Spanish (SPANISH)

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Summer 2022 8 Week Session
Beginners' course. Not open to students who have completed more than two years of high school Spanish, or to native speakers.
Elementary Spanish - First Semester: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
The course will offer students an introduction to the literature and culture of Spanish-speaking worlds, will help them develop their skills as readers and critical thinkers and make significant progress in their ability to write coherent, intellectually forceful expository prose. We will focus on analytical writing by developing control of argument and style. Essays will be produced through a process of workshop and revision, with in-class writing, homework, and peer commentary. Our guide will be Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Students meet together and also individually with the professor.
Reading and Composition Through Readings from the Spanish-Speaking World: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
The course will offer students an introduction to the literature and culture of Spanish-speaking worlds, will help them develop their skills as readers and critical thinkers and make significant progress in their ability to write coherent, intellectually forceful expository prose. We will focus on analytical writing by developing control of argument and style. Essays will be produced through a process of workshop and revision, with in-class writing, homework, and peer commentary. Our guide will be Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Students meet together and also individually with the professor.
Reading and Composition Through Readings from the Spanish-Speaking World: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2022, Summer 2022 8 Week Session
Continuation of 1. Not open to students who have completed more than three years of high school Spanish, or native speakers.
Elementary Spanish - Second Semester: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Summer 2022 8 Week Session, Spring 2022
Continuation of 2. Course includes review and development of grammatical concepts taught in Spanish 1-2, as well as further practice in composition.
Intermediate Spanish - Third Semester: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2022 10 Week Session, Summer 2019 8 Week Session
This five week course will have one week on the Berkeley campus and four weeks in Madrid, Spain, and is the first semester of the second year sequence. The students will have a complete grammar review of Spanish, focusing more on those grammatical aspects that present linguistic challenges. The course includes a writing component, using the stories in the reader as material compositions as well as visits to museums and the excursion to Toledo.
Intermediate Spanish: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Summer 2023 8 Week Session, Summer 2022 8 Week Session
Continuation of 3. Development of grammatical concepts taught in Spanish 1-3 and further practice in composition.
Intermediate Spanish - Fourth Semester: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2022 10 Week Session, Summer 2019 8 Week Session
Puts emphasis on more formal aspects of writing in Spanish; also a grammar review of the structures helps students reach this goal. Includes cultural components: visits to historic sites outside of Madrid and within the capital. Students will give oral presentations in class on those visits and personal presentations of their activities in the city. Follows guidelines in the department for lower division programs while enhancing the experience of language learning where it is spoken.
Intermediate Spanish: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2023 10 Week Session, Summer 2022 10 Week Session
This course is a component of the Spanish N3 and N4 summer courses taken through Berkeley Study Abroad. It provides hands-on experience with the Spanish culture through five full-day excursions and interactions with the native Spaniards.
Cultura Contemporanea: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2022, Fall 2021
First course of an intermediate Spanish language course for students who speak Spanish in informal settings and/or are first or second generation of Spanish speakers in the U.S. This course aims to develop formal language through readings, writing, and discussion of academic texts and film.
Spanish for Bilingual Students, First Course: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2022, Fall 2021
Second course of an intermediate Spanish language course for students who have oral proficiency in Spanish and/or are first or second generation of Spanish speakers in the U.S. This course aims to continue the development and expansion of academic registers through readings, writing, and discussion of academic texts and film. Spanish 22 students read academic articles, more complex than those read in Spanish 21.

Spanish for Bilingual Students, Second Course: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2020, Fall 2017
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
Freshman Seminars: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024 8 Week Session
This is the bridge course between lower and upper division coursework in Spanish. In addition to exposing you to the principles and techniques of literary analysis, this course will continue to develop your speaking, aural comprehension, writing, and reading comprehension skills. After completing Spanish 25 you can begin taking the required upper-division courses for a Spanish major or minor.
Reading and Analysis of Literary Texts: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
The dissemination of Romance languages across the world tells stories of nation-building, colonization, immigration, and assimilation, with written records that trace back to a common linguistic ancestor, Latin. Taught in English, this course introduces students to Romance linguistics through a socio-historical perspective, requiring that students understand how the evolution of Romance varieties has been shaped by European and global history. After a brief introduction to core fields in linguistics (phonetics/phonology/ morphology/syntax/pragmatics), students will apply these concepts through various analytic approaches to understanding language, including but not limited to historical, variationist, and anthropological.
Introduction to Romance Languages and Linguistics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2021
A close reading of Don Quixote in English. Don Quixote was the first modern novel and a funny book, a self-described parody of chivalric romances, but it is also a deep investigation and representation of love, legitimacy, epistemology, and everyday life.

