Romance Languages and Literatures

                         Graduate Faculty
Chair: D. A. Pharies. Graduate Coordinators: R. Jimenez and B. Weltman-Aron.
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The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies and the Department of Language, Literature & Cultures offer programs leading to the Ph.D. in Romance languages and literatures, with concentrations in French or Spanish, and the M.A. in French or Spanish (thesis or nonthesis). Minimum requirements for the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees are given in the General Information section of this catalog.

Candidates for the master's degree in French or Spanish have two options: literature and culture, or language and linguistics. In conjunction with their master's or doctoral work, students specializing in Spanish may also earn a Certificate in Latin American Studies. Though a graduate degree is not given in Portuguese, extensive course offerings permit students to develop a strong specialization in Portuguese language and Luso-Brazilian literature. Prerequisite for admission to graduate work is an undergraduate major in the language, including advanced courses in both literature and language, or the equivalent.

All M.A. and Ph.D. students in French must take Introduction to Graduate Study and Research (FRW 6805). All M.A. and Ph.D. students in Spanish, literature track, must take Introduction to Graduate Study and Research (SPW 6806). All M.A. and Ph.D. students in French must take Romance Language Teaching Methods (FRE 6940, 6943). All French M.A. Option A candidates are strongly urged to take French Critical Theory (FRW 6825) in addition to the two required courses mentioned above. Option B linguistics students must take either History of the French Language (FRE 6845) or Introduction to Romance Linguistics (FOL 6735), French Phonetic and Phonology (FRE 6785), Sociolinguistics of French (FRE 6827), and Structure of French (FRE 6855). All M.A. and Ph.D. students in Spanish who are going to teach must take romance language teaching methods (SPN 6940, 6943). Other requirements vary with degree and specialization. For details, consult the appropriate graduate coordinator. The Department is able to offer most students a teaching assistantship that covers tuition and provides a maintenance stipend. Contingent on positive performance in teaching and graduate work, normally a master's student has at least four semesters of support and an M.A./Ph.D. student has at least ten. In addition there are several fellowships for which students may apply.

Incoming students are encouraged to apply as early as possible, preferably a full year ahead, since some deadlines for submitting applications occur during the fall of the year prior to enrollment. All materials for applications to either program must be sent by February 1 (international applicants) or April 1 (domestic applicants). For current information about graduate programs in the Department, visit http://web.rll.ufl.edu.

The combined B.A./M.A. programs in Spanish and French allow up to 12 graduate credits to be double counted toward fulfillment of both degrees. Contact the graduate coordinator for qualifications and details.

FOL 6326: Technology in Foreign Language Education (3) Prereq: SPN 6943, FRE 6943, or equivalent. Technology in classrooms. The interface between pedagogy and technology.
FOW 6930: Special Study in Romance Languages and Literatures (1-3; max: 9) Rotating topics in literary theory, cultural studies, or literary study involving two or more Romance languages.

