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. An introduction to Portuguese for Spanish speakers.

An intensive one-semester intermediate multimedia course using authentic models of communication in Portuguese. Prerequisite: 102 or 275.

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.

Thematic study of history, culture, and literature based on key moments and movements in Brazil from 16th to 19th centuries. Prerequisite: 311 or 312.

Thematic study of history, culture, and literature based on key moments and movements in Brazil from 16th to 19th centuries.

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. Prerequisite: 201.

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.

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. 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.

A survey of Spanish literature from the 11th to the 17th century. Prerequisite: 302 and 307.

Topics will deal with individual authors, genres or periods. Prerequisite: 302 and 307.

A historical survey of the literary canon in Spanish America from Colonial times through 19th-century Romanticism. Prerequisite: 302 and 307.

Topics will deal with individual authors, genres or periods. Prerequisite: 302 and 307.

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: 302 and 307.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Open to juniors and seniors approved by Honors Committee. 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.

A survey of major Spanish masterpieces from the Jarchas to the Celestina.

Courses ranging from post-Romanticism (Becquer, Castro), the “Generation of ‘98” (Machado, Unamuno), Jiménez’s “pure poetry,” the fusion of tradition and avant-garde aesthetics in the “Generation of ‘27,” to the post-war poets and more recent tendencies.

Study of the latest research in first and second language acquisition. Focus is placed on the practical application of its results to the teaching of Spanish. Required of all Spanish Teaching Assistants.

An advanced course providing students with the opportunity to develop expertise in linguistic analysis. A broad range of branches are covered, including sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, phonetics, mophosyntax, semantics and psycholinguisticis. Prerequisite: 351 or LING 301.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Study of oral genres and folkways of Spanish-speaking people of the American Southwest and appropriate theoretical approaches.

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.