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5.00 Credits
With a rapidly growing Latino and Hispanic immigrant population, the Lehigh Valley offers Spanish students a unique opportunity to hone their language skills and cultural understanding. This class blends oncampus preparation and reflection with communitybased practical experience, investigation, and exploration. This servicelearning course incorporates collaborative projects with organizations working closely with Spanishspeaking clients. To complement the community component, weekly classes will provide a solid introduction to local Hispanic/Latino culture and concerns as well as the basic theories and methodologies of oral interpretation. Offered every year during the fall semester. Students should expect to commit about 5 hours per week to the community servicelearning component of this course. Prerequisite: One 400level course in Spanish or approval of instructor
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5.00 Credits
With a rapidly growing Latino and Hispanic immigrant population, the Lehigh Valley offers Spanish students a unique opportunity to hone their language skills and cultural understanding. Spanish for the Community: Translation is a writingintensive service course blending regular and extensively revised written work with communitybased practical experience, investigation, exploration, and reflection. This servicelearning course incorporates collaborative projects with organizations working closely with Spanishspeaking clients. To complement the community component, weekly classes will provide a solid introduction to the basic theories and methodologies of written translation, with special focus on the specific needs and concerns of the local Latino and Hispanic immigrant communities. This course is designed to complement SPN 307, Spanish for the Community: Interpreting, and students are welcome and encouraged to take both. The class is conducted in Spanish, though given the special nature of English/Spanish and Spanish/English translation, class discussions may include Spanish, English, or even Spanglish. Students should expect to commit about 5 hours/week to the community servicelearning component of this course. Prerequisite: One 400level course in Spanish or approval of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Practice in oral and written Spanish at an advanced level. Compositions, dictations, oral reports, and readings emphasizing Spanish business vocabulary (banking, importing and exporting, stock market, etc.). Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: SPN 204 Intermediate Spanish II Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 311.
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4.00 Credits
Advanced Spanish Grammar is a review of the structures and usage of Spanish grammar for upperlevel students. At the core of this class are the study and practice of the finer points of grammar in both theoretical and practical terms. The cultural understandings that underlie and inform language and make or impedeeffective communication will be explored at length. The course takes as its starting point the understanding that students come to it able to communicate in Spanish for this reason the course is conducted in Spanish. Prerequisite: One 400level course in Spanish or approval of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to contemporary Spanish life with its intellectual, economic, and social phenomena as well as its regional aspects. The course also surveys the artistic, architectural, and historical heritage of Spain. Given in Spanish. Offered every year during the fall semester. Prerequisite: SPN 301 or 302 Spanish Conversation & Composition. Meets general academic requirement H (and W which applies to 321 only.)
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to contemporary LatinAmerican life with its intellectual, economic, and social phenomena as well as its regional aspects. The course also surveys the artistic, architectural, and historical heritage of Latin America. Given in Spanish. Offered every year during the spring semester. Prerequisite: SPN 301 or 302 Spanish Conversation & Composition. Meets general academic requirement D or H (and W which applies to 323 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study of representative works of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance. Emphasis is placed on the literary analysis of the major genres of epic poetry, the fable, the picaresque novel, and preLope de Vega theater. Students will explore theme and theory within the social, historical, philosophical, and political context of the period. Taught in Spanish. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: SPN 303 or 304 Advanced Spanish Conversation & Composition Meets general academic requirement L.
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4.00 Credits
A careful reading of Cervantes' Don Quijote, the novel that broke stylistically and philosophically into the modern age. Other works by Cervantes will be included, allowing the student to gain a greater understanding of the essential interconnectedness of the different literary genres as well as insight into the politics and ideas of a crucial and defining moment in Spanish history. Taught in Spanish. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: SPN 303 or 304 Advanced Spanish Conversation & Composition Meets general academic requirement L.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the development of sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish drama through the works of major playwrights. Emphasis is placed on the structure, language, and major themes of the plays as well as the manner in which they reflect the rapidly changing society of that period. Taught in Spanish. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: SPN 303 or 304 Advanced Spanish Conversation & Composition Meets general academic requirement L.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the plays, poetry, and novels of eighteenth and nineteenth century Spain, reflecting the social, political, and ideological changes leading up to and throughout the Industrial Revolution. Special attention will be paid to the different roles of writer, narrator, and reader through textual clues. Taught in Spanish. Alternate years. Prerequisite: SPN 303 or 304 Advanced Spanish Conversation & Composition Meets general academic requirement L.
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