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College of Liberal Arts; UMR Chancellor's Office
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SPAN
144
- Intermediate Medical Spanish
(0.0 cr; Prereq-[1st yr college-level Spanish or equiv], %; S-N or Aud, fall, every year)
Vocabulary of Spanish medical terms, skills in report writing, proper format for medical communications. Developing conversational fluency for medical-related topics.
SPAN
221
- Reading Spanish
(0.0 cr; S-N or Aud, spring, odd years)
Intensive reading of a variety of texts to provide a basic reading knowledge of Spanish. At the end of the semester students may take the equivalent of the Spanish Graduate Reading Examination.
SPAN
344
- Advanced Medical Spanish
(0.0 cr; Prereq-Span 0144, 2 yrs. Spanish College Level or equiv, %.; S-N or Aud, spring, every year)
0 cr. course designed to further develop and strengthen the language skills and cultural awareness students have been exposed to and acquired in Interm Med Span 0144, a course designed to help care professionals communicate with patients who speak Spanish.
SPAN
1001
- Beginning Spanish
(5.0 cr; Prereq-Less than 2 yrs of high school Spanish, %, no college-level Spanish; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Listening, speaking, reading, writing. Emphasizes development of communicative competence. Cultural readings.
SPAN
1002
- Beginning Spanish
(5.0 cr; =[SPAN 4022]; Prereq-1001 completed at UMNTC, %; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Listening, speaking, reading, writing. Emphasizes development of communicative competence. Cultural readings.
SPAN
1003
- Intermediate Spanish
(5.0 cr; Prereq-[1002 or 1022] or EPT placement; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Speaking/comprehension. Developing reading/writing skills based on materials from Spain/Spanish America. Grammar review. Compositions, oral presentations.
SPAN
1004
- Intermediate Spanish
(5.0 cr; =[SPAN 1044, SPAN 1014]; Prereq-1003 or EPT placement; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Speaking/comprehension. Developing reading/writing skills based on materials from Spain/Spanish America. Grammar review. Compositions, oral presentations.
SPAN
1014
- Business Spanish
(5.0 cr; =[SPAN 1004, SPAN 1044]; Prereq-1003; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Vocabulary, report writing skills. Proper format for business communications. Conversational fluency on trade-related topics.
SPAN
1022
- Alternate Second-Semester Spanish
(5.0 cr; =[SPAN 4002]; Prereq-Placement above 1001; fall, spring, every year)
For students who have studied Spanish in high school or at a community college, or who are transfer students. Begins with an accelerated review of 1001 followed by material covered in 1002.
SPAN
1044
- Intermediate Medical Spanish
(5.0 cr; =[SPAN 1004, SPAN 1014]; Prereq-1003 or equiv; fall, summer, every year)
Language needed by health-care workers who interact with Spanish-speaking patients. Basic medical vocabulary, questions/answers in common medical situations. Vocabulary/phrases to conduct patient interviews and physical exams. Readings on Latin American view of health and health care.
SPAN
1902
- Topics: Freshman Seminar
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Fr with no more than 30 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, offered periodically)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.
SPAN
1904
- Topics: Freshman Seminar
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Fr with no more than 30 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, offered periodically)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.
SPAN
1905
- Freshman Seminar
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Fr with no more than 29 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, offered periodically)
Topic specified in Class Schedule.
SPAN
1907W
- Topics: Freshman Seminar
(WI)
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Fr with no more than 29 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, offered periodically)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.
SPAN
1910W
- Freshman Seminar
(WI)
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Fr; fall, spring, every year)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.
SPAN
3011
- Spanish Communication Skills
(4.0 cr; Prereq-[1004 or 1014 or 1044], LPE pass; fall, spring, every year)
Real-world writing, speaking, reading. Writing summaries of lectures by native speakers. Two papers. Reader's journals. Oral presentation. Grammar review. Audio exercises, Paired/small-group work. Discussions. Peer editing. Process writing.
