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3.00 Credits
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.
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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.
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3.00 Credits
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 PérezGaldós, Camilo José Cela, and Carmen MartÃn Gaite Taught: Spring alternate years. Prerequisite: SPA 318 or equivalent. SPA 305 recommended. Credit: 3 hours.
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3.00 Credits
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 DarÃo, Jorge Luis Borges, Bernal DÃdel 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.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To allow students to concentrate on a particular area of language or literature. Content Varied. Taught Fall. Alternate years. Prerequisites SPA 356 or equivalent, and permission of instructor. Credit 3; 3 hours; cross-cultural; S-courses.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To provide additional advanced work in Spanish language or literature. Content Varied, according to course taught. Taught Upon request of student, with approval of sponsoring faculty. Prerequisites Permission of the instructor and the department chair. Open to advanced students. Credit 1-6 hours; cross-cultural.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To provide practical experience to allow the student to apply what she has learned. Content Generally dealing with communicative, administrative, or instructional assistance; student will perform support services such as limited translation or interpretation, or use language skills to perform other duties under professional supervision. Taught Upon request of student, with approval of sponsoring faculty. Prerequisite Permission of the instructor and department chair. Credit 1-9 hours.
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1.00 Credits
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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3.00 Credits
Honors Thesis
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3.00 Credits
Goal In this course students will be challenged to reflect upon and examine complexities of the learning process not only as it applies to general humanity throughout history, but also to themselves in the contemporary world. All students will, in essence, use their own ways of learning and knowing as a laboratory experience. Content Students will use the processes of writing, speaking and structured inquiry to engage themselves and their fellow students in the act of "world building," that is, the collaborative construction of knowledge and meaning. Many of thecourse assignments will be autobiographical in nature, requiring students to reflect upon and analyze their own life experiences with learning. The learning theories of Howard Gardner, Frank Smith, Daniel Goleman, Jean Piaget and others will be covered. Qualitative methodologies (including narrative research) will be used. Taught Fall. Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking. Credit 3 hours.
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