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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
The following is a sampling of courses that may be offered in a given semester. The course descriptions are taken from the UMB course catalog. Check this list to get the most recent course descriptions for the Fall 2008 courses.
SPAN 101 Elementary Spanish I
Designed for students with little or no background in the Spanish language. Spanish 101 focuses on the acquisition of basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills within a cultural framework. Weekly laboratory attendance and assignments required. Students may not take both Span 101 and 105. Distribution I Area: Foreign Languages. Distribution II Area: World Languages. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Lab Hrs, 4 Credits
SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish II
A continuation of Spanish 101. Spanish 102 focuses on furthering the acquisition of basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills within a cultural framework. Weekly laboratory attendance and assignments required.
Students may not take both Span 102 and 106.
Prerequisite: Span 101 or equivalent.
Distribution Area: Foreign Languages.
Distribution II Area: World Languages
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Lab Hrs, 4 Credits
SPAN 103 Intensive Elementary Spanish
An intensive study of the four language skills for those who wish to do a full year of elementary Spanish in one semester. May be taken for credit by students who have studied two years in high school and wish to start over.
Distribution I Area: Foreign Languages.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
8 Lect Hrs, 6 Lab Hrs, 8 Credits
SPAN 105 Basic Spanish for Communication I
A practical approach to the study of the Spanish language: carefully sequenced grammar within a communicative and cultural framework.
Students may not take both Span 101 and 105.
Distribution Area: Foreign Languages.
Distribution II Area: World Languages
3 Lect Hrs, 1 Lab Hr, 3 Credits
SPAN 106 Basic Spanish for Communication II
A continuation of SPAN 105.
Note: Students may not take both SPAN 102 and 106.
Prerequisite: Spanish 101 or 105.
Distribution I Area: Foreign Languages.
Distribution II Area: World Languages
3 Lect Hrs, 1 Lab Hr, 3 Credits
SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I
This course is designed for students who have completed one year of Spanish at the university level. Spanish 201 is dedicated to develop oral and written proficiency through lectures, conversations, compositions and the practical application of grammar. This course is taught primarily in Spanish.
Prerequisite: Span 102 or equivalent.
Distribution Area: Foreign Languages.
Distribution II Area: World Languages
3 Lect Hrs, 1 Lab Hr. 3 Credits
SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II
A continuation of Spanish 201. Spanish 202 is dedicated to further develop oral and written proficiency through lectures, conversations, compositions and the practical application of grammar. This course is taught primarily in Spanish.
Prerequisite: Span 201 or equivalent.
Distribution Area: Foreign Languages.
Distribution II Area: World Languages
3 Lect, 1 Lab Hr. 3 Credits
SPAN 230 Intermediate Composition and Conversation
Designed to provide practical training in oral and written expression to students with intermediate proficiency in Spanish. Recommended to students who wish to practice and improve their ability to communicate in Spanish. Weekly themes and frequent oral reports. Not open to students whose first language is Spanish. (Taught every semester.)
Prerequisite: SPAN 202 or equivalent.
Distribution I Area: Foreign Languages.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN Z289 Composition for Native Speakers
This course is conducted as a workshop on expository writing for native speakers of Spanish and Spanish heritage students. Particular linguistic difficulties that native speakers encounter are addressed. Writing and research techniques, problems of style and correctness are the main issues. As of September 2004 this course will not count toward the major/minor.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 301 Advanced Reading, Writing, and Speaking
Course designed to help improve reading, writing and oral skills in Spanish. Individual reports on current events and class discussion of contemporary literature and films are used to develop oral skills. Practice in reading skills includes analysis of short stories, plays, poems, novels and newspaper articles. Written expression is strengthened through writing essays, journal entries and reviews.
Prerequisite: SPAN 230 or Z289 or permission of instructor.
Distribution I Area: Foreign Languages.
Distribution II Area
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 304 Spanish for Majors and Minors
This course prepares students to undertake advanced work in the Spanish major/minor. Its goal is to expand and refine reading comprehension, listening comprehension, and oral and written expression to prepare students to carry out all their academic work in Spanish. This class requires an original research project in Spanish. Open to native and non-native Spanish speakers.
Prerequisite: SPAN 230 or Z289 or permission of instructor.
Distribution I Area: Foreign Languages.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 305 Problems of Syntax in Reading and Writing
This course provides an in-depth study of aspects of Spanish syntax (word order) and offers students analytical tools for the study of Spanish grammar. Topics include problems posed by word order, relative clauses, prepositional phrases, the reflexive, and object pronouns.
Prerequisite: SPAN 230 or Z289 or 304 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 312 Commercial Spanish
Advanced course in the language of Latin American and Spanish commerce including a legal terminology component. Vocabulary, idioms, proper usage, and exercises in the forms of resume writing, business correspondence, advertising, banking and finance, foreign trade and investments, commercial law, and an introduction to legal terminology for paralegal personnel. Open to students with a good command of oral and written Spanish.
