Spanish Courses

Transitional Courses

Prerequisites: SPAN 044 PO  or SPAN 050 PO  is required for admission to transitional courses. Courses may be taken in any order.

• SPAN 100 PO - Orale: Language, Culture and Writing for Heritage Speakers
• SPAN 101 PO - Introduction to Literary Analysis
• SPAN 102 PO - The New Spain: Introduction to Spanish Cultural Studies
• SPAN 105 PO - Spanish Film: Tradition and Transgression
• SPAN 106 PO - Images of Latin America in Fiction and Film
• SPAN 107 PO - Identity Matters in Latin American Literature and Culture
• SPAN 109 PO - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics

Upper-level Courses

Prerequisites: SPAN 101 PO , or a score of 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Spanish Literature exam, is a prerequisite for upper-division literature classes numbered SPAN 110 SC  and higher.

• SPAN 120A PO - Survey of Spanish Literature
• SPAN 120B PO - Survey of Spanish Literature
• SPAN 124 PO - Language in Spain: Power, Ideology, Identity
• SPAN 125A PO - Survey of Spanish American Literature
• SPAN 125B PO - Survey of Spanish American Literature
• SPAN 126 PO - In Short: Latin American Story Telling
• SPAN 128 PO - Poverty, Literature and Social Justice.
• SPAN 129 PO - Early Modern Women Writers
• SPAN 130 PO - Reading Bodies in Contemporary Latino/a American Literature and Culture
• SPAN 135 PO - Latin American Narrative Boom of the 1960s
• SPAN 140 PO - From the “Boom” to “Literatura Lite”: Gender and Genre in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture
• SPAN 142 PO - Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad
• SPAN 146 PO - El Deseo de la Palabra: Poetry or Death
• SPAN 160 PO - Spain at a Crossroads: Discourses of Gender and Empire
• SPAN 170 PO - Don Quixote and Cultural Identity
• SPAN 172 PO - Transvestite Drama of the Early Modern Period
• SPAN 175 PO - Romantics and Realists: 19th-Century Spanish Literature
• SPAN 182 PO - Contemporary Spanish Poetry: Experience and Experimentation
• SPAN 185 PO - The Avant Garde in Spain
• SPAN 191 PO - Senior Thesis
• SPAN 192 PO - Senior Paper
• SPAN 193 PO - Senior Oral Presentation

Spanish/Spanish American Literatures and Related Courses offered at the Other Claremont Colleges

• SPAN 101 CM - Introduction to Literary Analysis
• SPAN 102 CM - Latin American Culture and Civilization
• SPAN 125A CM - Introduction to Latin-American Literature and Civilization I
• SPAN 125B CM - Introduction to Latin-American Literature and Civilization II
• SPAN 148 CM - Special Topics in Spanish
• SPAN 150 CM - Nation and Identity in 19th-Century Spanish America
• SPAN 155 CM - The Latin American Short Story
• SPAN 159 CM - Contemporary Latin American Novel
• SPAN 178 CM - The New Latin American Cinema
• SPAN 180 CM - Spanish Literature 1898-1920
• SPAN 184 CM - Literature of the Zapatista Rebellion
• SPAN 031 PZ - Community-Based Spanish Practicum
• SPAN 051 PZ - Spanish in the Community
• SPAN 156 PZ - Ella y El: Gender in Latin America
• SPAN 158 PZ - Banana Republics
• SPAN 183 PZ - Pre-Hispanic Oral Traditions of Mexico
• SPAN 187 PZ - Latin American Popular Cultures
• SPAN 189 PZ - Contemporary Issues in the Spanish-speaking World
• SPAN 101 SC - Introduction Literary Analysis
• SPAN 103 SC - Advanced Conversation and Composition
• SPAN 110 SC - Introduction to Spanish Civilization
• SPAN 140 SC - The Spanish Transition Through the Lens of Pedro Almodovar
• SPAN 155 SC - Short Fiction by Hispanic Women Writers
• SPAN 179 SC - Fe Esperanza, Amor y Muerte: Women Writers of the Hispanic World
• SPAN 184 SC - The Image and the Word/La imagen y la palabra
• SPAN 065 CH - Spanish for Bilinguals
• SPAN 154 CH - Latinas in the Garment Industry