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SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I

Prerequisite: SPAN 102 or satisfactory performance in placement examination or permission of the instructor. Credit by exam. Further development of language skills with emphasis on reading and oral participation.

Credits

3.0

Core

Foundations/Foreign Language

Offered

Fall Semester

SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II

Prerequisite: SPAN 201 or permission of department chair. Credit by exam. Continuation of SPAN 201.

Credits

3.0

Offered

Spring Semester

SPAN 203 Spanish Conversation & Composition

Prerequisite: SPAN 202 or satisfactory performance on placement examination or permission of the department chair. Credit by exam. Concentration on writing, conversation and structural difficulties. Reading and discussion of cultural materials of an interdisciplinary nature. Weekly written compositions.

Credits

3.0

Offered

Fall Semester

SPAN 204 Spanish Culture and Civilization

Prerequisite: SPAN 203 or permission of the department chair. Introduction to Spanish civilization: study of the cultural features of the Spanish language and the social, cultural and intellectual life of the Spanish people. Discussion and weekly written assignments.

Credits

3.0

Offered

Spring Semester

SPAN 207 Cultural Perspectives on Spanish Literature I

Prerequisite: SPAN 203 or satisfactory performance on placement examination or permission of the department chair. An introductory course that examines texts by major Spanish writers from the Middle Ages to the Siglo de Oro. Illustrated lectures, films and selected documents of and on the period will provide the cultural background required to understand the issues found in the texts and will connect them to social, philosophical and aesthetic movements.

Credits

3.0

Core

Global Persp & Literature

Offered

Fall Semester

SPAN 208 Cultural Perspectives on Spanish Literature II

Prerequisite: SPAN 203 or permission of the department chair. An introductory course that analyzes literary genres and examines major Spanish texts from the Siglo de Oro through the 19th century. Illustrated lectures, films and selected documents of the period will provide the cultural background required to understand the issues found in the texts and will connect them to social, philosophical and aesthetic movements.

Credits

3.0

Core

Global Persp & Literature

Offered

Spring Semester

SPAN 215 Hispanic & Latino Film

Prerequisite: SPAN 203 or satisfactory performance on placement examination or permission of the department chair. A selection of films and documentaries from Latin America, Spain and the United States will be discussed as social texts that articulate through different genres and époques, crucial issues of national identity, violence, repression, north/south relations, gender and memory as a collective reconstruction of the past. Directors may vary.

Credits

3.0

Core

Global Perspectives & Visual Perf Arts

Offered

Either Semester

SPAN 220 Cultural Perspectives on Latin America

Prerequisites: SPAN 203 or permission of the instructor. The region of Latin America is seen through the lens of aesthetic, historical and cultural paradigms that helped shape the region. From past to present, students will be able to comprehend the significance of the colonial ties to contemporary Latin America.

Credits

3.0

Offered

As Needed

SPAN 240 Latin American Lit Popular Culture

Prerequisite: SPAN 203 or satisfactory performance on placement examination or permission of the department chair. 

A survey of the main trends in literary and popular culture from the 20th century. A close reading of the foundational texts of literary historiography from Modernism to Postmodernism. Discussion of the region’s key concepts: transculturation, “magical realism/marvelous real,” “Boom and Postboom,” “testimonio” and the new historical novel.
 

Credits

3.0

Offered

As Needed