University of Texas Arlington

Course Description

First-time freshmen students (new high school graduates) who have been accepted into UT Arlington are required to take MAVS 1000.  MAVS 1000 orients students to life on campus and assists in the transition to college. Course content and assignments will help students identify their individual needs and skills which will affect their success, determine what resources are appropriate and available to them, and formulate a plan for an actively engaged and enriched experience on the campus.

SPAN 3315 COMPOSITION THROUGH LITERATURE (3-0) Practice in original composition and critical thinking through the study of selected literary and cultural texts. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their reading comprehension and their writing skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 3305 or SPAN 3314, with grade C or better.

SPAN 3315 COMPOSITION THROUGH LITERATURE (3-0) Practice in original composition and critical thinking through the study of selected literary and cultural texts. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their reading comprehension and their writing skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 3305 or SPAN 3314, with grade C or better.

This course focuses on the development of reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in Spanish, as well as an understanding of Hispanic cultures and issues of identity of heritage speakers in the United States. This course is intended for heritage speakers of Spanish and is an appropriate substitute for Spanish 2314. Prerequisite: Spanish 2313 or the equivalent.

Descripción del curso: Este curso explorará la figura de la bestia en la literatura medieval española. Estudiaremos cómo las imágenes de animales y bestias ofrecen estrategias para analizar y criticar la sociedad humana; cómo se forman las relaciones entre animales y humanos; y cómo los bestiarios medievales presentan el mundo natural como un libro de instrucción moral. Examinaremos las ideas medievales de la natura animalesca, incluyendo la capacidad de los animales para razonar, expresar emociones, pecar, enseñar y aprender. Las lecturas se enfocarán en todos los animales del “reino salvaje” e incluirán las mujeres bestiales, la monstruosidad y los humanos híbridos. Las discusiones en clase situarán los textos dentro de la crítica animalesca que se encuentra en los estudios filosóficos, culturales, y el movimiento contemporáneo de los derechos de animales. Tomando como punto de partida la tradición de las Fábulas de Esopo, estudiaremos la trayectoria de la figura animalesca en varias obras medievales y en representaciones fílmicas contemporáneas. También, examinaremos varias incorporaciones modernas del arte medieval de contar historias en producciones fílmicas y la cultura popular. 

SPAN 3315 COMPOSITION THROUGH LITERATURE (3-0) Practice in original composition and critical thinking through the study of selected literary and cultural texts. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their reading comprehension and their writing skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 3305 or SPAN 3314, with grade C or better.

Practice in oral expression with an emphasis on vocabulary building and grammar review. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their skills in pronunciation, comprehension, and oral expression. Credit will not be granted to native or heritage speakers of Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 2314 with a grade of C or better.

First-time freshmen students (new high school graduates) who have been accepted into UT Arlington are required to take MAVS 1000.  MAVS 1000 orients students to life on campus and assists in the transition to college. Course content and assignments will help students identify their individual needs and skills which will affect their success, determine what resources are appropriate and available to them, and formulate a plan for an actively engaged and enriched experience on the campus.

This course focuses on the development of reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in Spanish, as well as an understanding of Hispanic cultures and issues of identity of heritage speakers in the United States. This course is intended for heritage speakers of Spanish and is an appropriate substitute for Spanish 2314. Prerequisite: Spanish 2313 or the equivalent.

A detailed study of Spanish grammar for heritage speakers. Capitalizes upon students’ existing

language skills, expands their knowledge base, and develops their ability to read, write, and

communicate more effectively. Special attention is given to regional and dialectal differences.

Prerequisite: SPAN 2315, or the equivalent, with a grade of C or better.

Practice in oral expression with an emphasis on vocabulary building and grammar review. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their skills in pronunciation, comprehension, and oral expression. Credit will not be granted to native or heritage speakers of Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 2314 with a grade of C or better.

An intensive one-semester course designed for Ph.D. candidates and other graduate students to fulfill departmental foreign language requirements. Sections may be offered in French, German, Russian, or other applicable or appropriate languages. Does not fulfill any graduate degree requirements.

