Chair: Maria Grazia DiPaolo (Carman Hall, Room 257)
Adviser: Oscar Montero (Carman Hall, Room 279)
Department Faculty: Professors: Antoinette Blum, Maria Grazia DiPaolo, Ricardo R. Fernández, Maria Cristina Guiñazú, Oscar Montero, José Muñoz Millanes, Martin Oscar, Manfredi Piccolomini, Gerardo Piña-Rosales, Susana Reisz de Rivarola, Gary S. Schwartz, Thomas Spear; Associate Professor: Carmen Esteves; Assistant Professors: Daniel Fernandez, Maria del Carmen Saen de Casas, Zelda Newman: Lecturers: Asako Tochika, Lynne Van Voorhis
The Department of Languages and Literatures offers a Master of Arts in Spanish designed to meet the needs of students who wish to teach at the secondary-school level.
Sequence 1: Spanish
Admission Requirements
Nonmatriculants
Nonmatriculants are also required to report to the Department of Languages and Literatures for assessment of skills prior to registration.
Degree Requirements
Sequence 1 (Spanish)requires a total of 30 credits distributed as follows: 24 credits in Spanish, including SPA 601, with a minimum of 3 credits in Peninsular literature and 3 credits in Spanish American literatures. 6 elective credits with the permission of the adviser.
All students in the program must pass a comprehensive examination
Sequence 2: Teaching Spanish
Admission requirements
Additional requirements for Certification in Teaching Spanish 7-12:
In order to be recommended for Initial Certification in teaching Spanish 7-12, candidates in Sequence 2 must (a) have a bachelor's degree that meets New York State requirements for a core in the liberal arts and sciences; (b) present passing scores on the following New York State examinations: L.A.S.T., A.T.S.-W., and Content Specialty Test; and (c) meet any additional New York State requirements.
In addition to completing a Master's program, in order to qualify for Professional Certification in teaching Spanish 7-12, candidates in sequences 1-2 must have completed three years of full-time teaching in a public or private school which serves grades 7-12 and must meet any additional New York State requirements.
Nonmatriculants
Nonmatriculants are also required to report to the Department of Languages and Literatures for assessment of skills prior to registration.
Degree Requirements
Sequence 2 (Teaching Spanish) requires a total of 30-33 credits distributed as follows:
15 credits in Spanish, including SPA 601, with a minimum of 3 credits in Peninsular Literature, and 3 credits in Hispanic American literatures. 15-18 credits in Education, including ESC 501, ESC 502, ESC 524, ESC 562, plus ESC 595 (for teachers; 3 credits)or ESC 596 (for student teachers, 6 credits), in consultation with the Department of Middle and High School Education.
Any student who did not obtain a passing score on the A.C.T.F.L. O.P.I. (Oral Proficiency Interview)must re-do the interview prior to completing 18 credits and obtain passing scores. All students in the program must pass a comprehensive examination.
Sequence 3: Teaching Spanish —Transitional B
Admission Requirements
Additional Requirements for Certification in Teaching Spanish 7-12:
In order to be recommended for Initial Certification in teaching Spanish 7-12, candidates in Sequence 3 must (a)have a bachelor's degree that meets New York State requirements for a core in the liberal arts and sciences; (b)present passing scores on the following New York State examinations: L.A.S.T., A.T.S.-W., and Content Specialty Test; and (c)meet any additional New York State requirements.
In addition to completing a Master's program, in order to qualify for Professional Certification in teaching Spanish 7-12, candidates in sequences 1-2 must have completed three years of full-time teaching in a public or private school which serves grades 7-12 and must meet any additional New York State requirements.
Nonmatriculants
Nonmatriculants are also required to report to the Department of Languages and Literatures for assessment of skills prior to registration.
Degree Requirements
Sequence 3 (Teaching Spanish - Transitional B) requires a total of 30 credits distributed as follows:
15 credits in Spanish, including SPA 601, with a minimum of 3 credits in Peninsular Literature, and 3 credits in Hispanic American literatures. 15 credits in Education, including ESC 501(3), ESC 502 (3), ESC 524 (3), ESC 562 (3), ESC 595 (3), ESC 611 (0), and ESC 612 (0), in consultation with the Department of Middle and High School Education.
Any student who did not obtain a passing score on the A.C.T.F.L. O.P.I. (Oral Proficiency Interview)must re-do the interview prior to completing 18 credits and obtain a passing score. All students in the program must pass a comprehensive examination.
