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SpanishCourses in the Four-Skills Sequence are conducted in Spanish and emphasize oral communication and develop listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills. Courses in the Reading Sequence are conducted in English and focus exclusively on learning to read in Spanish. Sequence of Spanish Language Courses:
* Permission required to switch from the Reading Sequence to the Four-Skills Sequence. A La Carte:A Menu of Spanish Literature Courses for Spring 2010Graduate-Level Courses for Spring 2010Language Course DescriptionsCAS LS 111 - First-Semester SpanishFor students who have never studied Spanish or by placement test results. Emphasis on aural comprehension, conversation, pronunciation, reading and writing. Introduction to essential grammatical structures. Students discuss everyday topics in the present along with plans for the future. The past tense is introduced in the form of the present perfect and the regular preterit. Readings on topics of cultural interest as well as a short novel. Class meets for four hours a week. Each semester, one or two sections of LS 111 are reserved for students who have never before studied Spanish. Although these sections cover the same material as other sections of LS 111, the pace is considerably slower and special attention is paid to language-learning strategies. If you have never taken Spanish before, and wish to sign up for a reserved section, you should have an Add/Drop form signed by the Coordinator for LS 111. If this is your first semester of Spanish, but you have had prior success learning another language, consider registering for one of the unrestricted sections as you are likely to enjoy the slightly faster pace and the mix of true and false beginners in the class. Course Coordinator: Sue Griffin CAS LS 112 - Second-Semester SpanishThis course improves students' ability to speak, write, listen, and read in Spanish. There is a strong emphasis on developing speaking skills through daily conversations and communicative activities. Students learn how to communicate about past experiences through the use of the preterit and imperfect tenses, and how to convey their opinions, reactions and recommendations through the study of the present subjunctive. Students work on communicating more efficiently and authentically through the practice of other grammar points such as double object pronouns, common prepositions and the future tense. In addition, students learn to converse on a variety of meaningful everyday topics such as shopping, running errands, visiting the doctor, and life events. Students become familiar with aspects of Hispanic culture through a movie, songs, readings and cultural oral presentations. This course meets four hours a week. Prereq: (LS111) or placement test results CAS LS 122 - Second-Semester Spanish for ReadingCompletes study of basic grammatical structures with emphasis on contrastive analysis of Spanish and English verb tenses. Expansion of vocabulary. Reading of poetry and narrative and expository prose. Taught in English. Prereq: (LS121 OR LS111) or placement test results CAS LS 123 – Beginning Spanish, Accelerated CourseLS123 is an accelerated course that covers both first- and second-semester Spanish in one semester. Class meets 5 days a week and is very intensive. It is ideal for those students who are comfortable learning at a fast pace and who are prepared to dedicate at least an additional hour a day to preparation for the next day’s class. Students who enjoy learning languages and who would like to immerse themselves in Spanish as much as an academic setting permits will thrive in this environment. This course will be of special interest to students who hope to study abroad in a Spanish-speaking country and who would like a head start on achieving this goal. From day one the class is conducted in Spanish and is taught in an interactive manner with emphasis on student participation. The course includes all aspects of the present, past, and future tenses and takes students as far as the present subjunctive. Topics to be covered include family, friends, dining, housing, education, clothing, shopping, travel, leisure and vacation activities, and health. Students will learn to exchange information; express opinions and hopes; talk about past and future events; narrate, describe, hypothesize, and direct the actions of others through command or suggestion. Completion of LS 123 allows students to register for third-semester Spanish (LS211). Instructor: Sue Griffin CAS LS 211 - Third-Semester SpanishThis is an intermediate course designed to improve the student’s oral and written proficiency in the language through an intensive review and presentation of grammatical structures, readings and film. Students review the grammar covered in the first year and learn more advanced structures appropriate for the third semester level. All the indicative verb tenses are reviewed and mastered, as well as the present, perfect and imperfect subjunctive in noun, adjectival and hypothetical ‘si’ clauses. Attention will also be focused on formal and informal commands, object pronouns, adjectives, the verbs ‘ser and ‘estar’, verbs like ‘gustar’ and prepositions. The readings, which include short stories, poetry and cultural texts, will expose the student to the literary traditions and culture