Spanish (SPAN)
College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature
All courses, except 405, are conducted in Spanish.
SPAN 101 Elementary Spanish (4) Conversation,
laboratory drill, grammar, reading. FL
SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish (4) Continuation
of 101. FL
SPAN 103 Intensive Elementary Spanish (8) Course
content of SPAN 101 and 102 covered in one semester. Five two-hour
sessions per week plus laboratory practice. FL
SPAN 105 Accelerated Elementary Spanish (4) Course
content of SPAN 101 and 102 covered in one semester. Four one-hour
sessions per week plus laboratory practice. For students with two to
three years of Spanish. Satisfactory placement score required.
SPAN 111 Introduction to Spanish for TIM Majors (3)
SPAN 112 Introduction to Spanish for TIM Majors (3)
SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish (3) Continuation
of oral practice and grammar study; increasing emphasis on reading and
written composition. Laboratory drill. Pre: 102. FL
SPAN 201A Intermediate Spanish (3) Continuation
of oral practice and grammar study; increasing emphasis on reading and
written composition. Laboratory drill. Pre: 102. FL
SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish (3) Continuation
of 201. Pre: 201. FL
SPAN 202A Intermediate Spanish (3) Continuation
of 201A. Pre: 201A. FL
SPAN 203 Intensive Second-Year Spanish (6) Course
content of SPAN 201 and 202 covered in one semester. Three two-hour
sessions per week plus laboratory practice. Pre: 102 or 103. FL
SPAN 204 Spanish: Business/TIM (3) Continuation
of 102. Specific aspects of Spanish language and culture for the purpose
of meeting social demands and working requirements in business and TIM.
Pre: 102 or consent. FL
SPAN 205 Spanish: Business/TIM (3) Continuation
of 204. Pre: 204 or consent. FL
SPAN 210 Intensive Reading (3) Intensive
reading and vocabulary development. Pre: 202 (or concurrent) or consent.
Recommended for majors.
SPAN 214 Spanish: Engineering/Science (3) Continuing
development of communication skills in Spanish; special emphasis on
reading of scientific-content materials. Listening practice in lab. Pre:
102 or consent. FL
SPAN 215 Spanish: Engineering/Science (3) Continuation
of 214. Pre: 201, 214, or consent. FL
SPAN 224 Spanish for Education (3) Continuing
development of communication skills in Spanish; special emphasis on
reading of education-content materials. Listening practice in lab. Pre:
102. FL
SPAN 225 Spanish for Education (3) Continuation
of 224. Pre: 201 or 224. FL
SPAN 234 Spanish for Tropical Agriculture (3) Continuing
development of communication skills in Spanish; special emphasis on
reading of tropical-agriculture-content materials. Listening practice in
lab. Pre: 102. FL
SPAN 235 Spanish for Tropical Agriculture (3) Continuation
of 234. Pre: 201 or 234. FL
SPAN 258 Intermediate-Level Spanish Abroad (3) Intensive
courses of formal instruction on the second-year level in Spanish
language and culture in a Spanish-speaking country. Pre: 102. FL
SPAN 259 Intermediate-Level Spanish Abroad (3) Continuation
of 258. Pre: 201 or 258, or consent. FL
SPAN 301 Conversation I (3) Intensive practice
in spoken Spanish. Pre: 303 (or concurrent), or consent.
SPAN 302 Conversation II (3) Continuation of
301. Pre: 301 or consent.
SPAN 303 Grammar and Composition (3) Selected
grammar review and intensive practice in effective use of the written
language. Pre: 202 or consent.
SPAN 304 Grammar and Composition (3) Selected
grammar review and intensive practice in effective use of the written
language. Pre: 202 or consent.
SPAN 306 Commercial Spanish (3) Language
as used in business communication; commercial terminology. Pre: 202 or
consent.
SPAN 330 Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice (3) Analysis
of the Spanish phonological system, in contrast with English. Practice
in pronunciation; laboratory drill. Pre: 202.
SPAN 351 Spanish Civilization (3) Survey of
culture and institutions of modern Spain. Pre: 202 or consent.
SPAN 352 Spanish-American Civilization (3) Survey
of culture and institutions of modern Spanish America. Pre: 202 or
consent.
SPAN 358 Third-Level Spanish Abroad (3) Intensive
courses of formal instruction on the third-year level in Spanish
language and culture in a Spanish-speaking country. Pre: 202 or 259.
SPAN 359 Third-Level Spanish Abroad (3) Intensive
courses of formal instruction on the third-year level in Spanish
language and culture in a Spanish-speaking country. Pre: 358 or consent.
SPAN 361 Masterworks of Spanish Literature (3) Reading
and discussion of representative works of Spanish literature: 18th
century to present. Pre: 303 or consent.
