Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
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.
Freshman Seminar: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017
This course offers an overview of contemporary Portuguese-Speaking Cultures and Literatures. The time frame covered is from the sixties--years of rupture and experimentalism in artistic and cultural production—to the present. Students will study the concrete poetry of the Portuguese author Ana Hatherly, the visual (“Concrete”) poems of the Brazilian author Haroldo de Campos, and the drawings of the Swiss-Brazilian artist Maria Schendel. The course content will include the multi-layered music of the Angolan duet Ouro Negro and the political essays of Cape Verdean academic Amílcar Cabral. Themes such as colonization, decolonization, freedom, will be among the larger, decidedly compelling group of subjects on which the course will touch.
Introduction to Portugal, Brazil, and other Portuguese-Speaking Cultures (in English): Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017
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 upper division course work in Portuguese.
Intensive Portuguese for Spanish Speakers: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
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.
Readings in Portuguese: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Advanced work in Portuguese grammatical structures. Practice in writing.
Advanced Grammar and Composition: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015
A survey of Brazilian literature from the beginnings through the 20th century, with attention to the relationships between literature and society.
Introduction to Brazilian Literature: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2008
The course presents an overview of major themes in Brazilian cultural expression with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.
Brazilian Civilization: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2015
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.
Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literature: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Study of literature and cultural texts representative of classical literary genres: narrative prose, plays and poetry.
Studies in Luso-Brazilian Literature: Read More [+]

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

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

Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017 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: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Not yet offered
A beginning Spanish language course for individuals studying or working in health-related areas. It is designed for students with little or no formal background in Spanish. The course is devoted to the study of medical Spanish terminology and the cultural issues related to successful interactions with Spanish-speaking patients and their families in the clinical encounter. It will introduce a wide array of vocabulary particular to the medical field, as well as help the student develop a cultural understanding of medicine and illness in the Spanish-speaking world to prepare for potential work with Spanish-speaking patients in future careers in medicine, nursing, social work, translation/interpretation, or mental health settings.
Spanish for Health Care Professionals: Read More [+]

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.
Reading and Composition Through Readings from the Spanish-Speaking World: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017 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: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017 8 Week Session
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: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2014 10 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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017 8 Week Session
Continuation of 3. Development of grammatical concepts taught in Spanish 1-3 and further practice in composition.
Intermediate Spanish: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2017 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.
Intermediate Spanish: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 8 Week Session, Summer 2015 8 Week Session
A beginning intensive course that is the equivalent of Spanish 1 and 2.
Intensive Beginning Spanish Workshop: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2015 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2014 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.
Cultura Contemporania: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
An elementary course for students whose native language is Spanish.
Spanish for Bilingual Students, First Course: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
An intermediate course for students whose native language is Spanish.
Spanish for Bilingual Students, Second Course: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 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.
Freshman Seminars: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
Introduction to literary concepts, terminology, and theory with application to poetic, dramatic, and prose texts. Required of majors and minors.
Reading and Analysis of Literary Texts: Read More [+]

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.
Directed Group Study: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Not yet offered
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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017

Advanced Grammar and Composition: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, 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.
Advanced Writing Workshop: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2017 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.
Advanced Composition: Breaking News: The Present and Past as Told by the Press: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
Beginnings to 1880.
Survey of Spanish American Literature: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
1880 to the present.
Survey of Spanish American Literature: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
Beginnings to 1700.
Survey of Spanish Literature: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2014, Spring 2011
This course focuses on the social context, staging, and the baroque obsession with transgression and the monstrous. We will read a selection of plays that display seventeenth-century Spanish society on stage, exposed by the transformations of disguise and dramatic illusion.
Spanish Drama of the 16th and 17th Centuries: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2015, Fall 2014
Analysis and discussion of selected works by Cervantes, including his dramatic output.
Cervantes: Read More [+]

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.
Cervantes: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
An overview of the culture of Spain, through emphasis on selected topics.
Studies in Spanish Culture: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2010
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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2014 8 Week Session, Summer 2013 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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2005 10 Week Session, Summer 2004 10 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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2004, Spring 2004
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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session

Studies in Hispanic Literature: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Special topics in Hispanic literature. Fulfills "writing intensive" course requirement for the major.
Studies in Hispanic Literature - Writing Intensive: Read More [+]

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 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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
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 [+]

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.
Spanish Dialectology and Sociolinguistic Variation: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2006, Fall 1997, Fall 1996
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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012
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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Fall 2015
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.
Field Methods in Hispanic Linguistics: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2012, Fall 2009
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.
Cultural Studies: Read More [+]

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

Advanced Course in Hispanic Linguistics: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
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 [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013
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.
Field Studies: Read More [+]

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.
Supervised Group Study: Read More [+]

Offered through: Spanish and Portuguese
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Enrollment restrictions apply; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+]