Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
The Freshman 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. Freshman Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Summer 1999 10 Week Session, Summer 1998 10 Week Session
An intensive course for students who have no previous study of Portuguese designed to introduce the basics of the language. This offering prepares the student for further upper division course work in Portuguese.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015
An intensive course for students with no previous study of the language. This offering may be taken independently for reading knowledge. In conjunction with 101B, it constitutes an intensive introduction to Portuguese, and prepares the student for further upper division course work.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015
Emphasis on understanding, speaking and writing Portuguese. Taken in conjunction with Portuguese 101A, the course provides an intensive introduction to the language.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
The continuation of Portuguese 101A-101B, this course focuses on a variety of texts with special emphasis on 20th-century Brazil. Discussion in Portuguese; reinforcement and development of language skills.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Advanced work in Portuguese grammatical structures. Practice in writing.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014
A survey of Brazilian literature from the beginnings through the 20th century, with attention to the relationships between literature and society.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2008
The course presents an overview of major themes in Brazilian cultural expression with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
An examination of the most important 20th-century writers from the 1920s through the present. Emphasis on the shifting definition of "brasileiridade" and on new directions in contemporary poetry and fiction.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Study of literature and cultural texts representative of classical literary genres: narrative prose, plays and poetry.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Directed study centering on the preparation/completion of an honors thesis (see Honors Program, Option B, above).

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Summer 2017 8 Week Session, Spring 2017
Beginners' course. Not open to students who have completed more than two years of high school Spanish, or to native speakers.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
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.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
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.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Summer 2017 8 Week Session, Spring 2017
Continuation of 1. Not open to students who have completed more than three years of high school Spanish, or native speakers.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Summer 2017 8 Week Session, Spring 2017
Continuation of 2. Course includes review and development of grammatical concepts taught in SPANISH 1-2, as well as further practice in composition.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2015 Second 6 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.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Summer 2017 8 Week Session, Spring 2017
Continuation of 3. Development of grammatical concepts taught in SPANISH 1-3 and further practice in composition.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2015 Second 6 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.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2015 8 Week Session, Summer 2014 8 Week Session, Summer 2013 8 Week Session
An intensive beginning Spanish workshop and culture course covering fundamentals of Spanish, with a homestay in Comillas, Spain. Only Spanish is spoken in class. The entire book of Dos Mundos will be covered. The cultural component of the course is designed to give a broad overview of issues that concern today's Spaniard. Weekly topics will be addressed through classroom discussion of assigned readings in English, supplemented with videos, films, and songs in Spanish, and excursions.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2015 Second 6 Week Session
This course accompanies the SPANISH N3 course in the international programs in the summer program. The students spend one week in Berkeley and four weeks in Madrid. Students will have assignments to explore Madrid and make oral presentations of these experiences. There will also be at least two excursions: one to a more rural area and another to the city of Toledo. Each student will be required to write a summary of what was done on these excursions.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
An elementary course for students whose native language is Spanish.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
An intermediate course for students whose native language is Spanish.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
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.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2017
Introduction to literary concepts, terminology, and theory with application to poetic, dramatic, and prose texts. Required of majors and minors.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
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.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Taught in Spanish, this course serves as an introduction to the formal linguistic analysis of the Spanish language. 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. Emphasizing the goals and methodology of the language sciences, 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.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2017

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
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.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 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.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
Beginnings to 1880.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
1880 to the present.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
Beginnings to 1700.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
1700 to the present.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2014

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
Analysis and discussion of selected works by Cervantes, including his dramatic output.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
Analysis and discussion of selected works by Cervantes, including his dramatic output.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2013, Spring 2010
A study of four to seven representative Spanish lyric poets from the Renaissance to the 20th century. The course emphasizes language as a medium and aims to develop students' familiarity with poetic techniques and with the continuities in the Spanish poetic tradition. Optional translation project.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2017 8 Week Session, Summer 2016 8 Week Session, Summer 2015 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.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2011 First 6 Week Session
An overview of the history and rich cultural heritage of Spain, emphasizing particular topics and visits to important historical sites.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Special topics in Hispanic literature. Fulfills "writing intensive" course requirement for the major.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
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 comparisons between the Spanish and English sound systems as a means of investigating their combination and interaction in the bilingual minds of speakers of English and Spanish. Sociophonetic variation (i.e., constant variability in speech production) will also be addressed.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
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. noun, verb, adjective, verb, etc.) and sentence composition (e.g. coordination, juxtaposition, subordination, etc.) with the goal of preparing students to conduct formal morphosyntactic analyses on various Spanish dialects, as well as on their own speech. Special emphasis will be placed on examining competing morphological and syntactic analyses for select Spanish phenomena, and differences in morphosyntactic features across Spanish dialects will also be addressed.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015
Taught in Spanish, this course serves to further familiarize students with formal approaches to bilingualism. The course centers on Spanish-speaking communities in order to critically examine several facets of bilingual individuals and societies. 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, localization in the brain, transfer effects, acquisition and attrition, impairments, and communicative practices (code-switching, for example).

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
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.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012
Analysis of the linguistic component of literary and nonliterary texts (such as fiction prose, journalism, scientific writing, or advertising) from a linguistic viewpoint. Analysis of texts in Spanish and English compares linguistic structures and highlights structural similarities and differences between these languages. Course applies to the comparative linguistics requirement of Option D.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2012, Fall 2011
This course adopts a linguistic perspective to analyze the structure of narrative as a cognition-based process in literary and nonliterary texts, written as well as oral. It focuses on questions of syntax, vocabulary, style, dialogue, genre, ideology, and cognition. It provides a follow-up to SPANISH 166, Language and Style, and is recommended for majors and minors in Spanish, particularly in option D. Topic may vary. Readings in Spanish and English. Attendance and participation essential.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2014
This course analyzes style & narrative in literary and nonliterary texts from a linguistic perspective as components of a cognition-based process. It focuses on questions of syntax, lexicon, diction, dialogue, genre, ideology, & language variation, seeking to characterize different types of discourse (such as journalism, scientific writing, fiction, legal writing, or advertising) in Spanish & English, while comparing the structures of these languages to highlight style variation & narrative structure as cognitive strategies for processing real or imaginary events. Readings include theoretical texts on style & narrative, & students will comment on texts to develop a critical perspective about theoretical approaches & narrative techniques.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014
This course will introduce students to the concepts of linguistic fieldwork, including the role of data in the formulation of linguistic theory; documentation of endangered languages; elicitation methods; the ethical responsibilities of linguistic fieldworkers; avoiding eurocentrism in data analysis; and language variation and change.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2012, Fall 2010
Although the Caribbean has been recognized in recent years as being one of the most compelling areas in regard to questions of interculturality, hybridity, and miscegenation, the Dutch-speaking part of it has somehow been neglected. This course intends to give an opportunity to those who do not necessarily have a command of Dutch language, but wish to complete their knowledge of Latin-American and Carribean history, culture, and literature.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2009

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2008

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016 8 Week Session
Directed study centering on the preparation/completion of an honors thesis (see Honors Program, Option A, above).

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
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.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 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.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Spring 2016, Fall 2015
Students will assist in the teaching of Spanish in local elementary and secondary schools. They will meet regularly with the instructor in charge and submit written reports.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
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.

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Summer 2017 8 Week Session, Fall 2016
Enrollment restrictions apply; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.