SPAN 101 – First Semester Spanish

Pass/Fail Option

Oral approach. For the student with no previous experience in Spanish. Contact department for additional information.

SPAN 102 – Second Semester Spanish

Pass/Fail Option

Oral approach.

SPAN 103 – Oral Skills for Heritage Learners of Spanish

Pass/Fail Option

For students who have receptive skills in Spanish, but who encounter difficulty in speaking. It focuses on developing fluent conversation and listening skills in a positive and culturally rich environment. It also covers basic grammar structures problematic to students. For the Heritage Speaker of Spanish, Contact Department.

SPAN 150B1 – Latina/o Stories

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 1 Individuals & Societies

Honors Contract

This course introduces students to the nationally, linguistically, geographically, culturally, and ethnically diverse Latina/o experience in the United States through exploring Latina/o stories. Students will analyze a wide variety of cultural texts including short stories, poems, novels, films, and television in order to examine the transnational heritages embedded within the broad category encompassed by the term "Latina/o" and discuss how this heritage impacts Latina/o culture specifically and the United States in general today. These texts explore a wide-range of themes, from race relations to migrant identities to gender norms, in a variety of contexts including family, education, politics, and popular culture.

SPAN 150B2 – The Politics of Language: U.S. Latinos, Language, and Society

Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis

Tier 1 Individuals & Societies

Honors Contract

This course provides an interdisciplinary overview of key issues within the U.S. Latino language experience. The course introduces concepts such as language ideologies, language attitudes, language shift, language maintenance, the politics of language, and language contact in the context of Spanish and English use among Latinos in the United States.

SPAN 160C1 – The Arts and Politics in Latin America

Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures

A study of the interrelationships between cultural forms and their socio-historical contexts in the development of Latin America from pre-colonial times to the present.

SPAN 160D1 – Issues in Latin American Society and Popular Cultures

Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures

This interdisciplinary course will examine popular culture as an approach to understanding 19th and 20th century Latin America.

SPAN 201 – Third Semester Spanish

Pass/Fail Option

Continuation of Spanish 101 and 102 or by placement exam. As the first semester of the second year Spanish, this course focuses on a short review of the materials studied in the first year courses. It expands on those points with a more in-depth study of the Spanish language and culture. Content-based approach integrates grammar and culture in a functional use through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course further develops grammatical accuracy in the use of the simple tenses: present, future, and conditional and of particular importance is the perfection of the use of the past tense: preterit and imperfect. Compound tenses such as the present perfect, past perfect are also developed in this course. Students gain the ability during this course to deal with more complex and abstract situations in the foreign language. Language use encouraged by way of communicative activities rather than a sequence of linguistics units. Audio, video, and computer materials incorporated.