Fall Quarter 2024
- For day, time, room, and TA information, see our TENTATIVE Spanish Schedule, TENTATIVE Portuguese Schedule or the class search tool https://registrar-apps.ucdavis.edu/courses/search/index.cfm.
- For all courses not described here, please refer to the General Catalog course descriptions: https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/courses-subject-code/spa or https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/courses-subject-code/por
Spanish Undergraduate Courses
Lower Division
SPA 001 Elementary Spanish
SPA 001V Elementary Spanish
SPA 001Y Elementary Spanish
SPA 002 Elementary Spanish
SPA 002V Elementary Spanish
SPA 002Y Elementary Spanish
SPA 003 Elementary Spanish
SPA 003V Elementary Spanish
SPA 003Y Elementary Spanish
SPA 021 Intermediate Spanish I
SPA 021Y Intermediate Spanish I
SPA 022 Intermediate Spanish
SPA 023 Spanish Composition I
SPA 024 Spanish Composition II
SPA 031 Spanish for Native Speakers I
SPA 033 Spanish for Native Speakers III
Upper Division
SPA 100 Principles of Hispanic Literature & Criticism
Section 1 - TBD
Section 2 - Charles Oriel
SPA 114N Contrastive Analysis of English & Spanish
Agustina Carando
SPA 130 Survey of Spanish Literature to 1700
Daniela Gutierrez-Flores
SPA 133N Golden Age Literature of Spain
Charles Oriel
SPA 142 Special Topics in Spanish Cultural & Literary Studies
Diana Aramburu
SPA 157 Great Works of Latin American Literature/Culture
Robert Newcomb
SPA 159 Special Topics in Latin American Literature & Culture
Diana Aramburu
SPA 170 Introduction to Latin American Culture
TBD
SPA 174 Chicano Culture
Robert Irwin
SPA 175 Topics in Latin American Culture
Robert Irwin
SPA 178A Spanish for the Professions
Agustina Carando
Portuguese Undergraduate Courses
POR 001 Elementary Portuguese
TBD
POR 001 is taught in person. Class time is used to build social interactions through the Portuguese language. Students must complete homework assignments, readings, and parts of the projects outside the class. POR 001 is the first course of the Elementary Portuguese series, an introduction to the Portuguese language focusing on developing all language skills in a cultural context with a particular emphasis on communication. Unit topics will be presented, contemplating contemporary issues of Lusophone communities with underlying topics such as official orthography and language varieties. Upon completing this course, students can communicate in oral and written Portuguese at the beginner level. A virtual collaboration with Portuguese speakers from Amazonia, Brazil, will occur weekly. Plural: Português Pluricêntrico, the textbook adopted in this course, is an Open Educational Resource available through UC eScholarship: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zs4s2p8#
POR 021 Intermediate Portuguese
Eugenia Magnolia Da Silva Fernandes
POR 021 is an in-person course. Class time is used to build social interactions through the Portuguese language. Outside the class, students must complete homework assignments, readings, and parts of the projects. POR 021 is a continuation of POR 3 or POR 31, consisting of developing and improving all language skills in Portuguese with an emphasis on interaction and problem-solving in the Lusophone world. Students will be led to the use of language by reading literary and authentic genres based on contemporary discussions to reach an intermediate-mid proficiency in the target language. Unit topics will be presented, contemplating contemporary issues of Lusophone communities with underlying topics such as official orthography and language varieties. Weekly, students have virtual exchanges with peers in Amazonia, Brazil. Upon completing this course, students will be able to communicate in oral and written Portuguese at the intermediate-mid level, take proficiency examinations, and enroll in POR 22. Prerequisites: POR 3 or POR 31 Plural: Português Pluricêntrico, the textbook adopted in this course, is an Open Educational Resource available through UC eScholarship: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zs4s2p8#
POR 031 Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
Eugenia Magnolia Da Silva Fernandes
POR 199 Special Study for Advanced Undergraduates
Spanish Graduate Courses
SPA 201 Literary Theory I
Robert Irwin
SPA 272 Critical Approaches to Latin American Literature: Narrative
Robert Irwin
SPA 274 Writing Out of Place: Dislocation and Transnational Lusophone Literature
Robert Irwin
SPA 390 The Teaching of Spanish in College
Eugenia Magnolia Da Silva Fernandes , Claudia Sanchez Gutierrez