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SPAN-101 Elementary Spanish
Elements of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. Use of language laboratory is required. Enrollment limited to those who have never previously studied Spanish. Students cannot receive credit for both 101 and 103.
SPAN-102 Elementary Spanish
Elements of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. Use of language laboratory is required. Enrollment limited to those who have never previously studied Spanish. Students cannot receive credit for both 102 and 104.
SPAN-103 Fundamental Spanish
Fundamentals of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. Use of language laboratory is required. Enrollment is limited to those who have previously studied Spanish and who are enrolled according to achievement on the Departmental Qualifying Examination. Students cannot receive credit for both 101 and 103; 102 and 104.
SPAN-104 Fundamental Spanish
Fundamentals of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. Use of language laboratory is required. Enrollment is limited to those who have previously studied Spanish and who are enrolled according to achievement on the Departmental Qualifying Examination. Students cannot receive credit for both 101 and 103; 102 and 104.
SPAN-201 Intermediate Spanish
Practice in oral and written expression, grammar review, readings, and discussions of writing in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 102 or 104 or consent of department.
SPAN-202 Intermediate Spanish
Practice in oral and written expression, grammar review, readings, and discussions of writing in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 102 or 104 or consent of department.
SPAN-203 Intermediate Spanish: Issues of Immigration
A study in Spanish of Mexican immigration to the United States. Students explore the issues surrounding the national debate on immigration from the point of view of the people who cross the southern border to come to work in the United States. Through a novel, films, short stories, newspaper articles, and interviews, students learn about the experiences of the immigrants. The service learning component brings students directly into contact with immigrants in the local Gettysburg community.
SPAN-206 The Hispanic Heritage in the United States
Study of the Hispanic experience in the territory that is now the United States, from the early Spanish explorations to the present. This course examines the historical roots of the various groups that belong to this large and diverse segment of the U.S. population, looking at the issues that distinguish each group, as well as those that join all the groups under the Hispanic umbrella. Readings, films, guest speakers, and contact with the local Hispanic community provide sources of information for reflection on the ways in which the various groups have faced the challenges of integration into American society. This crosslisted course in Latin American Studies and Spanish is conducted in English. Students who take the course as Spanish 202 are required to fulfill some of the course work at the Spanish 202 level. For these students, a B- or higher in Spanish 201 is required.
SPAN-207 Service Learning in Argentina
An intensive summer language course centered on a cross-cultural service-learning experience in Argentina. The course integrates language classes and diverse cultural activities (folk-dancing and tango lessons, museums visits, and fieldtrips to archeological sites) with service at an orphanage and at a rural elementary school. Exposure to the cultural, social and geographical diversity of Argentina enhances linguistic as well as cultural competencies. This course may be taken in lieu of Spanish 202 to fulfill the foreign language requirement.
SPAN-300 Advanced Spanish Grammar
Third year language development course offering a comprehensive grammar review to advanced students of Spanish. The course is designed to build upon students? existing knowledge of Spanish grammar, beginning with a reconsideration of all the tenses in both the indicative and subjunctive moods, their values and their uses. Students demonstrate their understanding of the material through a variety of practical and creative exercises. This course is designed for students who finish Spanish 202 and need or desire more language practice before continuing on with the Spanish major.
SPAN-301 Span Comp & Conversation
Exercises in directed and free composition; group discussion and presentation of individual oral work; review of grammar and syntax at an advanced level. Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in Spanish 202, or consent of department.
SPAN-301T May Take Span Exempt Test
SPAN-306 Cultural Topics: Spain
Exploration of a theme related to Iberian Cultures, organized around an artistic or historical period, event or genre. A variety of texts from both popular and high culture are studied, and may include film, television, music, visual arts, spoken word and periodicals, in addition to literary texts.
SPAN-307 Cultural Topics: Latin America
An exploration of a theme related to Latin American Culture, organized around a nationality, region, artistic or historical period, or event. The course uses a variety of literary texts from both popular and high culture and may include film, television, music, visual arts, spoken word and periodicals. Several sections are offered each year. Prerequisite: grade of C or better in Spanish 301.
