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1999 - 2000 UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR
Carleton University

School of Languages, Literatures and Comparative Literary Studies

Spanish

(Arts and Social Sciences)


1416 Dunton Tower
Telephone: 520-5644
Fax: 520-3544

Teaching Staff

Professor Emeritus

R.L. Jackson, B.A.(Knoxville), M.A., Ph.D.(Ohio State)

Professor

P.J. Roster, Jr., M.A., Ph.D.(Rutgers)

Associate Professors

M.A. Giella, B.A.(Carleton), M.A.(Middlebury), Ph.D.(Laval) • R. Larson, M.A., Ph.D.(Toronto)

Distinguished Research Professor

J. Jurado

Adjunct Research Professor

C.A. Marsden


General Information

Students currently enrolled in degree programs offered by the Discipline of Spanish are governed by the requirements contained in the 1997-98 Undergraduate Calendar.

Minor in Spanish

A Minor in Spanish requires 4.0 credits in Spanish, with a GPA of 6.5 or better, chosen from the list below, in consultation with the Spanish section:

38.115, 38.203 (38.120 may be taken in place of 38.115 and 38.203), 38.205*, 38.206* (38.220 may be taken in place of 38.203, 38.205* and 38.206*), 38.210*, 38.211*, 38.301*, 38.302*.

At least 2.0 credits in the Minor must be completed at Carleton.

Requirement for Breadth, B.A. and B.A.(Honours) degrees

Category for Breadth Courses in this unit
The temporal dimension of human societies, analyzing times before the present era or societies other than our own  
The artifacts of the imagination in literature and/or other forms, or that addresses the life of the imagination and culture. All courses in Spanish
The understanding of social, technological and/or natural processes and the ways in which that understanding is obtained in science and social science.  
Matters of human values, ethics and social responsibilities  


Courses

Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 1999-2000, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.

Spanish 38.115

Introductory Spanish

A course for those with no knowledge of Spanish, designed to give the student the fundamentals of spoken and written Spanish, through oral practice, reading and laboratory work.

Lectures and laboratory four hours a week.

Spanish 38.120 (2.0 credits)

Intensive Introductory Spanish

For students with little or no Spanish. Students can attain in one year the level normally gained in Spanish 38.115 and 38.203; those not making satisfactory progress will transfer to Spanish 38.115.

Lectures and laboratory six hours a week.

Spanish 38.203

Intermediate Spanish

A course for those with at least one year of Spanish. Grammar review, extensive reading, guided composition, laboratory work.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.115 or equivalent.

Lectures and laboratory four hours a week.

Spanish 38.204

Intensive Intermediate Spanish

A course for potential Majors and for those with OAC Spanish or equivalent. Review of grammar and some advanced syntax; extensive reading, discussion and composition.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.115 or equivalent, and permission of the School.

With special permission of the School, students enrolled in this course may take Spanish 38.205* simultaneously.

Spanish 38.205*

Spanish Conversation

Conversation and discussion of current problems, supplemented by occasional written work.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.120 or 38.203 or 38.204 or permission of the School.

Three hours a week.

Spanish 38.206*

Spanish Composition

A course designed to consolidate the linguistic knowledge attained in Spanish 38.203 and to inculcate the elements of a good Spanish style.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.120 or 38.203 or 38.204 or permission of the School.

Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Spanish 38.210*

Spanish Civilization

The cultural heritage of Spain in its social and geographical contexts.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.120 or 38.203 or 38.204 or permission of the School.

Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Spanish 38.211*

Spanish-American Civilization

The cultural heritage of Spanish America in its social and geographical contexts.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.120 or 38.203 or 38.204 or permission of the School.

Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Spanish 38.220 (2.0 credits)

Intensive Advanced Spanish

A course designed for potential majors who have taken 38.115 (or an equivalent introductory course), it combines the material given in 38.203, 38.205* and 38.206*. Students not making satisfactory progress will be transferred to a different, non-intensive course at the appropriate level.

Precludes additional credit for Spanish 38.120, 38.203, 38.205*, 38.206*.

Lectures and laboratory seven hours a week during the Fall term, six hours a week during the Winter term.

Spanish 38.235

An Introduction to Hispanic Theatre

A study of the theory and practice of dramatic production in Spain and Spanish America together with detailed analysis and interpretative reading of representative plays. Students in the course are required to participate in the staging of a play.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.120 or 38.203 or 38.204 or permission of the School.

Spanish 38.301*

Advanced Oral Spanish

An advanced sequel to Spanish 38.205*.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.205* or permission of the School.

Conversation and discussion three hours a week.

Spanish 38.302*

Advanced Spanish Composition

An advanced sequel to Spanish 38.206*.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.206* or permission of the School.

Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Spanish 38.303*

Spanish Phonetics and Phonology

A descriptive study of the sounds and sound patterns of Spanish. Practical exercises, written and oral. Recommended for teachers.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.205* and 38.206* or permission of the School.

Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Spanish 38.305

Intensive Oral Spanish

An intensive course in Spanish conversation which, being offered only in a Spanish-speaking country, also provides an introduction to Hispanic culture. Students who satisfactorily complete this course are ineligible to enroll subsequently in Spanish 38.205* or 38.301*.

