Spanish and Portuguese

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers instruction in the Spanish and Portuguese languages and in Luso-Hispanic cultures and literatures. The department offers majors in Spanish, Spanish and Portuguese, and Spanish and Linguistics. Minors are offered in Spanish and Lusophone Studies. Courses are taught in Spanish or Portuguese, and classes are small so that students at all levels are given maximum opportunity to practice the language. Other opportunities to study Luso-Hispanic languages and cultures are also available through the department's study abroad programs and Casa Émory. Refer to the department website for more information.

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Concentrations

Courses

PORT 100-Level Courses

The first half of a yearlong introductory course designed to train students to understand, speak, read, and write Portuguese.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The second half of a yearlong introductory course designed to train students to understand, speak, read, and write Portuguese.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Builds oral proficiency and increases knowledge of Portuguese, Lusophone African, and Brazilian cultures through discussion, listening, reading, and writing on topics pertaining to current events and literature.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

PORT 111 is an intensive course for students with little or no preparation in the language, but are Spanish speakers (or of another Romance Language). It stresses the fundamental skills of understanding, speaking, reading, and also writing. Diverse aspects of Brazilian culture will be presented.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: IC
Requisites: SPAN 212 or SPAN_OX 212 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

PORT 114 is an intensive course for students with little or no preparation in the language, but speakers of another Romance Language. It stresses the fundamental language skills of understanding, speaking, reading and also writing. Aspects of Luso- African-Brazilian culture will also be presented.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: IC
Requisites: SPAN 212 or SPAN_OX 212 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

Introduces students to the language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Portuguese-speaking world. May be taught in English or Portuguese. Students may take multiple PORT 185 courses provided that they focus on different topics.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Introduction to the study of Brazilian and Portuguese societies through different prisms (race and gender relations, national cinemas, sexuality, evolution of historical discourse, music, and more).

Credit Hours: 3
GER: FS
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

PORT 200-Level Courses

The first half of a yearlong review, with emphasis on continued development of the four basic linguistic skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) and knowledge of Lusophone cultures and societies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The second half of a yearlong review, with emphasis on continued development of the four basic linguistic skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) and knowledge of Lusophone cultures and societies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course, intended for graduate students, introduces fundamental vocabulary, grammar, and comprehension strategies to develop reading ability. No previous knowledge of Portuguese is necessary.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course aims to further develop communication skills in Portuguese and expand knowledge of Brazilian cultural traditions. The course is designed so as to dialogically interweave the arts and language acquisition. The students will be exposed to a vast array of meaningful artistic productions.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: IC
Requisites: PORT 102 or PORT 110 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

Development of fluency, vocabulary, and advanced grammatical skills through discussion of contemporary Lusophone culture.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course aims to further develop communication skills in Portuguese and expand knowledge of Luso-Afro-Braz cultural traditions, playing close attention to Lisbon, as a space of cultural and linguistic artistic encounters. This course is designed to interweave the arts and language acquisition.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: IC
Requisites: PORT 102 or PORT 110 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

Advanced study of grammar and vocabulary, with an emphasis on composition techniques and reading strategies through readings pertinent to the culture of Portuguese-speaking countries.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Intermediate-level studies of the language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Portuguese-speaking world. May be taught in English or Portuguese. Students may take multiple PORT 285 courses provided that they focus on different topics.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

PORT 300-Level Courses

This course examines Brazilian literature and film. Students formulate responses in Portuguese to the various themes addressed in the different texts and films, both orally and in writing.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: PORT 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

This course examines Brazilian literature and film. Students formulate responses in Portuguese to the various themes addressed in the different texts and films, both orally and in writing.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: ICW
Requisites: PORT 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

This course examines 20th Century Portuguese literature (novels, short-stories and poetry) and cinema (fiction and documentary). Students formulate responses in Portuguese to the various themes addressed in the different texts and films, both orally and in writing.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: PORT 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: ICW
Requisites: PORT 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

This course primarily examines literary and cinematographic artistic productions of the five African countries whose official language is Portuguese. Students formulate responses in Portuguese to the various themes addressed in the different texts and films, both orally and in writing.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

PORT 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

AFS 302

Credit Hours

GER

ICW

Requisites

PORT 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

AFS 302W

PORT 311 is designed to interweave the arts and language acquisition. The students will be exposed to a vast array of meaningful artistic production, via the literary, performing, and visual arts. Students will further their linguistic competence through extensive practice in writing and speaking.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: IC
Requisites: PORT 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

PORT 314 is designed to interweave the arts and language acquisition. The students will be exposed to a vast array of meaningful artistic production, via the literary, performing, and visual arts. The focus will be better understanding Lisbon as a space of artistic encounters.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: IC
Requisites: PORT 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

This course will provide a firm foundation for understanding São Paulo's unique cultural identity in the Americas and for analyzing its history in a Brazilian and global context. The course it is designed to introduce students to key political and economic developmentsthat have influenced contemporary Brazil.

