Winter Quarter 2025

For day, time, room, and TA information, see our Spanish Schedule, TENTATIVE 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 021 Intermediate Spanish I
SPA 021V Intermediate Spanish I

SPA 022 Intermediate Spanish
SPA 022Y Intermediate Spanish I

SPA 023 Spanish Composition I

SPA 024 Spanish Composition II

SPA 031 Spanish for Native Speakers I

SPA 032 Spanish for Native Speakers III

Upper Division

SPA 100 Principles of Hispanic Literature & Criticism
Section 1 - Cristina Martinez-Carazo
Section 2 - Charles Oriel

SPA 111N Sounds & Words
Travis Bradley

SPA 115 History of the Spanish Language
Hunter Snow

SPA 131N Survey of Spanish Literature: 1700 to Present
Charlies Oriel

SPA 148 Spanish Language Cinema
Cristina Martinez-Carazo

SPA 150N Survey of Latin American Literature to 1900
Leopoldo Bernucci

SPA 159 Special Topics in Latin American Literature & Culture - Caribbean Culture
Charlie Hankin

SPA 160 Latin American Women Writers (Taught in Spanish)
Ana Peluffo

SPA 168 Intro to Latinx Culture
Emily Vazquez Enriquez

SPA 169 Special Topics in Chicanx/Latinx Studies
Lucas Ruppel Cane

SPA 172 Mexican Culture
Emily Vazquez Enriquez

Portuguese Undergraduate Courses

POR 002 Elementary Portuguese
Benjamin Chaffin

POR 022 Intermediate Portuguese
Benjamin Chaffin

POR 031 Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
Benjamin Chaffin

POR 161 Luso-Brazilian Literature & Culture
Leopoldo Bernucci

Spanish Graduate Courses

SPA 202 (combined with 203) Academic Professionalization: Papers, Publications and Proposals
Daniela Gutierrez-Flores
Tuesday, 4:10-7:00

The academic profession is increasingly competitive, requiring both intellectual rigor and practical skills. This seminar adopts a workshop format to equip students with essential tools for building a successful academic career. We will focus on three key areas: 1) Writing and delivering effective conference papers,

2) Transforming a seminar paper into a publishable article, and

3) Developing compelling panel and fellowship proposals. Students will engage in hands-on practice, including responding to peer reviews, tailoring submissions for different journals, and understanding the nuances between a conference presentation and a research article. This seminar offers a valuable opportunity to workshop concrete projects and receive constructive feedback. By the end of the quarter, students will have polished at least two works-in-progress toward publication or presentation.

In addition to the practical components, we will draw from Critical University Studies to explore the structural challenges facing academics and researchers in the Humanities today. This theoretical engagement will help us reflect on our roles within the evolving landscape of higher education. Taught in Spanish. Students may submit written work in either Spanish or English.

SPA 230: Decolonizing Puerto Rico through Fiction: Contemporary Puerto Rican Fiction in the Aftermath of Hurricane María
Diana Aramburu- Mondays 4:10-7:00
After Hurricane María laid bare Puerto Rico’s untenable colonial status as an unincorporated island-territory under U.S. control and emphasized an inefficient and negligent Puerto Rican government in the face of the most devastating natural disaster in the archipelago’s history, it became up to the Puerto Rican community with the help of the diaspora to organize and ensure their own survival. Grassroots community organizations as well as more established feminist collectives and activist organizations stepped in to fill the void left by governmental institutions, providing basic necessities such as food and water as well as medical and (re)construction services. This grassroots community-centered response to Hurricane María paved the way not only for the protests of the Verano del 19 where citizens took to the streets in response to a Puerto Rican government that had failed them, but also for a new decolonial and emancipatory fiction in Puerto Rico. Feminist decolonial coraje was central to the success of the Verano del 19 protests as it has been for the protest fiction that is denouncing the effects that coloniality, debt, and precarity have on the Puerto Rican population.

This course will examine contemporary Puerto Rican literary, visual, and musical responses in the aftermath of Hurricane María and the protests of the Verano del 19 as well as the feminicide and gender violence epidemic and the forced displacement of Puerto Ricans from Puerto Rico. Some of the questions that we will aim to answer are: what role does fiction play in depicting chaos and crisis as well as resistance and rebellion? How can fiction challenge heteropatriarchal colonial systems while also activating communities to (re)envision and instill change? Can protest fiction pave a way forward in decolonizing Puerto Rico? Can literary, visual, and musical mediums articulate a new vision for Puerto Rico, and if so, what is it?

SPA 274 Chile, 50 Years after the Coup: Politics, Aesthetics, Memories
Michael Lazzara- Wednesdays 4:10-7:00

Fifty years after General Pinochet’s military coup (1973) that violently overthrew President Salvador Allende’s democratically elected, socialist government (1970-1973), Chile stands as an international symbol of the horrors of dictatorship (1973-1990), the power of grassroots mobilization, and the struggle to forge democracy in the aftermath of political violence and state- sponsored repression. In October 2019, Chile again figured prominently in world news when massive protests broke out in which citizens questioned the very fabric of Chile’s social and economic system; since then, through two failed constitutional referendums, Chileans have been demanding deep change, an end to discrimination and socioeconomic inequality, and an end to “Pinochet’s constitution.” This course will start with Chile’s present (50 years after the coup) and work backwards in time to understand the past that led to it. It will introduce students to the fierce battles that have been waged in Chile over history and memory, the struggles of human rights activists, the tireless quest for truth and justice, and the emergence of powerful social movements. From an interdisciplinary perspective, students will analyze topics such as the revolutionary experience of the 1970s; political violence under dictatorship; censorship; the role of film and literature in the battle for truth; forms of social resistance; the idea of justice; and the consolidation of democracy after periods of political upheaval. Readings and film viewings will include works by Diamela Eltit, Roberto Bolaño, Patricio Guzmán, Nona Fernández, and others.