Graduate Courses: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Department of Hispanic Studies

 

Courses: Spanish (SPAN)

6170: Bibliography
Cr. 3. (1-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Use of current bibliographical sources for investigative/analytical study of Spanish-language literature and linguistics.

6198:6298:6398:6598: Special Problems
Cr. 1-5 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

6301:6302: Critical Readings in Spanish Literature
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Reading of selected core works of Spanish literature with emphasis on critical interpretation and analysis.

6303:6304: Critical Readings in Spanish American Literature
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Reading of selected core works of Spanish American Literature with emphasis on critical interpretation and analysis.

6305: Teaching Spanish for Acquisition
Cr. 3. (3-0). Required of all teaching assistants and highly recommended to all graduate students. An introduction to different methodologies for teaching Spanish as a second language.

6330: Language Variation and Change
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Graduate status. Linguistic and social phenomena that motivate variation and change in Spanish.

6331: Historical Grammar
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

6332: Spanish Culture and Civilization
Cr. 3. (3-0). Principal characteristics of Spanish culture and civilization (literature, history, music, painting, architecture, etc.). Studied in Spain.

6333: Studies in Nineteenth Century Spanish Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

6334: Spanish-American Culture and Civilization
Cr. 3. (3-0). Principal characteristics of Spanish-American culture and civilization (literature, history, music, painting, architecture, etc.). Studied in Spanish America.

6335: Golden Age Drama
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Social meaning and artistic values of significant works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

6338: Poetry of the Golden Age
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

6344: Hispanic Literature of the United States
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Survey of the major literary works of Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Cuban-American, and other U.S. Hispanic writers, past and present.

6345: Women Write America/Las Mujeres Reescriben America
Cr. 3. (3-0). Students will be considering how a variety of U.S. women writers of Latin American descent (U.S. Latinas) "write" America. They, too, are Americans but their experiences, marginalized as women, as Latinas, and sometimes by class or sexuality, marks them as outside of the dominant notion of what America is and who counts as American. The writings of these women creatively reimagine an America that reflects brown bodies and faces, painting a very different picture of the U.S.

6355: Spanish Phonology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Sound system and prosodic features of modern Spanish; phonological theories and their application to Spanish.

6356: Spanish Syntax
Cr. 3. (3-0). Spanish syntax as exemplifying language universals: grammatical relations, word order, transitivity, causative constructions, relative clauses.

6357: Spanish Semantics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Relationship between syntax and semantics. Application of structural semantic theories to the Spanish language; concepts of semantic and lexical fields. Current approaches to the analysis of the Spanish lexicon; discourse pragmatics.

6358: Spanish Sociolinguistics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Sociolinguistic principles and patterns as illustrated in Spanish.

6359: Spanish Dialects in the United States
Cr. 3. (3-0). Major dialect areas of Spanish spoken in the United States in their phonological, morphological, lexical and syntactic variations.

6360: Culture and Communication: Methods in Linguistic Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0).  Prerequisites: Graduate standing of PB status.  This course explores the multiple methodologies that exist for researching language as a mode of communication and interaction within the field of linguistic anthropology.

6363: Literature of the Middle Ages
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

6366: Spanish-American Literature to 1830
Cr. 3. (3-0).

6367: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish-American Theatre
Cr. 3. (3-0).

6368: Modernist Movement in Spanish America
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: SPAN 3321 and SPAN 3322. Study of foreign influences. The distinctive characteristics of the movement; contributions of major authors.

6370: Research Methods
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Methods of bibliographical and field research, use of technology, techniques of documentation, analytical taxonomies, and the establishment of acceptable evidence in research.

6375: Modern Spanish-American Narrative to 1950
Cr. 3. (3-0). Evolution of writers' central themes from the environmental to the existential.

6379: Contemporary Spanish-American Narrative from 1950 to the Present
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. The principal manifestations of thought and the interrelationship between certain themes and techniques in the development of the contemporary narrative in Spanish America.

6380: Advanced Grammar for Spanish Teachers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SPAN 4365 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Intensive analysis of Spanish grammar with emphasis on differences between Spanish and English.

6381: Spanish Poetry from Becquer to the Present
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. A close analysis of the works of major artists illustrating the poetic trends from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

6382: Golden Age Prose
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

6385: Contemporary Spanish-American Poetry
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

6386: Contemporary Spanish Fiction
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Readings in twentieth century Spanish fiction, emphasizing the major trends in modern Spanish narrative.

6389: Teaching Spanish to Native Speakers of Spanish
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Methodology for teaching Spanish to Mexican-American and other students from a Spanish-speaking background.

6392: Reading Spanish for Nonmajors I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or approval of chair. Reading knowledge of Spanish as a research tool. Accelerated study and analysis of grammar and linguistic structures of Spanish scholarly and scientific literature.

6393: Reading Spanish for Nonmajors II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SPAN 6392 or equivalent. Continuation of SPAN 6392 with emphasis on translation problems. Readings in specific research areas.

6394: Selected Topics in Teaching Spanish
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: SPAN 4371 or equivalent or consent of instructor. May be repeated once for credit with approval of chair. Varying topics such as techniques of teaching grammar, conversation, composition, and writing.

6395: Selected Topics in Spanish Language and Linguistics
Cr. 3. (3 0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Varied topics dealing with Spanish language, dialects, and linguistic theory. May be repeated with the approval of the chair.

6396: Selected Topics in Spanish Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: 12 semester hours in advanced Spanish literature or approval of chair. May be repeated with approval of chair.

6397: Selected Topics in Spanish-American Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: 12 semester hours in advanced Spanish-American literature or approval of chair. May be repeated with approval of chair.

6399: Master's Thesis
Cr. 3. (3-0).

7198:7298:7398:7498:7598:7698: Reading and Research in Language and Literature
Cr. 1-6 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of graduate advisor in Spanish. Instructor-supervised independent study in subjects not normally or not often included in the regular course offerings.

7301: Methods of Study in U.S. Hispanic Literature and Language
Cr. 3. (3-0). Presentation of research issues with critical, methodological, and bibliographical resources. Includes a historical overview of field.

7302: Advanced Research and Writing Seminar
Cr. 3. (3-0). Use of bibliographic resources and various methods of research in preparing scholarly books and articles.

7304: Critical Theory
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Analysis of main concepts shaping contemporary approaches to literature.

7391: Studies in Spanish American Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). One selected topic (such as Chronicles of the Indies, Novel of the Mexican Revolution, Ruben Dario) is explored in depth. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

7392: Studies in the History of Hispanic Ideas
Cr. 3. (3-0). One selected topic (such as Spain and European Culture, European Thought in Latin America, the Development of Hispanic Nationalism in the U.S.) is explored in depth with emphasis on ideological currents. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

7393: Methods of Study in Spanish Linguistics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Examination of various methods of linguistic analysis in Spanish, such as transformational grammar, socio- and psycholinguistics. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

7394: Studies in Spanish Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). One selected topic (such as El Cid, Cervantes, the Generation of the '98, the Theater of Garcia Lorca) is explored in depth. Course may be repeated for credit when the topic varies.

7395: Studies in U.S. Hispanic Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). One selected topic (such as Bilingual Literature, Nuyorican Literature, Chicano Literature, Ethnic Autobiography, U.S. Hispanic Theatre) is explored in depth. May be repeated for credit when the topic varies.

7399: Master's Thesis
Cr. 3-6 per semester.

8399:8699: Dissertation
Cr. 3-6 per semester.

Catalog Publish Date: January 14, 2013
This Page Last Updated: October 26, 2012