2025-2026 Edition

Spanish & Latin American Cultures

Chair: Maja Horn
Professors: Wadda Ríos-Font, Alfred Mac Adam, Ronald Briggs, Maja Horn
Associate Professors:  Orlando Bentancor (Majors Advisor)
Senior Associates: Jesús Suárez-García (Language Program Director) 
Senior Lecturer: Javier Pérez-Zapatero (Study Abroad Advisor), María Eugenia Lozano 
Lecturer: Antoni Fernández Parera (Minor Advisor), Almudena Marin Cobos, Gabriela DeRobles
Term Lecturers:  Alexandra Vialla Mendez
Adjunct Lecturer: Elga Castro, Anna Shilova, Marisa Russo, Alex Pereira, Laura Hydak

Major in Spanish and Latin American Cultures

The Barnard major in Spanish and Latin American Cultures consists of eleven courses (minimum 33 credits). The required introductory courses are SPAN UN3300 (Advanced Language through Content), UN3349 (Hispanic Cultures I), and 3350 (Hispanic Cultures II). Beyond the introductory courses, the major requires seven upper-level elective courses-- 3000- or 4000-level offerings--and a Senior Seminar intended to be taken in the Fall of the senior year (in cases of unavoidable conflict, and by approval of the Major Adviser, students may enroll in the Spring section offered at Columbia).

NOTE: With adviser approval, courses in both the Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures and the Columbia Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures numbered 3000 and above will count toward the majors or minors.

Eleven courses (minimum 33 points):

Three required introductory courses:
ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)
HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)
Select seven elective courses
Select one of the following Senior Seminars:4
SENIOR SEMINAR
SENIOR SEMINAR
Senior Seminar: Modern Cities and Global Cities

UN3300 must be taken after completion of the language requirement and before UN3349 and UN3350, which can be taken simultaneously or in inverse order. Except by approval of the Major Adviser, all three introductory courses are prerequisites for upper-level courses. In choosing their sections, Barnard students should keep in mind that some Columbia classes at these levels are taught by PhD candidates. Other sections at both Barnard and Columbia are taught by full-time Lecturers/Associates and tenured or tenure-track faculty.

Electives

A minimum of four electives must be chosen from the Departments' 3000- or 4000-level* offerings. Up to three electives may be taken outside the Departments, provided they address Hispanic topics. Courses at or beyond the intermediate level in Portuguese and Catalan may count as outside electives. Coursework completed in other departments requires the approval of the major advisor; students should therefore not wait until their senior year to find out whether courses they have taken will apply to the major. All students should seek chronological and geographic breadth in their coursework, enrolling in diverse classes on both Latin American and Iberian topics, something that is essential for those planning future graduate work in Hispanic Studies. Such students should consult especially closely with their adviser to plan their program.

*

4000-level courses, offered only at Columbia, are joint graduate-undergraduate courses.

Senior Research Project

The senior seminar may be taken either at Barnard (BC or UN3990) or at Columbia (UN3991, 3992, or 3993). It is an advanced, research-oriented course on a broad topic, in the context of which Barnard students are required to write a paper in Spanish of at least 20 pages. Since this paper counts as the Barnard Senior Research Project, students who take the seminar at Columbia must be sure they fulfill the 20-page requirement, regardless of what their particular professor requires of other students. These students must hand in the final version of their paper to the Barnard Major Advisor in addition to their Columbia professor.

Study Abroad

Up to four courses from Study Abroad may apply toward the major, some of which may count toward the introductory courses, provided they are at the same level and substantially address the same topics/skills. However, no more than five courses in total may be taken outside the Barnard/Columbia Spanish departments. Approval of specific courses is at the discretion of the Major Adviser (in consultation with the Study Abroad Adviser/Language Program Director for those at the 3300 level), taking into consideration the balance in the student's full program of study. Students should consult periodically with the Major Adviser to make sure they are making adequate progress toward the completion of all requirements.

Minor in Spanish and Latin American Cultures

The Barnard minor in Spanish and Latin American Cultures consists of six courses (minimum 18 credits). The required introductory courses are SPAN UN3300 (Advanced Language through Content); and UN3349 (Hispanic Cultures I) and 3350 (Hispanic Cultures II).  Beyond the introductory courses, the minor requires three upper-level electives (UN3349 and UN3350 do not count as such). These must be chosen from the Barnard Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures' or Columbia Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures' 3000- or 4000-level offerings.

Six courses (minimum 18 points):

SPAN UN3300ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT3
SPAN UN3349HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)3
SPAN UN3350HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)3
Select three other courses at the 3000-level or above to be chosen in consultation with the major advisor

UN3300 must be taken after completion of the language requirement and before UN3349 or UN3350. Except by approval of the Minor Adviser, all three introductory courses are prerequisites for upper-level courses. In choosing their sections, Barnard students should keep in mind that some Columbia classes at these levels are taught by PhD candidates. Other sections at both Barnard and Columbia are taught by full-time Lecturers/Associates and tenured or tenure-track faculty.

A maximum of three courses taken outside the Departments (from study abroad, other departments at Barnard/Columbia, or other institutions) may apply toward the minor. Such courses will be approved by the Minor Adviser and the Study Abroad Adviser/Language Program Director (the latter of whom officially signs the approval), on the basis of their level, quality, and perceived relevance to the minor program of study. Courses in English do not count toward the minor.

Although Barnard allows students to sign up for minors through the end of their senior year, the Department encourages students to sign up as early in their career as possible, and to consult regularly with the Minor Adviser to ensure they are making adequate progress toward the completion of all requirements. 

Major in Spanish and Latin American Cultures with Specialization

For students wishing to pursue a more rigorously interdisciplinary program in the Social Sciences or the Humanities, the Department offers a major that integrates courses in Spanish and Latin American Cultures/Spanish and Portuguese with courses in another department or program chosen carefully by the student.