of the Hispanic world, while helping to expand their vocabulary. Students will write compositions and be responsible for a group presentation, where knowledge and skills developed during the semester will be tested. Prereq: (LS112) or placement test results CAS LS 212 - Fourth-Semester SpanishOur fourth semester Spanish course has been fully restructured in order to provide students with a program that continues the development of the four language skills in Spanish –comprehension, speaking fluency, reading and writing—in a creative and motivating way. This is the first of the four required courses to work with a whole novel, La casa en Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, which introduces students to the work of reading and analyzing a literary text of considerable length and depth. Language students learn more and better when studying materials that are meaningful to them, and the reading of this novel gives students the opportunity to talk about universal topics—family, names, neighborhoods, the role of men and women in the society, social equality and opportunities—while learning about Chicano reality and struggles.The course fosters an exchange of opinions and ideas by enlarging students’ vocabulary and reinforcing their understanding of certain grammatical structures including past tenses, uses of the subjunctive, Si-clauses, and the sequence of tenses. Satisfactory completion of CAS LS 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Prereq: (LS211) or placement test results CAS LS 221 - Third-Semester Spanish for ReadingIntensive review of grammatical structures. Focus on idiomatic usage. Reading of a short novel and periodical articles. Weekly written translation assignments. Taught in English. (Students intending to continue in CAS LS 303 must take CAS LS 211, not LS 221.) Prereq: (LS122 OR LS112) or placement test results CAS LS 222 - Fourth-Semester Spanish for ReadingCompletes intensive review of grammatical structures. Emphasis on sophisticated sentence structures and the contemporary idiom. Readings include historical texts, representative examples of journalism, and a short novel. Weekly written translations leading to a final project. Taught in English. (Students intending to continue in CAS LS 303 must take LS 212, not LS 222.) Satisfactory completion of CAS LS 222 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Prereq: (LS221) or placement test results CAS LS 303 - Composition and Conversation in Spanish IDevelopment of skills in spoken and written language. Grammar review, vocabulary building, regular compositions. Not open to students for whom Spanish is a first language or who are from a Spanish-speaking environment. Please see LS 309. Prereq: (CASLS212), SAT-II Spanish score of 560 (540 if taken before April 1995), or placement test results CAS LS 304 - Composition and Conversation in Spanish IINot open to students for whom Spanish is a first language or who are from a Spanish-speaking environment (please see LS 309.) Development of skills in spoken and written language. Grammar review, vocabulary building, regular compositions. Students who have received credit for LS 305, LS309, or a more advanced Spanish course may not receive credit for LS 304. Prereq:(LS303, LS 212), SAT-II Spanish score of 560 (540 if taken before April 1995), or placement test results CAS LS 309 - Composition for Native Speakers of SpanishThis course is designed for 'heritage' speakers and for students who do not claim a Latino / Hispanic background but who have grown up more or less bilingually, and / or have lived part of their lives in Spanish-speaking settings, acquiring an advanced knowledge of the language without much formal study. The course will develop your understanding of grammar, expand your vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions, and hone your use of academic Spanish. Discussion of short stories and film will enable us to explore issues relevant to Latino / Hispanic culture in the U.S. Prereq: Open only to native speakers of Spanish. Not open to students who have completed CAS LS 303 or 304. Spring 2010 Literature Course DescriptionsCAS LS305 - Topics in Language and CultureSection A1: Love, Art and Politics. Focus on Latin American women whose legacy has shaped the history and culture of this region and the U.S. Develops written and oral skills through reading and analysis of variety of texts including different literary genres, artwork, music and films. Taught by M. L. Parra. Section B1: Spanish through Film and Literature. Develops written and oral skills by looking at different cultural aspects of the history of Spain through the reading of contemporary Spanish novels, short-stories, and their film adaptations. Taught by M. Villar. Note: Students who have completed LS304, LS309, or a more advanced college-level course may not recieve credit for LS305. This course may not be repeated for credit. Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites. CAS LS350 - Introduction to Analysis of Hispanic TextsSection A1: Topic TBA. Taught by Professor Christopher Maurer. Section B1: Topic TBA. Taught by Professor Alicia Borinsky. Section C1: Topic TBA. Taught by Professor Pedro Lasarte. Section D1: Topic TBA. Taught by Professor Pedro Lasarte. Section E1: Topic TBA. Taught by Professor Alan Smith. Section F1: Topic TBA. Taught by Professor Dylon Robbins. Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites. CAS LS454 - Survey of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish LiteratureA chronological survey of Spanish literature of the last two centuries, including romanticism, realism, modernism, and contemporary Spanish literature. Readings from Larra, Zorrilla, Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Galdós, Unamuno, Lorca, Sastre, Cela, Celaya, de Otero, Rosa Montero. Taught by Professor Christopher Maurer. Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites. CAS LS455 - Spanish-American Literature Through the Nineteenth CenturyA close reading of representative texts of Spanish-American literature from early writings of discovery and conquest through the nineteenth century. Emphasis on the development of the modern novel and on Spanish America's quest for a cultural identity. Taught by Professor Adela Pineda. Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites. CAS LS456 - Spanish Medieval and Golden Age LiteratureMajor works from the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods. Attention to development of different genres: epic and lyric poetry, drama, and the novel. Issues of Spain's cultural history. Authors include Fernando de Rojas, Cervantes, Góngora, Lope, Quevedo, and Calderón. Section A1 taught by Professor James Iffland. Section B1 taught by Professor Irene Zaderenko. Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites. CAS LS457 - Twentieth-Century Spanish American LiteratureMajor authors and works from the twentieth century. Attention to different genres: poetry, short story, novel, and drama. Authors include Lugones, Quiroga, Felisberto Hernández, Arlt, Borges, García Márquez, Vallejo, Vargas Llosa. Taught by Professor Pedro Lasarte. Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites. CAS LS504 - History of the Spanish LanguageStudy of the structure of sounds, general concepts of language change, and specific phonological, morphological, and syntactic changes in the history of Spanish. Begins with the modern language and proceeds to successively earlier stages; includes reading of representative medieval and dialectal texts. Taught by Professor Irene Zaderenko. Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites. CAS LS569 - Ninteenth-Century Spanish-American LiteratureMajor works from the Romantic and Realist/Naturalist periods. Emphasis on Spanish America's quest for cultural independence; relationships with European artistic and literary trends. Authors include Issacs, Palma, Hernández, Blest Gana, Cambaceres, Altamirano, and Martí. Taught by Professor Adela Pineda. Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations, and prerequisites. CAS LS576 - Topics in Hispanic LiteratureSection A1: Writing Across Borders and Between Cultures. The course explores Latino and Latin American literature and culture through literature, film and music. What are the identities forged by migration and exile? What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and transnational realities? What is the role played by translation and how does it relate to bilingualism? are some of the questions to be posed and expanded. Among the writers to be discussed are Julio Cortázar, Junot Díaz, Fernando Vallejo, Cristina García, Homero Aridjis and Jorge Luis Borges. Taught by Professor Alicia Borinsky. Section B1: Race and culture in the "Spanish-speaking" Caribbean. A certain type of Caribbean experience involving displacement and exile, difference and synthesis, has provoked some contemporary critics to see in the region a model for comprehending post-modern and globalized notions of race and culture. Transculturation, hybridity, creolization, mulatez, and métissage--concepts otherwise embodying transformation and becoming, and which collide race and culture--all have found their ways into contemporary critical discourse, in some cases with a ring of optimism that belies these terms’ relationships to histories of violence and exploitation. Indeed, an examination of some of the central texts in Caribbean intellectual history suggests how many of these concepts have shaped contentious discussions aimed at limiting and controlling the "African" presence in the region. This course will approach the "Spanish-speaking" Caribbean in light of this tension through the works of writers and critics. We will discuss works by José Antonio Saco, Eugenio María de Hostos, José Martí, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Fernando Ortiz, Luis Palés Matos, Nicolás Guillén, Julia de Burgos, Antonio Benítez Rojo, C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon, Edwidge Danticat, and others. Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations, and prerequisites. Spring 2010 Graduate-Level Course DescriptionsGRS LS621 - Reading Spanish for Graduate StudentsDesigned to prepare graduate students for the Spanish reading exam. Develops a knowledge of the fundamentals of Spanish grammar. Practice in translating passages. No previous knowledge of Spanish required. Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations, and prerequisites. GRS LS850 - Seminar: Topics in Hispanic LiteratureSpring 2010 Topic: TBA. Taught by Professor Alan Smith. Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations, and prerequisites. |
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