Minor in Spanish

Students on Summer 2019, Fall 2019, or Spring 2020 requirements SPANMIN

The minor in Spanish provides students with a solid foundation in oral and written skills in Spanish as well as a broad introduction to Hispanic studies.

Requirements

The minor requires at least 15 credit hours*, including the requirements listed below.

Second-Year Spanish II**. One (1) course:
- HISP-S 250 Second-Year Spanish II
- HISP-S 251 Intermediate Spanish for Heritage Speakers
HISP-S 250 Second-Year Spanish II

Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 200 or appropriate placement exam score
Description
This course continues the work of HISP-S 200. Continued emphasis on all four skills and on critical thinking skills. Grades are based on exams, oral tests, homework, compositions, and a cumulative final exam. Homework is substantial. After successful completion of this course, the foreign language requirement is fulfilled for schools that require a four-semester sequence.

HISP-S 251 Intermediate Spanish for Heritage Speakers

Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 200 or appropriate placement exam score
Description
An intermediate language course designed for heritage students, who grew up speaking/hearing Spanish at home or in their communities. Focuses on the practicing of Spanish across modalities, discussing identity aspects, and exploring social and historical context.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of HISP-S 250, HISP-S 251, or HISP-S 276.
Spanish Grammar in Context. One (1) course:
- HISP-S 280 Spanish Grammar in Context
- HISP-S 281 Advanced Spanish for Heritage Speakers
HISP-S 280 Spanish Grammar in Context

Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 250 or appropriate placement exam score
Description
A topic-based approach to the formal aspects of Spanish grammar. Formal linguistic skills are developed through explicit grammar instruction, the reading of Hispanic texts, and the study of literature and culture through writing and conversation.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 310.

HISP-S 281 Advanced Spanish for Heritage Speakers

Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 251 or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Provides advanced study of Spanish grammar for students who grew up speaking/hearing Spanish at home or in their communities. Seeks to develop knowledge of how Spanish grammar is used distinctly in different situations and understanding of its contextualized social value.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 281.
Introduction to Hispanic Studies. Two (2) courses:
- HISP-S 324 Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures
- HISP-S 326 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
- HISP-S 328 Introduction to Hispanic Literature
HISP-S 324 Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 310; or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Through the examination of a variety of texts, this course explores Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latino culture from historical, social, artistic, and political perspectives.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of HISP-S 275 or HISP-S 324.
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HISP-S 326 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 310; or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Introduces the basic concepts of Hispanic linguistics and establishes the background for the future application of linguistic principles. The course surveys linguistic properties in Spanish, including phonology, morphology, and syntax. Additional introductory material on historical linguistics, second language acquisition, semantics, and sociolinguistics will be included.
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HISP-S 328 Introduction to Hispanic Literature
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 310; or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Develops skills needed for more advanced study of Hispanic literatures through the reading and analysis of texts in at least three literary genres.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of HISP-S 328, HISP-S 331, HISP-S 332, or HISP-S 333.
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Advanced Elective. One (1) course:
- Additional course from the Introduction to Hispanic Studies list
- HISP-S 304 Spanish for Health Professions
- HISP-S 308 Composition and Conversation in Spanish
- HISP-S 309 Spanish Writing for Heritage Speakers
- HISP-S 315 Spanish in the Business World
- HISP-S 317 Spanish Conversation and Diction
- HISP-S 322 Introduction to Film Analysis in Spanish
- HISP-S 334 Panoramas of Hispanic Literature
- HISP-S 335 Mexican Culture in a Service Learning Context
- HISP-S 336 Introduction to Spanish Translation
- HISP-S 396 Overseas Study in Spanish
- HISP-S 407 Cultural Icons of Spain
- HISP-S 408 Iberian Modernities
- HISP-S 411 Spain: The Cultural Context
- HISP-S 412 Spanish America: The Cultural Context
- HISP-S 413 Hispanic Culture in the United States
- HISP-S 417 Hispanic Poetry
- HISP-S 418 Hispanic Drama
- HISP-S 419 Modern Spanish Prose Fiction
- HISP-S 420 Modern Spanish-American Prose Fiction
- HISP-S 422 Hispanic Cinema
- HISP-S 423 The Craft of Translation
- HISP-S 425 Spanish Phonetics
- HISP-S 427 The Structure of Spanish
- HISP-S 429 Hispanic Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics
- HISP-S 430 The Acquisition of Spanish
- HISP-S 431 Bilingualism and Spanish in the U.S.
- HISP-S 435 US Latino Literatures
- HISP-S 450 Don Quijote
- HISP-S 470 Gender in Hispanic Texts
- HISP-S 471 Colonialism to Modernism
- HISP-S 472 Dictatorship and Democracy in Spanish American Literature and Culture
- HISP-S 473 Hispanic Literature and Literary Theory
- HISP-S 474 Hispanic Literature and Society
- HISP-S 479 Mapping Mexico
- HISP-S 480 Argentine Literature
- HISP-S 481 Hispanic American National/Regional Literatures
- HISP-S 496 Advanced Overseas Study in Spanish
- HISP-S 495 Hispanic Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HISP-X 370 Experiential Learning in Spanish
- HISP-X 395 Global Experience in Spanish and Portuguese
- HISP-X 398 Experiential Research
HISP-S 304 Spanish for Health Professions
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280; or HISP-S 281; or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Designed for advanced students of Spanish interested in acquiring social, cultural, and linguistic knowledge to critically analyze issues involved in intercultural communications in medical settings. Students develop intercultural cultural competence related to Hispanic/Latino healthcare sensitivities and needs that are important in present and future professional healthcare encounters with Hispanic patients.
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HISP-S 308 Composition and Conversation in Spanish

Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 310; or appropriate placement exam score
Description
This content-based course seeks to improve students' oral and writing skills in Spanish while fostering critical thinking and cultural awareness. The written component includes an analysis of various writing styles: description, narration, exposition, and argumentation. The oral component includes discussions of cultural topics in the Spanish-speaking world.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of HISP-S 308 or HISP-S 312.

HISP-S 309 Spanish Writing for Heritage Speakers

Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 281 or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Facilitates the development of composition and formal oral communication skills in Spanish and is specifically designed for heritage speakers, students who grew up speaking/hearing Spanish at home or in their communities.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of HISP-S 308 or HISP-S 309.

HISP-S 315 Spanish in the Business World

Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 310; or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Introduction to the technical language of the business world, with emphasis on problems of vocabulary, style, composition, and translation in the context of Hispanic mores. Instruction in Spanish.

HISP-S 317 Spanish Conversation and Diction

Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 310; or appropriate placement exam score
Notes
HISP-S 317 is not open to native speakers of Spanish
Description
Meets five times a week. Intensive controlled conversation correlated with readings, reports, debates, and group discussions.
Repeatability
May be repeated once for credit.
HISP-S 322 Introduction to Film Analysis in Spanish
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Introduces the formal elements common to cinema and the terms of film analysis in Spanish. Provides a basic understanding of cultural and historical factors that have influenced film production in Latin America and Spain.
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HISP-S 334 Panoramas of Hispanic Literature
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
A panoramic introduction to the study of Hispanic literature in its literary-historical development, through a variety of literary genres. Periods and geographical areas may vary.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of HISP-S 332, HISP-S 333, or HISP-S 334.
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HISP-S 335 Mexican Culture in a Service Learning Context
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 324 or HISP-S 328
Description
Explores Mexican cultural traditions in a globalized world and uses service-learning in Bloomington community schools to deepen the process of intercultural understanding.
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HISP-S 336 Introduction to Spanish Translation

Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 310; or appropriate placement exam score
Description
An introduction to the practice and techniques of translation, both from Spanish to English as well as from English to Spanish. Translation practice will focus on a variety of textual modes, including literary works, legal documents, journalistic prose, and other materials.

