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2017-2018 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 

Spanish (SPAN)
  

  • SPAN 420 - Applied Linguistics

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to applied linguistics, with a special emphasis on the theoretical and practical aspects of the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. Fundamental concepts in linguistics within the context of Spanish grammar and their use in the study of second language acquisition, foreign language learning and foreign language teaching. Conducted in Spanish, with readings in both English and Spanish.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 323.
  

  • SPAN 421 - Phonetics

    3 Credit Hours
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 323.
  

  • SPAN 422 - Advanced Grammar and Translation

    3 Credit Hours
    Structure of the grammatical system of Spanish. In-depth analysis of selected syntactic phenomena with practical illustration/application and exercise in Spanish-English and English-Spanish translation. Emphasis on finer points of grammatical structures.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and three additional Spanish courses above 323.
    Comment(s): Not available to native or bilingual students of Spanish without consent of department.
  

  • SPAN 423 - Advanced Composition and Conversation

    3 Credit Hours
    Develops writing and speaking skills to the advanced level, covering a wide range of topics and situations and including a variety of in-class and extra-class activities.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 323.
    Comment(s): Not available for credit for students whose level of proficiency in Spanish is superior as defined by the ACTFL.
  

  • SPAN 425 - Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See French 425.)
  

  • SPAN 426 - Methods of Historical Linguistics

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See German 426.)
  

  • SPAN 430 - Topics in Hispanic Linguistics

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to the study of the Spanish language through different areas of linguistics such as phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and second language acquisition.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Linguistics 431.)

    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 323.
  

  • SPAN 433 - Images of Woman in Hispanic Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines major Hispanic texts (and/or women authors) in light of the relation of female individuality to a particular social context, the role of women in society, patriarchal tradition, woman as cultural and as aesthetic value (the feminine symbolic), and feminist theoretical issues.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
    Comment(s): Requires completion of major or minor requirements in 332, 333, 334.
  

  • SPAN 434 - Hispanic Culture through Film

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of selected films on subjects concerning life, culture, and artistic traditions in the Hispanic world; exploration of ideological, philosophical, social, and political implications of films and a comparison of them with treatments of related subjects in other types of artistic production. Taught in Spanish.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Cinema Studies 434.)

    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
    Comment(s): Requires completion of major or minor requirements in 332, 333, 334.
  

  • SPAN 461 - Special Topics

    3 Credit Hours
    Focus on aspects of Hispanic literature, culture, linguistics, or foreign language pedagogy. Topics vary.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 465 - Latin American Film and Culture

    3 Credit Hours
    Explores Latin American and Latino/a films and videos from 1900s to present as works of art and in light of political, cultural, and social contexts. Taught in English.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Cinema Studies 465; Latin American and Caribbean Studies 465.)

    Contact Hour Distribution: 1 hour lecture, 2 hours screening, and 1 hour discussion.
    Credit Restriction: May not be applied toward the Spanish major.
  

  • SPAN 479 - Disenchanted Texts in Hispanic Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Texts representing trends and periods of renewal in Spain and Latin American countries. Selected topics on traditions in crisis. Content will vary.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Latin American and Caribbean Studies 479.)

    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
    Comment(s): Requires completion of major or minor requirements in 332, 333, 334.
  

  • SPAN 480 - Social Forces in Hispanic Literary Expression

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of major Hispanic texts that address factors and events that influenced and/or continue to influence social and cultural evolution of the Hispanic world, including literature itself.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
    Comment(s): Requires completion of major or minor requirements in 332, 333, 334.
  

  • SPAN 482 - Trends in Hispanic Thought

    3 Credit Hours
    Intellectual/philosophical currents represented in literary works, selected thinkers, or movements from historical periods of Spain and Latin American countries.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
    Comment(s): Requires completion of major or minor requirements in 332, 333, 334.
  

  • SPAN 484 - Race, Ethnicity, and Nation in Hispanic Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Close reading and analysis of literary texts that deal with issues of race and ethnicity in the Hispanic world, especially with regard to identity and concepts of nationhood. Among possible course topics - mestizaje; conceptual distinctions between race and ethnicity in Latin America; indigenismo; afrocentrism; issues of monarchy and empire; and relationship between Jews, Christians, and Moors in Spain.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
    Comment(s): Requires completion of major or minor requirements in 332, 333, 334.
  

  • SPAN 486 - Literary and Artistic Movements in the Hispanic World

    3 Credit Hours
    Examination of relationships (thematic, cultural, socio-political, aesthetic, philosophical, etc.) between specific trends in literature and other artistic media, in light of historical contexts in which those relationships emerged.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
  

  • SPAN 489 - Topics in Hispanic Civilization

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of major trends, issues and/or movements in the civilizations of Spain and Spanish America. Political, literary, and cultural perspectives dealing with topics from the Middle Ages to present day may be explored.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
    Comment(s): Requires completion of major or minor requirements in 332, 333, 334.
  

  • SPAN 500 - Thesis

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  

  • SPAN 502 - Registration for Use of Facilities

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses university facilities and/or faculty time before degree is completed.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Credit Restriction: May not be used toward degree requirements.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  

  • SPAN 529 - Readings in Second Language Acquisition

    3 Credit Hours
    Includes critical reading of primary research in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). May include application of SLA models through original research. Topics of focus may vary.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): ENGL 476 or permission of instructor.
  