Credit Hours

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

HIST 330

Credit Hours

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

HIST 330W

PORT 334 examines Portugal's history, via an analysis of its capital's cultural productions. The course aims to evaluate how major cultural and historic events played a role in the development of the country, as well as to investigate the interconnections between multiple artistic productions.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: PORT 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

PORT 334W examines Portugal's history, via an analysis of its capital's cultural productions. The course aims to evaluate how major cultural and historic events played a role in the development of the country, as well as to investigate the interconnections between multiple artistic productions.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: ICW
Requisites: PORT 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

This is a topics course in which students follow and discuss current events via critical analysis and discussion of Lusophone media. The focus will be on newspapers and magazines published in the Portuguese-speaking world.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: PORT 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: CW
Requisites: PORT 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

PORT 400-Level Courses

Upper-level research seminar on topics related to the language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Lusophone world. Students may take multiple PORT 412 courses provided that they focus on different topics.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Advanced-level studies of the language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Portuguese-speaking world. May be taught in English or Portuguese. Students may take multiple SPAN 485 courses provided that they focus on different topics.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Fall semester component of the Honors Program. Student and faculty advisor meet regularly to discuss the syllabus agreed upon at the beginning of the term and evaluate progress in research/writing. PORT 495A does not count as one of the 400-level seminars required forthe Span/Port major.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: XA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Spring semester component of the research project for students selected by the department for the Honors Program. Includes writing of the Honors thesis, regular meetings between student and faculty adviser, and a public thesis defense.

Credit Hours: 1 - 8
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Supervised reading in Portuguese.

Credit Hours: 1 - 12
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

SPAN 100-Level Courses

The first half of a yearlong introductory course designed to train students to understand, speak, read, and write Spanish.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The second half of a yearlong introductory course designed to train students to understand, speak, read, and write Spanish.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: IC
Requisites: SPAN 101 or SPAN_OX 101 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

Accelerated beginning-level language course intended for students with previous education in Spanish who need additional review and practice before advancing to the intermediate level.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Great works from the Hispanic canon, understood broadly to mean literature and - to a lesser degree - other forms of cultural production such as films, art, and music - from Spain, Spanish America and Spanish-speaking US Latino communities.This course is part of Emory's Voluntary Core Curriculum program. This course is taught in English.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Introduces students to the language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Spanish-speaking world. May be taught in English or Spanish. Students may take multiple SPAN 185 courses provided that they focus on different topics.

Credit Hours: 1 - 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Freshmen only. In-depth treatment of a topic in language, literature, or culture of the Luso-Hispanic world through readings, frequent writing assignments, and class discussions.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: FS
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

SPAN 200-Level Courses

The first half of a yearlong review, with emphasis on continued development of the four basic linguistic skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) and knowledge of Hispanic cultures and societies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The second half of a yearlong review, with emphasis on continued development of the four basic linguistic skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) and knowledge of Hispanic cultures and societies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: SPAN 201 or SPAN_OX 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

Taught in Salamanca only.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course, intended for graduate students, introduces fundamental vocabulary, grammar, and comprehension strategies to develop reading ability. No previous knowledge of Spanish is necessary.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Further development of students' communicative skills, with particular emphasis on reading, writing and critical thinking, through discussion of readings and films from Hispanic cultures. May be appropriate for heritage speakers pending Official Spanish Placement.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Every semester. Advanced reading and writing practice focused on critical discussion of texts about cross-cultural contact and (mis)understanding.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Study of the Spanish language and Hispanic cultural productions with a specific focus on professional areas, such as health, law and business.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Intermediate-level conversation and writing focused on first-hand encounters with Hispanic cultures for students participating in study abroad programs.

Credit Hours: 1 - 2
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Intermediate-level studies of the language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Spanish-speaking world. May be taught in English or Spanish. Students may take multiple SPAN 285 courses provided that they focus on different topics.

