76 courses with the subject SPA, 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.
SPA 101Elementary Spanish I
Instructors All Hispanic Studies Faculty An introduction to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing Spanish. Requires attendance at Assistant Teacher sessions twice a week and online work through the Language Resource Center. Conducted in Spanish. Prerequisites & Notes Placement required. Students who have completed up to Spanish 2 in high school may register in SPA 101 and do not need to take the Spanish Placement Exam. Students who have taken Spanish 3 or higher in high school, must take the placement exam.
Instructors All Hispanic Studies Faculty Development of further skills in speaking, understanding, reading and writing Spanish through a review of grammar and readings in the literature and culture of Spain and/or Latin America. Requires attendance at Assistant Teacher sessions twice a week and online work through the Language Resource Center. Conducted in Spanish. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 101, or its equivalent, or Placement Exam.
Instructor All Hispanic Studies Faculty Intensive introductory course equivalent to Spanish 101 and 102. Meets six class-hours per week plus four hours weekly with an Assistant Teacher. Completes two semesters of Spanish in one semester. Counts as two courses. Conducted in Spanish.
Instructor All Hispanic Studies Faculty Extensive reading and discussion in Spanish of texts of moderate difficulty in the cultures and literatures of Spain, Latin America and US Latino; grammar study; extensive conversation practice. Requires attendance at Assistant Teacher sessions once a week and online work through the Language Resource Center. Service learning may be required. Meets the degree requirement for proficiency in foreign language. Conducted in Spanish. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 102, or its equivalent, or Placement Exam.
Instructor All Hispanic Studies Faculty (Summer Program in Cadiz, Spain) Extensive reading, writing, and discussion of Spanish texts, grammar study, and intensive conversation practice. Immersion course abroad meets the degree requirement for proficiency in foreign language at Davidson. Conducted in Spanish. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 102 or Spanish 103
Instructor Staff Selected works of Latin American literature in English translation. Readings and class discussions are in English. Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric Distribution requirement Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
SPA 260Conversation and Composition- Latin American Human Rights
Instructor Sánchez-Sánchez In this course, students will improve their oral and written communication in Spanish, as well as deepen their knowledge of and approach to the Spanish-speaking world. A variety of readings and digital media (e.g., films, shorts, videos, plays, graphic narrative, and artistic productions) will be the starting point for conversations and as well as written and oral assignments, which will include both informal and academic registers. Conducted in Spanish. Requires a conversation session with an Apprentice Teacher once a week. This course should be taken before 271 and/or 272, and is strongly recommended for students planning to study abroad. Counts towards the major and minor in Hispanic Studies. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 201 or its equivalent.
Insructor Cannon This course is designed for students who wish to develop their Spanish skills in professional contexts. Students will engage with specialized vocabulary and professional and cultural expectations in different industries through thematic units, authentic materials, and real-world tasks. It provides an overview of key language and cultural aspects relevant to various fields, allowing students to enhance their communication skills in workplace settings. It addresses the needs of language students in specialized professional fields and focuses on business, science, medicine, etc. A key component of the course is an off-campus volunteer experience, where students will apply their Spanish skills in real-life situations. Each student will be able to choose a placement according to their interests and future career goals, gaining hands-on experience while contributing to the local community. Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor. Prerequisites & Notes Pre-req- SPA 260 or equivalent Students who have taken 271 and 272 are not eligible, also students who have taken a 300 level course are not eligible.
Instructor Boyer, Sánchez-Sánchez, Willis Spanish 271 / Spanish 272 is a two-course sequence designed to be a more in-depth introduction to the foundational knowledge and theoretical approaches to Hispanic cultural production from the Middle Ages to the present across primary sources, genres, geographical and temporal borders. The overarching goal is to ensure both breadth and depth before students take more focused upper-level classes at the 300 and 400 level 271 is more focused on texts from the Hispanic Literary and Cultural Traditions of the Medieval Ages to the 1800s. Satisfies a requirement in the Hispanic Studies major and minor. Satisfies the Methods requirement for the Gender and Sexuality Studies major in the Literary and Cultural Representations track. Satisfies a requirement in the Latin American Studies major and interdisciplinary minor. Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor. Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 or its equivalent.
