Fall 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

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 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

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 8:00am - 8:50am; 9:00am - 9:50am; 10:00am - 10:50am; 11:00am - 11:50am; 12:00pm - 12:50pm; 1:00pm - 1:50pm; 3:00pm - 3:50pm; 4:00pm - 4:50pm

TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am; 12:30pm - 1:45pm; 2:00pm - 3:15pm; 3:30pm - 4:45pm; 5:00pm - 6:15pm; 6:30pm - 7:45pm

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. 

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

TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am; 11:00am - 12:15pm; 2:00pm - 3:15pm

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.

MWF 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.    

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

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 9:30am - 10:45am

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; 1:00pm - 1:50pm; 2:00pm - 2:50pm

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. 

TuTh 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM

MoWeFr 11:00am - 11:50am

TuTh 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

MoWeFr 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

TuTh 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Mo 5:00pm - 7:30pm

This course offers a general view of the history of the Americas, hispanophone as well as anglophone, with a focus on their development as it pertains to imperialism, colonialism, and slavery. Students will learn how to consider the situation of different American countries not just as isolated entities, but as the product of socioeconomic processes that connect them with each other and with the rest of the world. Through a series of theoretical, historiographical, and political readings, students will become familiar with intellectual traditions that unite the Americas as a coherent concept beyond the boundaries of the nation-state. 

This course is a beneficiary of the Andrew Mellon Foundation through the Race, Place, and Equity Center Community Engagement Grant. As an integral part of the class, members of the Charlottesville Spanish-speaking community, on the one hand, and the students of Spanish at the University of Virginia, on the other, will share semesters, classrooms, and discussions. To avoid centering this community-engaged project on places not readily available for people who are not affiliated with the University of Virginia, classes will be held at the Church of the Incarnation, with transportation expenses being covered by the grand funds. The grant will also cover books, photocopies, and other necessary expenses. The course is free for every registered student. 

MoWeFr 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

TuTh 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM; 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

"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.

MoWe 3:30pm - 4:45pm

TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm

TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm

MoWe 6:30pm - 7:45pm

MoWe 6:30pm - 7:45pm

MoWe 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

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

In this course, students will work with texts and film by writers and filmmakers in Spain whose mother-tongue is not Castilian Spanish. It will include Spanish translations of cultural productions in Euskera (Basque), Catalán/Valencià, or Galego (Galician) from the historic autonomous regions, and work produced by ‘new’ Spaniards who are first- or second-generation immigrants from African, Asian, and European countries who have fully adopted Spanish and/or one of the autonomous languages as their literary language. Through these works, in addition to debating what “gets lost in translation,” students will explore how language choice communicates place, memory, and the push and pull of hegemonizing forces in diverse contexts in XXth and XXIst century Spain.

TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Cultural history of Spanish cinema covering the basics of film analysis and introducing a diverse array of approaches to studying movies. Every week, students will view a feature-length film and complete readings in Spanish. Class discussions will be in Spanish.

MoWe 5:00pm - 6:15pm

MoWe 5:00pm - 6:15pm

Tu 3:00pm - 5:30pm

Mo 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM

This course considers theories of the sovereign exception and their relevance for contemporary Iberian Studies. Drawing on critical theory, history, literature, and film, this course questions whether the political theological sovereignty characteristic of the Francoist regime is, in fact, an exceptional rather than an enduring feature. Readings will include Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, Lauren Berlant, and Catherine Keller. 

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.

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.