| HISP 602 | Applied Linguistics for Teachers of Spanish. Credit 3. Overview of Spanish including regional and national variation with special reference to relationship of language acquisition, performance analysis and teaching methodology. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 603 | Development of the Spanish Language. Credit 3. The origin and development of the Spanish language from pre-Roman to modern period with emphasis on the socio-historical contexts; analysis of literary and documentary evidence of linguistic evolution. Prerequisite: HISP 602 or approval of instructor. |
| HISP 606 | Spanish of the Southwest. Credit 3. Descriptive analysis of written varieties of southwest Spanish from Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Structure and variation of (a) the sound system, (b) grammatical patterns, and (c) the lexicon. Instruction to sociolinguistic issues relevant to southwest language studies. Prerequisite: HISP 602 or approval of instructor. |
| HISP 607 | Seminar in Spanish Linguistics. Credit 3. Intensive investigation of an issue important to understanding historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, developments in theoretical and applied linguistics. May be repeated for credit as content varies. Prerequisite: HISP 602 or approval of Instructor. |
| HISP 614 | Hispanic Dialectology. Credit 3. Topics include varieties of Spanish spoken throughout the Americas. Spanish-speaking regions covered include South America, the Caribbean, Central America, and North America, including the southwestern United States. The course covers historical background, structural linguistics, and sociolinguistic issues (social and stylistic variation). Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 618 | Hispanic Folklore and Popular Literature. Credit 3. An examination of popular literature and other cultural forms in the Hispanic world. Students will learn to appreciate, evaluate, and compare written and oral-traditional formats, and acquire methods of analyzing language and cultural artifacts that reflect recent research trends. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 630 | Studies in Latin American Literature. Credit 3. Possible topics include colonial literature, the chronicles, Romanticism, Modernism, contemporary trends in the Latin American novel, the novel of the Mexican Revolution, Ruben Dario, contemporary Argentine fiction, the literature of revolution in Latin America, Afro-Hispanic literature, Hispanic Caribbean literature. May be repeated for credit when topic changes. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 640 | History of Ideas in Hispanic World. Credit 3. Intensive study of cultural and ideological currents, especially as they are reflected in the works of essayists and other writers. Possible topics include Spain and European culture, European thought in Latin America, the Renaissance in Spanish literature and social life, Spain and the Western tradition, Spain between Islam and Christianity, the search for national identity in Mexico, three intellectual generations in Argentina, the development of Hispanic nationalism in the United States, the history of Hispanic journalism in the United States. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 645 | Hispanic Women Writers. Credit 3. A study of the development of writing by women in the Hispanic world, including Spain, Latin America, and the United States. Topics include identity and nation, building of a feminine aesthetics, the reception of works by women writers, literary canons and exclusion, women and/in the Latin American boom, Latina writers in the United States. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 646 | Cultural Encounters and Borders in Hispanic Literature. Credit 3. Topics include literature and marginalization in medieval Spain, colonial literature and the chronicles, Modernism, Vanguardism, contemporary trends in the Latin American novel, the novel of the Mexican Revolution, Afro-Hispanic literature, Hispanic Caribbean literature. May be repeated for credit when the topic changes. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 650 | Methods of Study in Spanish Linguistics. Credit 3. Examination of various methods of linguistic analysis in Spanish, such as transformational grammar, socio- or psycholinguistics in Spanish. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 653 | Don Quixote and the Hispanic Novel. Credit 3. Analysis of Cervantes's Don Quixote and the development of modern fiction, its influence in the Hispanic narrative tradition, from Fernández de Avellaneda to Pérez Galdós, G. García Márquez, and Carlos Fuentes, and its presence in the U.S. Hispanic novel. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 660 | Reading and Research in Hispanic Cultural Studies. Credit 3. Independent research in specialized subjects not normally or not often included in the regular course offerings. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 664 | Hispanic Theatre. Credit 3. Topics include Golden Age drama and its antecedents, the Neo-Classicist movement in Spain, regionalist and criollo drama in Latin America, avant-garde and collective creation theatre, Teatro Campesino and Chicano movement drama, Hispanic performance artists. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 665 | Studies in Spanish Literature. Credit 3. Topics include El Cid, El Arcipreste de Hita, El Romancero, Spanish Renaissance poetry, Golden Age prose, Golden Age theater, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Góngora and Gongorismo, eighteenth-century essayists, Galdós, the Generation of 98, Romanticism, Miguel de Unamuno, the theater of Garcia Lorca, contemporary Spanish poetry, Spanish literature after Franco. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 667 | Hispanic Genre Studies. Credit 3. Selected topics in the works, authors, characteristics and classifications of a given genre cultivated by Hispanic writers. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 670 | Studies in U.S. Hispanic Literature. Credit 3. Topics include bilingual literature, Nuyorican literature, Cuban American literature, Chicano literature, the immigrant novel, ethnic autobiography, U.S. Hispanic theater, Chicano theater. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 671 | Bilingualism in Hispanic Literature. Credit 3. This course will explore bilingualism in Hispanic letters. From Spanish medieval literature to contemporary Hispanic literature in the United States, the course will focus on artistic, aesthetic, social, historical, and cultural aspects of the uses of two languages in Hispanic literary works. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 672 | Hispanic Film and Performance Arts. Credit 3. A theoretical and historical exploration of cinema and performance arts in the Hispanic world. The description and interpretation of films and performance arts such as flamenco and folkloric ballet with particular attention to history, ethnology, artistic trends, and tendencies and relationships to other arts. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 675 | Methods of Teaching Spanish to Native Speakers. Credit 3. Presentation of the various theories and methods for the teaching of Spanish to students of Spanish-speaking backgrounds in the United States. Prerequisite: HISP 602 or approval of instructor. |
| HISP 685 | Directed Studies. Credit 1 to 4 each semester. Readings to supplement the student's knowledge of Hispanic Studies in areas not studied in other courses; research papers. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Approval of department head. |
| HISP 689 | Special Topics in... Credit 1 to 4. Selected topics in an identified area of Hispanic Studies. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 691 | Research. Credit 1 or more each semester. Research for thesis or dissertation. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Approval of department head. |
| HISP 6305 | Seminar in Golden Age Literature. Credit 3. A seminar in a special topic on the poetry, drama, and prose of the Golden Age. May be repeated when topic changes. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 6313 | Seminar in Modern Peninsular Literature. Credit 3. A seminar in a special topic concerning modern Spanish letters. Topics may focus on genres, authors, themes, or historical, cultural, and aesthetic movements. May be repeated when topic changes. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 6339 | Seminar in the History of Spain. Credit 3. A seminar in the history of Spain with special emphasis on historical, political, religious, and cultural issues of relevance to an understanding not only of Spain but of Spanish America. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 6343 | Special Topics in Hispanic Literature and Culture. Credit 3. A seminar dealing with diverse themes and currents in the literature of Spain or Spanish America. The focus may be a genre (the pastoral), a theme (the portrayal of women), or cultural/cross-cultural issues in Hispanic letters. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| HISP 6344 | Seminar in Modern Spanish American Literature. Credit 3. A seminar in Latin American Literature after independence. Topics will vary, and may include the novel, short story, poetry, theatre, or themes prevalent in Spanish American literature, such as civilizacion-barbarie, revolution and society, race and gender, and social justice. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| SPAN 6300 | Topics in Spanish. Credit 3. Research methods and theory in the field of Spanish linguistics. Topics: Dialectology, phonetics, semantics, pragmatics, Spanish of the Southwest, methods of study in Spanish language. May be repeated when topic changes. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| SPAN 6301 | Research Methods. Credit 3. Orientation to critical proficiency and tools in literary theory, cultural studies approaches, and linguistic methods necessary for conducting research in the resolution of problems relevant to the study of the topic selected. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| SPAN 6310 | Hispanic Feminist Theory and Writing. Credit 3. Analysis of Hispanic women's discourse as power struggle for the elaboration of feminist politics of reason, passion, and action, and political feminist consciousness. Critical analysis of women's writings as production and reproduction of cultural formations of historically situated and gender-specific discursive subjects. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| SPAN 6311 | Hispanic Film Studies. Credit 3. Study of Latin American, U.S. Latino, and Spanish film and multimedia as historical and cultural active re-discoveries and re-constructions of the Hispanic people and their worlds. Readings and discussion on the articulation between history, film, multimedia, and the production-consumption of image cultures in the Hispanic world. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| SPAN 6341 | Topics in Translation Studies. Credit 3. Applied linguistics issues related to Spanish-English/English-Spanish translation. May be repeated when topic changes. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| SPAN 6350 | Hispanic Cultural Studies. [Various Topics] Credit 3. Study of cultural constructs and practices in the Hispanic World. Interpretation of Hispanic signifying practices, institutions, subjectivities, ideologies, gender roles and the Other. Critical analysis of the interactions among high culture, mass media, and popular culture. May be repeated when topic changes. 01.Hispanic Cultural Studies; 02.Hispanic Cultures of Politics; 03.Hispanic Signifying Practices; 04.Hispanic Culture. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| SPAN 6361 | Spanish-American Vanguardism. Credit 3. Study of center-periphery theoretical encounters of the creacionista, ultraísta, constructivist, and surrealist writing techniques used by Spanish-American writers from the 1920s to the 1940s. Assessment of the ambivalence between acceptance and rejection of the avant-garde by Latin American poets; and the singularity of the major works identified with the avant-garde. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
| SPAN 6362 | Spanish-American Postmodernism. Credit 3. A study of the intersections of high culture and popular culture, global designs and local histories, border thinking and globalization in the literary genres of the Spanish-American postmodernist period. Insight into various aspects of power-subordination relationship of Hispanic and world cultures. Critical analysis of their aesthetic, social, and political functions and contexts. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. |
