Spanish and Portuguese Course Offerings | Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Programs

Major

Spanish, BA

Minor

Please note that not all courses provided below are available every semester. For current course availability, please email the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Pittsburgh, or contact us at 412-624-5225. Additional information is available on our Resources page.

View our Language Courses Waiting List and Special Permission Policy for an overview of the waitlist process.

Portuguese Courses

PORT 0101 - ELEMENTARY PORTUGUESE 1: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Basic elements of Brazilian Portuguese emphasizing a development of speaking, reading and writing skills Introductory course
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
PORT 0102 - ELEMENTARY PORTUGUESE 2: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The second half of this introductory course continues to develop skills in the speaking, reading and writing of Portuguese
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PORT 0101 or 1001 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses)
Course Attributes: African Studies, DSAS Second Language General Ed Requirement, Latin American Studies, West European Studies
PORT 0103 - INTERMEDIATE PORTUGUESE 3: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A continuation of the development of conversational as well as writing skills
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PORT 0102 or 1002 or 1010 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses)
Course Attributes: African Studies, Latin American Studies, West European Studies
PORT 0104 - INTERMEDIATE PORTUGUESE 4: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Follows PORT 0103 A consolidation of speaking, reading and writing skills
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PORT 0003 or 0103 or 1003 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses)
Course Attributes: African Studies, Latin American Studies, West European Studies
PORT 0120 - CONVERSATION: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An intermediate course in Portuguese conversation
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PORT 0004 or 1004 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses)
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies, West European Studies
PORT 0125 - GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An intermediate course in grammar and composition for those who have completed PORT 0004/0104 or the equivalent.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PORT 0004 or 1004 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses)
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies, West European Studies
PORT 1010 - PORTUGUESE FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS 1: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Portuguese for Spanish speakers is designed as an accelerated introductory course for native speakers of Spanish or English speakers with fluency in Spanish. It will be the equivalent of Portuguese 0001/1001 and Portuguese 0002/1002. This course concentrates on aspects of the Portuguese language that are most difficult for Spanish speakers, such as pronunciation, vocabulary, idioms and grammatical structures particular to Portuguese.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies, West European Studies
PORT 1053 - LUSO-BRAZILIAN TOPICS: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with literary, linguistic or cultural topics, or a combination of these, relating to Portugal, brazil or other Portuguese speaking areas.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies
PORT 1451 - SENSORY EXPLORATIONS OF THE LUSOSPHERE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
What could be gained by a focus on the sensorial? What meanings are revealed through the honing in on the banal processes of our everyday lives? How are these often overlooked details connected to larger social phenomena and structures? How can the literary representation of individual food choice provide clues to the racial and migratory politics of late nineteenth-century Brazil? Through a critical examination of literary texts, art, performances, and films from Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea Bissau that center on the senses and the sensorial, this course explores the woven logics of sensorial representation and cultural narratives of race, gender, class, politics, and nation in the Lusophone world. Aided by accompanying theoretical readings as well as individual research, students are expected to critically discuss both in the classroom with their peers and through formal writing assignments the connections between sensorial representations and cultural narratives related to nation building, (neo)coloniality, post-revolutionary disillusionment, historical reverberations in the contemporary present, among others, within the Lusosphere. Key concepts and issues: cultural cannibalism, the sensorial, (nation)alism, semiotics of food, aurality, affect, synestheticism, (post)colonialism, neocoloniality, gendered constructions of nation, and racial indigestion. Lectures and discussion will be in English. Course materials will be made available to students in English; however, students may choose to submit written work in English, Portuguese, and/or Spanish. This course is aimed at advanced undergraduate students.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
PORT 1458 - CULTURES OF THE PORTUGUESE SPEAKING WORLD: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course presents an overview of the contemporary cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world It is especially designed for students with little to no previous knowledge of these geographical regions. In the course, students will explore contemporary social realities throughout the Portuguese-speaking world (namely Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde) through the close and critical reading of texts, literature, film, short videos, podcast episodes, TV programs, among other mediums. Students will be exposed to issues regarding gender, race, nation, sexuality, class, status, among other issues within a contemporary context. Students are expected to engage in critical discussions with the materials and the varying perspectives of their peers. The purpose of this course is not to merely passively digest content but to also think and express oneself critically in reaction to cultural representations both from the perspective of the respective nation and also from US perspectives. It is also necessary to keep in mind that rather than attempting an exhaustive survey of the Portuguese-speaking world in its entirety, the course provides merely a glimpse into the cultural offerings of these diverse and vast geographical regions; it is also an attempt to promote global and cultural understanding. Hopefully, through this exposure, it is also a starting point for further exploration and research in studies of the Portuguese-speaking world and beyond.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., Undergraduate Research
PORT 1902 - DIRECTED STUDY: Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This course allows students to work in depth in areas of their choice, with the approval and supervision of a faculty member, who meets regularly with the student. Evaluation is by examination or by the production of a term paper or series of papers.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: West European Studies

Spanish Courses

SPAN 0003 - INTERMEDIATE SPANISH 3: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course builds on the skills acquired during the elementary sequence (either Spanish 0001 and 0002 or Spanish 0015). It includes a functional review of the basic language structures and introduces even more complex structures. The course has a strong cultural component.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Second Language General Ed. Requirement
SPAN 0004 - INTERMEDIATE SPANISH 4: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A continuation of Spanish 0003. Students continue to refine their language abilities and enhance their communicative competence. The course has a strong cultural component.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
