43 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 100Introductory Spanish I4
Beginning study of Spanish language and culture through textual, audio, and visual materials. Learning to function in culturally authentic situations and to perform with some proficiency in the four fundamental skill areas: reading, writing, listening, speaking. Designed to develop novice to novice-mid oral and written proficiency as defined by the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages. (F3)
Beginning study of Spanish language and culture through textual, audio, and visual materials. Learning to function in culturally authentic situations and to perform with some proficiency in the four fundamental skill areas: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. The vocabulary and context revolve around the medical professions. Designed to develop novice to novice-mid oral and written proficiency as defined by the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages. (F3)
Beginning study of Spanish language and culture through textual, audio, and visual materials. Learning to function in culturally authentic situations and to perform with some proficiency in the four fundamental skill areas: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Designed to develop novice to novice-mid oral and written proficiency as defined by the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages. (F3) (Intercultural and Linguistic Competencies)
Beginning study of Spanish language and culture through textual, audio, and visual materials. Learning to function in culturally authentic situations and to perform with some proficiency in the four fundamental skill areas: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. The vocabulary and context revolve around the medical professions. Designed to develop novice to novice-mid oral and written proficiency as defined by the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages. (F3)
SPAN 105 LinC Requirement: F3 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade TAGS Critical Reading
SPAN 111Conversational Span Health Personne4
The primary objective of this course is to develop Spanish oral proficiency among health care pre-professionals and professionals who interact with Spanish-speaking patients. It will use applicable communicative tools and techniques, such as medical terminology, key words, power phrases, questionnaires, patient forms and effective interviews. It will continue to explore intercultural issues through reference information written from a cross-cultural perspective. This course will integrate a Service Learning (SL) experience at local community partners. SPAN 111 does not fulfill the F3 requirement.
SPAN 106 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade TAGS Public Speaking
SPAN 112Spanish Lang/Cult for Educators I4
It is designed to help students in the education field achieve novice to novice-mid Spanish proficiency level (as defined by ACTFL). It will provide basic tools and develop cross-cultural competency for communicating with Spanish-speaking students and parents or guardians. (F3).
Recommendation from Modern Languages and Literatures Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 113Spanish Lang/Cult for Educators II4
It is designed to help students in the education field achieve novice-mid to novice-high Spanish proficiency level (as defined by ACTFL). It will provide basic tools and develop cross-cultural competency for communicating with Spanish-speaking students and parents or guardians. (F3).
SPAN 112 OR Recommendation from Modern Languages and Literatures Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 120Spain:Crossroads Civilization4
This course offers an overview of the culture of Spain through readings, exercises and media. Students will develop their writing skills and will improve their knowledge of grammar through different informal and formal assignments. Class is discussion-based and conducted entirely in Spanish.
SPAN 110 Introductory Spanish III ( may be waived in exceptional cases with permission from instructor).
SPAN 125Spanish for Heritage Speakers4
This course is designed for incoming heritage speakers of Spanish who aspire to improve their writing skills and further develop their knowledge of the Spanish language. The course will offer a variety of engaging topics and readings, along with current cultural information. It will focus on spelling, accentuation, lexical development, and grammar topics especially relevant to English dominant Spanish-speaking students and Spanish dominant speakers. (F3) (Intercultural and Linguistic Competencies) Please note that heritage speakers are not allowed to take introductory SPAN 100, SPAN 103, SPAN 105, SPAN 106 or SPAN 110. Instead, they should enroll in SPAN 125 which counts towards the major, minor, and health certificate in Spanish. Heritage speakers who wish to pursue the Spanish for Health Professionals Certificate must start with SPAN 111: Conversational Spanish for Health Professionals.
Experience speaking Spanish with family and friends or instructor’s permission. Credit Type Code: Letter Grade TAGS Cultural and Linguistic Competencies
SPAN 210Intro Hispanic Cult: Spain4
This course combines a chronological survey of Spanish literary and cultural history from Islamic Spain to the Colonial period with specific advanced language study. Students will engage with a variety of texts and media sources and will hone their writing skills through different informal and formal assignments. Class is discussion-based and conducted entirely in Spanish. (PTK - Creativity)
SPAN 120 OR SPAN 125 MILE Requirement: CRE Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 215Intro Hispanic Lit/Culture4
This course combines a survey of Latin American literary and cultural history from the Enlightenment to the present with specific advanced language study. Students will engage with a variety of texts and media sources and will hone their writing skills through different informal and formal assignments. Class is discussion-based and conducted entirely in Spanish.