HISP-S 396 Overseas Study in Spanish

Credits
1–6 credit hours
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or 281; and acceptance into an Indiana University-approved overseas study program
Description
Provides credit for intermediate to advanced study in Spanish language and Hispanic cultures in a Spanish-speaking country when no specific equivalent is available amongst departmental offerings.
Repeatability
May be repeated up to 6 times with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
HISP-S 407 Cultural Icons of Spain
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
This course focuses on iconic historical figures and literary characters who continue to resonate in the 20th- and 21st- century cultural imagination. Drawing upon primary texts from the Middle Ages through the Seventeenth Century, the course investigate these cultural icons and what they mean in modern times. Taught in Spanish.
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HISP-S 408 Iberian Modernities
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
An overview of the literatures of Spain covering issues such as modernization, the Enlightenment, civil war, urban/rural, colonization, fascism, tourism, nationalism, and immigration. Readings in prose, poetry, and drama by representative writers from the eighteenth century to the present. Taught in Spanish.
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HISP-S 411 Spain: The Cultural Context
Credits
3
Prerequisites
One of HISP-S 324, HISP-S 328, HISP-S 331, HISP-S 333, or HISP-S 334
Description
A course to integrate historical, social, political, and cultural information about Spain.
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HISP-S 412 Spanish America: The Cultural Context
Credits
3
Prerequisites
One of HISP-S 324, HISP-S 328, HISP-S 331, HISP-S 333, or HISP-S 334
Description
A course that integrates historical, social, political, and cultural information about Spanish America.
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HISP-S 413 Hispanic Culture in the United States
Credits
3
Prerequisites
One of HISP-S 324, HISP-S 328, HISP-S 331, HISP-S 333, or HISP-S 334
Description
Integrates historical, racial, political, and cultural information about Hispanics in the United States.
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HISP-S 417 Hispanic Poetry
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Study of major aspects, movements, or directions of Hispanic poetry from the Middle Ages to the present.
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HISP-S 418 Hispanic Drama
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Forms, traditions, themes, and periods of Hispanic drama from the Renaissance to the present.
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HISP-S 419 Modern Spanish Prose Fiction
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Spanish prose fiction from mid-nineteenth-century realism through post-Spanish Civil War narrative innovations.
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HISP-S 420 Modern Spanish-American Prose Fiction
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Spanish-American prose fiction from late nineteenth-century modernism to the present.
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HISP-S 422 Hispanic Cinema
Credits
3
Prerequisites
One of HISP-S 322, HISP-S 324, or HISP-S 328; or equivalent
Description
Analysis and interpretation of Hispanic films, with an emphasis on the study of their formal aspects. National/regional context varies.
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HISP-S 423 The Craft of Translation