SPAN 0050 - SPANISH CIVILIZATION: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Span 0050 offers a comprehensive survey of Spanish history and civilization from the early prehistory period to the present. Readings and lectures are in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: [PREQ: SPAN 0020 and 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses); PLAN: Spanish (BA or BPH)] or [CREQ: SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses); PLAN: Spanish (MN)]
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies, West European Studies
SPAN 0082 - LATIN AMERICA TODAY: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an overview of contemporary Latin America and its people and is designed to be an introduction for students who have no previous knowledge of the area. Students will be exposed to several aspects of Latin America. A special attempt will be made to show contemporary social reality as interpreted by some of the region’s most gifted writers. In English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, Latin American Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
SPAN 0101 - ELEMENTARY SPANISH 1: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to develop the student’s communicative proficiency through an integrated approach to the teaching of all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Grammatical structures; vocabulary and readings are presented as tools for developing good communication skills. The course also aims to foster cultural awareness of the Spanish-speaking world.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: UPB Global General Ed. Requirement, UPB Language General Ed. Requirement
SPAN 0102 - ELEMENTARY SPANISH 2: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A continuation of Elementary Spanish 1, training in spoken and written Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Second Language General Ed. Requirement, UPB Global General Ed. Requirement, UPB Language General Ed. Requirement
SPAN 0103 - INTERMEDIATE SPANISH 3: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course builds on the skills acquired during the elementary sequence (either Spanish 0001 and 0002 or Spanish 0015). It includes a functional review of the basic language structures and introduces even more complex structures. The course has a strong cultural component.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Second Language General Ed. Requirement
SPAN 0115 - INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY SPANISH: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a condensed version of the first two courses of the Spanish language program (Spanish 0101 and 0102, formerly 0001 and 0002), and it has been designed for students who have taken at least two years of high school Spanish or its equivalent. Spanish 0115 follows a communicative approach: from the first day of class you will interact in Spanish in a meaningful context with your instructor and classmates. By the end of this course you will have a general knowledge of the grammar of the Spanish language and you will be able to communicate effectively in Spanish according to this level.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Second Language General Ed. Requirement
SPAN 0120 - CONVERSATION: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The goal of this fifth-semester course is to enhance fluency and the development of oral proficiency in Spanish. Although the emphasis is on speaking and listening skills, reading and writing assignments are an important part of the syllabus. This course helps students to improve their fluency, pronunciation, and strategic competence such as paraphrasing skills, and increases their vocabulary through readings, films, digital recordings and other authentic materials.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0004 or 0104 (MIN GRADE ‘C+’) or Spanish Placement Score equal to 20
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies, West European Studies
SPAN 0125 - GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course reviews Spanish grammar, and, in addition, is designed to aid the students in vocabulary building, improving their knowledge of idiomatic usage, and their ability to translate from English to Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0004 or 0104 (MIN GRADE C+) or Spanish Placement Test Score equal/greater 20
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies, West European Studies
SPAN 0126 - SPANISH ADVANCED GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is specially designed for Spanish Heritage students who already understand and speak Spanish but they communicate almost exclusively in English and for students who speak Spanish mostly in informal settings and would like to improve their writing and spelling skills. This course aims to identify the skills that the heritage students already bring with them and develop them further. Through readings and film screenings, class presentations, discussions and debates, writing workshops and peer editing, this course seeks to strengthen the studentÂ´s confidence in the language. Students will review basic grammar structures and spelling, expand vocabulary and develop writing skills. The goal of this course is also to expose students to different products, practices, and perspectives from the Hispanic cultures in the US and abroad.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
SPAN 1031 - ELEMENTARY SPANISH 1 FOR MBAS: Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This is an introductory conversational course specifically designed for business students who do not know Spanish. The student will be presented with the basic structures of the language, as well as the necessary vocabulary to be able to understand simple Spanish and converse on everyday (“survival skills”) topics. The course, conducted in Spanish, will be relatively fast-paced, and will require students to participate actively in a variety of exercises, group activities, and exchange of information.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
SPAN 1032 - ELEMENTARY SPANISH 2 FOR MBAS: Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Spanish 0032, designed specifically for business majors, is a continuation of 0031 at the elementary level. Emphasis is on improving listening and speaking skills, with consider able in-class conversational practice. New grammatical structures and increased vocabulary are introduced. Limited business language will be included, along with selected cultural information.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
SPAN 1055 - INTRODUCTION HISPANIC LITERATURE 1: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to introduce students to the study of Spanish and Latin American literatures, while dealing with concepts and terms that can be applied to all literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 or 0120] and [SPAN 0025 or 0125 or 0126] (Min Grade ‘C’ for all listed courses)
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies, Undergraduate Research, Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
SPAN 1056 - READING, WRITING, & HEALTH IN SPANISH: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
What is literature? What does the literary do? This course, conducted in Spanish, is designed to introduce students to the study of Hispanic literature, while the same time dealing with concepts which can be applied to all literature. We will analyze Hispanic literature understood in its broadest sense, touching upon significant works, genres, movements, and authors from Spain and Latin America, all of which will have either health-related themes or relevance to the field of narrative medicine. More than a survey course, however, this course is designed to teach students how to read literature, how to write about it, and why it matters. In partial answer to this question, this course is an introduction to the health humanities and narrative medicine in Spanish. Students will learn how narrative is central to empathy, to cultural competence, to the expression and processing of pain, sickness, and healing, and how developing the skills to interpret narratives and interact with them is key to promoting global health.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 or 0120] and [SPAN 0025 or 0125 or 0126]
Course Attributes: Undergraduate Research, Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
SPAN 1250 - HISPANIC CIVILIZATIONS: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 or 0120] and [SPAN 0025 or 0125 or 0126] (Min Grade ‘C’ for all listed courses)
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
