Jun 25, 2024  
2016-2017 Graduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Art History

  
  • ARTH 7392 - Exhibition Preparation and Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art history, or consent of instructor.

    Selection of works and design of an actual or virtual exhibit of artifacts and/or student works.
  
  • ARTH 7393 - Art History Internship

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art history, 9 semester hours in graduate art history and coordinator approval.

    Internship at museum, arts institution or organization under supervision of relevant arts professional.
    May be repeated for credit with approval of art history area coordinator

  
  • ARTH 7394 - Selected Topics in Art History

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of instructor.

    Will be identified by a specific title each time it is offered.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • ARTH 7395 - SelectedTopics in Contemporary Theory and Practice

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor.

    Selected topics in theory and criticism, with an emphasis on the issues that inform and/or influence contemporary analysis and production.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • ARTH 7398 - Independent Graduate Study in Art History

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ARTH 7399 - Master’s Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Art History and ARTH 6399 .

    Thesis research.

Clinical Sciences and Administration, Pharmacy Administration

  
  • PHCA 6180 - Seminar in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or consent of Instructor.

    Provides doctoral students an opportunity to present and discuss advanced topics within the field of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy.
  
  • PHCA 6181 - Seminar in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or consent of instructor.

    Provides doctoral students an opportunity to present and discuss advanced topics within the field of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy.
  
  • PHCA 6198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

  
  • PHCA 6199 - Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6219 - Issues in Health Services

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    A survey course for students with an administrative interest, which develops the linkage between structure, manpower, access, and utilization of health services.
  
  • PHCA 6297 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6298 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6309 - Principles & Practice Community Health

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Applications and analysis of public health concepts, history, current context, and techniques in pharmacy administration.
  
  • PHCA 6310 - Sas Applications in Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Practical experiences in conducting statistical analysis using the SAS statistical package to analyze, evaluate, and report data.
  
  • PHCA 6311 - Financial Aspects of Hcm

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    This course examines both micro and macro aspects of financial management of health care systems. Approaches to financial record keeping, financial analysis and budgeting will be reviewed. Financial policies implemented by governmental and private third parties will be critically analyzed.
  
  • PHCA 6313 - Drug Use Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Overview of drug use in health systems including joint commission, practice management, operations, formulary management, human resources, and marketing.
  
  • PHCA 6314 - Health Sys Mang Managed Care

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Comprehensive review and discussion of health system strategic management, managed care concepts, changing health care paradigms, and marketing of services as part of a strategic plan for health care activities.
  
  • PHCA 6315 - Healthcare Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Review of marketing concepts, techniques, and strategies. Introduces theories and models for interpretation and prediction of buyers’ motives, attitudes, and responses and integrates information into marketing strategies. Addresses strategic planning for effective market problems and effective direction and control of marketing operations.
  
  • PHCA 6317 - Secondary Data Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Principles and applications of secondary data analysis in pharmacy administration research with focus on methodologies for processing and analyzing national survey and administrative data.
  
  • PHCA 6318 - Designing Clinical Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

    Principles of designing and conducting clinical trials for drugs, devices, and behavioral sciences.
  
  • PHCA 6319 - Strategic Healthcare Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

    Discussion of principles, requirements, and practices of planning in the management of health care organizations.
  
  • PHCA 6320 - Medication Safety and Quality Improvement

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Overview of medication safety and quality improvement in health systems including prevention and reporting of adverse events, total quality management, and patient safety.
  
  • PHCA 6321 - Hospital and Health System Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Overview of healthcare law, policy, and contemporary topics in hospital and health system management.
  
  • PHCA 6337 - Human Subjects Research and Research Ethics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Prerequisites or consent of instructor.

    An in-depth analysis of research ethics related to the responsible conduct of human subjects research and regulatory issues including the relevant federal agencies.
  
  • PHCA 6396 - Masters Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Project proposal approved by major advisor and two committee members. Project developed in the area of pharmacy administration research.
  
  • PHCA 6397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6398 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

  
  • PHCA 6399 - Masters Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6497 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6498 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6598 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6601 - Pharm Health Sys Practicum

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • PHCA 6602 - Pharm Health Sys Practicum

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • PHCA 6603 - Pharm Health Sys Practicum

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • PHCA 7180 - Seminar in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of Instructor.

    To provide doctoral students an opportunity to present and discuss advanced topics within the field of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy.
  
  • PHCA 7181 - Seminar Pharm Administration

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Review and evaluate recent advances in pharmacy administration literature and the pharmacy profession.
  
  • PHCA 7199 - Master Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Students are expected to write and submit a thesis on research conducted as required by the University of Houston and as a requirement for partial fulfillment of the MS degree program.
  
  • PHCA 7299 - Master Thesis

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Students are expected to write and submit a thesis on research conducted as required by the University of Houston and as a requirement for partial fulfillment of the MS degree program.
  
  • PHCA 7301 - Advanced Regression Analysis Methods

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7308 or Consent of Instructor

    . Applications of multiple regression methods, regression diagnostics, variable selection, model building strategies, and assessment of model fit in pharmaceutical health outcomes research with emphasis on linear, logistic, and proportional hazards regression.
  
