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 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).
Co-requisite: SPAN 310. This is the cultural/conversational component of the Spanish 310 course for native speakers. Laboratory activities include: presentations, debates, discussions and movie reviews.
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.