SPAN 1260 - OVERVIEW OF SPANISH LITERATURE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides a broad overview of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present in its historical, cultural, aesthetic, and social context. Reading chronologically, we will engage particularly with questions of identity, both personal and collective, and of authorship and the formation of the canon, in order to discover how we can read “Spain” through Spanish art and literature and to what extent the “idea of Spain” emerges from its own literary culture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 or 0120] and [SPAN 0025 or 0125] (Min Grade ‘C’ for all listed courses)
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
SPAN 1280 - OVERVIEW OF LATIN AMERICAN LIT: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Overview of Latin American literature
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 or 0120] and [SPAN 0025 or 0125 or 0126] (Min Grade ‘C’ for all listed courses)
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
SPAN 1300 - SPANISH PHONETICS AND PHONEMICS: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an introduction to the study and practice of the sounds of Spanish. The overall objective of this course is to understand the sound system of Spanish as compared to English. Successful students will develop good auditory perception of Spanish and awareness of their own pronunciation, which could help to improve it.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 and 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH)] or [SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (MN)]
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies, West European Studies
SPAN 1302 - ADVANCED COMPOSITION AND STYLISTICS: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This writing course builds upon the student’s knowledge of Spanish grammar and composition. In particular attention will be given to the many syntactical and lexical usages that the foreign language learner needs to incorporate in advanced writing. The teacher will help the student improve and polish his/her individual style, with some imitation of literary models.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: [SPAN 0020 and 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ ) PLAN: Spanish BA, BPH, MN] or [SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’) ;ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212 or 0213 or 0214) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies, West European Studies, Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
SPAN 1303 - SEMINAR IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will deal in depth with various cultural and linguistic topics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 1400 or 1600) and SPAN 0050 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses); PLAN: Spanish (BA); LVL: Sr
Course Attributes: Capstone Course, Latin American Studies, West European Studies
SPAN 1304 - METHODS OF TEACHING SPANISH: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A course designed for those who plan to teach Spanish. Main focus is on practical information of how best (method and technique) to teach the language. Topics include: theory of learning, approaches, activities, dialogs and drills, the role of grammar, the lab, testing, vocabulary, and the like. Practice teaching, including videotaping.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 and 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH)] or [SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (MN)]
SPAN 1305 - SPANISH APPLIED LINGUISTICS: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A thorough analysis of the linguistic problems in teaching Spanish to speakers of English. Particular emphasis on problems of interference by transfer from the native to the target language, using contrastive analysis as a method of problem solving. Study of phonology and grammar, with attention also to certain techniques in foreign language teaching. Included is a brief survey of the teaching of Spanish in the United States and elsewhere.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0020 or 0120 AND 0025 or 0125 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) or Spanish Placement Test Score equal to 13.
SPAN 1306 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The goal of this course is to further develop the oral proficiency of students through authentic materials including but not limited to interviews, movies, music, newspaper articles and role-playing. Emphasis on fluency and speaking skills, although reading and writing skills will not be ignored. We will review certain grammar points but communicative competence is not measured by grammatical competence alone. Pronunciation, comprehension skills, strategic competence such as paraphrasing skills, and an extensive active vocabulary are all equally important when it comes to becoming proficient in a foreign language. Students will often work in groups and pairs so it is imperative that they be willing to interact with one another and be tolerant of one another’s opinions. The instructor will rate students’ oral proficiency at the beginning and end of the semester based on the ACTFL speaking proficiency guidelines. These guidelines are used nation-wide as an assessment tool to identify an individual’s level of speaking competence in a foreign language.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 and 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH)] or [SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (MN)]
SPAN 1310 - LINGUISTIC SEMINAR: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course allows students to work on various linguistic topics in depth; these may be theoretical or applied in nature. Students are expected to do original research and to present it both orally in class and as a written research document. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 and 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH)] or [SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (MN)]
SPAN 1312 - OVERVIEW OF SPANISH LINGUISTICS: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a content course taught entirely in Spanish with the goal of developing students’ competence beyond colloquial and formal registers toward an academic use of the language. It will examine various aspects of Hispanic linguistics such as phonology, phonetics, morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics. Students will develop a basic of Hispanic linguistics in order to be able to critically evaluate other linguistic theories and studies in the future. Fields such as applied linguistics (both language acquisition and sociolinguistics) will be covered in order to observe the relationship between theory and current use of Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 or 0120] and [SPAN 0025 or 0125 or 0126] (Min Grade ‘C’ for all listed courses)
SPAN 1315 - SPANISH FOR PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will present a variety of formal communication-related topics throughout the Hispanic world and help students begin to develop their professional profile in Spanish. The main objective is to introduce students to the Hispanic professional environment through formal Spanish terminology and usage, cultural practices, and professional communication. This class will be conducted in a seminar format, with a strong focus on conversation and writing. Students will also learn about the geographical, political, demographic and economic realities of Hispanic countries. In order to develop intercultural competence, students will be invited to make connections and comparisons between the US and Hispanic world. Moreover, students will engage with invited speakers and job interviewers from Latin America
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0020 or SPAN 0120) AND (SPAN 0025 or SPAN 0125 or 0126)
SPAN 1320 - INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides an introduction to the theory, the basic processes, techniques and practice of English to Spanish translation and Spanish to English translation of a wide variety of materials. The students will learn how to approach the linguistic and cultural issues involved in the translation of general as well as specialized texts of various fields such as journalism, advertising, business, medicine, literature, government publications and legal documents, among others. In the process, the students will increase their vocabulary of the target language and further their understanding of the structures of both languages.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0020 or SPAN 0120) and (SPAN 0025 or 0125) (MIN GRADE ‘C’ FOR LISTED COURSES)