Don Quixote in English: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022
When Gabriel García Márquez published his monumental novel 100 Years of Solitude in 1967 he transformed not only the history of Latin American literature, but the history of literature and culture throughout the world. But then what happened? Beginning with Márquez’s novel, and what Cuban author Alejo Carpentier called “the marvelous real” (lo real maravilloso), this course in English will explore how Latin American fiction of the last fifty years has adapted, rejected, or otherwise reimagined magical realism to invent new ways to narrate and respond to the world’s changing realities. While our present world might seem more nightmarish than magical, the novels in this class will provide us with the resources to imagine reality otherwise.
Magical Realism and Beyond: Latin American Literature in English: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022
Introduction to the study of the fundamentals of Nahuatl; comprehension skills, grammatical structures, speaking practice; and exposure to Nahua culture, history and modern life.


Nahuatl Beginning I: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2023
Second semester of the beginning level Nahuatl course: introduction to the study of the fundamentals of Nahuatl; comprehension skills, grammatical structures, speaking practice; and exposure to Nahua culture, history and modern life.
Nahuatl Beginning II: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022
Continuation of the study of the fundamentals of Nahuatl; comprehension skills, grammatical structures, speaking practice; and continued exposure to Nahua culture, history and modern life.
Nahuatl Intermediate I: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2023
Second semester of the intermediate level Nahuatl course: introduction to the study of the fundamentals of Nahuatl; comprehension skills, grammatical structures, speaking practice; and exposure to Nahua culture, history and modern life.

Nahuatl Intermediate II: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022
Continuation of the study of Nahuatl; advanced level language comprehension (speaking, reading, writing and listening), knowledge of the language structure, as well as cultural competence and sensibility, in order to facilitate students’ ability to communicate effectively, correctly, creatively and respectfully in and outside Nahua villages.
Nahuatl Advanced I: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Not yet offered
The Nahuatl language is one of the languages ​​with the most speakers in Mexico, currently spoken in at least 16 states of Mexico. This Indigenous Mexican language is one of the 68 that still exist with more than 20 variants and has more than one and a half million speakers. In this course, the students will continue learning modern Nahuatl of the Huasteca Veracruzana, specifically the Chicontepec area. This course’s objectives are students’ mastery of Nahuatl so that they can have good communication and a broader understanding of the culture of Native peoples. The student will reach these goals with the instructors’ planned classes, class activities, and Nahuatl grammar.

Advanced Nahuatl II: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2018
Group study of a topic not included in the regular department curriculum. Topics may be initiated by students under the sponsorship and direction of a member of the Spanish and Portuguese department's faculty.
Directed Group Study: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
Spanish 100 is the foundational course for Spanish department majors in Hispanic Languages, Linguistics, and Bilingualism, as well as for any student interested in the Spanish language and Linguistics. Taught in Spanish, this course serves as an introduction to the formal linguistic analysis of the Spanish language and emphasizes the goals and methodology of the language sciences. It surveys key areas of the field of Spanish Linguistics, including Phonology and Phonetics, Morphology, and Syntax. Additional topics (Historical Linguistics, Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Dialectology, Bilingualism, etc.) in the context of the Spanish language may also be covered.
Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
Taught in Spanish, Span 101 serves as an introduction to the Spanish sound system through an exploration of the complexities of native-like Spanish pronunciation and perceptions of native and non-native accent. Designed for both native and non-native speakers of Spanish as well as students without formal coursework in (Hispanic) Linguistics, this course centers on the acoustic nuances that distinguish standard Spanish pronunciation from non-standard and non-native pronunciations. Emphasis will be placed on comparisons between the Spanish and English sound systems, and the acquisition of a native-like accent will be addressed from both theoretical and practical standpoints.
Spanish Pronunciation and Accents in Native and Non-Native Speakers: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
In this course we will review Spanish grammar elevating it to the next level, practicing different structures and applying them to writing. We will also discuss the differences between various styles of writing and practice each of them individually. We will regularly read short yet complex works, analyze them and write about a chosen topic. We will also be augmenting vocabulary, improving spelling.

