Spanish & Latin American Cultures < Barnard College

Department website: http://spanish.barnard.edu/

219 Milbank Hall
212-854 7491 (fax)
Language Program Director: Jesús Suárez-García

The Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures

The Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College boasts a long tradition of excellence in undergraduate education for women. Throughout its history, it has afforded students a solid preparation in both Spanish language and the literatures and cultures of Spain, Spanish America, and the Spanish-speaking United States.

Mission

The keystone of our integrated curriculum is linguistic and intellectual continuity from the elementary language level to the most advanced literature and culture courses. Our language courses are skill - and proficiency- oriented and provide the foundation students need for advanced study, either at Barnard or in college-level study abroad. Our upper-level courses stress the necessary historical and theoretical tools needed to understand the cultural and aesthetic production of the Hispanic world. Through our strong collaboration with interdisciplinary programs and departments at Barnard, including Comparative Literature, Africana Studies, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Forum on Migration, as well as our teamwork with the Columbia Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, we are ideally poised to train students for a wide range of post-graduation experiences in MA/PhD programs or in the professional sphere.

Student Learning Outcomes

Through the Major in Spanish and Latin American Cultures, students who rigorously apply themselves to their studies will be able to:

Use the Spanish language at the B2-C2 proficiency levels (Independent User/Proficient User), as defined by the Common European Framework of Reference (depending on initial background and ability);*
Identify and describe the cultures of Spain and Spanish America throughout their history, from Islamic Spain and the colonial period through the present.
Demonstrate specialized knowledge of selected literary and cultural works, authors and cultural producers of the Hispanic world, understood in their aesthetic, historical, and social contexts.
Use basic principles of literary and cultural theory to analyze and interpret a variety of texts and other cultural products.
Express their ideas, analyses, and interpretation through clear oral exposition and effective critical writing.
Conduct research in the fields of Spanish and Spanish American literature and culture, and demonstrate the results of their research and thinking in original academic essays.

Major and Minor in Spanish and Latin American Cultures

Majors and minors in this department will provide students with a solid literacy in the cultures of the Hispanic world. Literacy at the level of language instruction entails the students' ability to express themselves fluently in Spanish, both orally and in writing. Literacy at the cultural level entails an intellectual grasp of Spanish and Spanish American cultural and artistic products and the knowledge of the historical and methodological contexts in which to situate them. Students must consult with the major adviser to carefully plan their program upon major declaration. With adviser approval, courses taken abroad or at another institution can apply toward the major/minor. The Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures addresses the Barnard senior research requirement through the writing of a substantial paper in a topic-based senior seminar; there is the possibility of further research development for some students. The Spanish and Latin American Cultures majors have been designed in conjunction with the Columbia Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Hence, Barnard students may, always in consultation with the major adviser, move freely between the departments of both institutions in search of the courses that best fit their interests and schedules.

Proficient User

C2 Can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read. Can summarise information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation. Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations.

C1 Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning. Can express him/herself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

Independent User

B2 Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation. Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party. Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

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):

Course List
Code	Title	Points
Three required introductory courses:
SPAN UN3300	ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT
SPAN UN3349	HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)
SPAN UN3350	HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)
Select seven elective courses
Select one of the following Senior Seminars:		4
SPAN BC3990	SENIOR SEMINAR
SPAN UN3991	SENIOR SEMINAR
SPAN W3992	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):

Course List
Code	Title	Points
SPAN UN3300	ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT	3
SPAN UN3349	HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)	3
SPAN UN3350	HISPANIC 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):

Course List
Code	Title	Points
SPAN UN3300	ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT	3
SPAN UN3349	HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)	3
SPAN UN3350	HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)	3
Select ten elective courses
Select one of the following Senior Seminars:		4
SPAN BC3990	SENIOR SEMINAR
SPAN UN3991	SENIOR SEMINAR
SPAN W3992	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.

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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Spring 2025: SPAN UN1101
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Spring 2025: SPAN UN1102
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Spring 2025: SPAN UN1108
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Spring 2025: SPAN UN2101
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Spring 2025: SPAN UN2102
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Spring 2025: SPAN UN2103
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Spring 2025: SPAN UN2104
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Spring 2025: SPAN UN2108
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Fall 2025: SPAN UN2120
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Fall 2025: SPAN UN3265
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.

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Spring 2025: SPAN UN3300
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Spring 2025: SPAN UN3349
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Spring 2025: SPAN UN3350
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Fall 2025: SPAN BC3361
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.

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Fall 2025: SPAN BC3446
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Fall 2025: SPAN UN3559
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Spring 2025: SPAN BC3693
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％

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Fall 2025: SPAN UN3895
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Fall 2025: SPAN UN3897
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

Course Number	Section/Call Number	Times/Location	Instructor	Points	Enrollment
Fall 2025: SPAN BC3990
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