Spring 2024

MoWeFr 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM; 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM; 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM; 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM; 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through engagement with oral and written texts in Spanish and various interactive projects. Five class hours. Covers the material in SPAN 1010-1020 in an accelerated one semester format. Followed by SPAN 2010. Prerequisite: Previous background in Spanish (1-2 years of high school Spanish) and PLACE diagnostic score of 1.0-3.0, UVA placement diagnostic score of 0-325 (prior to May 2022), or SAT II score of 420-510.]

MoWeFr 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM; 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM; 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM; 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM; 3:00pm - 3:50pm; 4:00pm - 4:50pm

TuTh 8:00am - 9:15am; 9:30 AM-10:45 AM; 11:00am - 12:15pm; 12:30 PM-1:45 PM; 02:00 PM-03:15 PM; 05:00 PM-06:15 PM

Further develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through engagement with authentic, culturally rich oral and written texts in Spanish. Enables students to perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., narrating present and past activities and expressing desires and requests), and to express personal meaning by creating with the language. Three class hours. Followed by SPAN 2020.  

MoWeFr 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM; 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM; 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM; 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM; 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM; 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM; 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM

TuTh 8:00am - 9:15am; 09:30 AM-10:45 AM; 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM; 12:30 PM-01:45 PM; 02:00 PM-03:15 PM; 03:30 PM-04:45 PM; 05:00 PM-06:15 PM; 06:30 PM-07:45 PM

Further develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through engagement with authentic, culturally rich oral and written texts in Spanish. Enables students to perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations with some complications (e.g., describing present, past and future activities, expressing opinions, and persuading), and to express personal meaning by creating with the language. Three class hours. 

MoWe 5:00pm - 6:15pm

TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm

An introduction to the sound system of both Peninsular and Latin American Spanish. Class discussions focus on how the sounds of Spanish are produced from an articulatory point of view, and how these sounds are organized & represented in the linguistic competence of their speakers. When appropriate, comparisons will be made between Spanish & English or Spanish & other (Romance & non-Romance) languages. Course seeks to improve the student's pronunciation. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or a score of 641-800 on the SAT II Exam, or a 4 or 5 on the AP Exam.

MoWeFr 9:00am - 9:50am; 11:00am - 11:50am; 1:00pm - 1:50pm

TuTh 8:00am - 9:15am; 9:30am - 10:45am; 12:30pm - 1:45pm

SPAN 3010 seeks to develop advanced literacy in Spanish through extensive analysis and discussion of journalistic and literary texts, and documentaries and films from the Spanish-speaking world. Emphasis is placed on how grammatical forms codify meaning and grammar and meaning interact to construct the language and textual structures expected in the following types of texts: a photo-narrative, a report on a current event, and a film review. Prerequisite: SPAN 2020 or equivalent.

TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm

This is an intermediate Spanish language course for students who speak Spanish in informal settings and are first or second-generation Spanish speakers in the U.S. During the semester we explore Spanish in the US and cultural productions of Spanish speakers here and around the world. Integral to the course are writing and speaking practice in a range of linguistic registers including personal narration, academic research, pod casts, professional formats, and oral presentations, all designed to build on students’ existing language proficiency. Working with fiction, essays, film, media, and grammar review, the course aims to reinforce a command of formal language to prepare students for advanced academic work and professional contexts.

MoWeFr 9:00am - 9:50am

SPAN 3020 seeks to develop advanced literacy in Spanish through extensive analysis and discussion of journalistic and literary texts, and documentaries and films from the Spanish-speaking world. We will focus especially on analyzing and learning advanced and late-acquisition grammatical structures and on how grammar and meaning interact to construct the language and textual structures expected in the following types of essays: and op-ed, a literary review, and an academic essay.    

MoWeFr 12:00pm - 12:50pm; 1:00pm - 1:50pm

TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am

This is an intermediate level course in which students read, research, discuss, debate and write in Spanish about recent themes that are relevant to commercial and economic contexts in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a language class that focusses on Spanish in professional settings; no previous academic or practical experience in commerce is required.

TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm; 12:30pm - 1:45pm

Spanish for Medical Professions, is a recommended course for students that want to have a career in the health professions, and also for those who need to interact with Spanish-speaking people in hospitals, clinics and similar spaces. The course has been designed to develop linguistic competency as well as cultural competency in the health context. The emphasis is put on the real use of the language and the understanding of cultural differences among Spanish-speaking countries and the United States, and Latino patients in the United States. The course has a background theme on contemplative practices. 

MoWeFr 10:00am - 10:50am

SPAN 3070: Sí se puede: Community Engagements in Spanish-Speaking Charlottesville is an advanced conversation course with a community-based language element component. In this specific iteration of SPAN 3070, we will focus on the role of education as a tool for social change in the Spanish speaking world. As part of the course requirements, students will volunteer as bilingual tutors and mentors with the Equity Center’s Starr Hills Pathway Program. Through community work, engagement with course materials (podcasts, documentaries, graphic novels, short stories, and testimonials), and conversations with guest speakers, we will reflect on the importance of education as the foundation to build more fair, inclusive, and equitable societies, and how this is manifested in the local and broader Spanish speaking world. 

TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm

The course objective is to provide an introduction to the core areas of linguistic analysis using Spanish as the test case. During the semester, we will cover several areas including the sounds of Spanish (phonetics and phonology), word formation (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), meaning of words, phrases, sentences, and larger chunks of discourse, also in social context (semantics and pragmatics), history of the Spanish language, regional and social variation (dialectology and sociolinguistics), and language acquisition.

MoWeFr 9:00am - 9:50am; 11:00am - 11:50am; 3:00pm - 3:50pm

TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am; 11:00am - 12:15pm 

This intermediate level course introduces the student of Spanish to the fundamentals of reading and understanding various genres, and to practice discussing, analyzing, and writing about them in an academic register in Spanish. It draws on texts and materials from both Spain and Latin America, and builds students’ specialized vocabulary. All work for the class, including reading, discussion, and writing, is done in Spanish. SPAN 3300 is a prerequisite for the survey courses. 

MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm

This course will explore medieval and early modern works written in Castilian from El Cid to Calderón’s theater. We will focus on the function of these literary texts in the European and Mediterranean context. Taught in Spanish.

This course focuses on the emergence and consolidation of modernity in Spain from the eighteenth century to the present. Readings and discussions of representative literary and artistic movements of modern Spain, including the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, the Avant Garde, Modernism, and Postmodernism in terms of their historical, intellectual, artistic and cultural contexts.

TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Spanish 3430 provides students with a survey of Latin American literature and the context in which it has developed from 1900 to the present. Students will leave this course with a general understanding of the region’s major literary trends, including their social and political dimensions. “Literature,” in this course, refers to a wide range of cultural production from literary texts (novels, stories, essays, poems) to visual art, film, and song lyrics. Throughout the course, we will consider the following questions: How has Latin America’s cultural production shaped and been shaped by its cultures, peoples, and historical events? How do the consciousness, memory, and imagination expressed within the region’s literature both reflect and create the region’s realities? And perhaps most importantly, who has (and has not) had access to Latin America’s literature and how has that shaped the way the region has represented itself through both the written word and image?

TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm; 3:30pm - 4:45pm

What is literary translation and why is it a challenge? This course is designed to answer these questions, from a theoretical and practical point of view. The objective is to develop specific skills and creativity through in-depth discussions and translation practice. The students will become familiar with the basic concepts, common problems, techniques and strategies of literary translation into Spanish and English, and also strategies of literary translation in both languages. In class, we will read and discuss diverse material on theories of literature and literary translation; compare translations with different approaches and different strategies of literary

literary translators; and we will (re)translate literary passages or texts from and into Spanish. We will also have the

the opportunity to talk with some literary translators from various countries around the world.

MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm

MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm

TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm

MoWe 5:00pm - 6:15pm

MoWe 6:30pm - 7:45pm

TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm

When we think about the Spanish empire, we immediately think about Spain’s colonies in the New World, but forget that it actually extended across the Pacific to the Philippine Islands.  From its outpost in the Philippines, the Spanish established contact with China, Japan, Cambodia, and what is now Indonesia, countries that they had no hope of conquering militarily.  In East Asia, it was the Spaniards who were the “barbarians,” in the eyes of the highly sophisticated people of China and Japan. What role did this encounter play in the ongoing construction of racialized cultural hierarchies that are more often understood through the European encounter with America and Africa than with Asia?  This course introduces students to the history of this encounter, and helps them explores its broader implications.  Pre-Requisites – SPAN 3300 and one survey course (3400-3430). 

TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm

This interdisciplinary course introduces students to the field of transgender studies through Latin American and Latinx Studies. Through cultural and literary texts, performance art, visual culture, and activisms that highlight the imbrications of race, class, sex, gender, and nation, we examine travesti and trans of color critique; travesti and trans of color activisms and sexual politics; travesti and trans of color archival formations; and sex work as knowledge, history, and world-making practice. This course is cross-listed with the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGS 4120) and the Department of American Studies (AMST 4500).

TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am

The goal of this course is to critically examine how language and systemic power relations are co-naturalized and how this linkage is constructed, manifested, and underpinned in our everyday language use and identity, as well as in our perception of other groups and speakers. We will focus on Spanish language environments (and in the US in particular) but the contents of the course are applicable to other languages and settings.

TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm

MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm

TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm

MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Th 3:30pm - 6:00pm

Trans Studies in the Américas centers Latinx and Latinx American epistemologies and cultural production to introduce students to the vibrant field of transgender studies. Drawing from critical theory, history, politics, visual culture, literary, and performance studies, we examine central theories, methods, and objects that have shaped the field’s core theoretical concerns. Emphasis will be placed on new and emergent work in the field. Course will be taught in English. Cross-listed with the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS 7850) and counts toward both Women, Gender, and Sexuality as well as American Studies graduate certificates.

We 3:30pm - 6:00pm

Mo 3:30pm - 6:00pm

This graduate seminar will explore the translations of magical and scientific texts produced at the Alfonsine court. Our main objective will be to relate these works to Alfonso’s political project. Thus, concepts of appropriation, medieval systems of knowledge, secrecy, translation, magic, and empire will be extensively discussed. Taught in Spanish.