Instructor Kietrys, Geyer, González, Maiz-Peña Spanish 271 / Spanish 272 is a two-course sequence designed to be a more in-depth introduction to the foundational knowledge and theoretical approaches to Hispanic cultural production from the Middle Ages to the present across primary sources, genres, geographical and temporal borders. The overarching goal is to ensure both breadth and depth before students take more focused upper-level classes at the 300 and 400 level . 272 is primarily centered on texts from the Hispanic Literary and Cultural Traditions of the 19th-21 st Centuries. Satisfies a major or minor requirement in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies the Methods requirement for the Gender and Sexuality Studies major in the Literary and Cultural Representations track. Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Global Literary Theory. Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Latin American Studies. Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 or its equivalent.
Instructor Jimenez Problems in Spanish grammar and idiom-building, particularly those faced by English-speaking people; problems of translation; an overview of Spanish phonetics; and a brief study of the evolution of the Spanish language. Conducted in Spanish. Counts towards the major and minor in Hispanic Studies. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite 260 or its equivalent, unless has chair’s approval.
Instructor Staff Writing-intensive course. Review, expansion, and fine-tuning of grammatical knowledge; building and use of a growing body of vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. Conducted in Spanish. Counts towards the major and minor in Hispanic Studies. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 or its equivalent. Placement exam may be required.
Instructor Sánchez-Sánchez This class explores language as a social and dynamic phenomenon that reflects the idiosyncrasies of those who produce it. Drawing on both theory and direct analysis of primary sources, we will study the linguistic behavior of Spanish speaking communities in Latin America, Spain and the United States as determined by sociocultural factors that influence linguistic production: historical, ethnic and cultural factors, contexts of production, and individual features such as gender, age, social class, economic status, or professional occupation. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies a major and minor requirement in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260
Instructor Jimenez This course is an introduction to the study of human language with an emphasis on Spanish. The main goal of the course is to get students familiar with the various ways in which Spanish “works” and to expose them to the basic characteristics of the language. The course introduces the Spanish sound system (phonetics and phonology), word formation (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), and meaning (semantics and pragmatics). The course discusses, as well, some of the reasons why these systems may change among Spanish speakers (variation). This class will be taught in Spanish. Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Social-Scientific Thought requirement. Satifies Language requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 should be taken in advance of this class.
Instructor Jiménez This is a linguistics course on child and adult bilingualism with a focus on the Spanish-speaking world. The course explores different types of bilingualism, as well as the phenomenon of language contact in Latin America, Spain, and the U.S. from a historical, social, and structural perspective. Satisfies Hispanic Studies major requirement. Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies Cultural Diversity requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Conducted in Spanish. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 or its equivalent.
Instructor Jimenez This course exposes students to the psycholinguistics of bilingualism, by presenting a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of bilingualism, language processing, language acquisition, as well as cognition and the bilingual brain. This course is accessible to students with little or no previous exposure to the field, but it will also challenge and expand the knowledge of students who already took SPA 305 (intro de Hispanic Linguistics) and/or SPA 306 (Bilingual Hispanic Communities, which focuses on the social and educational aspects of bilingualism). This course will be taught to a group of bi/multilingual students (as it will be conducted in Spanish). Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirements Satisfies Pyschology major requirements. Satisfies Social-Scientific Thought requirement. Prerequisites & Notes SPA 260
Instructor Jimenez This course is an introduction to the foundational relationship between language and its wider social and cultural context. In this course, we will work at the intersection of linguistics and anthropology to study the logic behind linguistic systems (e.g., grammar and vocabulary), the activities in which those systems are used, and how these systems reflect and create thought. We will also focus on how language is used to establish and maintain social dynamics (e.g., power, race, gender, and class) and its role during processes of socialization, globalization, and domination. This class will be taught in Spanish. Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought requirement Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement Prerequisites & Notes SPA 260
Instructor Kietrys In this course, students will read theoretical material about language learning and language pedagogy as specifically related to children learning Spanish as a foreign language and put the readings into practice through participation in the Davidson SK8S (Spanish in K-8 School) program. Students will learn how to plan a curriculum, develop lesson plans, implement lessons, and assess their students’ learning. Teaching in SK8S is required. Conducted in Spanish with readings in English and Spanish. Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Educational Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement. Satisfies Foreign Language requirement. Prerequisites & Notes SPA 260 or equivalent required. Students concurrently enrolled in SPA 260 are eligible. SPA 271 or SPA 272 is strongly recommended.