Fourteen courses (minimum 42 points):

SPAN UN3300ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT3
SPAN UN3349HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)3
SPAN UN3350HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)3
Select ten elective courses
Select one of the following Senior Seminars:4
SENIOR SEMINAR
SENIOR SEMINAR
Senior Seminar: Modern Cities and Global Cities

Coursework will include a minimum of three 3000- or 4000-level courses within the Departments but beyond the four required foundation courses, and six courses in another field of specialization, three of which should be closely related to Hispanic Studies. Students who wish to complete this rigorous interdisciplinary major will choose a specialization. Possible fields and programs include Anthropology, Africana Studies, Art History, Economics, Film, Gender Studies, History, Latino Studies, Latin American Studies, Music, Political Science, Sociology, and Urban Studies. Students should work closely with their major advisor to plan their program of study; it will be their responsibility to seek advising regarding coursework in their external specialization from appropriate sources (for example, from other departments' Chairs). Electives outside the two departments (Spanish and Latin American Cultures/Latin American and Iberian Cultures) should include basic methodological or foundation courses in the chosen field or program. In special cases and with advisor approval, students may complete some coursework in another, closely related field. In exceptional cases and again with advisor approval, students may take a Senior Seminar in their field of specialization as a seventh course outside of the Departments if they have completed enough basic courses in that field to manage the demands of an advanced seminar. In such cases, the major advisor must receive written communication from the seminar instructor indicating approval of a student's membership in the course; the seminar project must be on a Hispanic topic; and a copy of the project must be turned in to the major advisor for the student's file upon completion of the course. Students who complete the seminar in another department may also count it as the third elective course on a Hispanic topic outside of the two departments, in which case they may take a fourth 3000- or 4000-level course in Spanish and Latin American Cultures/Latin American and Iberian Cultures.

Senior Research Project

In the fall of their senior year, students must enroll in a senior seminar in which they will undertake the research and writing of a substantial paper in the field. Some students may wish, with departmental approval, to further develop their research in the spring through an independent study project with a willing faculty member. For that project, they may expand their work in the senior seminar or undertake a new assignment in consultation with the faculty member. SPAN BC3099 INDEPENDENT STUDY may be counted as one of the courses that fulfills the major.

The senior seminar may be taken either at Barnard (BC or UN3990) or at Columbia (UN3991, 3992, or 3993). It is an advanced, research-oriented course on a broad topic, in the context of which Barnard students are required to write a paper in Spanish of at least 20 pages. Since this paper counts as the Barnard Senior Research Project, students who take the seminar at Columbia must be sure they fulfill the 20-page requirement, regardless of what their particular professor requires of other students. These students must hand in the final version of their paper to the Barnard Major Advisor in addition to their Columbia professor.

SPAN UN1101 ELEMENTARY SPANISH I. 4.00 points.

Prerequisites: a score of 0-279 in the department's Placement Examination.
Prerequisites: a score of 0-279 on the department's Spanish as a Second Language Placement exam. An introduction to Spanish communicative competence, with stress on basic oral interaction, reading, writing, and cultural knowledge. Principal objectives are to understand and produce commonly used sentences to satisfy immediate needs; ask and answer questions about personal details such as where we live, people we know and things we have; interact in a simple manner with people who speak clearly, slowly and are ready to cooperate; and understand simple and short written and audiovisual texts in Spanish. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade

Spring 2025: SPAN UN1101
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 1101 001/14155 M W F 8:40am - 9:55am
307 Pupin Laboratories
Nicholas Figueroa 4.00 10/15
SPAN 1101 002/14156 M W F 10:10am - 11:25am
307 Pupin Laboratories
Nicholas Figueroa 4.00 13/15
SPAN 1101 003/14157 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
307 Pupin Laboratories
Nicholas Figueroa 4.00 13/15
SPAN 1101 004/14158 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
327 Uris Hall
Irene Alonso-Aparicio 4.00 10/15
SPAN 1101 005/14159 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
327 Uris Hall
Irene Alonso-Aparicio 4.00 15/15
SPAN 1101 006/14160 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
602 Northwest Corner
Diana Romero 4.00 10/15
SPAN 1101 020/00518 M W F 8:40am - 9:55am
225 Milbank Hall
Alex Pereira 4.00 12/15
SPAN 1101 021/00519 M W Th 10:10am - 11:25am
225 Milbank Hall
Jesus Suarez-Garcia 4.00 15/15
SPAN 1101 022/00520 M W Th 11:40am - 12:55pm
225 Milbank Hall
Jesus Suarez-Garcia 4.00 16/15
SPAN 1101 023/00930 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
327 Milbank Hall
Antoni Fernandez Parera 4.00 8/15
Fall 2025: SPAN UN1101
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 1101 001/13305 M W F 8:40am - 9:55am
Room TBA
Pat Santalices Torres 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1101 002/13306 M W F 10:10am - 11:25am
Room TBA
Ninive Vargas de la Pena 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1101 003/13307 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Alejandra Quintana Arocho 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1101 004/13308 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Nicholas Figueroa 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1101 005/13310 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
Room TBA
Irene Alonso-Aparicio 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1101 006/13311 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
Room TBA
Irene Alonso-Aparicio 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1101 007/13312 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
Room TBA
Lorena Garcia Barroso 4.00 7/12
SPAN 1101 008/13313 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
Room TBA
Lorena Garcia Barroso 4.00 10/12
SPAN 1101 009/13314 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Lorena Garcia Barroso 4.00 5/12
SPAN 1101 010/16491 M W F 8:40am - 9:55am
Room TBA
4.00 0/15
SPAN 1101 011/16492 M W F 10:10am - 11:40am
Room TBA
4.00 1/15
SPAN 1101 020/00465 M W Th 8:40am - 9:55am
223 Milbank Hall
Maria Lozano 4.00 6/12
SPAN 1101 021/00466 M W Th 10:10am - 11:25am
223 Milbank Hall
Maria Lozano 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1101 022/00467 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
302 Milbank Hall
Jesus Suarez-Garcia 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1101 023/00468 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
227 Milbank Hall
Jesus Suarez-Garcia 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1101 024/00469 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
225 Milbank Hall
Alex Pereira 4.00 12/12

SPAN UN1102 ELEMENTARY SPANISH II. 4.00 points.