  • PHCA 7302 - Scientific Writing and Grants

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7307 , graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Planning, preparation and evaluation of effective research manuscripts (articles) and grant proposals in pharmacy administration research.
  
  • PHCA 7303 - International Health Care Syst

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Review delivery models, economic, political, and other pertinent aspects of various international health care systems in an effort to better understand the range of options available for health care delivery.
  
  • PHCA 7304 - Adv Pharmacoeconomic Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7313 , graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Advanced topics in computer-assisted decision analytic modeling including design of design trees, sensitivity analysis, Markov, Bayesian, and run-time models with examples in pharmaceutical and pharmacy research.
  
  • PHCA 7305 - Social and Behavioral Aspects in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: PHCA 6305 Pharmacy Administration and Management I
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    Introduces social and behavioral concepts in pharmaceutical health outcomes and policy. A case-based discussion approach with pre-assigned reading material.
  
  • PHCA 7306 - Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Quality

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: PHCA 6306 Pharmacy Administration and Management II
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    Critical examination and discussion of pharmaceutical health outcomes and quality of pharmaceutical care issues in practice, policy, and research.
  
  • PHCA 7307 - Research Methods in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: PHCA 6307 Research Methods in Pharmacy Administration
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7308 or Consent of Instructor.

    Principles of research methods and its application to conduct and analyze research topics in pharmaceutical health outcomes research. Included are computer applications, design of survey questionnaires, and proficiency in analyzing programs/policies.
  
  • PHCA 7308 - Biostatistics and Experimental Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: PHCA 6308 Biostatistics: Experimental Design
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of Instructor.

    Application of concepts, methods, and statistical approaches for the design and analysis of health outcome research studies. Introduces multivariable techniques to facilitate further study of these methods in advanced course.
  
  • PHCA 7310 - Teaching Practicum in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of Instructor.

    A structured academic environment experience to prepare and teach lectures in an undergraduate course with the guidance of a professor.
  
  • PHCA 7311 - Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    A structured research internship experience in the pharmaceutical or health care industry.
  
  • PHCA 7312 - SAS Programming for Healthcare

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 6310 or approval of instructor.

    Introduction to SAS programming language to manage and manipulate large health care databases. Students become proficient to pass the SAS programmer certification.
  
  • PHCA 7313 - Pharmacoeconomics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: PHCA 6312 Pharmacoeconomics in Outcomes Research
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7306 or consent of instructor.

    An integrated course that provides students with knowledge and skills in pharmacoeconomics and health outcomes research with application to disease state management.
  
  • PHCA 7316 - Pharmacoepidemiology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: PHCA 6316 Pharmacoepidemiology
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Concepts, methods, and nomenclature in epidemiology and its applications to pharmaceutical health outcomes research.
  
  • PHCA 7396 - Masters Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 6396 or consent of instructor.

    Preparation of written report about pharmacy administration project and oral defense to major advisor and two committee members. Bound report submitted to committee.
  
  • PHCA 7397 - Selected Topics in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    To provide doctoral students with an opportunity to study advanced topics within the field of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy.
  
  • PHCA 7398 - Special Problems in Pharmacy Administration Doctoral

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

    The course is designed to provide doctoral students with an opportunity to study advanced special problems in the field of Pharmacy Administration.
  
  • PHCA 7399 - Masters Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 7611 - Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 18
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    A structured research internship experience in the pharmaceutical or health care industry.
  
  • PHCA 8180 - Advanced Seminar in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or consent of instructor.

    To provide doctoral students an opportunity to present and discuss advanced topics within the field of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy.
  
  • PHCA 8181 - Advanced Seminar in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    To provide doctoral students an opportunity to present and discuss advanced topics within the field of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy.
  
  • PHCA 8198 - Doctoral Dissertation Research

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Doctoral Dissertation Research.
  
  • PHCA 8199 - Doctoral Dissertation Defense

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Doctoral Dissertation Defense.
  
  • PHCA 8297 - Selected Topics in Pharmacy Administration Doctoral

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of Instructor.

    The study of advanced selected topics within the field of pharmacy administration.
  
  • PHCA 8298 - Doctoral Dissertation Research

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Doctoral Dissertation Research.
  
  • PHCA 8301 - Pharm Admin & Management III

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7305 and PHCA 7306 , graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Discuss and appraise models and theories in pharmacy administration and management research focusing on social and behavioral aspects of pharmaceutical care.
  
  • PHCA 8302 - Advanced Research Methods in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7308 or consent of instructor.

    To apply, conduct, and analyze classic and improved experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational study designs in pharmaceutical outcome research.
  
  • PHCA 8303 - Multivariate Analysis in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7308 and 7301 or consent of instructor.

    Advanced statistical techniques for handling multiple dependent and independent measures in pharmaceutical health outcomes research such as factor analysis, multiple discriminant analysis, MANOVA, cluster analysis, canonical correlation, and structural equation modeling.
  
  • PHCA 8304 - Behavioral Health Serv Researc

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Applications of linking research questions common in behavioral sciences to appropriate analytic methods used to group people or objects and procedures that assess change over time.
  
