Class Schedules (Spanish)

Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 102, students must have completed 101, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 102, students must have completed 101, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 102, students must have completed 101, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 203, students must have completed 102, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 101 with C- or better.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 203, students must have completed 102, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 101 with C- or better.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 203, students must have completed 102, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 101 with C- or better.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 203, students must have completed 102, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 101 with C- or better.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 204, students must have completed 203, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 102 or SPAN 110, or an equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 204, students must have completed 203, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 102 or SPAN 110, or an equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 204, students must have completed 203, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 102 or SPAN 110, or an equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Intermediate Spanish II extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Intermediate Spanish II extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Intermediate Spanish II extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

This course serves as a bridge between the intermediate and advanced courses in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Its main objective is to improve oral and written communication while strengthening grammatical skills and deepening knowledge of Hispanic cultures. Conversations and written essays are based on the cultural and literary themes presented in the textbook, a novel or other literary work, and supporting videos and films. Other course activities vary according to instructors and can include individual and/or group presentations; interviews with native speakers; attending community events related to some celebration of the Hispanic world; or different forms of community engagement. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 204 or SPAN 220 with a minimum grade of C-, or permission of instructor.

General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

This course serves as a bridge between the intermediate and advanced courses in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Its main objective is to improve oral and written communication while strengthening grammatical skills and deepening knowledge of Hispanic cultures. Conversations and written essays are based on the cultural and literary themes presented in the textbook, a novel or other literary work, and supporting videos and films. Other course activities vary according to instructors and can include individual and/or group presentations; interviews with native speakers; attending community events related to some celebration of the Hispanic world; or different forms of community engagement. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 204 or SPAN 220 with a minimum grade of C-, or permission of instructor.

General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

This course serves as a bridge between the intermediate and advanced courses in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Its main objective is to improve oral and written communication while strengthening grammatical skills and deepening knowledge of Hispanic cultures. Conversations and written essays are based on the cultural and literary themes presented in the textbook, a novel or other literary work, and supporting videos and films. Other course activities vary according to instructors and can include individual and/or group presentations; interviews with native speakers; attending community events related to some celebration of the Hispanic world; or different forms of community engagement. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 204 or SPAN 220 with a minimum grade of C-, or permission of instructor.

General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

This course is designed for heritage learners of Spanish: those who grew up speaking Spanish at home, with extended families and in their communities. These students are comfortable speaking Spanish, but their literacy in it was not necessarily developed by formal schooling. Leaning on all of their previous experience with the language, the course seeks to enrich and complement the students' linguistic repertoire by further developing their communicative abilities, both verbal and written, especially in an academic context. Class content will focus on Latin America and the U.S. Latinx population. Students will gain increased confidence in the language and will strengthen their identity as bilinguals and abilities to interact with a more diverse group of speakers, pursue higher-level courses and/or apply this knowledge in their professional endeavors, inside or outside the United States. This course is the equivalent to SPAN 305 for those interested in the Spanish major or minor. (Students cannot earn credit for both 305 and 306). Prerequisite(s): Course has no explicit prerequisite but is designed for those who grew up speaking Spanish at home, with extended families and in their communities.

General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
U.S. Identities and Differences

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

This course presents the student with essential tools for the critical analysis of a broad range of topics and forms of cultural production (literature, cinema, art, e-texts, etc.) in the Hispanic world. It also teaches the student advanced language skills in written composition and public oral presentation. This course satisfies the Area 2 requirement for the Spanish major. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 305 or SPAN 306.

General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

This course provides an interdisciplinary discussion of the Latinx experience in the United States with a focus on Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban- Americans. Using fiction, poetry, films and critical essays, we will examine issues of race and ethnicity, language, identity, gender and sexuality, politics, and immigration. This course satisfies the Area 2 requirement for the Spanish major. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 305 or SPAN 306.

General Education Requirements:
U.S. Identities and Differences

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

A linguistic survey of the Spanish language aimed at improving pronunciation and increasing comprehension of the structure of the language, deepening students' understanding of the sound system, word formation, grammar and meaning. Study will emphasize phonetics and provide an introduction to transcription, phonology, morphology and syntax, as well as provide an overview of linguistic change and geographic variation. This course satisfies the Area 3 requirement for the Spanish major. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 305, SPAN 306 or consent of instructor.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

In this course, students will examine the different varieties of Spanish in the US and the effects of the linguistic contact between Spanish and English. Sociolinguistic aspects relevant to language contact will be addressed, as will related issues such as immigration patterns, bilingualism, Spanglish, and bilingual education. This course satisfies the Area 3 requirement for the Spanish major. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 305 or SPAN 306, and another 300-level Spanish course or consent of the instructor. SPAN 309 recommended.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

