND ASPECT IN L2 ACQUISITION

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF CASTILIAN SPANISH

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: (UN) DISCIPLINED BODIES

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: MACHO CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN'S CULTURE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: MODERN SPANISH AMERICAN NOVEL

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY MEXICAN NARRATIVE

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: OCTAVIO PAZ

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL THEORY

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: SPANISH AMERICAN POETRY AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE LIMIT

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Recommended prerequisite(s): Third year Spanish or permission of instructor.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: Research in Hispanic literature, Hispanic linguistics, and Hispanic culture and civilization. Open to graduate students interested in a topic not covered in other courses. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: Research in Hispanic literature, Hispanic linguistics and Hispanic culture and civilization. Open to graduate students interested in a topic not covered in other courses. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SUMMER GRADUATE RESEARCH

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: Research leading to candidacy. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: 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. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: 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. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SUMMER THESIS RESEARCH

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

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

Long Title: FALL RESEARCH AND THESIS

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: Research for the M.A. thesis. Taken after approval for candidacy. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPRING RESEARCH AND THESIS

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: Taken after approval for candidacy. Can be repeated for credit. Repeatable for Credit.