Winter 2027

Winter Quarter 2027

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For all courses not described here, see Catalog Descriptions

Spanish & Portuguese Undergraduate Courses

Lower Division Language Courses

POR 002 Elementary Portuguese II
POR 031 Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
SPA 001 and 001Y Elementary Spanish I
SPA 002, 002Y and 002V Elementary Spanish II
SPA 003 and 003Y Elementary Spanish III
SPA 021 and 021V Intermediate Spanish I
SPA 022Y Intermediate Spanish II
SPA 023 Spanish Composition I
SPA 024 Spanish Composition II
SPA 032 Spanish for Heritage Speakers II

*Y denotes a hybrid class, V denotes a fully online class

Spanish Upper-Division

  • SPA 100 | Principles of Hispanic Literature & Criticism
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  • SPA 139 Modern Spanish Theater | Diana Aramburu
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  • SPA 142 Special Topics in Spanish Cultural & Literary Studies | David Campbell
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  • SPA 153 Latin American Short Story | Ross Hernandez
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  • SPA 155 Mexican Novel | Ross Hernandez
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  • SPA 164 Race and Culture | Charlie Hankin
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  • SPA 168 Introduction to Latinx Culture | 
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  • SPA 178A Spanish for the Professions | Agustina Carando

Spanish Graduate Seminars

  • SPA 206 Spanish Syntax, Raul Aranovich
  • Thursdays 4:10-7:00 pm, Sproul 622
  • SPA 201/CRI 201, Charlie Hankin

  • SPA 201/CRI 200A/CST 200B

    Race, Culture, and Critical Theory
    Tuesdays 2:10 - 5:00 PM - SPROUL 622
    Spanish students enroll in CRI 200A for SPA 201 credit
    This course serves as an introduction to critical theory, with an emphasis on the development of interdisciplinary reading methodologies and tools of cultural analysis. Our particular focus will be on the relationship between critical theory and race, that is, how cultures associated with people marked as non-dominant or oppressed have functioned as objects of critical theory and, conversely, how racialized subjects have mobilized critical theory to describe cultural expressions. We will put in dialogue foundational works of the main European schools of “theory” (Marxism, the Frankfurt School, poststructuralism) with responses, contributions, and innovations proposed by thinkers from the Global South, particularly from the Americas. Topics may include: culture, Blackness, diaspora, subalternity, coloniality, sound, knowledge, power. Students are encouraged to apply concepts and methodologies from critical theory to their own geographical regions and literary or cultural objects of focus. 
    This seminar is designed for graduate students across disciplines, including Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Spanish & Portuguese. Readings and discussion will be in English, with some materials available in Spanish. Written work may be completed in English or Spanish.Spanish students enroll in CRI 201 for SPA 201 credit
  • SPA 202/HMR 200B/CST 210, Michael Lazzara
  • Spanish students enroll in either HMR or CST for SPA 202 credit

SPA 202 / HMR 200B / CST 210 — Memory, Culture, and Human Rights | Michael J. Lazzara

Wednesdays, 2:10–5:00pm, room TBD

Over the past four decades, memory has emerged as a major category of critical inquiry across the humanities and social sciences and as an important framework for thinking about human rights, political violence, and their aftermaths. This interdisciplinary graduate seminar asks what a “memory studies” approach makes possible—and where its limits might lie. What are memory studies: an autonomous field, an interdisciplinary space of inquiry, or something else? How do individuals, communities, and institutions construct meanings of past violence and conflict? And how do struggles over memory shape contemporary understandings of justice, responsibility, identity, and human rights?

Readings will be primarily theoretical and conceptual, complemented by literature, testimony, film, and other cultural materials. Latin America—where debates about memory, dictatorship, political violence, and transitional justice have been especially influential—will provide an important point of reference, but students are encouraged to connect the seminar’s frameworks to their own research interests, geographical areas, and cultural objects.

The seminar is designed for graduate students across disciplines and may be taken through Spanish (SPA 202), Human Rights (HMR 200B), or Cultural Studies (CST 210). Readings and discussion will be in English, with some materials available in Spanish. Written work may be completed in English or Spanish.

This course is one of the two core graduate seminars for the Designated Emphasis in Human Rights.