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5.00
1.00
3.65
Fall 2024
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.
5.00
1.00
3.62
Fall 2024
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.
2.33
2.00
3.68
Fall 2024
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.
4.92
2.00
3.68
Fall 2024
The main objectives of the course are: (1) to offer the student an introduction to the development of Spanish, focusing on the major changes from Latin to Spanish through the study of historical grammar; (2) to explain the irregularities of Modern Spanish grammar; (3) to facilitate the reading Old Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 3200 and 3010, or 3000 and 3010, or departmental placement.
2.71
2.13
3.58
Fall 2024
Introduces students to the expressions and experiences of people in the early Americas. By studying primary source materials, students will enrich their knowledge of the colonial period while further developing methods of historical and literary analysis. By the end of the course, students will be able to close read primary sources, situate them within specific historical contexts, and explain their analysis in spoken and written Spanish.
4.04
2.25
3.71
Fall 2024
Introduces speaking, understanding, reading and writing Portuguese, especially as used in Brazil. Three class hours and one hour of online lab work. Followed by PORT 2120. No prior foreign language experience necessary. Requires instructor permission.
4.13
2.40
3.75
Fall 2024
This course is designed for students planning to work in the health care field and who want to develop fundamental written and oral skills and vocabulary for the assessment of Spanish speaking patients in a variety of settings. Students will gain familiarity with non-technical and semi-technical functional vocabulary, along with idiomatic expressions and situational phrases that are used in medical Spanish.
4.04
2.44
3.65
Fall 2024
This course focuses on the emergence and consolidation of modernity in Spain from the eighteenth century to the present. Readings and discussions of representative literary and artistic movements of modern Spain, including the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, the Avant Garde, Modernism, and Postmodernism in terms of their historical, intellectual, artistic and cultural contexts. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement. Spanish 4th year majors are excluded from taking this course
3.77
2.48
3.67
Fall 2024
SPAN 3040 is a Language for the Professions course intended for students with interest in Business and Economy related fields. Upon completion of this course, students will have acquired the vocabulary and the intercultural competence that will allow them to comfortably and successfully participate in professional settings in Spanish. International students that are native speakers of Spanish are ineligible to take the course.
4.50
2.50
3.79
Fall 2024
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement; instructor permission.
4.15
2.56
3.60
Fall 2024
Introduction to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing Italian. Five class hours and one language laboratory hour. Followed by ITAL 1020.
4.00
2.64
3.52
Fall 2024
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.
4.38
2.67
3.67
Fall 2024
"Lost & Found in Translation" offers an introduction to the "art" of translation, both in practice and theory. Throughout the semester students participate in a series of workshops, collaborating on translations of texts of different genres, from multiple time periods and countries through in-depth readings and discussions, translation activities from Spanish to English and vice versa. This is a dynamic, interactive, inter-disciplinary course.
3.97
2.70
3.50
Fall 2024
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.
3.46
2.71
3.53
Fall 2024
This course will explore medieval and early modern works written in Castilian from El Cid to Calderón's theater. We will focus on the function of these literary texts in the European and Mediterranean context. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 and 3300, or departmental placement. Exclude Spanish majors on their 4th year.
3.50
2.75
3.82
Fall 2024
Studies advanced grammar through analysis of texts; includes extensive practice in composition and topical conversation. Prerequisite: PORT 2120 or by permission.
4.20
2.76
3.64
Fall 2024
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.
4.38
2.87
3.32
Fall 2024
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.
3.71
2.88
3.44
Fall 2024
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.
3.44
2.89
3.62
Fall 2024
This course provides students with a survey of Latin American literature and the context in which it developed from 1800 to the present. This course will cover how the region's cultural production has been shaped by its cultures, peoples, and historical events, the consciousness, memory, and imagination expressed within the region's literature, and how the region's representation has been shaped by who has (and has not) had access to literature.
3.93
2.96
3.49
Fall 2024
This course seeks to develop advanced literacy in Spanish through extensive reading, writing, analysis, and discussion of authentic literary texts and videos. Emphasis is placed on how grammatical forms codify meaning and how grammar and meaning interact to construct the language and textual structure expected in the following academic genres: the critical review, the persuasive essay, and the research paper.