Prerequisites: SPAN UN1101 SPAN W1101, or a score of 280-379 in the department's Placement Examination.
Prerequisites: SPAN UN1101 or a score of 280-379 on the department’s Spanish as a Second Language Placement exam. An intensive introduction to Spanish language communicative competence, with stress on basic oral interaction, reading, writing and cultural knowledge as a continuation of SPAN UN1101. The principal objectives are to understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of immediate relevance; communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a direct exchange of information on familiar matters; describe in simple terms aspects of our background and personal history; understand the main point, the basic content, and the plot of filmic as well as short written texts. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade

Spring 2025: SPAN UN1102
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 1102 001/14386 M W Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm
313 Hamilton Hall
Jose Placido Ruiz-Campillo 4.00 15/15
SPAN 1102 002/14387 M W Th 4:10pm - 5:25pm
313 Hamilton Hall
Jose Placido Ruiz-Campillo 4.00 15/15
SPAN 1102 003/14391 M W Th 5:40pm - 6:55pm
313 Hamilton Hall
Jose Placido Ruiz-Campillo 4.00 12/15
SPAN 1102 004/14388 M W F 8:40am - 9:55am
313 Pupin Laboratories
Cristian Romero 4.00 15/15
SPAN 1102 005/14389 M W F 10:10am - 11:25am
313 Pupin Laboratories
Cristian Romero 4.00 15/15
SPAN 1102 006/14390 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
313 Pupin Laboratories
Cristian Romero 4.00 14/15
SPAN 1102 007/14392 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
222 Pupin Laboratories
Aaron Boalick 4.00 11/15
SPAN 1102 008/14393 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
222 Pupin Laboratories
Aaron Boalick 4.00 15/15
SPAN 1102 009/14394 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
222 Pupin Laboratories
Aaron Boalick 4.00 11/15
SPAN 1102 010/14395 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
325 Pupin Laboratories
Juan Jimenez-Caicedo 4.00 7/15
SPAN 1102 011/14396 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
325 Pupin Laboratories
Juan Jimenez-Caicedo 4.00 15/15
SPAN 1102 012/14397 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
325 Pupin Laboratories
Juan Jimenez-Caicedo 4.00 13/15
SPAN 1102 020/00521 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
307 Milbank Hall
Maria Lozano 4.00 14/15
SPAN 1102 021/00522 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
202 Milbank Hall
Almudena Marín-Cobos 4.00 15/15
SPAN 1102 022/00523 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
202 Milbank Hall
Almudena Marín-Cobos 4.00 14/15
SPAN 1102 023/00524 T Th F 1:10pm - 2:25pm
327 Milbank Hall
Marisa Russo 4.00 12/12
Fall 2025: SPAN UN1102
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 1102 003/13317 M W F 8:40am - 9:55am
Room TBA
Nicholas Figueroa 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1102 004/13318 M W F 10:10am - 11:25am
Room TBA
Nicholas Figueroa 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1102 005/13319 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Vered Engelhard 4.00 10/12
SPAN 1102 006/13320 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Lee Abraham 4.00 7/12
SPAN 1102 007/13321 M W F 8:40am - 9:55am
Room TBA
Juan Jimenez-Caicedo 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1102 008/13322 M W F 10:10am - 11:25am
Room TBA
Juan Jimenez-Caicedo 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1102 009/13323 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
Room TBA
Juan Rojas Gomez 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1102 010/13324 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
Room TBA
Francisco Rosales-Varo 4.00 8/12
SPAN 1102 011/13325 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Francisco Rosales-Varo 4.00 3/12
SPAN 1102 012/16493 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
4.00 0/15
SPAN 1102 020/00470 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
307 Milbank Hall
Almudena Marín-Cobos 4.00 8/12
SPAN 1102 021/00471 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
328 Milbank Hall
Almudena Marín-Cobos 4.00 12/12
SPAN 1102 022/00472 T Th F 8:40am - 9:50am
225 Milbank Hall
Anna Shilova 4.00 8/12
SPAN 1102 023/00473 M W F 10:10am - 11:25am
214 Milbank Hall
Gabriela DeRobles 4.00 4/12
SPAN 1102 024/00474 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
318 Milbank Hall
4.00 4/12
SPAN 1102 025/00475 M W F 8:40am - 9:55am
207 Milbank Hall
4.00 2/12

SPAN UN1108 Elementary Spanish for Heritage Speakers. 4.00 points.

The principal aim of SPAN UN1108 is to build upon and further develop the informal knowledge of Spanish that heritage learners bring to the classroom—usually from family and neighborhood exposure to the language—and cultivate formal speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities. Students are not expected to have any academic training in written Spanish prior to enrolling in this course. Spanish heritage language courses at Columbia/Barnard focus on the development of communicative abilities and literacy from sociolinguistic and sociocultural approaches. Throughout the semester, students will be reviewing spelling patterns, building vocabulary, acquiring and effectively using learning strategies, and strengthening composition skills in Spanish. Cultural projects and readings reinforce learners’ understanding of the multiple issues related to the Hispanic cultures in the United States and in other Spanish-speaking societies. All elementary Spanish language courses (for both non-heritage and heritage learners alike) at Columbia/Barnard are fully conducted in Spanish, to provide students with maximum exposure to the language. All readings, class discussions, written assignments and course exams are entirely in Spanish. Assessment is based on students’ demonstrated acquisition and use of the language throughout the course, and their knowledge of topics covered in course readings and discussions

Spring 2025: SPAN UN1108
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 1108 021/00527 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
327 Milbank Hall
Antoni Fernandez Parera 4.00 14/15
SPAN 1108 022/00528 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
327 Milbank Hall
Antoni Fernandez Parera 4.00 13/15
Fall 2025: SPAN UN1108
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 1108 001/00476 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
237 Milbank Hall
Antoni Fernandez Parera 4.00 4/12
SPAN 1108 002/00477 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
237 Milbank Hall
Antoni Fernandez Parera 4.00 5/12
SPAN 1108 003/00478 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
237 Milbank Hall
Antoni Fernandez Parera 4.00 5/12

SPAN UN2101 INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I. 4.00 points.

