Spanish (SPAN)
Introduction to grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Restricted to those who have never studied Spanish or placed by examination into SPAN 109. Credit may be received only for one of the following: SPAN 109, SPAN 110; SPAN 111; or SPAN 121.
Carolina Core: GFL
Intensive introduction to grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Admission only to highly motivated beginning students who obtain the permission of the department. Credit may be received only for one of the following: SPAN 109, SPAN 110, SPAN 111, or SPAN 121.
Carolina Core: GFL
Further development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Use of authentic cultural materials.
Selected major works, especially contemporary works, in all genres of Hispanic literature in English translation.
Carolina Core: AIU
Contract approved by instructor, director, and department chair required. May be repeated. Maximum of 3 hours may apply towards major or minor.
Development of advanced composition skills in Spanish on a variety of topics related to cultural production of the Spanish-speaking world.
Cultural readings about the Spanish-speaking world, and advanced speaking skills practice through various strategies such as group discussions, debates, presentations.
Crosscultural approaches to interactions with persons of Hispanic origin in a variety of professional settings. Readings, speakers, media. Taught in Spanish. Departmental permission required for transfer students.
Cross-listed course: LASP 305
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service, GLD: Global Learning
Intensive grammar practice, enhancement of reading and writing skills for individuals raised in a Spanish-speaking household but with little or no formal Spanish instruction. Restricted to heritage speakers, as defined in Bulletin description.
Approaches to reading literary texts through carefully selected readings from different genres. D or better for non-Spanish majors. C or better for Spanish majors and minors.
Commercial organizations and business in Spanish-speaking countries, business correspondence, terminology, and techniques in commercial transactions. Standardized examinations available such as the Certificado de la Camara de Comercio de Madrid.
Analysis of and practice in pronunciation, listening comprehension, and dialect recognition based on study of the speech sounds, combinations, patterns, and processes of Spanish phonetics and phonology. Department permission required for transfer students.
Cross-listed course: LING 314
Intensive language practice in native environment with emphasis on oral skills. Instruction by native speakers; community contact, and home stay. May be repeated once for credit. Restricted to participants of the USC Spanish Summer Global Classroom Program.
Health professionals' functional and lexical language ability, cultural information, etiquette and protocol necessary to interact with Spanish speakers.
Course content treating cultural and literary themes varies.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by title. May be repeated as content varies by title.
Investigation of Spanish cultures through the study of its films and the cinematic medium.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Global Learning
Investigation of Latin American cultures through the study of films and the cinematic medium. Department permission required for transfer students.
Intensive study of selected topics of the Hispanic world. Taught in English.
Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students. Department permission required for transfer students.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research
Survey of the cultures of Spain via readings, visual culture, and discussion. Department permission required for transfer students.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning
Survey of the cultures of Latin America via readings, visual culture, and discussion. Department permission required for transfer students.
A survey of literature, such as novels, short stories and poems, from Spain.
A survey of literature, such as novels, short stories and poems, from Latin America.
Vocabulary, concepts, and oral/written skills necessary to communicate effectively in the social, cultural, or economic infrastructure of Hispanic countries. Introduction to the use of technology for the acquisition and processing of materials relevant to students’ professional goals.
Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by title. May be repeated as content varies by title.
Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by title. May be repeated as content varies by title. This course will be taught in Spanish.
Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by title. May be repeated as content varies by title. Taught in English.
A special seminar devoted to the in-depth study of selected subjects in Hispanic literature, culture, or language. Required for the intensive major in Spanish.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research
Analysis and discussion of 20th-century Spanish history and the sociocultural forces that have contributed to define this country’s national identity. Taught in Spanish.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning
Analysis and discussion of contemporary Latin American history and the sociocultural forces that have contributed to define this area's national identities. Taught in Spanish. Department permission required for transfer students.
Introduction to translation and practice of skills required for professional and technical Spanish/English translation.
Description of the grammatical structures of Modern Spanish. Intensive study of the theory and practice of word formation and sentence structure of Spanish.
Cross-listed course: LING 554
Introduction to the study of phonetics and phonology and their application to the sounds and sound systems of English and Spanish. Includes transcription practice and discussion of relevance to teaching.
Cross-listed course: LING 514
Survey of Spanish literature from its first manifestations to La Celestina. Introduction; early works; the epic; 13th- through 15th-century prose and verse; Berceo, Alfonso X, Juan Ruiz, Marques de Santillana; others.
Survey of the works of Garcilaso, the Spanish mystics, Lope, Quevedo, Tirso, Calderon, Gongora and others.
Survey of the works of the major literary figures of the period.
Survey of major peninsular writers from the Generation of ‘98 to the present.
Survey of pre-Columbian poetry and of texts dating from the time of Columbus to the end of the Colonial period.
Cross-listed course: LASP 541
Survey of the most significant works of the Independence through Modernism.
Intensive language practice in native environment with special emphasis on oral skills. Instruction by native speakers; extensive community contact and home stay. Prior placement test required.
Survey of the most significant works of this period.
Survey of the most significant works from 1960 to the present.
Cross-listed course: LASP 471
Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by title. May be repeated as content varies by title.
Intensive reading for non-majors. Graduate students fulfill their foreign-language requirement with successful completion of the course. Undergraduates may take the course as an elective only by permission.