Website: http://www2.sewanee.edu/spanish/
Professor Spaccarelli
Professor Bonds -website
Professor Natal
Professor Sánchez Imizcoz, Chair
Associate Professor Raulston
Assistant Professor Sandlin
Visiting Associate Professor Fort
Visiting Assistant Professor Braden
Visiting Instructor Jordan
Only Spanish literature and culture courses taken at the University of the South may be used to complete the college language and literature requirement for graduation. Unless otherwise indicated or approved by the department, Spanish 300 is the designated course to fulfill the requirement. Prerequisite for all 400-level courses is a semester at the 300 level or permission of the department. Students who have taken a course above the level of Spanish 300 may not take Spanish 300 for credit.
Students wishing to take Spanish to fulfill their foreign language requirement must take the departmental placement examination. Those students who have never taken Spanish should consult with the Department chair in order to register for Spanish 103. Students may not enroll at a course level beneath that indicated by the placement examination without written permission of the Spanish Department chair.
Major in Spanish: The minimum requirement for a Spanish major is eight full courses starting at the 300 level, although most majors find it advisable to take a full complement of eleven courses in Spanish. As the major requires a mastery of Spanish language, literature, and culture, the student is expected to select courses from all of these fields. The Department strongly recommends that majors take several 400-level courses. Students who have taken a course at the level above Spanish 300 may not take Spanish 300 for credit.
The program for majors divides literature into three sections: Spanish literature before 1700, Spanish literature after 1700, and Latin-American literature. Each student should have at least one course at the 300 or 400 level in each of these three fields. Spanish 311 and 312 are the courses indicated for study of Hispanic culture. The written comprehensive examination in Spanish, which is taken in the final semester of the senior year, covers the above-mentioned areas. The oral comprehensive examination consists of a presentation on a selected topic approved by the department.
Majors are strongly encouraged to spend time studying in a Spanish-speaking country, and with prior departmental approval as much as a year of foreign study may be applied to the major. Students with financial assistance may apply to transfer portions of their funding to assist in previously approved study abroad programs.
All majors are encouraged to take a year or more of another foreign language.
Sewanee Summer in Spain is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Medieval Spain and the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. Classes meet in Sewanee, in Madrid, and on the pilgrimage road in northern Spain. The program offers credit for two full courses: Spanish 314 and Art History 214, plus Physical Education 214.
Sewanee Semester in Spain focuses on Muslim Spain and its legacy in contemporary Spain. Classes meet in Madrid with professors and tutors from Madrid's Complutense University. The program offers four full courses — Spanish 306: Advanced Spanish language; Spanish 310: Contemporary Spanish Culture and Civilization; History 369: Muslim Spain: Glory, Decline, and lasting influence in contemporary Spain; Art History 316: Islamic Spain and Spanish Art. A two-week field trip to Andalusia and Morocco forms an integral part of the program.
The Honors Program: Toward the end of the penultimate semester of study, students with a minmimum of 3.5 in Spanish courses may apply for permission to present themselves for departmental honors, select a topic for a research essay, be assigned a director, and prepare an outline of the proposed paper. Depending on the nature of the topic, the student, in the last semester of study, enrolls either for a full course or a half-course of Independent Study (Spanish 444) dedicated to preparing a paper. For half-course credit, a paper of at least thirteen pages should be produced; for full-course credit, the paper must number at least twenty-five pages. Students so enrolled who demonstrate excellence in their honors paper, in the written comprehensive examination, and in the oral presentation of their work, upon the approval of the department, earn departmental honors.
Minor in Spanish: The minor in Spanish consists of a minimum of six courses starting at the 300 level. These normally include one course on the culture of Spain, one on the culture of Latin America, and one dedicated to some advanced aspect of language study. A minimum of one literature course numbered 305 or above must be taken. Students having taken a course above Spanish 300, may not take Spanish 300 for credit. There is no comprehensive examination.
The department also participates in the International and Global Studies Program.
The Spanish House: The Spanish department maintains a Spanish House where six or seven undergraduate residents live in a communal setting and, overseen by a graduate native speaker, use only Spanish. The house sponsors various cultural and social activities. Application forms are kept in the offices of the Spanish department.