SPAN-309 Current Events Hispanic World
Advanced composition and conversation course based on current events in the Hispanic world, using articles from Hispanic periodicals and Spanish language news programs.
SPAN-310 Topics in Hispanic Literature - Peninsular
Study of a variety of authors, themes, genres, and movements, ranging from 12th century to the present. Several sections, each with a different subject, are offered every year.
SPAN-315 Introduction to Hispanic Cinema
Study of Hispanic cinema from its inception, with emphasis on films made since the advent of revisionary cinema around 1960. Course examines the development and renovation of cinematography, the relationship between cinema and other forms of artistic expression, and the historic development of Hispanic cinema. Offered alternate years
SPAN-320 Topics in Hispanic Literature - Latin America
Historical survey of Hispanic American literature from the early chronicles of Spanish explorers through the present, with some attention to the social, political and intellectual backgrounds of the works selected. Readings are taken from a variety of genres, geographical regions, and at least three centuries. Several sections, each with a different theme, are offered yearly.
SPAN-324 Latin Amer Contemporary Prose
Emphasis on the novel of the 'boom' in Latin America. Major writers such as Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortazar, Elena Poniatowska, Juan Rulfo, and Jorge Luis Borges are read. Offered 1999-2000.
SPAN-330 Spanish Phonology
Introduction to Spanish phonetic and phonemic theory and analysis, applied to improve pronunciation skills. Study of variation in pronunciation in Spain and Latin America. Three lecture hours and one laboratory.
SPAN-331 Spanish in Today's World
Overview of Spanish syntactic, morphological and phonetic variation in Spain, Latin America and elsewhere. Spanish variation is used as a vehicle to introduce linguistic theories, methods, and problems as applied to Spanish. Attention is also given to relevant linguistic topics, such as Spanish dialectology, sociolinguistics, bilingualism and field research. Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in Spanish 301 or consent of department.
SPAN-345 Introduction to Literary Analysis
Introduction to basic critical approaches to the reading of prose fiction, poetry, and drama. Through the careful study of works in each genre, students acquire a knowledge of analytical skills and critical terminology in Spanish.
SPAN-351 Lyric Poetry
Study of Spanish lyric poetry through the ages. Course concentrates on the interrelationship of form, content, and idea, noting major influences on the poetry of each period. Appreciation is considered a major goal, and much poetry is read orally and discussed. Alternate years.
SPAN-353 Introduction to Hispanic Cinema
Study of Hispanic cinema from its inception, with emphasis on films made since the advent of revisionary cinema around 1960. Course examines the development and renovation of cinematography, the relationship between cinema and other forms of artistic expression, and the historic development of Hispanic cinema. Offered alternate years
SPAN-354 Nineteenth-Century Literature in Spain and Latin America
Study of nineteenth-century literature in Spain and Latin America, according to the cultural movements and transformations of this century. Readings include narratives, essays and poetry. Facilitates strategies for the interpretation of literature grounded on gender conflicts, creation of political contexts, and social change.
SPAN-355 Hispanic Theater
Study of the drama of Spain and Spanish America through the ages. Focus varies from semester to semester, based on such aspects as literary period, common theme, historical development, and dramatic theory.
SPAN-363 Literature of the Golden Age
Representative texts selected from different genres of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish litereature. Readings and discussions focus on topics such as honor, gender relations, social class, religion, and notions of nationality and empire.
SPAN-367 Generation of '98 and Pre-Civil War Literature
Studies in the essay, poetry, prose fiction, and drama of the major writers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries in Spain.
SPAN-368 Post-Civil War Literature of Spain
Study of major literary trends and works in Spain, beginning with the resurgence of Spanish literature in the 1940s and continuing to the present day. Offered alternate years
SPAN-369 Cervantes
Study of the masterpiece, Don Quijote de la Mancha, as well as some Novelas ejemplares and entremeses or one-act plays. Offered alternate years
SPAN-376 Latin Amer Contemporary Prose
Emphasis on the novel of the 'boom' in Latin America. Major writers such as Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortazar, Elena Poniatowska, Juan Rulfo, and Jorge Luis Borges are read. Offered 1999-2000.
