SPAN 410
Advanced Oral Expression and Communication (3) Emphasis on achieving practical command of spoken Spanish and the comprehension of native speech. Use of journalistic materials.
Effective: Fall 1995
Prerequisite:
SPAN 200
SPAN 412
Translation (3) Techniques of oral and written translation from Spanish to English and vice versa, particularly for business, literature, and social work.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
SPAN 300
SPAN 413
Interpretation (3) Introduction to the art of interpretation, with particular attention to the professions for which it is most commonly required.
Effective: Summer 2012
Prerequisite:
SPAN 412
SPAN 414
Spanish Phonology (3) Spanish phonetics and phonemics; systematic means of correcting pronunciation defects; other audio-lingual applications.
Effective: Spring 2013
Prerequisite:
SPAN 200, SPAN 215
SPAN 415
Spanish Morphology and Syntax (3) The Spanish grammatical system; analysis of morphemic units and their organization into syntactic structures.
Effective: Spring 2013
Prerequisite:
SPAN 200, SPAN 215
SPAN 418
The Evolution of Spanish (3) The emergence and development of the sounds and forms of Spanish.
Effective: Spring 2013
Prerequisite:
SPAN 200, SPAN 215
SPAN 420
Spanish for Business and International Trade (3) Introduction to the Spanish of international business and to the social and cultural norms of negotiation in Spanish-speaking countries.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite:
SPAN 300
SPAN 439
Don Quijote (3) Thorough study of the masterpiece, including its sources, genesis, language, style, success, and influence.
Effective: Spring 2013
Prerequisite:
SPAN 253W
SPAN 440
Teaching of Romance Languages (3) Theories of second language acquisition. Current classroom practices in the teaching of Romance languages.
Effective: Spring 2001
Prerequisite:
SPAN 200
SPAN 472
The Contemporary Spanish American Novel (3) The regionalist and social novel since 1910, together with the social background.
Effective: Spring 2013
Prerequisite:
SPAN 253W
SPAN 474
Many Mexicos (3) Overview of Mexican literature, culture and history from pre-colonial period to present.
Effective: Summer 2013
Prerequisite:
SPAN 253W
SPAN 476
Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature (3) Reading, analysis, and discussion of selected major works representative of Spanish American prose and poetry.
Effective: Spring 2013
Prerequisite:
SPAN 253W
SPAN 490
Masterpieces of Spanish Prose (3) Reading, analysis, and discussion of selected masterpieces of Spanish novels, short stories, etc.
Effective: Spring 2013
Prerequisite:
SPAN 253W
SPAN 494
Research Project (1-12) Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
Effective: Summer 1994
SPAN 494H
Research Project (1-12) Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
Effective: Fall 2007
SPAN 496
Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects, including research and design, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Fall 1983
SPAN 497
Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Fall 1983
SPAN 497A
Data Processing and Analysis for Language Scientists Using the R Statistical Package (3) This course will provide an introducation to the R-project for statistical computing. The goal of the course is to familiarize students with R so that data can be transformed and analyzed efficiently and with minimal human error. It is geared towards students with little or no prior knowledge of programming.
Effective: Summer 2013 Ending: Summer 2013
SPAN 497A
Painting and Theater in Early Modern Spain (3) Examine a number of plays and paintings to see how one influenced the other, how painters were seen and represented, and how the popular stage used painting and painters as principle characters to comment on art, society, politics, and social concerns.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
SPAN 497B
The Romance Languages (3) This course situates Spanish in the broader context of the Romance languages through the study of the origin and development of these languages and through systematic comparison of their linguistic features (especially at the phonological, morphological, and syntactic levels).
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
Prerequisite:
SPAN 215
SPAN 497C
Mexico Noir (3) This class traces the development of a particular genre of crime fiction and film known as el genero negro or noir in Mexico and along the U.S/Mexican border.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
SPAN 497D
Grammar Mistakes (3) The goal of this course is to help students build their awareness of how Spanish grammar works and identify where and how they tend to make mistakes, which in turn can improve their Spanish.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
Prerequisite:
SPAN 215
SPAN 499
(IL)
Foreign Study--Spanish (1-12) Contemporary Spanish life and civilization. Emphasis on post-Civil War period: literature, arts, and sociopolitical problems.
Effective: Summer 2005
Prerequisite:
SPAN 100, SPAN 110 orSPAN 120
SPAN 502
Theory and Techniques of Teaching Spanish (1-3) Audio-lingual orientation.
Effective: Winter 1978
SPAN 507
Hispano-Romance Linguistics (3 per semester/maximum of 9) History, development, and linguistic description of Old Spanish and related Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula.
