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SPA Spanish Studies Courses HUM199Y1 Undergraduate seminar that focuses on specific ideas, questions, phenomena or controversies, taught by a regular Faculty member deeply engaged in the discipline. Open only to newly admitted first year students. It may serve as a breadth requirement course; see page 44. NOTES SPA100Y1 A comprehensive introduction to Spanish, including
grammatical structures, oral practice and communication in small groups, and selected
readings. SPA220Y1 A comprehensive grammar review, development of reading and
writing skills, and oral practice and communication in small groups for the intermediate
student. SPA250H1 The political, social, literary, and artistic history of
Spain. The intention is to trace, chronologically, patterns and events which assist the
student in understanding the conditions that prevail in 20th-century Spain. Lectures and
readings in English. (Offered in alternate years) SPA254H0 Survey of Mexican culture and society, with attention to
central issues in history, politics, education, and popular tradition, and important
thinkers of twentieth-century Mexico: Paz, Fuentes, and others. (Offered only in
Guadalajara) SPA257H1 (formerly SPA357H) 26L SPA258H1 Introduction to university literary studies in Spanish.
Critical terminology and methods. Representative selections of modern Spanish and Spanish
American prose, poetry, and drama. SPA299Y1
SPA317H0 Communication practice in small groups, with an emphasis on
skills in speaking, listening, and writing. Selective review of grammatical structures and
active vocabulary. (Offered only in Guadalajara) SPA319H1 Survey of the mechanics of writing and basic grammar for
fluent speakers of Spanish with limited or no exposure to written Spanish; English/Spanish
spelling differences, written and spoken registers of Spanish, basic aspects of the
grammatical system. SPA320Y1 Study of selected grammatical features and questions of usage
with intensive practice in written and oral Spanish. SPA321H1 An introduction to articulatory phonetics, Spanish sound
patterns, phonetics, phonology; the basic concepts of phonetic description and
transcription; the study of Spanish vowel and consonant systems, stress and intonation.
(Offered in alternate years) SPA323H1 Practical uses of spoken and written Spanish for business
contexts. This course builds on grammar and vocabulary knowledge already acquired at the
intermediate level, and is directed primarily at students pursuing a second major in
Ibero-American Studies or European Studies. SPA380H1 Literary currents of the colonial period and the 19th century
prior to Modernism: the growth of cultural self-expression. (Offered in alternate years) SPA381H1 Selections from the poetry, short story, novel and essay
genres of the period studied to illustrate the role of literature in the pluridisciplinary
effort to achieve independence in Spanish America. (Offered in alternate years) SPA382H1 Study of different creative expressions by women in Spanish
America from the colonial period to the present; analysis of selected works of visual art,
film, essays, poetry, and fiction. SPA385H1 Modern literature in its critical relation to social
conditions. Emphasis on socio-historical context, ideologies of the period and writers'
views of their social responsibility as a framework for literary analysis (Offered in
alternate years) SPA387H0 Social change and literary innovation in Mexican literature
since the 1950s; analysis of selections from AgustRn Y SPA398H0/399Y0
SPA420H1 (formerly SPA420Y) 26L,
13T SPA421H1 Descriptive linguistics as applied to Spanish. A systematic
description of the components of language and their realization in Spanish: phonology,
morphology and syntax of the simple sentence. Emphasis on the interplay between form and
function. (Offered in alternate years) SPA423Y1 Written and oral translation from English to Spanish and from
Spanish to English, with texts drawn from fields such as literature, business, politics,
and advertising. (Offered in alternate years) SPA425H1 The evolution of Spanish. The dialectalization of
Hispano-Latin through inherent linguistic changes and influences from other languages and
the development of Castilian into one of the world's most important languages. (Offered in
alternate years) SPA438H1 A course on a specific topic in modern Spanish literature,
designed for advanced students. Course content and instructor are established on a yearly
basis. SPA450H1 Medieval works studied in relation to literary and cultural
traditions. Issues of genre, discourse, and ideology are scrutinized in various texts,
including lyric, narrative, and moral and didactic writings. (Offered in alternate years) SPA452H1 Study of theatre and the idea of representation, with
reference to parallels in lyric poetry and visual art. Emphasis on the Spanish comedia as
a genre, and on its interaction with other artistic forms in the Golden Age. (Offered in
alternate years) SPA454H1 Detailed study of Don Quixote as a foundational text in the
European literary tradition, with attention to the conventions, genres, and literary
techniques that inform the text. Parallel readings in romance, picaresque fiction, and the
ballad tradition. SPA456H1 (formerly SPA456Y) 26L SPA466H1 A study of the different currents in 20th-century Spanish
American verse with specific reference to their outstanding exponents. (Offered in
alternate years) SPA468H1 A course on a specific topic in Spanish American literature,
designed for advanced students. Course content and instructor are established on a yearly
basis. SPA482H1 The 20th-century Spanish American novel in historical and
critical context. (Offered in alternate years) SPA484H1 Representative works from the short story genre in the 19th
and 20th centuries, including Borges, Cortazar, Rulfo, and others. (Offered in alternate
years) SPA488H1 An introduction to narrative fiction of the 1960s and 1970s
from Central America, through selected readings of novels and short stories by
representative writers. SPA490H1/491H1 TBA |
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