SPANISH (Spanish)
Stage I
SPANISH 104G - Beginners' Spanish 1 (15 pts)🏳
Provides a solid grounding in the basic grammar and vocabulary of Spanish for beginners or near beginners, emphasising communicative competence in the present tense. Develops speaking, listening, reading and writing skills, and prepares students at the A1 Level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
SPANISH 105 - Beginners' Spanish 2 (15 pts)🏳
Moving from the present to the past tenses, this course prepares students for basic conversation about everyday activities such as travel, weather, health, pastimes, emotions and simple narratives of historical events. Prepares students for the A2 Level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
SPANISH 178 - Spanish Study Abroad 1B (15 pts)🏳
Course of at least 4 weeks in length and 48 taught hours on Spanish language and/or culture to be taken at an approved academic institution in a Spanish-speaking country.
Stage II
SPANISH 200 - Intermediate Spanish 1 (15 pts)🏳
Consolidates Spanish study by introducing the present subjunctive, enables students to move toward fluency in conversations on contemporary topics, and enriches daily activities with detail, subtlety and idioms used in the context of the rich cultures of the Hispanic world (Spain and Latin America). This course is equivalent to B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
SPANISH 201 - Intermediate Spanish 2 (15 pts)🏳
Builds on skills obtained in SPANISH 200 with special emphasis on practical work, spoken Spanish and development of aural-oral skills.
SPANISH 202 - Iberian Cultures and Literatures (15 pts)🏳
An introduction to the study of Iberian literatures in their cultural contexts, focusing on major works and movements from different historical periods.
SPANISH 203 - Iberian and Latin American Civilisations (15 pts)🏳
Focuses on the unique traditions and radical innovations of the pluricultural nations comprising the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, tracing parallel historical trajectories, diverse political systems and engaging aesthetic creations. Develops knowledge of Spanish and Latin American cultural studies through a global studies approach.
SPANISH 206 - Spanish Myths and Global Icons (15 pts)🏳
Explores cultural representations of universal Spanish motifs in literature and the arts. Examines classical cultural myths associated with Spain (such as Don Quixote, Don Juan and Carmen), and global icons which have defined modernity, from Picasso, Dalí, and García Lorca to Buñuel and Almodóvar.
SPANISH 207 - Transnational Movements in Hispanic Culture (15 pts)🏳
Explores transnational movements pertaining to Spain and Latin America: topics may include the nineteenth- century agendas of abolitionism, freethinking and feminisms, migration and exile, film co-productions and documentaries, and historical memory networks in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
SPANISH 215 - Special Topic (15 pts)🏳
SPANISH 218 - Making Modern Spain 1840-1939 (15 pts)🏳
The making of modern Spain charts a period in which gender, class and ideological upheavals intersect with enquiry and debate as to what constitutes the Spanish nation. An overview of key moments in Spanish cultural politics from high Romanticism through to the end of the Spanish Civil War, examining the connections between seduction, both personal and intellectual, and social revolutions.
SPANISH 223 - Special Topic (15 pts)🏳
SPANISH 277 - Spanish Study Abroad 2A (15 pts)🏳
For approved courses at overseas institutions with permission of the Academic Head or nominee.
SPANISH 278 - Spanish Study Abroad 2B (15 pts)🏳
For approved courses at overseas institutions with permission of the Academic Head or nominee.
Stage III
SPANISH 302 - Iberian Cultures and Literatures (15 pts)🏳
Advanced study of Iberian literatures in their cultural contexts, focusing on major works and movements from different historical periods.
SPANISH 306 - Spanish Myths and Global Icons (15 pts)🏳
Explores cultural representations of universal Spanish motifs in literature and the arts. Examines classical cultural myths associated with Spain (such as Don Quixote, Don Juan and Carmen), and global icons which have defined modernity, from Picasso, Dalí, and García Lorca to Buñuel and Almodóvar.
SPANISH 307 - Transnational Movements in Hispanic Culture (15 pts)🏳
Explores transnational movements pertaining to Spain and Latin America: topics may include the nineteenth- century agendas of abolitionism, freethinking and feminisms, migration and exile, film co-productions and documentaries, and historical memory networks in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
SPANISH 315 - Special Topic (15 pts)🏳
SPANISH 316 - Special Topic (15 pts)🏳
SPANISH 317 - Hispanic Cultures in Cinema (15 pts)🏳
A study of Spanish and/or Latin American cultures and their representation in films. Emphasis on critical theories and cultural contexts of representation.