Effective: Fall 1983
SPAN 508
Generative Syntax (3) This course offers foundations of generative syntax. It addresses the advantage of a scientific model to explain human knowledge of language that also makes predictions about its representation in the mind.
Effective: Summer 2013
SPAN 509
Functional Syntax (3) This course covers foundations of functional syntax. It addresses the advantages of a scientific approach to explain human knowledge of language that makes predictions about its representation in the mind.
Effective: Summer 2013
SPAN 510
Spanish Descriptive Linguistics: Phonology (3) No description.
Effective: Winter 1978
SPAN 511
Spanish Transformational-Generative Linguistics (3) No description.
Effective: Winter 1978
SPAN 513
Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language (3) Analysis of research on the acquisition of syntax, phonology, lexicon, discourse.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite:
introduction to Hispanic linguistics
SPAN 514
Hispanic Dialectology (3 per semester/maximum of 6) Early fragmentation among the peninsular dialects; their status today, Judeo- Spanish; descriptive analysis of modern Spanish American dialects.
Effective: Fall 1983
SPAN 516
Medieval Spanish Literature (3 per semester/maximum of 9) Topics vary: juglaria and clerecia, emergence of lyric and brief narrative; history and didacticism; origins of novel; balladry; fifteenth-century innovations.
Effective: Fall 1983
SPAN 528
Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature (3 per semester/maximum of 9) Prose and poetry of major authors: works and trends of the late Golden Age and Baroque period.
Effective: Fall 1983
SPAN 537
Golden Age Theatre (3 per semester/maximum of 6) Major works of Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderon, and others.
Effective: Fall 1983
SPAN 553
Writings of the "Generation of 1898" (3 per semester/maximum of 6) Novels, plays, short stories, essays, poetry of Valle-Inclan, Azorin, Benavente, Unamuno, Machado, Maeztu, and Baroja in the context of generation concept.
Effective: Fall 1983
SPAN 560
The Contemporary Novel in Spain (3 per semester, maximum of 9) The novel since 1941: Cela, Laforet, Zunzunegui, Suarez Carreno, Matute, and others.
Effective: Spring 2001
SPAN 566
Contemporary Spanish Poetry (3) Various currents in Spanish poetry from the generation of 1927: Lorca, Aleixandre, Salinas, Guillen, Alonso, Alberti, Hernandez, Otero, and others.
Effective: Fall 1983
SPAN 568
Early Spanish American Literature (3 per semester/maximum of 9) Content varies; selected topics from colonial period, romanticism, and the nineteenth century before modernism.
Effective: Fall 1983
SPAN 574
The Spanish American Novel (3 per semester/maximum of 9) Content varies; selected works from the late nineteenth century through the contemporary period.
Effective: Fall 1983
SPAN 587
Stylistic and Literary Criticism (3) Major theories of literary criticism applied to Hispanic literature.
Effective: Winter 1978
SPAN 588
Seminar in Hispanic Literature (3-12) Common and individual research in special problems in Spanish or Spanish American literature.
Effective: Summer 1988
SPAN 589
(FR 589, GER 589, CMLIT 589)
Technology in Foreign Language Education: An Overview (3) Approaches to the uses and research applications of multimedia and other educational technologies applied to the teaching of foreign languages. (also crosslisted with APLNG 589)
Effective: Spring 2004
SPAN 596
Individual Studies (1-9) Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Spring 1987
SPAN 597
Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently.
Effective: Summer 1988
SPAN 597A
Gender and Nation in Spanish American Literature (3) This course will explore the literary work of Spanish American women since the seventeenth century until the present in relationship to a sense of belonging, or not, to a particular region, or to a colonial or postcolonial community, or a nation.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
SPAN 597B
Mystics, Ascetics and Visionaries: Religious Writings in Imperial Spain (3) This course will focus on religious writers of Imperial Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including Saint John of the Cross, Fray Luis de Leon, Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoze, and Sait Theresa of Avila.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
SPAN 600
Thesis Research (1-15) No description.
Effective: Fall 1983
SPAN 601
Ph.D. Dissertation Full-Time (0) No description.
Effective: Fall 1983
SPAN 602
Supervised Experience in College Teaching (1-3 per semester/maximum of 6) Supervised experience in teaching and orientation to other selected aspects of the profession at The Pennsylvania State University.
Effective: Summer 1999
SPAN 603
Foreign Academic Experience (1-12) Foreign study and/or research constituting progress toward the degree at a foreign university.
Effective: Spring 2001
SPAN 610
Thesis Research Off Campus (1-15) No description.
Effective: Fall 1983
SPAN 611
Ph.D. Dissertation Part-Time (0) No description.
Effective: Fall 1983
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