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2023-2024 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Spanish (SPAN) Courses
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Spanish
Spanish
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SPAN 100 - Fundamentals of Spanish
(6 units)
Prerequisite/Corequisite: Any Foundation course.
Two semesters of fundamental Spanish are covered in one semester in this intensive hybrid (blended) course.
Both grading options. (4 hrs in class, 2 hrs online) Not open to heritage or native speakers of Spanish. Not open to students who have completed SPAN 101B .
General Education: Lower Division C - Arts and Humanities -
SPAN 101A - Fundamentals of Spanish
(4 units)
Prerequisite: Any Foundation course. Not open to heritage or native speakers of Spanish.
Introductory course on the fundamental skills of reading, writing, oral comprehension and speaking of Spanish presented in the context of Hispanic culture.
For students who had less than two (2) years of high school Spanish or equivalent level of competence. All students who had less than two (2) years of high school Spanish are encouraged to take an online placement test: http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/rgrll/placement-exam-information/
Letter grade only (A-F)
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SPAN 101B - Fundamentals of Spanish
(4 units)
Prerequisite/Corequisite: Two years of high school Spanish or equivalent. Any Foundation course.
Fundamental skills of speaking, oral comprehension, reading and writing.
Both grading options. Transfers and new students: placement exam strongly recommended. For further information, please refer to the RGRLL Department website www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/rgrll/. For non-native speakers only. Not open to heritage speakers or native speakers of Spanish.
General Education: Lower Division C - Arts and Humanities -
SPAN 200 - Intermediate Spanish
(6 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 100 or SPAN 101B or a minimum of 3 years of high-school Spanish.
Prerequisite/Corequisite: Any Foundation course.
Both grading options. (4 hrs in class, 2 hrs online) Two semesters of Intermediate Spanish are covered in one semester in this intensive hybrid (blended) course. Not open to heritage or native speakers of Spanish. Not open to students who have completed SPAN 201A or SPAN 201B .
General Education: Lower Division C - Arts and Humanities -
SPAN 201A - Intermediate Spanish
(4 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 101B or three years of high school Spanish or equivalent.
Prerequisite/Corequisite: Any Foundation course.
Continued development in speaking, oral comprehension, reading and writing skills.
Both grading options. Transfers and new students: placement exam strongly recommended. For further information, please refer to the RGRLL Department website www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/rgrll/. For non-native speakers only. Not open to heritage speakers or native speakers of Spanish.
General Education: Lower Division C - Arts and Humanities -
SPAN 201B - Intermediate Spanish
(4 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 201A or four years of high school Spanish or equivalent.
Prerequisite/Corequisite: Any Foundation course.
Continued development in speaking, oral comprehension, reading and writing skills.
Both grading options. Transfers and new students: placement exam strongly recommended. For further information, please refer to the RGRLL Department website www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/rgrll/. For non-native speakers only. Not open to heritage speakers or native speakers of Spanish.
General Education: Lower Division C - Arts and Humanities -
SPAN 250 - Spanish for Bilinguals
(6 units)
Prerequisite: Near native speaker oral skills and GE Foundation requirements (or concurrent enrollment in at least one Foundation course).
Addresses particular needs of bilingual student population. Emphasis on acquisition of solid grammatical base with development of writing and reading skills.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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SPAN 300 - Advanced Grammar and Composition
(6 units)
Prerequisites: AP exam with a score of 4 or 5 or SPAN 201B or equivalent for non-native speakers. SPAN 250 or equivalent for heritage speakers.
Review of grammatical principles, general consolidation of the four language skills (reading, speaking, comprehension and writing) with special emphasis on writing papers and acquisition of cultural knowledge of the Hispanic world.
Both grading options. (6 hours of activity) Check for the code 138 (for non-native speakers) and 139 (for heritage speakers) in the Schedule of Classes.
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SPAN 310 - Introduction to Literary Analysis
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 300 .
Discovery of literature as a work of art. Different levels of interpretation; complexity of structure related to content; literary appreciation.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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SPAN 314 - Oral Communication
(3 units)
Corequisite: SPAN 300 .
Emphasis will be placed on small-group discussion to improve communication skills in Spanish.
Both grading options. Not open to native/heritage speakers.
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SPAN 315 - Professional Conversation for Spanish Heritage Speakers
(3 units)
Corequisite:SPAN 300 or equivalent.
