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Graduate Courses and Programs
The Department of Foreign Languages currently offers graduate courses in Spanish in the evenings through the Graduate Schools. Our goal is to offer one course per semester. Note, however, that it is the policy of the Graduate School to cancel courses which are underenrolled.
Below you can see descriptions of the courses that we are currently offering or are planning to offer in the near future.
For more information about the courses currently being offered, or which are going to be offered, go to this page:
Below you will see the graduate courses currently being offered or about to be offered in the department.
The Department of Foreign Languages does not currently offer any graduate degrees but hopes to be able to offer a Master of Arts in Teaching Spanish (MAT-Spanish) in the near future. (Graduate courses taken before the program went into effect would count towards the MAT degree.)
(The Masters of Arts in Teaching is a Masters designed for a Liberal Arts graduate who wishes to begin preparation for teaching at the secondary level or practicing teachers who desire to expand their understanding of the educational process while increasing their formal education in a subject-matter field. All the MAT programs at Salem State College are for secondary level teaching and are run by the discipline's department.
Required in all the MAT programs at Salem State College are graduate level courses in Education as well as in the specific discipline. In addition are included a "Research Component" (a graduate level Methods course or two and other research on teaching courses) as well as "Clinical Experience" (a teaching practicum or other research capstone experience, if the student is currently teaching).
There are also plans to develop a Master of Arts in Spanish for students who are already licensed to teach Spanish. For more information, watch this space or contact the Department of Foreign Languages.)
Course: SPN 740: Contemporary Spanish Women Authors
Instructor: Dr. Fátima Serra
Description: This course will study Spanish Literature by women authors from the Civil War (1936-39) to the present. Selected works from the vast panorama of women writers of Spain will be analyzed. Though all genres will be included, special emphasis will be given to Prose Fiction because it is the genre that has received more attention from readers and scholars. The works will be approached within their literary context and their cultural context. The idea is to explore the space of female discourse in Spain’s social, historical and literary reality of the recent past. Conducted in Spanish.
Note: SPN 740 can be taken in lieu of SPN480N with an adjustment in the work-load.
Course: SPN 745 Spanish Literature: Fin de Siglo
Instructor: Dr. Kristine Doll
Description: This course will examine literature written at the end of the 19th century, and will include such topics as Generation of 98, Modernism, and the Generation of 27.
Course: SPN 750 Intro to Spanish Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
Instructor: Dr. Jon Aske
Description: A linguistic and sociolinguistic introduction to Spanish for Spanish and bilingual teachers. The course examines several areas of the linguistic structure of Spanish, in particular the sound system (phonetics and phonology), dialectal variation (dialectology), and the history of the language (diachrony). Some aspects of sociolinguistics are also touched upon, such as cross-cultural differences in communication norms. Taught in Spanish. Uses the Blackboard online enhancements to classroom discussion, such as a class mailing list in which participation is required.
Course page: www.lrc.salemstate.edu/aske/spn750.htm
Offering: Spring 2002
Course: SPN 816 Hispano-American Literature I
Instructor: Dr. Ana Echevarría-Morales
Description: A systematic study of the important literary movements of Spanish America from its beginnings during colonial days to the end of the 19th century. Special attention is given to the influence of geography, time and place. Discussions, lectures, readings, examinations and term paper in Spanish.
Course page: TBA
Offering: Fall 2001
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