SPA 601: Workshop in Spanish Grammar. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Open to qualified undergraduates with Departmental permission.) Grammatical analysis and selected readings dealing with the evolution of the Spanish language. Emphasis on syntax and lexical experience.
SPA 610: Hispanic Women Authors. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Open to qualified undergraduate students with Departmental permission.) Works of women writers from Spain and/or Spanish America.
SPA 701: Principles of Literary Analysis and Criticism. 3 hours, 3 credits. Critical approaches to the reading and understanding of literary texts.
SPA 711: Spanish Literature of the Middle Ages. 3 hours, 3 credits. Study of a medieval genre, a subgenre, or a literary topic. The selection may include epic and romance, ballads, "mester de clerecia and mester de juglaria," short fiction, courtly love, etc.
SPA 721: Spanish Poetry of the Golden Age. 3 hours, 3 credits. Study of the poetic traditions of the Renaissance and the Baroque.
SPA 722: The Spanish Novel of the Golden Age. 3 hours, 3 credits. Narrative prose of the Renaissance and the Baroque.
SPA 723: Spanish Drama of the Golden Age. 3 hours, 3 credits. The "Comedia": its antecedents and its major playwrights.
SPA 724: Cervantes. 3 hours, 3 credits. Don Quixote and the birth of the modern European novel, with attention to the many literary genres, narrative and lyric, that converge in the work.
SPA 731: Spanish Literature of the Nineteenth Century. 3 hours, 3 credits. Romanticism and Realism in Spain.
SPA 741: The Generations of 1898 and 1927. 3 hours, 3 credits. Selected works of representative authors from the turn of the century to the Spanish Civil War.
SPA 742: Spanish Literature after the Civil War. 3 hours, 3 credits. Selected works written in Spain and in exile after 1939.
SPA 743: Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century. 3 hours, 3 credits. This course will offer students extensive understanding of the poetry of twentieth-century Spain. Surrealism, the Generation of 27, the Generation of 36, the new poetry of the 70s, and the diverse currents of the end of the century will be presented in relation to political, social, and economic trends.
SPA 751: Colonial Spanish-American Literature. 3 hours, 3 credits. Prose and poetry from the discovery of America through 1800.
SPA 752: Spanish-American Literature of the Nineteenth Century. 3 hours, 3 credits. The study of topics, such as the wars of independence, national identity, slavery, and democracy, as manifested in literary texts.
SPA 753: "Modernismo" in Spanish America. 3 hours, 3 credits. The concept of modernity and Modernism in literary works.
SPA 754: Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Narrative. 3 hours, 3 credits. Tradition, innovation, and experimentation in the prose narrative of this century.
SPA 755: Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Poetry. 3 hours, 3 credits. Analysis of selected texts.
SPA 761: Topics in Hispanic Literatures. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Course may be repeated for credit.) Offerings vary from semester to semester.
SPA 771: Readings in Hispanic Literatures. 1-3 hours, 1-3 credits. Independent study of Peninsular and/or Spanish-American literary works, carried out by individual students under the guidance of Departmental faculty.
*Courses preceded by an asterisk are not expected to be offered in 2009-2011.
*RLG 701: Introduction to Romance Linguistics I (in English). 3 hours, 3 credits. Comparative study of the evolution of French, Italian, and Spanish. Study of principles underlying the development of the Romance languages and present methods of analysis.
*RLG 702: Introduction to Romance Linguistics II (in English). 3 hours, 3 credits. Continuation of RLG 701. Phonology and morphology of Old French, Old Italian, and Old Spanish, with their development through Vulgar Latin.
*RLG 705: Studies in Comparative Romance Literature I (in English). 3 hours, 3 credits. The sources, nature, impact, and interdependence of the major literary currents in the various Romance literatures from the medieval period to the Renaissance.
*RLG 706: Studies in Comparative Romance Literature II (In English). 3 hours, 3 credits. The sources, nature, impact, and interdependence of the major literary currents in the various Romance literatures from the Enlightenment to the modern era.
*RLG 741: Old French. 3 hours, 3 credits. Study —descriptive and historical —of the grammar of Old French. Reading of selected poetry and prose texts.
*Courses preceded by an asterisk are not expected to be offered in 2009-2011.
*ITA 712: Dante's Vita Nuova and Inferno. 3 hours, 3 credits. Study of Dante's lyrical and mystical period; the Inferno as seen against the historico-political, social, and intellectual background of medieval Florence.
