The sequence of undergraduate programs of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese is designed to lead from the acquisition of competence in written and spoken Spanish or Portuguese, through an acquaintance with the structure and history of one or both of these languages and a critical understanding of the development and achievements of their literatures in the Old World and in the New, to training in advanced study and independent research. The department’s policy is to maintain a balanced strength between language and literature and between Peninsular and Latin American facets of a unified field.
Students in this major choose one of the following concentrations based on general area of interest:
Concentration A: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World
This concentration is recommended for students interested in the languages, literature, and cultures of the Spanish-speaking World on both sides of the Atlantic.
Concentration B: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Portuguese-Speaking World
This concentration is recommended for students interested in the language, literature, and culture of the Portuguese-speaking world, and may include up to two upper division electives in Spanish.
Concentration C: Latin American Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
This concentration is recommended for students interested in the languages, literatures, and cultures of both Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking Latin America. It requires coursework in both Spanish and Portuguese, which makes possible comparative approaches to the culture, literature, and history of the region.
Concentration D: Hispanic Languages, Linguistics, and Bilingualism
This concentration is recommended for students interested in the linguistic structure of Spanish and/or Portuguese, bilingualism in society, and/or career in K-12 foreign language teaching, as well as for future graduate students in (Hispanic) Linguistics.
Declaring the Major
Students can receive pre-major advising at any time, from the staff undergraduate advisor. Students can declare the major once they have completed SPANISH 25 for concentrations A, C, and D. For concentration B, students must complete PORTUG 50 before declaring the major. These prerequisite courses must be taken for a letter grade.
Honors Program
Students are eligible to do honors work within the Department of Spanish and Portuguese if they have completed at least two semesters of work at Berkeley with an overall grade point average of 3.3 and a grade point average of at least 3.6 in those courses taken within the major. Students must complete two honors courses, SPANISH H195A (1.5 units) and SPANISH H195B (1.5 units), in two successive semesters, and will write a thesis under the supervision of an appropriate departmental faculty member over the course of two successive semesters. A letter grade, reflecting progress, will be given after the first semester. H195A/B will not count toward the required upper division work in the major. Before the semester in which students intend to begin the honors program, they should speak with the staff undergraduate advisor to verify eligibility for honors work and to discuss the process.
In addition to the University, campus, and college requirements, listed on the College Requirements tab, students must fulfill the below requirements specific to their major program.
General Guidelines
All courses taken to fulfill the major requirements below must be taken for graded credit.
No more than one upper division course may be used to simultaneously fulfill requirements for a student's major and minor programs, with the exception of minors offered outside of the College of Letters & Science.
A minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 must be maintained in both upper and lower division courses used to fulfill the major requirements.
For information regarding residency requirements and unit requirements, please see the College Requirements tab.
Requirements by Concentration
Concentration A: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World
Spanish Dialectology and Sociolinguistic Variation
4
One elective in Hispanic Linguistics
4
One elective in Linguistics
4
One elective in any upper division Spanish, Portuguese, or Catalan topic
4
College Requirements
Undergraduate students must fulfill the following requirements in addition to those required by their major program.
For detailed lists of courses that fulfill college requirements, please review the College of Letters & Sciences page in this Guide. For College advising appointments, please visit the L&S Advising Pages.
All students who will enter the University of California as freshmen must demonstrate their command of the English language by fulfilling the Entry Level Writing requirement. Fulfillment of this requirement is also a prerequisite to enrollment in all reading and composition courses at UC Berkeley.
The American History and Institutions requirements are based on the principle that a US resident graduated from an American university, should have an understanding of the history and governmental institutions of the United States.
All undergraduate students at Cal need to take and pass this course in order to graduate. The requirement offers an exciting intellectual environment centered on the study of race, ethnicity and culture of the United States. AC courses offer students opportunities to be part of research-led, highly accomplished teaching environments, grappling with the complexity of American Culture.
College of Letters & Science Essential Skills Requirements
The Quantitative Reasoning requirement is designed to ensure that students graduate with basic understanding and competency in math, statistics, or computer science. The requirement may be satisfied by exam or by taking an approved course.
The Foreign Language requirement may be satisfied by demonstrating proficiency in reading comprehension, writing, and conversation in a foreign language equivalent to the second semester college level, either by passing an exam or by completing approved course work.
In order to provide a solid foundation in reading, writing, and critical thinking the College requires two semesters of lower division work in composition in sequence. Students must complete parts A & B reading and composition courses by the end of their second semester and a second-level course by the end of their fourth semester.