SPAN 1321 - BUSINESS SPANISH 1: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to acquaint students with the essential forms and documents utilized in the Spanish business world.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 and 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH)] or [SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (MN)]
Course Attributes: West European Studies
SPAN 1323 - MEDICAL SPANISH: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is intended for translators in training who desire experience in translating the types of medical documents professional translators handle “on-the-job”. Course emphasizes acquisition of practical translation skills, and introduces basic medical principles and terminology, as they are used in medical texts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 or 0120] and [SPAN 0025 or 0125 or 0126] (Min Grade ‘C’ for all listed courses)
SPAN 1400 - SURVEY LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the development of Latin American literature from the Cronistas to the present. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0050 or 1250 or 1260 or 1280 or 1400 or 1600; (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all listed courses)
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies
SPAN 1403 - LATIN AMERICAN NARRATIVE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with the development of Latin American prose narrative as it moves from 19th century realism and naturalism in the direction of modernista and vanguardista innovations, culminating in the narrative of the boom and the post-boom. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
SPAN 1404 - LATIN AMERICAN TOPICS: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with literary, linguistic or cultural topics, or a combination of these. Its primary emphasis is on developing an understanding of contemporary cultures in Latin America. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies
SPAN 1405 - SEMINAR: LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies various cultural and literary topics according to the needs and interests of the students. Its purpose is to allow students to do original research on their own on topics of interest in the field of Latin American literature and culture. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies
SPAN 1406 - U.S. LATINO LITERATURE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on U.S. Latino literature. While Mexican-Americans have roots in North America that go back to colonial times, the Latino explosion has happened mainly in the last thirty years, giving rise to new processes and forms of cultural expression, including an emerging literature that is neither a subset of U.S. Literature nor an ex tension of modern Latin American literature, though it has connections to both. To get an idea of what this literature involves and where it is going, we will look at some representative novels, poetry, memoirs, plays and films.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
SPAN 1407 - U.S. LATINO FILM: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The major purpose of the course consists of illustrating and analyzing the role of the audiovisual media film (fiction and documentary) and video (and television, to a certain degree) for an understanding of the socio-cultural and conceptual status that Latina/o identities have acquired in today’s society. Thematically, the course will focus on themes of modernity vs. tradition in U.S. Latino culture. The course uses a selection of audiovisual materials which is fairly innovative in its variety. Chicano films and videos will constitute the major part of the material.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
Course Attributes: Film Studies, Global Studies, Undergraduate Research
SPAN 1413 - SHORT STORY IN SPANISH AMERICA: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a survey of the short story in Spanish America in the twentieth and early twentieth century. Authors to be studied in a given year will include some of the following; Leopoldo Lugones, Horacio Quiroga, Maria Luisa Bombal, Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo, Felisberto Hernandez, Juan Carlos Onetti, Juan Rulfo, Elena Garro, Augusto Roa Bastos, Gabriel Barcia Marquez, , Julio Cortazar, Juan Jose Saer, Marvel Moreno, Ricardo Piglia, and Mariana Enriquez. Particular attention will be paid to writers who are also theorists of the short story (Quiroga, Borges, Cortazar, Piglia among others) and to scholars of the short story genre in Spanish America. There will also be consideration of the genre of the novella (including distinctions in short story theory between the long and the short), with examples from Bombal, Jose Bianco, Slivina Ocampo, Felisberto Hernandez, Ricardo Piglia and others.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
SPAN 1414 - THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE IN LATIN AMERICA: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the use of performance by the State, by oppositional groups, and by theatre and performance practitioners, to solidify or challenge structures of power. It looks at specific example of how theatre an public spectacles have been used since the 1960s to control or contest the political stage.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., Undergraduate Research
SPAN 1417 - LATIN AMERICAN FILM & MEDIA: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on the study of Latin American film and media by both engaging in critical viewing/reading of Latin American film and media production, as well as an exploration of relevant topics and theoretical frameworks. We will engage with questions of film and representation, art and politics, and culture and economy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Undergraduate Research
SPAN 1418 - VIOLENT VISIONS: REPRESENTATIONS/AESTHETICS OF VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will explore the role of violence in contemporary Latin American cinema by examining both film media’s representational capacity and its aesthetic composition or form. Departing from the contention that films not only create narratives, but also produce thought, we will focus on an analysis of Latin American films produced in the last twenty years, to interrogate whether violence can function as an aesthetic, theoretical and/or affective device to rethink the social, the political, and the economic. Are Latin American films merely faithful representations”of the sociopolitical and economic violence that characterizes the Latin American “reality” of today? Do manifestations of violence in Latin American cinema offer new ways of thinking about and processing sociopolitical and economic conflicts? Or is violence being commodified and reified as Latin American cultural difference in order to promote and brand Latin American cinema in the global market and circuit of international film festivals? We will address these questions by exploring the ways in which Latin America cinema is placed in a constitutive and disruptive relationship to the violent forces of the neoliberal state and globalization. These inquiries will be made in three inter-related ways. First, we will study several Latin American films from various nations and productions. Second, we will look at specific events and cases of violence with which these films engage, such as gender, racial and class oppression, military dictatorships and the police state, drug trafficking and neoliberal restructuring. Lastly, we will read critical texts by various key authors on theories of violence, film studies, and Latin American cultural studies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0020 or 0120) and (SPAN 0025 or 0125) and SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Undergraduate Research