  • SPAN 530 - Linguistic Research Design and Methods

    3 Credit Hours
    Includes research design, measurement, qualitative and quantitative date collection techniques and analysis.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 531 - Old Spanish

    3 Credit Hours
    Evolution of Spanish language from its origins through the 15th-century.
  

  • SPAN 532 - Medieval Spanish Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Literary works of the 11th through 15th-century. Application of literary theories to understanding of literature, nature and evolution of major literary genres during Spanish Middle Ages, and socio-historical contexts of medieval works.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 533 - Studies in Golden Age Prose

    3 Credit Hours
    Wide range of prose fiction in Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries: Moorish, picaresque, sentimental, pastoral and exemplary novels, and Cervantes.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 534 - Studies in Golden Age Drama and Poetry

    3 Credit Hours
    Major dramatists and poets of the period, which may include: Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderon de la Barca, Garcilaso, Fray Luis de Leon, San Juan de la Cruz, Quevedo, and Gongora.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 540 - Spanish Romanticism

    3 Credit Hours
    Major dramatists and poets representative of Romantic movement in Spain studied in historical perspective of 18th and 19th centuries: Feijoo, Cadalso, Duque de Rivas, Larra, Espronceda, Zorrilla, Hartzenbusch, Bcquer, Rosala de Castro. Content varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 541 - 19th-Century Spanish Prose

    3 Credit Hours
    Costumbrismo, realism, and naturalism in the novel, short story, and essay as represented in major authors: Larra, Mesonero Romanos, Fernn Caballero, Alarcn, Valera, Palacio Valds, Pereda, Galds, Pardo Bazn. Content varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 542 - 20th-Century Spanish Literature: Generation of ‘98 through Civil War

    3 Credit Hours
    Principal achievements and representative directions in literature of Spain through Civil War years.
  

  • SPAN 543 - 20th-Century Spanish Literature: Post-Civil War through Present

    3 Credit Hours
    Principal achievements and representative directions in literature of Spain from Post-Civil War period to present.
  

  • SPAN 551 - Topics in Hispanic Linguistics

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 552 - Directed Readings

    3 Credit Hours
  

  • SPAN 553 - Topics in Peninsular Cinema, Cultural, and Literary Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    May include analyses of a variety of cultural productions from Spain, such as films, popular genres, the press, scientific, political, and philosophical discourses, and other non-canonical texts. Topics and approaches may include gender and queer studies, converso studies, new historicism, and other literary theories.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 563 - Colonization and Resistance

    3 Credit Hours
    Exploration of the literatures of Latin America and the Caribbean up to 1620. Possible readings will be taken from indigenous literatures existing before the arrival of Europeans in 1492, the works written by the early Spanish explorers and conquistadores and the texts created by indigenous, mestizo and criollo writers of the period. Topic varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 564 - Processes of Emancipation

    3 Credit Hours
    Examination of the literatures of Latin America and the Caribbean from 1620-1825. Topics may include: the Baroque of the Indies, indigenous literature, the discourses of science and the Enlightenment. Texts will be studied in their historical context and in the light of Latin American cultural identity leading up to the wars of Independence. Topic varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 566 - Latin American and Caribbean Literatures, Independence, and the Struggles of Nation-building

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of Latin American and Caribbean foundational texts published between 1825 and 1880 in light of independence and the struggles of nation-building and national identity. Topic varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 568 - Cosmopolitismo (Latin American Modernismo and Vanguardismo)

    3 Credit Hours
    Critical study of principal writers and literary works associated with Latin American modernismo and vanguardismo published between 1880 and 1940. Concepts and expressions of modernity as reflected in literature of period. Topic varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 581 - Literature and Historicity

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of the dynamic relationship between historical events and literary representations in Latin American and Caribbean works from the 1940s to the present, emphasizing the categories of “history” and “literature” as cultural constructs that are shaped according to chronological and artistic considerations. Topic varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 582 - Identity Discourses, 1940 to Present Day

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of texts that focus on identity formation, its social development, cultural processes and transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Topic varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 585 - Studies in Regional Approaches to Literatures of Latin America and the Caribbean

    3 Credit Hours
    Interpretation of Latin American and Caribbean literatures taking into consideration regional differences attributable to such factors as race, geography, immigration, and economic development. Key regions include Mexico and Central America, Caribbean, Andean countries, and the Southern Cone. Course readings vary between specific regional perspective and transregional one. Topic varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 586 - Studies in Literary Genres and Latin American and Caribbean Literatures

    3 Credit Hours
    Study of significant literary works within selected genres (including prose fiction, drama, poetry, etc.), and their relationship to the cultural and political practices in Latin America and the Caribbean. Topic varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 587 - Studies in Selected Topics from Latin American and Caribbean Literatures, Cultures, and Societies

    3 Credit Hours
    Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures, Cultures and Societies. Topics may include gender, race, mestizaje, non canonical discourses, etc. Topic varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 589 - Latin American and Caribbean Literary Criticism

    3 Credit Hours
    Major works in which Latin Americans have developed strategies to define, organize, and catalog literatures published throughout continent. Critical approaches that surpass European and other non-Latin American critical perspectives. Topic varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
  

  • SPAN 591 - Foreign Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  

  • SPAN 592 - Off-Campus Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  

  • SPAN 593 - Independent Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit or letter grade.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  

  • SPAN 600 - Doctoral Research and Dissertation

    3-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  

  • SPAN 621 - Seminar in Spanish Literature or Linguistics

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary in field of Peninsular literature.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  

  • SPAN 631 - Seminar in Spanish American Literature or Linguistics

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.