Curriculum
Courses
Faculty

Catalan

• HISP-C 550 Catalan Literature (3 cr.) Survey of Catalan literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Significant works in all genres will be studied within their historical and cultural context. Issues of nation formation, hegemony, biculturalism, and mar­ginalization will be paid special attention. 

• HISP-C 613 Catalan Linguistics (3 cr.) P: C400. Study of contemporary Catalan language and its history. Deals with phonology, gram­mar, and lexicology. 

• HISP-C 618 Topics in Catalan Literature (3 cr.) Topics include medieval narrative, Valencian literature, the Renaixenca, Modernisme and Noucentisme, the avant-garde, poetry and resistance, utopias and dystopias, specific writers (Rodoreda, Capmany, Roig, Riera, Barbal), theatre and the Barcelona stage. Topics to be explored in a multicultural context and in view of current criti­cal issues and theory. Courses may be repeated once for credit when topic varies.

• HISP-C 619 Topics in Catalan Studies (3 cr.) Study of problems, issues, and topics in Catalan Studies, which may include Catalan nationalism, politics, culture, architecture, cinema, art, and/or society.

• HISP-C 803 Individual Reading in Catalan Literature or Language (1-3 cr.) Students must make arrangements in advance with the professor who will supervise their readings. Please contact the department graduate office for further information. 

Spanish

Spanish American Literature

• HISP-S 504 Bibliography and Methods of Research (3 cr.)

• HISP-S 512 Theory and Criticism (3 cr.) Focuses on major issues in literary theory, with attention given to critical trends in the Hispanic world.

• HISP-S 518 Spanish Medieval Literature (3 cr.) Survey of literature from its beginnings to 1500. The main focus will be on major works studied within their historical and cultural contexts, within the literary genres to which they belonged, and within the traditions they renewed. All texts will be read in the original language.

• HISP-S 528 Spanish Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (3 cr.) Survey of the prose, poetry, and theatre of the Spanish Golden Age. Authors may include Garcilaso, the mystic writers, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón, Zayas, Góngora, and Quevedo. Examines the dynamics of power, gender, and genre in representative texts.

• HISP-S 538 Spanish Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (3 cr.) Focuses on the major works of the period of all genres (poetry, fiction, drama, essay) and covers the main intellectual trends: Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism. Traces issues such as emerging genres, class and power, gender and sexuality, and nation formation.

• HISP-S 548 Spanish Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (3 cr.) Survey of literature from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. May include a variety of genres (e.g., narrative, poetry, drama, and film) and examine a range of issues (e.g., power, gender, nation, and exile).

• HISP-S 558 Colonial Spanish American Literature (3 cr.) Surveys the central literary-historical movements and texts in Spanish America from 1492 to 1820. Includes a study of the chronicles, mid-colonial poetic and autobiographical forms, and pre-inde­pendence literature.

• HISP-S 568 Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature (3 cr.) Survey of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century drama, essay, prose, and poetry. Emphasizes the introduction of Romanticism, literature gauchesca, positiv­ism, modernismo, Realism, and Naturalism. Primary readings may include, among others, Bolívar, Bello, Heredia, Avellaneda, Sarmiento, Echeverría, Isaacs, Hernández, Palma, Darío, Quiroga, and F. Sánchez.

• HISP-S 578 Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Spanish American Literature (3 cr.) Survey of Spanish American poetry, prose, and theatre of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Examines movements such asla vanguardia, the “new narrative,” the Boom and post-1970s narrative trends.

• HISP-S 588 U.S. Latino and/or Caribbean Literature (3 cr.) Survey of Chicano, Conti­nental Puerto Rican, Cuban-American, and other U.S. Latino literature written in Spanish, English, or both. Emphasis on the Hispanic literary, linguistic, and cultural dialectic with English-speaking society. The course will be conducted in Spanish.

• HISP-S 618 Topics in Spanish Medieval Literature (3 cr.) Investigation of fundamental components of Spanish medieval literature and culture in conjunction with current scholarship and critical approaches. Topics may include lyric poetry, mester de juglaria, mester de clerecia, romancero, didactic and historical prose, fiction, drama, paleography, translation, and cultural issues of medieval Spain and Al-Andalus. Course may be repeated for credit when topic varies.

• HISP-S 628 Topics in Early Modern Spanish Literature (3 cr.) Topics may explore questions of genre (the picaresque, the comedia), major works (Don Quijote), authors (Góngora, María de Zayas), themes (madness, seduction), or theoretical approaches (the investigation of power, historiographical accounts). Course may be repeated for credit when topic varies.

• HISP-S 638 Topics in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature (3 cr.) Topics may include the Enlightenment, Roman­tic drama, Romantic poetry, realist and naturalist prose, an au­thor (e.g., Galdós, Pardo Bazán, Bécquer), the development of a genre (e.g., the short story, the modern novel). Topics will be explored in the context of current critical issues and theories. Course may be repeated for credit when topic varies.