SPAN
3015
- Spanish Composition and Communication
(4.0 cr; =[SPAN 3015H]; Prereq-1004 or 1014 or 1044, LPE pass; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Comprehending written/spoken texts. Speaking, reading, writing beyond intermediate level.
SPAN
3015H
- Spanish Composition and Communication
(4.0 cr; =[SPAN 3015]; Prereq-[1004 or 1014 or 1044], LPE pass, Honors student; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Comprehension of written/spoken text. Speaking/reading/ writing.
SPAN
3022
- Advanced Business Spanish
(4.0 cr; =[TLDO 3023]; Prereq-3015; spring, every year)
Major issues of culture in relation to business in context of Spanish-speaking world. Important historical-social factors that contribute to understanding of economy/business relationships with industrialized nations.
SPAN
3044
- Advanced Medical Spanish
(4.0 cr; Prereq-[[1004 or 1014 or 1044 or equiv], Span LPE] or #; spring, every year)
How to communicate more effectively in linguistic/cultural terms with Spanish speaking patients. Advanced/specific medical vocabulary, communication strategies, and related cultural aspects. Conducting patient interviews/medical history. Using vocabulary/conversation to conduct physical exams. Latin American views on health/health care.
SPAN
3104W
- Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Literatures
(LITR, WI)
(3.0 cr; =[TLDO 3104W]; Prereq-3015, Spanish [major or minor]or Span-Port major; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Structures, meaning, and social/historical function of diverse literary texts.
SPAN
3105W
- Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures
(WI)
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3015, Spanish [major or minor] or Span-Port; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Cultural issues pertaining to Spain or Spanish America.
SPAN
3107W
- Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Linguistics
(WI)
(3.0 cr; =[TLDO 3107W]; Prereq-3015, Spanish [major or minor] or Span-Port major; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Structure of Spanish. Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, language acquisition, language/gender, sociolinguistics. History of Spanish.
SPAN
3211
- Discourses of Imperial Spain, 1492-1800
(3.0 cr; =[TLDO 3211]; Prereq-3015, [3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or #]; fall, every year)
Novels, places, poems, aphorisms, emblems, letters, and political treatises. Questions of ethnicity, gender, class, colonization, early mass culture, and subjectivity.
SPAN
3212
- Discourses of Modern and Contemporary Spain, 1800-Present
(3.0 cr; =[01176]; Prereq-3015, [3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or #]; spring, every year)
Wide variety of texts. Questions of gender, class, subjectivity, representation, art, and politics.
SPAN
3221
- Latin American Colonial Discourses: Empire and Early Modernity
(3.0 cr; =[01164]; Prereq-3015, [3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or #]; fall, every year)
Conquest, colonization, and forms of resistance in Latin America.
SPAN
3222
- Discourses of Modern and Contemporary Latin America
(3.0 cr; =[TLDO 3222]; Prereq-3015, [3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or #]; spring, every year)
Late modern and contemporary discourses in literature, popular culture, mass media, and film.
SPAN
3300H
- Honors Seminar in Spanish and Portuguese Studies
(3.0 cr; Prereq-honors student, 3015, [3104W or 3105W or TLDO 3104 or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3104 or VENZ 3512 or #]; A-F only, fall, every year)
Topics related to cultural studies, literature, linguistics in Iberian/Latin American milieus. Taught in Spanish. May be cross-listed with another department.
SPAN
3401
- Latino Immigration and Community Service
(CIV)
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3015; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Service-learning course. U.S. power structures associated with emigration from Latin America. Rapid demographic change. Global economic system and emigration. Human rights on U.S./Mexican border. Federal immigration reform. Language issues. Societal/personal responsibility to create inclusive/just political, economic, and educational systems. Dialogue with Latino immigrants, community visits, civic engagement.
SPAN
3404
- Medical Spanish and Community Health Service
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3015 with grade of at least B- or [1044, high pass on at least three sections of LPE]; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Creating materials for effective communication with and education of Spanish-speaking patients. Students engage in service learning with community health care partners that serve the Chicano/Latino population.
