Offered by Department of Modern Languages
College of Fine Arts and Humanities

SPAN Courses

SPAN 800P - Golden Age Drama - 3 hours

A study of the dramatists of the Golden Age in Spain.

SPAN 804 - Early Spanish Literature - 3 hours

Studies of representative works of Spanish literature from its beginning to 1680.

SPAN 808P - Comparative Grammar - 3 hours

A comparative and contrastive study of the structures of Spanish and English.

SPAN 814 - Oral, Written & Cultural Fluency - 3 hours

Prereq: SPAN 304*; SPAN 305* or SPAN 360*; graduate status
Designed to raise the students' level of cultural knowledge and of proficiency in oral and written form to that of fluency.

SPAN 815 - Seminar in Contemporary Spanish Thought - 3 hours

Main literary (and in part philosophical) figures and trends in twentieth and twenty-first century Spain and Latin America.

SPAN 816 - Seminar in Contemporary Latin American Prose Writings - 3 hours

Main literary trends and most important prose writers of Latin America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

SPAN 818 - Seminar in Contemporary Drama - 3 hours

Study of the most important present-day dramatists writing in Spanish.

SPAN 825P - Modern Spanish Poetry - 3 hours

Survey of Spanish and Latin American poetry of the present day.

SPAN 830P - Latin American Literature - 3 hours

Survey of representative works of Latin American literature from its beginning to the present period.

SPAN 835P - Cervantes - 3 hours

The principal works of Cervantes with special emphasis on Don Quixote.

SPAN 860P - History of the Spanish Language - 3 hours

A study of the development of the Spanish language since its origins as related to phonetic and other linguistic changes.

SPAN 870P - Seminar in Spanish/ Latin American Studies - 3 hours

The study of literary works and cultural contexts. Topic to be selected and announced in schedule of courses. May be taken more than once.

SPAN 875 - Graduate Study Abroad - 3 hours

Prereq: SPAN 814* or permission of graduate chair
A study of the language and culture of Hispanic countries. This study will be conducted in a Spanish-speaking country; it also requires a research paper to be presented to UNK graduate faculty. Offered in Summer.

SPAN 876 - Graduate Study Abroad - 3 hours

Prereq: SPAN 814* or permission of graduate chair
A study of the language and culture of Hispanic countries. This study will be conducted in a Spanish-speaking country; it also requires a research paper to be presented to UNK graduate faculty. Offered in Summer.

SPAN 896 - Thesis - 6 hours

SPAN 897 - Directed Readings in Spanish - 1-3 hours

Prereq: any 800-level course in Spanish or Spanish-American literature
Individual studies and research under the guidance of a graduate faculty member. May be taken twice for two separate studies or research approved by the graduate faculty in the specific language.

SPAN 899 - Independent Studies in Spanish - 1-3 hours

Individual studies and research under the guidance of a faculty member. May be taken twice for two separate studies or research in Spanish.

* This course is the immediate prerequisite. Other preparation is required prior to this immediate prerequisite.