SPAN 1419 - DRUGS, MONEY AND VIOLENCE: NARCO-CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICAN FILM: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the complex, multi-layered, and often contradictory world of transnational narcotics traffic particularly as it is configured in and through contemporary Latin American cinema. Departing from the contention that the relations between drug trafficking networks, governmental responses to the drug trade, drug production and consumption, are not clear and transparent as depicted in dominant discourses exemplified by the narrative of the War on Drugs, this course analyzes narco-culture not as a simplistic response centered merely on the idolization of drug lords or drug culture, but as a dynamic creative current that tries to make sense of the complexity and violence of the world of drugs. Why do official narratives of capitalist enterprise disavow the capitalist foundation of the drug trade? How are discourses of security and protection ironically embodied in violent militarized actions and neo-imperial ventures? How does the criminalization of certain cultural practices and symbols - particular languages, dress codes, music - relate to the racialization and sexualization of certain peoples and bodies? Moreover, how can we understand the (global) commercial success of narco-culture as exemplified by recent mainstream media and popular culture? In this course, we will address these questions by engaging in close reading/viewing of contemporary Latin American films that center on representations and (re)productions of narco-culture. These primary works will be examined in conjunction with secondary readings that discuss topics relevant to our analysis of narco-culture, such as globalization, neoliberal capitalism, immigration, femicides, cultural appropriation, and racial and gender construction.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Undergraduate Research
SPAN 1421 - POPULAR CULTURE IN LATINX AMERICA: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course looks at a variety of popular culture manifestations from Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and the US, including music, dance, sport, television and film, social media, art, beauty and consumer products. Taking a cultural studies approach to this subject, we will interrogate the ways that popular culture draws from, comments upon, and at times resists political issues, notions of authenticity, social problems, cultural agency, and inequalities. In the context of Latinx America, race/ethnicity, gender, location, citizenship, ability, and class are important conceptual frameworks to thinking otherwise. In this course we will ask the following questions: How do understandings of gender, class, location, ability, citizenship, and race/ethnicity shape the production of popular culture? What do these social assemblages tell us about popular culture manifestations? and How does a comparison between seemingly different contexts enrich our understanding of these key concepts? We will consume both theoretical discussions of popular culture as well as concrete examples of popular media (online streaming, social media, TV, fanzines, video games, comics, music, etc.) with careful attention to its material, affective and political implications. Students will explore these relationships by way of individual and collaborative projects, culminating in both written papers, as well as a digital project that translates the student’s reflections for an ample audience. Students will leave this course with an increased understanding of the concepts of spectacle, popular politics, location, ability, race/ethnicity, citizenship, and gender/sexuality that exceed ‘academic’ definitions, and of the ways in which popular culture manifestations and practices questions the very idea of globalization, hybridity, nationalism, and cultural essentialism from a hemispheric perspective.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
SPAN 1422 - MEXICAN LITERATURE, ARTS, AND CULTURE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course reviews the last hundred years of Mexican cultural history, from the 1910 Revolution to the present. Taking into consideration the meta concepts that define national culture:” the cosmic race”,”the post-Mexican condition” and “the labyrinth of solitude”, and under the lens of indigenous, nationalist, feminist and postmodernist theories, this course examines several milestones of national culture. This analysis focus on the cultural programs of the post-revolutionary period (muralism), the rise of the Mexican cultural industry (radio, cinema, comics, telenovela), the transcendental moments of conflict (the 1968 Olympic Games, the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement and the rebellion of the Zapatistas in 1994) and transnational tendencies (the pachuco, the narcoculture). The objective of the course is not, however, to define Mexican national culture, but to analyze, problematize and unsettle the ideological conflicts and cultural struggles that contextualize the production and diffusion of the great works of the last century through critical approaches guided by such concepts as those of ideology, race, gender, nationalism, the border, and post-nationalism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0020 or 0120) and (SPAN 0025 or 0125) and SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
SPAN 1423 - SEXUAL DIVERSITY IN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers ways in which sexuality is constructed in Latin American cultural texts (novels, short fiction, poetry, printed media, theater, film and popular culture) from the late nineteenth to early twenty-first century.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
SPAN 1426 - LITERATURE OF THE SOUTHERN CONE COUNTRIES: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a survey of the literature of the Southern Cone countries, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, from the nineteenth century to the present. Issues to be examined will include debates about nation formation and nationalism, relations between indigenous peoples and European settler (including the massive waves of European migration in the period around 1900), the relations between literature and he press, questions of canon formation, and the literary production of minority communities (European and Asian immigrants, Afro-Latin Amercian communities, indigenous peoples, LGBTI communities) and questions of gender and sexuality. Writes to be studied in a given term will include some of hte following: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jose Hernandez, Alberto Blest Gana, Jose Enrique Rodo, Leopoldo Lugones, Horacio Quiroga, Delmira Agustini, Florencio Sanchez, Roberto Arlt, Maria Luisa Bombal, Jose Donoso, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriela Mistral, Juan Carlos Onetti, Felisberto Hernandez, Augusto Roa Bastos, Silvian Ocampo, Idean Velarino, Ricardo Piglia, Dimela Eltit and Pedro Lemebel
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
SPAN 1427 - TRANSATLANTIC HISPANIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The literature’s of Latin American and Spain have been in dialogue, whether intentional or otherwise, since the first points of contact and subsequent colonization and independence. Reading cultural products side-by-side illuminates these dialogues and allows students to place these works of Latin America and Spain in their global context. In this course, we will analyze significant Spanish and Latin American cultural and literary texts, broadly defined to include visual art, performances, and music, to explore space, society, and culture through the perspectives of various authors and artists.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0020 or 0120) and (SPAN 0025 or 0125) and SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
SPAN 1432 - WRITING FEMINISM: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course attempts to examine writing and art produced by women. A writer from the Colony, as poet Juana Ines de la Cruz, or a character as Teresa in the film Retrato de Teresa, or painters as Frida Kahlo (Mexico) or Myrna Baez (Puerto Rico) are all important characters within a timeline, a context, and the struggle for voice and visibility. Ours is an intersectional approach to Patriarchy, violence, sexuality, race and art, which are the five topics of this course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0020 or 0120) and (SPAN 0025 or 0125) and SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: Gender, Sexuality & Women’s St, Undergraduate Research
SPAN 1433 - WOMEN’S NARRATIVES IN LATIN AMERICA: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
