Introductory proficiency-based course which prepares students to understand, speak, read, and write in culturally authentic contexts. Activities are conducted in Spanish. No prior experience or admission by placement testing. Students cannot enroll in SPA 101 after earning credit for SPA 102, SPA 201, SPA 202, or higher.

Continuing proficiency-based course which develops communicative abilities in speaking, listening, reading, and writing in culturally authentic contexts. Activities are conducted in Spanish. Students cannot enroll in SPA 102 after earning credit for SPA 201, SPA 202, or higher.

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the SU academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Continuing proficiency-based course which refines and expands previously acquired linguistic skills in culturally authentic contexts. Activities are conducted in Spanish. Students cannot enroll in SPA 201 after earning credit for SPA 202 or higher.

Continuing proficiency-based course which focuses on reading, discussing, and analyzing authentic texts as a basis for the expression and interpretation of meaning. Conducted in Spanish. Students cannot enroll in SPA 202 after earning credit for a course higher than SPA 202.

Additional practice for students in SPA 201 or 202. Attention confined to the spoken language.

Additional practice for students in SPA 201 or 202. Attention confined to the spoken language.

Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Introduction to reading and analyzing texts written in Spanish.

Advanced grammar, composition, and conversation.

Thirteen-day seminar introduces students to Spanish culture with an emphasis on the heritage and industry of the Mediterranean and the consciousness that has shaped cuisine, literature, architecture, fashion, lifestyles and social mores in contemporary Spain. Offered only in Spain.

A one-credit conversation course designed to improve Spanish students' oral and listening comprehension skills in basic personal and social contexts. Students should have taken or be taking Spanish courses at the 300 or 400 level.

Introductory-level study of representative literary texts of Spain from the 12th century to the present.

Modern Latin American literature using new methods of study, basically Cultural Semiotics.

Development of Amer-Indian civilization and the Spanish conquests. Evolution of the Spanish American economy and the unique American culture. Growth of the plantation economy of Brazil. The movements toward independence.

Film theories (historical, auteur, national, etc) and terminology, trends in film, women in film, problems with cultural representation.

Offered only in Santiago. This seminar features in-situ lectures and activities in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay introducing important political, sociological and environmental issues in the Southern Cone region.

Spanish art and architecture from the late eighteenth century to the present. Goya, succeeding styles and movements to the modernism of Picasso, Miro, and Dali, and later styles. The architecture of Gaudi. Offered only in Madrid.

Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Examines journalism and media in Spanish as they are practiced in Spanish-speaking countries and the U.S. Conducted in Spanish. [Effective spring 2009]

Presents theory and teaching methodology and develops the practical aspects of teaching Spanish as a second language.

Introduction to the Spanish language on the healthcare environment.

A one-credit conversation course designed to improve Spanish students' oral and listening comprehension skills in selected professional and formal settings. Students should have taken or be taking Spanish courses at the 300 or 400 level.

Offered in Madrid only. History of women in Spain from primitive communities to the present. Topics include medieval, Golden Age, Enlightenment, and Romanticism; liberalism and feminism; women under Franco; Marxism and feminism; feminist movement in Spain.

Offered only in Santiago. The time period (1940-present) and its significance and contributions to the configuration of social, political and economic aspects of Chile today. Relies on primary sources, comparisons within the Southern Cone, and a focus on US role and influence during this period.

Achieve a high level of proficiency in Spanish oral and written expression and comprehension. Exploration of Spanish culture by analysis of texts and newspapers and debates on current issues. Offered only in Madrid.

Offered only in Madrid. Overview of the Spanish short story from late 19th century to present. Themes of political and social rifts of Spanish society in the 20th century, female representations, and images of exclusion.

Language usage in relation to Spanish and Latin American business.

Introduction to formal linguistic analysis of the Spanish sound system. Survey of dialectal variation. Additional work required of graduate students.

Introduction to the formal linguistic analysis of the structure of Spanish sentences. Additional work required of graduate students.

