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SPAN 101 First Semester Spanish (4) GRD Oral approach. For the student with no previous experience in Spanish.

SPAN 102 Second Semester Spanish (4) GRD Oral approach. P, SPAN 101 or placement examination.

SPAN 195A Colloquium (1) I

SPAN 199 Independent Study (1-4) [Rpt./]

SPAN 201 Second Year Spanish (4) CDT Credit allowed for 201 or 203, but not for both. P, SPAN 102 or placement examination. Credit allowed for only one of the courses: SPAN 103, SPAN 203.

SPAN 202 Second Year Spanish (4) GRD Credit allowed for 202 or 333, but not for both. P, SPAN 201 or placement examination. Credit allowed for only one of these courses: SPAN 202, SPAN 333.

SPAN 203 Writing and Oral Skills for the Native Speaker of Spanish (4) I II Designed for students who learned most of their Spanish in a home environment. Introduces students to written Spanish. This course fulfills the University's foreign language requirement.

SPAN 204A Intensive Spanish (8) S Offered in Guadalajara only. SPAN 204A is the equivalent of SPAN 101 and SPAN 102. SPAN 204B is the equivalent of SPAN 102 and SPAN 201. SPAN 204C is the equivalent of SPAN 201 and SPAN 202. Recommended for highly motivated students and/or those with experience in another Romance language.

SPAN 204B Intensive Spanish (8) S Offered in Guadalajara only. SPAN 204A is the equivalent of SPAN 101 and SPAN 102. SPAN 204B is the equivalent of SPAN 102 and SPAN 201. SPAN 204C is the equivalent of SPAN 201 and SPAN 202. Recommended for highly motivated students and/or those with experience in another Romance language.

SPAN 204C Intensive Spanish (8) S Offered in Guadalajara only. SPAN 204A is the equivalent of SPAN 101 and SPAN 102. SPAN 204B is the equivalent of SPAN 102 and SPAN 201. SPAN 204C is the equivalent of SPAN 201 and SPAN 202. Recommended for highly motivated students and/or those with experience in another Romance language.

SPAN 205 Intensive Spanish (4) I S 205 is the equivalent of 101 and 102. Recommended for highly motivated students and/or those with experience in another Romance language.

SPAN 206 Intensive Spanish (4) II S 206 is the equivalent of 201 and 202. Recommended for highly motivated students and/or those with experience in another Romance language. P, SPAN 205.

SPAN 212 Latin America on Film (3) I II Study of Latin American cinema and how it portrays the historical, cultural, and socio-political reality of Latin America. Also considers the portrayal of Latin American literature on film.

SPAN 214 Rewriting the Good Fight: the Spanish Civil War and its Legacy (3) I II Study of the Spanish Civil War and its Spanish, European, and worldwide contexts. Particular attention devoted to the artistic legacy of the Spanish Civil War in the visual arts, film, and literature.

SPAN 251 Intermediate Spanish (3) I II CDT Combines all forms of language skills (speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension) with intermediate grammar. P, SPAN 202. Credit allowed for only one of these courses: SPAN 251, SPAN 253.

SPAN 252 Intensive Spanish - 5th and 6th Semester (6) S

SPAN 253 Intermediate Spanish for the Native Speaker (3) I For native speakers of Spanish who wish to continue to improve their writing, spelling, grammar and vocabulary within a dynamic cultural context. (Native speakers should take 253 instead of 251; credit is not allowed for both.)

SPAN 285 Introduction to Humanities Computing (3) S (Identical with GER 285, which is home).

SPAN 299 Independent Study (1-4) [Rpt./]

SPAN 299H Honors Independent Study (1-3) [Rpt./] I

SPAN 305 Intensive Spanish, Fifth and Sixth Semesters (6) S GRD Offered in Guadalajara only. For those who have completed four semesters of college Spanish or equivalent. Will cover the 5th and 6th semester Spanish. A complete immersion in the study of intermediate Spanish, teaching all four skills. P, SPAN 204. Credit allowed for only one of these courses: SPAN 305, SPAN 325.

SPAN 323 Intermediate Grammar and Writing for the Native Speaker (3) I II For the native speaker of Spanish who has had some formal instruction of the language and who wishes to improve grammar and writing. (Native speakers should take 323 instead of 325; credit is not allowed for both). P, SPAN 251 or SPAN 253.

SPAN 325 Intermediate Grammar and Writing (3) I II Essential points of grammar, with emphasis on syntax and development of writing skills. P, SPAN 251.

SPAN 330 Intermediate Conversation (3) I II P, SPAN 325. (Identical with LA S 330).