Introduction to Spanish peninsular and Latin American literary genres (narrative, poetry, theater, and essay), movements and techniques from the Middle Ages to the present. Readings and discussion in Spanish. (M2)(Writing)
SPAN 210 AND SPAN 215 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade TAGS Writing
SPAN 242Love and Jealousy4
This course seeks to establish a connection between early modern Spanish writers and contemporary authors through the themes of love and jealousy, honor and dishonor, power and submission, appearance and reality. This course starts with Cervantes’s and Maria de Zayas’s accounts and continues with a variety of contemporary texts and media that draw upon the rich visual imagery of early modern Spain. Students will have the opportunity to conduct individual research and will be encouraged to present their work at undergraduate conferences. Please note that students who have completed SPAN 242 may not take this course at the 300-level and vice versa.
At least one Spanish course at the 200-level Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 243Intro Hispanic Lit in US4
This course provides an overview of the history of Latino literature in the U.S., introducing the major literary trends from the nineteenth century to today: native literature, immigration literature and exile/refugee literature. Emphasis will be on similarities and differences in the experiences among diverse Hispanic groups, especially Puerto Rican, Mexican-American and Cuban-American groups who represent the largest Hispanic population in the U.S.
SPAN 210 and SPAN 215 . Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 246Culture & Civil Spain4
Introduction to the Spanish Peninsular culture through major elements that constitute Spain today, including the civilizations that left their imprint on Spain’s art, music, and literature. Issues and concerns about pluralism, politics, economics, and social change. Readings and discussion in Spanish.
The literary “Boom” in Latin America took the global market by storm, drawing the world’s attention to the region’s rich offerings. In recent years, new writers and filmmakers have proclaimed a break with magical realism, reveled in the over-stimulated mediatic age, and weighed in on the effects of globalization. We will consider how “Latin American literature” itself has been figured as we explore the questions raised by these voices. We will also incorporate continued development of written and spoken expression in Spanish.
SPAN 210 AND SPAN 215 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 256Reel Images4
This course offers an opportunity to examine main trends in Spanish cinema from Luis Bunuel’s surrealistic provocations to Pedro Almodovar’s irreverent, yet emotional portraits of Spain and its inhabitants. We will learn about the history, theory and criticism of Spanish cinema while paying special attention to the representation of violence and repression, issues of immigration and exile, and the intersection between film and literature.
SPAN 210 and SPAN 215 . Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 259Crossing Borders:Mexican Film4
This course studies key developments in Mexican cinema from the 1950s to the present. The approach is multidisciplinary. On the one hand, it considers cultural history, politics, film production, and distribution of films; on the other, it provides an introduction to film studies in terms of technique, narrative, and style. The concept of national and transnational cinema is examined through the example of contemporary Mexican directors who have also successfully made films in the US, the UK, and Spain. Overall, this course seeks to expand the concept of literal border crossing to the symbolic gesture of becoming a migrant spectator who is able to see and better understand the other side of the border. Please note that the course is conducted in Spanish and students are required to read and write in the target language.
At least one Spanish course at the 200-level Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 262Linguistic Varieties Spanish World4
This course examines how Castilian Spanish has changed due to the influence of the languages with which it has come in contact in Spain and Latin America. The readings and multimedia materials will offer a new linguistic insight into the changeable concept of bilingualism, biculturalism, and diglossia. The class also gives the opportunity to discuss the social, political and cultural conditions that define when a dialect becomes a language or when a language, through contact with other(s) turns into a “pidgin” or “creole.”
A study of the Spanish Peninsular literature of the 19th and 20th centuries as portrayed in novels, romanticism, realism, naturalism, and the Generacion del ‘98, and the adaptation of representative works into a film version. An incursion into modernism, Generacion del ‘27, the postwar novel, and contemporary post-Francoist literature as seen in the new cinema and in other forms of art.
This course seeks to establish a connection between early modern Spanish writers and contemporary authors through the themes of love and jealousy, honor and dishonor, power and submission, appearance and reality. This course starts with Cervantes’s and Maria de Zayas’s accounts and continues with a variety of contemporary texts and media that draw upon the rich visual imagery of early modern Spain. Students will have the opportunity to conduct individual research and will be encouraged to present their work at undergraduate conferences.
Two Spanish courses at the 200-level course (or its equivalent abroad). Please
SPAN 345Agency/Citiz/Ident South Cone4
This seminar examines questions of agency, citizenship and identity, as well as the subtle categories of inclusion and exclusion that shape different groups’ and individuals’ experiences in society. Through a careful study of literary and filmic representations and multi-disciplinary secondary sources, we will focus on particular examples in the South American Southern Cone of the ways in which individuals and groups negotiate their place in society. Students will have the opportunity to do individual research.
SPAN 210 , SPAN 215 , and one other 200-level course (or its equivalent abroad) Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 348Central American Literature4
This course focuses on literary works written by contemporary Central American writers. Special emphasis will be given to the relationship between literature and social change, stressing particularly the works of women writers. Students will read short stories, poetry, plays, testimonial literature, and fragments of selected novels. Students will study about history, politics, human rights, social activism, and gender roles in the region.