The course focuses on the critical analysis of national stereotypes in literature and in other forms of cultural representation known in many languages as Imagology. The course examines the role that textual artifacts have played in shaping the modern image of the Hispanic nations. These texts are sometimes canonical, highbrow manifestations such as novels, poems, or essays. More often though, they are stereotypes or symbols ingrained in the collective psyche of both the Hispanic and the non-Hispanic people: "toreros," "gitanas," "gauchos/as," "guitarras," "sombreros," "flamenco," "samba," "salsa," "fútbol," and many more. As cultural myths, their representational power has proven to be incredibly enduring beyond the time of their formation. This course satisfies the Area 2 requirement for the Spanish major. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 307 or consent of the instructor.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

From the Amazon to Patagonia, the expansion of South American nations in the 19th century relied on the acculturation, displacement, and extermination of native populations. Despite their high degree of violence, collective traumas such as the Selknam genocide (Chile), "the conquest of the desert" (Argentina) and "the Putumayo atrocities" (Colombia-Peru) remain in the margins of the cultural memory of the region more than a century later after the events. How do survivors, activists, and artists confront the legacies of colonialism? What forms of reparation are appropriate in the present? From novels to films and documentaries, the cultural works that we will analyze in this course will help us not only to understand what these traumatic episodes mean today for the indigenous populations of the Amazon and Patagonia, but also to interrogate the limits and contradictions of any act of memory. This course satisfies the Area 2 requirement of the Spanish major. Prerequisite: SPAN 307 or consent of the instructor.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

Why do we laugh? Do we laugh with friends, strangers, or alone? How long does the magic of a joke last? When does a jest become bland or even offensive? This course invites students to reflect on our sense of humor by reading short stories, novellas, poems, and comedias written by Spanish and colonial American authors in the 16th and 17th centuries—a period known as the Golden Age when humor was cultivated as part of wit. We will examine the multiple meanings of laughter, uncovering its literary mechanisms (caricature, parody, irony, satire) and its conditions (tacit social hierarchy and discrimination). We will explore how laughter can reinforce stereotypes, challenge power, and build community. Students are encouraged to bring their own experiences with sitcoms, stand-up comedy, and TikTok shorts into class discussions and projects. This course satisfies the Area 1 requirement of the Spanish major. Prerequisite: SPAN 307 or consent of the instructor.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 102, students must have completed 101, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 102, students must have completed 101, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 203, students must have completed 102, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 101 with C- or better.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 203, students must have completed 102, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 101 with C- or better.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 203, students must have completed 102, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 101 with C- or better.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 204, students must have completed 203, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 102 or SPAN 110, or an equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 204, students must have completed 203, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 102 or SPAN 110, or an equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. For admission into SPAN 204, students must have completed 203, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 102 or SPAN 110, or an equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Intermediate Spanish II extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Intermediate Spanish II extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Intermediate Spanish II extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

Intermediate Spanish II extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Three class hours a week with professor plus bi-weekly sessions with lab instructor for additional speaking practice and cultural engagement. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

This course serves as a bridge between the intermediate and advanced courses in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Its main objective is to improve oral and written communication while strengthening grammatical skills and deepening knowledge of Hispanic cultures. Conversations and written essays are based on the cultural and literary themes presented in the textbook, a novel or other literary work, and supporting videos and films. Other course activities vary according to instructors and can include individual and/or group presentations; interviews with native speakers; attending community events related to some celebration of the Hispanic world; or different forms of community engagement. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 204 or SPAN 220 with a minimum grade of C-, or permission of instructor.

General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

This course serves as a bridge between the intermediate and advanced courses in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Its main objective is to improve oral and written communication while strengthening grammatical skills and deepening knowledge of Hispanic cultures. Conversations and written essays are based on the cultural and literary themes presented in the textbook, a novel or other literary work, and supporting videos and films. Other course activities vary according to instructors and can include individual and/or group presentations; interviews with native speakers; attending community events related to some celebration of the Hispanic world; or different forms of community engagement. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 204 or SPAN 220 with a minimum grade of C-, or permission of instructor.

General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

This course presents the student with essential tools for the critical analysis of a broad range of topics and forms of cultural production (literature, cinema, art, e-texts, etc.) in the Hispanic world. It also teaches the student advanced language skills in written composition and public oral presentation. This course satisfies the Area 2 requirement for the Spanish major. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 305 or SPAN 306.