For heritage speakers seeking to make professional use of Spanish in the U.S. and abroad. Emphasis on vocabulary expansion related to various professions, the development of interactive and presentational conversation skills, and the improvement of professional speaking and writing conventions.
Letter grade only (A-F). Not open to non-native or non-heritage speakers.
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SPAN 320 - Literacy and Orality for Bilingual Teaching
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 200 , SPAN 201B , SPAN 250 , or equivalent
Examines best pedagogical practices that support the development of literacy and orality in bilingual Latino children. Uses bilingual children’s books to build Spanish language skills and cultural knowledge of particular relevance to bilingual teachers. Includes ten hours of fieldwork.
Letter grade only (A-F)
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SPAN 330 - Literary Masterpieces: Spain
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 310 or consent of instructor. GE Foundation requirements.
Critical analysis of masterworks of Spanish literature.
Both grading options. (Lecture 3 hours)
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SPAN 335A - Business Spanish
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 300 (6 units) or consent of instructor.
Study of terminology and practices from the world of business, with a focus on business relating to the Spanish speaking world, including the Hispanic market in the United States. It focuses on commerce, management, banking, real estate, and labor relations.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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SPAN 335B - Business Spanish
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 300 or consent of instructor.
Study of terminology and practices from the world of business, with a focus on business relating to the Spanish speaking world, including the Hispanic market in the United States. It focuses on marketing, finance, import and export.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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SPAN 341 - Literary Masterpieces: Spanish America
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 310 or consent of instructor.
Critical analysis of masterworks of Spanish American literature.
Both grading options. (Lecture 3 hours)
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SPAN 350 - Hispanic Short Narrative
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 310
An overview of representative short narrative from the Spanish-speaking world encompassing corresponding historical periods or thematic similarities.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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SPAN 351 - Survey of Hispanic Theater
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 310 .
Explores the development of the genre of theater in the Hispanic World in its social, cultural, historical, and political context either across time periods (medieval to 20th century) or within a certain literary movement (Romanticism, Neoclassicism, etc.).
Letter grade only (A-F).
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SPAN 400 - Don Quijote and the Critics
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 330 .
Designed to guide students through a close reading of Cervantes’s Don Quijote, with special emphasis on various theoretical approaches to text. Provides basic introduction to literary criticism.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 500
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SPAN 410 - AP Spanish Literature & Culture: Theory Into Practice
(3 units)
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 330 or 341 or equivalent or instructor’s permission
The “AP Spanish Literature and Culture: Theory into Practice” course covers the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching the literatures and cultures of Spain, Latin America, and Hispanic United States. Students analyze and learn how to teach literary texts within historical, sociocultural, and geopolitical contexts.
Letter Grade Only (A-F) Not repeatable for credit Double Numbered with: 510
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SPAN 420 - History of Spanish Language
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 423 or SPAN 427 or consent of instructor.
Analysis of written and spoken Spanish from its inception through its current use in the Hispanic world.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 520
General Education Category A must be completed prior to taking any upper division course except upper division language courses where students meet formal prerequisites and/or competency equivalent for advanced study. -
SPAN 423 - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 300 or consent of instructor.
Overview of Spanish Linguistics. Areas of study: history of Spanish language, grammatical systems (Phonology, Morphology, Syntax), sociolinguistics status of Spanish in the U.S. and the teaching of Spanish as a second language.
Both grading options.
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SPAN 425 - Teaching Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States
(3 units)
Prerequisite(s): Spanish 423 or consent of the instructor.
Prepares language teachers to work with heritage language speakers (students who speak a language other than English at home), with particular emphasis on Spanish speakers. Topics include: heritage grammars, the linguistic and social characteristics that shape heritage languages in the United States, and pedagogical methods and approaches for teaching heritage languages.
Letter Grade Only (A-F). Not repeatable for credit. Double Numbered with: 525
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SPAN 426 - Spanish Morphology and Syntax
(3 units)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Morphemic and syntagmatics analysis of Spanish; introduction to transformational grammar.
Both grading options. (Lecture 3 hours) Double Numbered with: SPAN 526
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SPAN 427 - Contrastive Analysis of Spanish and English
(3 units)
Prerequisites: One course in Spanish linguistics or consent of instructor.
Study of the known points of similarity and differences between the two languages.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 527
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SPAN 428 - Spanish Cinema
(3 units)
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Foundation courses; upper-division standing.
