Fall Quarter 2025

Fall Quarter 2025

• For day, time, room, and instructor information, see our:
  Spanish Schedule , Portuguese Schedule or Schedule Builder
• For all courses not described here, please see:
  Spanish Catalog Descriptions , Portuguese Catalog Descriptions 

Spanish Undergraduate Courses

Lower Division Language Courses

SPA 001 — Elementary Spanish
SPA 001V — Elementary Spanish (Online)
SPA 001Y — Elementary Spanish (Hybrid)

SPA 002 — Elementary Spanish
SPA 002V — Elementary Spanish (Online)
SPA 002Y — Elementary Spanish (Hybrid)

SPA 003 — Elementary Spanish
SPA 003V — Elementary Spanish (Online)
SPA 003Y — Elementary Spanish (Hybrid)

SPA 021Y — Intermediate Spanish I (Hybrid)

SPA 022Y — Intermediate Spanish I (Hybrid)

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 Course Descriptions & Flyers

• SPA 100 — Principles of Hispanic Literature & Criticism
  Cristina Martinez-Carazo
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• SPA 115 — History of the Spanish Language
  TBD
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• SPA 116 — Applied Spanish Linguistics
  Claudia Sanchez Gutierrez
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• SPA 148 — Cinema in the Spanish-Speaking World in Translation
  Cristina Martinez-Carazo
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• SPA 151 — Survey of Latin American Literature 1900 to Present
  Charlie Hankin
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• SPA 157 — Great Works of Latin American Literature/Culture
  Robert Newcomb
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• SPA 159 — Special Topics in Latin American Literature & Culture
  Diana Aramburu
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• SPA 174 — Chicano Culture
  Robert Irwin
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• SPA 178A — Spanish for the Professions
  Agustina Carando
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Portuguese Undergraduate Courses

POR 001 — Elementary Portuguese
Benjamin Chaffin

Spanish Graduate Course Descriptions

• SPA 201 — Literary Theory I
  Charlie Hankin
• Keywords and concepts in critical theory with an emphasis on developing methodologies of close reading and cultural analysis. This course will pair seminal works from the main European schools (Marxism, Frankfurt School, Poststructuralism) with decolonial thought from Latin America and the Global South. Topics may include culture, ideology, knowledge, power, subalternity, Blackness, and coloniality.
• SPA 217 — Sociolinguistics: Spanish of the United States
  Agustina Carando
• Drawing from research in language contact, bilingualism, sociolinguistics and education, this course aims at familiarizing students with the features of Spanish spoken in the U.S. context, promoting an understanding of the diverse population of heritage speakers and their language practices. Topics include translanguaging and code-switching, the notion of Spanglish, Spanish in contact with English, critical perspectives, and pedagogical implications.
• SPA 230 — Topics in Latin American Cultural Studies-Movilidades e inmovilidades
  Robert Irwin
• Este seminario revisará diferentes aproximaciones teóricas y metodológicas a las dinámicas actuales de las movilidades e inmovilidades humanas en las Américas. A través de obras tanto artísticas/literarias como testimoniales, incluyendo narrativas digitales del archivo Humanizando la Deportación/Humanizando el Asilo, se considerarán tales conceptos como la autonomía de la migración, migrant placemaking/worldmaking, el saber migrante, intimate bordering, everyday bordering, nepantla, homing, el cuidado migrante, el transfeminismo, el rasquachismo. Entre las obras culturales que leeremos: Caravaneros de Douglas Oviedo, El viaje de un pollo de Fabián Quito, Sobrevivientes: ciudadanos del mundo de Ustin Dubuisson, Cruzar la frontera en tacones de Alexandra DeRuiz, Nostalgia and Borders de Sonia Guiñansaca – en diálogo con obras críticas/académicas de: Amarela Varela, Leisy Abrego, Sayak Valencia, Gloria Anzaldúa, Tomás Ybarra Frausto, Nicholas De Genova, María Dolores París, Verónica Gago, Soledad Álvarez, Masaya Llavaneras, entre otrxs críticxs.
   
• SPA 390 — The Teaching of Spanish in College
  Claudia Sanchez Gutierrez
• Required for new Spanish instructors.