SPAN 333 Intermediate Composition and Conversation for the Native Speaker (3) I II For the native speaker of Spanish. Students write compositions and give oral presentations on various cultural topics. (Native speakers should take 333 instead of 330; credit is not allowed for both.)

SPAN 340 Phonetics (3) I II Intensive study of phonetics and phonology with emphasis on practical applications for non-native speakers of Spanish. P, SPAN 330 or SPAN 333.

SPAN 343 Phonetics for the Native Speaker (3) I II For native speakers of Spanish. Basics of Spanish phonetics and overview of phonetic variants in the major varieties of New World and Peninsular Spanish. (Native speakers should take 343 instead of 340; credit is not allowed for both). P, SPAN 203.

SPAN 350 Readings in the Literary Genres (3) I II P, SPAN 330 or SPAN 333. (Identical with LA S 350).

SPAN 371A Commercial and Technical Spanish (3) I P, SPAN 251 or SPAN 253. (Identical with LA S 371A).

SPAN 371B Commercial and Technical Spanish (3) II P, SPAN 251 or SPAN 253. (Identical with LA S 371B).

SPAN 399 Independent Study (1-4) [Rpt./]

SPAN 399H Honors Independent Study (1-3) [Rpt./] I II

SPAN 400 Survey of Spanish Literature (3) I II Introduction to Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period. P, SPAN 350.

SPAN 401 Survey of Spanish-American Literature (3) I Introduction to Spanish-American literature from the colonial to the contemporary period. P, SPAN 350. (Identical with LA S 401).

SPAN 402 Survey of Mexican Literature (3) S Major works by Mexican writers. Offered in Guadalajara only. P, 5 semesters of Spanish. (Identical with LA S 402).

SPAN 403 Mexican and Mexican-American Literature (3) II Studies of major works by Mexican and Mexican-American writers. Taught in Spanish although a small portion of the readings may be in English. P, SPAN 350. (Identical with LA S 403, MAS 403).

SPAN 414 Teaching of Modern Languages (3) II (Identical with TTE 414, which is home).

SPAN 415 Creative Writing in Spanish (3) II Practice in writing poetry and fiction in Spanish. P, SPAN 450. (Identical with LA S 415).

SPAN 425 Advanced Grammar and Composition (3) I II Advanced themes of grammar with emphasis on the syntax of verbs and the acquisition of terminology and skills to facilitate analysis. P, SPAN 325. (Identical with LA S 425).

SPAN 430 Spanish Civilization (3) I Spanish milieu; geographical, political, and cultural aspects of Spanish civilization. P, SPAN 330 or SPAN 333.

SPAN 431 Spanish-American Civilization (3) II Spanish-American milieu; geographical, political, and cultural aspects of Spanish-American civilization. P, SPAN 330 or SPAN 333.

SPAN 433 Mexican and Mexican-American Civilization Through Literature (3) I Study of the culture, history, literature and oral tradition (corridos, legends) of the Mexican and Mexican American. P, SPAN 330 or SPAN 333. (Identical with MAS 433, LA S 433).

SPAN 433A Mexican-American Civilization Through Literature (3) I

SPAN 435 Cervantes' Don Quixote (3) II P, SPAN 350.

SPAN 436 Readings in Spanish Prose from the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century (3) II Readings in Spanish prose from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. P, SPAN 350.

SPAN 437 Spanish Theater (3) I Spanish theater selections from the middle ages through the twentieth century. P, SPAN 400.

SPAN 438 Spanish Poetry (3) I II Readings in Spanish poetry from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. P, SPAN 350.

SPAN 440 Spanish-American Prose Fiction (3) I II Readings in Spanish American prose from the Colonial period through the twentieth century. P, SPAN 350.

SPAN 441 Children's Literature in Spanish (3) I (Identical with MAS 441, IRLS 441, LA S 441).

SPAN 442 Spanish-American Theater (3) I Analysis and discussion of playwrights from the Americas drawn from the twentieth century. P, SPAN 350.

SPAN 443 Spanish-American Poetry (3) I II Readings in Spanish American poetry from its beginnings to the twentieth century. P, SPAN 350.

SPAN 444 Mexican and Mexican-American Prose Fiction (3) I II Major works by Mexican and Mexican-American novelists and short-story writers from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. P, SPAN 350. (Identical with LA S 444, MAS 444).

SPAN 445 Novel of the Mexican Revolution (3) I II The revolution of 1910 as portrayed by Mexico's leading writers. P, SPAN 350. (Identical with LA S 445).

SPAN 446 Mexican and Mexican-American Theater (3) I II Introduction to Mexican and Mexican American Theatre with emphasis on the contemporary period. P, SPAN 350. (Identical with MAS 446, LA S 446).