SPAN-378 Twentieth Century Literature of the Hispanic Caribbean Islands
An advanced Spanish course focusing on literary examples of the Hispanic Caribbean Islands of the 20th century in which the narrator is a child or an adolescent. The course includes an analysis of movies, music, visual arts examples and a variety of literary genres like poetry, short story and essay, emphasizing the interdisciplinary connections between literature and art works.
SPAN-379 Colonialism and Latin America
Study of the textual productions resulting from the initial centuries of conquest and colonization of Latin America. Readings and discussions include the study of European preconceptions and the impact they had on representation of Latin American 'origins' in literature. Goals include the analysis of the varied discursive responses to the process of colonization and how they pervade our current understanding of Latin America. Offered alternate years
SPAN-380 Spanish Phonology
Introduction to Spanish phonetic and phonemic theory and analysis, applied to improve pronunciation skills. Study of variation in pronunciation in Spain and Latin America. Three lecture hours and one laboratory.
SPAN-381 Spanish Pragmatics: Language and its Cultural Frontiers
An advanced Spanish linguistic survey of language that focuses on the relationship between linguistic forms and their users across Latin America and the United States. This course exposes students to linguistic, sociological and anthropological approaches to language and culture. This course also examines how context contributes to the meaning of utterances in the Spanish language.
SPAN-400 Seminar
Directed and specialized studies in Spanish and Latin American literatures from the medieval period to the present. Course is taken by seniors during the final semester in order to complete their undergraduate work in Hispanic literatures. Offered every spring.
SPAN-450 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
SPAN-460 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
SPAN-462 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
SPAN-463 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor graded S/U
SPAN-464 Senior Capstone
SPAN-471 Individualized Study-Intern
Internship counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
SPAN-473 Individualized Study-Internship
Internship not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
SPAN-475 Service Learning Hispanic Comm
Summer Internship graded S/U, counting in the mimimum requirements for a major or minor only with written permission filed in the Registrar's Office
SPAN-477 Service Learning Hispanic Comm
SPAN-101 Elementary Spanish
Elements of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. Use of language laboratory is required. Enrollment limited to those who have never previously studied Spanish. Students cannot receive credit for both 101 and 103.
SPAN-102 Elementary Spanish
Elements of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. Use of language laboratory is required. Enrollment limited to those who have never previously studied Spanish. Students cannot receive credit for both 102 and 104.
SPAN-103 Fundamental Spanish
Fundamentals of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. Use of language laboratory is required. Enrollment is limited to those who have previously studied Spanish and who are enrolled according to achievement on the Departmental Qualifying Examination. Students cannot receive credit for both 101 and 103; 102 and 104.
SPAN-104 Fundamental Spanish
Fundamentals of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. Use of language laboratory is required. Enrollment is limited to those who have previously studied Spanish and who are enrolled according to achievement on the Departmental Qualifying Examination. Students cannot receive credit for both 101 and 103; 102 and 104.
SPAN-201 Intermediate Spanish
Practice in oral and written expression, grammar review, readings, and discussions of writing in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 102 or 104 or consent of department.
SPAN-202 Intermediate Spanish
Practice in oral and written expression, grammar review, readings, and discussions of writing in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 102 or 104 or consent of department.
SPAN-203 Intermediate Spanish: Issues of Immigration
A study in Spanish of Mexican immigration to the United States. Students explore the issues surrounding the national debate on immigration from the point of view of the people who cross the southern border to come to work in the United States. Through a novel, films, short stories, newspaper articles, and interviews, students learn about the experiences of the immigrants. The service learning component brings students directly into contact with immigrants in the local Gettysburg community.
SPAN-206 The Hispanic Heritage in the United States
Study of the Hispanic experience in the territory that is now the United States, from the early Spanish explorations to the present. This course examines the historical roots of the various groups that belong to this large and diverse segment of the U.S. population, looking at the issues that distinguish each group, as well as those that join all the groups under the Hispanic umbrella. Readings, films, guest speakers, and contact with the local Hispanic community provide sources of information for reflection on the ways in which the various groups have faced the challenges of integration into American society. This crosslisted course in Latin American Studies and Spanish is conducted in English. Students who take the course as Spanish 202 are required to fulfill some of the course work at the Spanish 202 level. For these students, a B- or higher in Spanish 201 is required.