French

FRE 6060: Beginning French for Graduate Students I (3) For students with no formal preparation who need a reading knowledge. S/U.
FRE 6061: Beginning French for Graduate Students II (3) Prereq: FRE 6060 or equivalent. For students who need proficiency in reading. S/U option.
FRE 6466: Advanced Translation and Stylistics (3) Translation from English to French and French to English. Texts selected from modern authors. Various genres and styles.
FRE 6735: Special Studies in French Linguistics (3) Rotating topics relevant to second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and/or theoretical linguistics.
FRE 6785: French Phonetics and Phonology (3) Introduction to French phonological processes. Explanatory evidence: production of speech sounds, classification of sounds, and their interrelationships (gliding, nasalization, assimilation). Morphological and syllable structure. Specifically French phenomena: liaison, elision, final consonant drop, schwa drop. Relationship of morphology to phonology, especially verb system.
FRE 6827: Sociolinguistics of French(3) Sociolinguistic issues in the French-speaking world: language variation, discourse analysis, attitudes toward varieties of French, and contact with speakers of other languages.
FRE 6845: History of the French Language (3) Phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical evolution of French language.
FRE 6855: Structure of French (3) Explores the French language as a system of communication and mental representation. Analyzes morphological, syntactic, and semantic aspects of contemporary French. Emphasizes historical, psychological, and sociological dimensions of linguistic investigation.
FRE 6940: Supervised Teaching (1-5; max: 5) Practical training in teaching elementary French courses. S/U.
FRE 6943: Romance Language Teaching Methods (2, 4, 6; max: 6) Prereq: graduate standing. Required for students needing practice and direction in college-level teaching.
FRE 6945: Practicum in Advanced College Teaching (2; max: 6) Practical training and orientation for advanced doctoral students in teaching upper-division courses. Gain upper-level teaching experience by working closely with a mentor in all areas of the teaching process. S/U.
FRE 6956: Overseas Studies in French (1-5; max: 5) Prereq: permission of graduate coordinator (French). Course work in French as part of approved study-abroad program.
FRW 6217: Seventeenth-Century French Prose (3) Major prose works of the classical period. Fermentation in philosophical and moral thought that characterized early modern period France. Cartesian thought, new science, Jansenism, libertines, and moralistes. Also includes texts by La Fayette and Sevigne.
FRW 6276: Readings in Eighteenth-Century Literature(3) Rotating topics: theater, novel, image of the Orient, Anglo-French connection, women writers of the Old Regime.
FRW 6288: Twentieth-Century French Novel (3) Analyzes representative novels. Emphasizes literary modernism, surrealism, and the new novel in light of pertinent cultural discourses and literary history.
FRW 6315: Seventeenth-Century French Drama(3) Theory and practice of dramaturgy in classical period as reflected in plays of Corneille, Molière, and Racine. Close textual analysis to disengage aesthetic and ideological problematics posed by each play.
FRW 6328: Twentieth-Century French Theater (3) Critical and historical study of representative plays. Theater as a genre and a cultural and political space. Discussion of theoretical writings. Viewing of selected plays on film.
FRW 6346: French Poetry of the Renaissance (3)
FRW 6355: Modern French Poetry (3) Historical approach combined with close readings of poetic texts. Introduction to numerous theoretical and critical writings. In addition to poetic texts taken from traditional cannon, less frequently taught poets are presented.
FRW 6396: French Cinema (3) Critical and historical study of representation of gender and ethnicity in French films.
FRW 6416: Later French Medieval Literature(3)
FRW 6536: The Romantic Period(3) Development and main tenets of 19th-century French Romanticism. Various themes and genres (novel, poetry, theater, etc.) exploited by "romantic" artists. Socioeconomics and cultural matrices fostering movement. Relationship between literature and visual arts. Constructions of gendered, cultural, and artistic subjectivities. Exoticism (spatial, temporal, and mystic voyages). Representations of Paris and French society.
FRW 6556: French Realism and Naturalism (3)
FRW 6715: The Philosophic Movement (3) Readings from major figures such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, and Rousseau. Historiography of the period. Key issues of Enlightenment (religious tolerance, slavery, women's rights, etc.). Key institutions of the 18th century (encyclopedia, newspaper, salon).
FRW 6780: Studies in Francophone Literature and Culture (Excluding the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa (3; max: 9) Literature and cultures of the Francophone world. Quebec, North Africa, Vietnam, the Middle East, Belgium and Switzerland, or regions of France.
FRW 6805: Introduction to Graduate Study and Research (3) Tools, problems, and methods of literary and linguistic research.
FRW 6825: French Critical Theory (3; max: 6) Review and comparative analysis of approaches to literature from Romanticism to Deconstruction. Act of reading and writing examined through eyes of Sainte-Beuve, Taine, Lanson, Bachelard, Geneva School, Ricoeur, Bataille, Blanchot, Barthes, Foucault, Genette, Lacan, Kristeva, Todorov, Derrida, and others. Rotating topics.
FRW 6900: Special Study in French Literature (3; max: 9) Selected topic or problem (varied each semester).
FRW 6905: Individual Work (1-3; max: 9) Available only by special arrangement with graduate adviser.
FRW 6910: Supervised Research (1-5; max: 5) S/U.
FRW 6938: Seminar in French Literature (3; max: 15) Intensive research study of an author or topic.
FRW 6971: Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
FRW 7979: Advanced Research (1-12) Research for doctoral students before admission to candidacy. Designed for students with a master's degree in the field of study or for students who have been accepted for a doctoral program. Not appropriate for students who have been admitted to candidacy. S/U.
FRW 7980: Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15) S/U.

