SPA 101, 102: Elementary Spanish
Goal: To teach students to speak, understand, read, and write
basic Spanish.
Content: Subjects used in learning the four basic skills include
everyday situations relevant to Hispanic culture.
Taught: SPA 101, Fall; SPA 102, Spring.
Prerequisite: SPA 101 or equivalent for SPA 102.
Credit: 3 hours (Students must earn grades of C or better in these
courses to fulfill the modern foreign language proficiency requirement.)
SPA 150: Spanish for Advanced
Beginners
Goal: To teach students to speak, understand, read, and write
basic Spanish.
Content: Subjects used in learning the four basic skills include
everyday situations relevant to Hispanic culture.
Taught: Fall and Spring
Prerequisite: 2 years of Spanish in high school / placement
between SPA 101 and 102 on placement exam or permission of instructor.
Credit: 4 hours. (Students must earn grades of C or better in
these courses to fulfill the modern foreign language proficiency requirement.)
SPA 211 Intermediate Spanish
Goal: To improve and development speaking, reading, and writing in
Spanish through dialogues, magazine articles, and literary selections.
Content: Emphasis on grammar, comprehension of advanced conversation and
reading, and development of correct sentence structure.
Taught: Fall
Gen. Ed. Category: Exploring; Historical Events & Phenomena; (HUM)
Prerequisites: SPA 102, 150, or placement
Credit: 3 hours
SPA 212: Intermediate Spanish
Goal: To improve and develop speaking, reading, and writing in
Spanish through dialogs, magazine articles, and literary selections.
Content: Emphasis on grammar, comprehension of advanced
conversation and reading, and development of correct sentence structure.
Taught: Spring.
Prerequisites: SPA 211 or equivalent
Credit: 3 hours.
SPA 220: Intermediate Medical Spanish
Goal: To elicit and to understand necessary medical information
from an exclusively Spanish-speaking patient.
Content: Emphasis on vocabulary and grammatical structures
necessary for communication in a medical environment and standard medical
interviews. Secondary emphasis on providing information that will enhance the
student's knowledge of Hispanic cultural attitudes toward health issues. Class
conducted in Spanish.
Taught: as needed
Gen. Ed. Category: Expanding; Diverse & Interdependent world;
(HUM)
Prerequisites: SPA 102, 150, or placement
Credit: 3 hours
SPA 305: Spanish Culture and
Civilization.
Goal: To provide a geographical, historical, and cultural overview of
Spain.
Content: Geographical, historical, ethnic, and religious
influences. Focus on historic highlights that have contributed to present-day
Spanish society.
Taught: Fall. Alternate years.
Prerequisite: SPA 212 or equivalent.
Credit: 3 hours; cross-cultural; S-course.
SPA 306: Latin American Culture
and Civilization.
Goal: To provide a geographical, historical, and cultural overview of
Latin America (which includes for the purpose of this course, all countries in
the Western Hemisphere in which Spanish is spoken).
Content: Geographical, historical, ethnic, and religious
influences. Focus on how the blend of indigenous civilizations, with the
addition of both African and European influences, has produced the multitude of
societies in this region.
Taught: Fall. Alternate years.
Prerequisite: SPA 212 or equivalent.
Credit: 3 hours; cross-cultural; S-course.
SPA 307: Advanced Spanish
Conversation
Goal: To improve Spanish speaking and listening skills.
Content: The goal of this course is to offer students as much time
speaking Spanish as possible. This goal may be met through activities such as
debates, discussions of films, news articles, and culture, student
presentations, role play, drama.
Taught: Spring alternate years.
Prerequisites: SPA 211 and SPA 212 or equivalents
Credit: 3 hours; cross-cultural; S-course.
SPA 318: Advanced Composition.
Goal: To refine writing skills, enrich vocabulary, and emphasize
grammar.
Content: Weekly writing assignments, translation, and advanced
reading.
Taught: Fall.
Prerequisite: SPA 212 or equivalent.
Credit: 3 hours; cross-cultural; S-course.
SPA 320: Advanced Medical
Spanish
Goal: To elicit and to understand necessary medical information
from an exclusively Spanish-speaking patient.
Content: This course is designed for those who are currently
taking advanced 300-level Spanish courses and who specifically need to practice
communication in a health-related profession. It will emphasize role-play
exercises for the standard medical interview. Secondary emphasis is placed on
providing information that will enhance the student's knowledge of Hispanic
cultural attitudes toward health issues. Class conducted in Spanish. A student
cannot receive credit for this course if she already has credit for SPA 220.
Taught: as needed
Gen. Ed. Category: Expanding; Diverse & Interdependent world;
(HUM)
Prerequisites: SPA 318
Credit: 3 hours
SPA 327: Business Spanish.
Goal: To provide students with the vocabulary needed to communicate
effectively, both orally and in writing, and to transact daily business
operations in Spanish. To help students become better prepared for the
ever-increasing demands of the growing international market.
Content: The course combines practical language with the study of
Spanish business terminology. Emphasis is on conversation and business
transactions such as preparing commercial correspondence, reading and writing
and translating contracts and other related documents in Spanish.
Taught: Offered occasionally.
Prerequisite: SPA 318 or equivalent and permission of instructor..
Credit: 3 hours; cross-cultural; S-course.
SPA 352: Early Spanish
Peninsular Literature
Goal: To introduce major writers of Spain from the Middle Ages, the
Renaissance, the Baroque, and the Enlightenment periods, with emphasis on
historical conditions and literary genres.
Content: Poetry, drama, prose and essay. Selections from major
authors such as Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Santa
Teresa, San Juan de la Cruz, el Padre Feijóo.
Taught: Spring alternate years.
Prerequisite: SPA 318 or equivalent. SPA 305 recommended.
Credit: 3 hours.
SPA 354: Spanish Literature:
19th Century to the Present
Goal: To introduce major writers of Spain from the 19th and 20th
Centuries (Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, etc) as well as the most
recently published authors, with emphasis on historical conditions and literary
genres.
Content: Poetry, drama, prose and essay. Selections from major
authors such as Mariano José Larra, Benito Pérez
Galdós, Camilo José Cela, and Carmen Martín Gaite.
Taught: Spring alternate years.
Prerequisite: SPA 318 or equivalent. SPA 305 recommended.
Credit: 3 hours.
SPA 358: Survey of Latin
American Literature.
Goal: To acquaint students with the literature from colonial Spanish
America to the present. To study literary movements that influenced Latin
American thought: naturalism, realism, modernism, surrealism, and magic realism.
Content: Selections from major authors such as Sor Juana Inés de
la Cruz, Rubén Darío, Jorge Luis Borges, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Cabeza de
Vaca, Manuel Puig, and Isabel Allende.
Taught: Spring. Alternate years.
Prerequisite: SPA 318 or equivalent. SPA 306 recommended.
Credit: 3 hours; cross-cultural; S-course.
SPA 475: Portfolio Presentation.
Goal: To provide a capstone experience for Spanish majors in which students
construct and present a senior portfolio to document their integrative
experience.
Content: Students will use the completed portfolio and subsequent oral
presentation to reflect upon the interdisciplinary nature of their course of
study. The final step in the process will be to submit the completed portfolio
to the Modern Foreign Language faculty for evaluation and assessment of the
student’s integrative experience.
Taught: Spring.
Credit: 1 hour.
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