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
Robert Irwin

SPA 390 — The Teaching of Spanish in College
Claudia Sanchez Gutierrez