SPAN-503 Spanish Linguistics (3)
Synchronic and diachronic analysis of the Spanish Language. Phonological development and morpho-syntactical, lexical and semantic change. Dialects. Discussion of special topics.  (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-504 Methods and Technology for the Teaching of Spanish (3)
Study of effective classroom presentation techniques for areas which are major sources of difficulty for instructors and students.  Designed specifically to test classroom application of new approaches to old language problems.  (Offered once a year.)

SPAN-507 Spanish Stylistics (3)
This course presents a theoretical foundation of writing styles as models for extensive practice in descriptive, narrative and analytical modes of written expression.   (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-508 Contemporary Spanish Culture and Civilization. (3)
This course provides a study of the nature of Spanish society today, with special emphasis on those events that make Spain unique in relation to other Western countries. Topics of discussion will include elements of the economic, cultural, social and religious life of contemporary Spain.  (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-509 Contemporary Latin American Culture and Civilization (3)
A critical analysis of historical, cultural, political, religious, socio-economic and demographic considerations that have contributed to the Latin American ethos, value system, attitudes, behavior, art and ideas.  (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-520 Introduction to Literary Criticism (3)
This course introduces the main schools of contemporary literary criticism. Students then apply these theories to interpret specific works from a variety of genres in Hispanic literature.   (Offered once a year.)

SPAN-524 Studies in Contemporary Latin American Short Story (3)
Trends, themes and techniques.  Emphasis on Borges and Cortázar.  (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-526 Latin American “Modernismo” (3)
A survey course that examines the literary expressions of the debate on Modernity and Modernization in Latin America in the period 1820-1920.  Topics such as national identity, the creation of modern cities, the “education of women” and the role of minorities will be examined through an anthology of short stories, articles, poems, essays and comics. (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-527 Contemporary Latin American Poetry (3)
Survey course that analyses a representative group of Latin American poets.  Main themes and formal characteristics of these authors will be discussed. (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-528 Early Latin American Novel (3)
Survey course that examines the Latin American novels written between 1890 and 1940.  The class presents an overview of the major movements that informed the novels of the period such as Naturalism, Indigenism, the Historicism, Futurism and other avant-garde trends.  The issues of the construction of national identity and the formation of modern “civilized” societies will be addressed. (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-529 Contemporary Latin American Novel (3)
Survey course that examines the Latin American novels written between 1940 and 1970.  Main themes and formal characteristics of these novels will be discussed in the context of the so-called “Latin American Boom”. (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-531 Contemporary Latin American Drama (3)
Survey course that analyses the development of Latin American theater through the Twentieth-Century.  Different schools and trends will be discussed.  Occasionally this course will focus on specific issues or group of authors, i.e. women playwrights, etc. (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-532 Themes in Latin American Literature (3)
Exploration of specific themes and topics of current debate in Latin America.  Offered occasionally.  Content will vary.  Consult the instructor. (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-533 Latin American Novel after 1970 (3)
Survey course that analyses a representative group of Latin American novels written after 1970.  Main themes and formal characteristics of these novels will be discussed in the context of the so-called “Post-modern Era” (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-535 Latin American Testimony (3)
This course examines the diverse strategies used by Latin American testimonial literature to interpret today’s realities.  Through the analysis of testimonies, the students will develop an understanding of the complexity of Latin American culture and society. (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-536 Women’s Literature in Latin America (3)
This course introduces the students to the work of Latin American women writers from the Colonial period to the Twentieth-Century.  The discussion will focus on the history of women’s education, concepts of beauty, the role of women in society and the construction of women’s identity. (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-537 Latin American Literature & Film (3)
A survey course that examines the relationship between some masterpieces of contemporary Latin American literature and their adaptations into film by some of the major directors of Latin American cinema. (Offered occasionally.) 

