• ITAL 1010

    Elementary Italian I
     Rating

    4.19

     Difficulty

    2.53

     GPA

    3.65

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Introduction to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing Italian. Five class hours and one language laboratory hour. Followed by ITAL 1020.

  • SPAN 1010

    Elementary Spanish
     Rating

    4.22

     Difficulty

    3.33

     GPA

    3.45

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. This combined sequence of courses, SPAN 1010 and 1020, enable students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (greeting, narrating, describing, ordering, comparing and contrasting, and apologizing). Five class hours and one laboratory hour. Followed by SPAN 1020. Prerequisite: For students who have not previously studied Spanish.

  • SPAN 1060

    Accelerated Elementary Spanish
     Rating

    4.38

     Difficulty

    2.88

     GPA

    3.33

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    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.

  • PORT 1110

    Beginning Intensive Portuguese
     Rating

    4.04

     Difficulty

    2.25

     GPA

    3.71

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Introduces speaking, understanding, reading and writing Portuguese, especially as used in Brazil. Three class hours and one hour of online homework. Followed by PORT 2120. No prior foreign language experience necessary. Requires instructor permission.

  • ITAL 2010

    Intermediate Italian I
     Rating

    3.71

     Difficulty

    2.88

     GPA

    3.48

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Continued grammar, conversation, composition, readings, and an introduction to Italian literature. Prerequisite: ITAL 1020 or the equivalent. Note: The following courses have the prerequisite ITAL 2010, 2020, or permission of the department.

  • SPAN 2010

    Intermediate Spanish
     Rating

    4.01

     Difficulty

    2.63

     GPA

    3.53

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    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. Passing grade in SPAN 1020 or 1060; PLACE diagnostic score of 3.25-4.0; UVA placement diagnostic score of 326-409 (prior to May 2022); SAT II score of 520-590; or permission of the department.

  • SPAN 2020

    Advanced Intermediate Spanish
     Rating

    3.90

     Difficulty

    2.74

     GPA

    3.51

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    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. Prerequisite: Passing grade in SPAN 2010; PLACE diagnostic score of 4.25-5.0; UVA placement diagnostic score of 410-535 (prior to May 2022); SAT II score of 600-640; IB Spanish B HL exam score of 5 or 6; or permission of the department.

  • PORT 2050

    Intensive Portuguese for Speakers of Spanish and other Romance Languages
     Rating

    4.60

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.53

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

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

  • SPAN 3000

    Phonetics: The Sounds of Spanish
     Rating

    4.50

     Difficulty

    2.07

     GPA

    3.72

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    An introduction to the sound system of both Peninsular & Latin Am Spanish. Class discussions focus on how the sounds of Spanish are produced from an articulatory point of view, and how these sounds are organized & represented in the linguistic competence of their speakers. When appropriate, comparisons will be made between Spanish & English or Spanish & other (Romance & non-Romance) languages. Course seeks to improve the student's pronunciation. Pre-requisites SPAN 2020 or equivalent (it can be taken simultaneously with SPAN 3010).

  • ITAL 3010

    Mastering Italian Language and Culture I: Learning with Multimedia
     Rating

    2.33

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.70

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Includes idiomatic Italian conversation and composition, anthological readings of literary texts in Italian, plus a variety of oral exercises including presentations, skits, and debates. Italian composition is emphasized through writing assignments and selective review of the fine points of grammar and syntax. Prerequisite: ITAL 2020.