Fall Quarter 2025
- For day, time, room, and TA information, see our Spanish Schedule, 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 021Y — Intermediate Spanish I
SPA 022Y — Intermediate Spanish I
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
Cristina Martinez-Carazo
SPA 115 — History of the Spanish Language
TBD
SPA 116 — Applied Spanish Linguistics
Claudia Sanchez Gutierrez
SPA 148 — Cinema in the Spanish-Speaking World in Translation
Cristina Martinez-Carazo
SPA 151 — Survey of Latin American Literature 1900 to Present
Charlie Hankin
SPA 157 — Great Works of Latin American Literature/Culture
Robert Newcomb
SPA 159 — Special Topics in Latin American Literature & Culture
Diana Aramburu
SPA 174 — Chicano Culture
Robert Irwin
SPA 178A — Spanish for the Professions
Agustina Carando
Portuguese Undergraduate Courses
POR 001 — Elementary Portuguese
Benjamin Chaffin
POR 100 — Principles of Luso-Brazilian Literature & Criticism
Robert Newcomb
Spanish Graduate Courses
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