French, Italian, and Spanish Placement Tests
If you are planning to take an elementary French, Italian, or Spanish class and you are a new student, freshman or transfer student, or you have not yet begun the elementary language sequence on the Ann Arbor campus, you must take the placement test in order to register for the correct course. You must register for the class into which you have been placed.
If you have registered for a class prior to taking the test, you will still be required to take the test in order to verify that you are in the appropriate level class.
If you have already taken French, Italian, or Spanish 101-232 on the Ann Arbor campus, or if you have already taken the placement test once, you are not eligible to take the test again. For questions regarding the LS&A language requirement, please see a general academic advisor or call POINT-10 (764-6810).
Please Note: With the reduction in the number of classrooms throughout LS&A, departments must limit the number of classes offered between 10 am and 4 pm. There will be more classes open before 10 am and after 4 pm. Please take advantage of the opportunity to register for these classes and avoid the "Lottery" (see 2b below).
Instructions for students requesting overrides for French or Spanish 101, 103, 231, or 232.
1. Try to find a section that will fit into your schedule, since the Department cannot guarantee every student a space in a section of his/her own choice.
However, do not register for a class that you cannot attend. You will not be eligible to override into the section of your choice if you are registered for any section of 101-232, even if you cannot attend that section.
2. As it states in the Time Schedule any registered student who misses one of the first four class meetings will be dropped from the course, thereby leaving some open spaces for those students who have been closed out.
If there is absolutely no section open which will fit your schedule, you should follow this procedure:
(a) Start attending the section you would like to get into on the first day of class. You will receive a Proof of Attendance form which must be signed by your instructor every day. You must attend a class every day, but it does not need to be the same section. All students must take action through T-T Registration to make sure their official schedule of courses matches the courses they are taking.
(b) On Tuesday, September 10 at 7:00 p.m., there will be a meeting in the basement of the MLB, rooms to be announced later, for each of the above courses. At these meetings, students will be assigned to remaining vacated spaces in the most fair and equitable manner possible, using a lottery system. At no time, however, will any class be allowed to exceed 25 students. Students must bring their printout of classes and the Proof of Attendance form to the meeting!
3. Please note that you will not be allowed to change sections at these meetings. Beginning Wednesday, September 11, Elementary French Language Supervisors will hear requests for section changes and fill those requests to whatever degree is possible.
4. Please ensure when adding with the override that you also add modifiers for pass/fail, etc.
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Other Language Courses
413/Rom. Ling. 413/EducationD 455. Teaching Spanish/Applications of Linguistics. Spanish 275 and 276. (3). (Excl).
This course will assist teachers of Spanish as a foreign language, and students interested in language learning in the process of clarifying their own beliefs about language learning and teaching, both in terms of theoretical issues and practical implications for classroom instruction. The course will review second/foreign language acquisition theories and examine their pedagogical application of the classroom. Students will become familiar with different methodologies and teaching techniques. Emphasis will be given to curriculum design and material development for teaching and testing all four skills within a student-centered philosophy of teaching. A portion of each class session will be devoted to microteaching sessions as a means of providing students with hands-on teaching experience and concrete input on their teaching techniques, allowing students to gain a better understanding of what is needed to become an effective teacher of Spanish. (Gonzalez)
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Literature
320. Introduction to the Study of Literature. Spanish 275 and 276. (3). (HU).
Section 001. This course introduces students to narrative fiction, poetry, drama, argumentative essays, and critical literature. It emphasizes the formal aspects of each genre, including appropriate terminology and analytical/interpretive approaches. (Anderson)
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332. Short Narrative in Latin America/Spain. Spanish 275 and 276. (3). (HU).
Section 001 - Historical Revelations: Foundational Fictions of Latin America. In this course, we will engage in a sustained study of a select number of nineteenth- and twentieth- century texts that will allow us to interrogate the complexities of national discourses and their representations. After the pivotal French and Haitian Revolutions, nineteenth-century authors engaged in literary production that either projected a desired national narrative or revealed national unrest that rendered such a unified narrative impossible. Contemporary novels have inherited this dichotomy but further reveal the problematics of national ideologies through the acknowledgement of indigenous cultures, wide spread poverty, general sexism, dictatorships, and repressive state mechanisms. Readings include: La Palma del Cacique, El Enriquillo, Cecilia Valds, El Facundo, Hasta No Verte Jesus Mio, Los Rios Profundos, La Casa de los Espiritus, and Foundational Fictions. Fewer but longer readings will allow us more time to study each text, its respective national history, and ensuing critical commentary in a more careful manner. Classes and readings (except Foundational Fictions) will be conducted in Spanish. Grades will be based on one presentation, one short midterm paper, and one elaborate final paper. (Suarez)
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440. Literatures and Cultures of the Borderlands: The Politics of Language. Spanish 275 and 276, and three additional 300-level course. (3). (Excl).
Section 001 - Race and Ethnicity in Caribbean and Latino Literatures. This course will examine the role played by reterritorialization policies and migration patterns from Latin America and the Caribbean in forming today's US political and historical landscape. We will study the nineteenth century national, imagined ideology of the US as a White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant nation and its implications for a US that, in the last hundred years, has become a necessarily ethnic nation rather than the melting pot it was once described as in 1909. Through the assigned readings, we will explore themes such as national difference and national stereotyping; exile, migration, immigration, assimilation, and contestation; class, ethnicity, and race. We will engage in a critical study of storytelling and writing in order to better understand the dialogues across national boundaries that are structuring new discourses of race and ethnicity in a contemporary pan-global climate. Readings include Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives by Suzanne Oboler, Free Enterprise by Michelle Cliff, Breath Eyes Memories by Edwidge Danticat, Las Hermanas Aguero de Cristina Garcragorona de Sandra Cisneros, Negocios de Junot Dosl essays will be assigned on a weekly basis. Classes will be conducted in Spanish. Readings (even if found in translation) will be mostly in Spanish except for the critical essays and the texts from the anglophone and francophone Caribbean. Grades will be based on one class presentation, one short midterm paper, and one longer final paper or project. (Suarez)
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485. Case Studies in Peninsular Spanish and Latin American Literature. Spanish 275 and 276, and three additional 300-level courses. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits.
Section 003 - Mulatto Identities: Writing and Representation. "Mulatez" has been an important discursive category for understanding social, cultural and political discourses in Latin America and the Caribbean. This course focuses on the analysis of "mulatto (a)" characters in Brazilian and Hispanic Caribbean literatures. In these works "mulatez" seen as cultural hybridity, creates new discursive links between racial, gender, sexual identi- ties and writing. The course will be taught in Spanish and will have a comparative perspective from other texts such as:ethnography, cinema and music. (Arroyo)
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