Summer 2026 Courses To Look Out For!

SPAN 3: Spanish III: Citron (11)

SPAN 3 builds on the foundation established in SPAN 2 with more intensive study of grammar and vocabulary, emphasizing literature and cultural analysis. The course incorporates oral activities, readings, written compositions, and continued practice in a virtual language laboratory, along with weekly drill sessions. Completion of SPAN 3—either on campus or through the LSA+—fulfills the language requirement. Please note that this course does not count toward the Distributive or World Culture Requirements. Enrollment is open to first-year students who qualify by placement test, as well as to students who have successfully completed SPAN 2.

Prerequisite: SPAN 2 / Placement
Distribution: None

SPAN 31: Introduction to Hispanic Studies: 18th and 19th Centuries: Merino (11)

This course offers a chronological survey of major transatlantic literary and cultural movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Students engage with a representative selection of key works from both Spain and Spanish America, exploring the development of literary trends alongside broader cultural production. Through readings that may include literary, visual, and filmic texts, the course examines critical and theoretical issues related to modernity, empire, the Enlightenment, nationalism, gender, and democracy.

Prerequisite: SPAN 20.
Distribution: LIT; WCult: W.

SPAN 73.12: Soccer in Ibero-American: Merino (12)

This course examines the cultural impact of soccer in the Ibero-American world, exploring its influence across literature, film, comics, and media in Spain and Latin America. Students study the historical development of the sport and its evolution in a global context, with attention to its contradictions as well as its social, economic, and political dimensions. The course highlights iconic figures such as Maradona and incorporates analysis of World Cup matches, focusing on countries including Argentina, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and Uruguay to compare the sociopolitical dynamics surrounding the sport. It also addresses the growth of women’s soccer and the expanding role of women in Spain and Latin America.

Prerequisite: SPAN 20.
Distribution: LIT; WCult: W.

Fall 2026 Courses To Look Out For!

SPAN 73.14: Embodying Care: Immigration, Health, and the Medical Humanities (New Course!): Reyes (TBD)

This seminar integrates the medical humanities with public health and policy to study how migration, race, gender, labor, and colonial histories shape health access, trauma, and healing. Through fiction, theatre, visual art, documentary, and community-engaged methods, students examine immigrant health in U.S. and Latinx contexts and produce bilingual, public-facing work that connects analysis to practice. Creative expression is approached as critique and resilience against structural inequities, while students also learn narrative humility, ethics, and bilingual engagement grounded in community care. As a co-taught course with faculty from Spanish and Portuguese and Geisel, the course fulfills the curricular requirements for each unit. For Hispanic Studies majors and minors, the course counts toward major and minor credits. For Geisel students, the course is integrated into the Spanish Pathway curriculum.

Prerequisite:  SPAN 20
Distribution: LIT; WCult: W.

SPAN 70.01: Great Works of Hispanic Literature: Don Quijote

From the time of its publication in 1605 (Part I) and 1615 (Part II), Don Quijote has provoked radically different interpretations. Taking as point of departure both the comic and the romantic interpretations, the course will explore the meaning of the Quijote across the centuries. Its aim will be to understand the Quijote both as an autonomous work of literature and as a highly creative response to the literary and cultural forces from which it was forged. In addition to the historical context and social conflicts in the Hapsburg monarchy, the course will focus on the literary history and the novel as a literary genre and a product of the Medieval “mixtification” which flourished in the Renaissance. 

Prerequisite: SPAN 20
Distribution: LIT; WCult.: WC.

Course Descriptions to be Published Soon.

Course Descriptions to be Published Soon.