22 courses with the subject SPAN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
SPAN 1101006/12995 T Th F 11:40am - Irene Alonso- 4.00 15/15
12:55pm Aparicio 313 Pupin Laboratories Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 615 SPAN UN1102 ELEMENTARY SPANISH II. 4.00 points. department's Placement Examination. 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 t Fall 2025: SPAN UN1102 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 1108002/12968 T Th F 10:10am - Diana Romero 4.00 12/1
11:25am 412 Pupin Laboratories SPAN UN2101 INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I. 4.00 points. SPAN W1120, or a score of 380-449 in the department's Placement Examination. 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 Fall 2025: SPAN UN2101 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 2104001/13349 T Th F 11:40am - Francisca 4.00 13/1
12:55pm Aguilo Mora 325 Pupin Laboratories SPAN UN2108 SPANISH FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS. 4.00 points. 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 Fall 2025: SPAN UN2108 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 2120001/13353 T Th F 2:40pm - 3:55pm Angelina 4.0012
305 Uris Hall Craig-Florez 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 Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points En
SPAN 3265001/01000 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Alfred Mac 3.00 7/
207 Milbank Hall Adam Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 619 SPAN UN3300 ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT. 3.00 points. 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 Fall 2025: SPAN UN3300 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3350003/11746 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm Miguel Angel 3.00 15/15
253 International Affairs Blanco Bldg Martinez SPAN BC3361 BORGES IN CONTEXT. 3.00 points. 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 t Fall 2025: SPAN BC3361 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Language requirement, SPAN3300 and either SPAN3349
SPAN 3361001/00493 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Alfred Mac 3.00 5/15
237 Milbank Hall Adam SPAN BC3382 SOCIOLING ASPECTS U.S.SPANISH. 3.00 points. t 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 Spring 2026: SPAN BC3382 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory
SPAN 3382001/00179 M W 11:40am - 12:55pm Maria Lozano 3.00 13/15
225 Milbank Hall SPAN BC3446 Venezuela: Robbery and Nature. 3 points. 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 Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3481001/00183 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Alfred Mac 3.00 14/15
327 Milbank Hall Adam SPAN UN3559 Interrogating Authoritarianism in Contemporary Spain. 3.00 points. 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
SPAN 3693001/00184 W 12:10pm - 2:00pm Maja Horn 4.00 11/15
306 Milbank Hall 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 Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
SPAN 3897001/12983 T Th 1:10pm - 2:25pm Graciela 3.00 12/15
201 Casa Hispanica Montaldo SPAN BC3990 SENIOR SEMINAR. 4.00 points. 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 Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollme
SPAN UN3300SPAN UN3349SPAN UN3350 Course intended to be taken by all Spanish majors during
SPAN 3990001/00496 W 4:10pm - 6:00pm Wadda Rios- 4.00 8/15
214 Milbank Hall Font 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 nt 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 nt
