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Jan 02, 2025
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2020-2021 College of Liberal Arts (Admitted Fall 2020/Spring 2021) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Spanish Minor
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Requirements for the Minor (20 credits)
I. Gateway (4 credits)
Must be taken before advanced courses in literature and cultural studies, and may be taken concurrently with advanced electives in language, linguistics, and community-based learning. II. Additional (16 credits)
A. Second-Language Learners
a. Advanced-Intermediate Language Sequence (12 credits)
Note
It is recommended that students take Spanish Conversation before Spanish Composition. Students may take their final course in the Advanced Intermediate Language Sequence concurrently with SPAN 310 .
Students who place out of one or more of the above courses through the Spanish placement exam, or whom the department determines have met the respective Spanish proficiency, should substitute the credits of the course(s) with upper-level electives offered by the department.
b. Upper Level (4 credits): Available courses listed below, under “Areas”
4 upper-level credits taught in Spanish. With departmental permission, advanced students may substitute a Hispanic Studies Seminar. Students who take 0-8 credits in the Advanced-Intermediate Language Sequence (through placement or departmental permission), may apply 4 credits offered in English by the department.
a. Advanced-Intermediate Language Sequence (8 credits)
Note
Students may take Spanish Composition concurrently with SPAN 310 .
Heritage learners who place out of one or more of the above courses through the Spanish placement exam, or whom the department determines have met the respective Spanish proficiency, should substitute the credits of the course(s) with advanced electives offered by the department. b. Upper level (8 credits): Available courses listed below, under “Areas”
8 upper-level credits, 4 of which must be taught in Spanish. With departmental permission, advanced students may substitute a Hispanic Studies Seminar.
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It is highly recommended that all Minors complete at least one of the following related to Spanish or a Spanish-speaking country:
- A semester abroad
- Summer abroad
- Short-term program
- Community-based learning course, or
- Internship.
Areas
I. Advanced Literature and Cultural Studies
Gender and Relationships - SPAN 312 - Love, Sex, and Spirituality in Early Modern Spain
- SPAN 313 - Relationships, Marriage, and Romance in Hispanic Literature and Film
Autobiographical and Life Writings - SPAN 320 - Memories and Migration: U.S. Latinos in Literature & Film
Literature and Cultural Studies - SPAN 325 - Young Writers, Neo-Realism & Urban Culture in the Hispanic World
- SPAN 326 - Self, Place and the Environment in the Hispanic World
Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies - SPAN 331 - Reading Nation, Gender and Ethnicity in Latin American Culture
- SPAN 332 - Hispanic Cultures in U.S.: Colonial Spain, Ethnics, Post-Ethnics
- SPAN 333 - Colonial/Postcolonial Encounters: Europe, Africa and the Americas
- SPAN 334 - Cultures in Contact and Conflict in the Hispanic World
Politics and History - SPAN 339 - War and Imagination: The Spanish Civil War
Selected Topics - SPAN 377 - Selected Topics in Hispanic Literature and Cultural Studies
- SPAN 381 - Selected Topics in Hispanic Literature and Cultural Studies in Spain
II. Advanced Language and Linguistics
- SPAN 345 - Cinematic Language: An Introduction to Spanish Filmic Discourse
- SPAN 363 - History of the Spanish Language
- SPAN 364 - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
- SPAN 365 - Spanish Sociolinguistics
- SPAN 366 - Advanced Expression and Stylistics
- SPAN 378 - Selected Topics in Spanish Language and Linguistics
- SPAN 379 - Doing Business in the Hispanic World
- SPAN 380 - Selected Topics in Hispanic Studies in Spain
III. Community-Based Learning
- SPAN 375 - Community Based Learning: The U.S. Latino/a Experience
IV. Courses Taught in English
- SPAN 250 - Selected Topics: Latin American, Peninsular or Transatlantic Contexts
- SPAN 251 - Selected Topics: U.S. & U.S. Regional Contexts
- SPAN 252 - The Culture of Melodrama in the Hispanic World
- SPAN 253 - Gender, Sexuality and Performance in Spanish Theatre
- SPAN 254 - The Making of the U.S. -Mexico Border
- SPAN 350 - Selected Topics in Hispanic Studies
- SPAN 351 - Magical Realism to Globalization in Spanish-American Literature & Film
- SPAN 352 - African Roots of the Americas
- SPAN 353 - Latinos in the US: Images of Self and Family
- SPAN 354 - Gender in Contemporary Hispanic Fiction and Film
- SPAN 355 - Sociolinguistic Theory and Method
- PSCI 221 - Latino Politics
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