Spanish Courses

Transitional Courses

Prerequisites: SPAN 044 PO  or equivalent is required for admission to transitional courses. Courses may be taken in any order.

• SPAN101 PO - Introduction to Literary Analysis
• SPAN102B PO - Introduction to Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies
• SPAN103 PO - La Felicidad: Queer Fictions & Realities in Spain and Latin(o) America.
• SPAN104 PO - Laughing Matters: Humor in Hispanic Literature, Film and Culture
• SPAN105 PO - Spanish Film: Tradition and Transgression
• SPAN106 PO - Images of Latin America in Fiction and Film
• SPAN107 PO - Identity Matters in Latin American Literature and Culture
• SPAN108 PO - Actos Autobiográficos: Latin@ American Life Writing
• SPAN109 PO - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics

Upper-level Courses

Prerequisites: SPAN 101 PO , or a score of 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Spanish Literature exam, is a prerequisite for upper-division literature classes numbered SPAN 110 SC  and higher.

• SPAN120A PO - Medieval & Early Modern Literature: Licentious Laments to Life is a Dream
• SPAN120B PO - Survey of Spanish Literature
• SPAN125A PO - Blood & Guts: Colonial Encounters to Decadent Naturalism.
• SPAN125B PO - Survey of Spanish American Literature
• SPAN126 PO - In Short: Latin American Story Telling
• SPAN127 PO - Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
• SPAN128 PO - Poverty, Literature and Social Justice.
• SPAN129 PO - Early Modern Women Writers
• SPAN135 PO - Latin American Narrative Boom of the 1960s
• SPAN140 PO - From Borges to “Literatura Lite”: Gender and Genre in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture
• SPAN142 PO - Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad
• SPAN146 PO - “El deseo de la palabra: Slow Soundings in Latin American Poetry”
• SPAN153 PO - Spanglish in Context: Bilingualism in the United States
• SPAN159 PO - Multilingual Spain: Power, Identity, Politics
• SPAN170 PO - Don Quixote and Cultural Identity
• SPAN182 PO - Contemporary Spanish Poetry: Poetics, Identity, Difference
• SPAN185 PO - The Avant-Garde in Spain
• SPAN191 PO - Senior Thesis
• SPAN192 PO - Senior Research Paper
• SPAN199DRPO - Spanish: Directed Readings
• SPAN199IRPO - Spanish: Independent Research

Spanish/Spanish American Literatures and Related Courses offered at the Other Claremont Colleges

• SPAN101 CM - Introduction to Literary Analysis
• SPAN102 CM - Latin American Culture and Civilization
• SPAN125A CM - Introduction to Latin-American Literature and Civilization I
• SPAN125B CM - Introduction to Latin-American Literature and Civilization II
• SPAN148 CM - Special Topics in Spanish
• SPAN150 CM - Nation and Identity in 19th-Century Spanish America
• SPAN155 CM - The Latin American Short Story
• SPAN159 CM - Contemporary Latin American Novel
• SPAN178 CM - The New Latin American Cinema
• SPAN184 CM - Literature of the Zapatista Rebellion
• SPAN031 PZ - Community-Based Spanish Practicum
• SPAN051 PZ - Spanish in the Community
• SPAN135 PZ - Los Angeles: La Ciudad, su Gente
• SPAN187 PZ - Latin American Popular Cultures
• SPAN189 PZ - Contemporary Issues in the Spanish-speaking World
• SPAN101 SC - Introduction Literary Analysis
• SPAN103 SC - Advanced Conversation and Composition
• SPAN110 SC - Introduction to Spanish Civilization
• SPAN116 SC - Beyond Neoliberal Imaginaries
• SPAN133 SC - Translation and Right to Language
• SPAN140 SC - The Spanish Transition Through the Lens of Pedro Almodovar
• SPAN155 SC - Short Fiction by Hispanic Women Writers
• SPAN164 SC - Masterpieces of Hispanic Theater
• SPAN179 SC - Fe Esperanza, Amor y Muerte: Women Writers of the Hispanic World
• SPAN184 SC - The Image and the Word/La imagen y la palabra
• SPAN065 CH - Spanish for Bilinguals
• SPAN154 CH - Latinas in the Garment Industry