General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

This course provides an interdisciplinary discussion of the Latinx experience in the United States with a focus on Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban- Americans. Using fiction, poetry, films and critical essays, we will examine issues of race and ethnicity, language, identity, gender and sexuality, politics, and immigration. This course satisfies the Area 2 requirement for the Spanish major. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 305 or SPAN 306.

General Education Requirements:
U.S. Identities and Differences

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

A linguistic survey of the Spanish language aimed at improving pronunciation and increasing comprehension of the structure of the language, deepening students' understanding of the sound system, word formation, grammar and meaning. Study will emphasize phonetics and provide an introduction to transcription, phonology, morphology and syntax, as well as provide an overview of linguistic change and geographic variation. This course satisfies the Area 3 requirement for the Spanish major. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 305, SPAN 306 or consent of instructor.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

A survey of modern dialectal variations of Spanish and Peninsular Spanish varieties. Sociolinguistic issues and historical aspects of language will be addressed, along with other extralinguistic factors. Through this course, students will gain a linguistic understanding of the principal varieties of Modern Spanish. This course satisfies the Area 3 requirement for the Spanish major. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 309 or consent of the instructor.

General Education Requirements:
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

The border region between the United States and Mexico exists as both a physical space and an ideological construct. This seminar uses literary and filmic narratives to explore issues of identity, opportunity, and violence that arise from this contested space. How does the border shape individual and cultural identities? In what ways does the border create opportunities for both advancement and exploitation? How do these works engage conflicts and tensions of race, nationalism, gender, and power? The course will include writers and filmmakers from both countries, and we will read original texts both in Spanish and English. This course satisfies the Area 2 requirement for the Spanish major. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 308 or consent of the instructor.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

From the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, the Amazon rainforest has been a source of wonderment, greed, and, in our present, concern. However, as exemplified by metaphors such as “el Dorado”, the “Green Hell” or the “Lungs of the Earth”, the Amazon is as much a geographical space as it is a discursive formation. This course offers an introduction to the cultural representations of the Amazon rainforest. From Indigenous myths to contemporary films and first-person accounts, we will analyze how the Amazon has been imagined and depicted by multiple actors, such as indigenous activists, scientists, filmmakers, and entrepreneurs. Through a variety of texts, disciplines, and voices, we will analyze how the Amazon has been narrated as a place of “origin”, “wealth”, “suffering”, and “resistance”. While students will gain a general understanding of Amazonian culture, one of the objectives of the course is to discuss how indigenous peoples are tapping into their ancestral knowledge to situate themselves as global political actors and fight back against environmental degradation. This course satisfies the Area 2 requirement of the Spanish major. Prerequisite: SPAN 307 or consent of the instructor.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

Medieval and early modern Iberia, together with colonial America, were multilingual, multicultural, and multiracial worlds marked by discrimination and by acts of imagining difference, much like our own. The Spanish word raza (“race”) was once used to describe the quality of cloth. In this course, we will unweave the invisible cloth of race by traveling from thirteenth-century Castile to seventeenth-century Mexico. Through readings of epic poems, exempla, travelogues, novelas moriscas, and comedias, along with grammatical treatises and legal documents, we will explore how premodern societies constructed and codified human difference. What constituted raza when the concept of race had not yet crystallized as we understand it today? How were Muslims, Berbers, Jews, Indigenous Americans, and Black people perceived—and gradually racialized—across the centuries? Ultimately, how might these texts and histories help us cultivate alternative ways of imagining both the past and the present? This course satisfies the Area 1 requirement of the Spanish major. Prerequisite: SPAN 307 or consent of the instructor.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities

Course Materials

The senior seminar is a capstone course that explores in depth a shifting field of topics. It helps students relate the subjects they have studied in their major field and assists students in demonstrating their familiarity with Hispanic cultures and in methods of analysis and presentation, culminating in the preparation and presentation of a major research project. It is primarily a discussion course that relies heavily on individual as well as collective effort. Required for Spanish majors. Category varies. Prerequisite(s): For Spanish majors; to be completed in the final semester.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials

The senior seminar is a capstone course that explores in depth a shifting field of topics. It helps students relate the subjects they have studied in their major field and assists students in demonstrating their familiarity with Hispanic cultures and in methods of analysis and presentation, culminating in the preparation and presentation of a major research project. It is primarily a discussion course that relies heavily on individual as well as collective effort. Required for Spanish majors. Category varies. Prerequisite(s): For Spanish majors; to be completed in the final semester.

General Education Requirements:

Distribution Requirements:

Course Materials