Instructor Boyer, González, Maiz-Peña, Peña, Willis Study under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who approves the course content and the research project, and determines the means of evaluation.
Instructors Sánchez-Sánchez Major works from medieval times through the seventeenth century, studied against a background of literary currents, historical developments, and the cultural production of the Middles Ages, the Renaissance, and the Baroque period in Spain. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies the Pre-1800 requirement for the major in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies a minor requirement in Hispanic Studies Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 and 271 or Spanish 272, or their equivalents.
Instructors Sánchez-Sánchez, Willis Development of 16th and 17th century Spanish theater, including works by Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Tirso de Molina, Ruiz de Alarcón, and Calderón de la Barca. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Area I for the major in Hispanic Studies and counts towards the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory. Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies the Pre 1800 requirement Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 and 271 or 272.
Instructor Willis Advanced study of Don Quixote and the literary criticism it has generated. Other works by Cervantes may be included. Conducted in Spanish. Counts towards the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory. Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies the Pre 1800 requirement Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 and 271 or 272 or their equivalents.
Instructor Willis This course principally examines Spain’s Golden Age Picaresque Novels in conjunction with specific socio-historico-cultural contexts. We begin by defining genre and the picaresque, as well as by exploring the times in which these great works of social criticism were written by studying the circumstances of early modern Spain. Later, we read texts less often referred to as “picaresque” to explore the continuity of the picaresque in Hispanic Letters and in world literature. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies Area I for the major in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies a requirement in the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory. Satisfies the Pre 1800 requirement Prerequisites & Notes SPA 260 and 270 or equivalents.
SPA 324Emotional Communities in Medieval Iberia Cultures
Instructor Sánchez y Sánchez This course examines the history of emotions in the Iberian Middles Ages, with special emphasis on the ways in which emotions were instrumental in assertions of political power, religious identity, and social inclusion or exclusion. We will study the intersection of emotions with devotional practices, materiality, corporeality, politics, and medical discourses as represented in the narratives that Iberian Medieval authors and artists crafted with the goal of inscribing them into the collective memory of their contemporaries. Additionally, we will examine how these narratives have ultimately shaped the modern Hispanic emotional collective imaginary. Interdisciplinary theoretical approaches. Interdisciplinary theoretical approaches. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Pre-1800 requirement for the major in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies a minor requirement in Hispanic Studies Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric Requirement. Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites include SPA 260 and 271 or 272.
Instructor Sánchez-Sánchez This course examines literary and iconographic representations of love and death during the Iberian Middle Ages, with special emphasis on the 15th century sentimental novel. Within the artistic tradition of the cults of love and death that characterize the Iberian Middle Ages, this course reflects upon the ways in which authors and artists created a distinctive tradition depicting the attitudes towards love and death that have ultimately shaped the modern Hispanic collective imaginary of these concepts. Interdisciplinary theoretical approaches. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Pre-1800 requirement for the major in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies a minor requirement in Hispanic Studies Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric Requirement. Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 and 271, or 272, or their equivalents.
Instructor Peña Ideas, aesthetics, and theoretical interpretations that have shaped modern Latin American literature and other cultural expressions from 1900 to the present. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Area V for the major in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies a requirement in the Latin American Studies major and minor. Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor. Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies the Post 1800 requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents. (Spring)
Maiz-Peña and Mangan This course will study the Latin American city through historical and cultural perspectives. Students will learn about the history of select cities and then analyze the relationship between historical context and cultural production through texts offering historical, cultural and literary representations of the cities. The course will emphasize comparison of cities over time, with attention to the phehispanic city, the modern city and the contemporary Latin American City, as well as US cities with a strong Latino influence. Satisfies an Area III requirement for the Hispanic Studies major. Counts as an upper-level elective in the Latin American Studies major. Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement Satisfies a requirement in the History major and minor. Satisfies Post 1800 requirement. Prerequisites & Notes SPA 260 and/or SPA 270
Instructor Staff Independent study under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who approves the course content, and the research project, and determines the means of evaluation.