SPAN
3501
- Roots of Modern Spain and Latin America
(3.0 cr; =[SPAN 3501H]; Prereq-3015, [3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or #]; fall, every year)
Historical/cultural events leading to nation building in early modern Spain and Spanish speaking America.
SPAN
3502
- Modern Spain
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3015, [3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or #]; spring, every year)
Spanish culture, from beginning of 19th century to present. Cultural change and its conflicts as represented in Spanish art, literature, film, and diverse political developments.
SPAN
3503
- Pre-modern Spanish Culture and Literature
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3105W; fall, odd years)
Notions of nation, empire, and race precipitated by presence of Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Iberia in 12th/13th centuries. Toledo as center of translation, technology, innovation, design, and philosophical inquiry for all of Europe. How Iberian literary works differed from those produced in the rest of Western Europe. Readings from Saint Isidore, Ibn Hazm, Averroes (Ibn Rushd), and Maimonides.
SPAN
3510
- Issues in Hispanic Cultures
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-3015, [3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or #]; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Analysis of practices that have shaped cultural identity of Spanish or Portuguese-speaking areas. Topics vary.
SPAN
3512
- Modern Latin America
(3.0 cr; =[01165]; Prereq-3015, [3105W or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3512 or #]; A-F or Aud, fall, summer, every year)
Impact of various forms of modernization on cultural production in Latin American racial, ethnic, class relations, institutional, and ideological structures.
SPAN
3603
- Jews and Muslims in Medieval Iberia
(AH)
(3.0 cr; spring, even years)
Cultural production of Sephardic Jews and Andalusi Muslims. Andalusi poetry. Fiction of al-Saraqusti, Judah al-Harizi and Juan Ruiz. Treatises of Averroes and Maimonides. How cultural assimilation in medieval al-Andalus complicates notions of identity, subalterity, and postcoloniality. How literary, historical, philosophical, and theological works of major Jewish/Muslim thinkers survived among later Spanish Christian intellectuals.
SPAN
3606
- Human Rights Issues in the Americas
(3.0 cr; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Human rights movement. International law of human rights and the justice system. Focuses on human rights cases in the Americas and on cultural practices related to human rights.
SPAN
3612
- Don Quijote and the Novel
(LITR)
(3.0 cr; spring, odd years)
How Cervantes' text enters in dialogue with prevalent novelistic and social discourses of Spain's Renaissance and Baroque periods (sixteenth/seventeenth century). How novel has managed to interest succeeding generations of readers. Taught in English.
SPAN
3653
- Contemporary Latino and Latin American Drama Written in English
(3.0 cr; Prereq-SPAN 1001 or equiv; spring, every year)
Contextual, theoretical, and thematic contributions and formal dimensions of U.S. Latino theater. Issues of gender, identity, class, and cultural politics. Taught in English.
SPAN
3699
- Study of Advanced Spanish Language Abroad
(1.0 - 5.0 cr [max 5.0 cr]; Prereq-Two yrs college-level Spanish, %; fall, spring, every year)
Study of advanced Spanish language in a Spanish-speaking country.
SPAN
3701
- Structure of Spanish: Phonology and Phonetics
(3.0 cr; =[SPAN 3701H]; Prereq-3015, [3107W or TLDO 3107 or VENZ 3107 or #]; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Analysis of phonetics/phonology of modern Spanish. Regional/social variants of the language in Spain and Spanish America. Emphasizes improving Spanish pronunciation.
SPAN
3702
- Structure of Spanish: Morphology and Syntax
(3.0 cr; =[SPAN 3702H]; Prereq-3015, [3107W or TLDO 3107 or VENZ 3107 or #]; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Using linguistic concepts such as morpheme, flexional affix, noun phrase, subject, subordination, and coordination to identify different morphological/syntactic components of Spanish.
