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POW 6930: Rotating Topics in Brazilian or Portuguese
Literature (3; max: 9) Diverse themes of the Lusophone world,
including Portuguese Modernism, Brazilian northeast, Afro-Brazilian
world, culture of dictatorship, popular music, science fiction,
postmodernism, or focus on major authors (Machado de Assis,
Guimaraes Rosa, Clarice Lispector).
Spanish
SPN 6166: Teaching Spanish for the Professions (3) Practical
training and orientation for graduate students. Business Spanish.
Issues of Spanish for health care and other professions. Languages
across the curriculum. Professional development: technology in the
classroom, scholarly networking, and job search.
SPN 6315: Advanced Composition and Syntax (3) Extensive
practice producing various types of academic writing in Spanish.
Discursive and grammatical features that distinguish different styles.
SPN 6715: Formal Instruction and Acquisition of Spanish (3)
Effects of formal instruction on acquisition of Spanish as a foreign
language. Combination of general theoretical issues with analysis of
different aspects of teaching and learning Spanish grammar.
SPN 6735: Special Study in Spanish Linguistics (3; max: 12)
Varying topics of Spanish linguistics relevant to second language
acquisition, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.
SPN 6785: Advanced Spanish Phonetics (3) Precise description
of Spanish pronunciation. Dialect features and contrastive English
phonetics.
SPN 6827: Sociolinguistics of the Spanish-Speaking World (3)
Prereq: SPN 6785. Overview of issues in the contemporary Spanishspeaking
world: language variation, language contact, discourse
analysis, language attitudes, policy and planning, and social factors
in language acquisition and use.
SPN 6835: Spanish and Spanish-American Dialectology (3)
Prereq: SPN 6785. Principles and methods applied to study of
regional varieties of Spanish in Spain and Spanish America.
SPN 6845: History of the Spanish Language (3) Phonological,
morphological, syntactic, and lexical evolution of Spanish language
from Latin.
SPN 6848: Medieval Spanish Linguistics(3) Prereq: SPN 6845.
In-depth examination of medieval Spanish to familiarize students
with all aspects of language, primarily through detailed analysis of
nonliterary texts of period.
SPN 6855: Structure of Spanish (3) Morphological, syntactic, and
semantic aspects of the Spanish language.
SPN 6856: Spanish in Contact: Issues in Bilingualism (3)
Structural and sociocultural analysis of the Spanish language in
contact with other major languages: Quechua, Aymara, Guarani,
Basque, Catalan, English, Portuguese, and African languages.
SPN 6900: Directed Readings in Spanish(3; max: 6)
Individualized readings in preparation for Master of Arts
comprehensive examinations. S/U.