Designed to examine intensively particular topics or issues concerning the literatures of Portugal, Brazil, and/or the African countries of Portuguese colonization. Taught in Spanish. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Recommended prereqs., SPAN 3120 and an additional course above SPAN 3000. Same as SPAN 4230. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of PORT 3230 and SPAN 3100 (all minimum grade C-).
Designed to examine intensively particular topics or ssues concerning the literatures of Portugal, Brazil, and/or the African countries of Portuguese colonization. Taught in Spanish. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Recommended prereqs., SPAN 3120, and an additional course above SPAN 3000. Same as PORT 4230. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of PORT 3230 and SPAN 3100 (all minimum grade C-).
Examines intensively particular topics or issues concerning Hispanic linguistics selected by the instructor. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours on different topics. Recommended prereq., SPAN 3120 and an additional course above SPAN 3000. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of SPAN 3100 (minimum grade C-).
Introduces students to the main areas of inquiry within the field of Hispanic linguistics. Topics to be covered include speech and language, phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, semantics, linguistic change and variation, and Spanish spoken in the United States. Recommended prereq., SPAN 3120 and an additional course above SPAN 3000. Same as SPAN 5450. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of SPAN 3100 (minimum grade C-).
Familiarizes students with current methodology and techniques in foreign language teaching. Peer-teaching coupled with opportunity to teach mini-lessons provide students with actual teaching experience in the foreign language classroom. Recommended prereq., an additional course above SPAN 3000. Recommended restriction: admission to the teacher certification program. Same as SPAN 5650. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of SPAN 3100 and SPAN 3120 (all minimum grade C-).
Part of supervised secondary school teaching required for state certification to teach Spanish. These hours do not count toward student hours in the major nor in the total departmental hours allowed. Pass/Fail only. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of SPAN 4650 or SPAN 5650 (minimum grade D-).
Participants interested in public service or management-oriented careers in government or business are able to work as interns in public sector agencies or in private industry, on campus, or abroad. Recommended prereq., SPAN 3200 and an additional course above SPAN 3000. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of SPAN 3100 (minimum grade C-).
Required, intensive mini-course for teaching assistants in Spanish and Portuguese. Provides teachers with the opportunity to learn about language learning theory and pedagogy. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Focuses on Brazilian literature through the lenses of literary and cultural studies. May address fiction, poetry or the relationship between literature and film. Besides reading literary texts, reading of academic essays is includes. Same as PORT 4110.
Selected topics in Spanish and/or Spanish American literature. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as SPAN 7120. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Treats various topics and genres, as needs and resources dictate. Gives special attention to theoretical and critical analysis of Hispanic literature with greatest emphasis on contemporary trends. Genres might include narrative, poetry, and theatre. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as SPAN 7130. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Studies medieval works, authors, and themes, with consideration of principal influences from other literatures. Reading in Old Spanish. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Same as SPAN 7140. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of SPAN 5420 or SPAN 7420 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines major works of Portuguese literature and/or Portuguese speaking African literature through the lenses of cultural and literary studies. May address fiction, poetry, or the relationship between literature and cinema. Same as PORT 4150.
Treats various topics, as needs and resources dictate. Special attention to developing historical and current theoretical and critical background of each topic. Representative topics might include Renaissance poetry in Spain, Cervantes, Don Quixote, and Novelas ejemplares, picaresque novel, and the Spanish comedia of the 17th century. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as SPAN 7200. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Treats various topics, as needs and resources dictate. Gives special attention to developing historical and current theoretical and critical background of each topic. Representative topics might include romantic prose, poetry and theatre, realism and naturalism (prose narrative), 19th century poetry, and 19th century theatre. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as SPAN 7210. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Treats various topics, as needs and resources dictate. Gives special attention to developing historical andcurrent theoretical and critical background of each topic. Representative topics might include the generation of 1898, poetry of the 20th century, theatre of the 20th century, pre-Civil War novel, and post-Civil War novel. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as SPAN 7220. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Treats various topics, as needs and resources dictate. Gives special attention to developing historical and current theoretical and critical background of each topic. Representative topics might include pre-Columbian literature, colonial prose and narrative, colonial poetry, romantic novel, the realist and naturalist novel and short story, 19th-century poetry, and gaucho literature. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as SPAN 7300. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Treats various topics, as needs and resources dictate. Gives special attention to developing historical and current theoretical and critical background of each topic. Representative topics might include modernism, theatre, the essay, the regional novel, the novel of the Mexican Revolution, the modern novel, contemporary theatre, and contemporary poetry. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as SPAN 7320. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Topics within Spanish phonology are treated, as needs and resources dictate. Gives special attention to different schools and contemporary theoretical developments. Representative topics might include generative phonology applied to Spanish, Spanish phonology for college teaching, and different schools of Spanish phonology. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as SPAN 7400. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Treats topics within Spanish syntax, each requiring a semester's study, as needs and resources dictate. Gives special attention to different schools and contemporary theoretical developments. Representative topics may include generative/transformational grammar applied to Spanish, fundamental problems in Spanish syntax, and different schools of Spanish syntax. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as SPAN 7410. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Studies a major topic from an area such as phonology, syntax, history of the Spanish language, Hispanic linguistics and literature, or applied Hispanic linguistics. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as SPAN 7430. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
