Graduate Courses

SPA 201—Literary Theory I (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Basic theories and practical approaches to modern and contemporary Hispanic literature. Emphasis on formalism, poststructuralism, socio-cultural discourses, and ideologies. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 202—Literary Theory II (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Major contemporary critical theories including recent, innovative approaches to Hispanic literature and culture. Readings from Semiotics and Deconstructionism to Psychological and Socio-ideological approaches. Emphasis on Postmodern and Neo-colonial discourse. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 203—Research Methodologies (1)

Seminar—2 hour(s). Introduction to the range of scholarly research methodologies currently being realized in Spanish linguistics, literary and cultural studies: archival research, textual analysis, discourse analysis, statistics for linguistics, etc.; introduction to scholarly writing (MLA style) and scholarly publishing. (S/U grading only.) Effective: 2013 Fall Quarter.

SPA 205—Spanish Phonology (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Some knowledge of phonetics is required and consent of instructor; LIN 109 and LIN 139 highly recommended. Analyzes the sound patterns of Spanish from both linear and non-linear perspectives. Students will develop a clear understanding of what phonology is and the nature of Spanish phonology, as defined by modern linguistic analysis. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 206—Spanish Syntax (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): LIN 165; LIN 140. An examination of Spanish word order within the framework of general linguistic theory. The student will investigate how to write a grammar of Spanish with particular attention to the structure of noun and verb clauses. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 207—History of the Spanish Language (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): LAT 001. History of the Spanish language. (Former SPA 220A.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 208—Old Spanish Texts (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): SPA 207. An in-depth linguistic examination of Old Spanish texts from the 12th to the 15th centuries, with particular attention to the significance of orthographic changes. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 211—Hispanic Dialectology (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): SPA 220; or Consent of Instructor. Descriptive and historical study of the distinctive features of Peninsular and American Spanish dialects. (Former SPA 221.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 212—Applied Linguistics (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing and SPA 215 and SPA 216 recommended. Focuses on the relevant linguistic aspects of teaching Spanish. Designed for graduate students who have an interest in second-language learning and teaching. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 215—Special Topics in Hispanic Linguistics (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor. SPA 205 and SPA 206 recommended. Specialized topics in Hispanic linguistics (e.g., pragmatics, sociolinguistics, topics in syntax, semantics, or diachronic studies). May be repeated for credit when topic differs. May be repeated for credit. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 217—Sociolinguistics: Spanish of the United States (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Descriptive and critical overview of the linguistic practices of the different Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. Sociohistorical migration patterns and settlements; bilingualism; linguistic characteristics of Spanish in contact with English, code-switching, Spanish/English language use and attitude patterns. (S/U grading only.) Effective: 2021 Spring Quarter.

SPA 220—Catalan Language & Culture (4)

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Laboratory—1 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor. Good command of Spanish, Portuguese, French or Italian and graduate level of studies in any of these languages. Open to advanced undergraduate students, with notions of Catalan, can be admitted with consent of instructor; designed for graduate students. Foundation for the acquisition of Catalan oral, reading and elementary writing level skills for students of Spanish (Iberianists or Hispanists), with the capacity to interpret educated written language. Emphasis on weekly review of grammar and all language skills. Effective: 2014 Winter Quarter.

SPA 222—Critical Approaches to Spanish Literature I: Prose & Essay (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Critical approaches to Spanish narrative and essay. May be repeated up to 2 time(s) when topic differs. Effective: 2002 Fall Quarter.

SPA 223—Critical Approaches to Spanish Literature II: Poetry & Drama (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Critical approaches to Spanish poetry and drama. May be repeated up to 2 time(s) when topic differs. Effective: 2002 Fall Quarter.

SPA 224—Studies of a Major Writer, Period, or Genre in Spanish Literature (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Artistic development of a major Spanish writer and his/her intellectual and literary milieu or study of a special topic, period, or genre. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 230—Topics in Latin American Cultural Studies (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Discussion of select contemporary theoretical debates in Latin American Cultural Studies. Application of critical questions to the analysis of cultural texts. May be repeated up to 2 time(s) when content differs. Effective: 2007 Fall Quarter.

SPA 231—Interamerican Studies (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Survey of methodologies of investigation for crosscultural or comparative projects in the geographical context of the Americas. Focus on particular problems of language, discipline, national definitions, and global hierarchies of knowledge that complicate such projects. Readings of interamerican cultural texts. Effective: 2007 Fall Quarter.

SPA 232—Topics in Latinx Cultural & Literary Studies (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Discussion of select contemporary theoretical debates in Latinx Cultural and Literary Studies. Application of critical questions to the analysis of literary and cultural texts. May be repeated up to 2 time(s) when content differs. Effective: 2020 Fall Quarter.