For centuries in Latin America, women have been expressing their perspectives on important topics in various narrative formats such as essays, short stories, articles, speeches, testimonios and novels. In this course, students will examine representative narratives from two primary stances: first, as a response to the necessity of expression in a cultural context where writing has traditionally been seen as masculine; and second, as a claimed space for expressing the women’s condition in their own social and cultural context in Latin America. The course will be organized by topics the authors examine in their works, such as politics, education, reproductive rights, domestic violence, sexuality, religion, violence, trauma, discrimination, health issues, and so on. Works will be chosen to represent various writing styles throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Representative authors to be discussed will include Clorinda Mato de Turner, Teresa de la Parra, Juana Paula Manso, Antonieta Rivas Mercado, Nahui Olin, Eva Peron, Nela Martinez, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Rosario Castellanos, Rosario Ferre, Elena Poniatowska, Sylvia Molloy, and Guadalupe Nettel.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: Undergraduate Research
SPAN 1435 - POETICS OF BILINGUALISM: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Concentrating on what is bilingualism, and after reviewing its historical and cultural parameters in Latin America, we will study the violent encounter between the Indigenous languages and the languages brought by the Conquistadores (Spanish, English, French, Portuguese), and its impact on the formation of the nation, class relations, race and language. This will be a non-chronological account of the cultural and linguistic genocides, encounters, shocks and invasions from the times of La Malinche, Sor Juana, and other authors to Latino Writing Today. Theories of Francine Massiello, Doris Sommer, and Juan Flores will be examined, as well as authors such as Sylvia Molloy, Octavio Paz, Esmeralda Santiago, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Guillermo Gómez Peña, Pedro Pietri, Dolores Prida Gloria Anzaldúa, and Lhasa di Sela, among others. We will explore questions regarding bilingualism, language and nation formation, translation studies, border studies, and minority writing. Discussion on the importance of bilingualism in a globalized world, as well as issues conforming publication and expectations on Latino writing will also be addressed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
SPAN 1436 - NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN HISPANIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The human imagination has long been captivated by nature and compelled to express it in art. In an age of a global environmental crisis, we turn to our own cultural production to make sense of nature, to wonder whether we can survive it, or whether it can survive us. Literature explores whether humans can achieve harmony with nature, questions what, if any, of our most human, most artificial trappings can coexist with the natural world. Environment has shaped the cultural production-and vice versa- of Latin America and the global reaches of the former Spanish empire. From the aquatic engineering that made the city of México-Tenochtitlán possible and Spanish colonizers’ aspirations of earthly paradise to the 21st-century climate migrants of the Dry Corridor of Central America and the hurricanes of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico and tsunamis of the Philippines, the persistent tension between humans and nature spans centuries and continents. In this course, we will trace the depiction of nature and the environment as well as environmental issues in global Hispanic literature and cultural production (to include visual art, music, and performance). Using the theoretical framework of ecocriticism, we will analyze these works to ask what they contribute to environmental understanding and action.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement
SPAN 1438 - AFRO-HISPANIC CULTURAL PRODUCTION: AFRO HISPANIC WRITERS: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course offers a survey of writing and other forms of cultural production in Spanish by and about Africans and Afro-descendants in the twentieth century (poetry, short stories, novel, visual media) in their national and historical context(s). The writers will be taken from Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony in West Africa, the Caribbean and South America. The courses general objectives are to enable students to appreciate and to demonstrate knowledge of the historical circumstances governing black writing and the black presence in the Hispanic world in the twentieth century, and to appreciate their thematic concerns and specificities, as well as the importance of their contributions to literature and culture in the national and universal contexts. It is also the courses objective to enable students to appreciate the thematic range of this body of materials, especially its engagement with race, with nationalism, with gender, and with the colonial past.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0020 or 0120) and (SPAN 0025 or 0125) and SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: Undergraduate Research
SPAN 1439 - QUEER MEXICO: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
From a queer theoretical perspective, as an extension of gender and sexuality studies, this course offers a panoramic view of cultural production in Mexico from 1901 to the present. As a point of departure, several milestones are presented in the sociocultural constructions of masculinity, femininity and sexuality and their respective transformations throughout the 20th century. Similarly, this course examines the themes, dynamics, trends and common sites of sexual diversity in contemporary Mexico. Incorporating a diversity of cultural texts (i.e. novels, essays, newspaper articles, videos, films, art, music, and performance.), this course centers thematically on the gender models that circulated before, during and after the 1910 Revolution, the debates about homosexuality during the decade of the 40s, 50s and 60s, the emergence of activist movement in favor of sexual diversity in the 70s, the cultural production of homosexual themes, the urban space in the development of sexually dissident practices, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, nightlife culture, sexual manifestations in the borderlands and in the indigenous communities of Oaxaca, lesbianism, transsexualism, the debate on queerness, the cultural symbols and practices of the LGBT community in Mexico. This course aims to develop critical thinking skills through the rigorous examination of the assumptions that fix, homogenize and perpetuate the traditional narratives that lead to a dichotomy of sexuality in contemporary Mexico.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0020 or 0120) AND (SPAN 0025 or 0125)
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Gender, Sexuality & Women’s St, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Undergraduate Research
SPAN 1441 - READING COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course, students analyze significant Latin American literary texts, broadly defined to include visual art, performances, and music, to explore space, society, and culture through the perspectives of indigenous, mestizo, European, and creole authors of the colonial period, from the first European presence in the Americas in 1492 through the eighteenth century.Â Students will develop their skills and knowledge to read, analyze, write, and speak effecively in Spanish about colonial literature, situating their own arguments in relation to ongoing scholarly debates and a broader historical framework.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