College of Letters & Science 7 Course Breadth Requirements
The undergraduate breadth requirements provide Berkeley students with a rich and varied educational experience outside of their major program. As the foundation of a liberal arts education, breadth courses give students a view into the intellectual life of the University while introducing them to a multitude of perspectives and approaches to research and scholarship. Engaging students in new disciplines and with peers from other majors, the breadth experience strengthens interdisciplinary connections and context that prepares Berkeley graduates to understand and solve the complex issues of their day.
Unit Requirements
120 total units
Of the 120 units, 36 must be upper division units
Of the 36 upper division units, 6 must be taken in courses offered outside your major department
Residence Requirements
For units to be considered in "residence," you must be registered in courses on the Berkeley campus as a student in the College of Letters & Science. Most students automatically fulfill the residence requirement by attending classes here for four years. In general, there is no need to be concerned about this requirement, unless you go abroad for a semester or year or want to take courses at another institution or through UC Extension during your senior year. In these cases, you should make an appointment to meet an adviser to determine how you can meet the Senior Residence Requirement.
Note: Courses taken through UC Extension do not count toward residence.
Senior Residence Requirement
After you become a senior (with 90 semester units earned toward your BA degree), you must complete at least 24 of the remaining 30 units in residence in at least two semesters. To count as residence, a semester must consist of at least 6 passed units. Intercampus Visitor, EAP, and UC Berkeley-Washington Program (UCDC) units are excluded.
You may use a Berkeley Summer Session to satisfy one semester of the Senior Residence requirement, provided that you successfully complete 6 units of course work in the Summer Session and that you have been enrolled previously in the college.
Modified Senior Residence Requirement
Participants in the UC Education Abroad Program (EAP), Berkeley Summer Abroad, or the UC Berkeley Washington Program (UCDC) may meet a Modified Senior Residence requirement by completing 24 (excluding EAP) of their final 60 semester units in residence. At least 12 of these 24 units must be completed after you have completed 90 units.
Upper Division Residence Requirement
You must complete in residence a minimum of 18 units of upper division courses (excluding UCEAP units), 12 of which must satisfy the requirements for your major.
Summary of Modifications
L&S College Requirements: Reading & Composition, Quantitative Reasoning, and Foreign Language, which typically must be satisfied with a letter grade, can be satisfied with a Passed (P) grade during Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 if a student elects to take the course for P/NP. Note: This does not include Entry Level Writing (College Writing R1A).
Requirements within L&S majors and minors can be satisfied with Passed (P) grades during the Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters. This includes prerequisites for majors. Contact your intended or declared major/minor adviser for more details.
Departments may create alternative methods for admitting students into their majors.
L&S students will not be placed on academic probation automatically for taking all of their courses P/NP during Fall 2020 or Spring 2021.
Student Learning Goals
Learning Goals for the Major
Attain solid (though not necessarily flawless) proficiency in reading, writing, understanding, and speaking Spanish and/or Portuguese.
Recognize a variety of genres and modes of writing (fiction, poetry, theater, and essay).
Become conversant in the vocabulary associated with literary analysis in Spanish and/or Portuguese.
Be able to articulate specific connections between literary texts and the historical and cultural contexts in which they were produced.
Gain a critical awareness of distinctions and continuities among the literatures of the Iberian peninsula and Latin America across national and regional boundaries and historical periods.
Acquire the analytical resources of diverse literary approaches and theories.
Skills
Demonstrate the ability to interpret and analyze texts written in Spanish and/or Portuguese, depending upon the major option.
Develop critical approaches for the analysis of texts from a range of historical periods and regions of Latin America and the Iberian peninsula.
Distinguish among dialects and usages typical of diverse regions, social contexts, and historical periods in Spain and/or Portugal, and the Americas, including usages of heritage speakers (Option D).
Formulate well-organized, well-supported arguments both orally and in written stylistically effective Spanish and/or Portuguese.
Write essays in standard academic Spanish and/or Portuguese, using appropriate vocabulary to discuss examples from specific texts.
Be able to distinguish among the available print and online sources and choose those that are most reliable as support for arguments in class discussion and essays.
Practice responsible citation of sources in essays.
Major Map
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Mailing Address
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
5317 Dwinelle Hall #2590
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2590
Academic Opportunities
Study Abroad
There are several options for studying abroad in a Spanish speaking country, with program options that are suitable for students who have no Spanish language background, as well as opportunities for those who are fully fluent. The UC Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) offers summer, semester and classic full academic year immersion programs. Students with existing language ability may pursue their major studies at some of the most prestigious institutions in Spain and Latin America.
Spanish & Portuguese majors can take up to three approved upper-division elective courses while studying abroad, and five upper-division courses must be taken within the department here at Berkeley.