  • PHCA 8305 - Risk Adjustment of Health Care Outcomes

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of Instructor.

    To interpret and apply patient risk factors, the Donabedian model, administrative and clinical data sources, comparisons across providers, propensity scoring, and estimating the effect of interventions in observational studies.
  
  • PHCA 8306 - Advanced Pharmaceutical Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or consent of instructor.

    Advanced concepts, practices, and strategies to market pharmaceuticals with emphasis on advertising, physician detailing, pricing, and new market access strategies for prescription products.
  
  • PHCA 8310 - Advanced Teaching Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    A structured academic environment experience to develop and teach lectures in a graduate course with the guidance of a professor.
  
  • PHCA 8311 - Proposal Development

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Applications of grant writing skills to develop and submit a proposal using the NIH format.
  
  • PHCA 8314 - Secondary Analysis of National Health Surveys

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Doctoral standing.

    Principles and applications of secondary data analysis of national healthcare surveys.
  
  • PHCA 8316 - Advanced Pharmacoepidemiology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 6316 or Consent of Instructor.

    Design and conduct of advanced pharmacoeipemiological studies with a focus on operationalization and analytical issues in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes Research.
  
  • PHCA 8320 - Patient Reported Outcomes

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Doctoral standing.

    To provide an in-depth understanding of the assessment analysis and interpretation of patient-reported outcomes (PROs).  The course involves a case-based discussion approach with pre-assigned reading on topics associated with understanding PROs, their development, measurement, analysis, and use in quality of life evaluation and clinical trials.
  
  • PHCA 8397 - Advanced Topics in Pharmacy Administration Doctoral

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

    The course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to study advanced special problems in the field of Pharmacy Administration.
  
  • PHCA 8398 - Doctoral Dissertation Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Doctoral Dissertation Research.
  
  • PHCA 8698 - Doctoral Dissertation Research

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 18
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor

    Doctoral Dissertation Research.

Spanish

  
  • SPAN 6198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • SPAN 6199 - Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • SPAN 6298 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • SPAN 6301 - Crit Readings Span Lit

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    Reading of selected core works of Spanish literature with emphasis on critical interpretation and analysis.
  
  • SPAN 6303 - Crit Readings Sp Am Lit

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    Reading of selected core works of Spanish American Literature with emphasis on critical interpretation and analysis.
  
  • SPAN 6305 - Teaching Spanish for Acquisition

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Required of all teaching assistants and highly recommended to all graduate students. An introduction to different methodologies for teaching Spanish as a second language.
  
  • SPAN 6308 - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    An introduction to the field of Spanish linguistics.
  
  • SPAN 6320 - Research in Spanish Second Language Acquisition

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    An introduction to the field of language acquisition theories and research with a focus on the acquisition of Spanish as a second language.
  
  • SPAN 6330 - Language Variation and Change

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate status.

    Linguistic and social phenomena that motivate variation and change in Spanish.
  
  • SPAN 6331 - Historical Grammar

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • SPAN 6333 - 19Th Century Span Lit

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • SPAN 6335 - Golden Age Drama

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Social meaning and artistic values of significant works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
  
  • SPAN 6344 - US Hispanic Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    Survey of the major literary works of Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Cuban-American, and other U.S. Hispanic writers, past and present.
  
  • SPAN 6345 - Las Mujeres Reescriben America

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Students will be considering how a variety of U.S. women writers of Latin American descent (U.S. Latinas) “write” America. They, too, are Americans but their experiences, marginalized as women, as Latinas, and sometimes by class or sexuality, marks them as outside of the dominant notion of what America is and who counts as American. The writings of these women creatively reimagine an America that reflects brown bodies and faces, painting a very different picture of the U.S.
  
  • SPAN 6354 - Spanish Phonetics and Phonetic Variation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Articulatory descriptions of sounds, phonetic transcription of Spanish, phonetic theory as it relates to language variation and change.
  
  • SPAN 6355 - Spanish Phonology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Sound system and prosodic features of modern Spanish; phonological theories and their application to Spanish.
  
  • SPAN 6356 - Spanish Syntax

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Spanish syntax as exemplifying language universals: grammatical relations, word order, transitivity, causative constructions, relative clauses.
  
  • SPAN 6358 - Spanish Sociolinguistics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Sociolinguistic principles and patterns as illustrated in Spanish.
  
  • SPAN 6360 - Methods in Linguistic Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing of PB status.

    This course explores the multiple methodologies that exist for researching language as a mode of communication and interaction within the field of linguistic anthropology.
  
  • SPAN 6366 - Span-Am Lit To 1830

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • SPAN 6367 - 19&20 Cen Spa-Am Theatr

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • SPAN 6368 - Span-Am Modernism

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: SPAN 3321 and SPAN 3322.

    Study of foreign influences. The distinctive characteristics of the movement; contributions of major authors.
  
  • SPAN 6370 - Research Methods

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    Methods of bibliographical and field research, use of technology, techniques of documentation, analytical taxonomies, and the establishment of acceptable evidence in research.
 

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