This year, 2016, marks the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes' death in 1616.  Cervantes wrote Don Quixote de la Mancha, which is without a doubt the most read, translated, reproduced, readapted, and reenacted books of Spanish Peninsular literature.  This course will engage in a critical and careful reading of this most important piece of literature through the lens of consumption.  We will particularly look at the ways in which the text has been consumed (read, translated, reenacted, adapted) from its publication in 1605 through the 21st century.  We will also examine the extent to which the representations of consumption in the novel (reading, re-reading, viewing, translating, eating, drinking, digesting, etc.) serve as models for reading and understanding this book.  Throughout the term we will study several film adaptations, cartoons, illustrations, and paintings in order to assess the use of Don Quixote as an icon of pan-Hispanic culture. Prerequisite: SPAN 3315 with a C or better.

Practice in oral expression with an emphasis on vocabulary building and grammar review. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their skills in pronunciation, comprehension, and oral expression. Credit will not be granted to native or heritage speakers of Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 2314 with a grade of C or better.

This course will explore the image the body in the context of Medieval and Early Modern literature and its role in the intellectual and spiritual formation of the Iberian Peninsula. We will examine varios representations of the body and how it is defined and manipulated within the context of the secusl, the spiritual, the profane, and the divine.  Some of the themes will include: the relationship between body and text, the regulation and control of the body, the mutilated, imperfect or weak body, gender and authority, consumption, the body of the Other, the body as spectacle, and corporeal love and desire. The readings will include selections from narrative, poetry and drama from the Middle Ages to the Golden Age (Renaissance and Baroque).

SPAN 3315 COMPOSITION THROUGH LITERATURE (3-0) Practice in original composition and critical thinking through the study of selected literary and cultural texts. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their reading comprehension and their writing skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 3305 or SPAN 3314, with grade C or better.

This course focuses on the development of reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in Spanish, as well as an understanding of Hispanic cultures and issues of identity of heritage speakers in the United States. This course is intended for heritage speakers of Spanish and is an appropriate substitute for Spanish 2314. Prerequisite: Spanish 2313 or the equivalent. 

Course Description

First-time freshmen students (new high school graduates) who have been accepted into UT Arlington are required to take MAVS 1000.  MAVS 1000 orients students to life on campus and assists in the transition to college. Course content and assignments will help students identify their individual needs and skills which will affect their success, determine what resources are appropriate and available to them, and formulate a plan for an actively engaged and enriched experience on the campus.

SPAN 4310 TOPICS IN PENINSULAR SPANISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY(3-0) Topics may include: Medieval Spanish literature and culture, Golden Age Spanish literature and culture, or any particular movement, genre, work or author prior to the eighteenth century. May be repeated for credit when content changes. Prerequisite: SPAN 3315 with a grade of C or better.

SPAN 3315 COMPOSITION THROUGH LITERATURE (3-0) Practice in original composition and critical thinking through the study of selected literary and cultural texts. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their reading comprehension and their writing skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 3305 or SPAN 3314, with grade C or better. 

Practice in oral expression with an emphasis on vocabulary building and grammar review. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their skills in pronunciation, comprehension, and oral expression. Credit will not be granted to native or heritage speakers of Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 2314 with a grade of C or better.

SPAN 3315 COMPOSITION THROUGH LITERATURE (3-0) Practice in original composition and critical thinking through the study of selected literary and cultural texts. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their reading comprehension and their writing skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 3305 or SPAN 3314, with grade C or better.

SPAN 5314 – Topics in Spanish-American Literature and Culture to Modernism: Topics may include: Colonial Spanish-American literature and culture, pre-modern Spanish American literature and culture, Spanish-American literature and culture of the Enlightenment, or any particular movement, genre, work or author prior to Modernism. May be repeated for credit when content changes.

Practice in oral expression with an emphasis on vocabulary building and grammar review. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their skills in pronunciation, comprehension, and oral expression. Credit will not be granted to native or heritage speakers of Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 2314 with a grade of C or better.

This course focuses on the development of reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in Spanish, as well as an understanding of Hispanic cultures and issues of identity of heritage speakers in the United States. This course is intended for heritage speakers of Spanish and is an appropriate substitute for Spanish 2314. Prerequisite: Spanish 2313 or the equivalent.