Focus on socio-political and asthetic aspects of Spanish Cinema, concentrating on the following periods. Early Francoism, Neo-Realism, The Barcelona School, the Transition Period, post Franco Years, and new trends in Spanish Cinema. Taught in English.
Letter grade only (A-F). Same course as FEA 460 . Taught in English. Not open for credit to students with credit in FEA 392 or FEA 460 .
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SPAN 429 - Studies in 19th and 20th Century Spanish Poetry
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 330 .
Examines salient poets from last two centuries, including Rosalía de Castro, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Vicente Aleixandre, Federico García Lorca, Gloria Fuertes, Jaime Gil de Biedma, and other more contemporary figures. Undergraduates register in SPAN 429; graduates register in SPAN 529
Letter grade only (A-F) (Seminar 3 hours) Double Numbered with: SPAN 529
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SPAN 430 - Spanish Civilization
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 300 .
Characteristic features of Spanish culture with special attention to the various institutions, economic, social and cultural configurations, and the ways of thinking.
Both grading options.
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SPAN 438 - Studies in Golden Age Literature
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 330 .
Survey of 16th and 17th century masterpieces from Spain such as La Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes, Los desengaños amorosos and their intersections with notions of hegemony, sexuality, gender, race, and class.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 538
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SPAN 439 - Modern Spanish Narrative
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 330 or consent of instructor.
Representative 19th and 20th century novelists. Undergraduates register in SPAN 439, graduates register in SPAN 539 . (Seminar)
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 539
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SPAN 440 - Civilized Barbarisms: Nature, War and Race in Latin American Fiction
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 341
Study of Latin American fiction dealing with military conflicts, economic and ecological struggles, and ethnic strife from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 540
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SPAN 441 - Studies in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 341 or consent of instructor.
Critical analysis of 19th and 20th century Spanish American prose fiction. Undergraduates register in SPAN 441, graduate register in SPAN 541 . Undergraduates register in SPAN 441, graduates register in SPAN 541 .
Both grading options. (Seminar 3 hours). Double Numbered with: SPAN 541
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SPAN 442 - Nation Building and Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 341 .
Explores field of Spanish American women writers during nineteenth century and concept of nation building. Several genres are studied: epistolary narrative, short-story, travel narratives, essay, autobiography, and the novel.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 542
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SPAN 443 - Studies in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish American Poetry
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 341 or consent of instructor.
Study of representative 19th and 20th century Spanish American poets.
Letter grade only (A-F). Undergraduates register in SPAN 443, graduates register in SPAN 543 . Double Numbered with: SPAN 543
General Education Category A must be completed prior to taking any upper division course except upper division language courses where students meet formal prerequisites and/or competency equivalent for advanced study. -
SPAN 444 - Nineteenth-Century Spanish America and the National Family Romance
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 341 .
Advanced course studies Spanish American canonical writers during the nineteenth century in relation to the concept of “family romance.” These fictions constitute the foundational master narratives that were the guiding fictions for the new independent nations.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 544
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SPAN 445 - Latin American Civilization
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 300
Analysis of main currents in Latin American civilization.
Both grading options.
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SPAN 446 - Studies in Spanish Culture
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 330
Deals with some aspect of Spanish culture in an interdisciplinary fashion during a given period. Topics could include social, political, theoretical, and/or historical perspectives on the arts. Undergraduates register in SPAN 446; graduates register in SPAN 546 .
Letter grade only (A-F). (Seminar 3 hours) May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units. Double Numbered with: SPAN 546
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SPAN 447 - The Invention of Spain: Visions in Conflict
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 330 .
A social, historical and literary study of Spain from 1808 through the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Many groups struggle to impose their vision of Spain as it emerges from the War of Independence in 1808, transitioning from the Antiguo Régimen to nationhood.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 547
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SPAN 448 - Romanticism and Realism
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 330 .
A systematic tracing of the derivation of Spanish Romanticism in narrative forms, in its European and Peninsular trajectories and its transformation into realism toward mid nineteenth century.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 548
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SPAN 449 - Dictatorship to Democracy: Film and Literature in Spain (1930-today)
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 330 .
Advanced course explores Spanish culture through film and literature of the pre-Civil War period, the Franco period, and the transition to democracy, the advanced democracy of Spain today.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 549
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SPAN 450 - Studies in Colonial Spanish American Literature
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 341 .