4.06
2.98
3.68
Fall 2024
In this course we will be covering a variety of basic approaches to literary texts that enable us to analyze & understand them better. The course will be organized on the basis of literary genre (narrative, theater, poetry, etc.), with a portion of the semester dedicated to each. Short texts in Spanish for readings will be drawn from both Spanish & Latin Am literature, and from a range of time periods. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or dept. placement.
4.60
3.00
3.47
Fall 2024
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.
3.13
3.00
3.45
Fall 2024
This course provides an introduction to core areas of linguistic analysis using Spanish. Areas covered include sounds of Spanish (phonetics & phonology), word formation (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), meaning of words, phrases, sentences, & larger chunks of discourse, also in social context (semantics & pragmatics), history of the Spanish language, regional & social variation (dialectology & sociolinguistics), & language acquisition.
3.43
3.12
3.64
Fall 2024
SPAN 3020 seeks to develop advanced literacy in Spanish through extensive analysis and discussion of literary and journalistic texts, as well as documentaries and films from the Spanish-speaking world. We will also focus on students' acquisition of advanced grammatical structures and on how grammar and meaning interact to develop and consolidate the linguistic and textual tools needed to produce an op-ed, a literary review, and an academic essay.
3.08
3.25
3.66
Fall 2024
This course examines the Spanish language within its social context by exploring--among others--the following topics: 1) language versus dialect; 2) the standard language; 3) linguistic variation and its main variables: geography, style, gender, age, etc.; 4) language acquisition as a social process; 5) language variation and language change. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 3200 and 3010, or 3000 and 3010, or departmental placement.
5.00
3.50
3.79
Fall 2024
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.
3.56
3.67
3.60
Fall 2024
The purpose of this course is to help the student read and understand poetry in Spanish. By approaching the works of relevant Spanish and Latin American poets from different perspectives, the student will become more familiar with poetry in Spanish. Part of the course is dedicated to introducing the student into the creative mood of literature by doing some poetry translating.
3.67
4.50
3.51
Fall 2024
Prerequisite: SPAN 3010, 3300, and 3 credits of 3400-3430, or departmental placement.
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3.92
Fall 2024
This course focuses on the potential narratives have to convey messages that are relevant to our ethical and environmental awareness, and to help us imagine alternatives to existing systems of knowledge and distributions of power. We shall learn about the origins and general objectives of ecocriticism, its relevant theories and methodologies, and various approaches to the notion of sustainability.
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3.80
Fall 2024
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.
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3.73
Fall 2024
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
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Fall 2024
Fully immersive living experience in Spanish, with daily active participation in weekly events.
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Fall 2024
The Colloquium allows DMPs in Spanish to meet regularly with the DMP coordinator to discuss research strategies, documentation styles, and structure and style in extended expository writing as they are working independently on a thesis. It also provides a forum for presenting and discussing work-in-progress. Pre-requisite: Acceptance in DMP
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Fall 2024
This course focuses on the potential narratives have to convey messages that are relevant to our ethical and environmental awareness, and to help us imagine alternatives to existing systems of knowledge and distributions of power. We shall learn about the origins and general objectives of ecocriticism, its relevant theories and methodologies, and various approaches to the notion of sustainability.
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3.79
Fall 2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Spanish.
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3.95
Fall 2024
Themes and Genres
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3.69
Fall 2024
This course provides graduate students teaching foreign languages at UVA with the opportunity to observe and apply new ideas and teaching principles through practical activities and to develop their own personal theories of teaching through systematic reflection and experimentation.
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Fall 2024
Seminars: Middle Ages and Early Renaissance
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Fall 2024
Graduate students develop the Comprehensive Exam Portfolio required for the PhD in Spanish and defend its contents in an oral exam.
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Fall 2024
Graduate students develop the Dissertation Proposal required for the PhD in Spanish and defend it before their dissertation committee.
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Fall 2024
For master's research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
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Fall 2024
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
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