SPAN 362 Masterworks of Spanish Literature (3) Reading
and discussion of representative works of Spanish literature: origins to
18th century. Pre: 303 or consent.
SPAN 371 Spanish-American Literature (3) Colonial
period through Romanticism. Pre: 303 or consent.
SPAN 372 Spanish-American Literature (3) Continuation
of 371: Modernism to the present. Pre: 303 or consent.
SPAN 403 Advanced Composition and Conversation (3) Advanced
practice; emphasis on building active vocabulary. Pre: 304 or consent.
SPAN 405 Spanish-English Translation (3) Factors
in the art of translation. Practice in translating material from Spanish
to English and the reverse. Pre: 304 or consent.
SPAN 451 Introduction to Spanish Linguistics (3) Evolution
of Spanish from Latin; modern social and geographical dialects. Pre:
330.
SPAN 452 The Structure of Spanish (3) Analysis
of morphology, syntax, and semantics. Pre: 304, 330, and one of 361,
362, 371, or 372; or consent.
SPAN 458 Fourth-Level Spanish Abroad (3) Intensive
advanced courses of formal instruction on the fourth-year level in
Spanish language and culture in a Spanish-speaking country. Pre: minimum
6 credit courses at 300 level or consent.
SPAN 459 Fourth-Level Spanish Abroad (3) Continuation
of 458.
SPAN 461 Spanish Neoclassicism/ Romanticism (3) Representative
works from Spanish Neoclassicism (18th century) and Romanticism (19th
century). Genres: theater, poetry, essay, novel. Pre: 361, 362, or
consent.
SPAN 477 U.S. Latino Literature (3) A study of
the literature of U.S. Hispanics written in Spanish or bilingually. Pre:
371 or 372.
SPAN 478 Hispanic Women’s Literature (3) The
feminine experience in Western literary and cultural traditions as seen
by women in Spain and Latin America. Pre: 361 and 362, or 371 and 372;
or consent.
SPAN 480 Hispanic Theater (3) Study of
representative authors and plays from Spain and Latin America.
Repeatable once. Pre: one of 361, 362, 371, or 372; or consent.
SPAN 495 (Alpha) Topics in Hispanic Scholarship (3)
Hispanic authors, periods, or themes. (B) literature and society;
(C) Hispanic poetry; (D) literature and film. Repeatable for other
topics, but not for the same topic. Pre: consent.
SPAN 506 Spanish for Reading Proficiency (3) Reading
of scholarly and technical Spanish for graduate students; open to
undergraduates with consent from department chair. Not applicable to
undergraduate language requirement. CR/NC only. Repeatable once only.
SPAN 625 Stylistics and Advanced Composition (3) Analysis
of representative prose with variations in style: colloquial, informal,
formal expository, poetic, epistolary, etc. Practice in writing in those
styles. Pre: graduate standing or consent.
SPAN 658 Seminar in Spanish Linguistics (3) Repeatable.
Pre: graduate standing or consent.
SPAN 660 Medieval Spanish Literature (3) Representative
readings in prose and poetry, from origins through 15th century. Pre:
graduate standing or consent.
SPAN 665 (Alpha) Golden Age Literature (3) Spanish
literature form the 16th and 17th centuries. (B) theater; (C) prose; (D)
poetry; (E) Cervantes. Pre: graduate standing.
SPAN 669 19th-Century Spanish Realism (3) Nineteenth-century
Spanish realism in the novel. Authors include Galdos, Clarin, Alarcon,
Pardo Bazan, Blasco-Ibanez, Valera. Pre: graduate standing or consent.
SPAN 670 (Alpha) 20th-Century Spanish Literature
(3) Representative works from 20th-century literature. Genres:
poetry, theater, essay, novel. (B) generation of 1898; (C) pre- Civil
War; (D) post-Civil War. Pre: graduate standing or consent.
SPAN 680 Spanish-American Novel (3) Critical
analysis of major Spanish-American novels. Pre: graduate standing or
consent.
SPAN 681 Colonial Spanish-American Literature (3) Spanish-American
literature from period of discovery to independence. Representative
authors such as Sor Juana, Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Pre: graduate
standing or consent.
SPAN 682 Spanish-American Poetry (3) Study
of representative poets from all periods: Marti, Dario, Mistral, Guillen,
Neruda, Paz, etc. Pre: graduate standing or consent.
SPAN 683 Spanish-American Short Story and Essay (3)
Study of representative writers from various periods: Sor Juana,
Palma, Quiroga, Reyes, Borges, etc. Pre: graduate standing or consent.
SPAN 695 Seminar in Hispanic Literature (3) A
period, author, genre, or region. Repeatable. Pre: graduate standing or
consent.
SPAN 699 Directed Research (V) Pre: consent of
department chair.
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