Prerequisites: SPAN UN1102 or SPAN UN1120 or SPAN W1102 or SPAN W1120, or a score of 380-449 in the department's Placement Examination.
Prerequisites: SPAN UN1102 or SPAN UN1120 or or a score of 380-449 in the departments Placement Examination. An intensive course in Spanish language communicative competence, with stress on oral interaction, reading, writing, and culture as a continuation of SPAN UN1102 or SPAN UN1120. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade

Spring 2025: SPAN UN2101
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 2101 001/14424 M W F 8:40am - 9:55am
424 Pupin Laboratories
Jana Soler Libran 4.00 15/15
SPAN 2101 002/14425 M W F 10:10am - 11:25am
411 Hamilton Hall
Laura Berrios Figueroa 4.00 15/15
SPAN 2101 003/14426 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
601b Fairchild Life Sciences Bldg
Emily Oliveira 4.00 15/15
SPAN 2101 004/14427 M W F 10:10am - 11:25am
224 Pupin Laboratories
Lee Abraham 4.00 10/15
SPAN 2101 005/14428 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
224 Pupin Laboratories
Lee Abraham 4.00 13/15
SPAN 2101 006/14429 M W F 1:10pm - 2:25pm
424 Pupin Laboratories
Sara Malagon Llano 4.00 8/15
SPAN 2101 007/14430 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
224 Pupin Laboratories
Leyre Alejaldre Biel 4.00 15/15
SPAN 2101 008/14431 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
412 Pupin Laboratories
Reyes Llopis-Garcia 4.00 14/15
SPAN 2101 009/14432 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
412 Pupin Laboratories
Reyes Llopis-Garcia 4.00 14/15
SPAN 2101 010/14433 T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm
424 Pupin Laboratories
Reyes Llopis-Garcia 4.00 11/15
SPAN 2101 010/14433 F 2:40pm - 3:55pm
425 Pupin Laboratories
Reyes Llopis-Garcia 4.00 11/15
SPAN 2101 011/14434 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
328 Uris Hall
Francisco Rosales-Varo 4.00 8/15
SPAN 2101 012/14435 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
328 Uris Hall
Francisco Rosales-Varo 4.00 6/15
SPAN 2101 013/14436 T Th F 2:40pm - 3:55pm
313 Pupin Laboratories
Francisco Rosales-Varo 4.00 7/15
SPAN 2101 020/00529 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
307 Milbank Hall
Maria Lozano 4.00 15/15
SPAN 2101 021/00530 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
207 Milbank Hall
Javier Perez Zapatero 4.00 10/15
SPAN 2101 022/00531 T Th F 1:10pm - 2:25pm
207 Milbank Hall
Javier Perez Zapatero 4.00 9/15
SPAN 2101 023/00749 T Th F 5:40pm - 6:55pm
327 Milbank Hall
Laura Hydak 4.00 5/15
Fall 2025: SPAN UN2101
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 2101 001/13326 M W F 8:40am - 9:55am
Room TBA
Aaron Boalick 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2101 002/13327 M W F 10:10am - 11:25am
Room TBA
Aaron Boalick 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2101 003/13328 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Aaron Boalick 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2101 004/13329 M W F 10:10am - 11:25am
Room TBA
Lee Abraham 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2101 005/13330 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
Room TBA
Leyre Alejaldre Biel 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2101 006/13331 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
Room TBA
Leyre Alejaldre Biel 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2101 007/13332 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Leyre Alejaldre Biel 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2101 008/13333 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
Room TBA
Angelina Craig-Florez 4.00 8/12
SPAN 2101 009/13334 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Angelina Craig-Florez 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2101 010/13335 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
Room TBA
Reyes Llopis-Garcia 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2101 011/13336 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Reyes Llopis-Garcia 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2101 012/13337 T Th F 2:40pm - 3:55pm
Room TBA
Reyes Llopis-Garcia 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2101 020/00479 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
202 Milbank Hall
Javier Perez Zapatero 4.00 5/12
SPAN 2101 021/00480 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
202 Milbank Hall
Javier Perez Zapatero 4.00 5/12
SPAN 2101 022/00481 T Th F 1:10pm - 2:25pm
225 Milbank Hall
Jesus Suarez-Garcia 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2101 023/00482 M W F 5:40pm - 6:55pm
225 Milbank Hall
Laura Hydak 4.00 4/12
SPAN 2101 024/00483 M W F 4:10pm - 5:25pm
325 Milbank Hall
Marisa Russo 4.00 9/12

SPAN UN2102 INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II. 4.00 points.

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2101 SPAN W1201 or a score of 450-624 in the department's Placement Examination.
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2101 or a score of 450-625 in the departments Placement Examination. An intensive course in Spanish language communicative competence, with stress on oral interaction, reading, writing and culture as a continuation of SPAN UN2101. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade

Spring 2025: SPAN UN2102
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 2102 001/14479 M W Th 11:40am - 12:55pm
327 Uris Hall
Ximena Gonzalez-Parada 4.00 12/15
SPAN 2102 002/14480 M W Th 4:10pm - 5:25pm
325 Pupin Laboratories
Ximena Gonzalez-Parada 4.00 15/15
SPAN 2102 003/14481 M W Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm
413 Hamilton Hall
Guadalupe Ruiz-Fajardo 4.00 16/15
SPAN 2102 004/14482 M W Th 4:10pm - 5:25pm
413 Hamilton Hall
Guadalupe Ruiz-Fajardo 4.00 14/15
SPAN 2102 005/14483 M W F 10:10am - 11:25am
424 Pupin Laboratories
Sara Malagon Llano 4.00 10/15
SPAN 2102 006/14484 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
424 Pupin Laboratories
Sara Malagon Llano 4.00 13/15
SPAN 2102 007/14485 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
255 International Affairs Bldg
Dolores Barbazan Capeans 4.00 11/15
SPAN 2102 008/14486 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
255 International Affairs Bldg
Dolores Barbazan Capeans 4.00 12/15
SPAN 2102 009/14487 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
425 Pupin Laboratories
Angelina Craig-Florez 4.00 13/15
SPAN 2102 010/14488 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
425 Pupin Laboratories
Angelina Craig-Florez 4.00 15/15
SPAN 2102 011/14489 T Th F 4:10pm - 5:25pm
255 International Affairs Bldg
Juan Pablo Cominguez 4.00 11/15
SPAN 2102 012/14490 T Th F 5:40pm - 6:55pm
255 International Affairs Bldg
Juan Pablo Cominguez 4.00 4/15
SPAN 2102 020/00532 M W F 8:40am - 9:55am
325 Milbank Hall
Anna Shilova 4.00 13/15
SPAN 2102 021/00533 M W F 1:10pm - 2:25pm
237 Milbank Hall
Alexandra Mendez 4.00 13/15
SPAN 2102 022/00534 M W F 2:40pm - 3:55pm
237 Milbank Hall
Alexandra Mendez 4.00 7/15
SPAN 2102 023/00535 M W F 4:10pm - 5:25pm
237 Milbank Hall
Alexandra Mendez 4.00 7/15
Fall 2025: SPAN UN2102
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 2102 001/13339 M W Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm
Room TBA
Guadalupe Ruiz-Fajardo 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2102 002/13340 M W Th 4:10pm - 5:25pm
Room TBA
Guadalupe Ruiz-Fajardo 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2102 003/13341 M W Th 5:40pm - 6:55pm
Room TBA
Guadalupe Ruiz-Fajardo 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2102 004/13342 M W F 10:10am - 11:25am
Room TBA
Ximena Gonzalez-Parada 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2102 005/13343 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Ximena Gonzalez-Parada 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2102 006/13344 M W F 2:40pm - 3:55pm
Room TBA
Ximena Gonzalez-Parada 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2102 007/13345 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
Room TBA
Dolores Barbazan Capeans 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2102 008/13346 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
Room TBA
Dolores Barbazan Capeans 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2102 009/13347 T Th F 4:10pm - 5:25pm
Room TBA
Juan Pablo Cominguez 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2102 020/00485 M W F 11:40am - 12:55pm
207 Milbank Hall
Alexandra Mendez 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2102 021/00486 M W F 2:40pm - 3:55pm
327 Milbank Hall
Alexandra Mendez 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2102 022/00487 M W F 10:10am - 11:25am
225 Milbank Hall
Alex Pereira 4.00 12/12

SPAN UN2103 INTERMED SPAN II - MEDICAL. 4.00 points.

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2101
Prerequisites: SPAN UN2101 or a score of 380-449 on the Department’s placement examination. This is an intensive course in Spanish language communicative competence with an emphasis on oral interaction, reading, writing, and culture at an Intermediate II level with focus on health-related topics in the Spanish-speaking world. In an increasingly interconnected world, and in multilingual global cities such as New York City, the study of a foreign language is fundamental not only in the field of the humanities but also in the natural sciences. This interdisciplinary course analyzes the intersection between these two disciplines through the study of health-related topics in Iberian and Latin American cultural expressions (literature, film, documentaries, among other sources) in order to explore new critical perspectives across both domains. Students will learn health-related vocabulary and usage-based grammar in Spanish. Students will develop a cultural understanding of medicine, illness, and treatment in the Spanish-speaking world. Finally, students will be able to carry out specific collaborative tasks in Spanish with the aim of integrating language, culture, and health. * This course fulfills the last semester of the foreign language requirement. Therefore, students who have taken SPAN UN 2101 (Intermediate Spanish I), or have a score of 380-449 on the Department’s placement exam, and are interested in health-related topics may proceed and enroll in SPAN UN 2103 (Intermediate Spanish II: Health-Related Topics in the Spanish-Speaking World). Pre-med and pre-health students, as well as those students majoring in the natural sciences—including biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and physics—will be given registration priority. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade

Spring 2025: SPAN UN2103
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 2103 001/14383 T Th F 2:40pm - 3:55pm
255 International Affairs Bldg
Juan Pablo Cominguez 4.00 8/15
Fall 2025: SPAN UN2103
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 2103 001/13348 T Th F 2:40pm - 3:55pm
Room TBA
Juan Pablo Cominguez 4.00 12/12

SPAN UN2104 Intermediate Spanish II: Topics on Climate Discourse. 4.00 points.

This is an intensive course in Spanish language communicative competence with an emphasis on oral interaction, reading, writing, and culture at an Intermediate II level focused on climate discourse and environmental topics. Prerequisites: SPAN UN2101 (Intermediate Spanish I) or a score of 450-625 on the Department’s placement examination. This course fulfills the last semester of the foreign language requirement. After SPAN UN2104, students can continue learning Spanish and its cultures in SPAN UN3300. This transdisciplinary course blends together Spanish language/s, Hispanic cultures, and climate in the field of the broadly defined ‘Climate Humanities’. It examines how climate change is discursively framed in the media, literature, and other cultural productions in the Spanish-speaking world including the US. We will explore how it becomes reframed as it travels from the scientific sphere to the social spaces where public opinion is negotiated, and how those linguistic and textual strategies shape and are shaped by the political economy of climate debates, that is, by the specific geopolitical and social positions of the different stake-holders. The purpose of this course is, first, to explore the possibilities of a new space at the interface between language/sociolinguistics, cultural studies, and environmental discourse to raise awareness of the challenges faced when we position ourselves outside of our communities of scholarly practice. Secondly, the course aims at providing students with tools to perform a mediating role between specialized knowledge production in Spanish and the public. From a multiliteracies framework, we will offer a language and content-based course with spaces for discussion of key emerging issues related to environmental justice using a critical discourse methodology while we continue honing students’ skills in Spanish through climate-related vocabulary and usage-based grammar

Spring 2025: SPAN UN2104
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 2104 001/14385 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
306 Uris Hall
Francisca Aguilo Mora 4.00 9/15
Fall 2025: SPAN UN2104
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 2104 001/13349 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Francisca Aguilo Mora 4.00 11/12

SPAN UN2108 SPANISH FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS. 4.00 points.