The UCEAP office on campus is in 160 Stephens Hall. More information can be found on the UCEAP website.
Prizes and Awards
The John K. Walsh Undergraduate $500.00 Scholarship is awarded to Spanish and Portuguese majors to recognize academic achievement and alleviate the financial burden of education for outstanding undergraduate majors.
Cervantes Prize: This prize is for excellence in undergraduate literary studies in Spanish.
Related Courses
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 8 Week Session, Spring 2021
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 [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of recitation per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 10 hours of recitation per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing Requirement
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature and Composition. Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition. Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 8 Week Session, Spring 2021
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 1 or equivalent
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of recitation per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 10 hours of recitation per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 8 Week Session, Spring 2021
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 2 or equivalent
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of recitation per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 10 hours of recitation per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Summer 2018 8 Week Session, Summer 2017 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. Intermediate Spanish: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 2. 16 must be taken concurrently
Credit Restrictions: Any second year college level Spanish.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of recitation and 1.5 hours of laboratory per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 20 hours of recitation per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 8 Week Session, Spring 2021
Continuation of 3. Development of grammatical concepts taught in Spanish 1-3 and further practice in composition. Intermediate Spanish: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 3 or equivalent
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of recitation per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 10 hours of recitation per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Summer 2018 8 Week Session, Summer 2017 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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 3
Credit Restrictions: Students who haven taken Spanish courses numbered 4 or higher will receive no credit for N4.
Hours & Format
Summer: 6 weeks - 20 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Summer 2018 8 Week Session, Summer 2017 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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 2. N3 must be taken concurrently
Hours & Format
Summer: 6 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 7.5 hours of fieldwork per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Not yet offered
This course is designed to provide a basic preparation for students interested in traveling to Spain as future participants of the Summer Study Abroad program or for those just interested in visiting the country as a well-informed tourist. The learning process will rely on videos available on the Internet, some texts related to peculiarities of Spanish history and culture, and possibly a synchronous (live) cooking or dance class or a museum visit. The major emphasis of the course will be discussions of the materials. Intermediate Spanish Conversation, Spanish History, and Culture: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Minimum of 2 semesters of college Spanish
Hours & Format
Summer: 12 weeks - 9 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
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.
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Offered through Berkeley Summer Abroad in Puebla, Mexico, this course is intended for students whose native language is Spanish and for those who are very advanced in the language. It emphasizes the understanding of oral and written registers through analysis and discussion of several genres including film, literary and non-literary prose, as well as Internet resources. It will facilitate academic language to students as well as it will help them to appreciate their heritage/native language and culture. Students are expected to read and write critically about topics of historical and linguistic syncretism, mestizo consciousness, identity, human rights, diversity, and Latinx in the US. Spanish for Native / Heritage Students: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Summer: 4 weeks - 20 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Portuguese/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2017, Spring 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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2021
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 4 or equivalent
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
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 [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Portuguese/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
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.
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course is designed to introduce students to Mexican Nauatl language and culture through history, literature, codices, poetry, and painting. We will discuss the intersections between Nauatl and Spanish languages in Mexico, the Border, and in the United States. We will address correlations between alphabetical writing, pictography, and orality. Central to our course will be the learning of contemporary Mexican Nauatl to enable students to start speaking the language. The course will use selections form the methods for beginners designed by Delfina de la Cruz de la Cruz, Ofelia Morales Cruz, Gilberto Díaz Hernández, and Juan Luna Cárdenas, speakers of Nauatl as their native language. Introduction to Nauatl Language and Culture: Read More [+]
Objectives & Outcomes
Course Objectives: Properly use the Nauatl language at an elementary level: Recognize and use daily greetings. Recognize and describe objects in the classroom. Describe people's qualities and their clothes. Correctly use possessive adjectives and describe the body parts. Numerical System. Nouns for food (vegetables, fruits, liquids, meat, and fish). Prepare and produce simple dialogues in Nauatl. Perform dances and songs in Nauatl. Critically discuss traditions of the Naua peoples.
Student Learning Outcomes: Apply fundamental oral Mexica-Nauatl language at a beginning level to everyday conversations. Identify fundamental Mexica-Nauatl grammar and write paragraphs
and short compositions. Examine and critically discuss historical documents of the Discovery (Encounter) and the Conquest of the Americas.
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for SPANISH 40 after completing SPANISH 40. A deficient grade in SPANISH 40 may be removed by taking SPANISH 40.
