SPAN 1010 Elementary Spanish with Daniel Colon

MoWeFr 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM; 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

This course, designed for students with no prior experience in Spanish, develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through engagement with oral and written texts in Spanish and interactive projects. Enables students to perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in highly predictable everyday situations (e.g. expressing basic personal information and needs). Followed by SPAN 1020.

SPAN 1060 Accelerated Elementary Spanish with Matthew Street

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

This course develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through engagement with oral and written texts in Spanish and interactive projects. It covers the material from SPAN 1010-1020 in an accelerated one-semester format, enabling students to perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in common everyday situations (e.g., greeting, narrating, describing, ordering, comparing and contrasting). Followed by SPAN 2010.

SPAN 2010 Intermediate Spanish with Germain Badang, Daniel Colón​, Esperanza Górriz Jarque, Sara Young, Kate Neff, Cielo Uscanga Martinez, Filadelfia Soto, Francis Whitfill Jr.

MoWeFr 8:00am - 8:50am; 9:00am - 9:50am; 10:00am - 10:50am; 11:00am - 11:50am; 12:00pm - 12:50pm; 1:00pm - 1:50pm; 2:00pm - 2:50pm

TuTh 8:00am - 9:15am; 9:30am - 10:45am; 12:30pm - 1:45pm; 2:00pm - 3:15pm; 3:30pm - 4:45pm;  6:30pm - 7:45pm

This course 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. Followed by SPAN 2020.

SPAN 2020 Advanced Intermediate Spanish with Jennifer Barlow, David Florez-Murillo, Jennifer Hogg, Nieves García Prados​, Maria Jose Jorquera Hervas

MoWeFr 8:00am - 8:50am; 9:00am - 9:50am; 10:00am - 10:50am; 11:00am - 11:50am; 12:00pm - 12:50pm; 1:00pm - 1:50pm; 2:00pm - 2:50pm; 3:00pm - 3:50pm

TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm; 12:30pm - 1:45pm; 2:00pm - 3:15pm; 3:30pm - 4:45pm; 5:00pm - 6:15pm; 6:30pm - 7:45pm

This course 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. Completion of this course fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences World Language Requirement.

SPAN 3000 The Sounds of Spanish with Joel Rini

TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm

SPAN 3010 Finding Your Voice in Spanish with Esther Poveda Moreno, Alicia López Operé, Xavier Williams, Ciara Raczyk

MoWeFr 10:00am - 10:50am; 11:00am - 11:50am; 12:00pm - 12:50pm; 1:00pm - 1:50pm

TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am; 12:30pm - 1:45pm; 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Imagine the incredible sense of achievement and empowerment you’ll feel when you confidently express yourself in another language! In SPAN 3010, you will explore your evolving proficiency in Spanish by engaging with and creating three cultural texts: a brief memoir, a news story, and a film review. Through examining selected examples of these text types in Spanish, you will grasp the rationale behind specific writing techniques, stylistic choices, and linguistic structures within each genre and their impact on the construction of meaning. You will ultimately acquire a personalized toolkit of linguistic and stylistic devices for crafting your texts. This course treats reading, listening, speaking, and writing not merely as isolated linguistic skills but as interconnected methods for building effective communication. As a participant in this course, you will establish personal learning objectives, enhance your conversational skills in Spanish, assemble a portfolio of your written work, and engage actively with our writing community through discussions, peer evaluations, recitals, and various interactive activities.

SPAN 3020 Elevate Your Spanish with Alicia López Operé, Elizabeth Mirabel

MoWeFr 10:00am - 10:50am

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.    

SPAN 3030 Cultural Conversations with Nicole Bonino

MoWeFr 11:00am - 11:50am

Ready to take your Spanish-speaking skills to the next level? This interactive course is designed to help you develop fluency through dynamic discussions, creative projects, and real-world engagement. Explore the cultures of Spain, Latin America, and the Caribbean through film, art, and performance. Enhance your speaking skills through interactions with guest speakers and generative AI platforms. To express yourself confidently in Spanish while immersing yourself in the richness of the Spanish-speaking world, you will engage in both individual and collaborative projects aimed at refining your spoken and written Spanish, preparing you for academic and professional settings.

SPAN 3040 Business Spanish with Maria Esparza Rodriguez

MoWeFr 10:00am - 10:50am; 11:00am - 11:50am

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.

SPAN 3050 Spanish for Medical Profession with Alicia López Operé 

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. 

SPAN 3200 Intro Hispanic Linguistics with Lorena Albert Ferrando

MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm

The course objective is to provide an introduction into 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.

SPAN 3300 Texts and Interpretations with Erica Cobb, Nieves Garcia Prados, Nicole Bonino, Winnie Perez Martinez, Eliud Encarnacion Segura, Yafrainy Familia

MoWeFr 10:00am - 10:50am; 11:00am - 11:50am; 12:00pm - 12:50pm; 1:00pm - 1:50pm; 2:00pm - 2:50pm

TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm

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. 