Prerequisites: SPAN UN1108 or scoring at this level on the department’s Spanish as a Heritage Language Placement test (https://columbia-barnard.vega-labs.com). The principal aim of SPAN UN2108 is to build upon and further develop the knowledge of Spanish that heritage learners bring to the classroom – from SPAN UN1108 and/or from family and neighborhood exposure to the language. This course cultivates intermediate-level formal speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities. Spanish heritage language courses at Columbia/Barnard focus on the development of communicative abilities and literacy from sociolinguistic and sociocultural approaches. Throughout the semester, students will be reviewing spelling patterns, building vocabulary, acquiring and effectively using learning strategies, and strengthening composition skills in Spanish. Cultural projects and readings reinforce learners’ understanding of the multiple issues related to Hispanic cultures in the United States and in other Spanish-speaking societies

Spring 2025: SPAN UN2108
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 2108 001/13844 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
602 Northwest Corner
Diana Romero 4.00 13/15
SPAN 2108 002/13845 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
602 Northwest Corner
Diana Romero 4.00 15/15
SPAN 2108 003/13846 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
306 Uris Hall
Francisca Aguilo Mora 4.00 13/15
Fall 2025: SPAN UN2108
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 2108 001/13350 T Th F 8:40am - 9:55am
Room TBA
Diana Romero 4.00 5/12
SPAN 2108 002/13351 T Th F 10:10am - 11:25am
Room TBA
Diana Romero 4.00 12/12
SPAN 2108 003/13352 T Th F 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Diana Romero 4.00 12/12

SPAN UN2120 COMPREHENSIVE INTER SPANISH. 4.00 points.

Prerequisites: This course is an intensive and fast-paced coverage of both SPAN W1201 and SPAN W1202. Students MUST demonstrate a strong foundation in Spanish and meet the following REQUIREMENTS: a score ABOVE 480 in the Department's Placement Examination; or A- or higher in SPAN W1120. If you fulfill the above requirements, you do not need the instructor's permission to register. HOWEVER the instructor will additionally assess student proficiency during the Change of Program Period. Students who do not have the necessary proficiency level may not remain in this course.
Prerequisites: This course is an intensive and fast-paced coverage of both Spanish UN 2101-Intermediate Spanish I and Spanish UN 2102-Intermediate Spanish II. Students MUST demonstrate a strong foundation in Spanish and meet the following REQUIREMENTS: either a score ABOVE 480 on the Department’s Spanish as a Second Language Placement Examination; or an A or higher in SPAN UN 1102-Elementary Spanish II; or an A- or higher in SPAN UN 1120-Comprehensive Beginning Spanish. If you fulfill the above requirements, you do not need the instructor's permission to register. HOWEVER, the instructor will additionally assess student proficiency during the Change of Program Period. Students who do not have the necessary proficiency level may not remain in this course. Replaces the sequence SPAN UN2101-SPAN UN2102. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade

Fall 2025: SPAN UN2120
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 2120 001/13353 T Th F 2:40pm - 3:55pm
Room TBA
Angelina Craig-Florez 4.00 7/12

SPAN UN3265 LATIN AMER LIT (IN TRANSLATN). 3.00 points.

Study of contemporary Latin American narrative; its origins and apotheosis. Readings include Machado de Assis, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Puig, and others

Fall 2025: SPAN UN3265
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3265 001/01000 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm
111 Milstein Center
Alfred Mac Adam 3.00 4/15

SPAN UN3300 ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 fulfillment of the language requirement.

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

Spring 2025: SPAN UN3300
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3300 001/14306 M W 1:10pm - 2:25pm
327 Uris Hall
Ximena Gonzalez-Parada 3.00 14/15
SPAN 3300 002/14307 T Th 10:10am - 11:25am
224 Pupin Laboratories
Leyre Alejaldre Biel 3.00 13/15
SPAN 3300 003/14309 T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm
425 Pupin Laboratories
Angelina Craig-Florez 3.00 12/15
SPAN 3300 004/19087 T Th 10:10am - 11:25am
254 International Affairs Bldg
Elsa Ubeda 3.00 7/15
SPAN 3300 020/00536 T Th 10:10am - 11:25am
207 Milbank Hall
Javier Perez Zapatero 3.00 9/15
SPAN 3300 021/00537 M W 11:40am - 12:55pm
207 Milbank Hall
Elga Castro 3.00 18/15
SPAN 3300 022/00538 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm
307 Milbank Hall
Maria Lozano 3.00 13/15
Fall 2025: SPAN UN3300
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3300 001/13354 M W 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Juan Jimenez-Caicedo 3.00 4/12
SPAN 3300 002/13355 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Dolores Barbazan Capeans 3.00 12/12
SPAN 3300 003/13356 T Th 1:10pm - 2:25pm
Room TBA
Francisco Rosales-Varo 3.00 7/12
SPAN 3300 004/13357 T Th 5:40pm - 6:55pm
Room TBA
Juan Pablo Cominguez 3.00 11/12
SPAN 3300 020/00497 M W 11:40am - 12:55pm
237 Milbank Hall
Maria Lozano 3.00 12/12
SPAN 3300 021/00488 T Th 10:10am - 11:25am
225 Milbank Hall
Elga Castro 3.00 8/12
SPAN 3300 022/00489 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm
225 Milbank Hall
Elga Castro 3.00 12/12

SPAN UN3349 HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP). 3.00 points.

CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement

Prerequisites: L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300).
Prerequisites: L course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300). Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period until about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spain and the Americas

Spring 2025: SPAN UN3349
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3349 001/00539 T Th 1:10pm - 2:25pm
203 Diana Center
Almudena Marín-Cobos 3.00 10/15
SPAN 3349 002/00540 T Th 4:10pm - 5:25pm
202 Milbank Hall
Orlando Bentancor 3.00 14/15
SPAN 3349 003/17345 M W 11:40am - 12:55pm
201 Casa Hispanica
Arnau Sala Sallent 3.00 16/15
Fall 2025: SPAN UN3349
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3349 001/00490 T Th 1:10pm - 2:25pm
223 Milbank Hall
Almudena Marín-Cobos 3.00 15/15
SPAN 3349 002/00491 M W 4:10pm - 5:25pm
207 Milbank Hall
Alexandra Mendez 3.00 15/15
SPAN 3349 003/11994 M W 1:10pm - 2:25pm
206 Casa Hispanica
Patricia Grieve 3.00 15/15
SPAN 3349 004/12002 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm
Room TBA
Angelina Coronado 3.00 15/15

SPAN UN3350 HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP). 3.00 points.

