Fall 2025

For students with limited proficiency in Spanish. Practice in listening comprehension, oral communication, elementary reading and writing.

Continuation of Spanish 110 or 120; increased emphasis on listening comprehension, oral expression, reading and writing.

Continuation of SPAN 150; intensive work in listening comprehension, oral communication, reading, and writing with emphasis on free expression; readings related to Hispanic culture and civilization. Prereq: SPAN 150 or equivalent.

Intensive review of Spanish grammar with emphasis on four skills. Audio-visual materials and readings related to Hispanic culture and civilization.

Development of students' oral and writing skills using literary and scientific materials; grammar review. Duplicates credit in the former SPAN 266.

Discussions of short films, cultural and literary texts and other activities designed to improve conversational skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 220. Not for credit for Spanish majors.

Examines the representation of gender and sexual discourses and the intersection with wider social, political and theoretical issues in Latin American and Spanish cinema. Taught in English.

Introduction to critical reading and interpretation of poetry, narrative fiction, drama and film from Spain and Latin America.

A survey of Spanish and Latin American cinema from the silent film era to the present, acquainting students with various critical and theoretical approaches to cinema studies. Conducted in Spanish.

A systematic study of the structure of Spanish. Topics include fundamental aspects of the sound system; word classes; sentences and their meaning; linguistic change and variation; standard and colloquial usage.

Contrastive study of Spanish and English structures designed to explore the similarities and differences between the two languages and to familiarize students with translation techniques. Emphasis on a variety of text types with the aim of increasing linguistic and cultural appreciation of the Spanish language.

The language and culture of a particular area of study or profession, such as medicine and healthcare, political and social sciences, business and the law. Limited to 4 units for major or minor credit.

Study of major trends in Latin American fiction from the 1930s to the present with a focus on narrative experimentation.

Survey of cultural critique focused on Latin America as a cultural region and on Latin Americanism as a transnational academic practice.

Experiential learning and project-based course designed to familiarize students with the food culture of Hispanic Los Angeles. Students create Spanish language blogs about their experiences.

A study of the bilingual acquisition of Spanish and English by children, and of Spanish as a second language by adults; focus on linguisitic, psychological and social factors.

A close reading of Cervantes' masterpiece and analysis of film adaptations of the novel.

An examination of gender, sexuality, and power in Iberian and Latin American literatures and cultures. Conducted in Spanish.

Theoretical and methodological approaches to cultural narratives in Spanish and Latin American literary and cultural studies.

Approaches and techniques in the teaching of Spanish and/or Portuguese as a second language.Open only to Master and Doctoral students in Comparative Literature, Comparative Culture in Literature and Studies (Spanish and Latin American Studies), Linguistics (Hispanic Linguistics) and Spanish.