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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SPAN 220 or 240 or permission of the instructor. Preparation for analysis of Hispanic literature. Composition develops style and method for analyzing prose, poetry, and drama in Spanish. Conversation continues vocabulary building and concentrates on discussion of literary themes. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent. Spanish literary masterpieces from the Poema del Cid through the present. Readings and discussions are primarily in Spanish. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent. Spanish-American literary masterpieces from colonial times through the present. Readings and discussions are primarily in Spanish. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 3 credits from 200-level Spanish. The public space in Latin America is a complex site where ideological negotiations and social changes constantly take place. Researchers and journalists have compared the archives of the press produced by different countries to grasp the most recent dynamics in the region. Thanks to the simultaneity and globalization provided by the Internet, people can capture the pulse of the planet from home and in real time. This phenomenon can be described as the institutionalization of the global village. This course aims to take advantage of the epistemologies of global communication created by new technologies in order to feel the pulse of Latin America as portrayed by the local press. This is an advanced course in composition in which students improve their writing skills and acquire tools to understand contemporary Latin American politics, economy. and society. Gonzalez.
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2.00 Credits
Pass/Fail only. Prerequisite: SPAN 162 or 164 or equivalent and permission of the instructor. Preparation for and participation in teaching, translation, and interpretation in the Rockbridge community. Participants oversee teacher training workshops, complete formal translations, and execute live interpretations in the area. The service-learning component requires at least two hours per week in the community. May be repeated once with instructor’s permission for a maximum of four credits toward degree requirements. Mayock.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Three credits from any 200-level Spanish course or permission of the instructor. Further development of listening and speaking skills necessary for advanced discussion. Acquisition of both practical and topic-specific vocabulary. Appropriate writing and reading assignments, related to the topic, accompany the primary emphasis on conversational skills. Recent topics include: Hispanic Cinema and La Prensa. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topic in Spring 2011:
SPAN 295: Hispanic Cinema (4). This course is designed to expand students’ speaking and comprehension skills in Spanish, through analysis and discussion of contemporary films produced in Spain and Latin America. Films are screened outside of class. In addition to in-class discussions, course work involves writing, producing, acting out, and taping a short video screened in the last week of classes. Botta
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: At least one 300-level Spanish course. An introduction to the field of historical linguistics and to the genealogy and development of the Spanish language. It begins with an introduction to the field of historical linguistics: essentially, what it means to study the history of a language, the concept of linguistic change, and the types of language families. This is followed by the study of the genealogy and the development of the Spanish language from its Latin origins to present-day Spanish. These include the examination of the structures and peculiarities of Latin, the cultural and historical events that have influenced the shaping of the Spanish language, the properties of medieval Spanish, the most stubborn linguistic myths, and the development of Spanish outside the Iberian Peninsula, especially in Spanish America. Bailey.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One 200-level Spanish course and instructor consent. Spring Term Abroad course. Muslims, Jews, and Christians co-existed for eight-hundred years on the Iberian Peninsula. This course examines these diverse cultures through the texts (literary, historical, religious, and philosophical), the art, and the architecture from the period prior to the arrival of the Arabs in 711, up to and beyond the expulsion of the Jews in 1492. The objective of the course is to glean from the remnants of the experience of their co-existence insights into their distinctive characteristics and how they understood and influenced each other. Bailey.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 220. Close reading and discussion of this Early Modern novel. May include close reading and discussion of additional narrative and poetic genres of the Golden Age, as represented in or contributing to the Cervantine work Campbell.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SPAN 215 and 220. . Close reading and discussion of a variety of selected Golden Age dramas of the 17th century. Representative dramatists may include Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Lope de Vega, and Mari’a de Zayas. Campbell.
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