Este curso explorará la imagen de los ‘grupos minoritarios’ y su papel en la formación intelectual y espiritual de la literatura de la Edad Media y del Siglo de Oro en la Península Ibérica.  Un grupo minoritario es una categoría sociológica dentro de un grupo demográfico. En lugar de un "grupo social" relacional, como el término lo indica, el término se refiere a una categoría que se diferencia y se define por la mayoría social, es decir, los que tienen la mayoría de las posiciones de poder social en una sociedad. La diferenciación puede basarse en una o más características observables humanos, incluidos, por ejemplo, el origen étnico, la raza, el género, la riqueza, la salud o la orientación sexual. Examinaremos varias representaciones de   y cómo se ve las minorías definidas y manipuladas dentro del contexto de la identidad, lo sexual, lo espiritual, lo profano y lo divino.  Algunos de los temas incluirán la lectura y la escritura, el cuerpo, el género y la autoridad, el consumo y el amor y el deseos corporales, entre otros.  Las lecturas incluirán selecciones de la narrativa, poesía y drama desde la Edad Media hasta el Siglo de Oro.  

SPAN 3315 COMPOSITION THROUGH LITERATURE (3-0) Practice in original composition and critical thinking through the study of selected literary and cultural texts. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their reading comprehension and their writing skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 3305 or SPAN 3314, with grade C or better.

Don Quixote de la Mancha is without a doubt the most read, translated, reproduced, readapted, and reenacted books of Spanish Peninsular literature.This course will engage in a critical and careful reading of this most important piece of literature through the lens of consumption.We will particularly look at the ways in which the text has been consumed (read, translated, reenacted, adapted) from its publication in 1605 through the 21^st century.We will also examine the extent to which the representations of consumption in the novel (reading, re-reading, viewing, translating, eating, drinking, digesting, etc.) serve as models for reading and understanding this book.Throughout the term we will study several film adaptations, cartoons, illustrations, and paintings in order to assess the use of Don Quixote as an icon of pan-Hispanic culture. Prerequisite: SPAN 3315 with a C or better.

Through contemporary Spanish film and essays this course examines the representation of key cultural aspects of Spanish society, such as national and regional identities, immigration, and gender issues. Students critically evaluate the causes, cultural manifestations and consequences of the social themes studied first by reading about them and then by viewing films that consider the same issues. They learn to identify the formal elements of film and develop a critical vocabulary with which they analyze and write about them. Prerequisite: SPAN 3315 with a grade of C or better.

Through contemporary Spanish film and essays this course examines the representation of key cultural aspects of Spanish society, such as national and regional identities, immigration, and gender issues. Students critically evaluate the causes, cultural manifestations and consequences of the social themes studied first by reading about them and then by viewing films that consider the same issues. They learn to identify the formal elements of film and develop a critical vocabulary with which they analyze and write about them. Prerequisite: SPAN 3315 with a grade of C or better.

SPAN 3315 COMPOSITION THROUGH LITERATURE (3-0) Practice in original composition and critical thinking through the study of selected literary and cultural texts. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their reading comprehension and their writing skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 3305 or SPAN 3314, with grade C or better.

SPAN 3315 COMPOSITION THROUGH LITERATURE (3-0) Practice in original composition and critical thinking through the study of selected literary and cultural texts. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their reading comprehension and their writing skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 3305 or SPAN 3314, with grade C or better.

SPAN 3315 COMPOSITION THROUGH LITERATURE (3-0) Practice in original composition and critical thinking through the study of selected literary and cultural texts. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their reading comprehension and their writing skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 3305 or SPAN 3314, with grade C or better.

Practice in oral expression with an emphasis on vocabulary building and grammar review. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their skills in pronunciation, comprehension, and oral expression. Credit will not be granted to native speakers. Prerequisite: SPAN 2314 with a grade of C or better, or consent of the department.

SPAN 3315 COMPOSITION THROUGH LITERATURE (3-0) Practice in original composition and critical thinking through the study of selected literary and cultural texts. Of special interest to students who wish to improve their reading comprehension and their writing skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 3305 or SPAN 3314, with grade C or better.

SPAN 4310 TOPICS IN PENINSULAR SPANISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (3-0) Topics may include: Medieval Spanish literature and culture, Golden Age Spanish literature and culture, or any particular movement, genre, work or author prior to the eighteenth century. May be repeated for credit when content changes. Prerequisite: SPAN 3315 with a grade of C or better.

SPAN 5310. Topics in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture to the 18th Century (3-0). Topics may include: Medieval Spanish literature and culture, Golden Age Spanish literature and culture, or any particular movement, genre, work or author prior to the eighteenth century. May be repeated for credit when content changes.