Courses in Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures

Course Descriptions

The lower-division program in Spanish/Portuguese is part of The Claremont Colleges’ Modern Language Program.

All of the following courses are conducted in Spanish unless otherwise indicated.

• CHST 126B CH - Contemporary Chicanx Literature
• CHST 186 CH - Seminar in Late 20th century Chicana Literature
• DANC 137 SC - Latin American Dance Practices
• HMSC 130 SC - Schools of Cultural Criticism: Culture and Critique
• PORT 022 SC - Intensive Introductory Portuguese
• SPAN 001 SC - Introductory Spanish
• SPAN 002 SC - Introductory Spanish
• SPAN 011 SC - Conversation: Contemporary Spanish Language and Culture
• SPAN 022 SC - Intensive Introductory Spanish
• SPAN 033 SC - Intermediate Spanish
• SPAN 044 SC - Advanced Spanish: Readings in Literature and Civilization
• SPAN 100 SC - Cultural Competence in the Health Professions
• SPAN 101 SC - Introduction to Literary Analysis. Analysis of literary genres and styles
• SPAN 102 SC - Latin American Culture and Civilization
• SPAN 103 SC - Advanced Conversation and Composition
• SPAN 110 SC - Introduction to Spanish Civilization
• SPAN 114 SC - Gender and Identity Formation in Contemporary Mexican Literature
• SPAN 115 SC - Contemporary Spanish Women Writers: Gender, Politics, and The Self
• SPAN 116 SC - Beyond Neoliberal Imaginaries
• SPAN 120A SC - Survey of Spanish Literature
• SPAN 120B SC - Survey of Spanish Literature
• SPAN 127 CH - Literatura Chicana en Español
• SPAN 131 SC - Representations of Queer Lives in Latin America
• SPAN 133 SC - Translation and the Right to Language
• SPAN 134 SC - Indigenous Women, Representations, and Struggles
• SPAN 137 SC - Translating the Aztecs: Indigenous Cultures and Colonialism in Mexico
• SPAN 139 SC - Plants, Land, and Food: Community Clinic
• SPAN 140 SC - The Spanish Transition Through the Lens of Pedro Almodóvar
• SPAN 151 SC - “Necropolis”: Detective Novels and Cities in Spain and Latin America
• SPAN 152 SC - Border Thinking in Spain
• SPAN 154 SC - Trans-Caribbean Formations: Translating Identity, Race, and Gender in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico
• SPAN 155 SC - Short Fiction by Spanish Women Writers
• SPAN 156 SC - From Macondo to McOndo: Revisiting the Latin American Short Story
• SPAN 157 SC - Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literature: Nation, Family, and Romance
• SPAN 163 SC - Pais Vasco or Euskal Herria: Una intro
• SPAN 171 SC - Latin American and Spanish Cinema and Poetry
• SPAN 175 SC - From Freedom and Democracy to Dictatorship and Repression: The Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1975
• SPAN 176 SC - From Tyranny to Democracy: The Politics of Culture in Spain Between 1975-1992
• SPAN 177 SC - Escenarios de conflicto: Theater and Social Change in Contemporary Spain and Latin America
• SPAN 178 SC - Literary and Filmic Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Contemporary Spain. “Working through” Memory.
• SPAN 182 SC - Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic: Towards an Interpretation of the Hispanic Caribbean through Its Short Stories
• SPAN 183 SC - Interculturality and Bilingualism in the Andes
• SPAN 184 SC - The Image and the Word/La imagen y la palabra
• SPAN 191 SC - Senior Thesis
• SPAN 199 SC - Independent Study in Latin American or Spanish Literature: Reading and Research