SPAN 3400 Spain: From Kingdom to Empire (1200-1700) with Fernando Riva

TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm

SPAN 3410 Perspectives on Modern Spain (1800 to the Present) with Robert Sanchis

MoWeFr 11:00am - 11:50am

SPAN 3420 Politics and Power in the Early Americas (1492-1800) with Fernando Operé 

TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Este es un curso dedicado al estudio de la literatura que se escribió sobre América desde la llegada de Cristóbal Colón hasta la independencia de América Latina.

Los primeros escritos fueron crónicas y diarios de aventureros, soldados, monjes, o simplemente viajeros, que hoy nos parecen literatura fantástica. Puede citarse los fascinantes relatos del encuentro de Hernán Cortes en su llegada a México (Tenochtitlan), de Francisco Pizarro a Perú (Cusco), y las aventuras o fracasos de muchos aventureros arriba y abajo del nuevo continente (Cabeza de Vaca, Hernando de Soto ente otros). Se incluyen viajes de científicos que llegaron al continente a describir su flora y su fauna (Darwin, Humboldt) y textos que dan cuenta del modo en que España diseñó el Nuevo Mundo que consistía en la fundación de ciudades cristiana, la creación nuevas fronteras, y una sociedad integrada en un calidoscopio de razas.

SPAN 3430 Contemporary Latin American Voices (1800 to the present) with Maria Esparza Rodriguez

MoWeFr 1:00pm - 1:50pm

SPAN 4040 Translation Spanish to English​ with Nieves García Prados​ and Erica Cobb

MoWeFr 10:00am - 10:50am; 11:00am - 11:50am

TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm

"Lost & Found in Translation" offers an introduction to the "art" of translation, both in practice and theory. Throughout the semester students participate in a series of workshops, collaborating on translations of texts of different genres, from multiple time periods and countries through in-depth readings and discussions, translation activities from Spanish to English and vice versa. This is a dynamic, interactive, inter-disciplinary course. Prerequisites: SPAN 3300, and highly recommended one/two survey(s) of literature and culture (SPAN 3400-3430). For Spanish majors we advise both surveys to be taken before SPAN 4040 (or simultaneously) since surveys cannot be taken during the 4th year.

SPAN 4200 SPAN Origin and Transformation with Joel Rini

TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm

SPAN 4402 Don Quixote with Ricardo Padrón 

TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am

SPAN 4510 Special Topics Seminar: Literature with Fernando Valverde

TuTh 5:00pm - 6:15pm

SPAN 4520 Multicultural Medieval Iberia: 711-1492 with Fernando Riva

TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm

This course offers a broad perspective on the coexistence of Christians, Muslims and Jews in medieval Iberia from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries. Based on medieval texts, we will discuss topics related to religion, literature, and politics. Taught in Spanish. 

SPAN 4520 Special Topics Seminar: Culture & Civilization with Ricardo Padron

TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm

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.

SPAN 4615 Spanish Cinema with Sam Amago

TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm

A cultural history of Spanish cinema that covers the basics of film analysis and introduces a diverse array of approaches to studying movies. Every week, students will view a feature-length film and complete readings in Spanish. Class discussions and assignments will be in Spanish.

The principal objective of this course is to develop students’ skills and sophistication as viewers and critics of Spanish cinema. We will combine our previous knowledge of the fundamentals of textual analysis with an introduction to the narrative, technical and stylistic elements of film. Through formal discussion of movies, students can expect to achieve

1. A working knowledge of film language and terminology

2. An introduction to the cultural history of Spanish cinema

3. A well-developed ability to express and justify critical and aesthetic judgments through writing and oral discourse in Spanish

SPAN 4700 Spanish Culture and Civilization with Kelly Moore

TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm

SPAN 7850 Themes and Genres: Reproductivist Imaginaries - Iberian Cinema and Social Reproduction with Kelly Moore

Th 3:30pm - 6:00pm

This course provides an overview of contemporary feminist debates about care work from the perspective of Iberian cinema. What can cinema tell us about the material conditions of possibility for the circulation of labor, about social reproduction? The concept of reproductivism offers a material and figurative analytic for thinking about the subordination of life-making to production. We will combine political theory, feminist thought, and film theory to attend to those indispensable infrastructures which reproduce labor power but also allow for the persistence of collectives through time. What do filmic texts tell us about the relationship between cinematic time and the time of reproduction, between labor and gender, between politics and mothering, between coercion and care? This course will be taught in English. It counts for the WGS graduate certificate.

SPAN 7850/4850 Romantic, Moderns, and Nations Builders with Fernando Operé

MoWe 2:00pm - 3:15pm

The 19th century was a century of great commotions and contrasts in both Americas. The vast territories of the Spanish and English Crowns saw the birth of new republics that achieved independence at the beginning of the century. The tasks of construction these new countries were numerous, beginning with the creation of national identities. Literature and art assumed part of the task through the work of the so-called Nation Builders (Echeverría, Sarmiento, Martí, Mansilla and many others).

Romantics and Modernists took on the job, using formulas that promoted their values and world views, and traveled the territory to describe it and claim it.

The century also witnessed the presence of new scientific travelers, dedicated to the task of reinvent the continent, and revaluate it based on new scientific studies and taxonomies. (Humboldt, Darwin, Moreno). It was necessary to get rid of the old concepts of the European vision. The 19th century turned out to be a fascinating century of changes and forces confronting each other. Modernity was being built.

SPAN 8210 Second-Language Teaching Methods with Lorena Albert Ferrando

We 3:30pm - 6:00pm

This course is designed for new graduate students seeking to develop and enhance their professional knowledge and skills in second language teaching. It covers modern teaching methodologies, trends in second language acquisition, and intercultural competence. Participants will shadow language instructors, observe, and engage in practical activities such as creating instructional materials, lesson planning, and assessment design. Additionally, we will explore teaching methods for content courses and provide guidance on crafting Teaching Statements, preparing students for various teaching contexts and their professional careers.

SPAN 8505 Medieval Clerical Poetry and Modernity with Fernando Riva

Th 3:30pm - 6:00pm

Focused on thirteenth-century Castile, this course will explore different aspects of clerical culture and poetry in the context of a society experiencing deep intellectual changes. These new approaches to intellectual life and cultural production were mainly caused by the diffusion of Aristotelian thought, which shaped innovative ways to write poetry and to reflect on power.

ITAL 1010 Elementary Italian I with Nicole Bonino, Stella Mattioli, Francesca Calamita

MoWeFr 11:00AM-11:50AM; 12:00PM-12:50PM

MoWe 02:00PM-03:15PM

TuTh 02:00PM-03:15PM; 03:30PM-04:45PM

Elementary Italian I is the first class in the four-course sequence that is necessary to complete the world language requirement. In this course, students will learn basic survival skills to assist them when they travel to Italy, however they will also learn to describe people and places, ask questions, narrate in the present and simple past tenses, as well as write short texts describing themselves, their families, and their impressions of Italy. Students will also develop their ability to understand spoken Italian by listening to songs, commercials, and movie clips, and they will begin reading advertisements, song lyrics, and some poems. Elementary Italian I includes experiential learning activities such as role-plays, games, and interaction with multi-media to allow learners many opportunities to practice Italian in real-world contexts. Students of Elementary Italian will also have many occasions to learn more about life in contemporary Italy as they study the country’s language.    

ITAL 2010 Intermediate Italian I with Sarah Annunziato and Stella Mattioli

MoWeFr 02:00PM-03:15PM

TuTh 09:30AM-10:45AM; 12:30PM-01:45PM

ITAL 2010 Intermediate Italian I is the third class in the four-course sequence which fulfills the language requirement. Students will further develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills as well as deepen their cultural literacy in Italian. You will accomplish these goals with the guidance of your professor, through review of grammar, short readings, compositions, and listening and speaking activities. We will also examine current events as they unfold in Italy relating to contemporary politics, the arts, the environment, and more. Students will have the opportunity to listen to songs, comment on works of art, watch commercials and short films, read newspaper articles, watch television series, and meet natives of Italy in your quest to become more confident and competent users of the Italian language and its culture. 

ITAL 3010 Mastering Italian Language & Culture with Sarah Annunziato

TuTh 02:00PM-03:15PM

Mastering Italian Language and Culture I (ITAL 3010) is the first of two courses that are required to complete either a major or a minor in Italian Studies.  Students of this class will enhance their mastery of the five skills essential to learning a world language (speaking, listening, reading, writing, and cultural competency) by applying them to various real-world settings such as: dialogues, presentations, informal conversations, debates, interviews with native speakers, and book clubs, among other possibilities. We will accomplish these goals through viewing and discussing contemporary Italian cinema and television. Our course will examine films from 21st-century Italy to give students a glimpse of present-day Italian society, while placing particular emphasis on further development of conversational and writing skills. Films to include: Benvenuti al sud, Il rosso e il blu, Il ragazzo invisibile, Corpo Celeste, Terraferma, La mafia uccide solo d’estate, Io e lei, Noi e la Giulia, Scusate se esisto, and Quo vado.

ITTR 3685 Italy on Screen with Francesca Calamita

TuTh 5:00pm - 6:15pm

ITTR 4010 & 6010 Narrating (Un-)sustainability​ with Enrico Cesaretti

TuTh 11:00AM-12:15PM

KICH 1010 Introduction to K'iche' I with Esther Poveda Moreno

TuTh 04:00PM-05:15PM

KICH 2010 Intermediate K'iche' I with Esther Poveda Moreno

TuTh 02:00PM-03:15PM

PORT 1110 Beginning Intensive Portuguese with Lilian Feitosa

MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM

PORT 2050 Intensive Portuguese for Speakers of Spanish and other Romance Languages with Lilian Feitosa

MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM

Portuguese 2050 is an accelerated Portuguese language and culture course that condenses two semesters (PORT 1110 and PORT 2120) into one. PORT 2050 is designed specifically for UVA undergraduate and graduate students who already possess an advanced level of fluency in one of the Romance languages. The pedagogical approach to PORT 2050 is both proficiency-oriented and task-based and the class will be conducted completely in Portuguese.

PORT 3010 Portuguese Advanced Grammar & Composition​ with Lilian Feitosa

MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM

POTR 4270 The Civilization of Brazil with Eli Carter

TR 02:00PM-3:15PM