Focuses on canonical works from Spanish-American Colonial period (1500-1800). Covers large selection of literary texts of colonial period, including chronicles, relaciones, letters, diaries, poetry, autobiography, and travel literature.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 550
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SPAN 455 - Hispanic Cinema of the Americas
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 300 .
Focuses on development of New Hispanic Cinema produced in the United States and Latin America. Explores major themes and trends of New Hispanic Cinema: “Nueva Ola” in Argentina, “Cinema Novo: the Cuban revolutionary cinema, and “Magic Realism” of the Southwest.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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SPAN 460 - Studies Spanish American Culture
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 341 .
In-depth study of some essays which have dealt with problem of what Spanish American nations are, and what they should be during the republican era. Includes authors from both nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Both grading options. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units with different topics in different semesters.
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SPAN 461 - Introduction to Translation and Interpretation
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 300 with a “B” or better or instructor’s consent.
Designed to introduce students to basic techniques essential to terminology acquisition, concentration, written and sight translation and consecutive and simultaneous interpretation.
Both grading options.
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SPAN 462 - Written and Sight Translation I: English/Spanish
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 461 or instructor’s consent.
Designed to train students in sight and written legal, financial, medical and technical translation, and to introduce the student to the basic techniques that are essential to terminology acquisition. (English into Spanish).
Letter grade only (A-F).
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SPAN 463 - Written and Sight Translation II: Spanish/English
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 461 or consent of instructor.
Designed to train students in sight and written legal, financial, medical and technical translation, and to introduce the student to the basic techniques that are essential to terminology acquisition. (Spanish into English).
Letter grade only (A-F).
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SPAN 464 - Consecutive Interpretation I
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 461 or consent of instructor.
Designed to train students in forensic consecutive interpretation.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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SPAN 465 - Consecutive Interpretation II
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 461 or consent of instructor.
Designed to train students in Medical, Civil Legal, Business, Technical and State Agencies consecutive interpretation, and basic techniques that are essential to terminology acquisition and to techniques relating to interpreting in the consecutive mode sentences of up to forty words in length.
Both grading options.
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SPAN 466 - Simultaneous Interpretation English/Spanish
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 461 or consent of instructor.
Designed to introduce the student to the techniques that are essential to the five simultaneous operations that form an integral part of simultaneous interpretation. (English into Spanish).
Letter grade only (A-F).
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SPAN 467 - Simultaneous Interpretation Spanish/English
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 461 or instructor’s consent.
Designed to introduce the student to the techniques that are essential to the five simultaneous operations that form an integral part of simultaneous interpretation. Spanish into English.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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SPAN 490 - Selected Topics in Spanish
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 310 or consent of Instructor
Study of a particular aspect of Spanish literature, language or culture.
Letter grade only (A-F). May be repeated to a maximum of 9 units with different topics. Topics announced in Schedule of Classes.
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SPAN 491 - Nobel Poets and Others
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 330 or SPAN 341 .
Critical analysis of representative works of Nobel Poets (Aleixandre, Jiménez. Mistral, Neruda and Paz) and other significant poets (Albertik, Bécquer, Darío, García Lorca, Garcilaso, Góngora, Guillén, Vallejo, etc.) Undergraduate register in SPAN 491, graduates register in SPAN 591 .
Both grading options. (Seminar 3 hours) Double Numbered with: SPAN 591
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SPAN 492 - Studies in Hispanic Theater
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 341 or consent of Instructor.
Representative Spanish and Spanish American plays. Undergraduates register in SPAN 492; graduates register in SPAN 592 .
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 592
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SPAN 493 - Women and War
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 310 .
Examines the relationship between women and war in a literary context. Undergraduates register in 493; graduates register for SPAN 593 .
Letter grade only (A-F). (3 hours lecture) Double Numbered with: SPAN 593
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SPAN 494 - Internship in Spanish
(1-3 units)
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department chair.
Field work in Spanish, supplemented by readings and tutorials under the direction of a faculty member. Internships, small group discussion/teaching, and other assignments directed by a supervising faculty member.
Both grading options. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units. No more than 3 units may be applied to the major in Spanish.
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SPAN 499 - Independent Study
(1-3 units)
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department chair.
Individual projects or directed readings with a professor of the student’s choice.
