Winter Quarter 2027
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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
Spanish Psychiatry in Film and Literature - This course will examine literature, film and art that deals with psychiatry and mental health in Spain from the 19th century through the present. Over this 200-year period, psychiatry has been marked by conflicting medical frameworks, progressive and reactionary cultural attitudes, and volatile politics.
Throughout the semester, we will examine how broader social and ideological forces shaped the field of psychiatry: from the 19th century asylum models, to early 20th-century mental hygiene campaigns, to the community reforms and deinstitutionalization of the late Franco and post-dictatorship eras, and into the activism of the present day, as the influence of human rights discourses continue to challenge the field. Over the course of the term, we will read cultural texts–produced by canonical figures, medical professionals, and patients–that offer provocative critiques of psychiatry and its entanglement with social and political order in Spain.
Through student-centered discussions grounded in careful readings, this course invites us to see psychiatry as a privileged point of intersection between medicine, politics, and social life. - 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
- SPA201/CRI 200A/CST 200B, Charlie Hankin
Approaches to Critical Theory: Theorizing Difference - Tuesdays, 2:10-5:00, 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 difference, that is, how cultures as non-dominant or oppressed have functioned as objects of critical theory and, conversely, how subjects have mobilized various forms of difference to intervene in critical theory. We will put in dialogue foundational works of the main European schools of “theory” (Marxism, the Frankfurt School, poststructuralism, cultural studies) with more recent responses, contributions, and innovations proposed by thinkers from the Global South, particularly the Americas. Topics will include culture, capital, Blackness, anthropology, coloniality, performance, and sound.
This seminar is designed for graduate students across disciplines, including Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Spanish & Portuguese (among others). Readings and discussion will be in English, with some materials available in Spanish. Written work may be completed in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French.
Spanish students enroll in CRI 200A for SPA 201 credit.
- SPA 202/HMR 200B/CST 210, Michael Lazzara
- Wednesdays, 2:10–5:00pm, room TBD
Spanish students enroll in either HMR or CST for SPA 202 credit
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. - SPA 206 Spanish Syntax, Raul Aranovich
- Thursdays 4:10-7:00 pm, Sproul 622