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SPA Spanish Studies CoursesSPA100Y1
Introduction to the Spanish language for beginning students; overview of basic grammatical structures, development of vocabulary
and oral and written expression. SPA220Y1
Intermediate Spanish for non-natives. Intensive grammer review of the structures of Spanish integrated with an introduction to
reading authentic Spanish material, with practice designed to build vocabulary and to improve oral and written expression. 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
The impact of the Civil War on Hispanic writers who were participants and on others who grew up during and after the conflict. Some
reference to non-Hispanic writers. (Offered in alternate years) 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
Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See
ROP pages for details. SPA317H0
Communication practice in small groups, with an emphasis on skills in speaking, listening, and writing. Selective review of 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
Advanced Spanish for non-natives. Selective review of grammer with emphasis on the complex sentence; intensive practice in written
and oral expression to improve proficiency. 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. SPA341H1 Literary and artistic movements in Spain from 1890 to 1940, with special
attention to the convergence and mutual mediation of politics and art. Materials
to be studied include novels, poetry, the urban environment, graphic art,
literary journals and manifestos, and some early Hispanic film. SPA380H1
Issues of gender, race, and identity in major texts from the colonial period, from the Conquest to the end of the eighteenth century. SPA381H1
Analysis of poetry, short stories, essays, and graphic art in the context of nation-building and the question of identity during the
nineteenth century. Modernismo studied as the first literary movement of Spanish American origin. (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. SPA384H1
Study through representative works of major artistic and literary movemets in 20th and 21st century Spanish America: avant-garde
poetry, theatre of the absurd, surrealist art, neo-realism, postmodernism. (Offered in alternate years) 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<ñez, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, Fernando del Paso, Octavio Paz, Laura Esquivel, and others. (Offered only in Guadalajara) SPA398H0/399Y0
SPA420H1
Advanced study of writing in Spanish, through intensive practice in different forms and styles: description, narrative, journalistic
report, film review, essay. SPA421H1
Study of Spanish morphology and syntax: syntactic categories in Spanish, the structure and interpretation of simple and complex
sentences. (Offered only in Guadalajara) 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) SPA435H1
Study of major currents in narrative fiction during the last twenty years, a period of return to democratic government, the relaxing of
censorship and the opening up of Spanish culture. Analysis of works from several generations of male and female writers. (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. SPA467H1
A course on a specific topic in Spanish-American culture, designed for
advanced students. Course content and instructor are established on a yearly
basis.
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. SPA471H1
Issues of nationalism, historical awareness, and the rewriting of the past in Spanish American fiction, with detailed study of SPA482H1
Detailed study of the major movements in Spanish-American narrative, including magic realism, fantastic literature, women’s
writing, and testimonial literature, through analysis of representative novels and short stories. (Offered in alternate years) SPA487H1
Study of the aesthetic responses to the Mexican Revolution during the 1920s and 1930s. Materials to be studied include literature,
painting (Rivera, Orozco and the muralist movement), photography (Modotti, Brehme) and film (Figueroa, Fernandez). (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
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