This is a limited-enrollment program requiring departmental admissions approval. Please see the college advisement center for information regarding requirements for admission to this major.
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| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| DESCRIPTION: | Fundamentals of Spanish, emphasizing communication. (Acceletated sections available.) Pass/fail only. |
| NOTE: | For students with no previous Spanish. |
| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 101. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Continuation of Span 101. Fundamentals of Spanish, emphasizing communication. (Accelerated sections available.) Pass/fail only. |
| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | two years of high school Spanish, Span 101/102, or placement by diagnostic test. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Continued development of grammar, cultural understanding, reading, writing, and conversation skills as introduced in foundational courses. Students are expected to attain an Intermediate-Mid proficiency level. |
| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 105. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Expanded development of grammar, cultural understanding, reading, writing, and conversation skills as introduced in foundational and intermediate courses. Students are expected to attain an Intermediate-Mid to Intermediate-High proficiency level. |
| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | Two years of high school Spanish, or Span 101/102, or equivalent. |
| RECOMMENDED: | Concurrent enrollment in Span 105. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Development of conversation skills in Spanish. |
| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | Three years of high school Spanish, or Span 105, or equivalent. |
| RECOMMENDED: | Concurrent enrollment in Span 106. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Continued development of conversation skills in Spanish. |
| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | Four years of high school Spanish; or Span 106 or equivalent; or placement by diagnostic test. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Continued development of grammar, cultural understanding, conversation skills, writing, and reading through the study of literature. Students are expected to attain an Intermediate-High proficiency level. |
| NOTE: | Fulfills the University Core Languages of Learning requirement. |
| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 205. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Expanded development of grammar, cultural understanding, conversation skills, writing, and reading through the study of literature. Students are expected to attain a strong Intermediate-High or Advanced-Low proficiency level. |
| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 206 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | First semester of a two-semester sequence. Intensive study and practice with Spanish grammar, vocabulary, and writings incorporating cultural and literary readings. |
| NOTE: | First class for returned Spanish-speaking missionaries. Fullfills the University Core Languages of Learning requirement. Required for Spanish major and minor. |
| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 321 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Second semester of a two-semester sequence. Intensive study and practice with Spanish grammar, vocabulary, and writings incorporating cultural and literary readings. |
| NOTE: | Some sections have readings and writing assignments focusing on the professions. Required for Spanish major and minor. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 202, 302, or equivalents. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Spanish sound system; underlying concepts of Spanish speech production and applications to pronunciation. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 322 or concurrent enrollment. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Readings in modern Hispanic literatures, focusing on formal literary analysis. |
| NOTE: | Course is prerequisite to 400-level literature courses. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 322 or concurrent enrollment. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Culture, history, art, music, and traditions of Spain. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 322 or concurrent enrollment. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Culture, history, art, music, and traditions of Spanish America. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 321, 326; 345 or 355; ScEd 276R; fingerprinting and FBI clearance for Spanish teaching majors and minors. |
| DESCRIPTION: | History of language teaching methods; standards-based unit and lesson planning; strategies for teaching speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 377. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Strategies for teaching culture; use of instructional media and technology; assessment of learner performance; foreign language program models; planning for continuing professional development. |
| PREREQUISITE: | ScEd 276R;; Span 377; concurrent enrollment in Span 378; Spanish teaching major status. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Implementing meaningful and engaging instruction for secondary students in Spanish; developing critical thinking, problem solving, literacy, and democratic character; assessing learner performance. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 339. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Literary masterpieces of Spain. |
| NOTE: | Independent Study also. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 339. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Literary masterpieces of Spanish America. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 321 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Introduction to linguistics of Spanish: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, history of the Spanish language, philology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 202, 302, or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Contemporary culture (education, popular and fine arts, worldview, attitudes, etc.) of the Mexican-American in the U.S. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 102 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Contemporary Spanish (or Spanish- American) culture: the people and their customs and institutions. |
| NOTE: | For Study Abroad programs only. |
| OFFERED: | F, W |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 321, 322. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Fourth-year study of Spanish grammar and usage. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 321 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Mexican-American speech patterns, including language contact and bilingualism. |