Advanced Grammar and Composition: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
This course will be structured as an advanced writing workshop, with variable topics that develop a student’s skills in a particular genre. Possible topics include journalism, fiction, blogging/journal writing, sports writing, and writing in a business context. Components include: a) short writing exercises, done in and out of class; b) longer exercises done outside of class; c) revision; and d) reading and discussion of texts that serve as examples of different techniques and contribute to development of appropriate vocabulary.
Advanced Writing Workshop: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2022 10 Week Session, Summer 2019 8 Week Session
This course is geared toward the improvement of students' reading and writing skills by reinforcing real-life application of their foreign language knowledge and abilities in Madrid. They will participate within the academic discourse on contemporary news topics by interacting with televised or written texts, as well as conducting interviews with Madrid's citizens, and traveling to locations where news is happening. These activities will culminate in production of critical essays using workshops, revisions, and presentations to the class. Oral skills will be reinforced, as well as the improvement of reading and writing skills.
Advanced Composition: Breaking News: The Present and Past as Told by the Press: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
This is an introductory course for students interested in the conquest and colonization of the Americas and the continuing reality of colonialism. It examines foundational texts from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century produced by diverse colonial subjects and written in Spanish as well as native languages. We will analyze these texts in order to understand the complex realities of life under colonial rule in Spanish America, including processes of cultural and linguistic translation and the many forms of domination and resistance.
Survey of Spanish American Literature: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
This course offers an introduction to modern Spanish American literatures and cultures. It focuses on the complex ways in which cultural and intellectual production anticipates, participates in, and responds to political, social, and economic transformations from the nineteenth century onwards. Through a wide spectrum of sources (essays, fiction, poetry, film, and art), we will study and discuss some of the most relevant issues in Latin American modern history, such as modernity, democracy, identity, memory, and social and economic justice.
Survey of Spanish American Literature: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course will cover literary works in Spanish/romance from 10th c. jarchas to 17th century plays. Medieval and Early Modern Iberia was a place of fervent literary experimentation which has produced texts of high cultural, linguistic and literary value. The general aim of this class is for the students to develop a better understanding of the richness of Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature and how said literary works both shaped and reflected the heterogeneous cultures that co-existed in Iberia for centuries.
Survey of Spanish Literature: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
This course is designed to provide students with a broad overview of the literature, history, and culture of Spain in the modern era (19th-21st centuries). We will examine the major aesthetic movements that have characterized modern Spanish literature, with a focus on the complex relationships that imaginative literature and the arts maintain with history. By the end of the course, students should have a solid understanding of the literature and history of modern Spain as well as a broad set of critical frameworks for thinking about, discussing and analyzing literature and the arts in Spanish.
Survey of Spanish Literature: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025
Judeo-Spanish, or Ladino, is the linguistic legacy of the Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal in the late fifteenth century. In this translation-driven course, students will learn to read and analyze Judeo Spanish literary and cultural texts. Combining language instruction with literary /cultural studies, this fast-paced course exposes students to Sephardic culture in the longue durée, including Hispano-Jewish poetry, Moroccan balladry, liturgical texts from Amsterdam, Ottoman-era memoir, Holocaust testimony from the Balkans, and Jewish-American reportage and satire. Depending on course composition, students will have the opportunity to practice basic conversational skills. No knowledge of Hebrew or a Romance language required.
Elementary Judeo-Spanish: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Not yet offered
Conducted in Judeo-Spanish, this course attempts to answer these and other questions by interrogating primary sources that span the twelfth to twentieth centuries. In addition to Judeo-Spanish materials, the course will also incorporate readings from the Old Spanish, Judeo-Portuguese, and early modern Castilian and Portuguese literary traditions, with English translations provided when necessary or as an interpretive aid.
Advanced Judeo-Spanish: Ibero-Jewish Voices from the Margins Reading and Questioning the Archives: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019
Conversion often refers to changing religions. This process can be personal or historical, involve a single individual or entire groups, such as at the moment of colonization of the Americas, when thousands of indigenous people were forcibly or willingly converted to Christianity. But what does it mean to convert? Is it a one-time event by which change gets effected and is final, or, does it involve multiple negotiations? Does the converter become curious about and affected by the beliefs of those he tries to gain over to his religion? What implications does this have for art, technology, thought? We will look at how this concept gets represented in different media and divergent forms of literacy: textual, pictorial, ritual.
Conversion and Negotiation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Spring 2018
Analysis and discussion of selected works by Cervantes, including his dramatic output.
Cervantes: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2017
Analysis and discussion of selected works by Cervantes, including his dramatic output.
Cervantes: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2018
An overview of the culture of Spain, through emphasis on selected topics.
Studies in Spanish Culture: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
The course will focus on a selection of some of the most celebrated Spanish lyric poetry from the Middle Ages through the early 20th century. This will include reflection on the idea of lyric and lyric subjectivity, the continuities and discontinuities that have characterized lyric poetry over time, and exploration of some of the more striking features of lyric poetry in comparison to other forms of discourse. Our primary focus will be on techniques of reading, methods of analysis and the particularities of the poems we read. Extensive prior experience reading poetry is not required; a passion for protracted attention to the language of poetry is.
Spanish Poetry: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2022 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Summer 2018 8 Week Session
Overview of events leading to 20th and 21st century political and social changes in Spanish society. Combines cultural activities inside and outside of the classroom (lectures, fieldtrips, visits to monuments and museums). Taught entirely in Spanish. Attendance and fieldtrips are mandatory. Upon completion students will have better understanding of contemporary Spain--how the past shaped the present and how the present deals with the past; cultural diversity and its contradictions; Spain and globalization.
Contemporary Spanish History and Culture: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2022 10 Week Session, Summer 2019 8 Week Session
An overview of the history and rich cultural heritage of Spain, emphasizing particular topics and visits to important historical sites.
