Undergraduate Courses Spring 2001

LIN 3041 Introductory Linguistics for Foreign Language Majors
Trinch, MWF 11:15-12:05

Description: This course is designed to give foreign language majors a view of language from a linguistic perspective.  We survey the field of linguistics and its subcomponents of phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax so as to provide students with the tools and techniques necessary for describing, making predictions about, and explaining linguistic data.  This systematic study of language should guide students in discovering popular mythology and linguistic prejudice regarding non-standard varieties of a language in general.  The course is designed to bring about among the students an appreciation of the wealth of subconscious knowledge that all human beings acquire and thus possess to be able to speak and comprehend their native languages.  The course is taught in English and may count toward the major in Russian and Spanish.

Evaluation: Course requirements include a group project on the description of some unfamiliar language, a midterm and final exam as well as several quizzes and short writing assignments.

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POR 3141 Portuguese for Advanced Students of Spanish
Wyatt, TTh 9:30-10:45

Description: A continuation of POR 3140.  An intensive course in Brazilian Portuguese for advanced students of Spanish.  This course is based on positive transfer of applicable linguistic structures of Spanish, avoidance of negative transfer, and concentration on structures unique to Portuguese.  Understanding, speaking, reading, and writing skills are practiced.

Text: Modern Portuguese: A Project of the Modern Language Association.

Evaluation: Exams.

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PRT 3200 Brazilian Literature and Film in Translation
Rehder, MWF 11:15-12:05

Description: Study of Brazilian films like BLACK ORPHEUS, BYE BYE BRAZIL, CENTRAL STATION and works in translation like GABRIELA, DOM CASMURRO, ZERO.  No prerequisites.  Counts for Multicultural X and for major/minor in Latin American & Caribbean Studies and minor in Portuguese.

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SPN 3201 Reading and Conversation
Various sections.

Description:  This course focuses on reading and discussion in Spanish of short literary works and/or cultural passages.  In addition, the course also has a strong converational component with emphasis on vocabulary building so that the student will be able to discuss certain topics in conversation. (prerequisite: SPN 2240 or equivalent; may be taken before or concurrently with SPN 3310; not open to native speakers)

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SPN 3310 Spanish Grammar and Composition
Various sections.

Description:  Primarily a grammar review.  Supplemented with readings and compositions. (prerequisite: SPN 2240 or SPN 3201 or concurrent enrollment)

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SPN 3311 Spanish Grammar and Composition
Various sections.

Description:  Primarily a writing and composition course, with some stylistic analysis. (prerequisite: SPN 3310)

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SPN 4420 Advanced Spanish Composition and Translation
Gomáriz, MWF 9:00-9:50

Description: Stresses composition in Spanish with less emphasis on translation from Spanish into English.  For students with prior knowledge of essential points of Spanish grammar. (prerequisite: SPN 3311 or equivalent)

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SPN 4440 Business Writing in Spanish
Sullivan, MWF 12:20-1:10

Description:  Letter writing, business terminology, conducting business in the Hispanic world.  (prerequisite: SPN 3310 or 3310)

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SPN 4510 Culture and Civilization of Spain
Dangler, MWF 11:15-12:05

Description: This course introduces students to the history and culture of the Iberian peninsula.  From Roman Hispania, to Arab al-Andalus, and finally to modern Spain, a variety of cultures have forged nations with different names on the Iberian peninsula.  Through a study of writing, understood in its broadest sense as signifying visual signs and markers, students will explore the constant construction and reconstruction of peninsular nations, and the peoples that constituted them.  A selection of readings and Web sites will be presented in an effort to facilitate not only students' learning, but also the composition of written papers.  One day a week will be spent outside the physical classroom when students will carry out Web-based and other online activities. (prerequisite: SPW 3100 or 3101)

Texts:  Vicente Cantarino. Civilización y cultura de España.  4th edition.  New Jersey:  Prentice Hall, 1999.  Accompanying Web site: http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/sppo/faculty/cantarino.1/CivyCultura/
Photocopies on reserve.

Evaluation: Active, in-class participation; oral presentations; Web activities, such as threaded discussions, virtual chats, Web site study, and online quizzes; three exams; one short research paper; one final research paper.

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SPN 4700 Spanish Phonetics
Wyatt, TTh 12:30-1:45

Description: Training in the production of speech sounds acceptable to the majority of native speakers of Spanish, and a knowledge of when to use those sounds (allophonic distribution).  The class meets both in the classroom and in the language laboratory.  The nonnative speaker can profit most from this course. (prerequisite: SPN 3201 or equivalent)

Text: A Drillbook of Spanish Pronunciation (for sale only at Target Copy)

Evaluation: Exams; pronunciation recordings.

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SPT 3130 Latin American Literature in Translation
Poey, TTh 12:30-1:45

Description: Reading and study of some of the outstanding modern prose writers of Latin America, such as Azuela, Carpentier, Borges, Rulfo, Fuentes, García Márquez, Machado de Assis, and Amado.  Doest not count toward the major or minor in Spanish.  Satisfies multicultural requirement (x).  Taught in English.

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SPW 3101 Survey of Spanish Literature II
Cappuccio, MWF 10:10-11:00

Description: A survey of Spain's literary works from Romanticism to the present. (prerequisite: SPN 3310 and SPN 3201 or equivalent)

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SPW 3130 Survey of Spanish-American Literature
Graham-Jones, TTh 11:00-12:15

Description: A survey of Spanish American literature through the regions’ varied cultures and histories.  We will read representative selections from the pre-Hispanic period up through the present time.  The course has several objectives: 1) to introduce students to some of Spanish America's authors and major literary movements; 2) to provide students with the appropriate social, historical, political and cultural background for the reading of Spanish-American texts; and 3) to train students to read and analyze literary texts.  (prerequisite: SPN 3310 and SPN 3201 or equivalent)

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SPW 3391 Hispanic Cinema
Galeano, T 5:15-8:00; Th 5:15-6:05

Description: The course gives a panoramic view of  Spanish and Latin American film from the beginnings to the present. The films are discussed in the light of the evolution of Hispanic cinema as well as in the framework of surrealism, magical realism, political art and popular culture. Issues such as politics, the Conquest, religion, gender and Latino culture in the United states, treated from different angles in Hispanic cinema, will provide material for discussion in class.  May not be taken for major or minor literature credit.  Taught in English.

Texts: Twenty Five Years of  Latin American Cinema, Michael Chanan (Photocopy); My Last Sigh, Luis Buñuel; readings on reserve.

Evaluation: Viewing of the films; reading and discussion; mid-term exam; final paper.

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SPW 4201 Masterpieces of Modern Spanish Literature
Darst, MWF 1:25-2:15

Description: Reading and discussion of complete short works by Spain's most famous nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers: El Duque de Rivas, Espronceda, Bécquer, Alarcón, Blasco Ibáñez, Unamuno, Aleixandre, Lorca, Machado, Matute, Arrabal, Cela.

Texts: Darst, Sendas literarias: España; Lorca, Bodas de sangre.
Handouts: poetry by Bécquer and Lorca, short stories by Matute and Cela.

Evaluation: There will be four or five 1 to 2 page takehome essays, three hour exams and no final exam.  (prerequisites: SPW 3100 and SPW 3101, or equivalent)
 

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