Both grading options. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units. (Requires tutorial meetings and demonstrations of progress as defined in a written proposal.)
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SPAN 500 - Don Quijote and the Critics
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 310 .
Designed to guide students through a close reading of Cervantes’s Don Quijote, with a special emphasis on various theoretical approaches to the text. The class will provide a basic introduction to literary criticism.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 400
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SPAN 510 - AP Spanish Literature & Culture: Theory Into Practice
(3 units)
Prerequisite(s): Graduate level coursework or consent of instructor
The “AP Spanish Literature and Culture: Theory into Practice” course covers the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching the literatures and cultures of Spain, Latin America, and Hispanic United States. Students analyze and learn how to teach literary texts within historical, sociocultural, and geopolitical contexts.
Letter Grade Only (A-F) Not repeatable for credit Double Numbered with: 410
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SPAN 520 - History of Spanish Language
(3 units)
Prerequisite: One course in Spanish linguistics or consent of instructor.
Analysis of written and spoken Spanish from its inception through its current use in the Hispanic world.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 420
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SPAN 525 - Teaching Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States
(3 Units)
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing.
Prepares language teachers to work with heritage language speakers (students who speak a language other than English at home), with particular emphasis on Spanish speakers. Topics include: heritage grammars, the linguistic and social characteristics that shape heritage languages in the United States, and pedagogical methods and approaches for teaching heritage languages.
Letter Grade Only (A-F). Not repeatable for credit Double Numbered with: 425
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SPAN 526 - Spanish Morphology and Syntax
(3 units)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Morphemic and syntagmatic analysis of Spanish; introduction to transformational grammar.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hours) Double Numbered with: SPAN 426
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SPAN 527 - Contrastive Analysis of Spanish and English
(3 units)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Study of known points of similarity and differences between the two languages.
Letter grade only (A-F). Double Numbered with: SPAN 427
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SPAN 529 - Studies in 19th and 20th Century Spanish Poetry
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 330
Examines salient poets from last two centuries, including Rosalía de Castro, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Vicente Aleixandre, Federico García Lorca, Gloria Fuertes, Jaime Gil de Biedma, and other more contemporary figures. Undergraduates register in SPAN 429 ; graduates register in SPAN 529.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Seminar 3 hours) Double Numbered with: SPAN 429
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SPAN 538 - Studies in Golden Age Literature
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 330 .
Survey of 16th and 17th century masterpieces from Spain such as La Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes, Los desengaños amorosos and their intersections with notions of hegemony, sexuality, gender, race, and class.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 438
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SPAN 539 - Modern Spanish Narrative
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 330 or consent of instructor.
Representative 19th and 20th century novelists.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Seminar) Undergraduates register in SPAN 439 , graduates register in SPAN 539. Double Numbered with: SPAN 439
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SPAN 540 - Civilized Barbarisms: Nature, War and Race in Latin American Fiction
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 341 .
Study of Latin American fiction dealing with military conflicts, economic and ecological struggles, and ethnic strife from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 440
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SPAN 541 - Studies in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 341 or consent of instructor.
Critical analysis of 19th and 20th century Spanish American prose fiction. Undergraduates register in SPAN 441 , graduates register in SPAN 541
Letter grade only (A-F). (Seminar 3 hours). Double Numbered with: SPAN 441
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SPAN 542 - Nation Building and Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 310 and SPAN 341 or instructor’s consent.
Explores field of Spanish American women writers during nineteenth century and concept of nation building. Several genres are studied: epistolary narrative, short-story, travel narratives, essay, autobiography, and the novel.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 442
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SPAN 543 - Studies in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish American Poetry
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 341 or consent of instructor.
Study of representative 19th and 20th century Spanish American poets. Undergraduates register in SPAN 443 , graduates register in SPAN 543
Letter grade only (A-F). (Seminar) Double Numbered with: SPAN 443
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SPAN 544 - Nineteenth-Century Spanish America and The National Family Romance
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 310 and SPAN 341 or consent of instructor.
Advanced course studies Spanish American canonical writers during the nineteenth century in relation to the concept of “family romance.” These fictions constitute the foundational master narratives that were the guiding fictions for the new independent nations.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 444
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SPAN 546 - Studies in Spanish Culture
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 330
Deals with some aspect of Spanish culture in an interdisciplinary fashion during a given period. Topics could include social, political, theoretical, and/or historical perspectives on the arts. Undergraduates register in SPAN 446 ; graduates register in SPAN 546.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Seminar 3 hours) May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units. Double Numbered with: SPAN 446
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SPAN 547 - The Invention of Spain: Visions in Conflict
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 300 , SPAN 310 , SPAN 330 .