Prerequisite: SPAN 230 or Z289 or 304 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 313 Spanish Phonology
A detailed study of the sound system of Spanish. Includes an overview of phonological theories as well as intensive practice in areas such as intonation and stress.
Prerequisite: SPAN 230 or Z289or 304 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 314 Language Arts: How Spanish Works
This course offers a basic linguistic analysis of Spanish. Topics include the properties of Spanish sounds (phonology); the structure of Spanish words (morphology); and of Spanish phrases and sentences (syntax); mechanisms of interference from English for learners of Spanish; and historical and contemporary relationships between Spanish and other languages.
Prerequisite: SPAN 230 or Z289 or 304 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 316 Advanced Spanish Grammar
This course helps students deepen their knowledge of Spanish grammar. Topics include a close examination of types of Spanish nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs; the Spanish subjunctive; the preterit vs the imperfect; ser vs estar and the formation of complex sentences.
Prerequisite: SPAN 230 or Z289 or 304 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 350 Introducation to Literary Arts
This course studies connections between literature and culture in Spain and Latin America to introduce major aspects of literary history and basic concepts of literary theory. Assignments provide extensive practice in critical an analytical reading and writing.
Prerequisite: SPAN 304 or permission of instructor
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 351 History of Spanish Literature
A introductory course focusing on the history of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Representative works in all major literary genres will provide students with an isnght into Spanish culture. (Taught every semester.)
Prerequisite: SPAN 304 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 352 History of Spanish-American Literature
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.
Prerequisite: SPAN 304 permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 353 Culture and Identity in Hispanic Literature
Readings in Spanish and Spanish-American literature examining the diverse representations of cultural and national identity in Spain and Spanish-speaking America and the figures that helped shape them.
Prerequisite: SPAN 304 or equivalent.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 360 Spanish Civilization
This course studies the development and construction of Spain from pre-Roman times to the present. The course examines topics such as religious and cultural diversity; dominant vs marginalized groups; centralization vs regional autonomy, and the ways in which these issues have manifested themselves through the ages.
Prerequisite: SPAN 304 or permission of instructor
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 361 Spanish-American Civilization
Major aspects of the cultural evolution of the Spanish-American countries from pre-Hispanic days to the present.
Fulfills a requirement for Latin American Studies Program.
Prerequisite: SPAN 202 or equivalent.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 362 Spanish-American Short Story
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.
This course counts toward the Latin American Studies Concentration
Prerequisite: SPAN 304 or permission of instructor .Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 364 Spanish-American Essay
This course examines the essay in Spanish American literature and the genre’s evolution from the 19th century to the present. Students will read essays and chronicles to analyze the role of this genre in promoting political and esthetic ideas.
This course counts toward the Latin American Studies Concentration
Prerequisite: SPAN 304 or equivalent.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 367 Literature of the Hispanic People in the US
This course examines how shifting cultural identities of Hispanic/Latino writers in the United States are represented in literature. Topics include migration as literary representation, the role of the media; gender tensions; translation in literature, and issues of national and racial origins.
This course counts toward the Latin American Studies Concentration
Prerequisite: SPAN 202 or equivalent.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 369 The Short Story in Spanish Literature
Historical development of the short story in Spanish literature from its origins to the present. Emphasis on nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Prerequisite: SPAN 230, or Z289 or 304 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 370 Women in Spanish Literature
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 gender, class and race in Hispanic literature.
Prerequisite: SPAN 304 or Z289, or equivalent.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 371 Life and Literature in Nineteenth Century Spain
This course explores the social conditions and the cultural production of 19th century Spain. Topics include progress and tradition; city and country; the political role of the working class, and the social role of women in authors such as Galdós, Pardo Bazán, Becquer and Clarín.
Prerequisite: SPAN 304, or 351 or 360.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 372 Twentieth Century Spanish Literature to 1939
A study of representative works in the novel, essay, poetry, theater, by Spanish writers from the Generation of ‘98 to the Civil War: Unamuno, Valle-Inclán, Azorín, Pío Baroja, Antonio Machado, Pérez de Ayala, Gabriel Miró, Ortega y Gasset, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, García Lorca, Alberti, and others.
Prerequisite: SPAN 351 or 360
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 373 Literature and Society in Contemporary Spain
This course examines the responses of Spanish writers such as Juan Goytisolo, Carme Riera and Manuel Rivas to events that shaped today’s Spain. Topics discussed include the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath; the fascist dictatorship; the transition to democracy; pluralistic Spain and the literatures of Basque, Catalan and Galician-speaking Spain.
Prerequisite: SPAN 351 or 360
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 374 Readings in Hispanic Literature
Selected readings in Hispanic literature.
