Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
Spanish (SPAN)
Rice Course Schedule as of 01/03/2000.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
NOTE: Course web pages are available for some SPAN courses.
SPAN 102 FIRST YEAR SPANISH Credits 5.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I (Must complete first semester) Continuation of Span 101. Please read the Eligibility BEFORE enrolling in Spanish 101/102. This information can be found on page 481 in the 98-99 General Announcements or on the web, through the departments home page, under spring 1999 course schedule. Section 4 and 8 are non-technology enhanced. 001 TBA Gaytan, Raquel Enr: 0 Max: 20 002 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 20 003 TBA Gaytan, Raquel Enr: 0 Max: 20 004 TBA Groskreutz, Gema Enr: 0 Max: 20 005 TBA - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Groskreutz, Gema Enr: 0 Max: 20 006 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 20 007 TBA Lewis, Armanda Enr: 0 Max: 20 008 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 20 SPAN 201 SECOND YEAR SPANISH I Credits 4.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Intermediate Spanish language with emphasis on the development of audio-lingual, reading and writing skills. Language lab work is required. This course is an innovative, technology-enriched class with extensive use of computer, video, and the Internet. Prereq- Span 101 and 102 or Span 103, placement or permission of the coordinator. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: SPAN 202 SECOND YEAR SPANISH II Credits 4.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Continuation of Span 201. Intermediate Spanish. Innovative, technology-enriched class with emphasis on further development of audiolingual and writing skills through extensive use of computing, video, and the Internet as well as other source materials. 001 TBA Hansz, Ingrid Enr: 0 Max: 20 002 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 15 003 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 20 004 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 20 005 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 20 006 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 20 SPAN 204 ACCELERATED INTERMEDIATE SPAN Credits 8.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Continuation of Span 103 comparable to Span 201, 202. Contemporary short stories provide current linguistic models and serve as the point of departure for class conversation and discussion. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: SPAN 306 INTERMEDIATE SPANISH: MEDICAL Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Further development of Spanish 305 goals; vocabulary, concepts, and oral/written skills necessary to communicate in the social, cultural, and economic of contemporary Hispanic countries. The course emphasizes business and legal content of the specific areas of commerce such as import/export, marketing, insurance and investment. Introduction to the use of technology for business and legal presentations and research; of special interest to those students planning to take the Madrid Chamber of Commerce and Industry Examination in Commercial Spanish and/or to those interested in applying for internships in spanish-speaking countries. 001 TBA Narbona, Jose Antonio Enr: 0 Max: 25 SPAN 308 THE LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE Credits 4.00 Spring 00 A more focused engagement with the problems raised in Span 307, this course will apply and refine the students' abilities to communicate complex medical concepts and procedures to Latin-American patients. Emphasis will be placed in understanding patients' needs and expectations in health care institutions. A medical interpretation internship of forty clock hours is required of all students enrolled in this course. Internship agreements are in the process of being established. In addition, students may register for additional clock hours of volunteer work for extra credit. Span 308 section 2 - Internships (variable credits 1-3). 001 TBA Albin, Veronica S. Enr: 0 Max: 25 002 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 25 SPAN 312 ADVANCED SPANISH Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Third-year course designed primarily to improve spoken language. Emphasis is on new vocabulary and idioms, morphology, syntax, and mechanisms of interference. 001 TBA Salas, Marcela W. Enr: 0 Max: 20 002 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 20 003 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 20 004 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 20 SPAN 316 HISPANIC LINGUISTICS-OLD SPAN LATIN AMER Credits 3.00 Spring 00 This course is the undergraduate equivalent of Span 516. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: SPAN 320 SURVEY OF SPANISH LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I The history of Spanish literature through representative readings from the medieval period to the present. Emphasis on stylistic analysis. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: SPAN 322 SURVEY OF SPAN-AMER LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Continuationof SPAN 321. Survey of 20th-century Spanish American literature, with a focus on issues of modernity and national identity. 001 TBA van Delden, Maarten Enr: 0 Max: NA SPAN 324 CULTURE & CIVI OF LATIN AMER Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I The development of social, political, and economic institutions of Latin America forms the basis for extensive conversation, discussion, and composition. 001 TBA Rea, Joan Enr: 0 Max: NA SPAN 329 SPANISH FOR HERITAGE LEARNERS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 This course is for native speakers who want to improve their command of written Spanish. Using diverse samples from Latin American texts (with emphasis on Mexico), dialectical variants will be discussed and compared to standard Spanish forms. 001 TBA Albin, Veronica S. Enr: 0 Max: 23 SPAN 342 MODERN SPANISH LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Los Poetas del 27 (Salinas, Guillen, Diego, Alberti, Lorca, Aleixandre, Cernuda, y D. Alonso). 001 TBA Perez, J. Bernardo Enr: 0 Max: NA SPAN 362 GOLDEN AGE DRAMA Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Continuation of SPAN 361/523. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: SPAN 382 GOLDEN AGE PROSE: DON QUIOTE- DON QUIOTE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I No description 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: SPAN 403 ADVANCED SPANISH THROUGH MEDIA Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Use of selected Spanish-language films viewed in class to develop topics from oral expression. The study of the filmic production from Spain since 1975 will introduce Spanish cultural studies. This course may include films by Pedro Almodovar, Mario Camus, Victor Erice, Manuel Gutierrez Aragon, Pilar Miro, Carlos Saura, and Fernando Trueba, among others. 001 TBA Merida-Jimenez, Rafael Enr: 0 Max: NA SPAN 406 SPANISH-AMERICAN POETRY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Topic: "In the eye of the beholder women protagonists in Latin American Literature," This course will examine the ethos and mythos of women protagonists as seen through the eyes of both male and female Latin American writers from different periods and countries. 001 TBA Rea, Joan Enr: 0 Max: NA SPAN 416 TRANSLATION II Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Intensive practice in Spanish-English, English-Spanish translation. Introduction to the techniques of consecutive and simultaneous interpretation. Lab work required. Prereq-Span 311 or equivalent. 001 TBA - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Perez, J. Bernardo Enr: 0 Max: 50 SPAN 418 MEDIEVAL SPANISH LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I An introduction to the foundational literary genres of Spanish Middle Ages, from the romance, "jarchas" (11th century) to Garcia Rodriguez de Montalvo's Amadis de Gaula (1508). Although the course will concentrate on the analysis of specific major works (Mio Cid, Berceo's Milagros de Neustra Senora, Alfonso X's Partidas, Juan Manuel's Conde Lucanor, Juan Ruiz's Libro de bueno amor, Cancionero de Baena, or Rojas's Celestina), thematic foci will include the representation of women and religious minorities as well as the birth of non-Castillian Iberian literatures. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: SPAN 422 INDEPENDENT STUDIES CHILEAN ETHNOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Hispanic literature, Hispanic linguistics, and Hispanic culture and civilization. Reserved for qualified juniors and seniors who are particularly interested in a topic not covered in other courses. Prereq- permission of the department. 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA SPAN 424 LINGUISTIC STRUCT SPANISH- MORPHOLOGY & Credits 3.00 Spring 00 A sychronic study of modern Spanish morphology and syntax. Special attention given to Hispanic-American variants. 001 TBA Urrutibeheity, Hector N. Enr: 0 Max: NA SPAN 426 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MEDIEVAL IBERIA Credits 3.00 Spring 00 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I Exploration of the ways in which women have been represented in 11th-15th centuries. Comparative introduction and analysis of the different cultures of Iberian Middle Ages and role of gender in literary genres. Readings will include Latin, Hispano-Arabic, and Hispano-Hebrew texts, as well as some Provencal, Catalan, and Galician-Portuguese poetry (in translation). The main focus will be on literature written in Spanish. Prereq- Span 312 or equivalent. Also offered as WGST 426 001 TBA Merida-Jimenez, Rafael Enr: 0 Max: NA SPAN 436 SIMULTANEOUS INTERP. Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Intensive practice in Spanish-English interpretation for native speakers of English. The emphsis for native speakers of Spanish is on English-to-Spanish interpretation. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: SPAN 444 THE SPANISH AVANT-GARDE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 A cross-genre, multi-media course which studies major figures of the spanish avant-garde in the 20th century (Picasso, Gris, Dali, Diego, Alberti, Lorca, Bunuel, Gomez, De La Serna). Prereq- Span 311, 312 or equivalent. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: SPAN 504 LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF SPAN Credits 3.00 Spring 00 See Span 424. 001 TBA Urrutibeheity, Hector N. Enr: 0 Max: NA SPAN 516 STUDIES-HISPANIC LINGUISTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00 May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Topic for Spring 99: Old Spanish. Also offered as LING 516 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: SPAN 518 MEDIEVAL SPANISH LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 See Span 418. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: SPAN 524 GOLDEN AGE DRAMA Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Continuation of SPAN 361/523. 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: SPAN 526 SPANISH GOLDEN AGE THEATER Credits 3.00 Spring 00 "Don Quixote, Part II" 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: SPAN 542 MODERN SPANISH LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 Graduate version of Span 342. 001 TBA Perez, J. Bernardo Enr: 0 Max: NA SPAN 556 STUDIES SPAN-AMER LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00 See Span 406. 001 TBA Rea, Joan Enr: 0 Max: NA SPAN 592 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits 3.00 Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA SPAN 611 LANGUAGE METHODOLOGY PRACTICUM Credits Spring 00 The course, a continuation of Ling 610, allows students to gain further knowledge and expertise in aspects of Language Methodology by attending a series of workshops on topics such as Technology and Language Learning, Writing and content-based instruction. Students will also complete assignments that supplement or expand on the material presented in the workshops. Also offered as GERM 611 001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA SPAN 702 RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY Credits Spring 00 Topics in Spanish and Latin American Literary theory and Spanish Linguistics. To be taken after a student has completed departmental course requirements for the Master's, and before being admitted to candidacy. 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA SPAN 802 THESIS RESEARCH Credits Spring 00 No description 001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
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