Development of all four language skills. Emphasis on listening, speaking, and cultural understanding. Credit for both this course and PORT 2110 may not be applied toward a degree program.

Continued development of four language skills. Emphasis on listening, speaking, and cultural understanding. Credit for both this course and PORT 2110 may not be applied toward a degree program.

An accelerated multimedia class designed for natives or advanced level Spanish speakers that uses authentic models of communication in Portuguese. Credit for both this course and PORT 2110 may not be applied toward a degree program. Credit for both this course and PORT 2115 may not be applied toward a degree program.

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: 2115 or 2120.

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.

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

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.

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 1110 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 1210 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 1120 or equivalent. Review of grammar and further development of all four skills.

Intermediate Spanish for students who have completed 2110 or equivalent. Continued development of all four skills with emphasis on reading.

Intermediate Spanish for heritage language students who have completed 1220 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 2210 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. Credit for both this course and SPAN 307 may not be applied toward a degree program. 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. Credit for both this course and SPAN 306 may not be applied toward a degree program. Prerequisite: 301. Pre- or corequisite: 302.

Special topics related to cultural expressions of health and illness, health care communication and intercultural competence in Spanish-speaking and Hispanic contexts. Prerequisite: 302 and 305 and (306 or 307).

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.

Analysis of Spanish grammatical structures and the current and historical sociopolitical factors that shape how we use them. 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.

A survey of Spanish literature from the 11th to the 17th century. Prerequisite: (302 or AP Spanish Language and Culture =>4) and (306 or 307 or AP Spanish Literature and Culture =5).

Topics will deal with individual authors, genres or periods. Prerequisite: (302 or AP Spanish Language and Culture =>4) and (306 or 307 or AP Spanish Literature and Culture =5).

Deals with different areas, approaches and issues. Prerequisite: **350 or 351.

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 or AP Spanish Language and Culture =>4) and (306 or 307 or AP Spanish Literature and Culture =5).

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.

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.

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

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.