SPAN-538 Cultural Stereotypes: Latin America (3)
Toward developing in students a critical attitude with the linguistic learning process.  Students will confront stereotypes in Latin American culture and incorporate in their language-learning process an array of knowledge experiences including socio-linguistics, history, literature, politics, film, and art. (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-539 Contemporary Spanish Women Writers (3)
This course introduces the students to the study of the narrative written by contemporary Spanish women authors.  There will be a specific study, through selected texts, of the most representative movements and tendencies of the post-war narrative and of the various means chosen by the authors to express their literary universe from their condition as women.  (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-543  Cantar de Mio Cid, Libro de Buen Amor and La Celestina (3)
Close reading and discussion of three medieval Spanish masterpieces, which have remained modern throughout the ages. Insight into social, historical, literary and creative issues.  (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-552 Studies in Seventeenth-Century Prose (3)
Don Quixote:  prime example of baroque sensibility and baroque style.  (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-553 Golden Age Lyric Poetry (3)
Seminar on the Renaissance and Baroque poets in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries:  Garcilaso de la Vega, Fray Luis de León, San Juan de las Cruz, Luis de Góngora.  (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-554 Golden Age Drama (3)
Seminar on the Spanish theater of the 16th and Seventeenth centuries.  Analysis of the works by Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Pedro Calderón de la Barca  (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-555 Western Sephardi Diaspora  (3)
Iberian Jewry in the Middle Ages and after the expulsion from Spain in 1492 and the forced conversions of Portugal in 1497.  Study of the social, intellectual, and religious word of the Sephardi communities in Western Europe.  Responses to rabbinic Judaism: Uriel d’Acosta, Spinoza, Isaac Cardoso, and Orbio de Castro.  (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-561 Studies in Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Drama (3)
Poets:  Bécquer, Espronceda.  Dramatists:  Duque de Rivas, García Gutiérrez, Zorrilla.  (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-562 Nineteenth-Century Novel (3)
Regionalism and naturalism illustrated in works by José María de Pereda, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Juan Valera, Benito Pérez Galdós, Blasco Ibáñez, Leopoldo Alas.  (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-568 Contemporary Spanish Short Story (3)
This course introduces the students to the general study of the Spanish short story of the twentieth-century after the Spanish Civil War from the seventies to the nineties.  The focus will be the most significant tendencies of each period, and their principal authors will be studied. (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-570 Twentieth-Century Poetry (3)
Machado, Salinas, Jiménez, Aleixandre, García Lorca, Blas de Otero, Hierro.  Searching for meaning of life in a fragmented world.  (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-571 Twentieth-Century Novel (3)
Themes and styles of Camilo José Cela, Carmen Laforet, Ramon J. Sender, Juan Goytisolo, Elena Quiroga, A.M. Matute, and L.Martín Santos.  (Offered every other year.)

SPAN-572 Twentieth-Century Drama (3)
Casona, Buero, Sastre, García Lorca, Arrabal.  Probings into the human condition:  especially human mortality.  (Offered every other year.)

SPAN-573 Spanish Literature and Film (3)
This course explores the connection between the artistic expression of literature and film in modern Spain. Following the reading and discussion of specific literary works, students view and compare a film rendition of the same   (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-574 Spanish Poetry 1965-Present (3)
The study of a selection of the most representative poetic production in Spain since 1965.  This study will create awareness of how Spanish poetry has recorded the different political, social, and cultural changes in the country during the final decades of the Twentieth-Century.  (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-575 Spanish Novel after 1970 (3)
This course introduces the students to the study of the Spanish novel after 1970.  The class will begin with the years of transition from dictatorship to democracy.  There will be a specific study of the most representative movements and tendencies of the Spanish novel after the seventies, with special emphasis on the period from 1975 until the end of the century. (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-577 Contemporary Women Poets of Spain (3)
Historical analysis and literary interpretation of a representative selection of modern and contemporary Spanish women poetry. Authors: Rosalía de Castro, Ernestina de Champourcín, Concha Zardoya, Gloria Fuertes, María Victoria Atencia, Ana Rossetti among others (Offered occasionally.)

SPAN-593 Special Topics (1-3)

SPAN-595 Special Study for Examinations (0)

SPAN-598 Graduate Reading Course (1-3)
Prior permission of professor and chairperson required.

SPAN-5CR-90 Master’s Degree Study (0)