Spanish Culture and Civilization: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 8 Week Session
Spanish 123 will focus on the study of Nauatl Language & Culture through a linguistic, literary, artistic, and historical approach. Living in Cholula, Puebla, constitutes a fundamental ingredient of this learning. Cholula and Puebla are Indeed places of intersection of two main components of Mexican civilization: pre-Hispanic and post-Hispanic. The study of Nauatl language –official language of the ancient Mexican-Aztec empire, and still spoken by 1.5 million people today— will allow students to comprehend cultural, historic, and linguistic intersections between both civilizations. We will include social practices of the Mexican community and its interactions with Nauatl language and Nauatl speakers.
Mexican Culture, Language, and Civilization: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Discover the great tradition of the short story in modern Latin American literature. A wide range of stories will be available to read, analyze and debate, drawing on modern and contemporary writers. Students will be encouraged to investigate the internal structure of the genre through critical and theoretical essays—many of them written by the authors themselves. Readings will include works by Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Augusto Monterroso, Silvina Ocampo, Elena Garro, Horacio Quiroga, Juan Rulfo and Guillermo Cabrera Infante.
The Spanish American Short Story: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2024
This course examines a topic not covered by the Department’s regular course offerings, such as close examination of a single work, a particular theme, a type of literature, or other similar topic. Focus varies
from term to term and the course may be repeated for credit.
Studies in Hispanic Literature: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Special topics in American cultures.
American Cultures Special Topics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021
Special topics in Hispanic literature. Fulfills "writing intensive" course requirement for the major.
Studies in Hispanic Literature - Writing Intensive: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2020
This course will be devoted to reading and analysis of modern and contemporary fiction by Spanish-American authors. We will approach these works as windows onto the past and present of the region and discuss themes of memory, human rights, identity, globalization and political change. The course will explore the diverse practices of reading and critical analysis that these literary works demand. Secondary readings will provide historical and political context and will also help us hone in on a key question that has been central to the tradition of Spanish-American literary critique: how do fictional texts dialogue with other kinds of texts, literary and non-literary?
Spanish-American Fiction in English Translation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Taught in Spanish, this course serves to further familiarize students with the structure of the Spanish sound system. The course centers on the vocalic and consonantal inventories of various Spanish dialects using both phonological and acoustic phonetic analyses with the goal of preparing students to conduct phonological and phonetic analyses on Spanish varieties, as well as on their own speech. Emphasis will be placed on the skills and techniques particular to sound spectral analysis. Sociophonetic variation (i.e., constant variability in speech production) will also be addressed in the context of empirical research studies.
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Taught in Spanish, this course serves to further familiarize students with the formal linguistic analysis of the structure of words, phrases, and sentences in the Spanish language. The course centers on canonical and non-canonical patterns of Spanish word formation (e.g. morpheme composition) and sentence composition (e.g. coordination, juxtaposition, subordination) with the goal of preparing students to conduct formal morphosyntactic analyses on Spanish varieties, as well as on their own speech. Special emphasis will be placed on examining competing morphosyntactic analyses for select Spanish phenomena, and differences in morphosyntactic features across Spanish dialects will also be addressed.
Spanish Morphology and Syntax: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
Taught in Spanish, this course serves to further familiarize students with formal approaches to bilingualism in the context of Spanish-speaking individuals and communities. Topics covered from a societal-level sociolinguistic standpoint include global language diversity, linguistic vitality, language death, pidgin and creole languages, linguistic identity and ideologies, bilingual education, and government-level language planning. Topics covered from an individual-level psycholinguistic standpoint include language processing and localization in the brain, acquisition and attrition, impairments, transfer effects between speakers’ languages, and models of phonological, morphosyntactic, and lexical processing.
Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Spanish Bilingualism: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2022, Fall 2020
Taught in Spanish, this course serves to further familiarize students with the fields of Spanish Dialectology and Sociolinguistics. The course centers on the empirical study of linguistic variation that characterizes and is inherent to all human languages, as well as the dynamics of language use that give rise to distinct dialects and language change. Course readings include case studies in Sociolinguistics and Language Variation and Change, and constitute the basis for practical instruction in empirical methodologies for sociolinguistics and dialectology research. Students will be encouraged to critically examine traditional prescriptive approaches to Spanish Dialectology.
Spanish Dialectology and Sociolinguistic Variation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2022, Spring 2019
Taught in Spanish, this course serves to further familiarize students with the field of Contact Linguistics (Language Contact). The course centers on the linguistic outcomes of Spanish varieties spoken by multilingual communities with the goal of preparing students to critically examine traditional prescriptive accounts of contact varieties and U.S. Spanish in particular. Emphasis will be placed on the empirical assessment of contact influence for Spanish linguistic innovations and code-switching. Descriptive characterizations of several Spanish contact varieties will be explored alongside those available for Spanish creole languages in order to provide opportunities for comparative analysis.
Spanish in the U.S. and in Contact with Other Languages: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2021, Spring 2019
Taught in Spanish, this course serves to familiarize students with the fields of First and Second Language Acquisition, additionally covering implications for the teaching of (K-12) Spanish in the U.S. Centering on the context of Spanish acquisition by native speakers of English, the course explores parallels and differences between first and second language acquisition, the effects of individual differences on foreign language learning, and prominent models of first and second language acquisition. Students will apply language acquisition theory to critically evaluate common K-12 Spanish classroom activities, as well as design their own, informed by empirical research.
Foreign Language Acquisition and Pedagogy for Spanish Language Instruction: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2023, Summer 2023 First 6 Week Session
This course examines topics not covered by the Department’s regular course offerings in Hispanic Linguistics, such as the linguistics of Spanish in relation to other languages, historical approaches to Hispanic Linguistics, the intersection between (Hispanic) Linguistics and race, gender, and politics, the semantics and/or pragmatics of Spanish, quantitative and/or qualitative approaches to Hispanic Linguistics, etc. Focus varies from term to term and the course may be repeated for credit.