| NOTE: | Previous course in linguistics strongly recommended. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 321. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Contrastive analysis of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of Spanish and English. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 326 or 329. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Course content varies yearly; focuses on specific area of linguistics such as dialectology or sociolinguistics. |
| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 322 or concurrent enrollment. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Regional and thematic approaches to Hispanic culture. Subject matter will vary. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 339 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Introduction to study of film; background in appreciating best of motion picture art in Spain and Spanish America. |
| NOTE: | Previous experience with film useful but not required. |
| PREREQUISITE: | director's consent |
| DESCRIPTION: | Theory and practice of dramatic performance. Includes participation in play to be performed during semester. |
| NOTE: | No more than 3 hours of 439R credit may count toward any degree. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 441 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Spanish literature from El Cantar de Mio Cid (1140) through La Celestina (1499). |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 441 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 441 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | In-depth study of Cervantes' El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 441 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Romanticism (1770s through 1870s) and/or the novels of Benito Perez Galdos and his contemporaries. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 441 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Genre (twentieth-century novel, drama, or poetry) or particular school (Generation of 1898, Generation of 1927, etc.) emphasized. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 441 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Specific topics in Spanish (peninsular) literature. Course content will vary each semester to offer optimum exposure to all areas of Spanish literature. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 451 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Indigenous literature (Maya, Nahuatl, etc.) and other texts written in Spanish Colonial America through eighteenth century. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 451 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Selected Spanish-American novelists such as Juan Rulfo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Mario Vargas-Llosa, etc. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 451 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Selected Spanish-American poets, movements, and national traditions. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 451 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Twentieth-century theatre from Spanish America and Brazil. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 451 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Introduction and development of an important literary genre in Spanish America, including works of Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, etc. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 451 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Specific topics in Latin American literature. Course content will vary each semester to offer optimum exposure to all areas of Latin American literature. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 339 or instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Spanish-English literature of the Mexican-American within the United States. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Written proposal subject to department approval. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Under faculty member's direction, designing and conducting research project covering material not normally presented in regular course work. Research paper required. |
| NOTE: | Total Span 480R credit toward bachelor's degree not to exceed 3 hours. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Senior standing. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Bibliography, research, and writing of senior thesis. |
| NOTE: | Recommended for students planning graduate studies in Spanish. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Application of contemporary grammatical concepts to problems in Spanish grammar. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Comparative study of the evolution of Latin into modern Romance languages. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Linguistic sources that contributed to formation of the Spanish language. |
| PREREQUISITE: | Span 520, 522. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Topics include semantics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Tool course to meet oral proficiency requirement for all majors and teaching minors. |
| NOTE: | No major or minor credit. |
| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp |
| PREREQUISITE: | Sc Ed 350 or concurrent enrollment; Sc Ed 276R or comparable major course. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Issues, policies, and methods in teaching secondary students with disabilities in general education classrooms. Lab. |
| OFFERED: | F, W |
| PREREQUISITE: | Major-area preadmission requirements. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Field-based initial teaching experience directed at helping prospective teachers experience demands and opportunities associated with teaching secondary students. |
| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | Sc Ed 276R or comparable major course. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Adolescent development and its implications for integrated school culture, curriculum design, instructional practices, and assessment. |
| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | Sc Ed 350 or concurrent enrollment; Sc Ed 276R or comparable major course. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Designing and adapting instruction for diverse learners, collaborating with families, cultures, and communities in promoting and sustaining learning. |
| OFFERED: | F, W, Sp, Su |
| PREREQUISITE: | Concurrent enrollment in Sc Ed 377R and 378, or equivalent major courses. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Current theory, research, and application in classroom management; creating positive teacher-student and peer relationships; developing optimal learning environments. |
| OFFERED: | F, W |
| PREREQUISITE: | Completion of all course work or departmental approval. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Capstone, field-based, semester-long experience in teaching secondary students; demonstrating proficiency in all program standards. Seminar required. |
| OFFERED: | F, W |
| PREREQUISITE: | Completion of all course work or departmental approval. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Capstone, field-based, year-long experience in teaching secondary students; demonstrating proficiency in all program standards. Seminar required. |
*Hours include courses that may fulfill university core requirements.