BASQ 101 ELEMENTARY BASQUE I
Lecture+Lab: 4+0
Credit(s): 4
Introduction to the language through the development of written and conversational language skills and through structural analysis. Emphasis on Unified Basque but includes an introduction to the dialects. NOTE: Course also offered online through Independent Learning (call 775-784-4652).
BASQ 102 ELEMENTARY BASQUE II
Lecture+Lab: 4+0
Credit(s): 4
Introduction to the language through the development of written and conversational language skills and through structural analysis. Emphasis on Unified Basque but includes an introduction to the dialects. NOTE: Course also offered online through Independent Learning (call 775-784-4652).
BASQ 203 SECOND YEAR BASQUE I
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Structural review, conversation and writing. Includes further work with the unique structure of the Basque verb and system of suffixes. Completion of BASQ 204 satisfies the College of Liberal Arts foreign language requirement.
Prereq(s): BASQ 102.
BASQ 204 SECOND YEAR BASQUE II
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Structural review, conversation and writing. Includes further work with the unique structure of the Basque verb and system of suffixes. Completion of BASQ 204 satisfies the College of Liberal Arts foreign language requirement.
Prereq(s): BASQ 203.
BASQ 220 INTRODUCTION TO BASQUE CULTURAL STUDIES IN A GLOBAL FRAME
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Examines the representations of Basques worldwide in the media, the arts, scholarship, international politics and the Internet. (Diversity course.)
BASQ 221 INTRODUCTION TO BASQUE FOLK DANCE
Lecture+Lab: 1+2
Credit(s): 2
Study and practice of movement styles and technique of Basque traditional dance at an introductory level with emphasis on cultural context.
BASQ 295 INDEPENDENT LANGUAGE STUDY
Credit(s): 1 to 2
Open to qualified students in the Basque language. At least one conference per week with instructor concerned. Maximum of 4 credits.
BASQ 378 BASQUE TRANSNATIONALISM IN THE UNITED STATES
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Theories of globalization, social identity, diaspora foreign policy, identity construction, and nationalism are utilized to compare Basque individual and institutionalized ethnicity in the United States. (Diversity course.)
(Same as ANTH 378; PSC 378; SOC 378; WMST 378.)
BASQ 405/605 BASQUE CONVERSATION AND COMPOSITION I
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Syntax and idiomatic usage in spoken and written Basque. Concentration on verb forms.
Prereq(s): BASQ 204.
BASQ 406/606 BASQUE CONVERSATION AND COMPOSITION II
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Syntax and idiomatic usage in spoken and written Basque. Concentration on verb forms.
Prereq(s): BASQ 405.
BASQ 407 CONTEMPORARY BASQUE POLITICS
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
(Same as PSC 407v) History and legal status of Basque Politics within Spain and the European Union with particular emphasis on Post-Franco nationalist movements and party development. (General Capstone course.)
Prereq(s): ENG 102; CH 201; junior or senior standing.
BASQ 431/631 MODERN BASQUE HISTORY (FROM 1700 TO THE PRESENT)
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Social and political history of the Basque country from the eighteenth century to the present; situates Basque history within major theories of nationalism. NOTE: Course also offered online through Independent Learning (call 775-784-4652).
BASQ 451/651 BASQUE LITERATURE
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Literature of the Basques in Basque, French, and Spanish. Readings in English translation. Course conducted in English.
BASQ 452/652 BERNARDO ATXAGA
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Reading and analysis of Basque writer Bernardo Atxaga's work in connection with world and Basque literary tradition. NOTE: Course also offered online through Independent Learning (call 775-784-4652).
BASQ 456/656 BASQUE LANGUAGE, SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Examination of social and cultural aspects of the Basque language, including language shift, contact, planning and interrelationships among language and gender, ethnicity, and culture. NOTE: Course also offered online through Independent Learning (call 775-784-4652).
Recommended Preparation: BASQ 220.
BASQ 460/660 TOPICS IN BASQUE CULTURAL STUDIES
Lecture+Lab: 1 to 3+0
Credit(s): 1 to 3
Selected topics in Basque cultural studies. Topics vary from semester to semester. Maximum of 6 credits.
BASQ 461/661 BASQUE GENDER STUDIES
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Analysis of gender in the Basque context, past and present, in its domestic, economic and political dimensions, and in the construction of socio-cultural identities.
BASQ 466 R/666 R MUSEUMS, ARCHITECTURE, CITY RENEWAL: THE BILBAO GUGGENHEIM
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Introduction to the complex architectural, museistic, local/global, artistic, political and epistemological issues presented by the first global museum in its first franchise. (General Capstone course.) NOTE: Course also offered online through Independent Learning (call 775-784-4652).
(Same as ANTH 413/613 and ART 466/666.)
Prereq(s): instructor permission required. ENG 102; CH 201; and junior or senior standing.
Recommended Preparation: BASQ 220.
BASQ 471/671 BASQUE CULTURE
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Survey of the culture of the Basque, including occupations, cultural institutions, oral traditions and art, as well as their transformations in emigrant settings such as the American West. (General Capstone course.) NOTE: Course also offered online through Independent Learning (call 775-784-4652).
Prereq(s): ENG 102; CH 201; and junior or senior standing.
BASQ 472/672 BASQUE DIASPORA STUDIES
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Ethnic identity maintenance is compared in the Basque diaspora with special attention to the factors of migration, globalization, ethnonationalism, gender, generation, and Basque government relations. NOTE: Course also offered online through Independent Learning (call 775-784-4652).
(Same as ANTH 415 R/615 R and PSC 407L/607L.)
BASQ 477/677 WAR, OCCUPATION & MEMORY IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
The experiences of Basque resisters, evaders, collaborators, and Jewish refugees in World War II in the French Basque Country provide the focus for discussions about history, memory and anthropology. (General Capstone course.)
Prereq(s): ENG 102; CH 201; and junior or senior standing.
BASQ 480/680 CONSUMING CULTURE: FOOD, GASTRONOMY AND LIFESTYLES
Lecture+Lab: 3+0
Credit(s): 3
Examines new and traditional Basque cuisine and its adaptations abroad (especially in the American West). Includes significance of food centered activities to gender relations.
BASQ 495 INDEPENDENT LANGUAGE STUDY
Credit(s): 1 to 3
Open to qualified students in the Basque language. At least one conference per week with instructor concerned. Maximum of 8 credits.
BASQ 499/699 INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH IN BASQUE CULTURAL STUDIES
Lecture+Lab: 1 to 6+0
Credit(s): 1 to 6
Research or reading to be carried out under supervision. Maximum of 6 credits.
BASQ 793 BASQUE INDEPENDENT STUDY
Lecture+Lab: 1 to 3+0
Credit(s): 1 to 3
For studies majoring in the tutorial doctoral program in Basque Studies. Maximum of 9 credits.
BASQ 795 COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION
Credit(s): 1 S/U only
Course is used by graduate programs to administer comprehensive examinations either as an end of program comprehensive examination or as a qualifying examination for doctoral candidates prior to being advanced to candidacy.
BASQ 799 DISSERTATION
Credit(s): 1 to 24
For majors in the tutorial doctoral program in Basque studies only.
BASQ 899 GRADUATE ADVISEMENT
Credit(s): 1 to 4
Provides access to faculty for continued consultation and advisement. No grade is filed and credits may not be applied to any degree requirements. Limited to 8 credits (2 semester) enrollment. For non-thesis master's degree students only.