SPAN
3703
- Origins and History of Spanish and Portuguese
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3015, [3107W or TLDO 3107 or VENZ 3107 or #]; fall, spring, every year)
Development of Spanish from its Latin roots. Phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and sociolinguistic aspects of language variations over time.
SPAN
3704
- Sociolinguistics of the Spanish-Speaking World
(3.0 cr; =[SPAN 3704H]; Prereq-3015, [3107W or TLDO 3107 or VENZ 3107 or #]; spring, every year)
Spanish dialects. Spanish in contact with other languages. Bilingualism, language attitudes. Pragmatic analysis of Spanish. Impact of recent cultural, political, and socioeconomic transformations on language.
SPAN
3705
- Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish
(3.0 cr; =[SPAN 3705H]; Prereq-3015, [3107W or TLDO 3107 or VENZ 3107 or #]; spring, offered periodically)
Introduction to systematic analysis of meaning. Focuses on importance that cultural/linguistic contexts have for interpretation of meaning.
SPAN
3706
- Spanish Applied Linguistics
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3015, [3107W or TLDO 3107 or VENZ 3107 or #]; spring, every year)
Introduction to second language acquisition processes as they relate to fundamental analysis of linguistic concepts of Spanish. Features that present difficulties for English speakers. Sociolinguistic aspects of language learning. Application to Spanish language teaching.
SPAN
3707
- Linguistic Accuracy Through Translation
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3015, [3104W or 3105W or 3107W or TLDO 3104 or TLDO 3105 or TLDO 3107 or VENZ 3104 or VENZ 3107 or VENZ 3512 or #]; A-F only, spring, every year)
Analysis of style/audience/lexicon of various texts in Spanish (popular press, business, academic) examined as framework for training to communicate with accuracy in different contexts. Students apply lexical/grammatical choices in translating texts.
SPAN
3730
- Topics in Hispanic Linguistics
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-3015, [3107W or TLDO 3107 or VENZ 3107 or #]; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.
SPAN
3800
- Film Studies in Spanish
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-3015, [3104W or 3105W or TLDO 3104 or TLDO 3105 or VENZ 3104 or VENZ 3512 or #]; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Films from Spain or Spanish-speaking world in their historical, (geo)political, and socioeconomic contexts. Films analyzed under interdisciplinary frameworks, noting aspects related to cinematography/rhetoric.
SPAN
3910
- Topics in Spanish Peninsular Literature
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-3015, [3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or #]; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Focus on a central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
SPAN
3920
- Topics in Spanish-American Literature
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[SPAN 3920H]; Prereq-3015, [3104W or TLDO 3104 or VENZ 3104 or #]; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, offered periodically)
Focuses on a central theme related to important groups of writers, literary movements, trends, critical approaches, and methods. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
SPAN
3970
- Directed Studies
(1.0 - 4.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-#, %, @; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Guided individual reading/study in Hispanic linguistics, cultural studies, or peninsular, Latin American, or U.S. Latino theater or literatures.
SPAN
3972W
- Graduation Seminar
(WI)
(3.0 cr; =[SPAN 3972V]; Prereq-31 cr of 3xxx, #; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Completion of a research paper on cultural, literary, or artistic issue in Spanish or Portuguese speaking worlds or on topic related to Hispanic linguistics. In-depth research/consultation with instructor.
SPAN
4001
- Beginning Spanish
(2.0 cr; =[01249]; Prereq-Grad student; fall, summer, every year)
Meets concurrently with 1001. See 1001 for course description.
SPAN
4002
- Beginning Spanish
(2.0 cr; =[SPAN 1022]; Prereq-Grad student; spring, summer, every year)
Meets concurrently with 1002. See 1002 for course description.
SPAN
4003
- Intermediate Spanish
(2.0 cr; =[01251]; Prereq-Grad student; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Meets concurrently with 1003. See 1003 for course description.
SPAN
4004
- Intermediate Spanish
(2.0 cr; =[01252]; Prereq-Grad student; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Meets concurrently with 1004. See 1004 for course description.