SPAN-207 Service Learning in Argentina
An intensive summer language course centered on a cross-cultural service-learning experience in Argentina. The course integrates language classes and diverse cultural activities (folk-dancing and tango lessons, museums visits, and fieldtrips to archeological sites) with service at an orphanage and at a rural elementary school. Exposure to the cultural, social and geographical diversity of Argentina enhances linguistic as well as cultural competencies. This course may be taken in lieu of Spanish 202 to fulfill the foreign language requirement.
SPAN-300 Advanced Spanish Grammar
Third year language development course offering a comprehensive grammar review to advanced students of Spanish. The course is designed to build upon students? existing knowledge of Spanish grammar, beginning with a reconsideration of all the tenses in both the indicative and subjunctive moods, their values and their uses. Students demonstrate their understanding of the material through a variety of practical and creative exercises. This course is designed for students who finish Spanish 202 and need or desire more language practice before continuing on with the Spanish major.
SPAN-301 Span Comp & Conversation
Exercises in directed and free composition; group discussion and presentation of individual oral work; review of grammar and syntax at an advanced level. Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in Spanish 202, or consent of department.
SPAN-301T May Take Span Exempt Test
SPAN-306 Cultural Topics: Spain
Exploration of a theme related to Iberian Cultures, organized around an artistic or historical period, event or genre. A variety of texts from both popular and high culture are studied, and may include film, television, music, visual arts, spoken word and periodicals, in addition to literary texts.
SPAN-307 Cultural Topics: Latin America
An exploration of a theme related to Latin American Culture, organized around a nationality, region, artistic or historical period, or event. The course uses a variety of literary texts from both popular and high culture and may include film, television, music, visual arts, spoken word and periodicals. Several sections are offered each year. Prerequisite: grade of C or better in Spanish 301.
SPAN-309 Current Events Hispanic World
Advanced composition and conversation course based on current events in the Hispanic world, using articles from Hispanic periodicals and Spanish language news programs.
SPAN-310 Topics in Hispanic Literature - Peninsular
Study of a variety of authors, themes, genres, and movements, ranging from 12th century to the present. Several sections, each with a different subject, are offered every year.
SPAN-315 Introduction to Hispanic Cinema
Study of Hispanic cinema from its inception, with emphasis on films made since the advent of revisionary cinema around 1960. Course examines the development and renovation of cinematography, the relationship between cinema and other forms of artistic expression, and the historic development of Hispanic cinema. Offered alternate years
SPAN-320 Topics in Hispanic Literature - Latin America
Historical survey of Hispanic American literature from the early chronicles of Spanish explorers through the present, with some attention to the social, political and intellectual backgrounds of the works selected. Readings are taken from a variety of genres, geographical regions, and at least three centuries. Several sections, each with a different theme, are offered yearly.
SPAN-324 Latin Amer Contemporary Prose
Emphasis on the novel of the 'boom' in Latin America. Major writers such as Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortazar, Elena Poniatowska, Juan Rulfo, and Jorge Luis Borges are read. Offered 1999-2000.
SPAN-330 Spanish Phonology
Introduction to Spanish phonetic and phonemic theory and analysis, applied to improve pronunciation skills. Study of variation in pronunciation in Spain and Latin America. Three lecture hours and one laboratory.
SPAN-331 Spanish in Today's World
Overview of Spanish syntactic, morphological and phonetic variation in Spain, Latin America and elsewhere. Spanish variation is used as a vehicle to introduce linguistic theories, methods, and problems as applied to Spanish. Attention is also given to relevant linguistic topics, such as Spanish dialectology, sociolinguistics, bilingualism and field research. Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in Spanish 301 or consent of department.
SPAN-345 Introduction to Literary Analysis
Introduction to basic critical approaches to the reading of prose fiction, poetry, and drama. Through the careful study of works in each genre, students acquire a knowledge of analytical skills and critical terminology in Spanish.