This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquire the knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues and events studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice, the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish American independence, the fin-de-siecle and the cultural avant-gardes, the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study some key moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representative texts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish. This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies

Spring 2025: SPAN UN3350
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3350 001/00541 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm
237 Milbank Hall
Ronald Briggs 3.00 17/15
SPAN 3350 002/17346 M W 1:10pm - 2:25pm
303 Hamilton Hall
Javiera Irribarren Ortiz 3.00 15/15
SPAN 3350 003/17347 T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm
253 International Affairs Bldg
Maria Agustina Battezzati 3.00 10/15
SPAN 3350 004/17348 T Th 10:10am - 11:25am
413 Hamilton Hall
Miguel Angel Blanco Martinez 3.00 14/17
Fall 2025: SPAN UN3350
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3350 001/00492 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm
203 Diana Center
Ronald Briggs 3.00 15/15
SPAN 3350 002/12015 M W 11:40am - 12:55pm
206 Casa Hispanica
Ana Fernandez Cebrian 3.00 15/15
SPAN 3350 003/12028 T Th 10:10am - 11:25am
206 Casa Hispanica
Graciela Montaldo 3.00 13/15
SPAN 3350 004/12063 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm
Room TBA
Vivian Arimany 3.00 13/15
SPAN 3350 005/12130 M W 4:10pm - 5:25pm
Room TBA
Maria Florencia Barcelo 3.00 15/15

SPAN BC3361 BORGES IN CONTEXT. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: Language requirement, SPAN3300 and either SPAN3349 or 3350
This course gives students an opportunity to learn about the history of Argentine culture by studying the fifty-year long career of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), the most important Latin American writer of the twentieth century. Students must read complex texts, discuss them in Spanish, and write about them in Spanish. After taking this course, a student should be able to study or work in Argentina with confidence. Heritage Spanish-speakers will be able to hone their language skills as well since the course requires a good deal of writing. Thus these students as well will be able to study, travel, and work in Argentina and not find themselves in an alien culture

Fall 2025: SPAN BC3361
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3361 001/00493 M W 10:10am - 11:25am
237 Milbank Hall
Alfred Mac Adam 3.00 9/15

SPAN BC3382 SOCIOLING ASPECTS U.S.SPANISH. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). Sociolinguistics studies the connections between language and social categories such as class, gender, and ethnicity. This course will address how social, geographic, cultural, and economic factors affect the different usages of Spanish among its millions of speakers. Through theory and practice of various research tools including Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Analysis, students with explore topics such as English-Spanish contact in the US, code-switching, and Spanglish, as well as issues of identity, bilingualism, and endangered languages

SPAN BC3446 Venezuela: Robbery and Nature. 3 points.

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).

This course will read Venezuela backwards in films, poems, novels and essays, from the present-tense struggle over the legacy of chavismo to the early days of independence.  The constant thread will be the conflict between development and nature with special attention to natural resources and eco-critical approaches.

Fall 2025: SPAN BC3446
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3446 001/00495 T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm
237 Milbank Hall
Ronald Briggs 3 13/15

SPAN BC3481 CONTEMP LATIN AMER SHORT FICT. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). Readings of short stories and novellas by established and emerging writers from Spanish America and Brazil. Defines the parameters of Latin American short fiction by exploring its various manifestations, fantastic literature, protest writing, satire, and realism. Among the authors to be studied will be: Machado de Assis, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Ana Lydia Vega, Clarice Lispector, Silvina Ocampo, and Jose Donoso

SPAN UN3559 Interrogating Authoritarianism in Contemporary Spain. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: reading knowledge of Spanish Reading knowledge of Spanish is required. By conceiving authoritarianism as a historically produced–and therefore historically changing–notion, we will travel across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to examine how phenomena associated with different forms of political domination were understood in their time and how they are understood today. Nation-building processes, class and gender conflicts, cultural politics, and the examination of past and current political and social movements will be the center of our discussion. Several questions will be raised (and hopefully answered) along this journey: How can we understand the specificity of Spanish forms of authoritarianism in the Euro-Atlantic scenario? How can we explain the reappearance of extreme right-wing populisms? How have transnational forces influenced old and new authoritarian dynamics? To address these issues, we will read essays, short stories, graphic novels, as well as theoretical texts that offer varied approaches to history, aesthetics, and politics. The works by writers Juan Marsé, Sara Mesa, Isaac Rosa, Carmen Martín Gaite, film-makers like Edgar Neville, José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, Carlos Saura or philosophers such as Benjamin, Adorno, Schmitt, Villacañas or Rodríguez Palop will be some of the materials from which to study the cultural logics of Spanish authoritarianism in a Global Age

Fall 2025: SPAN UN3559
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3559 001/12135 M W 10:10am - 11:25am
206 Casa Hispanica
Ana Fernandez Cebrian 3.00 13/15

SPAN BC3693 Disability Narratives in Latin America. 4.00 points.

This course surveys Latin American literary texts that have deeply engaged with disability in the 20 th and 21 st century. Against the tendency to treat disability merely as a useful metaphor or to simply import Global Northern vocabulary and methodologies of disability studies to other locations, this course turns to Latin American literary texts by authors that have been directly “touched” by disability to foreground the concerns, vocabularies, and commitments that their texts reveal. This includes authors who either through their personal experience with disability or as caretakers—as parents, siblings, or close friends of people with disabilities—have closely grappled with the experience of non-normative bodies and minds in the Latin American context. In this course we ask how are subjects with disabilities represented in a variety of genres (novel, essay, poem, graphic novel) and what constraints and possibilities circumscribe these subjectivities and their lives. Ultimately, we will ask what vision of disability justice emerges from these localized experiences and creative interventions beyond now globalized disability discourses of inclusion/access and independence/autonomy

Spring 2025: SPAN BC3693
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3693 001/00816 W 12:10pm - 2:00pm
306 Milbank Hall
Maja Horn 4.00 15/15

SPAN UN3895 Women, Creation, and Feminisms in Contemporary Spain. 3.00 points.