*ITA 713: The Purgatorio. 3 hours, 3 credits. Intensive study of the Purgatorio background, symbols, poetical significance, and place in the development of Dante's art.
*ITA 714: The Paradiso. 3 hours, 3 credits. Dante's final ascent to the "Source of All Being"; theology and beauty; the contents, episodes, and lyrical and mystical consummation of the comedy's Third Cantica.
*ITA 715: The Poetry and Humanism of Petrarch. 3 hours, 3 credits. "Canzoniere," "Trionfi," the "Secretum," "De Viris Illustribus," and the "Correspondence."
*ITA 716: Boccaccio and the Italian Novella. 3 hours, 3 credits. Study of the genre and its development (novellino, Boccaccio, Sacchetti, Da Porto, Bandello, and Giraldi Cinthio through the contemporaries Soldati, Calvino, Moravia, Buzzati, and others).
*ITA 720: Italian Literature of the Fifteenth Century. 3 hours, 3 credits. The development of humanism: Valla, Alberti, Pico della Mirandola, Ficino, and others. Also the poets Lorenzo il Magnifico and Poliziano.
*ITA 721: The Renaissance. 3 hours, 3 credits. The Reformation. The moralists Bembo, Castiglione (Cortegiano), Guicciardini (Ricordi Politici e Civili), and Della Casa (Galateo). The chivalric poem (Ariosto's Orlando Furioso); Aretino.
*ITA 722: Machiavelli: Historian, Epistolographer, Playwright, and Political Thinker. 3 hours, 3 credits. Study of the Istorie Fiorentine, the Correspondence, Mandragola, Il Principe, and the Discorsi.
*ITA 723: Italian Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 3 hours, 3 credits. Study of the works of Bruno, Campanella, Marino, Galileo, Vico, and Parini.
*ITA 724: The Italian Epic and Chivalric Poetry. 3 hours, 3 credits. Evolution of the genre. Epic theories of the Renaissance (Castelvetro, Scaligero, Mazzoni, Tasso, and Trissino). Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata.
*ITA 741: The Commedia dell'Arte and the Theatre in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 3 hours, 3 credits. Metastasio, Gozzi, Goldoni, and Alfieri.
*ITA 752: The Novel in the Nineteenth Century. 3 hours, 3 credits. The "Romanzo storico, psicologico, nazionalista e verista." Manzoni, the Romantics, and Verga.
*ITA 753: Romantic and Post-Romantic Literary Currents. 3 hours, 3 credits. Poetic trends and literary criticism through the works of Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi, and Carducci.
*ITA 754: Modern Italian Poetry. 3 hours, 3 credits. Critical analysis of the poetry of Pascoli and D'Annunzio. Experimentation and achievement of the twentieth century (Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, and Quasimodo).
*ITA 761: Italian Philosophy and Literary Criticism since 1870. 3 hours, 3 credits. De Sanctis, Settembrini, Croce, Gentile, Serra, Barbi, Momigliano, L. Russo, and Flora.
*ITA 762: The Italian Novel from 1920 to the Present. 3 hours, 3 credits. The "Vociani," "Futuristi," and "Rondisti" (Palazzeschi, Bacchelli, and Buzzati). The "Solariani" and the "Neo-Realisti" (Gadda, Pratolini, Vittorini, and Pavese).
*ITA 763: The Modern Italian Theatre. 3 hours, 3 credits. The outstanding playwrights of the twentieth century from D'Annunzio and Pirandello to Niccodemi, Betti, and Fabbri.
*Courses preceded by an asterisk are not expected to be offered in 2009-2011.
*CLA 611: Synthesis of Classical Culture. 3 hours, 3 credits. Rapid survey of the culture of Greece and Rome, designed to enable students to effect a correlation of classical literature and art with their historical background. The course includes visits to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each student is required to make a special study of one important literary genre in its development through Greek and Latin literature.
*CLA 630: Greek and Roman Tragedy in English Translation. 3 hours, 3 credits. Study of Greek tragedy against the background of its times, with some consideration of the validity of Aristotelian critical standards and of the Roman tragedy of Seneca the Younger as an important link between Greek tragedy and the drama of the Renaissance.
*CLA 640: Greek and Roman Comedy in English Translation. 3 hours, 3 credits. Study of the form and contemporary relevance of ancient comedy as seen through the plays of Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, and Terence, with primary attention to its evolution and importance for later manifestations of the comic spirit in literature.