Language: Spanish and Portuguese


Faculty Honors Advisors

Cynthia Tompkins
Carlos García-Fernández
Azucena Hernández Ramírez
Daniel Vargas
Anne Walton-Ramirez
Sean McKinnon

About this opportunity

The study of Spanish provides students with linguistic competence to navigate the Spanish-speaking world across the global, and the study of literature and provide contributes to the development of students’ global awareness, in addition to providing complex, contrastive models as regards how other societies negotiate the lived human experience. As a special project, Barrett students have created Spanish podcasts in their 300 and 400 level Spanish classes. Check out the podcasts here: https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/honorscollegepodcasts/home

Thesis

The Honors thesis is the opportunity for the student to engage interpretively with a phenomenon of cultural production in an intellectually principled way and making use of appropriate theoretical and critical sources. Alternatives to the thesis are available, such as poster presentations, documentary film and photography, and students’ own exercises of cultural production, or any other format deemed appropriate by the supervisory committee.

Academic Preparation

Prior to embarking on a thesis, the student must have the equivalent of the Spanish BA, with courses distributed among upper-division language courses, survey and monographic literature courses, and courses devoted to the civilization and culture of the Hispanic world.

Recommended Timeline

Time line: 12 mos.

  • Month 1 - establish topic and conduct bibliographic search.
  • Month 2 - formulation of thesis prospect and constitution of committee.
  • Month 4 - sample chapter for critique.
  • Month 9 - rough draft.
  • Month 11 final draft.
  • Month 12 - defense. Students are encouraged to accelerate this timeline.

Other Honors Opportunities

Any student who is majoring or minoring in Spanish and is taking language courses as of SPA 201 to SPA 412 can obtain honors credits working with the following instructors depending on the topic of your choice:

Carlos García-Fernández: Carlos.Javier@asu.edu

Literature, Film and Culture of Spain

Cynthia Tompkins: Cynthia.Tompkins@asu.edu

Latin American literature, cultural production (especially film), human rights.

Azucena Hernández Ramírez: azucena.hernandez.ramirez@asu.edu 

Mexican and Latin American literature and culture, and sound studies.

Daniel Vargas: dmvargas@asu.edu

Business, technology, sustainability, community social issues, Latinx/Mexican-American, and Mexican arts and culture.

Anne Walton-Ramirez: AnneWR@asu.edu

Any topic related to linguistics, second language learning and acquisition, first language learning and acquisition, technology, current events

Sean McKinnon: Sean.mkinnon@asu.edu

Any topic related to linguistics, bilingualism, language variation and change, language ideologies, indigenous languages and culturesC

Students taking SPA 201,202, 203, 204 write a 7-page essay or create a podcast in English on a topic related to Spain or a Latin American country.

Students taking SPA 313,314,315, 316, 412 write a 7-page essay or create a podcast in Spanish on a topic related to Spain or a Latin American country.

Students are not to begin writing or creating a podcast until the topic is approved. Requirements, bibliography with 5 academic sources, outline, draft, and final paper.

 

College

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Campus

Tempe