• HISP-S 648 Topics in Contemporary Spanish Literature (3 cr.) The literature and culture of Spain from the twentieth century to the present. Topics may include the Spanish essay, Generation X, death and violence, writing memory, urban/rural landscapes and the ecocritical debate, and constructions of the body. Course may be repeated for credit when topic varies.

• HISP-S 659 Topics in Colonial Spanish American Literature (3 cr.) Topics may include the chronicles and early modern theories of representation, indigenous writing and identities, el barroco de indias in poetic and prose genres, life writings (vidas) and gender, and paleographic study of archival texts. Course may be repeated for credit when topic varies.

• HISP-S 668 Topics in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature (3 cr.) Topics may include litera­ture of independence, gauchesca poetry and tradition, rep­resentations of nature, Romanticism and late Romanticism, mo­dernity and modernismo, nationalism, the novella de la tierna, race ethnicity, and gender.

• HISP-S 678 Topics in Contemporary Spanish American Literature (3 cr.) The literature and culture of Spanish America from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Topics may include the Boom, magic realism, moder­nity, revolution and politics, gender and sexualities, race, and ethnicity. Course may be repeated for credit when topic varies.

• HISP-S 688 Topics in U.S. Latino and/or Caribbean Literature (3 cr.) Study of problems, research trends, and topics in U.S. Latino and/or Caribbean poetry, prose, drama, and essay. Topics may include border studies, identity formation, post-colonial theory, issues of exile and diaspora. The course will be conducted in Spanish. Course may be repeated for credit when topic varies.

• HISP-S 695 Graduate Colloquium (3 cr.) Selected topics on Spanish or Spanish American literature. Course may be repeated for credit when topic varies.

• HISP-S 708 Seminar in Hispanic Studies (3 cr.) May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

• HISP-S 803 Individual Readings in Spanish or Spanish American Lit­erature and Language (arr. cr.) P: M.A. degree. Students must make arrangements in advance with the professor who will supervise their readings. Contact the departmental graduate office for further information.

Hispanic Linguistics

• HISP-G 611 Romance Linguistics (3 cr.) Course not currently offered.

• HISP-S 508 Introduction to Hispanic Pragmatics (3 cr.) Examines the intentions of language users and how discourse is interpreted by hearers. After introducing fundamental concepts in pragmat­ics, the course analyzes how pragmatics relates to syntax and semantics. Topics include: speech acts, deixis, presupposition, implicature, politeness, and conversation analysis. Examples are taken from different varieties of Spanish.

• HISP-S 509 Spanish Phonology (3 cr.) Introduction to the sound sys­tem of Spanish. Various theories are presented and analyzed. Some treatment of dialectal phenomena included.

• HISP-S 511 Spanish Syntactic Analysis (3 cr.) Introduction to the analysis of syntactic data. Focus on developing theoretical apparatus required to account for a range of syntactic phenom­ena in Spanish.

• HISP-S 513 Introduction to Hispanic Sociolinguistics (3 cr.) Examines the relationship between language and society in the Spanish-speaking world. Surveys a wide range of topics relevant to Spanish: language as communication, the sociology of lan­guage, and linguistic variation.

• HISP-S 515 The Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language (3 cr.) Surveys the empirical research conducted on Spanish and investigates how a nonnative linguistic system develops. Course includes four topics: morpheme acquisition studies, interlanguage development, input processing, and Universal Grammar.

• HISP-S 517 Methods of Teaching College Spanish (3 cr.) Trains gradu­ate students to teach the freshman and intermediate college courses in Spanish

• HISP-S 603 History of the Spanish Language (3 cr.) P: Fulfillment of Latin requirement. Course not currently offered. The rise and development of Spanish in the Iberian peninsula and Latin America, seen in historical and cul­tural contexts. The history of sounds, forms, and words; major dialects; the evolution of prose style to the eighteenth century.

• HISP-S 609 Spanish Phonology II (3 cr.) P: S509 or equivalent. Intro­duces recent developments in phonological theory and their application to Spanish, as well as non-derivational approaches. Focuses mainly on nonlinear analyses.

• HISP-S 611 Topics in Spanish Syntax (3 cr.) P: S511 or equivalent. Advanced study of modern approaches to synchronic and diachronic syntax as applied to Spanish. Focus on current theories of the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and refinement of syntactic analysis and argumentation. Course may be repeated for credit when the topic varies.

• HISP-S 612 Topics in Linguistic Variation and Language in Context (3 cr.) Examines current topics in linguistic variation and language in context in-depth, with a particular focus on issues relating to the Spanish language. Topics include: sociolinguistic and phonological variation, networks and communities of prac­tice, the quantitative paradigm, conversation analysis, linguistic politeness, speech act theory, discourse markers, and research methodology.

• HISP-S 614 Topics in Acquisition of Spanish (3 cr.) P: S515 or equiva­lent. Provides closer examination of topics and research in first and/or second language acquisition, focusing specifically on the Spanish language. Topics include the acquisition of phonology, syntax, morphology, and semantics as well as input processing, psycholinguistics, and research design.

