Course	SPAN 110 Accelerated Spanish
Professor	Carmen Pascual Medrano
CRN	16054
Schedule	M T W Th 9:20 - 10:20 am OLINLC 206
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

This is a first-year Spanish course designed for “false beginners,” that is, students who have had 1-3 years of high school Spanish or who have an excellent command of another Romance language. The course covers, at a very rapid pace, the full first year of Spanish grammar and vocabulary. All four basic skills (speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing) will be practiced. The textbook will be supplemented with materials from the Spanish-speaking world, such as videos, music, and television news. In addition to regular class time, students will spend one additional hour per week in small-group practice with the Spanish tutor; a substantial amount of work in the language resources center is also required. Accelerated Spanish will prepare the student for Spanish 201 the following semester.

Course	SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I
Professor	Nicole Caso
CRN	16055
Schedule	M T W Th 2:55 -3:55 pm OLINLC 206
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

This is an intermediate course for students who have completed Spanish 106 or 110 (or by permission of instructor).  The course is designed to perfect the student's command of all four language skills (speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing). This will be achieved through an intensive grammar review, conversational practice, reading of modern Spanish texts, writing simple compositions, and language lab work. In addition to regular class time, students will spend one additional hour per week in small group work with the Spanish tutor. Prospective students must speak with instructor prior to registration. On-line

Course	SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II
Professor	Ronald Briggs
CRN	16056
Schedule	M T W Th 2:55 -3:55 pm OLINLC 120
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

This course continues refining and perfecting the student’s mastery of speaking, reading, comprehending, and writing Spanish. Advanced study of grammar is supplemented by a video series and authentic readings on a wide variety of topics related to Spanish and Latin American history, literature, music, and art. Current topics in culture such as the Latin American military dictatorships or issues surrounding the Hispanic presence in the United States will be discussed. In addition to shorter readings, such as excerpts from Don Quixote and indigenous Mexican poetry, students may read a short modern novel. Prerequisite: Spanish 201 or permission of instructor. Prospective students must speak with instructor prior to registration. On-line

Course	SPAN 233 Creative Writing in Spanish
Professor	Melanie Nicholson
CRN	16057
Schedule	Mon Wed 9:00 - 10:20 am OLINLC 120
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

This course is intended for students already at the advanced-intermediate level. Students will present their own work (in Spanish) for group response, analysis, and evaluation. Workshop exercises will take a variety of formats, including writing in response to various Spanish and Latin American writers whose poetics we will examine. Writing will take the form of poetry and short prose pieces. Discussions will be held entirely in Spanish. Prerequisites: Spanish 202 or higher. Prospective students must speak with instructor prior to registration. On-line

Course	SPAN 302 Introduction to Latin American Literature
Professor	Melanie Nicholson
CRN	16058
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 301
Distribution	OLD: B	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

LAIS Core Course

This course serves as an introduction to the interpretation of literary texts from Latin America. It covers a broad range historically—from pre-Conquest times to the present—and presents all literary genres, including poetry, short stories, novels, essays, and plays. This course is intended to prepare students for more advanced and specialized courses in Hispanic literature. A great deal of attention is paid to the development of critical skills, both verbally and in writing. Frequent essays with revisions; class discussions and presentations. Please note: Spanish 301 or 302 are prerequisites for all 300-level literature seminars in Spanish. Prospective students must speak with instructor prior to registration. On-line

Course	SPAN 334 “The Sweet Waist of the Americas”: Introduction to Central American Literature
Professor	Nicole Caso
CRN	16059
Schedule	Tu 9:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 306
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

Referred to as “the little thumb” of the hemisphere, “the sweet waist of America,” or as “the dubious strait,” the Central American isthmus and its literature will be the central focus of this course.  We will read a selection of twentieth-century authors from the region in order to familiarize students with texts that are often marginalized from the Latin American canon.  We will explore particular aesthetic and ideological concerns and situate our readings within the violent political and historical context that often becomes, in itself, a recurring theme in Central American fiction.  Among the authors we will read are Miguel Angel Asturias, Gioconda Belli, Roque Dalton, Tatiana Lobo, and Sergio Ramírez. Conducted in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 301 or 302. Prospective students must speak with instructor prior to registration. On-line

Course	SPAN 346 Transatlantic Travel Writing: Two Centuries of Writing the Americas and Spain
Professor	Ronald Briggs
CRN	16060
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 107
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

In this course we will read a variety of Latin American and Peninsular travel writers, beginning with French and North American revolutionary hero Francisco de Miranda and continuing through El País columnist Maruja Torres’s sentimental journey through Latin America. The course will pay special attention to the transatlantic dialogue between Europe and America—Spanish visions of the New World, North and South, and Latin American visions of North America and Europe—as well as to the raging political and aesthetic debates behind the writing—civilization versus barbarism, and the various political uses of the exotic. Texts will range from travel diaries to fully-conceived travel books to Juan Ramón Jiménez’s technically innovative poetic notebook of his visit to the United States. Readings, class discussions and assignments will be in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 301 or 302. Prospective students must speak with instructor prior to registration.On-line