SPAN 1442 - RACIAL, ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCE IN COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Indios Chinos, Inca Witches, African Healers, Crypto Jewish, and Old Christians: Racial, Ethnic and Religious Difference in Colonial Latin America Diversity has been a constant of human societies, and so have been the different ways in which people have made sense of it. Colonial Latin America was no exception. After 1492 Indigenous Latin American polities progressively went from independent entities to subordinated units of the Portuguese and Spanish Empires, and large numbers of African and Asian peoples were uprooted and transported to Latin America. During this long, protracted process of transformation Western ideas about difference were put to the test and gave birth to unexpected questions. Was it the stars that made people different? Or was it that the sun was stronger in the tropics? Perhaps it was the mother’s imagination, or the Devil messing with it? Were all people descendants of the same act of creation or had there been many? Were the varying degrees of masculinity at the roots of it all? And anyway, how fundamental were the differences? Could skin color be rubbed off? Was the soul the same color as the skin? Was the blood tainted? Would conversion to Christianity solve it all? If the colonizers’ plural, often contradictory theories made simple answers difficult, the questions got even more complex as a result of the West’s Others’ adaptations and resistance. Native peoples of the Americas, Asians and Africans did not simply endure Western theories about difference, they also actively engaged them to build their own identity projects and social selves. At times, they used Western ideas to protect their polities. Aware of the many contradictions between them, Indigenous, Asian and African actors used one theory against the other and pretended to be the best example of a particular theory’s results when it was convenient to them, like “playing Indian.” At other times, they questioned Spanish and Portuguese classifications and advanced their own arguments. Yet at other times, they rejected Western racial policies flatly and argued that Europeans should go native which they sometimes did, becoming Indigenous witches who joined forces with disguised Jews to subvert the colonial order of things. This course examines this constant process of change in its multiple manifestations as well as the different scholarly views of it. The materials go from European ideas about difference pre-1492 to the end of the colonial period in the 1800s, from Indian and Philippine slaves in Mexico City to Africans in Peru, Brazil, and Colombia, from Jews conspirators in the Andes to Spanish witches in Lima, from transvestites to Inquisitors, from slaves to saints, and from sugar mill owners to Inca activists. We also examine the diverse ways in which current scholars think about difference in colonial times. As it happens, there is no agreement today on the meaning of central concepts like “race” or “ethnicity” perhaps because in colonial times there was no clear consensus either. The goal of the course is, therefore, not to arrive to a fast and sure answer, but to become familiar with the questions and problems that informed and continue to inform past and present conversations about racial, ethnic and religious difference and diversity.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., Undergraduate Research
SPAN 1453 - AVANT GARDE MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on avant garde movements in Spanish American and Brazil, including creacionismo (Vincente Huidobro) ultraismo (Jorge Luis Borges, antropofagia (Oswald de Andrade and others), estridentismo (Manual Maples Arce and others), the Contemporaneos group (Xavier Villaurrutia, Salvador Novo and others), and various other groups. The core readings will be the manifestoes and other documents in the Jorge Schwartz anthology (Vanguardias latinoamericanas), Mihail Grunfeld’s anthology of Latin American avant garde poerty and Hugo Verani’s anthology of Latin American avant garde prose. Selected crirical writing on the avant garge (Burger, Poggioli and others) will also be considered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0020 or 0120) and (SPAN 0025 or 0125) and SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
SPAN 1455 - BORDER STUDIES: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a comparative and relational examination of borders/boundaries/borderlands in the Americas, looking specifically at Latin American (im)migration to the US and (im)migration within Latin America. Starting with national/territorial borders, we move to explore the literal and figurative borders experienced by racialized immigrants, refugees and minoritized communities. Paying attention to the roles of gender, sexuality and racialization in shaping the experiences and life opportunities for migrant populations, we will focus on cultural texts (literature, film, visual culture, music etc.) and critiques from feminist, queer, indigenous, and people of color.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
SPAN 1456 - LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to introduce students to the concepts of resistance and social activism in Latin American: how social movements and activism are organized, exercised, enacted, and contested. From everyday forms of resistance to organized movements, we will examine some concrete historical and cultural situations in relation to major topics: the legacy of past revolutions, human rights and memory, Neoliberalism and globalization, environmental issues, women and gay activism, and Hispanic immigration to the US. Through critical and fictional texts, films and documentaries, music and visual arts, students will gain a multidimensional understanding of contemporary Hispanic issues and different ways and instances of social resistance.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
SPAN 1458 - PLANTS, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALING IN LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The basic premise of this course is that literature and cultural expressions in general provide a robust articulation of imaginary, symbolic, philosophical, ethical, and spiritual aspects of health and healing. We will examine academic articles, essays, poems, narratives, films, videos and paintings that explore the relationship between plants, spirituality an healing as constructed by popular, indigenous and Afrodescendant traditions in Latin America. These expressions offer insightful approaches that contribute to an ongoing critical discussion concerning these topics. Given that our purpose is to address artistic and philosophical aspects that relate to peoples’ conceptions about spirituality, health and healing, which in-of-themselves constitute an essential part of any comprehensive approach to health in general, this course does not specifically address the empirical therapeutic value (of lack of ) of specific practices. Section I will discuss current global and national contexts of traditional medicine. Section II will provide an overview of significant issues in Latin American ethnobotany. Section III will analyze the fundamental metaphysics and ethics of Amerindian myth and ritual. Section IV will examine literary works and films that provide critical insights to contemporary philosophies of spirituality and healing, and, as the arts usually do, connect these insights to a sundry array of contemporary issues, opening up unexpected vistas. Geo-cultural matrices of examined works include indigenous and Afrodescendant societies in Mexico, Central America, the Andes, Amazonia, and he Caribbean (Haiti-Dominican Republic), as well as urban societies in Bolivia, Colombia, and Argentina.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
SPAN 1459 - MAPPING THE FEMALE BODY: A CULTURAL APPROACH TO WOMEN’S HEALTH IN THE HISPANIC WORLD: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides an overview of the female body and women’s health in Latin America and Spain from a cultural perspective, which addresses related social implications and health rights. Students will analyze women’s health issues through critical interpretation of literary texts, poems, movies, documentaries, and photography using media perspectives and theoretical approaches. Students will be exposed to topics across four overarching themes: adolescence, reproduction, illness, and aging, with subtopics such as sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identities in relation to transgender and intersex issues, pregnancy, infertility, breast cancer, menopause, and eating disorders, among others. At the same time, students will be exposed to a broader geographical and historical panorama by examining the relationship between women’s health issues to the political and cultural issues of different countries in the Hispanic world. Based on these particular contexts, communities, and identities, we will try to answer the question why these women’s issues happened in those regions and within specific communities. Students will be expected to engage in critical discussions, and will be given the opportunity to connect and contrast these issues with their own cultural experience.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
