31 courses with the subject SPA, 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.
Scores of 7 meet with the academic department for more specific credit (6-9 credits)
Fundamentals of Spanish geared to facilitate the development of functional proficiency at the novice level in listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Introduction to Spanish and Latin American culture through readings and discussion. Gen Ed Attribute: Global Awareness Pathway Distance education offering may be available. Equivalent courses: HSP 101
Continuation of the fundamentals of Spanish geared to facilitate the development of functional proficiency at the novice level in listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Introduction to Spanish and Latin American culture through readings and discussion. Must satisfy specified prerequisite or pass language placement exam. SPA 102 Prerequisite: Successful completion of SPA 101 or HSP 101. Distance education offering may be available. Equivalent courses: HSP 102
Spanish Transfer Credits
Spanish with an emphasis on proficiency development at the intermediate level. Elements of grammar and pronunciation are introduced in class and via laboratory work. Literary and journalistic readings are utilized as a basis for writing assignments and class discussions in Spanish. Must satisfy specified prerequisite or pass language placement exam. SPA 201 Prerequisite: Successful completion of SPA 102 or HSP 102. Distance education offering may be available. Equivalent courses: HSP 201
Continuation of Spanish with an emphasis on proficiency development at the intermediate level. Elements of grammar and pronunciation are introduced in class and via laboratory work. Literary and journalistic readings are utilized as a basis for writing assignments and class discussions in Spanish. Must satisfy specified prerequisite or pass language placement exam. SPA 202 Prerequisite: Successful completion of SPA 201 or HSP 201. Distance education offering may be available. Equivalent courses: HSP 202
Review and mastery of Spanish grammar, with special emphasis on sentence structures, stylistics, and the skills needed to write advanced compositions. Students will also continue to develop proficiency in listening comprehension and speaking skills. This course can be taken simultaneously with SPA 302. SPA 301 Prerequisite: Successful completion of HSP 202 or SPA 202. Gen Ed Attribute: Writing Emphasis Distance education offering may be available.
Additional review and mastery of Spanish grammar, with special emphasis on sentence structures and stylistics, along with intensive interaction to develop proficiency in listening comprehension and speaking ability. This course is intended for non-native speakers of Spanish. Heritage language learners should consider SPA 303. SPA 301 and SPA 302 can be taken simultaneously. Students may only receive credit for SPA 302 or SPA 303 but not both. SPA 302 Prerequisite: Successful completion of HSP 202 or SPA 202 or SPA 250. Gen Ed Attribute: Speaking Emphasis Distance education offering may be available. 2026-2027 CATALOG - UNDERGRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
This course is tailored to meet the specific needs of heritage speakers of the language. In many cases, this means students who grew up speaking Spanish at home but did not attend school in the language. In this course, students build on their already existing knowledge and expand their command of the four linguistic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) while studying authentic cultural materials. Interested students are encouraged to consult the Department before enrolling for accurate placement. Non-native speakers should consider SPA 302. SPA 301 and SPA 303 may be taken simultaneously. Students may only receive credit for SPA 302 or SPA 303 but not both. Gen Ed Attribute: Speaking Emphasis
Development of advanced techniques for close-reading and interpreting authentic literary and cultural texts from the Spanish-speaking world. Special attention will be paid to improving proficiency in oral and written expression. SPA 315 Prerequisite: Successful completion of SPA 302.
An interdisciplinary study of the arts, cultures, geography, literatures, and philosophies of Spain. SPA 320 Prerequisite: Successful completion of SPA 302.
An interdisciplinary study of the arts, cultures, geography, literatures, and philosophies of Latin America. SPA 321 Prerequisite: Successful completion of SPA 302.
Total Minimum Credits Required 18 ENG 400 is a variable topic courses that may be crosslisted as FLM. *Advanced standing coursework is dened as any 300-level course or above and specic 200-level courses identied by the department.
Representative selections of Spanish literature from its medieval beginning to the present. Focus will be on a variety of genres that highlight the interplay of language and context to understand dominant themes and concerns of a global era. SPA 330 Prerequisite: Successful completion of SPA 315.
Panoramic view of the rich and diverse voices and communities represented in Latin American literature from pre-Columbian indigenous texts to the present. Focus will be on the interplay of culture, society, and colonial and post-colonial politics on Latin American literary expression. SPA 331 Prerequisite: Successful completion of SPA 315.
The course focuses on the bilingual situation in the U.S., in Latin America, and in Spain. Topics include the linguistic development of bilingual speakers, linguistic aspects such as the case of pidgin and Creole languages, the definition "Spanglish," and the sociopolitical aspects such as linguistic loyalty, linguistic politics and planning, and attitudes toward bilingualism. Taught in Spanish. SPA 340 Prerequisite: Successful completion of LIN 230 or LAN 327, and SPA 302.
A study of different aspects of languages, the structure of their sounds, how words are organized, their meanings, how languages are acquired, and how they are used in society. This course is conducted entirely in Spanish, although examples from other languages and their speakers will also be addressed. SPA 353 Prerequisite: Successful completion of LIN 230 or LAN 327; and SPA 302.
Description and practice in the sounds of the Spanish language and its major dialectical differences. Comparative analysis with English. SPA 365 Prerequisite: Successful completion of LIN 230 or LAN 327; and SPA 302.
Introduction to the history of the Spanish language to study its evolution and fundamental basics of research in the history of a language using primary sources to understand the mechanics involved in language change and the social and cultural evolution of the communities that use the language. SPA 370 Prerequisite: Successful completion of LIN 230 or LAN 327, and SPA 302. 361
This course provides intensive practice of advanced communication skills in speaking, list comprehension, writing and reading, along with a review of Spanish grammar to foster proficiency development. Acquisition of cultural knowledge through a study of cultural products, perspectives, and practices. Course includes a language lab component. SPA 444 Prerequisite: Successful completion of SPA 330, SPA 331, or SPA 332.
Seminars provide in-depth study of current topics in literary, film, and cultural studies related to the Spanish-speaking world. This course is intended to be taken in senior year. departmental website for a listing of recent topics. Distance education offering may be available. Repeatable for credit.
This course is devoted to study those Spanish-language writers from Spain and Spanish America who won the Nobel Prize in Literature during the 20th and 21st century for their literary achievements; to analyze their works and the sociopolitical context of their writ and to examine the politics of literary awards and the significance of their recognition. SPA 472 Prerequisite: Successful completion of SPA 330 or SPA 331, with minimum grades of D-. (*Note: HSP 101, HSP 102, HSP 201, and HSP 202 are equivalent to SPA 101, SPA 102, SPA 201, and SPA 202 and can be used to fulll WCU's foreign language requirement.) B.A. IN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES - FRENCH CONCENTRATION
A study of Spanish morphology, phonology, and syntax (sound, word, sentence formation). The structure of the language will be studied from a theoretical and practical perspective.
A study of the history of the Spanish language and the factors leading to the dialectal diversity that Spanish exhibits in the present. The course allows students to familiarize themselves with the main internal processes that have shaped the evolution of the language and to expose them to the basics of research in the history of a language, by making use of primary sources and other objects of interest to diachronic linguistics.
An informal, rapid review of Spanish grammar, with emphasis on problems fundamental to the American classroom. Exercises include idiomatic expression, various levels of style, and translation. Distance education offering may be available.
This course examines the diversity of historical, social and cultural issues related to the use of Spanish in the United States alongside other languages, mainly English. The goals of the course are to allow students to familiarize themselves with the main sociolinguistic facts of Spanish language use in the United States, encourage students to establish connections between facts and social perceptions, and to expose students to the fundamentals of research in language sociology, by making use of primary sources and applying fundamental theoretical concepts to their analysis.
An examination of the coming to maturity of Latin American nationalism from independence to 1950. The ways in which political and intellectual leadership were intertwined will be at the center of inquiry. Ideas, texts, and other cultural forms that contributed to this process will be studied. Representative authors include: Andrés Bello, José Martí, Eugenio Hostos, Rubén Darío, César Vallejo, and Clorinda Matto de Turner.
Credits. Graduate seminars provide in-depth study of current topics in literary, film, and cultural studies related to the Spanish-speaking world. Topics will be drawn from the professor's area of specialization. See departmental website for a listing of recent and upcoming topics. Distance education offering may be available. Repeatable for credit.
This seminar explores contemporary Latin American film production in order to understand how Latin American cinema portrays and responds to violence. We explore how Latin American peoples have experienced violence historically and in modern times. Students examine how violence is perpetrated through words, images, physical harm, and exclusion. The course provides a theoretical framework, grounded in violence studies and critical discourse studies, as well as media literacy skills to analyze how films construct meaning in the wake of direct and indirect acts of violence. In films chosen from across the Americas, we focus on the ways in which invisible structures of violence can produce visible acts of violence.
This seminar explores the mechanisms and discourses of film adaptations of Latin American literary texts. We examine the intertextual relationship between writing and filmmaking by focusing on Latin American film adaptations of different literary genres such as the colonial chronicle, novel, travelogue, nonfiction narrative, short story, and poetry. We consider the contentious issue of whether films must remain "faithful" to a printed original and ask what it takes for a filmmaker to preserve the aesthetic value of an admired literary text when adapting it to the screen. The seminar also explores the role and particularities of adaptation in Latin American cinema to understand what makes Latin American adaptations unique. We investigate different theoretical approaches to adaptation in order to analyze the mechanisms of adaptation of literature to film. Students will acquire the critical discourse analysis and media literacy skills to evaluate narrative elements and discursive strategies used in both literary and filmic texts in Spanish. We also study the mutual influence of Latin American literature and film and examine the technical, artistic, and ethical problems that arise when adapting literary texts to film. Conducted in Spanish. Distance education offering may be available.
A course devoted to study those Spanish-language writers from Spain and Spanish America who won the Nobel Prize in Literature during the 20th and 21st centuries for their literary achievements; to analyze their works and the sociopolitical context of their writings; and to examine the politics of literary awards and the significance of their recognition.
Source: West Chester University of Pennsylvania's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