SPAN
4022
- Alternate Second-Semester Spanish
(2.0 cr; =[SPAN 1002]; Prereq-Grad student; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Meets concurrently with 1022. See 1022 for course description.
SPAN
5106
- Medieval Iberian Literatures and Cultures
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, offered periodically)
The major literary genres developed in Spain from the Reconquest to 1502, with reference to the crucial transformations of the Middle Ages, including primitive lyric, epic, clerical narrative, storytelling, debates, collections, chronicles, "exempla," and the Celestina (1499-1502).
SPAN
5107
- The Literature of the Spanish Empire and Its Decline
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Major Renaissance and Baroque works of the Spanish Golden Age (16th- and 17th-century poetry, nonfiction prose, novel, drama) examined against the historical background of internal economic decline, national crisis, and ideological apparatus developed by the modern state.
SPAN
5108
- Don Quixote
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; spring, offered periodically)
Analysis of Cervantes' [Don Quixote] in its sociohistorical context; focus on the novel's reception from the romantic period to postmodern times.
SPAN
5109
- The Crisis of the Old Regime: Spanish Literature of the Enlightenment and Romanticism
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Major literary works and intellectual movements and conflicts represented in written culture, of the 18th and early 19th centuries (1680-1845), examined as expressions of the long crisis of Spain's Old Regime and the rise of bourgeois liberalism.
SPAN
5110
- Discursive Formations at the Threshold of 20th-Century Spain
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Theory and representative examples of the realist/naturalist novel (Galdas, Pardo Bazan) in the context of its antecedents ("costumbrismo"), opposites (the idealist/sentimental novel), and turn-of-the-century innovations of modernism and the "generation of 1898."
SPAN
5111
- Contemporary Spanish Literature
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Major literary works/movements in Spain from 1915 to 2000. Neomodernism, surrealism, social realism, literatures of dictatorship/exile. Postmodernism. Poetry, novel, drama, essays, film, video/TV. Problems of literary history.
SPAN
5221
- Spanish Drama of the 17th-Century
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, offered periodically)
Polemics surrounding public theater in 1600s. Analyses of texts in light of current approaches to comedia and related theatrical genres (e.g., autosacramentales).
SPAN
5316
- Spanish Picaresque Narratives
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, offered periodically)
Literary autobiography, residual elements of Erasmian humanism, post-Tridentine repression/censorship. Picaro's critique of imperial Spain's system of values/authority. Cultural critics' challenge to rediscover popular texts of early modern period.
SPAN
5525
- Caribbean Literature: An Integral Approach
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Literature of Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Emphasizes historical legacy of slavery, African culture, and independence struggles.
SPAN
5526
- Colonial Discourse in Spanish American Writing
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, offered periodically)
Discourse production in Spanish America between 1492 and 1700. Conquest and colonial writing/counterwriting. Historical origin, evolution, and impact of cultural, political, and socioeconomic factors.
SPAN
5527
- Nineteenth Century Latin America: Enlightened Thought, Nation Building, Literacy, Cultural Discourse
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; spring, offered periodically)
Political/economic contexts. Capitalism, liberalism, conservatism, their discursive media. Essay, journalism, literature, expression of everyday life. Wheels of commerce, progress, industrialization. Romanticism, realism, positivistic faith.
SPAN
5528
- Latin American Cultural Integration in the Neocolonial Order
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Modernismo, historical vanguard, impact of populist politics in patterns of culture/literature. 1900-50.
SPAN
5529
- The Impact of Globalization in Latin American Discourses
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, every year)
Second half of 20th century: critical culture. Neo-indigenism, the new novel, poetry/antipoetry, theater/drama. Pragmatic search for a past and identity. Globalization, its impact in literature.
SPAN
5531
- Hispanic Literature of the United States
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, offered periodically)
Interdisciplinary approach providing a framework for deconstructing issues of national identity, marginalization, and gender. U.S. Hispanic theatre/literature and its ethnic diversity, regional variations, cultural links, and scope of its genres.
