Fall Quarter 2025

Fall Quarter 2025

Spanish Undergraduate Courses

Lower Division Language Courses

SPA 001 — Elementary Spanish
SPA 001V — Elementary Spanish (Online)
SPA 001Y — Elementary Spanish (Hybrid)

SPA 002 — Elementary Spanish
SPA 002V — Elementary Spanish (Online)
SPA 002Y — Elementary Spanish (Hybrid)

SPA 003 — Elementary Spanish
SPA 003V — Elementary Spanish (Online)
SPA 003Y — Elementary Spanish (Hybrid)

SPA 021Y — Intermediate Spanish I (Hybrid)
SPA 022Y — Intermediate Spanish I (Hybrid)

SPA 023 — Spanish Composition I
SPA 024 — Spanish Composition II

SPA 031 — Spanish for Native Speakers I
SPA 033 — Spanish for Native Speakers III

Upper Division Course Descriptions & Flyers

  • SPA 100 — Principles of Hispanic Literature & Criticism
    Cristina Martinez-Carazo

  • Course Description: Principles of literary criticism applied to the study of fiction, drama, poetry, and essay of major literary writers of the Hispanic world.
    Prerequisite(s): SPA 024 or SPA 024S or SPA 033 or SPA 033V.
    General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); Oral Skills (OL); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE).

  • SPA 115 — History of the Spanish Language
    TBD

  • Course Description: Spanish language from its roots in spoken Latin to modernity. Emphasis on the close relationship between historical events and language change, and the role that literature plays in language standardization.
    Prerequisite(s): SPA 024 or SPA 033 or SPA 033V; or consent of instructor. LIN 001 recommended.
    General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH) or Social Sciences (SS).

  • SPA 116 — Applied Spanish Linguistics
    Claudia Sanchez Gutierrez
  • Course Description: Exploration of the major theoretical and practical issues concerning learning Spanish as a second language. For students interested in teaching Spanish as a career.
    Prerequisite(s): SPA 024 or SPA 033; or consent of instructor; LIN 001 recommended.
    General Education: Social Sciences (SS).
  • SPA 148 — Cinema in the Spanish-Speaking World in Translation
    Cristina Martinez-Carazo

  • Course Description: Analysis of the culture of the Spanish-speaking world through film in translation. Emphasis on the cultural information illustrated by the films; no prior knowledge of cinematography required. Films with subtitles.
    Prerequisite(s): SPA 024 or SPA 024S or SPA 033 or SPA 033V.
    General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); Visual Literacy (VL); World Cultures (WC).

  • SPA 151 — Survey of Latin American Literature 1900 to Present
    Charlie Hankin

  • Course Description: Latin American literature from 1900 to the present. Reading selections include fiction, poetry, drama, essays, testimonio, etc.
    Prerequisite(s): SPA 100 or SPA 100S or SPA 141 or SPA 141S or SPA 168 or SPA 170 or SPA 170S.
    General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).

  • SPA 157 — Great Works of Latin American Literature/Culture
    Robert Newcomb

  • Course Description: Study of major works of Latin American literature/culture and their cultural and literary milieus. May include novels, poetry, film, etc. Works may be analyzed in terms of style, influence, cultural significance, political importance, and/or commercial success.
    Prerequisite(s): SPA 100 or SPA 100S or SPA 141 or SPA 141S or SPA 168 or SPA 170 or SPA 170S.
    General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).

  • SPA 159 — Special Topics in Latin American Literature & Culture
    Diana Aramburu

  • Course Description: Special topics in the study of Latin American literature and culture.
    Prerequisite(s): SPA 100 or SPA 100S or SPA 141 or SPA 141S or SPA 168 or SPA 170 or SPA 170S.
    General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).

  • SPA 174 — Chicano Culture
    Robert Irwin

  • Course Description: Interdisciplinary survey of Chicano culture. Topics include literature, art, folklore, oral tradition, music, politics, as well as everyday cultural manifestations. Conducted in Spanish. (Former SPA 124.)
    Prerequisite(s): SPA 024 or SPA 033 or SPA 033V.
    General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH); American Cultures, Governance, & History (ACGH); Domestic Diversity (DD).

  • SPA 178A — Spanish for the Professions
    Agustina Carando
  • This course is designed for students who have an intermediate-advanced level of Spanish and are interested in applying their bilingual skills in professional and public contexts in the U.S. It emphasizes business writing conventions and highlights the role of the audience in the development of effective communicative products. Students will also gain an understanding of the linguistic characteristics, needs and challenges facing multilingual populations through readings and field research, an essential component of successfully serving US Spanish speakers in the workplace. Assignments include community interviews, a linguistic landscape of professional spaces, and job application materials in Spanish. At the end of the course, students will be better prepared to pursue bilingual opportunities on and off campus.
    There are currently no prerequisites. Interested students should email Prof. Agustina Carando (acarando@ucdavis.edu).
    GE: AH, SS, DD, OL, WE

Portuguese Undergraduate Courses

POR 001 — Elementary Portuguese
Benjamin Chaffin

Spanish Graduate Course Descriptions

  • SPA 201 — Literary Theory I
    Charlie Hankin
  • Keywords and concepts in critical theory with an emphasis on developing methodologies of close reading and cultural analysis. This course will pair seminal works from the main European schools (Marxism, Frankfurt School, Poststructuralism) with decolonial thought from Latin America and the Global South. Topics may include culture, ideology, knowledge, power, subalternity, Blackness, and coloniality.
  • SPA 217 — Sociolinguistics: Spanish of the United States
    Agustina Carando
  • Drawing from research in language contact, bilingualism, sociolinguistics and education, this course aims at familiarizing students with the features of Spanish spoken in the U.S. context, promoting an understanding of the diverse population of heritage speakers and their language practices. Topics include translanguaging and code-switching, the notion of Spanglish, Spanish in contact with English, critical perspectives, and pedagogical implications.
  • SPA 230 — Topics in Latin American Cultural Studies-Movilidades e inmovilidades
    Robert Irwin
  • Este seminario revisará diferentes aproximaciones teóricas y metodológicas a las dinámicas actuales de las movilidades e inmovilidades humanas en las Américas. A través de obras tanto artísticas/literarias como testimoniales, incluyendo narrativas digitales del archivo Humanizando la Deportación/Humanizando el Asilo, se considerarán tales conceptos como la autonomía de la migración, migrant placemaking/worldmaking, el saber migrante, intimate bordering, everyday bordering, nepantla, homing, el cuidado migrante, el transfeminismo, el rasquachismo. Entre las obras culturales que leeremos: Caravaneros de Douglas Oviedo, El viaje de un pollo de Fabián Quito, Sobrevivientes: ciudadanos del mundo de Ustin Dubuisson, Cruzar la frontera en tacones de Alexandra DeRuiz, Nostalgia and Borders de Sonia Guiñansaca – en diálogo con obras críticas/académicas de: Amarela Varela, Leisy Abrego, Sayak Valencia, Gloria Anzaldúa, Tomás Ybarra Frausto, Nicholas De Genova, María Dolores París, Verónica Gago, Soledad Álvarez, Masaya Llavaneras, entre otrxs críticxs.
     
  • SPA 390 — The Teaching of Spanish in College
    Claudia Sanchez Gutierrez
  • Required for new Spanish instructors.