At the crossroads of social media, social movements, and the arts, the present course offers a comprehensive genealogy of recent cultural interventions embodying the most pressing issues for feminisms in Spain today. For this endeavor, the syllabus is organized around three thematic axes: memory, bodies, and territories. By deploying an open consideration of arts, activism, and their creators, the case-studies here introduced unfold a polyphonic nature in both content and form. In this light, problematics such as ecology, technology, love, violence, healthcare, labor, or collective trauma will be navigated through the genres of performance, essay, poetry, graphic novel, photography, documentary, music, or the videoclip. These will shape the singularities of the later socio-political cycle in the country, distinguished by the internationalist expansion of feminisms; an interconnected and intersectional approach to social justice; the emergence of a globalized and domestic far-right; and the shifting of the institutional left. Such a background will nurture a series of feminist interventions claiming radical imaginaries in the favor of the 99%

Fall 2025: SPAN UN3895
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3895 001/13790 T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm
Room TBA
Miguel Angel Blanco Martinez 3.00 10/15

SPAN UN3897 Nature, Archive, and Gender in Latin American Cultures. 3.00 points.

This course proposes to make a theoretical reflection on Latin American literature, art, video, and cinema in the present. Starting from a diagnosis of the new scene, we are going to study some alternative forms. We will start with reading theoretical texts in the three proposed topics: Archive, Gender, and Nature. The study of these works will also allow us to understand the dynamics between the different media and how artists conceive their practice in the midst of contemporary conditions. We are going to explore in these works the relationships between imagining, documenting, creating communities, intervening in the social field, and discussing global issues that often, from a precise location, involve planetary issues. We will study works by Fernando Bryce, Mariana López, Cynthia Rimsky, Matías Celedón, Daniela Catrileo, Selva Almada, Verónica Gerber-Bicecci, among others. We will discuss the constellation of problems around aesthetics, mediality, exhibition, politics, materiality, and immateriality in art and literature, mimesis and institutions, artists and intellectuals

Fall 2025: SPAN UN3897
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3897 001/12983 T Th 1:10pm - 2:25pm
201 Casa Hispanica
Graciela Montaldo 3.00 9/15

SPAN BC3990 SENIOR SEMINAR. 4.00 points.

Prerequisites: SPAN UN3300SPAN UN3349SPAN UN3350 Prerequisites: Course intended to be taken by all Spanish majors during the fall of their senior year. Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
This course is a requirement for all majors and is taken in the Fall semester of the Senior year; students may register for the Barnard or Columbia (3991) section. In this academic writing workshop students develop individual research projects under the guidance of the course’s instructor and in dialogue with the other participants’ projects. The final assignment of the senior seminar (6000 words) is the senior essay. It is written in Spanish

Fall 2025: SPAN BC3990
Course Number Section/Call Number Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3990 001/00496 W 4:10pm - 6:00pm
214 Milbank Hall
Wadda Rios-Font 4.00 5/15

SPAN GR6019 Early Modern Museums: Iberian Colonization, Museification, and Aesthetic Education. 4.00 points.

The Early Modern origins of the “public” museum have been studied, in the last decades, under the categories of curiosity and wonder. Revising this literature, the seminar intends to introduce the students to a wealth of primary sources, in order to find novel conceptual avenues of research. We will look at the most important illustrated catalogues that were written, painted and often printed between the 16th and 17th centuries: from Ferrante Imperato’s Dell’Historia Naturale, published in Spanish Naples, in 1599 to the beautiful Manoscritti Campori, the Museum Septalianum (1664) and the Galeria (1666) of the museum opened by Mandredo Settala in Spanish Milan, from the Roman museum of Athanasius Kircher, passing through the public museums of Ulisse Aldrovandi and Ferdinando Cospi in Bologna, of Oleus Worm in Copenhagen, to the documentation about the collections of Juan de la Espina in Madrid, of Lastanosa in Huesca, the Kunstkammerns of Sweden, and that Rudolf II's in Prague, among others. While acquiring a panoramic and critical view on a major field, on its sources and studies, the seminar’s participants will be guided by the following topics: 1) the tight relationship between Iberian colonization and collecting, in the selection and circulation of the art pieces and natural species that will enter the space of the museum and its catalogues 2) the intertwining between art pieces and natural species coming from afar with those produced or generated locally; 3) the different actors implicated in the museification (in space and on paper) of the objects and natural species; 4) the aesthetic education implemented by the items’ public display and by their published descriptions

SPAN GR6100 RESEARCH & PROF DEVPT WORKSHOP. 2.00 points.

SPAN GR6442 The Art of Lying: Deception in Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art. 4.00 points.

Plato banished poets from his Republic on the account of their being thrice removed from the truth. Accused of artfully and seductively lying, poets were deemed dangerous, confusing, and unfit to guarantee the stability of the polis and were consequently extricated from it. Since then, the relationship between art and truth has been a contentious one. Art is fiction and fiction, at least in common parlance, is opposed to fact, to things as they really are. This historical kinship with lying has often justified accusations of art as being a frivolous, lighthearted discipline, detached from the real. It has also, however, equipped artists with a ‘license to lie’—a prerogative that they have used frequently to reclaim art’s position in the realm of the real, to reinstate the poet’s place in the polis. This seminar will interrogate modern and contemporary artistic practices that have an act of deception at their core—pieces that, for some people and for some time, succeed in obscuring their fictional origins and acquired truth status. We will couple case study analysis with discussion of theoretical works to explore questions such as: How do these practices structure and produce their lies? In what ways do their acts of deception posit a different understanding of the real? How do these practices dialogue with and intervene in the philosophical debates that have explored the tensions between art and truth? What does it mean to lie after the ‘postmodern turn’? How do different definitions of the real affect the interpretation and effects of these works? What is the role of belief in understanding and assessing these practices? Since we will mostly study Latin American works, we will also speculate about the possibilities of identifying the peculiarities of the region’s relation to deception, both inside and outside the boundaries of the art world. The course will culminate with a symposium, open to the public, at which students will present their research. Presentations will be followed by discussion, and the symposium will include the participation of an artist and a scholar whose works explore some of the issues studied over the semester

SPAN GR9811 SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH. 3.00-6.00 points.

Prerequisites: graduate standing. Students register in this course while preparing their M.Phil. examinations and prospectus--usually in the fall and spring of their third year