Hours & Format
Summer: 4 weeks - 12 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Credit of 16-20 units or equivalent of Spanish language, or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Portuguese/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 25; proficiency in Spanish
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: 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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 25
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
The continuation of Portuguese 50, 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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Portuguese 50 or equivalent
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Portuguese/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
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.
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 25
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Summer 2018 8 Week Session, 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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Completion of Spanish 25
Hours & Format
Summer: 5 weeks - 9 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Portuguese 103
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Portuguese/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 25
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 25
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020
This course is a survey of modern and contemporary literature and culture from the Portuguese-speaking world. Drawing on fiction, poetry, film, and visual art, we will explore cultural production throughout the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Students will study and discuss some of the most relevant issues explored in Lusophone literature, such as empire, memory, modernity, and social and economic justice, as well as consider a wide array of artistic production and aesthetic movements, including modernismo, social realism, the avant-garde and postmodernism. The course also offers students a chance to improve their Portuguese reading, writing and speaking skills. Introduction to Portuguese Literature and Culture: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Portug 103 or equivalent
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Portuguese/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 25
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 25
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 25
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
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 [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Spring 2018
Analysis and discussion of selected works by Cervantes, including his dramatic output. Cervantes: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 25
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2015
Analysis and discussion of selected works by Cervantes, including his dramatic output. Cervantes: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 25
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
An overview of the culture of Spain, through emphasis on selected topics. Studies in Spanish Culture: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 25
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019
Spotlight on diverse media (film, radio photography, music, etc.) and selected texts as a way into the history and culture of Brazil. May include early experiments with photography, political uses of radio to reach the masses, the birth of the nation’s film industry and the rise of popular music as they invite readings together with literature. The course allows students to watch, listen and read these materials as a way of exploring emerging social movements, counter-cultural currents and historical paradigm shifts. Students will learn about the major Brazilian cultural and literary movements while becoming familiar with ways of reading cultural materials across different media. Brazilian Culture Through and Across the Arts and Media: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Portuguese/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Spring 2020
This course offers a panoramic view of Brazilian culture and history through lyric traditions and counter-traditions. Our focus will be Brazilian poems (including song lyrics) from the 19th century to the present, but we will also examine colonial and baroque texts and how they resonate with modern, mid-century and post-dictatorship literary materials. Moving through key poetic movements from simbolismo to Poesia Marginal, we will examine why the lyric has been a chosen medium for authors to conceptualize identity, difference, ethics, politics and aesthetics. Course conducted in Portuguese. No previous background in poetry or Brazilian literature required. The Brazilian Lyric: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Portuguese 103
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Portuguese/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 25
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course provides a panoramic view of Portuguese Literature and Azorean literature and Culture via the study of emblematic works of Portuguese ana Azorean literature and culture. Readings, lectures, and discussion will be conducted in English. Students may opt to write their papers in either Portuguese or English. Portuguese Majors and Minors, must submit their work in Portuguese. Survey of Portuguese and Azorean Literature and Culture: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Summer: 8 weeks - 12 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Portuguese/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Summer 2018 8 Week Session, Summer 2017 First 6 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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Four semesters of Spanish
Hours & Format
Summer: 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Summer 2018 8 Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 4 or consent of advisor
Hours & Format
Summer: 5 weeks - 9 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2018
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Portuguese 103
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Portuguese/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2017
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 25
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Study of literature and cultural texts representative of classical literary genres: narrative prose, plays and poetry. Studies in Luso-Brazilian Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Portuguese 102 or permission of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Portuguese/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2021
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 25
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Pre-requisite for Spanish Majors and Minors taking course: Spanish 25
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 100
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2018
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 100
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 100
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 100
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2006, Fall 1997
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 100
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2014
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish 100
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Twenty units or equivalent of Portuguese or another Romance language
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Portuguese/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2016, Fall 2015
Directed study centering on the preparation/completion of an honors thesis (see Honors Program, Option A, above). Spanish Honors Course: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 25 or equivalent. Senior honors standing. Limited to senior honors candidates
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish and Portuguese major, 3.6 GPA in the major, 3.3 GPA overall
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2016, Fall 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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Spanish and Portuguese major, 3.6 GPA in the major, 3.3 GPA overall
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Summer 2019, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of fieldwork per week
Summer: 10 weeks - 1.5-6 hours of fieldwork per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
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 [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture per week
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2018, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2011
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Knowledge of at least two of the major Romance languages (French, Italian, and Spanish)
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
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 [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2007, Spring 2005
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5-10 hours of independent study per week
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Summer 2021 8 Week Session, Spring 2021
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0-3 hours of independent study per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 0-5.5 hours of independent study per week
Terms offered: Fall 2015
This course provides participants with an understanding of the teaching methods used in Portuguese 101A at UCB, a forum for discussing teaching-related questions and problems, practical experience in creating and adapting materials for instruction, and experience in analyzing one’s own and other’s teaching. It is a hands on practicum that links the theory of the Portuguese language program to its in-class practice. At the end of the course, students will be prepared with strategies for effective teaching and classroom management. Students will be able to create communicative and task based activities. They will be able to develop effective exams and assessments, and be familiar with the use of classroom technology for language teaching. Teaching Portuguese at Berkeley: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Portuguese/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate student instructor status
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Spanish/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Approval of graduate adviser
Credit Restrictions: Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for master's degree.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
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 [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Approval of graduate adviser
Credit Restrictions: Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for doctoral degree.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
+ Indicates this faculty member is the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award.