SPAN
5701
- History of Ibero-Romance
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; spring, offered periodically)
Origins and developments of Ibero-Romance languages; evolution of Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan.
SPAN
5711
- The Structure of Modern Spanish: Phonology
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, offered periodically)
Formulating and evaluating a phonological description of Spanish. Approaches to problems in Spanish phonology within metrical, autosegmental, and lexical phonological theories.
SPAN
5713
- The Structure of Modern Spanish: Syntax
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, offered periodically)
Study and analysis of the principal constructions found in the syntax of Spanish.
SPAN
5714
- Theoretical Foundations of Spanish Syntax
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Linguistic types/processes that appear across languages. Grammatical relations, word order, transitivity, subordination, information structure, grammaticalization. How these are present in syntax of Spanish.
SPAN
5715
- The Structure of Modern Spanish: Semantics
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, offered periodically)
Applying semantic theory to Spanish: conceptual organization and the structuring of experience; meaning and cultural values; semantic fields; categorization and prototypes; cognitive model theory; metaphor, metonymy, and mental imagery as source and change of meaning.
SPAN
5716
- Structure of Modern Spanish: Pragmatics
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, offered periodically)
Concepts in current literature in Spanish pragmatics. Deixis, presupposition, conversational implicature, speech act theory, conversational structure.
SPAN
5717
- Spanish Sociolinguistics
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; spring, offered periodically)
Sociolinguistic variation, cross-dialectal diversity in different varieties of Spanish in Latin America and Spain. Impact of recent cultural, political, and socioeconomic transformations on language.
SPAN
5718
- Spanish Language Contact
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Analysis of different types/results of Spanish language contact globally, taking into account varying social conditions under which contact occurs.
SPAN
5721
- Spanish Laboratory Phonology
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, offered periodically)
Core literature on Spanish laboratory phonology. Phonology from a laboratory perspective. Students evaluate laboratory research methodologies, perform basic acoustic analyses, and design laboratory phonology studies.
SPAN
5910
- Topics in Spanish Peninsular Studies
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, every year)
Crucial moment or characters, works, or events marking beginning of new phase in literary/cultural landscape.
SPAN
5920
- Topics in Spanish-American Studies
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, summer, offered periodically)
Spanish-American literature analyzed according to important groups, movements, trends, methods, and genres. Specific approaches depend on topic and instructor. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
SPAN
5930
- Topics in Ibero-Romance Linguistics
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Grad student or #; spring, summer, offered periodically)
Problems in Hispanic linguistics; a variety of approaches and methods.
SPAN
5970
- Directed Readings
(1.0 - 4.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Students must submit reading plans for particular topics, figures, periods, or issues. Readings in Spanish and/or Spanish-American subjects.
SPAN
5985
- Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Spanish in the United States
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; spring, offered periodically)
Sociolinguistic analysis of issues such as language maintenance/shift in U.S. Latino communities, code switching, attitudes of Spanish speakers toward varieties of Spanish and English, language change in bilingual communities, and language policy issues.
SPAN
5990
- Directed Research
(1.0 - 4.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Directed research.
SPAN
5991
- The Acquisition of Spanish as a First and Second Language
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; spring, offered periodically)
Analysis of issues such as the acquisition of Spanish and English by bilingual children; Spanish in immersion settings; developmental sequences in Spanish; classroom language learners' attitudes, beliefs, and motivation; development of pragmatic competence.
SPAN
8100
- Research in Sociohistorical Approaches to Spanish Literature
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-5xxx courses in Span literature and culture)
Sociohistorical functions of Spanish literary works and major theories concerning literary production of texts. Testing modern theories in terms of representative fictional discourses from specific historical periods.
SPAN
8200
- Spanish Literary Texts: Theories of Formal Structures
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-5xxx courses in Span literature and culture)
Advanced research in methods of literary analysis of discourse. Emphasizes theoretical and practical frameworks within which representative texts are analyzed and interpreted from differing perspectives.
