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. 
• Hispanic Literature and Culture
• All HISP-S500 and S600 courses: Qualified graduate students in any department with a serious interest in the period may enroll.

HISP-S 504 Graduate Studies and Professionalization 1 credit, repeatable up to 3 credits for the M.A. degree and an additional 3 credits for the Ph.D. (S/F)

• This course will introduce graduate students to the tools needed for successful completion of both the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in each of the three programs that our department offers (Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Portuguese).  It will be run as two separate series:  Series I addresses the concerns of graduate students completing course work, preparing for M.A. and Ph.D. exams; Series II focuses on the process of writing a dissertation, becoming active in conferences, publications, and preparing a dosser for the job market.
• 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 Medieval Iberian Literature and Culture (3 cr.) Survey of Peninsular literature from early Middle Ages through late fifteenth century. Emphasis on major works within their contexts, the most influential literary genres, issues of gender, and intersections with Jewish and Muslim literary traditions. 
• HISP-S 618 Topics in Medieval Iberian Literature and Culture  (3 cr.) Theoretical and critical explorations of Iberian medieval literature and culture. Topics may include early poetry, gender, foundational narratives, and interactions between Christians, Jews, and Muslims.  Course may be repeated for credit when topic varies.
• HISP –S-528 Early Modern Spain: Genre, Race, and Gender Graduate survey of early modern prose, poetry and theater, exploring the dynamics of power, gender, race and genre in novellas by María de Zayas and Miguel de Cervantes, dramatic works by Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Calderón and Ana Caro, and poetry by Garcilaso, Luis de Góngora, Francisco de Quevedo and others.
• HISP-S 628 Topics Early Modern Spanish Studies Topics may explore themes (madness, history of reading practices), theoretical approaches (historiographical accounts, animal studies), questions of genre (the picaresque, the entremés) major works (Don Quijote), authors (María de Zayas). Course may be repeated for credit when topic varies.
• HISP-S 538 Iberian Modernities: Reason, Emotion, Realities (3 cr.) Focusing on a variety of literary genres, this course explores Modernity and its methods for conceptualizing the world (Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism).  It will explore the shifting landscape through such cultural constructs as authorship, gender and sexuality, social class and Metropolitanism, and regional and national power.  [Short: Modern Iberian Reason/Emotion]
• HISP-S 638 Topics in Iberian Modernities (3 cr.) Topics may include aesthetics and function, gender and sexuality, literature, science and the fantastic, industry and the emergence of a middle class, or a particular literary subset, such as women writers, Romantic poetry, realist and naturalist prose. Course may be repeated for credit when topic varies.
• HISP-S 548 Literature, Culture and Power in Contemporary Spain (3 cr.) Survey of contemporary literary texts and the dynamics of censorship, gender and sexuality, memory, nation, and/or exile.  These works will be studied within the historical contexts in which texts can both produce and contest gendered, sexual, class-based, and racial/ethnic power relations.  [Short: Contemp Spain:Literature/Power]
• HISP-S 648 Topics in Contemporary Iberian Studies (3 cr.) Topics may include cultural memory, migrations, urban/rural landscapes and ecocriticism, death and violence, constructions of the body, gender and sexuality, or a particular subset of contemporary Peninsular writers, visual artists, or cultural movements. Course may be repeated for credit when topic varies. 
• HISP-S558: Conquest and Colonialism in Latin America. Focusing on Spanish colonialism in the Americas from 1492 to 1800, this course studies a wide variety of textual discourses and visual culture that reflect European, indigenous, and afro-descendant cultural production and the shaping of Latin American societies.
• HISP-S659: Topics in Colonial Studies. Topics may include empire and cultural geographies, indigenous codices      and texts, visual culture, religion and gender, processes of racialization, and historically-changing articulations of colonial, de-colonial and anti-colonial discourses and their legacies.  Course may be repeated for credit when topic varies.
• HISP-S 568 Spanish American Literature and Culture in Nation-Building period. Introduces field periodization, canon-formation, and their critique, as well as key critical trends.  Materials studied include a diverse body of literary/cultural works and criticism produced by and about Latin America. 
• HISP-S 668 Topics in 19th- and Early 20th-Century Spanish American Literature and Cultures.  In-depth critical discussion of literary and cultural texts, criticism, and theory on topics such as postcolonialism, modernity, gender, race, travel, nationalism, regionalism, and cosmopolitanism, transatlantic networks, Modernismo. Course may be repeated for credit when topic varies.
• HISP-S 578: Literature in Spanish America: Aesthetic and Political Revolutions and Counter-revolutions. Short: Lit in SpanAm: Revs & CounterRevs.   (3 cr.) Survey of Spanish American poetry, prose, and theatre of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Examines movements such as la vanguardia, the “new narrative,” the Boom and post-1970s narrative trends.
• HISP-S 678 Continuities and Ruptures: Topics in Contemporary Spanish American Literature and Culture. Short: Topics Cont SpanAm Lit & Cult​.  (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 588 S. Latinx and/or Caribbean Literature and Culture Survey of U.S. Latinx and/or Caribbean literature and culture produced in Spanish, English, or both. Focuses on processes of racial and ethnic identity formation, as they intersect with gender, sexuality, and class, and/or on Caribbean literary and cultural movements and critical thought.
• HISP-S 688 : Topics in U.S. Latinx and/or Caribbean Literature and Culture Study of seminal scholarship and emerging trends in U.S. Latinx and/or Caribbean literary and cultural studies in the broader context of Latin American cultural production. Topics may include border studies, theories of coloniality and postcolonialism, critical race studies, the neobaroque, media and sound studies. 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.)