Development of all four language skills. Emphasis on listening, speaking, and cultural understanding.

Continued development of four language skills. Emphasis on listening, speaking, and cultural understanding.

Intensive one-semester multimedia course designed for the Business Profession using authentic models of communication and cultural competencies in Portuguese as related to business. Students may not receive credit for this accelerated course and the regular sequence (101-102).

An accelerated multimedia class designed for natives or advanced level Spanish speakers that uses authentic models of communication in Portuguese. Students may not receive credit for this class (277) and the accelerated sequence (275-276).

Students develop their vocabulary and improve their writing skills through the study of readings, films and music from the Portuguese-speaking world and through practice writing compositions. Prerequisite: 276 or 277.

An advanced language course emphasizing interdisciplinary themes in Luso-Brazilian literature and culture. Prerequisite: 311 or 312.

Survey of Brazilian cinema concentrating on the Cinema Novo movements of the 1950s and 1960s. Cinema is presented as an expression of national identity and is understood in relationship to literature and other cultural expressions.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

An advanced language course emphasizing interdisciplinary themes in Luso-Brazilian literature and culture. May be repeated with a change of topic.

Survey of Brazilian cinema concentrating on the Cinema Novo movements of the 1950s and 1960s. Cinema is presented as an expression of national identity and is understood in relationship to literature and other cultural expressions.

Examines works of literature and/or culture and the scholarship written about them from a national or comparative framework.

Beginning Spanish for students with no previous exposure to Spanish. Development of all four language skills, with emphasis on listening and speaking.

Beginning Spanish for students who have completed 101 or equivalent. Continued development of four skills with emphasis on listening and speaking.

Beginning Spanish for students who grew up in a Spanish-speaking environment. Will build upon the language base which the students already possess. Development of all four language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Beginning Spanish for heritage language students who have completed 111 or equivalent. Continued development of the four skills with an emphasis on reading and writing, vocabulary building and review of grammar.

Intermediate Spanish for students who have completed 102 or equivalent. Review of grammar and further development of all four skills.

Intermediate Spanish for students who have completed 201 or equivalent. Continued development of all four skills with emphasis on reading.

This course is designed with a communicative-based methodology (task-based oriented) and engages students in the practice of the four language skills (listening, reading, writing, speaking) using medical-related vocabulary for intermediate-level Spanish proficiency.

Intermediate Spanish for heritage language students who have completed 102 or equivalent. Review of grammar and continued development of the four skills with an emphasis on literacy and speaking.

Intermediate Spanish for heritage language students who have completed 201 or equivalent. Further development of all four skills, with an emphasis on reading authentic materials, on practical writing needs and communicating with other native speakers.

Taught in Spanish (required for major study).Emphasis on oral and written expression based on a theme or language related topics (literature, culture, civilization, translation, commercial, etc.)

Taught in Spanish (required for major study). Emphasis on developing Spanish written expression.

Introduction to literary and textual analysis from perspectives of health, illness, and medicine. Students develop the practice of close reading of literary and cultural texts and improve attention, representation, and affiliation in human relationships. Students may not receive credit for both 306 and 307. Prerequisite: 301. Pre- or corequisite: 302.

Examination of selected Spanish and Spanish-American literary texts representing old and new literary currents. Special attention will be given to stylistics and the analysis of style and literary language. Students may not receive credit for both 306 and 307. Prerequisite: 301. Pre- or corequisite: 302.

Students will learn fundamental concepts related to the sound patterns of Spanish, such as Phonetics, Phonology, Laboratory Phonology, and Sociophonetics and will receive hands on training in a laboratory setting.

An introduction to the phonology, morphology, syntax and dialectology of the Spanish language. Prerequisite: 302.

Required for Spanish majors. Taught in Spanish. Analysis of morphological and syntactic structure. Pre- or corequisite: 302.

Attention to formal aspects of the Spanish of the Southwest as well as to historical and social factors affecting its status. Prerequisite: **350 or 351.

Folkways of Spanish-speaking people of American Southwest: language, customs, beliefs, music, folk sayings. Prerequisite: 301. Pre- or corequisite: 302.

Students will gain a strong understanding about the sound patterns in different Spanish varieties, how the patterns are represented in the mind, how to describe them and carry out acoustic analyses. Prerequisite: **350 or 351 or LING 301 or LING 302 or LING 303 or LING 304 or SHS *303.

Study of oral and literary genres and periods, including Chicano theater, Hispanic New Mexican literature, Chicano writers, poetry, folk music, orality in folk and Chicano narrative. Prerequisite: 301 and 307.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Introduction to fundamentals of literary analysis: defining a research question; gaining access to resources; selecting approaches to texts; citing bibliographic data according to current MLA guidelines.

Study of approaches to language teaching methods. Focuses on the practical application of its results to the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese. Required of all Teaching Assistants in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Students will gain a strong understanding about the sound patterns in different Spanish varieties, how the patterns are represented in the mind, how to describe them and carry out acoustic analyses. Prerequisite: **350 or 351 or LING 301 or LING 302 or LING 303 or LING 304 or SHS *303.

Linguistic variation in relation to internal, social, regional and situational factors. Topics include variation theory, language contact, language and gender, and language planning. The practical application of sociolinguistic approaches will be introduced. Prerequisite: 351 or LING 301.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Study of literary genres and periods, including Chicano theater, narrative, poetry, women's writing, etc.

Offered on a CR/NC basis only.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, Medieval Witchcraft, Golden Age Prose, Love and Death in Spanish Literature, 19th-Century Novel, Generation of 1898 Prose, Women in Literature and Film, Women Writers.

Topical seminars geared to doctoral students, emphasizing the literature of one country or region (e.g., Argentine novel), one genre (e.g., romantic poetry), the literary essay, essential or complete works of one author or trend (e.g., the dictator novel).

Offered on a CR/NC basis only.