SPAN 210 , SPAN 215 , and one other 200-level course (or its equivalent abroad) Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 354Emblems/Visual Cult Spain4
This course investigates the impact of emblematic literature in the early modern Spanish world through the study of parallels between emblems and literature and emblems and the visual arts. Students have the opportunity to conduct individual research and are encouraged to present their work at undergraduate conferences.
SPAN 210 , SPAN 215 , and one other 200-level course (or its equivalent abroad) Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 355Lat-Am Literary Movements4
The clash between European culture and the indigenous world as it modified the European tradition brought to Latin America in the colonial period. The search for a unique national identity during the independence process as expressed in Latin American literature. Impact of modern literary expression (modernism, magical realism, writers of the ‘60s) on world literature. Readings and discussion in Spanish.
SPAN 230 and SPAN 241 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 357Monsters & Madmen4
Through a focus on eccentric and marginal figures in 20th and 21st-century Latin American literature, we will examine how society defines itself by what it excludes: the crazy, the monstrous, the deviant, the radically other. We will also consider how representations of those figures may at times constitute resistance and social critique.
SPAN 210 , SPAN 215 , and one other 200-level course (or its equivalent abroad) Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 358Latin-Amer Popular Cult4
A study of the combination of different cultural traditions (the Indigenous, the European, and the Creole) which has resulted in a particular literary production. The course will focus on the literary representation of the struggle between the official and popular culture, the urban and rural worlds, and the elite and lower classes. Attention will be given to the non-traditional voice in Latin American arts.
This course studies key developments in Mexican cinema from the 1950s to the present. The approach is multidisciplinary. On the one hand, it considers cultural history, politics, film production, and distribution of films; on the other, it provides an introduction to film studies in terms of technique, narrative, and style. The concept of national and transnational cinema is examined through the example of contemporary Mexican directors who have also successfully made films in the US, the UK, and Spain. Overall, this course seeks to expand the concept of literal border crossing to the symbolic gesture of becoming a migrant spectator who is able to see and better understand the other side of the border. Please note that the course is conducted in Spanish and students are required to read and write in the target language.
At least two Spanish courses at the 200-level Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 36020 C Peninsular Lit4
The literary generations of 1898 and 1927 and the postwar generation in Spain. Major authors, their ideas and influence. Readings and discussion in Spanish.
SPAN 230 and SPAN 241 Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 362Linguistic Varieties Spanish World4
This course examines how Castilian Spanish has changed due to the influence of the languages with which it has come in contact in Spain and Latin America. The readings and multimedia materials will offer a new linguistic insight into the changeable concept of bilingualism, biculturalism, and diglossia. The class also gives the opportunity to discuss the social, political and cultural conditions that define when a dialect becomes a language or when a language, through contact with other(s) turns into a “pidgin” or “creole.”
SPAN 210 , SPAN 215 , and one other 200-level course (or its equivalent abroad) Credit Type Code: Letter Grade
SPAN 365Advanced Conversation4
Intensive Spanish conversation practice to develop an advanced level of oral proficiency. Attention to functional communication in a variety of situations, including public speaking and expression of opinion on current issues. Use of technology, resources, texts, and newspapers. Readings and discussions in Spanish.
Spanish 512 is designed to help students in education achieve novice to novice-mid Spanish proficiency level, as defined by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). It will offer the basic tools for communicating with Spanish-speaking students and their parents or guardians. It will include everyday words, phrases, expressions, questionnaires, and exclusive vocabulary that are useful in a school environment. It will provide students with opportunities to learn and contextualize essential grammar points related to the themes of the lessons. It will present daily situations that educators and other school personnel may encounter at work. It will include cultural notes that highlight Hispanic customs, traditions and beliefs that may be relevant to education, as well as contemporary issues affecting the Hispanic community in the United States. Modern Languages and Literatures placement recommendation.
Spanish 513 is designed to help students in education achieve novice-mid to novice-high Spanish proficiency level, as defined by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). It will offer the basic tools for communicating with Spanish-speaking students and their parents. It will include everyday words, phrases, expressions, questionnaires, and exclusive vocabulary that are useful in a school environment. It will provide students with opportunities to learn and contextualize essential grammar points related to the themes of the lessons. It will present daily situations that educators and other school personnel may encounter at work. It will include cultural notes that highlight Hispanic customs, traditions and beliefs that may be relevant to education, as well as contemporary issues affecting the Hispanic community in the United States.
This course focuses on culturally relevant and sustaining education (CR-SE) competencies for professionals as they apply to current educational systems. Students will learn about and engage with culturally and linguistically diverse students and their families who speak Spanish as their native language. A thorough understanding of theories related to cultural and linguistic aspects will be highlighted, while professionals gain a deep understanding of cultural and linguistic factors that impact student learning, behavior, and outcomes. Current research will be discussed and applied to case studies and real-world settings (schools and communities). Current research and readings will further guide discussions around the cultural implications associated with curriculum and assessment. Emphasis will be placed on the role of the professional in relation to all topics discussed as professionals will analyze the school’s approach to family and community involvement with a specific lean on L1 language use.