Social, historical and literary study of Spain from 1808 through the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Many groups struggle to impose their vision of Spain as it emerges from the War of Independence in 1808, transitioning from the Antiguo Régimen to nationhood.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 447
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SPAN 548 - Romanticism and Realism
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 300 , SPAN 310 and SPAN 330 .
A systematic tracing of the derivation of Spanish Romanticism in narrative forms, in its European and Peninsular trajectories and its transformation into realism toward mid nineteenth century.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 448
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SPAN 549 - Dictatorship to Democracy: Film and Literature in Spain (1930-today)
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 310 and SPAN 330 or consent of instructor.
Advanced course explores Spanish culture through film and literature of the pre-Civil War period, the Franco period, the transition to democracy, and the advanced democracy of Spain today.
Letter grade only (A-F). Double Numbered with: SPAN 449
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SPAN 550 - Studies in Colonial Spanish American Literature
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 310 and SPAN 341 .
Focuses on canonical works from Spanish-American Colonial period (1500-1800). Covers a large selection of literary texts of colonial period, including chronicles, relaciones, letters, diaries, poetry, autobiography, and travel literature.
Both grading options. Double Numbered with: SPAN 450
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SPAN 560 - Studies in Spanish American Culture
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 341 .
In-depth study of some of the essays which have dealt with the problem of what the Spanish American nations are, and what they should be during the republican era. Includes authors from both nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Both grading options. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units.
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SPAN 590 - Selected Topics in Spanish
(3 units)
Study of a particular aspect of Spanish literature, language or culture.
Letter grade only (A-F). May be repeated to a maximum of 9 units with different topics. Topics announced in Schedule of Classes.
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SPAN 591 - Nobel Poets and Others
(3 units)
Prerequisites: SPAN 330 , SPAN 341 , or consent of instructor.
Critical analysis of representative works of Nobel Poets (Aleixandre, Jimenez. Mistral, Neruda and Paz) and other significant poets (Albertik, Becquer, Dario, Garcia Lorca, Garcilaso, Gongora, Guillen, Vallejo, etc.) Undergraduates register in SPAN 491 , graduates register in SPAN 591.
Letter grade only (A-F) Double Numbered with: SPAN 491
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SPAN 592 - Studies in Hispanic Theater
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 330 or SPAN 341 , or consent of instructor.
Representative Spanish and Spanish American plays.
Letter grade only (A-F). Undergraduates register in SPAN 492 ; graduates register in SPAN 592. Double Numbered with: SPAN 492
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SPAN 593 - Women and War
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 310 .
Examines the relationship between women and war in a literary context. Undergraduates register in SPAN 493 ; graduates register for SPAN 593.
Letter grade only (A-F). (3 hours lecture) Double Numbered with: SPAN 493
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SPAN 599 - Directed Studies
(1-3 units)
Prerequisites: Graduate standing, advanced to candidacy, consent of the instructor and chair or graduate advisor.
Selected topics on Hispanic Studies to be pursued in-depth.
Letter grade only (A-F). May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units with different topics with consent of graduate advisor and department chair.
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SPAN 640 - Selected Topics - Seminar in Spanish American Literature
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 341 or consent of instructor.
Study of particular period, genre or author.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Seminar 3 hours) May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units with different topics in different semesters. Topics announced in Schedule of Classes.
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SPAN 650 - Research Methods and Critical Theory
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 310 .
An introduction to Master’s level research methods, including information technology, library literacy, research paper preparation, conference presentations, and professionalization issues related to M.A.-level work. The idiom of critical theory will be introduced in an application-based setting.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Seminar 3 hours).
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SPAN 691 - Seminar in Spanish Literature - The Spanish Civil War and Its Artistic Repercussions
(3 units)
Prerequisite: SPAN 330 , SPAN 341 or consent of instructor.
Examines fiction dealing with war themes written during and after the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). It includes authors such as Arturo Barea, Constancia de la Mora, Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Dolores Ibárruri, Ernest Hemingway, Juan Goytisolo, George Orwell, and Ana María Matute.
Both grading options. (Seminar 3 hours) May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units.
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