Topics in Hispanic Linguistics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Directed study centering on the preparation/completion of an honors thesis (see Honors Program, Option A, above).
Spanish Honors Course: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2016, Fall 2015
This is a two semester course. H195A will be graded at the end of the first semester, which will indicate that students are making progress on developing the thesis. During the second semester, each student will enroll in H195B and write an honors thesis.
Spanish Honors Course: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2019, Spring 2016
This is a two-semester course, graded at the end of each semester. During the second semester, each student will write an honors thesis. Completion of the thesis is required for a final grade in H195B.
Spanish Honors Course: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2019
Individual research or research assistantships on projects in the subfields of Hispanic Linguistics, sponsored by a faculty member in the department; written reports required.
Field Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023
Group study of a topic not included in the regular department curriculum. Topics may be initiated by students under the sponsorship and direction of a member of the Spanish and Portuguese department's faculty.
Supervised Group Study: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Spring 2020
Enrollment restrictions apply; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course is designed to introduce all new graduate students to the research conducted in the department. Readings will consist of research papers authored by members of the department.
Spanish Proseminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012
Applications of linguistic theory to literary texts and the analysis of fiction prose, discourse analysis, and the literary representation of speech.
Literary Linguistics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2021, Spring 2018, Fall 2015, Fall 2014
Linguistic development of the major Romance languages (French, Italian, and Spanish) from the common Latin origin. Comparative perspective, combining historical grammar and external history.
Linguistic History of the Romance Language: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2016
Topics will vary. Comparative studies in literary, cultural, or historical issues that cut across the literatures of the Romance languages.
Comparative Studies in Romance Literatures and Cultures: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2023
This course varies in topic and fulfills requisite coursework for the Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics. Topics may range from foundational coursework (e.g. Spanish Phonetics and Phonology, History of the Spanish Language, etc.) to specialized topics in Hispanic Linguistics (e.g. Microsociolinguistics, Contact Linguistics, etc.).
Seminar in Hispanic Linguistics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2010, Spring 2007, Spring 2001