SPAN 447 Contemporary Mexican Literature (3) II S Major novelists of modern Mexico; their works, narrative perspective, characterization, language, time, space, and themes. P, SPAN 350. (Identical with MAS 447).

SPAN 448 Mexican and Mexican-American Film (3) II Major films by Mexican and Mexican-American directors. Relationships of the cinema to Mexican and Chicano literature and culture. P, SPAN 350.

SPAN 449 Topics in Spanish, Spanish-American, Mexican, and Mexican American Literature (3) Monographic, generic, work or author courses in any area of Spanish, Spanish-American, Mexican or Mexican-American literature. P, SPAN 350.

SPAN 450 Conversation and Writing Skills (3) I II Study and practice in formal and informal usage of Spanish as oral communication. P, SPAN 330 or SPAN 333.

SPAN 452 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (3) I II Survey of the fields of phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax, and other related topics. (Taught in Spanish) P, SPAN 425, SPAN 450. (Identical with MAS 452, LING 452).

SPAN 453 Theory of Spanish Morphosyntax (3) I II Introduction to current theories of syntax to describe specific phenomena. P, SPAN 452. (Identical with LING 453).

SPAN 455 Introduction to Romance Philology (3) I Introduction to the diachronic study of the major Romance languages in their phonologic and syntactic development from the Latin language. (Identical with ITAL 455, FREN 455, PORT 455).

SPAN 457 Applied Linguistics (3) I Application of linguistic theory, including psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic approaches to pedagogy. P, SPAN 452. (Identical with LING 457).

SPAN 459 Hispanic Linguistics (3) I II Topics include linguistic perspectives on Mexican-American Spanish and bilingualism, phonology, semantics, dialectology/sociolinguistics. Taught in Spanish. P, SPAN 452.

SPAN 473 Spanish for the Classroom Teacher of Spanish (3) II Practical Spanish for the elementary and secondary school subject-matter teacher who uses Spanish as the medium of instruction. P, SPAN 253/SPAN 251 or SPAN 325/323 or SPAN 330/333. (Identical with MAS 473).

SPAN 493 Internship (1-6)

SPAN 498 Senior Capstone (1-3) I II

SPAN 498H Honors Thesis (3) [Rpt./ 2] I II

SPAN 499 Independent Study (1-4) [Rpt./]

SPAN 499H Honors Independent Study (3) [Rpt./] I II

SPAN 501 Introduction to Hispanic Studies (1) I II Broad view of fields of research, faculty and courses to familiarize students with some practical aspects of graduate studies, issues that pertain to specific fields of research and questions currently being debated across the profession.

SPAN 510 Development of Spanish Medieval, Renaissance, and Golden Age Literature (3) I Spanish medieval, renaissance, and golden age literature (short fiction, poetry, novel and drama) from the twelfth through the seventeenth century.

SPAN 511 Topics in Medieval Literature, Renaissance, and Golden Age Literature (3) [Rpt./ 3] I II Representative topics include the development of lyric verse; Mester de Clerecia, art of the Juggler; the Romancero; the development of prose; renaissance and baroque prose or verse; Cervantes; Golden Age drama; picaresque novel.

SPAN 520 Development of 18th, 19th, and 20th-Century Spanish Literature (3) I Spanish eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century literature (short fiction, poetry, novel and drama).

SPAN 521 Topics in Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature (3) [Rpt./ 3] I II Representative topics include Spanish romanticism; nineteenth century realist and naturalist Spanish prose; the generation of '98; modern Spanish prose fiction; modern Spanish poetry; the contemporary novel of the post-Franco era; contemporary Spanish poetry; modern and contemporary Spanish theater.

SPAN 530 Development of Spanish-American Literature: Pre-Columbian Period to Independence (3) I Spanish-American literature from the Pre-Columbian period to independence (prose, poetry and drama). (Identical with LA S 530).

SPAN 531 Topics in Spanish-American Literature: Pre-Columbian Period to Independence (3) [Rpt./ 3] I II Representative topics include pre-Columbian Aztec, Mayan, and Maya-Quiche literature; the chronicle; Renaissance and baroque poetry.

SPAN 540 Development of Spanish-American Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature (3) I Spanish American nineteenth and twentieth-century literature (short fiction, poetry, novel and drama). (Identical with LA S 540).

SPAN 541 Topics in Spanish-American Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature (3) [Rpt./ 3] I II Representative topics include: nineteenth-century Hispanic-American prose fiction; modernismo; modern Hispanic-American prose fiction; modern Hispanic-American poetry; contemporary Hispanic-American prose fiction; contemporary Hispanic-American poetry; modern and contemporary Hispanic-American theater; trends in the Hispanic-American short story.

