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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on refining Spanish fluency through extensive conversation and writing practiced in a variety of settings. Introduces the skills needed for translation to and from English. Emphasizes vocabulary expansion and the use of colloquial and formal styles. The Spanish-speaking communities that surround the University also provide opportunities for enhancing communication skills and cultural knowledge.
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4.00 Credits
Offers students an opportunity to obtain fundamental knowledge of the legacy of African-based cultures in Cuba, from historical to contemporary times. Examines origins of Africans in Cuba, including study of plantation culture, transculturation, African-derived religions, the visual arts, music literature, images of blacks in film and the mass media, and African-derived culture in Cuban daily life. Also includes visits to temples and other ritual spaces, meetings with writers, encounters with artistic troupes, meetings with priests or priestesses, visits to cultural organizations, and possible participation in rituals or ceremonies (tambor, cajón, violin).
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4.00 Credits
Offers an overview of Cuban history using Cuban films. Covers the colonial period through times of slavery and the nineteenth-century struggles for independence. Proceeds to the twentieth century, first the republican period (1902-1959), then the revolutionary period (1959 to the present). Touches on topics such as colonialism, slavery, race, women in Cuban history, the anti-Batista struggles of the fifties, underdevelopment, exile, homosexuality, Cuba in the "Special Period" (1991-2005), problems of personal freedom, and identity in revolutionary societies. Also includes visits to historical museums, buildings, monuments, and parts of Havana that reveal the country's histor
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4.00 Credits
Designed to meet the special needs of international business students. Offers advanced grammar review and expanded student participation. Offers a major project in the language with the possibility of community work in the language.
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4.00 Credits
Continues LNS U511. Offers advanced conversation and composition work for international business students. Is the final language course before students go abroad. Enhances and reinforces those practical language and communication skills students will encounter when they are abroad.
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4.00 Credits
Designed for students who are in a Spanish-speaking country, this is an advanced off-campus immersion course. Focuses on developing grammatical competence, in regularly scheduled intensive language classes, with increased focus on developing oral and aural skills, which are enhanced by the linguistic and cultural immersion experience. Depending upon the nature of the off-campus experience, preparatory work may be done at Northeastern before departure.
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4.00 Credits
Offers an immersion course designed for students who are in an immersion program in a Spanish-speaking country. Continues expansion and development of oral expression, listening comprehension, and reading and writing. Regular language instruction classes are held and are enhanced by the linguistic and cultural immersion experience. Significant language learning occurs outside the classroom.
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4.00 Credits
Offers an immersion course designed for students who are in an immersion program in a Spanish-speaking country. Continues expansion and development of oral expression, listening comprehension, and reading and writing. Regular language instruction classes are held and are enhanced by the linguistic and cultural immersion experience. Significant language learning occurs outside the classroom.
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4.00 Credits
Traces the development of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages (_las jarchas_, _El poema del Cid_, _El libro de buen amor_, _La Celestina_) through the Renaissance and Baroque periods or Golden Age (Garcilaso de la Vega, the picaresque novel, the mystics, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderon). Conducted in Spanish.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys the literature of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century Spain. Includes the literary movements of romanticism, realism, and the Generation of '98. Conducted in Spanish.
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