Instructor Boyer Literature and the arts against a background of history and socio-political developments from 1492 to 1900, with a focus on major currents of thought and world views. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Area IV for the major in Hispanic Studies. Counts towards Latin American Studies as well as the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory. Students entering before 2012: satisfies the Literature requirement. Satisfies the Pre 1800 requirement Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents. (Fall)
Instructor Kietrys This course explores the literature of Spain of the 20th century as well as the corresponding historical and cultural aspects of the periods. Through the reading of narrative, poetic and theatrical works, we analyze some of the masterpieces of contemporary Spanish literature. In chronological terms, we examine the Generation of ‘98, the Avant-garde and the Generation of ‘27, the Spanish civil war and postwar period, the Dictatorship, and the Transition to democracy. Course is conducted in Spanish. Satisfies the Post-1800 requirement for the Major in Hispanic Studies Counts towards the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric Distribution Requirement Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites- SPA 271 or SPA 272
Instructor Kietrys This course examines literary and cultural expressions of memory and forgetting involving the Spanish Civil War. We study the periods leading up to and following the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) as well as present-day representations and recollections. Fiction and non-fictional works inform our conversations about Socialist, Communist and Fascist perspectives, as well as those from everyday men, women, and children. We pay special attention to marginalized grouops of people including Spanish women and African Americans fighting in the Spanish Civil war. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies a major requirement in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Global Literary Theory. Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Prequisites: SPA 271 or SPA 272
Instructor Gonzalez This course introduces students to the shifting formations of Latinx culture by centering the question: How does thinking through the lens of the digital illuminate the past, present, and future of Latinx culture? The formulation “Latinx culture” includes cultures that communities and scholars have described using terms like Hispanic, Latino, Afro-Latino, Latina/o, Latin@, Chicana/o, and/or Xicana). Our first task will be to pool existing knowledge, among class members, of how different formations of Latinx culture have been understood and defined. Then, we will explore how digital tools enable the telling and re-telling of Latinx history, starting with the colonial period, and considering how the deterritorialization of indigenous peoples, settler colonialism, chattel slavery, white supremacist nationalist discourse, and language use (especially Spanish vs. English) set up the conditions and boundaries of what is considered “Latinx” today. Our foray into the nineteenth century will introduce a unit on “Testimonio and Technology” that will take us into the 20th century. Subsequent discussions of the role of media technology in the 1960s and 70s Chicano movement will culminate in an exploration of Chicanafuturism and Afrofuturism. In our final unit, we will explore how contemporary Latinx poets and cultural critics use social media to disseminate their decolonial, anti-racist work. We will analyze the role that language and code-switching plays in the dissemination of Latinx media online. The course focuses on the United States, but features significant forays into borderland and transnational areas of cultural encounter. Students will be asked to observe and reflect on how the digital projects and readings we study display the diverse methodologies of both cultural studies and the digital humanities. All course units center the analysis of the intersections of racialization, ethnicity, class, disability, gender, and sexuality. As part of their work for the course, students will either create a new digital artifact or contribute to an existing public-facing digital humanities project featuring Latinx culture.
Instructor Sanchez-Sanchez This course explores how everyday objects and the places around us tell stories. By examining the relationship between objects, places, and language in fictional and non-fictional works, students will learn to “read” objects (clothing, household items, monuments, and photographs) and spaces (cities, neighborhoods, and rural landscapes) as meaningful parts of culture in diverse Hispanic contexts. Focusing on a range of literary and cultural traditions across Hispanic regions and communities, we will study literature and other cultural texts in which objects and places are not just background details, but central to understanding identity, memory, power, and social change. We will also consider how these same objects and spaces shape everyday experiences across different regions and time periods. Drawing form literary studies, material culture, and cultural geography, this course combines close readings, discussion, critical writing, and creative projects. By the end of the semester, students will have new tools for analyzing how things and places around them carry cultural meaning and help tell the story of human experience. Satisfies Histpanic Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Global Literary Theory major and minor requirement. Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing & Rhetoric requirement Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement.
Instructor Sánchez y Sánchez Interdisciplinary course that examines the art of flamenco as a site of personal struggle, individual introspection, and communal resistance of the Roma people (formerly referred to as Gypsies) and Southern Spaniards who have been pushed to the margins of society as peripheral citizens and yet are placed at the center of artistic life and cultural identity in Spain. By the end of the semester students will have an appreciation of the Roma culture and of Southern Spain which will allow them to interrogate social injustice, exclusion, and resilience through the lens of flamenco lyrics, music, and dance. Additionally, we will adopt a comparative approach in order to uncover connections and patterns between social injustice and the role of art in the South of Spain and the South of the United States. Interdisciplinary theoretical approaches. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Post-1800 requirement for the major in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies Major and Minor requirements in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement. Satisfies Foreign Language requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 and Spanish 271 or Spanish 272, or their equivalents.