SPAN 550 Development of Mexican and Mexican-American Literature (3) I Mexican and Mexican-American literature (short fiction, poetry, novel and drama) (Identical with LA S 550, MAS 550).

SPAN 551 Topics in Mexican and Mexican-American Literature (3) [Rpt./ 3] I II Representative topics include: novel of the Mexican revolution; trends in Mexican and Mexican-American films; trends in contemporary Mexican literature; Mexican American prose fiction since 1965; trends in Mexican-American theater; major movements and authors of Mexican-American literature.

SPAN 561 Topics in Hispanic Literature (3) [Rpt./ 3] I II Representative topics include Hispanic women writers; U. S. Hispanic literature; trends in modern and contemporary Spanish film; trends in modern and contemporary Hispanic American film.

SPAN 571 Topics in Literary Theory and Criticism (3) [Rpt./ 3] I II Topics include historical overview of major developments in literary theory and criticism with theoretical and critical analysis of Hispanic texts.

SPAN 574 Linguistic Perspectives on Mexican-American Spanish and Bilingualism (3) I II Focuses on descriptive linguistic analyses of Chicano language phenomena examined in sociolinguistic/psycholinguistic contexts. Analyses includes phonological and phonetic levels with primary emphasis on morphosyntactic and lexical realizations. Macro-sociolinguistic topics of languages in contact/conflict, language shift, language choice/preference, language attitudes and specific linguistic behaviors associated with Chicano bilingualism. P, SPAN 340. (Identical with LING 574, MAS 574).

SPAN 579 Issues/Methods in Post-Second Foreign Language Teaching/ Learning (3) I (Identical with GER 579, which is home).

SPAN 580 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (3) [Rpt./ 3] I II May be taken up to four times and will rotate between the following four topics. Introduction to Hispanic Sociolinguistics: Current sociolinguistic perspective on the Spanish Language; Introduction to Spanish in the Americas: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives on the evolution and development of the Spanish-American Dialectology; Introduction to Spanish Phonology: Theoretical perspectives on major issues of Spanish phonology; Introduction to Spanish Morpho-Syntax: Current theoretical perspective on major issues of Spanish Morpho-Syntax.

SPAN 581 Topics in Second Language Theories and Applications (3) [Rpt./ 3] I II May be taken up to four times and will rotate between the following four topics. Theories of Second Language Acquisition: Analysis of the current theories of second language acquisition including theories from linguistics, psychology and education; Curriculum and Materials Development: Development of curriculae and materials that reflect the impact of current research in the field of second language acquisition; Theories and Techniques of Teaching Spanish: Study and analysis of theories of language instruction and learning with an emphasis on proficiency-oriented approaches that stress strategic development of skills and accuracy; Applied Linguistics: Application of current linguistic theories to language analysis for the purpose of teaching forms and functions teaching based on patterns of use as well as similarities and contrasts with English.

SPAN 582 Topics in Hispanic Linguistic Theories and Applications (3) I II May be taken up to four times and will rotate between the following four topics. Morphological Theory: Theoretical perspectives on the major morphosyntactic and morphophonological issues of Spanish Morphology; Linguistic Perspectives on Mexican American Spanish and Analyses of (socio)linguistic phenomena encountered in the Spanish of the Southwest; History of the Spanish Language: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives on the evolution and development of peninsular Spanish, Theoretical Issues in Spanish Phonology: Further nonlinear theoretical analyses of selected problems in Spanish Phonology.

SPAN 587 Testing and Evaluation in Foreign/Second Language Programs (3) I II (Identical with GER 587, which is home).

SPAN 588 European Literary-Political Cabaret (3) I (Identical with GER 588, which is home).

SPAN 596J Second Language Acquisition Research (3) [Rpt./ 4] II P, ENGL 506. (Identical with ENGL 596J, which is home).

SPAN 599 Independent Study (1-4) [Rpt./]

SPAN 696A Seminar (3) [Rpt./ 2] I II

SPAN 696B Spanish American Lit (3) [Rpt./ 2] I II

SPAN 696C Mexican and Mexican Lit (3) [Rpt./ 2] I II

SPAN 696D Hispanic Linguistics (3) [Rpt./ 2] I II

SPAN 699 Independent Study (1-4) [Rpt./]

SPAN 900 Research (1-9) [Rpt./] I II

SPAN 920 Dissertation (1-9) [Rpt./]

SPAN 930 Supplementary Registration (1-9) [Rpt./]

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