Prof.  Carolina González and Robert Cameron
Office: Diffenbaugh  304C, 302B
Phone: 644-8187, 644-2343
Email:  cgonzalez3@fsu.edu, rcameron@fsu.edu

Course description & requirements:   

Prerequisite: SPN 3332.

Second course of a two–semester sequence designed to develop communicative proficiency and accuracy (both oral and written) in Spanish while providing a deeper understanding of Hispanic cultures. SPN 3333 emphasizes the theory and practice of grammar from a communicative perspective while learning and reflecting about the Spanish–speaking world’s culture, history, and daily life in its complexity and diversity.

 Required readings:

• Isolde Jordan and José Manuel Pereiro-Otero: Curso de gramática avanzada del español. Comunicación reflexiva. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.

Prof.   Carolina González
Office: Diffenbaugh 304C
Phone: 644-8187
Email:  cgonzalez3@fsu.edu

Course description & requirements:

Investigation of Spanish sounds and sound patterns. Our approach will be threefold. First, we will describe in detail the articulatory and acoustic characteristics of Spanish sounds. Second, we will compare sound patterns across Spanish dialects. Third, we will analyze these patterns using recent phonological theories, including Generative phonology, Autosegmental phonology, and Optimality Theory. This course provides a thorough background in the fundamentals of phonology, one of the main disciplines of linguistics. Phonology interacts with other areas of theoretical linguistics, including morphology and syntax, and is becoming more and more important in psycholinguistic and language acquisition research. This course will also help you to appreciate the rich variation of Spanish sounds around the world and how phonological theories attempt to capture it.

Prerequisite: Prior background in Spanish phonetics (SPN 4780), Hispanic Linguistics (SPN 4930) or general linguistics (LIN 3041, LIN 4040).

Required readings:

• Jorge M. Guitart: Sonido y sentido: Teoría y práctica de la pronunciación del español contemporáneo con audio CD. Washington, D. C: Georgetown University Press. 2004
• Rafael A. Núñez Cedeño and Alfonso Morales-Front. Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española. Georgetown: Georgetown University Press. 1999.

Course description & requirements:  

Estudio panorámico sobre la literatura hispanoamericana moderna con especial atención al papel de las relaciones de clase, raciales y de género. Situaremos los textos en sus contextos sociales, políticos, culturales, e históricos; analizaremos manifestaciones y estructuras de poder tales como la esclavitud, el colonialismo, el patriarcado; además de las relaciones hemisféricas entre Hispanoamérica y los Estados Unidos. Nuestro recorrido literario incluye textos del romanticismo, de la narrativa de la esclavitud, del modernismo, de las vanguardias, de la nueva novela y de la narrativa reciente.