Compulsory attendance at all classes and participation in all activities.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.203 or 38.204 or 38.120 or permission of the School.

Spanish 38.320*

The Golden Age I

A study of representative works of Spanish literature of the Renaissance and Early Baroque periods.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.210* or 38.235 or permission of the School.

Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Spanish 38.321*

The Golden Age II

A study of representative works of Spanish literature of the Baroque period.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.210* or 38.235 or permission of the School.

Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Spanish 38.330*

Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature

A study of representative works of the major movements (Romanticism, costumbrismo, Realism and Naturalism) and authors of Spanish literature of the nineteenth century.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.210* or 38.235 or permission of the School.

Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Spanish 38.331*

Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature

A study of representative works of Spanish literature from the Generation of 1898 on.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.210* or 38.235 or permission of the School.

Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Spanish 38.350*

Spanish-American Literature, 1500-1888

A study of representative works of Spanish-American literature of the Colonial Period and the nineteenth century prior to Modernism.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.211* or 38.235 or permission of the School.

Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Spanish 38.351*

Spanish-American Literature from Modernism to the Present

A study of representative works of Spanish-American literature since 1888.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.211* or 38.235 or permission of the School.

Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Spanish 38.402*

Theories of Literature

Theoretical discussion of literature from about 1920 to the present. Offered by the School of Comparative Literary Studies as Theories of Literature 17.402*. Spanish students will register in Spanish 38.402*, and will use Hispanic texts for exercises of practical application.

Prerequisite: Permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.415*

Medieval Spanish Literature from the Origins through 1300

A study of major works of Spanish literature from the earliest times through the thirteenth century.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.210* or 38.235 or permission of the School.

Students will normally have taken a literature course at the 300-level before enrolling in this course.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.416*

Medieval Spanish Literature, 1300-1500

A study of major works of Spanish literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Prerequisite: Spanish 38.210* or 38.235 or permission of the School.

Students will normally have taken a literature course at the 300-level before enrolling in this course.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.420*

Cervantes

A study of Cervantes and his age, with particular reference to Don Quijote.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.320* and 38.321* or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.430*

Modern Spanish Novel

Analysis and interpretation of works by major Spanish novelists from the beginnings of Realism in the nineteenth century up to the Civil War in 1936.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.330* and 38.331*, or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.431*

Contemporary Spanish Novel

Analysis and interpretation of works by major Spanish novelists from the Civil War to the present.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.330* and 38.331* or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.435*

Modern Spanish Drama

Analysis and interpretation of works by major Spanish playwrights of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, together with study of related dramatic theory.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.330* and 38.331* or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.436*

Contemporary Spanish Drama

Analysis and interpretation of works by major Spanish playwrights from the Civil War to the present, together with study of related dramatic theory.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.330* and 38.331* or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.440*

Modern Spanish Poetry

A study of Spanish poetry and poetics of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.330* and 38.331* or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.441*

Contemporary Spanish Poetry

A study of Spanish poetry and poetics from the Generation of 1927 to the present.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.330* and 38.331* or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.460*

Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Novel I

Analysis and interpretation of works by major Spanish-American novelists of the first half of the twentieth century.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.350* and 38.351* or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.461*

Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Novel II

Analysis and interpretation of works by major Spanish-American novelists of the second half of the twentieth century.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.350* and 38.351* or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.470*

Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Poetry I

A study of the principal tendencies in twentieth-century Spanish-American poetry with special emphasis on the modernist poets, the post-modernist poetisas and the creationism of Vicente Huidobro.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.350* and 38.351* or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.471*

Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Poetry II

A study of the principal tendencies in twentieth-century Spanish-American poetry, with special emphasis on the social poetry of César Vallejo, Nicolás Guillén and Pablo Neruda.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.350* and 38.351* or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.480*

Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Theatre I

Analysis and interpretation of plays by major Spanish-American playwrights of the first half of the twentieth century. Theatrical forms and dramatic movements will include the sainete, the grotesco criollo, realism, the Independent Theatre, and anti-realistic experiments.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.350* and 38.351* or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.481*

Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Theatre II

Analysis and interpretation of plays by major Spanish-American playwrights since 1950. Theatrical forms and dramatic movements will include Critical Realism, Epic Theatre, Expressionism, and the Theatre of the Absurd.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.350* and 38.351* or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.490

Seminar on a Special Topic

Designed for Honours students normally in their final year, or for Graduate students.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.491*

Seminar on a Special Topic

Designed for Honours students normally in their final year, or for graduate students.

Prerequisites: Spanish 38.350* and 38.351*, or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Spanish 38.492*

Special Studies

From time to time members of the School form small groups to study certain problems or aspects of Spanish literature in greater depth than is possible in other courses. Interested students should consult the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

• Portuguese Course

Portuguese 38.116

Introductory Portuguese

A course designed to provide the student with the fundamentals of Portuguese grammar, a basic vocabulary and speaking knowledge of Portuguese. Students who have taken courses in other Romance languages should make considerable progress.


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1999 - 2000 Undergraduate Calendar

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