Faculty
Natalia Brizuela, Associate Professor. Spanish, Portuguese. Research Profile
Anthony J. Cascardi, Dean of Arts & Humanities. English, comparative literature, literature, Spanish, Portuguese, philosophy, aesthetics, early modern literature, French, Spanish Baroque. Research Profile
Justin Davidson, Assistant Professor. Spanish linguistics, romance linguistics, contact linguistics, bilingualism, Catalan, sociophonetics, language variation and change, quantitative methods. Research Profile
Ivonne Del Valle, Associate Professor. Colonial period in Mexico, internal colonialism in Mexico, Jesuits (Loyola, Acosta, Baegert), Baroque and Enlightenment from a colonial perspective, technology and environment, drainage of Mexico City lakes, Christianity and Pre-Hispanic religions . Research Profile
Daylet Dominguez, Assistant Professor. Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures. Research Profile
Michael Iarocci, Professor. Spanish, literature. Research Profile
Tom McEnaney, Associate Professor. Connections between Argentine, Cuban, and U S literature, the history of media and technology, sound studies, linguistic anthropology, computational (digital) humanities and new media studies. Research Profile
Nasser Meerkhan, Assistant Professor. Transcultural, transtemporal and translinguistic texts, Medieval Iberia. Research Profile
Ignacio Navarrete, Professor. Spanish literature: poetry, poetic theory, narrative and culture, history of the book, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature Modern Spain . Research Profile
Alexandra Saum Pascual, Assistant Professor. Spain, electronic literature, contemporary literature, digital humanities, new media. Research Profile
Candace Slater, Professor. Spanish, Portuguese. Research Profile
Estelle Tarica, Associate Professor. Latin America, Mexico, race, nationalism, Spanish, mestizo, Indians, Andes, Bolivia, Peru, Holocaust, Quechua. Research Profile
Nathaniel Wolfson, Assistant Professor. Avant-garde poetry and aesthetics, media studies, literature and philosophy, comparative modernisms and the history of science and technology. Research Profile
Lecturers
Amelia R. Barili, Lecturer.
Jhonni Carr, Lecturer.
Agnes Dimitriou, Lecturer.
Clelia Francesca Donovan, Lecturer.
Miriam Hernandez-Rodriguez, Lecturer.
Elena B. Olsen, Lecturer.
Duarte Carvalho Pinheiro, Lecturer.
Ana Belen Redondo Campillos, Lecturer.
Victoria Martinez Robertson, Lecturer.
Donna A. Southard, Lecturer.
Tanya Varela, Lecturer.
Emeritus Faculty
Arthur L. Askins, Professor Emeritus. Spanish, Portuguese. Research Profile
Milton M. Azevedo, Professor Emeritus. Linguistics, Spanish, Portuguese. Research Profile
Emilie L. Bergmann, Professor Emeritus. Early modern Spain, colonial Spanish America, Spanish literature, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, visual studies, gender and sexuality studies. Research Profile
Jerry R. Craddock, Professor Emeritus. Spanish, Portuguese. Research Profile
Dru Dougherty, Professor Emeritus. Poetry, stage history, Valle-Inclan, Spanish poetics, war and literature. Research Profile
Charles Faulhaber, Professor Emeritus. Medieval Spanish literature, medieval rhetoric, codicology, paleography, computerization of scholarly methodology. Research Profile
+ Francine R. Masiello, Professor Emerita. Gender theory, culture, globalization, comparative literature, Spanish, Latin American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, comparative North and South literatures. Research Profile
John H. R. Polt, Professor Emeritus. Spanish literature, 18th century, 19th century. Research Profile
Jose Rabasa, Professor Emeritus. Spanish, Portuguese. Research Profile
Julio Ramos, Professor Emeritus. Spanish, Portuguese. Research Profile
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