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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.
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.
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Courses: Spanish (SPAN)
6170: BibliographyCr. 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.
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.