First part of a two semester sequence emphasizing the development of a functional proficiency in the four basic language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Oral communication is stressed. (LAC)

Prerequisite: SPAN 101 or Qualifying Score on Departmental Placement Test. A continuation of SPAN 101. (LAC)

Introductory Spanish language course emphasizing functional communication for teachers and professionals who work with Spanish speaking students/families. (LAC)

Prerequisite: SPAN 103. Second Semester introductory Spanish language course emphasizing practical communication and building linguistic and cultural competencies for teachers and professionals who work with Spanish speaking students and families. (LAC)

Prerequisite: Two years of High School Spanish or demonstrated language proficiency and a qualifying score on Departmental Placement Test. Review the basic principles of the language and emphasize oral Spanish communication. Become familiar with Spanish and Latin American civilization. (LAC, gtP)

Prerequisite: SPAN 201 or Qualifying Score on Departmental Placement Test. A continuation of SPAN 201. (LAC, gtP)

Prerequisite: SPAN 202  or Qualifying Score on Departmental Placement Test. A systematic study of the more complex theories and forms of Spanish grammar with emphasis on mood, tense and voice.

Prerequisite: SPAN 301. Designed to increase the student's composition skills in Spanish through the use of original essays, descriptions, compositions, research papers and translations.

A course designed to develop a high level of proficiency in spoken Spanish. Language functions are practiced in the context of practical everyday situations and film studies.

Prerequisite: SPAN 301. To acquaint the student with the elements of the various literary genres and literary criticism. The MLA Handbook will be introduced for research writing.

Prerequisites: SPAN 302. An introduction to the main concepts and issues related to the study of Hispanic linguistics.

Co-requisite: SPAN 311.  Prerequisite: Functional Spanish language skills at the second-year level, or intermediate level of college Spanish; or equivalent. This course is designed for students who learned Spanish in an informal non-academic setting (home, Peace Corps, travel, foreign duty).

Co-requisite: SPAN 311. Prerequisite: Qualifying Score on Departmental Placement Test. This course is designed for students who learned Spanish in an informal non-academic setting (home, Peace Corps, travel, foreign duty).

Prerequisites: SPAN 310 and SPAN 311. Designed for bilingual Heritage speakers of Spanish. The course focuses on reading development, orthography, lexical expansion, formal grammar, facility in writing and composition.

Prerequisite: SPAN 304. Designed to acquaint students with general trends of Spanish civilization and culture. Includes historical, economic, political and artistic developments of Spain from prehistoric times to the present.

Prerequisite: SPAN 304. Designed to examine the historical and cultural development of the Latin American countries. Surveys the major historical events from the pre-Columbian period to the present.

Prerequisite: SPAN 304. Designed to examine the historic, economic, political, artistic, and cultural development of Mexico and Mexican American United States.

Prerequisite: Three years of college Spanish. The study of the major semantic, syntactic and phonological aspects of the Spanish language dialects and the standard Latin American Spanish found in the Americas.

Prerequisites: SPAN 302 or SPAN 312. Introduction to translation techniques and resource material in a wide variety of subjects and styles. Emphasis will be placed on translation accuracy.

Prerequisite: SPAN 302. Develops Spanish language skills for teaching math, science and social studies. ACTFL/ETS Spanish Oral Proficiency Interview must be taken before student teaching.

Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.) Repeatable, maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.

Prerequisite: SPAN 304. Study Spanish Peninsular masterpieces from Medieval through Contemporary Literature of Spain. Includes poetry, narrative, essay and drama.

Prerequisite: SPAN 304. Study Latin-American masterpieces from pre-Columbian through Contemporary period. Includes poetry, narrative, essay and drama.

A study of award-winning works of literature. Emphasis on multi-cultural books for children and adolescent literature of acculturation and assimilation.

Prerequisite: Two years of college Spanish or equivalent. Study of the short story in Spain and Spanish America. Will review its development from the Middle Ages to the present. Includes works of Matute, Garcia Marquez, Borges and Rulfo.

Prerequisite: SPAN 304. Study of the masterpieces of Chicano/a literature from the Spanish colonial period to the present. Focuses on the literature written during the decades of 1965-1995.

Prerequisite: Two years of college Spanish or equivalent. A study of Hispanic drama masterpieces from Spain's Golden Age to the post-Civil War period; Latin America's Contemporary Theatre of Social Protest; and the United States' Hispanic Theatre Movement.

Prerequisites: SPAN 303, SPAN 304 and six hours of 400-level Spanish course work. A course designed to develop oral proficiency by exposing students to advanced and superior linguistic functions.

Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. An in-depth study of selected topics in literature, civilization, linguistics or advanced language. Repeatable, maximum of six credits, under different subtitles.