313 Conversation

This course is intended primarily for students with some background in grammar and syntax. The course presents the student with a variety of practical situations in which he should use practical vocabulary for communication.

309 Introduction to Linguistics (Only fall)

This course is designed to introduce the student into the study of linguistic analysis applied to Spanish. The course provides an overview of main linguisitcs areas such as phonology, word formation, syntaz and semantics. Students will also become familiar with related aspects of the study of linguisitcs: diachronic approach to language and issues in sociolinguistics.

310 Phonetics (Only spring)

General concepts of Spanish phonetics. Pronunciation, intensity, measure, intonation and articulation. Phonetic texts and their transcriptions.

311 Grammar Review

Intensive post-intermediate study of grammar, including textual structures. The purpose is to teach how to arrive at various grammar forms for all parts of speech, to use these forms in context, and to handle correctly commonly used lexical terms.

312 Composition

The specific goals of the course are to eliminate grammatical errors in writing, build a larger vocabulary, and to improve style and naturalness of expression in Spanish.

413 Advanced Cultural Conversation

Review and practice of the most difficult points of usage in the Spanish language; prepositions, verb tenses, verbs "ser" and "estar", subject/adjective agreement, subjunctive, idiomatic expressions. The main objective is to achieve greater mastery of the spoken language through dialogues, debates, questions and answers, compositions, and synthesis and analysis of readings.

314 Business Spanish

A practical course involving specific vocabulary, grammatical structures and letter formats used in business and economy.

411 Advanced Grammar*

This course is intended for students who have completed a basic post-intermediate course in Spanish grammar. It offers an in-depth study of panish syntax: "ser/estar"; compound sentences; the subjunctive; prepositions and conjunctions; synonyms, antonyms.

430 Dialectology and Bilinguisim (Only spring)**

This course presents the theoretical basis of dialectology and sociolinguistics (variationism) and their application to the description of the Spanish of Spain, Spanish America and the United States. It will include a survey of phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical features of regional and social dialects of Spanish. Cases of Spanish in contact with other languages will also be discussed.

422 Translation

Methods and practice of translating from Spanish to English with literary, technical and commercial texts.

LITERATURE

330 Literary Analysis

The course will focus on analyzing contemporary texts in prose, poetry and drama, all representing main tendencies, and showing the social atmosphere of the moment.

340 Survey of Spanish Literature I (Middle Ages to 1700)

General introduction to Medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature through selected texts. Reading and commentary on basic works for a better understanding of both perios: La Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes, Fuenteovejuna.

341 Survey of Spanish Literature II (1800 to Present)

A survey of Spanish texts and authors from the beginning of the Enlightenment to the contemporary period. We will study literary movements such as neoclassicism, romanticism, Generation of 98, and Modernism, Generation of 1927, post-war and post-Franco literature.

343 Survey of Latin American Literature II

This is a survey of Latin American literature in the 20th century. It will deal chronologically with short stories, poetry, and a few essays. The aim will be to provide a general introduction to the study of modern and contemporary Spanish American literature, its main periods and movements and its major authors.

456 Don Quijote (Only fall)

Parody of the chivalric novels and contemporary literature of the characters in Don Quijote. Don Quijote: hero or madman?; the living of a myth. The problem of the narrator. First and second parts of Don Quijote: two different novels?; evolution of Don Quijote and Sancho.

470 Modern Spanish Literature

Study of Spanish literary works throughout this century: following the evolution of the different types of literature; generational phenomena, and the most outstanding authors and their works.

479 Hispanic Women Writers (only spring)

This course will focus on the analysis of text by Latin American writers published in the 20th century. Topics such as growing up female, women in relationships, love and power, women in politics, and strategies of literarly representation will be examined. Readings will include works by Isabel Allende, Rosario Castellanos, Elena Garro, Luisa Valenzuela, Rosario Ferré, Griselda Gambaro, and narrative by young authors. Readings will also include theoretical texts dealing with gender theory.