Prerequisite: SPAN 304 or equivalent.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 380 Topics in Hispanic Literature and Civilization
General topics in Spanish or Spanish American culture which can serve as a detailed introduction to a period, genre, or theme not generally covered in other departmental offerings.
Prerequisite: SPAN 304 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 385 Topics in Spanish Language
Selected topics to cover specific subjects not listed in the regular course offerings. Not restricted to its grammar, these may refer to the whole scope of the Spanish language, its history, semantics, phonetics and phonology, dialects, syntactic aspects, spoken Spanish, Spanish for such professions as medicine and law, Spanish spoken in the USA.
Prerequisite: SPAN 304 or permission of instructor
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 407 Rhetoric and Stylistics
A study of formal rhetoric and oral styles. Principles of argumentation. Intensive practice in formal written and oral styles, including debate.
Prerequisites: SPAN 304 and SPAN 305 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 411 History of the Spanish Language
An overview of the major linguistic changes from Latin to modern Spanish with emphasis on the comparative study of Hispano-American Spanish and modern Castilian.
Prerequisites: SPAN 304 and SPAN 305 or permission of instructor, .Distribution II Area: World Languages. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 412 Spanish Semantics: Words and their Meaning
This course is an introduction to the study of word meaning in Spanish. Topics include: the relationship between Spanish words and the combinations into which they enter; differences between book dictionaries and mental dictionaries; Spanish verb classes, and how meaning constrains syntax.
Prerequisites: SPAN 304 and SPAN 305 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 420 Comparative Syntax: Spanish-English
The goal of this course is to learn Spanish syntax by looking at how Spanish grammar differs from English grammar. It surveys the main structures of Spanish grammar and compares them to corresponding structures in English. Topics covered include sequence of verbs, word order, temporal information, nominal expressions, and the use of prepositions.
Prerequisite: SPAN 304 and SPAN 305 or permission of instructor
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 421 Medieval Iberia
An exploration of the social conditions and cultural production of Iberia to 1500. readings include Poema de mio Cid, Andalusi poetry, Libro de Buen Amor, Travels of Benjamin of Tudela, Alfonso X’s Cantigas, Tirant le Blanc, and Sem Tob de Carrión.
Prerequisite: SPAN 351 or SPAN 360 or permission of insructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 424 Golden Age Theater
Outstanding dramatists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Lope de Vega, Mira de Amescua, Tirso de Molina, Ruiz de Alarcón, Calderón de la Barca.
Prerequisite: SPAN 351 or SPAN 360 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 427 The Generation of 1898
Literary and intellectual trends of the generation of 1898. Selected readings from Ganivet, Unamuno, Azorín, Baroja, Valle-Inclán, Machado, and others.
Prerequisite: SPAN 351 or Span 360 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 432 The World of Don Quixote
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.
Prerequisite: SPAN 351 or 360 or permission of instrucutor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 433 Imperial Spain
An examination of Spanish society from the 15th-17th centuries and the ideologies and onstitutions upon which the Spanish empire was built. Through readings on the picaresque, and authors such as Cervantes, Calderón, Lope de Vega and Gracián, this course will analyze topics like the end of Sepharad and al-Andalus, the Inquisition, America, and the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
Prerequisite: SPAN 351 or SPAN 360 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 450 Major Writers in Hispanic Literature
A study of the works of one outstanding Spanish or Spanish-American author, chosen from such writers as Ana María Matute, Galdós, Unamuno, Darío, Neruda, García Márquez, and García Lorca.
Prerequisite: SPAN 351 or 360 and 352 or 361 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 452 The Practice of Autobiography in Spanish and Latin-American Culture
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.
Prerequisite: SPAN 351 or 360 and 352 or 361 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN L454 (LATAM L454) Argentina
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 the effects of globalization.
Fulfills a requirement for Latin American Studies Program. Prerequisite: Knowledge of Spanish and permission of insructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 461 Spanish-American Colonial Literature
A survey of the literature of the Spanish colonies, focusing on its outstanding figures—Inca Garcilaso, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz—as well as the literature of the Independence Movement. Fulfills a requirement for Latin American Studies Program.
Prerequisite: SPAN 352 or 361 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 462 Contemporary Spanish-American Poetry
A study of contemporary Spanish-American poetry starting with the Modernist movement and following its evolution through the avant-garde, surrealism, feminist, and black poetry up to the present. Authors included are Silva, Martí, Rubén Darío, Lugones, Vallejo, Neruda, Paz, Guillén, Palés Matos, Mistral, Agustini, Ibarbourou, Borges.
Fulfills a requirement for Latin American Studies Program
Prerequisite: SPAN 352 or 361 or permission of instructor
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 467: Contemporary Spanish-American Fiction
This course examines the changing directions in Spanish American fiction from 1910 to the present, with special attention to the criollista novel, novels of the Mexican Revolution, vanguardist fictions, literature of the “boom” and post-modern works. Topics include critical approaches to genres, literacy, readership and authorship, literature and mass media, and gender roles in fiction.
