Spanish Major

Major Requirements

350-level Electives

1. Two SPAN courses at the 350-level

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Advanced Composition and Stylistics

1. SPAN 361

   Advanced Composition and Stylistics
2. Note: This course may be taken for major credit on campus only. An exception is made forstudents who have received credit for this course by scoring 5 on the AP language exam

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400-level Electives

1. At least two must come from the Pre-1900 (category 1) list

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Pre-1900 (category 1)

1. SPAN 457

   Colonial Black and Indigenous Thinkers
   1
2. SPAN 459

   'Nuns Having Fun' in Colonial Latin America

   As published: “’Nuns Having Fun’ in Colonial Latin America”
   1.00
3. SPAN 460

   Spanish Renaissance and Baroque Poetry
   1.00
4. SPAN 461

   Theater of the Golden Age
   1.00
5. SPAN 462

   Cervantes' Don Quijote

   As published: “Cervantes’ Don Quijote”
   1.00
6. SPAN 467

   Latin American Romanticism
   1.00
7. SPAN 468

   Vision/Revision: Span Conquest
   1.00
8. SPAN 476

   Linguistic History of Spain
   1.00
9. SPAN 481

   Major Hispanic Authors
   1.00
10. SPAN 483

    Spanish American Modernismo: Spleen, Femme Fatales, Artificial

    As published: “Spanish American Modernismo: Spleen, Femme Fatales, Artificial Paradises”

Post-1900 (category 2)

1. SPAN 470

   Subject and the City: Imagined and Real
   1
2. SPAN 471

   Spanish in Society: Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics
3. SPAN 474

   Contemporary Short Fiction in Spanish
   1.00
4. SPAN 475

   Spanish as a Global Language
5. SPAN 479

   Spanish in the United States
6. SPAN 482

   Major Hispanic Authors
   1.00
7. SPAN 483

   Spanish American Modernismo: Spleen, Femme Fatales, Artificial

   As published: “Spanish American Modernismo: Spleen, Femme Fatales, Artificial Paradises”
8. SPAN 485

   Latin American Novels Before the Boom

   As published: “Latin American Novels Before the Boom (1910-1950)”
   1.00
9. SPAN 486

   Latin American Dictatorship Theater
   1.0
10. SPAN 487

    Postdictatorial Transatlantic Theater
11. SPAN 488

    Latin American Women Dramatists
    1.0

Regulations

1. With some restrictions, only 300- and 400-level courses in language and literature may be counted.

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2. SPAN 361

   Advanced Composition and Stylistics

   As published: “may be taken for major credit on campus only. An exception is made for students who have received credit for these courses by scoring 5 on the AP language exam.”
3. A student who has completed a 400-level course may not take a 300-level course.

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4. No course with a grade of less than C– is credited toward a major. For graduation, the minimum GPA required in courses counting toward a major is 2.00 (C); all departmental courses taken in the major are used to calculate this average.

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5. No more than two departmental courses counting toward a major may be taken in any one term.

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6. Independent study courses are permitted only when the major distribution requirements are met.

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7. SPAN 490

   Honors

   As published: “is open only to candidates who are studying independently for honors.”
   1.00
8. Majors who qualify are strongly encouraged to participate in the Madrid Study Group.

   Not resolved to a course

Honors and High Honors

Romance Languages and Literatures Department