SPAN 1463 - BORGES SHORT STORIES: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on the short stories of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), with some discussion of his essays and poetry also. The short stories of Ficciones (1944) and El Aleph (1949) revolutionized the genre of the short story, and have been hugely influential in world literature, the history of science, philosophy and other fields. Attention will also be paid to the earlier stories of Historia universal de la infamia (1935) and to the stories Borges dictated after he went blind in 1955. The resources of Pitt’s Borges Center (www.borges.pitt.edu) will be integral to the course. This course is taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212 or 0213 or 0214) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) *Applies to all WRIT Courses*
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Undergraduate Research, Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
SPAN 1464 - NICHOLAS GUILLEN: RACE, WRITING, AND REVOLUTION: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies selections from fifty years of writing by Cuba’s National Poet, Nicolás Guillén, whose work offers us an important window into pre-Revolutionary Cuba as a highly racialized sugar and tourist island, which transitions to become the first Socialist regime in the hemisphere.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Undergraduate Research
SPAN 1470 - THE INCAS: ANDEAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND SPANISH COLONIAL RULE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., Undergraduate Research
SPAN 1472 - MEXICAN LITERATURE, ARTS AND CULTURE: UNSETTLING MEXICAN NATIONALISMS: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course reviews the last hundred years of Mexican cultural history, from the 1910 Revolution to the present. Taking into consideration the meta concepts that define national culture: “the cosmic race”, “the post-Mexican condition” and the “labyrinth of solitude”, and under the lends of indigenous, nationlist, feminist and postmodernist theories, this course examines several milestones of national culture. This analysis focuses on the cultural programs of he post-revolutionary period (muralism), the rise of the Mexican cultural industry (radio, cinema, comics, telenovela), the transcendental moments of conflict (the 1968 Olympic Games, the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement, and the rebellion of the Zapatistas in 1994) and transnational tendencies (the pachuco, the narcoculture). The objective of this course is not, however, to define Mexican national culture, but to analyze, problematize and unsettle the ideological conflict and cultural struggles that contextualize the production and diffusion of the great works of the last century through critical approaches guided by such concepts as those of ideology, race, gender, nationalism, the border, and post nationalism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
SPAN 1480 - U.S. LATINX CULTURAL STUDIES: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
What and who is Latinx? What is the difference between Latina/o and Latinx? How do Latinx imaginaries shape and how are they shaped by the so-called “American” experience? This course provides an overview of how Latinxs have created competing representations of their experience in contemporary cultural production within the United States. We will examine the factors that determine the overrepresentation or underrepresentation of certain Latinx groups. Therefore, this class will consider the Chicana/o and Caribbean-American diaspora experience, as well as less-represented groups such as Central American-Americans, Brazilian-Americans or “Brazucas,” and Afro-Latinxs. By critically engaging with the cultural specificities of local Latinx communities through community-engaged learning, we will develop a theoretical and experiential understanding of the continuities and discontinuities that characterize their relationship with Latin America and Spain. We will pay close attention to how their experiences and encounters with different rural and urban settings have shaped Latinxs’ understanding of national belonging to the United States, Latin America, and the Spanish-speaking world at large. Ultimately, what is at stake is the consideration of how linguistic, cultural, and political dis-encounters remap the US-Latinx American experience in relation to the American experience per se. This course is taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
SPAN 1600 - SURVEY OF SPANISH LITERATURE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the development of Spanish literature from the twelfth century to the present. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0055 (MIN GRADE ‘C’); PLAN: Spanish (BA,BPH) or PREQ: SPAN 0050 (MIN GRADE ‘C’); PLAN: Spanish (MN)
SPAN 1601 - PENINSULAR LITERATURE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies the various stages of development of peninsular culture and literature in the 20th century, ranging from the 40-year period of the Franco dictatorship to the relatively recent transition to democracy. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [(SPAN 1400 or 1600) and 0050 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH)] or [SPAN 0050 (MIN GRADE ‘C’) and PLAN: Spanish (MN) ]
Course Attributes: West European Studies
SPAN 1603 - PENINSULAR TOPICS: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course looks at various cultural and literary topics according to the needs and interests of the students. Its major purpose is to allow students to do research on topics of interest in the field of peninsular literature and culture. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies, West European Studies
SPAN 1700 - COMPARATIVE HISPANIC TOPICS: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course looks at various cultural and literary topics according to the needs and interests of the students. Its major purpose is to allow students to do research on topics of interest in the field of Latin American and peninsular literature and culture. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies
SPAN 1705 - SEMINAR: HISPANIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies various cultural and literary topics according to the needs and interests of the students. Its purpose is to allow students to do research on topics of interest in the field of Hispanic literature and culture. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
Course Attributes: Latin American Studies
SPAN 1707 - AFRCN PRESEN LAT AMERN LIT/CULT: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a chronological and topical introduction to afro-Latin American culture, making use of literary texts, historical documents, feature films, etc. It aims at providing students with a concrete frame of reference for the African presence in Latin America.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
SPAN 1801 - DON QUIJOTE AND THE NOVEL: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals in depth with Cervantes’ Don Quijote as the first modern novel and its profound influence on European literatures. Taught in English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
Course Attributes: Medieval & Renaissance Studies
SPAN 1806 - CAPSTONE SEMINAR: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 1260 or 1280 or 1400 or 1600 or 0050 or 1250 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for listed courses); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); LVL: Senior
Course Attributes: Capstone Course
SPAN 1890 - THE NEW NOVEL IN LATIN AMERICA: Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Lectures, textual analysis and class discussions in English on the major novelists of the Latin American “boom” of the sixties, with reference to techniques of literary analysis and the social, ideological and cultural background of the works in question.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
SPAN 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY: Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This course allows students to work in-depth in areas of their choice; evaluation is by examination or by the production of a term paper.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
SPAN 1902 - DIRECTED STUDY: Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This course allows students to work in depth in areas of their choice, with the approval and supervision of a faculty member, who meets regularly with the student.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: West European Studies
SPAN 1906 - SPANISH INTERNSHIP FOR CREDIT: Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit