Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement; instructor permission.

This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics within the subject of Spanish. Prerequisite:SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.

Explores the relationship between literature and film. Students will explore Spanish novels, short stories, and plays and their cinematic adaptations as well as be introduced to film, language and theory. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.

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

Explores the historical, cultural, and linguistic analysis of Indigenous Mesoamerican literatures, especially the Maya K'iche' narrative Popol Wuj. Includes use of DH tools like text encoding, mapping, and modeling. The course blends traditional literary analysis and project-based collaborative learning with Maya scholars abroad.

This course focuses on the major political events in the history of Spain, from 1900 to the present, as well as on the study of the most important Spanish artistic movements, and their most relevant contemporary representatives, in the fields of music, painting, architecture, and dance. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.

Latin American Culture and Civilization

Examines Spanish attempts to understand and figure the Americas, as well as American indigenous reactions to them. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement

In this course we will study diaries and accounts of travelers in Latin America since the first European got in contact with the continent for the first time What did they see? What did they want to see? How did the describe it? How much influence their account had in the construction of continental imaginary. We will start with el Diario of Christopher Columbus, and finish with some diaries of today. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement

Fully immersive living experience in Spanish, with daily active participation in weekly events.