2003-2004 Undergraduate Calendar

The Department aims to provide students with a thorough and comprehensive coverage of spoken and written Spanish, its literature and culture. In addition to the courses taught in Spanish, the Department offers a series of courses taught in English that may be acceptable for credit toward a degree. Students are encouraged to participate in the study program in Latin America.

Third-year Abroad

Students have the opportunity to study during their third year at a Spanish speaking University. In addition to studying Spanish language, literature and culture, students may also take courses in Business, the Humanities, the Social Sciences and other areas. Students must apply in their second year and have credit in SPAN 1F90.

Study in Cuba and Spain

Students should consult with the Department about other opportunities for intensive study abroad courses at different levels in Spain (Alcalá de Henares) or Latin America ( Matanzas, Cuba).

One Month Study Abroad

This program, offers students an opportunity to study for a month in the summer in Latin America or Spain. Students must consult with the Department prior to registration to determine the location.

Participants earn a credit in Spanish language from beginner to advanced as appropriate as well as one-half credit from SPAN 2V90-2V99.

Program Notes

1.	Students with OAC standing or equivalent in Spanish take SPAN IF90 and may not take SPAN 1F00 without permission of the Department. Permission is granted only in the most exceptional cases.
2.	Students without OAC standing or equivalent in the language take SPAN 1F00.
3.	SPAN 1F00 is an introductory language course. Students who register in this course must bring their official high school transcript to the Department as proof of their level of competency in order to receive departmental confirmation of registration before the end of the second week of classes (see Undergraduate Academic Calendar). Failure to do so will result in deregistration from the course.
4.	Unless otherwise noted in the course description, courses numbered 2(alpha)00 and above are taught in the language, while courses numbered 1F90 and below are taught in the language to the extent possible.
5.	SPAN 1F00 may be taken for degree credit, but cannot be used to meet requirements for major programs in the languages concerned.
6.	SPAN 1F00, 1F90, 2P20 and 2P21 constitute a sequence. Once credit has been obtained in one of these courses, students are not allowed to take for credit a course in the same language with a lower number in the sequence. Students may not take two courses at different levels in the sequence during the same term. This regulation also applies to courses taken at other institutions.
7.	Courses noted as given in English may be included in major programs. Single Honours programs may include no more than two and one-half credits in such courses; single Pass and combined Honours programs may include no more than two credits in such courses; combined Pass programs may include no more than one and one-half credits in such courses.
8.	The Department reserves the right to refuse admission to and/or credit for any of its language courses to a student who has, in the view of the Department, a level of competence unsuited to that course.
9.	In all 20 credit degree programs, at least 12 credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, six of which must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above and of these, three must be numbered 3(alpha)90 or above. In all 15 credit degree programs, at least seven credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, three of which must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above.

Honours Program

In order to complete the single Honours program in Spanish in the normal four year period, students must supplement courses from other institutions in Canada, but preferably from a study abroad program in a Spanish-speaking country. Another option is to complete the program on a part-time basis.

Year 1

	SPAN 1F90 (see program note 1)
	one Science context credit
	one Social Science context credit
	two elective credits

Year 2

	SPAN 2P20 and 2P21
	one and one-half SPAN or MLLC credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above (see program note 7)
	two and one-half elective credits

Year 3

	Three and one-half SPAN or MLLC credits numbered 2(alpha)90 or above (see program note 7)
	one and one-half elective credits

Year 4

	Four SPAN or MLLC credits numbered 3(alpha)90 or above or equivalent (see program note 7)
	one elective credit

Pass Program

Satisfactory completion of the first three years of the Honours program entitles a student to apply for a Pass degree.

Combined Major Program

Honours

Year 1

	SPAN 1F90 (see program note 1)
	one credit from the co-major discipline
	one Science context credit
	one Social Science context credit
	one elective credit

Year 2

	SPAN 2P20 and 2P21
	one SPAN or MLLC credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above (see program note 7)
	two credits from the co-major discipline
	one elective credit

Year 3

	Two SPAN or MLLC credits numbered 2(alpha)90 or above(see program note 7)
	two credits from the co-major discipline
	one elective credit

Year 4

	Two SPAN or MLLC credits numbered 3(alpha)90 or above(see program note 7)
	two credits from the co-major discipline
	one elective credit

Pass

Satisfactory completion of the first three years of the Honours program entitles a student to apply for a Pass degree.

Minor in Spanish

Students in other disciplines may obtain a Minor in Spanish within their degree program by completing the following courses with a minimum 60 percent average:

	SPAN 1F90, 2P20 and 2P21
	one SPAN credit
	one SPAN literature and/or culture credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above

Course Descriptions

Note that not all courses are offered in every session. Refer to the applicable term timetable for details.

Prerequisites and Restrictions

Students must check to ensure that prerequisites are met. Students may be deregistered, at the request of the instructor, from any course for which prerequisites and/or restrictions have not been met.

SPAN 1F00

Introductory Spanish

For students with no knowledge of Spanish. Elements of Spanish grammar. Oral, written and reading practice. Selected readings, multimedia materials.

Lectures, tutorial, 4 hours per week.

SPAN 1F90

Intermediate Spanish

Review of Spanish grammar. Composition and oral practice. Introduction to Spanish literature, Latin American and Peninsular Culture and topics of current interest.

Lectures, tutorial, 4 hours per week.

Prerequisite: SPAN 1F00 or two or more years of high school Spanish or permission of the instructor.

SPAN 1P10

Business Spanish

Introduction to commercial, industrial and technical Spanish. Practical writing skills for business in the Spanish-speaking world emphasizing Latin America.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: SPAN 1F00 or permission of the instructor.