Fulfills a requirement for Latin American Studies Program
Prerequisite: SPAN 352 or 361 or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 468 The Caribbean: Cultural Fabulations
This course examines the literary and cultural production in the Hispanic Caribbean: Cuba, Domincan Republic and Puerto Rico. Through the analysis of various cultural artifacts, the class will formulate the basic components of a Caribbean cultural discourse. Topics include literary modernity, neo-primitvism and negrismo.
Fulfills a requirement for Latin American Studies Program
Prerequisite: SPAN 352 or 361
Distribution II Area: World Languages.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
SPAN 475 Spanish Court Interpretation
This course is an intensive program designed to provide qualified students with an introduction to the fundamentals of professional court interpretation. Tailored for both novice and practicing interpreters in Spanish to English and English to Spanish, the course combines theory and practice through classroom discussions activities, as well as thorough intensive laboratory exercises designed to develop interpreting proficiency.
Prerequisite: SPAN 408 or 410, diagnostic test, or permission of instructor.
Distribution II Area: World Languages
3 Lect Hrs, 3.5 Lab Hrs. 4 Disc. 6 credits
LATAM G210 Food, Culture, and Society in Latin America
General Education: Intermediate Seminar.
LATAM 100 Native People of South America
Diversity Area: International. An introductory survey of the native cultures of South America. Emphasis is placed on a comparison of selected cultures through the analysis of native history, levels of social and political integration, contact with European cultures, and contemporary status.
Distribution I Area: Historical and Cultural Studies.
Diversity Area: International.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
LATAM 101 Latin America: Contemporary Society and Culture
Distribution Area: Humanities. This course introduces the people, events, and trends shaping Latin American societies and cultures today. Readings provide a historical overview and examine regional similarities and local differences, including: social institutions such as family; politics and political cultures; religious institutions and practices; and ways that race, ethnicity, and gender shape national cultures and subcultures.
Distribution I Area: Historical and Cultural Studies.
Distribution II Area: Humanities. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
LATAM 205 Latin American Film
This course examines Latin American feature and documentary film to analyze social, cultural and political themes and issues. Topics include: the development of national cinemas and their genres; film as art and industry; film and political engagement; representations of women and gender; and selected social and cultural subjects. Distribution I Area: Historical and Cultural Studies. Distribution II Area: The Arts. Diversity Area: International. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits.
LATAM 290 Central America: Society and Culture
Diversity area: International. This course examines contemporary societies and cultures of selected Central American countries. Readings provide a historical overview. Topics include: land and labor; religion; insurgency, revolution and their legacies; contemporary constructions of race and ethnicity; indigenous social movements; women and gender; urban migrations and cultures.
Distribution I Area: Historical and Cultural Studies.
Diversity Area: International.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
LATAM 301 Hispanics in Urban America
Latin American and Caribbean labor migrants, exiles, and refugees have been changing the social, cultural, and political landscapes of U.S. cities for over a century. This course examines migrants’ motives for uprooting from their homelands and transplanting to U.S. urban centers, the reconstitution of communities and identities, and social, cultural, and political dimensions of interaction with the host country.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
LATAM 302 Puerto Rico: Economic, Political, and Social Issues
This course investigates the problematic development of Puerto Rican identity in view of the rise of modernity in Latin America and the imposition of US political hegemony in the Caribbean. Through an analysis of various cultural artifacts, the course will elucidate the main components of Puerto Rican cultural discourse, among them the dilemma of political definition, the rise of cultural nationalism, and the challenges of modernity.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
LATAM 303 Reform and Revolution in Latin America
This course examines case studies of 20th century political movements in Latin America that have attempted to restructure social and economic systems and establish new political orders. Readings provide historical background. Topics include: guerrilla insurgency; revolutionary agendas and reforms; revolutionary cultures and identities; and new social movements, including women’s movements.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
LATAM 350 Latin American Popular Cultures
This course examines popular culture in Latin America. Topics include religious rituals and symbols; secular festivals; dance; food; and sport. Introductory historical and theoretical frameworks provide analytical tools for examining tensions between elite and popular cultures; popular cultures as oppositional and national identities; production and consumption of popular cultures; and the meanings that cultural symbols acquire in Diaspora.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
LATAM 481 Capstone Seminar
Required capstone seminar for Latin American Studies concentrators builds on themes and methods developed in the program’s introductory and intermediate courses. Seminar addresses varying topics in history, civilization, cultures, and societies applicable to all Latin America, using interdisciplinary frameworks to examine regional and national differences. Students participate in seminar, conduct research, and write a research paper.
Permission of instructor
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits