Spanish (SPAN)
Prerequisites: SPAN 317 or equivalent.
Description: Comparative study of the structure of complex sentences in Spanish and English: Translation and composition.
Prerequisites: SPAN 317 or equivalent
Description: Theoretical and practical aspects of Spanish grammar.
Description: Development of spoken Spanish alongside analysis of grammar points known to be challenging for native speakers of English to acquire. Graduate level includes a review of pedagogical theory, research and methodology pertaining to classroom instruction of Spanish as a second language.
Description: Reading and study of nineteenth-century Spanish literature: drama, essay, novel, poetry, and short story. Such authors as Larra, Zorrilla, Duque de Rivas, Espronceda, Tamayo y Baus, Echegaray, Bécquer, Pérez Galdós, Clarín, and Valera.
Description: Reading and discussion of the Spanish-American short story from its origins. Works of the twentieth century by authors such as Horacio Quiroga, Jorge Luis Borges, Maria Luisa Bombal, Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortazar, Rosario Castellanos, and Luisa Valenzuela.
Description: Explore some of the great leitmotifs that have shaped the cultural production of the Spanish speaking Caribbean and the Caribbean diasporas in the U.S. Topics include colonial and postcolonial exploitation, race and transculturation, displacement and migration, environmental issues and natural disasters, among others.
Description: Examination of a variety of feminist Latin American texts including poetry, fiction, history, philosophy and political manifestos from a cultural and literary studies perspective. Consideration of pop culture and visual artists.
Description: Shift from printed to digital texts and its implications for the humanities. Definitions of digital research, various theoretical and methodological approaches, and the consequences for the academy, publishers, classrooms, and libraries. Analysis of representative electronic projects related to Hispanic literature and culture. Design of a digital humanities research projects.
Prerequisites: FREN 301 or 302 (for French students) OR one of the following: SPAN 311, 312, 314, or 315 (for Spanish students)
Taught in English.
Description: Examines the way Caribbean subjects see and represent themselves within a globalized world though contemporary Caribbean literature and culture with a focus on the French-speaking and the Spanish-speaking islands. Analyzes how authors and artists have undertaken topics such as migration, rebellion, violence, slavery, race, gender, and environmental disaster.
Description: Approximation to the linguistic and social diversity of Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. Examination of issues of linguistic contact, bilingualism, language ideologies, linguistic maintenance/shift, and linguistic policies from a sociolinguistic perspective.
Description: Introduction to the theoretical framework and classroom methodology for the teaching of Spanish to bilingual students who acquired the language at home. Exploration of differences between bilingual, monolingual, and second language acquisition of Spanish.
Prerequisites: Admission to masters degree program and permission of major adviser
Prerequisites: Substantial content knowledge of Spanish (e.g., employment as a language educator, degree in the language, university language faculty and/or graduate student, etc.).
Description: Critical review and evaluation of current literature, research and theory in the area of Spanish language teaching and learning. This online course explores the fundamental concepts and principles of assessment in the language classroom with the purpose of improving language teaching and student achievement.
Prerequisites: Substantial content knowledge of Spanish (e.g., employment as a language educator, degree in the language, university language faculty and/or graduate student, etc.).
Description: Critical review and evaluation of current literature, research and theory in the area of Spanish language teaching and learning. This online course explores a variety of instructional planning strategies for the purposes of improving language teaching and student achievement.
Prerequisites: Substantial content knowledge of Spanish (e.g., employment as a language educator, degree in the language, university language faculty and/or graduate student, etc.).
Description: Critical review and evaluation of current literature, research and theory in the area of Spanish language teaching and learning. This online course explores a variety of technology tools for foreign language with the purpose of improving language teaching and student achievement.
Description: Analysis of the culture and literature of Spanish Modernism, from 1898 to 1936.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Medieval Spanish literature. Seminars in Spanish Under the headings listed below the works of one author, or a group of works centering in a period, or those illustrating the development of a literary age are studied with respect to content, sources, style, and influence.
Description: Study of the Spanish Civil War and Francoism, focusing on the history, ideology and cultural production during those years, as well as the presence of the war and dictatorship through historical memory until present times.
Description: Dedicated to avant-garde and/or postmodern literature and art in the Hispanic world. Covers both artistic movements, or focus on one of them.
Prerequisites: Permission and successful completion of a graduate seminar Individual research on a literary or linguistic problem involving original investigation in areas not covered by seminars or thesis
Prerequisites: Permission
Prerequisites: Admission to doctoral degree program and permission of supervisory committee chair