SPAN
8212
- Spanish Theater of the 16th Century: Drama up to Lope
(3.0 cr; Prereq-5xxx courses in Span literature and culture)
Medieval origins of drama to [La Celestina] (1499-1502), pastoral dialogues, crossover plays of Spanish and Portuguese dramatists, popular theater up to emerging public and private theaters under Italian influence. Rojas, Encina, Vicente, Naharro, Cervantes, and new tragedians.
SPAN
8223
- The Poetry of the Spanish Golden Age
(3.0 cr; Prereq-5xxx courses in Span literature and culture)
New Spanish poetic forms, from Garcilaso de Le[ó]n, mystics, and San Juan to Baroque trends by G[ó]ngora, Lope, and Quevedo. Classic traditions and modern adaptations. Ideological foundations of lyric genres--eclogue, lira, mystics, satire, conceptismo/culteranismo, and sonnet.
SPAN
8300
- The Construction of Spanish Literary History
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Two 5xxx courses in Span literature and culture)
Origins and development of Hispanic literary canon: sociocultural theories of Spanish literary histories as academic and historiographic disciplines. Critiques of modern literary theories through analysis of literary works by major writers.
SPAN
8312
- Two Spanish Masterpieces: [Libro de Buen Amor] and [La Celestina]
(3.0 cr; Prereq-5106, 5107 or 5xxx course in Portuguese)
Cultural reappraisal of the late Middle Ages by reference to two Spanish masterpieces: the Archpriest's [Book of True Love] and Rojas' [La Celestina] (1499-1502). Emphasizes historical function of varied genres, motifs, and sources adapted by the authors.
SPAN
8333
- FTE: Master's
(1.0 cr; Prereq-Master's student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade, fall, spring, summer, every year)
(No description)
SPAN
8444
- FTE: Doctoral
(1.0 cr; Prereq-Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade, fall, spring, summer, every year)
(No description)
SPAN
8666
- Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
(1.0 - 6.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; Prereq-Doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral; no required consent for 1st/2nd registrations, up to 12 combined cr; % for 3rd/4th registrations, up to 24 combined cr; doctoral student admitted before summer 2007 may register up to four times, up to 60 combined cr; No Grade, fall, spring, summer, every year)
TBD
SPAN
8710
- Seminar in Spanish and Portuguese Phonology
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-5711, Ling 5302 or #; fall, even years)
Critical examination of readings and research on specific topic.
SPAN
8730
- Seminar in Spanish and Portuguese Syntax
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-5714 or #; fall, offered periodically)
Critical examination of readings and research on specific topic.
SPAN
8777
- Thesis Credits: Master's
(1.0 - 18.0 cr [max 50.0 cr]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 10 cr total required [Plan A only]; No Grade, fall, spring, summer, every year)
(No description)
SPAN
8888
- Thesis Credit: Doctoral
(1.0 - 24.0 cr [max 100.0 cr]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; No Grade, fall, spring, summer, every year)
(No description)
SPAN
8900
- Spanish Seminar
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Span 5xxx series required for MA or #; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Projects relying heavily on advanced research in Spanish problems. Investigation of assigned fields, analysis of problems, appraisal of principles. Limited to small group of students. For list of sample seminars, consult department and director of graduate studies.
SPAN
8940
- Advanced Research in Spanish-American Literary Historiography
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr])
Sources and procedures that have given rise to institutionalizations of Spanish-American literary history. Evaluation and review of epistemological principles and assumptions in theory of literary criticism and histories of literature.
SPAN
8960
- Workshop: Research in Hispanic Cultural Issues
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Reading knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Individualized support and advice in framing, theorizing, problematizing, and interpreting areas of cultural research. Taught in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
SPAN
8990
- Advanced Comparative Research of Caribbean Genres
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-5525 or #)
Major literary works and genres of Caribbean literature studied against the background of sociohistorical vicissitudes of the process leading to the formation and consolidation of the national states.
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