Credit Hours: 1 - 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Intermediate-level individual reading and research on a topic in language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Hispanic world over the course of a semester, supervised by a departmental faculty member.

Credit Hours: 1 - 12
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

In-depth treatment of a topic in language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Hispanic world through readings, frequent writing assignments, and class discussions.

Credit Hours: 2
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

SPAN 300-Level Courses

The foundation course for the major and minor. A course in Hispanic cultural literacy that also strengthens written and oral language skills.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The foundation course for the major and minor. A course in Hispanic cultural literacy that also strengthens written and oral language skills.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: ICW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

A survey course in Spanish and Spanish American culture from the Middle Ages and Pre-Columbian periods to the seventeenth century.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

A survey course in Spanish and Spanish American culture from the Middle Ages and Pre-Columbian periods to the seventeenth century.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: ICW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

A survey course in Spanish and Spanish American culture from the eighteenth century to the present.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

A survey course in Spanish and Spanish American culture from the eighteenth century to the present.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: ICW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Foundational course for the major and the minor that focuses on the description and production of the sounds of Spanish while also introducing students to the study of linguistic variation.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 303

Foundational course for the major and the minor that introduces students to the field of Hispanic linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, pragmatics, and linguistic variation in the Spanish-speaking world.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 304

Introduction to the study of the Spanish language and cultures in an academic context specifically designed for Spanish heritage speakers.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Foundational course for the major and the minor. Survey course in contemporary culture from Spain.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Foundational course for the major and the minor. Survey course in contemporary culture from Latin America.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Foundational course for the major and the minor that aims to perfect Spanish for oral and written communication through study and use of styles/registers, genres and rhetorical strategies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Introduction and theoretical overview of Hispanic narrative.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Introduction and theoretical overview of Hispanic narrative.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: ICW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An introduction to theories of theater and film in a Hispanic context.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An introduction to theories of theater and film in a Hispanic context.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: ICW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Combines advanced writing instruction and language analysis with volunteer experiences in Atlanta Hispanic communities. Permission of instructor required.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Combines advanced writing instruction and language analysis with volunteer experiences in Atlanta Hispanic communities. Permission of instructor required.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: ICW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course combines advanced writing instruction with the study of diverse Hispanic cultural topics.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course combines advanced writing instruction with the study of diverse Hispanic cultural topics.

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: ICW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Advanced-level conversation and writing focused on first-hand encounters with Hispanic cultures for students participating in study abroad programs.

Credit Hours: 1 - 2
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Taught in Salamanca only. Historical and cultural overview of Spain from the Roman period to the present.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Overview of cultural production and ideas through history. May deal with Latin America as a whole or with a smaller region or individual country.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Taught in Spanish, cross-list between Spanish and Theater Studies. Students deepen their understanding of the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures through script analysis, memorization, character development, in-class exercises, writing assignments, physical and vocal embodiment and performance.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

THEA 363

This course considers visual, written, and musical representations of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. Topics include the ethics of art in wartime; the uses of propaganda; women's activism; history and memory.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course examines representations of childhood and adolescence in Spanish, Latin American, and Latinx literature and film, focusing on the ways that discourses for and about children are used to idealize or critique the cultures that produced them.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

In recent years, the novella has become very popular in Spanish-language fiction. In this course, we read and analyze the works of several rising stars on the Latin American and Spanish literary scene, with attention to their use of this in-between genre.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: ICW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Students receive credit for a semester-long internship with an organization that serves Spanish speakers. Class time invites students to reflect critically on experience using concepts common to intercultural communication and global workplace dynamics. Instructor permission required.

Credit Hours: 2 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: One 300 level SPAN or SPAN_OX course or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

This course introduces translation theory and hands-on practice in multiple contexts. It is theoretical, methodological, creative. Students engage in multiple forms of translation (inverse, intra and inter-lingual) and meet regularly both as a whole class and in individual language-specific groups.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

CHN 336
GER 336
ITAL 336
JPN 336
KRN 336

This course presents different methodologies for the study of topics related to the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures, with a particular focus on discourse analysis techniques. Students will design and complete their own research project on a topic of their preference.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 337

Credit Hours

GER

ICW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 337W

The concepts of utopia and dystopia represent opposing sides of the same coin. This course examines speculative fictions and activist projects through which Spanish, Latin American and Latinx authors, filmmakers, and artists critique the political and social conditions in which they live.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: IC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Historical and cultural survey of Muslim Spain (al-Andalus) and North Africa through the 16th century. The course focuses on the concept of Convivencia (co-existence) as theorized by modern Spanish and North African historians.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

MESAS 381
REL 381

Advanced study of a topic related to the language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Hispanic world. Students may take multiple SPAN 385 courses provided that they focus on different topics.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Advanced study of a topic related to the language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Hispanic world, with a strong writing component. Students may take multiple SPAN 385 courses provided that they focus on different topics.