Credits
3
Prerequisites
One of HISP-S 324, HISP-S 326, HISP-S 328, or HISP-S 336; or equivalent
Description
A practical approach to the problems and techniques of Spanish/English and English/Spanish translation, using a variety of texts and concentrating on such critical areas of stylistics as tone, rhythm, imagery, nuance, allusion, etc. Language and translation theory will also be studied.
HISP-S 425 Spanish Phonetics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 326
Notes
Attendance in language laboratory required.
Description
Intensive patterned pronunciation drills and exercises in sound discrimination and transcription, based on detailed articulatory description of standard Spanish of Spain and Latin America.
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HISP-S 427 The Structure of Spanish
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 326
Description
Analyzes the structure of simple and compound sentences in Spanish, focusing on the internal structure of the sentence and how certain phrases within the sentence combine in different word orders to produce specific meanings. Covers transitivity, word order, negation, pronominal and verbal systems, and syntactic variation.
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HISP-S 429 Hispanic Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 326
Description
Examines current topics in Hispanic sociolinguistics/pragmatics. Topics include sociolinguistics, phonological and syntactic variation, field methods, discourse analysis, language and power, language ideology, language attitudes, language in context, language and gender, language and the law, bilingualism, linguistic politeness and speech act theory.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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HISP-S 430 The Acquisition of Spanish
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 326
Description
Examines current topics in the acquisition of Spanish. Provides an introduction to research on the first and/or second language acquisition of Spanish and to the pedagogical applications of these findings. Students develop a background in these fields and have opportunities to link theory and practice.
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HISP-S 431 Bilingualism and Spanish in the U.S.
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 326 or consent of the department
Description
Survey of current issues of bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world and United States.
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HISP-S 435 US Latino Literatures
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Study of Latino literatures in the U.S. across various genres. Focus on social, cultural, and political factors that shape Latino experience. Taught in Spanish.
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HISP-S 450 Don Quijote
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Detailed analysis of Cervantes' novel. Life and times of the author. Importance of the work to the development of the novel as an art form.
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HISP-S 470 Gender in Hispanic Texts
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Study of a variety of cultural texts and contexts that inform gender construction in the Hispanic world. Taught in Spanish.
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HISP-S 471 Colonialism to Modernism
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328 or consent of department
Description
A study of cultural texts from Independence and revolution to neoliberalism, transnationalism, and globalization. Taught in Spanish.
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HISP-S 472 Dictatorship and Democracy in Spanish American Literature and Culture
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328 or consent of department
Description
A study of literature and culture in the context of 20th century and current societal transformations in Spanish America including urbanization, populism, revolution, dictatorship and globalization. Taught in Spanish.
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HISP-S 473 Hispanic Literature and Literary Theory
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Studies literature as an art form within the Hispanic tradition. Employs critical methodology and textual interpretation and analysis to exemplify theory of each genre.
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HISP-S 474 Hispanic Literature and Society
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Writers and their works in social, political, economic, and cultural context. Specific topic to be announced in the online Schedule of Classes.
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HISP-S 479 Mapping Mexico
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328 or consent of department
Description
A study of cultural texts from Independence and revolution to neoliberalism, transnationalism, and globalization. Taught in Spanish.
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HISP-S 480 Argentine Literature
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Argentine literature from independence to the present, with a variable topic and focus.
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HISP-S 481 Hispanic American National/Regional Literatures
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 328
Description
Study of national and/or regional literatures of Hispanic America.
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HISP-S 496 Advanced Overseas Study in Spanish

Credits
1–9 credit hours
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or 281; acceptance into an Indiana University-approved overseas study program
Description
Provides credit for intermediate to advanced study in Spanish language and Hispanic cultures in a Spanish-speaking country when no specific equivalent is available amongst departmental offerings.
Repeatability
May be repeated up to 9 times with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.

HISP-S 495 Hispanic Colloquium

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
Consent of department
Description
Topic and credit vary. I Sem., II Sem., I, II SS.
Repeatability
May be taken twice for credit as long as topic is different.

HISP-X 370 Experiential Learning in Spanish

Credits
1
Prerequisites
Consent of director of undergraduate studies
Corequisites
Enrollment in another HISP-S course
Notes
Counts toward the minor and/or major in Spanish
Description
Enables undergraduates to make intellectual connections between scholarly pursuits and community involvement. Students arrange 1 credit hour of service work on a creative project that benefits a community, or with local or international nonprofit organizations, government agencies, activist groups, or foundations. Requires a reflection paper on the experience.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours.
Grading
S/F grading.

HISP-X 395 Global Experience in Spanish and Portuguese

Credits
1–4 credit hours
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280; or consent of department
Description
International experience in Spanish and Portuguese. It can also be taken in combination with another Spanish and Portuguese course. Topics vary from semester to semester.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credit hours.

HISP-X 398 Experiential Research

Credits
1
Prerequisites
HISP-S 326; or consent of department
Description
Provides the opportunity to collaborate with a tenure-track faculty member on a research project. The project, product, and authorship (if applicable), will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Grading
S/F grading.
Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
1. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
2. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
3. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
4. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
5. Exceptions to minor requirements may be made with the approval of the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.

Notes

* Students who place into the 300-level of Spanish language are not eligible for HISP-S 280 credit. As a result, they must take an additional 3 credits at the HISP-S 300–495 level.
^** Native speakers of Spanish are expected to complete the minor with coursework at the HISP-S 300-495.