SPAN 1P95

Conquest and Colonization

(also offered as PORT 1P95)

Creation of a new culture founded on Amerindian, Iberian and African traditions; visual arts, architecture, literature and music; disparity between cultural identity and economic and political identity, utopian ideals, alienation through imitation, rediscovery of autochthonous cultural models.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: given in English.

SPAN 2P10

Latin American Culture

(also offered as PORT 2P10)

Survey of social history through text and images; Pre-Columbian cultures; cultural hybridization and colonization to the present day.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: guided readings in English and Spanish.

SPAN 2P11

Iberian Culture

(also offered as PORT 2P11)

Social, political and cultural history of Portugal and Spain through historical and literary texts, film and other visual arts.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: guided readings in English and Spanish.

SPAN 2P20

Research Methods and Textual Analysis I

Introduction to research methods applied to Spanish literature, terminology, critical theory and general historical survey of genres in Hispanic literature. Practical skills of criticism.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: SPAN 1F90 or permission of the instructor.

SPAN 2P21

Research Methods and Textual

Analysis II

Further study in research methods applied to Spanish literature, terminology, critical theory and general historical survey of genres in Hispanic literature. Practical and critical skills of criticism.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: SPAN 2P20 or permission of the instructor.

SPAN 2P82

Latin American and Iberian Film

(also offered as FILM 2P82 and PORT 2P82)

Spanish and Latin American representations of identity crises involving issues of nationality, ethnicity, gender and politics. Pastiche, parody and camp aesthetics, and the envisioning of new possibilities of solidarity leading to social transformations.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly film lab.

Prerequisite: SPAN 1F90.

Note: Spanish and Portuguese language films with English subtitles.

SPAN 2V90-2V99

Culture in a Spanish-Speaking Region

Culture of a country or region in its geographical context. Background preparation research preceding an intensive study period on location.

Restriction: permission of the Department.

Note: given in English. Students are responsible for travel, accommodation and other expenses.

SPAN 3P64

Caribbean Narratives

Social and cultural history of Caribbean writing and art. Key concepts relating to political crises, search for independence and identity in the works of Carpentier, Guillén, Ferré, García Márquez and others.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.

SPAN 3P94

Iberian Narrative

(also offered as PORT 3P94)

Development of Spanish and Portuguese narrative from postwar social realism to the present. Authors may include Cela, Matute, Puértolas, MuZoz Molina, Montero and Saramago.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.

SPAN 3P95

Contemporary Latin American

Narrative

Multidisciplinary approach (historical, sociological, psychological, mythical) to the study of texts from different cultures and genres Authors may include Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, Jorge Amado, Peri Rossi, Lispector, Castellanos and Mastreta.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or or permission of the instructor.

SPAN 3P97

Modern Spanish Literature:

Romanticism to Realism

Crises of national identity in poetry and narrative; literary theories dealing with genre, conventions of romanticism, naturalism, realism in context of Iberian culture. Authors may include Bécquer, Pardo Bazán, Pérez Galdós, Generation of 98.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.

SPAN 3P98

Contemporary Chronicle and

Testimonial Writing

Historiography, collective memory versus official history, relation of past to future, oral history and its transcription into testimonial literature. Texts may include the chronicles of Poniatowska, Monsiváis, Galeano, Zapatista Liberation Army.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.

SPAN 3Q90

Golden Age

Themes and trends in 16th- and 17th-century Spanish drama, prose and poetry; evolution of a national theatre, picaresque, and birth of the modern novel. Film adaptations of key texts to aid comprehension and to consider performative culture.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SPAN 3P92 and 3P93.

SPAN 3Q92

Advanced Grammar and

Communication I

Syntactic analysis and principles. Concepts of semantics and style. Applications to advanced writing and oral practice of the Spanish language.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SPAN 3P90.

SPAN 3Q93

Advanced Grammar and

Communication II

Further studies in syntactic analysis and principles. Concepts of semantics and style. Further applications to advanced writing and oral practice of the Spanish language.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: SPAN 3Q92 or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in SPAN 3P90.

SPAN 3Q94

Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolution

(also offered as HIST 3P94)

Social, economic and intellectual roots of revolutions in Mexico, Bolivia, Guatemala, Cuba and Nicaragua. The seminal role of the Mexican Revolution.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: given in English.

SPAN 4P01

Latin American Women's Perspectives

(also offered as WISE 4P01)

Cultural production of Latin American women and their impact on society; wide selection of media including testimonial writing, oral history, narrative, drama, poetry, visual arts, music. Innovations in popular and literary culture allowing women to rearticulate relationships of power. Authors may include Poniatowska, Kahlo, Menchú, Lispector, Novaro and Parra.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one of SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10), WISE 1F90 or permission of the instructor.

Note: given in English. Spanish majors complete written assignments and exams in Spanish.

SPAN 4P04

Translation: Applications

Lexical, morphological, syntactic and semantic interrelationships between source text and target text; application of translation methodologies to a variety of texts.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: MLLC 3P94 or permission of the instructor.

SPAN 4V60-4V69

Special Research Topics in Spanish

Literature

Course content will vary, depending upon the interests of instructors and students.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: two SPAN credits numbered 3(alpha)00 or above.

SPAN 4V60

2003-2004: Women in Hispanic

Literature: Witches, Vampires and

Virgins

Depiction of women as monstrous or deviant. Authors include Carmen Boullosa, Alejandra Pizarnik and Rosario Ferré. Feminist literary theory of alterity (otherness).

Prerequisite: one SPAN credit numbered 3(alpha)00 or above.

SPAN 4V61

2003-2004: Chicano/Latino Culture

Interdisciplinary approach to Chicano and Latino culture based on critical readings and film. Issues relating to identity, politics and artistic representation in borderland culture of the United States.

Note: Given in English.

Prerequisites: SPAN 2P20 and 2P21 (2F00 or 2F10) or permission of the instructor.

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