40 courses with the subject SPAN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
SPAN 101Elementary Spanish I
Credit(s): 4 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Designed for students with little or no background in the Spanish language. SPAN 101 focuses on the acquisition of basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills within a cultural framework. Weekly laboratory attendance and assignments required. Course Note: Students may not take both SPAN 101 and 105. Distribution Area: World Languages Enrollment Requirements: Instructor reserves the right to place you in the appropriate course level Course Catalog ID: 028411 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 4 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: A continuation of SPAN 101. SPAN 102 focuses on furthering the acquisition of basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills within a cultural framework. Weekly laboratory attendance and assignments required. Course Note: Students may not take both SPAN 102 and 106. Distribution Area: World Languages 1374
Credit(s): 4 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Written from afar, Latin American literatures of exile offer alternative representation of home and nation. This course examines the impact of exile on literary writing and personal and collective identities. Topics include: exile in literature/film, the imagined communities abroad, and exile and its impact on the global community. Seminar: First Year Seminar Enrollment Requirements:
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: What languages do Bostonians speak? How do they work? What do our languages tell us about ourselves? This course investigates how language communities and our perception of them - in terms of status, legitimacy, and complexity - are shaped by power relationships and global history. The course is taught in English. 1375
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is designed for students who have completed one year of Spanish at the university level. SPAN 201 is dedicated to developing oral and written proficiency through lectures, conversations, compositions and the practical application of grammar. This course is taught primarily in Spanish. Distribution Area: World Languages Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: SPAN 102 or equivalent or placement by test Course Catalog ID: 028419 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: A continuation of SPAN 201 . SPAN 202 is dedicated to further developing oral and written proficiency through lectures, conversations, compositions and the practical application of grammar. This course is taught primarily in Spanish. 1376
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course addresses the Spanish language needs of bicultural students who have never studied Spanish. The course focuses on Spanish grammar. Special attention is given to morphology and comparative syntax. Course Note: (Offered once a year.) Distribution Area: World Languages Enrollment Requirements: Instructor consent consent required for enrollment: Instructor Course Catalog ID: 028814 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This practice-driven course is a continuation of SPAN 317 : "Introduction to Translation Studies." Span 333 focuses on the use of linguistic and rhetorical analysis in order to 1381
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: A general introductory course on the history of Latin American literature from Pre- Columbian times to the present. Representative works in all major literary genres will provide students with an understanding of the various traditions that make up the culture of Spanish- speaking America. Distribution Area: World Languages Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: SPAN 304 or equivalent or permission of instructor Course Catalog ID: 028628 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: A survey of the development of the short story in Spanish-American literature with special attention to the most representative twentieth-century short-story writers. 1382
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the essay in Spanish-American literature and the genre's evolution from the nineteenth century to the present. Students will read essays and chronicles to analyze the role of this genre in promoting political and esthetic ideas. Course Note: This course counts toward the Latin American Studies Concentration. Distribution Area: World Languages Enrollment Requirements: Instructor reserves the right to place you in the appropriate course level. Course Catalog ID: 028649 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An exploration of the role of women in the literature of the Spanish-speaking world. Topics include the social role of women, women writers, writing about women, and issues of 1383
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 6 / total completions: 2 Description: Selected readings in Hispanic literature. Distribution Area: World Languages Enrollment Requirements: Instructor reserves the right to place you in the appropriate course level Course Catalog ID: 028595 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 6 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Development of the basic techniques and skills needed for translation. Emphasis on translation into the native language with some practice in the opposite direction. Methods of contrastive linguistics to analyze pertinent aspects of language structure, involving syntax, vocabulary and style, are employed. Students are given ample opportunity to apply these techniques through a series of translation assignments, which form the basis for class discussion. Distribution Area: World Languages Enrollment Requirements: Instructor reserves the right to place you in the appropriate course level. Course Catalog ID: 028433 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An in-depth analysis of Cervantes'' masterpiece and the origins of the modern novel. Topics to be discussed include history and fiction, madness, utopia, and the social construction of reality. Distribution Area: World Languages Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: SPAN 304 Course Catalog ID: 028705 Course Offer Number: 1
SPAN 452The Practice of Autobiography in Spanish and Latin-American Culture
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores autobiographical practices in Spain and Latin America from the 16th to the 20th century, examining such questions as: How did individuals and communities construct images of themselves? What impelled people to write? What were the consequences? Through readings in autobiography, mediated autobiography, fictional autobiography, and testimony, the course analyzes intersections of literature and history. Distribution Area: World Languages Enrollment Requirements: Pre-req = SPAN (351 or 360) and (SPAN 352 or 361) or permission of instructor Course Catalog ID: 028717 1388
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is a cultural interpretation of Argentina based primarily on historical, cultural, and literary works. The aim is to explore the process of nation-building in the Latin American context. Topics include: the role of the intellectual in political culture; gender and nation; literature and nationalism; media and politics; and globalization. Course Note: LATAM 454L and SPAN 454L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: LATAM 454L Distribution Area: World Languages Course Catalog ID: 000158 Course Offer Number: 2
Credit(s): 1-3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Under very special circumstances, the department may grant special permission to a major to take a second course of independent study, following the procedures outlined for SPAN 478 . Enrollment Requirements: Department consent consent required for enrollment: Department Course Catalog ID: 028745 Course Offer Number: 1
SPAN 490LInternship Course in Latin American and Iberian Studies
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Practicum Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The Internship Course in Latin American and Iberian Studies is designed to provide students with meaningful, mentored experiential learning while exploring possible careers and making professional connections. Relevant fields include education, media, public agencies, arts, translation, law, health, non-profits, etc. Course Note: LATAM 490L and PORT 490L and SPAN 490L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: LATAM 490Land PORT 490L 1390