Major Prose Authors of the Golden Age: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2011, Spring 2009

Major Poets of the Golden Age: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2008, Spring 2006

Major Dramatists of the Golden Age: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2014, Spring 2012, Fall 2009

Modern Spanish Poetry (After Romanticism): Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Fall 2004

Colonial Spanish American Literature: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2010, Fall 2005
A comprehensive survey of poetry in Latin America from 1880-1920, on the poetics of . Special attention given to the work of Ruben Dario and the heritage of Symbolism in Latin America.
Modern Spanish American Poetry: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Fall 2013

Literary Theory and Criticism: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2013, Fall 2007
The reading and interpretation of the works of Cervantes, such as , the , the , the , and the dramatic works. Focus will change according to the needs and interests of members of the course, but will address such issues as the place of Cervantes' works in literary history, the background contexts of Cervantes' works, and contemporary approaches and movements in Cervantes criticism.
Cervantes: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024

Seminar in Spanish American Literature: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023

Seminar in Spanish Literature: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024 8 Week Session
Individual conferences on special programs of study or research in a restricted field not covered by available courses or seminars.
Special Study for Graduate Students: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024 8 Week Session

Special Advanced Study: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024

Practicum in College Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Lectures on methodology, grading and testing, class preparation, textbook evaluation, course design. Includes language laboratory observations and supervised classroom practice. Required for all new graduate student instructors.
Teaching Spanish in College: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Individual study, subject to the approval of the graduate adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for students to prepare for the comprehensive examination for the M.A. degree. May be taken only in the semester in which the examination is attempted.
Individual Study for Master's Students: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Individual study, subject to the approval of the graduate adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for students to prepare for the qualifying examination required of candidates for the Ph.D. May be taken only in the semester in which the examination is attempted or in the immediately preceding one.
Individual Study for Doctoral Students: Read More [+]