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Advanced study of a topic related to the language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Hispanic world as seen in English translation.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Advanced study of a topic related to the language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Hispanic world as seen in English translation, with a strong writing component.

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

SPAN 400-Level Courses

This course incorporates a general theoretical frame in linguistics, with a specific focus in discourse analysis and pragmatics, and applies it to electronic communications. Students will develop an intercultural research project by analyzing digital texts in a systematic way

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 405

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 405W

This course examines the history of the Spanish language in terms of both its structural and sociocultural/political development. Students develop research projects based on questions arising in the course.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 406

This course focuses on the dynamic interaction between language, society, and identity in the contemporary Spanish-speaking word. Students develop research projects based on questions arising in the course.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 407

Part of the Iberian Studies Summer Program, this course explores how and why language varies in Spain and how variation and multilingualism relate to competing identities and ideologies. Students conduct surveys, interviews, conversation analyses, and work collaboratively on research projects.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 408

This course examines how narratives about the body, health, medicine, and well-being are constructed, naturalized, and circulated in Latin America.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

HLTH 469
LACS 409
LING 409

Upper-level research seminar on topics of Hispanic linguistics and communication, such as history of the language, bilingualism, or translation. Students may take multiple SPAN 410 courses provided that they focus on different topics.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 410

Upper-level research seminar with a strong writing component on topics of Hispanic linguistics and communication, such as history of the language, bilingualism, or translation. Students may take multiple SPAN 410W courses provided that they focus on different topics.

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 410W

This course presents the history and multiple theories of translation, as well as basic methods/techniques and problems of translating between English and Spanish. A portion of class time will be devoted to translation practice and the comparison of multiple translations of a single text.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 411

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 411W

This course provides a descriptive and critical overview of the linguistic practices of different Spanish-speaking communities in the United States, as well as a methodology for the study of these practices. Special attention is given to the relationship between language and society.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 413

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 413W

This course explores how cinema has commented on and participated in constructing Mexican national identity. Students will acquire a competence in Mexican film history, the ability to speak and write about film analysis in Spanish, and familiarity with critical approaches to Mexican cinema.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LACS 421

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LACS 421W

Addresses the historical position and cultural production of Spanish and Latin American Jewry, from medieval Spain to the present. We examine how diasporic Jewish subjects have framed their identity while negotiating the pressures of exile, immigration, antisemitism, and political violence.

Credit Hours

GER

ETHN

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

JS 422

Centered on cultural representations of Madrid, Barcelona, and New York - sites of exchange and circulation among Spaniards, Latin Americans, and Latinos - this course asks how real cities are remembered or imagined by those who live, visit, or immigrate there; focus on performance of urban identities.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course explores exchanges between political, legal, and ethical discourses on human rights in Spain and recent cultural texts. The course will focus on select areas in the human rights arena that have gained prominence in post-Franco Spain.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course explores a range of topics and texts related to the theory, practice and experience of medical matters in the Hispanic world of colonial-imperial medicine. Topics may include epidemics; gender and medicine; indigenous medical knowledge; diet and food; and doctors and curander@s.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

HLTH 468
LACS 425

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

HLTH 468W
LACS 425W

This course, taught in Spanish, explores Latin American and Latinx cultural production that uses the family to represent and interrogate questions of cultural identity and transculturation, colonial encounters, abolitionism, nation-building, political repression and historical agency.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LACS 426

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LACS 426W

This course studies the interplay between gender and genre in Latin American crime fiction and film. We will focus work by women artists and on representations of women and LGBT characters.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LACS 427

This course studies the interplay between gender and genre in Latin American crime fiction and film. We will focus work by women artists and on representations of women and LGBT characters.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LACS 427W

Advanced level workshop focusing on one or more genres of creative writing such as fiction, drama, or poetry, with attention to Spanish-language literary traditions.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Upper-level research seminar on topics related to the language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Hispanic world. Students may take multiple SPAN 485 courses provided that they focus on different topics.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Upper-level research seminar with a strong writing component on topics related to the language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Hispanic world. Students may take multiple SPAN 485W courses provided that they focus on different topics.