• HISP-S 712 Seminar: Themes in Spanish Linguistics (3 cr.) Course may be repeated for credit when the topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when the topic varies.

• HISP-S 716 Seminar: Themes in the Acquisition of Spanish as a Sec­ond Language (3 cr.) Course may be repeated for credit when the topic varies.

• HISP-S 803 Individual Readings in Spanish or Spanish American Literature and Language (arr. cr.) P: M.A. degree.

Portuguese

• HISP-P 500 Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World I (3 cr.) Survey of the literatures from Brazil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa. Lectures and discussions of selected authors of the major literary periods.

• HISP-P 501 Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World II (3 cr.) Survey of the literatures from Brazil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa. Lectures and discussions of selected authors of the major literary periods.

• HISP-P 505 Literature and Film in Portuguese (3 cr.) Survey of literary works and film adaptations from the Lusophone world.

• HISP-P 510 Brazilian Cinema (3 cr.) A survey of Brazilian cinema from the beginning of the twentieth century to present day. Taught in English.

• HISP-P 511 Portugal: The Cultural Context (3 cr.) Integrates historical, social, political, and cultural information about Portugal. Taught in English.

• HISP-P 512 Brazil: The Cultural Context (3 cr.) Integrates historical, social, and cultural information about Brazil. Taught in English.

• HISP-P 515 Woman Writing in Portuguese (3 cr.) A survey of wom­en’s writings from different Portuguese-speaking nations.

• HISP-P 520 Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World in Translation (3 cr.) Readings of Brazilian, Portuguese, and Luso­phone African writers from a comparative perspective. Spe­cific topics may vary in any given semester. Taught in English. Cannot count toward graduate degrees with specialization in Portuguese.

• HISP-P 525 Structure of Portuguese Language (3 cr.) Introduction to the linguistic study of various aspects of the structure of the Portuguese language: phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, dialects, historical grammar; and application of linguistics to the study of literature.

• HISP-P 567 Contemporary Portuguese Literature (3 cr.) Representa­tive authors and works from 1915 to the present.

• HISP-P 570 Poetry in Portuguese (3 cr.) A study of poetic genres in Portuguese; emphasis on major authors from Brazil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa. 

• HISP-P 575 Theatre in Portuguese (3 cr.) A survey of theatre in the Portuguese language from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth century. Particular attention will be given to the so­cial and historical context in which works were produced. 

• HISP-P 576 Prose in Portuguese (3 cr.) Survey of prose writers and works from the Middle Ages to the present. 

• HISP-P 581 Contemporary Brazilian Literature (3 cr.) Representative authors and works from 1922 to the present. 

• HISP-P 601 Portuguese Historical Grammar (3 cr.) History of the system of sounds and forms, of words and their meanings from Latin origins to contemporary standard Portuguese

• HISP-P 605 Portuguese Linguistics (3 cr.) A structural description of modern Portuguese to include phonetics and phonology and some of the main features of the morphological and syntactic systems. 

• HISP-P 655 Camões (3 cr.)

• HISP-P 676 Machado de Assis (3 cr.)

• HISP-P 695 Luso-Brazilian Colloquium (3 cr.) Topics vary.

• HISP-P 701 Seminar: Portuguese Literature (3 cr.) In-depth study of selected topics. 

• HISP-P 710 Seminar: African Literature in Portuguese (3 cr.) This course will introduce students to representative authors from Lusophone Africa. Discussions will focus on topics such as the relationship between oral culture and the written word, colonial and postcolonial attitudes toward race and social class, and gender issues. Primary readings include novels, poetry, and short fiction.

• HISP-P 751 Seminar: Brazilian Literature (3 cr.) In-depth study of selected topics. 

• HISP-P 803 Individual Reading in Portuguese or Brazilian Literature (3 cr.) P: M.A. degree. Students must make arrangements in advance with the instructor who will supervise their read­ings. Please contact the department graduate office for further information. 

Reading Knowledge

• HISP-C 491 Elementary Catalan for Graduate Students (3 cr.) (3-no grad. cr.)

• HISP-P 491 Elementary Portuguese for Graduate Students (3 cr.) (3-no grad. cr.)

• HISP-S 491 Elementary Spanish for Graduate Students (3 cr.) (3-no grad. cr.)

• HISP-C 492 Readings in Catalan for Graduate Students (3 cr.) (3-no grad. cr.)

• HISP-P 492 Readings in Portuguese for Graduate Students (3 cr.) (3-no grad. cr.)

• HISP-S 492 Readings in Spanish for Graduate Students (3 cr.) (3-no grad. cr.)

Thesis Hours

• HISP-P 802 M.A. Thesis (arr. cr.) This course is eligible for a deferred grade.

• HISP-P 805 Ph.D. Thesis (1-12 cr.) This course is eligible for a deferred grade.

• HISP-S 802 M.A. Thesis (arr. cr.) This course is eligible for a deferred grade.

• HISP-S 805 Ph.D. Thesis (1-12 cr.) This course is eligible for a deferred grade.

• HISP-G 901 Advanced Research (6 cr.) Auth.