Portuguese

POW 6276: Twentieth-Century Brazilian Novel (3) Readings in narrative from 1920s avant-garde and 1930s neoregionalism to 1950s and 1960s instrumentalism. Various manifestations of late-century prose fiction.
POW 6385: Brazilian Lyric(3) Theory and practice of poetry including Modernist legacy, experimental trends, political verse, song, youth movements, and contemporary phenomena.
POW 6386: Brazilian Drama (3) Theory of dramatic literature and theatre, from its origins in the 19th century through Modernism and contemporary practices.
POW 6905: Individual Work (1-3; max: 9) Available only by special arrangement with program coordinator or graduate adviser.
POW 6930: Rotating Topics in Brazilian or Portuguese Literature (3; max: 9) Diverse themes of the Lusophone world, including Portuguese Modernism, Brazilian northeast, Afro-Brazilian world, culture of dictatorship, popular music, science fiction, postmodernism, or focus on major authors (Machado de Assis, Guimaraes Rosa, Clarice Lispector).

Spanish

SPN 6166: Teaching Spanish for the Professions (3) Practical training and orientation for graduate students. Business Spanish. Issues of Spanish for health care and other professions. Languages across the curriculum. Professional development: technology in the classroom, scholarly networking, and job search.
SPN 6315: Advanced Composition and Syntax (3) Extensive practice producing various types of academic writing in Spanish. Discursive and grammatical features that distinguish different styles.
SPN 6715: Formal Instruction and Acquisition of Spanish (3) Effects of formal instruction on acquisition of Spanish as a foreign language. Combination of general theoretical issues with analysis of different aspects of teaching and learning Spanish grammar.
SPN 6735: Special Study in Spanish Linguistics (3; max: 12) Varying topics of Spanish linguistics relevant to second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.
SPN 6785: Advanced Spanish Phonetics (3) Precise description of Spanish pronunciation. Dialect features and contrastive English phonetics.
SPN 6827: Sociolinguistics of the Spanish-Speaking World (3) Prereq: SPN 6785. Overview of issues in the contemporary Spanish-speaking world: language variation, language contact, discourse analysis, language attitudes, policy and planning, and social factors in language acquisition and use.
SPN 6835: Spanish and Spanish-American Dialectology (3) Prereq: SPN 6785. Principles and methods applied to study of regional varieties of Spanish in Spain and Spanish America.
SPN 6845: History of the Spanish Language (3) Phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical evolution of Spanish language from Latin.
SPN 6848: Medieval Spanish Linguistics(3) Prereq: SPN 6845. In-depth examination of medieval Spanish to familiarize students with all aspects of language, primarily through detailed analysis of nonliterary texts of period.
SPN 6855: Structure of Spanish (3) Morphological, syntactic, and semantic aspects of the Spanish language.
SPN 6856: Spanish in Contact: Issues in Bilingualism (3) Structural and sociocultural analysis of the Spanish language in contact with other major languages: Quechua, Aymara, Guarani, Basque, Catalan, English, Portuguese, and African languages.
SPN 6900: Directed Readings in Spanish(3; max: 6) Individualized readings in preparation for Master of Arts comprehensive examinations. S/U.
SPN 6940: Supervised Teaching (1-5; max: 5) Required for all graduate teaching assistants in Spanish. Practical training in teaching elementary Spanish courses. S/U.
SPN 6943: Romance Language Teaching Methods (2; max: 6) Prereq: graduate standing. Required of all graduate students who will be involved in teaching and have not had a similar course elsewhere.
SPN 6945: Practicum in Advanced College Teaching (2; max: 6) Practical training and orientation for advanced doctoral students in teaching upper-division courses. Gain upper-level teaching experience by working closely with a mentor in all areas of the teaching process. S/U.
SPW 6209: Colonial Spanish-American Literature (3) Readings, research, and discussion. Literary, historical, and legal 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century texts in Spanish: Colonial Latin America and dealing with contact among European, neo-European, and Native American cultures.
SPW 6216: Spanish Prose Fiction of the Golden Age (3) The literary landscape of rampant generic diversity, before novelistic forms solidified. While shepherds in rarified meadows disputed fine points of neo-Platonic love, thieves, prostitutes, and picaros inveighed their way into carriages, salons, and homes of aristocracy. Fiction provided an outlet for political satire, religious allegory, utopian dreaming, and sheer escapism. Readings and lectures in Spanish.
