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Spanish (SPAN)
  • SPAN-S 100 Elementary Spanish I (4 cr.) P: Placement Testing required for students who have studied Spanish in High School. Intensive introduction to present-day Spanish and Hispanic culture with emphasis on structure and grammatical forms, vocabulary building and meaning. Development of listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Attendance in the language lab or some online work may be required.
  • SPAN-S 150 Elementary Spanish II (4 cr.) P: Placement Testing or SPAN-S 100. Continuation of SPAN-S 100. Part II of introduction to present-day Spanish and Hispanic culture with emphasis on structure and grammatical forms, vocabulary building and meaning. Development of listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Attendance in the language lab or some online work may be required.
  • SPAN-S 200 Intermediate Spanish I (3 cr.) P: Placement testing or SPAN-S 100 and SPAN-S 150. Further development and review of structure and grammatical forms; vocabulary building coordinated with literary and non-literary readings. Continued development of listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Attendance in the language lab or some online work may be required.
  • SPAN-S 250 Intermediate Spanish II (3 cr.) P: Placement testing or SPAN-S 200. Continuation of S110-S150, with increase emphasis on communication skills and selected readings. Attendance in the language laboratory may be required.
  • SPAN-S 275 Hispanic Culture and Conversation (3 cr.) P: SPAN-S 250. Practice of language skills though reading, writing, and discussion of Hispanic culture. Treats facets of popular culture, diversity of the Spanish-speaking world, and themes of social and political importance. Conducted in Spanish. Native speakers of Spanish, as well as students who have taken a 300 or 400-level Spanish course, may not take SPAN-S 275.
  • SPAN-S 291 Hispanic Literature and Civilization (3 cr.) P: SPAN-S 250. Conducted in Spanish. Continuing practice of language skills through reading and discussion of Hispanic culture. Treats facets of popular culture, diversity of the Spanish-speaking world, and themes of social and political importance. Native speakers of Spanish, as well as students who have taken a 300 or 400-level Spanish course, may not take SPAN-S 275 or SPAN-S 291.
  • SPAN-S 301 The Hispanic World I (3 cr.) P: SPAN-S 250. An introduction to contemporary Spanish and the Spanish-speaking world through study of basic structural patterns and functional vocabulary.
  • SPAN-S 302 The Hispanic World II (3 cr.) P: SPAN-S 250. Introduction to Hispanic culture through literature. Study of representative literary works of both Spain and Spanish America in the context of Hispanic history, art, philosophy, folklore, etc.
  • SPAN-S 303 The Hispanic World III (3 cr.) P: SPAN-S 250. Continuing exploration of Hispanic culture through literature. Study of representative literary works in both Spain and Spanish America, in the context of Hispanic history, art, philosophy, folklore, etc.
  • SPAN-S 311 Spanish Grammar (3 cr.) P: SPAN-S 250. This course is designed to integrate the four basic language skills into a review of the major points of Spanish grammar. Course work will combine grammar exercises with brief controlled compositions based on a reading assignment and class discussion in Spanish. Sentence exercises will be corrected and discussed in class.
  • SPAN-S 312 Written Composition in Spanish (3 cr.) P: SPAN-S 250. This course integrates the four basic language skills into a structured approach to composition. Some review of selected points of Spanish grammar will be included. Each student will write a weekly composition, increasing in length as the semester progresses. Emphasis will be on correct usage, vocabulary building, and stylistic control.
  • SPAN-S 317 Spanish Conversation and Diction (3 cr.) P: SPAN-S 250. Intensive controlled conversation correlated with readings, reports, debates and group discussions. May be repeated once for credit overseas. Native speakers of Spanish may not take S 317; native speakers majoring or minoring in Spanish will replace S 317 with another 300- or 400-level course.
  • SPAN-S 363 Introduccion a la Cultura Hispanica (3 cr.) P: SPAN-S 312, SPAN-S 317. Introduction to the cultural history of Spanish-speaking countries with the emphasis on its literary, artistic, social, economic and political aspects. May be repeated once for credit.
  • SPAN-S 407 Survey of Spanish Literature I (3 cr.) P: One 300-level literature/culture course. An historical survey that covers major authors, genres, periods, and movements from the Spanish Middle Ages through the Baroque period of the seventeenth century. Readings include prose works, poetry, and drama.
  • SPAN-S 408 Survey of Spanish Literature II (3 cr.) P: SPAN-S 312, SPAN-S 317. An historical survey of Spanish literature that covers the main current of Spain's literary history in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
  • SPAN-S 411 Spain: The Cultural Context (3 cr.) P: One 300-level literature/culture course. A course to integrate historical, social, political, and cultural information about Spain.
  • SPAN-S 412 Spanish America: the Cultural Context (3 cr.) P: One 300-level literature/culture course. A course to integrate historical, social, political, and cultural information about Spanish America.
  • SPAN-S 420 Modern Spanish American Prose Fiction (3 cr.) P: SPAN-S 312, SPAN-S 317. Spanish American prose fiction from late-nineteenth-century modernism to the present.
  • SPAN-S 450 Don Quixote (3 cr.) P: SPAN-S 312, SPAN-S 317. Detailed analysis of Cervantes's novel. Life and times of the author. Importance of the work to the development of the novel as an art form.
  • SPAN-S 471 Survey of Spanish American Literature I (3 cr.) P: SPAN-S 312, SPAN-S 317. Introduction to Spanish-American literature from the colonial period to the beginning of the twentieth century.
  • SPAN-S 472 Survey of Spanish American Literature II (3 cr.) P: SPAN-S 312, SPAN-S 317. Introduction to Spanish-American literature from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present.
  • SPAN-S 494 Individual Readings in Hispanic Studies (1-3 cr.) P: Consent of the department. Intensive study of selected authors and topics. Repeatable for credit up to 6 credits.
  • SPAN-S 627 Individual Readings in Spanish (3-6 cr.) Enables students to work on a reading project that they initiate, plan, and complete under the direction of a department faculty member in Spanish. Repeatable up to 6 units.

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