473 Literature and Cinema

A chronological survey of the main Spanish films of recent years, placed in historical context. Literary analysis of extracts of the most outstanding scripts.

CULTURE

423 Islamic Iberia (Only fall) (Or HIEU 315 Medieval Iberia, 411-1469***) The Arabic culture on the Iberian Peninsula: the Hispanic-Arabic cities; literature, poetry and science in Moslem Spain; institutions in the caliphate. Examination of Arabic works in Córdoba and Granada.

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427 Spanish Culture and Civilization (or HIEU 301 Sp. Cult. and Civ.***)

This course deals with Spain in the 20th century. It will begin with the most important political events since 1900 (end of the Monarchy of Alfonso XII, the 2nd Republic, Spanish Civil War, Franco Dictatorship), up to the present political events of modern Spain ruled by a parliament under a monarchy, and totally integrated into Europe. Special emphasis will be put in understanding Spain and its complexity (regional diversity and tensions), and the main social changes of the Spanish society after the death of Franco in 1975. Part of the course will be dedicated to the study of the Spanish artistic movements and its most relevant contemporary representatives in the field of music, painting, architecture and dance.

428 Latin American Culture and Civilization (or HILA 211 L.A. Civ***)

This course intends to acquaint the student with the cultural richness and diversity of Latin America. The topics to be studied are compiled from a selection of different aspects of the Latin American societies, thereby pointing out and identifying the diversity as well as similarities of countries of the region. A thematic approach is taken to study the political, social, historical, and artistic components that contribute to the unique cultural development of the continent. In addition, a study of diverse cultural artifacts is sued to explore the ethnic and cultural heterogeneity of Latin American societies including the Latino presence in the United States.

440 Spanish History (or HIEU 349 20th Century Spain***)

The crisis of the restoration of the monarchy, Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, the Second Republic, the Civil War, the Franco Era, the transition from dictatorship to democracy.

490 TV, Radio & Newspapers (special topic)(Only spring)

Introduction to Spanish mass means of communication. Study of the mechanisms used, and media's sociological importance. Special emphasis on radio and television.

499 The Spanish Economy (special topic) (or ECON 207 The Spanish Economy***)

A broad approach to the Spanish Economy (starting with its modernization) and its integration in the EEC. Focus on the role of Europe in the world economy and politics, and the future of the Euro as a new reserve currency.

ART

491 Spanish Modern Art (special topic) (Only fall) (or ARTH 280 Art Since 1945***)

This course studies the main art works produced in the 19th and 20th centuries: Goya, Picasso, Dalí, Miró, Tapies, Chillida, Villanueva, Gaudí and Calatrava will be contemplated from an eminently cultural view. In addition to analyzing the different productions from a technical viewpoint, they will serve as models to understand social and cultural trends of the period.

492 Introduction to Spanish Art (special topic)

Spanish art is among the richest and most important examples of world art. Its heritage is comprised of works dating from prehistoric times with the caves at Altamira up to the 21 st Century (Calatrava, Mariscal), including the rich architectural legacy of the Romans, the gothic castles and churches of the Middle Ages, Golden Age painting (Velázquez, El Greco, Murillo, Ribera), and the great names of the 20 th Century (Gaudí, Picasso, Dalí, Miró). This course will be a study of all these in which the student will analyze period style as well as the cultural, historical and ideological backdrops which triggered them, making the course a small window through which we can study the past.

493 Picasso (Only spring) (special topic) (or ARTH 254 Modern Art 1900-1945***)

The Spanish tradition after Goya and the cultural atmosphere of the 19th century. The formation of Picasso and the different periods of his work. Iconografic problems. The creation of "Guernica".

*311 or similar, pre-requisite.
**Phonetics or linguisitics, pre-requisite.
***In courses with two possible nomenclatures, students will be able to choose only one.

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