SPW 6236: Spanish-American Narrative from the Origins to Criollismo(3) Narratives of nineteenth-century dealing with issue of nation building and cultural independence after emancipation from Spain (authors include Sarmiento, Gomez de Avellaneda, Mera, Galvan, Issacs, Altamirano).
SPW 6269: Spanish Novel of the Nineteenth Century (3) Survey of Spanish narrative beginning with romantic cuadros de costumbres and folletin. Emergence of realist and naturalist narrative from 1870s to 1890s. Emphasizes Valera, Galdos, Clarin, and Pardo Bazan.
SPW 6276: Spanish Postwar Narrative (3) Analysis of significant texts up to the present, through the prism of pertinent critical discourses and historical readings.
SPW 6278: Postwar Spanish Fiction (3) Contextualized approach to representative works and significant authors of fiction published in Spain after 1939. Critical and historical readings and textual analysis.
SPW 6285: Contemporary Spanish-American Narrative I (3) Textual production of the 1940s and 1950s including broader cultural characteristics of modernization, development of new narrative modes, and theories of understanding Latin America and literature of this period.
SPW 6286: Contemporary Spanish-American Narrative II (3) Fiction in the 1960s and after, including the New narrative, the Boom, and the Post-Boom. Broader cultural characteristics. Theories of understanding the area and the literature of the period.
SPW 6306: Spanish-American Theater (3) Analyzing selected plays and films. Introduction to the history, theory, and practice of theatrical arts in the region. Comparison to theater elsewhere. Focuses on the 20th century.
SPW 6315: Spanish Drama of the Golden Age (3) Comedia in theory and practice. Sacramental, entremes, comedia, religious, and historical drama of 16th- and 17th-century Spain.
SPW 6337: Golden Age Poetry (3) Analysis of multiple uses of artifice in Renaissance and Baroque Spanish poetry by both major and minor poets.
SPW 6345: Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry (3) Introductory survey of major poets. Topics include gender, periodization, aesthetics, historicity, and the relationship of poetry to politics. Close reading of texts in the context of contemporary literary theory.
SPW 6356: Spanish-American Poetry from Romanticism to Vanguardismo (3) Major movements from the mid-19th century to the 1930s, especially from Modernismo to the present. Seminal works of poets such as Marti, Casal, Cario, Lugones, Mistral, Storni, Huidobro, and Vallejo.
SPW 6357: Contemporary Spanish-American Poetry (3) Sentral aspects of Spanish-American poetry from Vanguardism to the present. Organized around a specific theme, genre, country, region, theoretical problem, or subperiod.
SPW 6366: Spanish-American Essay (3) Close reading and critical analysis of texts by major twentieth-century essayists. Themes include affirmation of identity, gender roles, and the definition of ethnic, racial, social, and class categories.
SPW 6400: Medieval Spanish Literature (3) Readings, research, and discussion on varying topics.
SPW 6606: Cervantes (3) Situates Don Quijote I, II in the cultural nexus of early modern Spain. Surveys contemporary currents in Cervantine criticism.
SPW 6729: The Generation of 1898 (3) Fin de siecle crisis. The rise of literary modernity and nationalism. Creation of modern intelligentsia in the early 20th century in the works of Unamuno, Costa, Maeztu, Antonio Machado, Baroja, and Valle-Inclan.
SPW 6806: Introduction to Graduate Study and Research (3) Tools, problems, and methods of literary research.
SPW 6902: Special Study in Spanish or Spanish-American Literature (3; max: 15) Selected topic or problem (varied each semester).
SPW 6905: Individual Work (1-3; max: 9) Available only by special arrangement with graduate adviser.
SPW 6910: Supervised Research (1-5; max: 5) S/U.
SPW 6934: Seminar in Spanish American Literature and Culture (3; max: 9) Analyzing themes and directions in contemporary Spanish American literature and culture. Feminist literary and cultural criticism. Reading and discussion of key theoretical texts produced in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. Graduate students from other disciplines are welcome.
SPW 6938: Seminar in Spanish Literature and Culture (3; max: 9) Prereq or coreq: SPW 6806. Variable topics. Close consideration of a single literary or critical or cultural problem arising in the context of Spanish letters or culture.
SPW 6971: Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
SPW 7979: Advanced Research (1-12) Research for doctoral students before admission to candidacy. Designed for students with a master's degree in the field of study or for students who have been accepted for a doctoral program. Not appropriate for students who have been admitted to candidacy. S/U.
SPW 7980: Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15) S/U.