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Fall semester component of the Honors Program. Student and faculty adviser meet regularly to discuss the syllabus agreed upon at the beginning of the term and evaluate progress in research/writing. Spanish 495A does not count as one of the 400-level seminars required for the major.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: XA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 1 - 8
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Advanced individual research on a topic in language, discourse, literature, and/or culture of the Hispanic world over the course of a semester, supervised by a departmental faculty member.

Credit Hours: 1 - 12
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Spanish and Portuguese

Concentrations

Faculty

Courses

PORT 100-Level Courses

PORT 101: Elementary Portuguese I

PORT 102: Elementary Portuguese II

PORT 110: Portuguese for Span Speakers

PORT 111: Port.for Speakers Roman Lang.

PORT 114: Port.for Roman Lang.Speakers

PORT 185: Intro.Topics Luso-Afro-Braz.St

PORT 185W: Intro.Topics Luso-Afro-Braz.St

PORT 190: Freshman Seminar

PORT 200-Level Courses

PORT 201: Intermediate Portuguese I

PORT 202: Intermediate Portuguese II

PORT 210: Port for Reading Comprehension

PORT 211: Mapping São Paulo:Interm.Port

PORT 212: Adv Practice in Portuguese

PORT 214: Mapping Lisbon: Interm.Port.

PORT 215: Lang Analys&Written Expression

PORT 285: Inter.Topics Luso-Afro-Braz.St

PORT 285W: Inter.Topics Luso-Afro-Braz.St

PORT 300-Level Courses

PORT 300: Brazilian Texts and Cultures

PORT 300W: Brazilian Texts and Cultures

PORT 301: Portuguese Texts and Cultures

PORT 301W: Portuguese Texts and Cultures

PORT 302: Luso-African Texts & Cultures

PORT 302W: Luso-African Texts & Cultures

PORT 311: Mapping São Paulo:Adv.Portug.

PORT 314: Mapping Lisbon: Advanced Port.

PORT 330: Brazilian Cultural Imaginaries

PORT 330W: Brazilian Cultural Imaginaries

PORT 334: Portuguese Cultural Identities

PORT 334W: Portuguese Cultural Identities

PORT 385: Topics: Luso-Afro-Braz Studies

PORT 385W: Topics: Luso-Afro-Braz Studies

PORT 400-Level Courses

PORT 412: Topics in Lusophone Culture

PORT 412W: Topics in Lusophone Culture

PORT 485: Adv.Topics Luso-Afro-Braz.St.

PORT 485W: Adv.Topics Luso-Afro-Braz St.

PORT 495A: Honors Thesis

PORT 495BW: Honors Thesis

PORT 497R: Supervised Reading

SPAN 100-Level Courses

SPAN 101: Elementary Spanish I

SPAN 102: Elementary Spanish II

SPAN 111: Intensive Spanish

SPAN 150: Great Works: Hispanic Canon

SPAN 185: Topics:Intro.Hispanic Studies

SPAN 185W: Topics:Intro.Hispanic Studies

SPAN 190: Freshman Seminar: Spanish

SPAN 200-Level Courses

SPAN 201: Intermediate Spanish I

SPAN 202: Intermediate Spanish II

SPAN 205: Practical Conversation

SPAN 210: Spanish For Read Comprehension

SPAN 212: Intro to Hisp Texts & Contexts

SPAN 215: Reading and Writing Strategies

SPAN 217R: Spanish for the Professions

SPAN 219: Practical Conversation Abroad

SPAN 285: Topics: Hispanic Studies

SPAN 285W: Topics: Hispanic Studies

SPAN 290: Supervised Reading

SPAN 291: Undergraduate Seminar

SPAN 300-Level Courses

SPAN 300: Intro to Hisp Cultural History

SPAN 300W: Intro to Hisp Cultural History

SPAN 301: Early Hisp. Texts & Contexts

SPAN 301W: Early Hisp. Texts & Contexts

SPAN 302: Modern Hisp Texts & Contexts

SPAN 302W: Modern Hisp Texts & Contexts

SPAN 303: Phonetics:TheSounds of Spanish

SPAN 304: Intro. to Spanish Linguistics

SPAN 305: Lan&Cult for Heritage Speakers

SPAN 308: Contemporary Spanish Culture

SPAN 309: Contemp. Latin Amer. Culture

SPAN 310: Adv Communication Strategies