Formal linguistic analysis of the Spanish language: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and language variation (sociolinguistics and dialectology). Taught entirely in Spanish. Additional work required of graduate students.

The evolution of modern Spanish. The causes of linguistic change, the development of the phonological and morphosyntactic systems, the semantic/lexical development of the language. Additional work required of graduate students.

Language immersion in the Spanish-speaking community in the Syracuse area. Emphasis on improving spoken and written Spanish through a service learning component. Additional work required of graduate students.

Critical reading and discussion of significant literary works drawn from the Middle Ages and the 16th and 17th centuries.

Don Quixote, with selections from other representative works by Cervantes.

Literary works will include texts by Jovellanos, Feijóo, Larra, Pardo Bazán, Ganivet, Unamuno, Goytisolo, Martin Gaite, and Subirats, among others.

Diachronic study of the Spanish short story and poetry. Emphasis on the different modes of neorealism, experimentalism, and the most recent trends.

Analyze the invention of notions like literature, women, and nation in Spain. Representations of women in literary and cinematic texts.

Spanish writers during and after Franco's dictatorship. Literary works will include texts by Laforet, Cela, Rodereda, Gil de Biedma, Riera, Millas, among others.

Diachronic study of the Spanish theater. Literary works will include texts by Valle-Inclán, Garcia Lorca, Sastre, Buero Vallejo, Arrabal, Pedrero, and Onetti, among others.

Offered only in Madrid. Survey of Spanish cinema since 1950 through classic directors Buñuel, Saura and Erice, and contemporary auteurs Almodóvar and Amenábar. Special attention also given to female directors and recent horror classics.

Presents works by 10 Nobel Laureates in Spanish.301

A theoretical reflection on the notion of frontier in contemporary times. A review of the different types of representations (literary, artistic, film) and the subject that lives in the notion of frontier. Emphasis on the US-Mexico border.

Introduction to major theater works and movements in 20th-century Latin America.

Mass culture and post modernism. Interactions between mass media culture, art, and politics in Latin America.

A critical study of books made into film in Latin American literature.

Participation in a discipline- or subject-related experience. Students must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Limited to those in good academic standing.

Latin American literature from the 1920s to the present. Emphasizes the development of the contemporary novel.

Myths about women and nation. Modern interpretations and reconstructions of these myths in contemporary literature by Latin American women writers. Literary texts with theories on myth. Representation and "real" constructions of feminine and national identities in different regions of Latin America.

Literary works, films and arts created in Central America. Topics include perspectives on indigenism, feminine and masculine identities, religion, politics, technology and its future implications on those countries.

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Short stories and poetry written in Spanish by Latinos. Themes such as identity, language, and culture. Political, social, and cultural readings.

Chican@/x and Latin@/x literature employs vision as an aesthetic form of resistance, affecting what we see when we read and how we understand our world.

Study how contemporary Latin@/x Literature employs the narrative body in artistically conveying social practices.

Texts in Spanish by Caribbean writers. Explores themes such as women, politics, death, identity. Readings are accompanied by films and followed by critical theory and analysis.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Examines innovative forms of theater and performance today in Latin America. Focuses on performance as a visual practice.

Examines a variety of twenty-first century Latin American artistic texts created by women ¿ music, literature, theater and performance - to analyze ways in which these artists promote social change and, thus, reframe the notions of community and belonging.

Caribbean African-Hispanic literature (poetry and short stories) with different areas of social and political interest. Emphasis on different Caribbean religions.

This course studies the Spanish Caribbean's multiple identities through the discussion of a series of literary and cultural texts. The course concentrates on race, gender, sexuality, migrations, postcolonial relations, popular culture and diasporas.

Caribbean poetry and short stories about race, gender, and homoeroticism. Includes social, political, and cultural readings.

Literary works of the Cuban revolutionary period by Cuban and Cuban-American authors from different literary and political points of view.

A reflection on the inherent violence that characterizes Latin American urban centers, and the implications of such violence for their citizens.

Completion of an Honors Capstone Project under the supervision of a faculty member.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.