SPA 252—Medieval Spanish Literature: Prose (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. An exploration of the major genres of Medieval Spanish prose from its origins to 1450. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 253—Medieval Spanish Literature: Epic (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Medieval Spanish epic narratives. Major theoretical perspectives on the genesis, diffusion, and character of the Medieval epic. Relationship of epic to ballad literature. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 254—Medieval Hispanic Lyric (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Analysis of the most representative lyric poetry in the various Peninsular languages and in provencal, troubadour poetry, kharjas, villancicos, cantigas de amigo, and courtly lyric. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 255—Spanish Literature of the Early Renaissance (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Spanish Literature, 1450-1550, with emphasis on La Celestina. (Former SPA 229.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 256—Spanish Literature of the Renaissance & Golden Age: Poetry (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Extensive critical study of the main currents of Renaissance and Baroque Spanish poetry through its language structures, styles (Culteranismo-Conceptismo), rhetorical devices, myths, and themes (love, death, time). Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 257—Spanish Literature of the Renaissance & Golden Age: Drama (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Exploration of major 16th and 17th century literary and cultural developments through the study of selected dramas. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 258—Spanish Literature of the Renaissance & Golden Age: Prose (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Origins and development of the Spanish novel during the Renaissance and the Spanish Golden Age. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 259—Cervantes & the Novel (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Narrative works of Miguel de Cervantes with special emphasis on Don Quijote. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 260—Modern Spanish Literature (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Topics of Spanish literature, from 1700-1920. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 261—Contemporary Spanish Literature: Poetry (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Critical analysis of modern Spanish poetry from a wide spectrum of poetic currents. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 262—Contemporary Spanish Literature: Narrative (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Study of the 20th-century novel and short story with emphasis on the avant-garde, existentialism, social realism, and postmodern trends. May be repeated up to 2 time(s) when topic differs and with consent of instructor. Effective: 2003 Spring Quarter.

SPA 263—Contemporary Spanish Literature: Drama (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. The Spanish theatrical production of the last 70 years. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 264—Contemporary Spanish Literature: Essay (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Major thinkers from Ganivet to Unamuno and Ortega y Gassett. Emphasis will be placed on the relationships between Spanish thought and European philosophical currents. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 265—Women Writers of Spain (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Introduction to the development of a feminine consciousness in the Spanish contemporary literary scene. Selected texts represent particularly innovative typologies of feminine discourse in the realm of the historical, psychoanalytical, and metafictional, erotic, and allegorical fiction. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 272—Critical Approaches to Latin American Literature: Narrative (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Development of Latin American literary periods and currents in narrative (novel, short story, and essay), from early colonial times to the present. May be repeated up to 2 time(s) when material differs. Effective: 2008 Summer Session 1.

SPA 273—Critical Approaches to Latin American Literature: Poetry & Drama (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Development of Latin American literary periods and currents in poetry and drama, from early Colonial times to the present. May be repeated up to 2 time(s) when topic differs. Effective: 2008 Summer Session 1.

SPA 274—Studies of a Major Writer, Period, or Genre in Latin American Literature (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Artistic development of a major Latin American writer and his/her intellectual and literary milieu or study of a special topic, period, or genre. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Effective: 2008 Summer Session 1.

SPA 275—Colonial Literature (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor. Graduate standing. An examination of pre-Hispanic and Colonial narrative, poetry and theatre. Emphasis on historical, anthropological, and ethnographic approaches to Colonial discourse. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 276—20th-Century Latin American Drama (4)

Seminar—4 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Major Latin American dramatists from Florencio Sánchez to the present. (Former SPA 240.) Effective: 2008 Summer Session 1.

SPA 277—Latin American Novel, 1900-1950 (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Study of main trends and key authors in Latin America in the first half of the 20th century. (Former SPA 241A.) Effective: 2008 Summer Session 1.

SPA 278—New Trends in Latin American Fiction (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Recent developments in Latin American narrative. Emphasis on innovative language and structure. (Former SPA 241B.) Effective: 2008 Summer Session 1.

SPA 279—Mexican Narrative (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Study of the evolution of Mexican narrative. Emphasis on the narrative of the Revolution and significant contemporary works. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 280—Latin American Short Story (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Works by major writers with emphasis on 20th-century authors such as Quiroga, Borges, García Márquez, Cortázar, and Rulfo. (Former SPA 243). Effective: 2008 Summer Session 1.

SPA 281—Latin American Women Writers (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Study of feminist critical theories, gender construction, and self-representation within the history of socio-cultural changes in Latin America. Effective: 2008 Summer Session 1.

SPA 282—Darío & Modernism (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Study of poetry and prose of Spanish-American Modernism (1880-1916). (Former SPA 245.) Offered in alternate years. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

SPA 283—New Directions in Latin American Poetry (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. New trends in Latin American poetry. Effective: 2008 Summer Session 1.

SPA 284—The Latin American Essay (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Major Latin American essayists from Sarmiento to contemporary essayists. Effective: 2008 Summer Session 1.

SPA 285—Multicultural Approaches to Cuban Literature & Culture (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Study of main trends in Cuban literature. Emphasis on historical, geographic, social and cultural context (including music and film). Taught in English; some readings in Spanish. Effective: 1999 Spring Quarter.

SPA 291—Foreign Language Learning in the Classroom (4)

Seminar—3 hour(s); Project (Term Project). Overview of approaches to university-level foreign language instruction and the theoretical notions underlying current trends in classroom practices across commonly taught foreign languages. (Same course as GER 291, FRE 291.) Effective: 2006 Fall Quarter.