SPAN-351 Lyric Poetry
Study of Spanish lyric poetry through the ages. Course concentrates on the interrelationship of form, content, and idea, noting major influences on the poetry of each period. Appreciation is considered a major goal, and much poetry is read orally and discussed. Alternate years.
SPAN-353 Introduction to Hispanic Cinema
Study of Hispanic cinema from its inception, with emphasis on films made since the advent of revisionary cinema around 1960. Course examines the development and renovation of cinematography, the relationship between cinema and other forms of artistic expression, and the historic development of Hispanic cinema. Offered alternate years
SPAN-354 Nineteenth-Century Literature in Spain and Latin America
Study of nineteenth-century literature in Spain and Latin America, according to the cultural movements and transformations of this century. Readings include narratives, essays and poetry. Facilitates strategies for the interpretation of literature grounded on gender conflicts, creation of political contexts, and social change.
SPAN-355 Hispanic Theater
Study of the drama of Spain and Spanish America through the ages. Focus varies from semester to semester, based on such aspects as literary period, common theme, historical development, and dramatic theory.
SPAN-363 Literature of the Golden Age
Representative texts selected from different genres of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish litereature. Readings and discussions focus on topics such as honor, gender relations, social class, religion, and notions of nationality and empire.
SPAN-367 Generation of '98 and Pre-Civil War Literature
Studies in the essay, poetry, prose fiction, and drama of the major writers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries in Spain.
SPAN-368 Post-Civil War Literature of Spain
Study of major literary trends and works in Spain, beginning with the resurgence of Spanish literature in the 1940s and continuing to the present day. Offered alternate years
SPAN-369 Cervantes
Study of the masterpiece, Don Quijote de la Mancha, as well as some Novelas ejemplares and entremeses or one-act plays. Offered alternate years
SPAN-376 Latin Amer Contemporary Prose
Emphasis on the novel of the 'boom' in Latin America. Major writers such as Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortazar, Elena Poniatowska, Juan Rulfo, and Jorge Luis Borges are read. Offered 1999-2000.
SPAN-378 Twentieth Century Literature of the Hispanic Caribbean Islands
An advanced Spanish course focusing on literary examples of the Hispanic Caribbean Islands of the 20th century in which the narrator is a child or an adolescent. The course includes an analysis of movies, music, visual arts examples and a variety of literary genres like poetry, short story and essay, emphasizing the interdisciplinary connections between literature and art works.
SPAN-379 Colonialism and Latin America
Study of the textual productions resulting from the initial centuries of conquest and colonization of Latin America. Readings and discussions include the study of European preconceptions and the impact they had on representation of Latin American 'origins' in literature. Goals include the analysis of the varied discursive responses to the process of colonization and how they pervade our current understanding of Latin America. Offered alternate years
SPAN-380 Spanish Phonology
Introduction to Spanish phonetic and phonemic theory and analysis, applied to improve pronunciation skills. Study of variation in pronunciation in Spain and Latin America. Three lecture hours and one laboratory.
SPAN-381 Spanish Pragmatics: Language and its Cultural Frontiers
An advanced Spanish linguistic survey of language that focuses on the relationship between linguistic forms and their users across Latin America and the United States. This course exposes students to linguistic, sociological and anthropological approaches to language and culture. This course also examines how context contributes to the meaning of utterances in the Spanish language.
SPAN-400 Seminar
Directed and specialized studies in Spanish and Latin American literatures from the medieval period to the present. Course is taken by seniors during the final semester in order to complete their undergraduate work in Hispanic literatures. Offered every spring.
SPAN-450 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
SPAN-460 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
SPAN-462 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
SPAN-463 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor graded S/U
SPAN-464 Senior Capstone
SPAN-471 Individualized Study-Intern
Internship counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
SPAN-473 Individualized Study-Internship
Internship not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
SPAN-475 Service Learning Hispanic Comm
Summer Internship graded S/U, counting in the mimimum requirements for a major or minor only with written permission filed in the Registrar's Office
SPAN-477 Service Learning Hispanic Comm
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