SPANISH 318 - Making Modern Spain 1840-1939 (15 pts)🏳
The making of modern Spain charts a period in which gender, class and ideological upheavals intersect with enquiry and debate as to what constitutes the Spanish nation. An overview of key moments of Spanish cultural politics from high Romanticism through to the end of the Spanish Civil War, examining the connections between seduction, both personal and intellectual, and social revolutions.
SPANISH 319 - Advanced Spanish 1 (15 pts)🏳
Expands the language skills obtained in SPANISH 200-201 through extensive practice in advanced grammar, idiomatic expression, listening, speaking, reading and writing in relation to cultural and contemporary topics.
SPANISH 321 - Advanced Spanish 2 (15 pts)🏳
Builds on skills obtained in SPANISH 319 with special emphasis on advanced Spanish grammar review and development of Spanish and Latin American cultural literacy.
SPANISH 323 - Spanish Translation Practice (15 pts)🏳
Develops translator competence within general, cultural and technical knowledge domains, through full translations into and out of Spanish, topic-based research, and summary and selective translations. Specific skills include understanding the different phases in the translation process; documentary research skills, and editing and proof-reading skills.
SPANISH 341 - Spanish Sound Structure (15 pts)🏳
Provides advanced Spanish learners with a solid foundation and Education 852 in Spanish phonetics and phonology. Spanish sounds are explained and practiced in order to minimise native- language transfer. Students learn articulatory phonetics, phonetic transcription, and sound-pattern recognition, skills that enable them to discern native pronunciations and discover the principles that underlie the Spanish sound system.
SPANISH 342 - Spanish Word Formation (15 pts)🏳
An introduction to the formal study of Spanish words and the processes that generate them. Key morphological concepts explain how words may be related. The processes used to derive words and create grammatical variants will be analysed and practiced. Construction and deconstruction of words will be examined with reference to the enrichment of vocabulary.
SPANISH 350 - Directed Reading and Research (15 pts)🏳
Supervised research projects.
SPANISH 377 - Spanish Study Abroad 3A (15 pts)🏳
For approved courses at overseas institutions with permission of the Academic Head or nominee.
SPANISH 378 - Spanish Study Abroad 3B (15 pts)🏳
For approved courses at overseas institutions with permission of Academic Head or nominee.
Postgraduate 700 Level Courses
SPANISH 719 - Special Topic (30 pts)🏳
SPANISH 720 - Latin American Knowledges (30 pts)🏳
An examination of new knowledges produced in Latin America that have influenced socio-political theory and global epistemological paradigms but are subalternised as art, culture, or politics. Therefore, this course will examine the link between theory and practice in the creation of new knowledge.
SPANISH 723 - Advanced Spanish Translation Practice (30 pts)🏳
Aims at developing translator competence within general, cultural and technical knowledge domains, through full translations into and out of Spanish, topic-based research, and summary and selective translations. Specific skills include mastering the different phases in the translation process; understanding the main textual and contextual features of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) texts; documentary research skills, and editing and proof-reading skills.
SPANISH 728 - (30 pts)🏳
SPANISH 728A - (15 pts)🏳
SPANISH 728B - Research Essays - Level 9 (15 pts)🏳
Essays within a field, genre or period of literature.
SPANISH 729 - Latin American Icons: Political Economy of Otherness (30 pts)🏳
The ways in which Latin America as a place and a people has served as a site of otherness and exoticism providing economic and symbolic capital for the consumption and pleasure of colonial, neo-colonial, and neo-liberal powers. Latin American cultural studies texts offer students a way to read against the grain established by this process.
SPANISH 736 - Special Topic (15 pts)🏳
SPANISH 737 - Special Topic (30 pts)🏳
SPANISH 750 - (15 pts)🏳
SPANISH 750A - (7.5 pts)🏳
SPANISH 750B - Special Study (7.5 pts)🏳
Supervised research on a topic or topics approved by the Academic Head or nominee.
SPANISH 777 - Study Abroad (15 pts)🏳
Formal study in an approved overseas university where the language of instruction is Spanish. Supplementary study at the University of Auckland may be required as part of this course. The final grade will be determined by formal assessment of student achievement by the Academic Head or nominee. Enrolment requires the approval of the Academic Head or nominee.
SPANISH 778 - Study Abroad (15 pts)🏳
Formal study in an approved overseas university where the language of instruction is Spanish. Supplementary study at the University of Auckland may be required as part of this course. The final grade will be determined by formal assessment of student achievement by the Academic Head or nominee. Enrolment requires the approval of the Academic Head or nominee.
SPANISH 782 - (30 pts)🏳
SPANISH 782A - (15 pts)🏳
SPANISH 782B - Research Project - Level 9 (15 pts)🏳
SPANISH 791 - Dissertation - Level 9 (60 pts)🏳
and Education 853