Instructor Staff This course is a discussion-intensive, interdisciplinary class that will cover ideas, events and aesthetics that have shaped the modern and contemporary Latin American film production. A selection of the most significant works by major filmmakers will be studied in the context of historical and socio-political developments from 1950’s to the present time. Through an examination of relevant films, the course will present an overview of the historical themes and cultural tensions arising in Latin America during the last 70 years. Satisfies Area III for the major in Hispanic Studies. Counts towards the Film & Media Studies as well as Latin American Studies. Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts requirement. Satisfies Post 1800 requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 or 271 or their equivalents.
Instructor Kietrys Study of Spanish film from the 1950s into the new century, within the complex matrix that is twentieth- and twenty-first-century Spain. Cinematic theory and the lexicon of film analysis. Spain’s cinematic response to the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent exile and dictatorship years, gender definitions, and changing national identity during the democratic era. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies the post-1800 requirement for the major in Hispanic Studies and elective for the minor. Counts towards Film & Media Studies. Prerequisites & Notes SPA 271 or 272
Instructor Sánchez-Sánchez Interdisciplinary course that examines the concept of the South in 21st Century Spain as an ideological construction of hierarchical dichotomies such as the real and the imagined, tradition and modernity, the native and the foreign, cliché and factual, the African-Oriental and the European: the old South and the new South. By the end of the semester students will have an appreciation of cultural nuances and distinctions that will allow them to understand why Spanish Southerners are the way they are, how they see the world and themselves, and how they are imagined by others. Additionally, we will adopt a comparative approach in order to uncover connections and patterns between the South in Spain and the South in the United States. Interdisciplinary theoretical approaches. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Post-1800 requirement for the major in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies a minor requirement in Hispanic Studies Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites include Spanish 260 and 271 or 272, or their equivalents
Instructor Kietrys In this course we will examine contemporary graphic novels from Spain. We will pay particular attention to the relationship between form and content, focusing on key issues in 21 st century Spain, such as memory of the Spanish Civil War and immigration. How do the artists and writers respond to and engage with history and contemporary culture? What do their works tell us about racism in Spain? Sexism? Homophobia? Generational differences? Course conducted in Spanish. Satisfies the post-1800 requirement for the major in Hispanic Studies and elective for the minor. Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Prerequisites & Notes SPA 271 or 272 or permission of the instructor.
Instructor Maiz-Pena This upper level course is designed to engage the student in a complex process of critical thinking and transcultural interpretation as we explore a relevant body of XXI Latin American short narratives of the New Milenio. Concentrating on analytical, argumentative, and creative reading and writing practices, we will identify relevant textual, ideological, and cultural representational strategies of postmodern short narratives, sudden fiction, and hint-fiction. The New Milenio Latin American short story embodies a contemporary aesthetic sensibility which deals with history, politics, culture, class, and gender, exposing, contesting, and mapping disintegrating socio-cultural contexts impacting a diverse majority of Latin American communities. These contemporary Latin American writers engage the reader in alternative reading practices embodied in distorted perceptions, raw literary textures, peripheral voices, weird characters, or eerie elliptic stories. Readers are cross-examined about extreme social situations such as poverty, homelessness, hunger, domestic violence, toxic family relationships, social injustice, scarcity, oppression, climate change, corruption, sexual abuse, and socio-political and environmental decay without regard for human life or natural ecosystems. Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies Post 1800 requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Pre-requisites SPA260, 271/272 or its equivalent
Instructor Maiz-Pena Most important literary works of major contemporary writers from Latin America (short fiction, el gótico andino, graphic narrative, and films studied against a background of recent history and relevant ideologies, affective narrative strategies,and theoretical interpretations. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Area V for the major in Hispanic Studies. Counts towards Latin American Studies as well as the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory. Students entering before 2012: satisfies the Literature requirement. Satisfies Post 1800 requirement.
Instructor Maiz-Peña An examination of genre, gender, and representation in women’s writing in Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Latin American women’s textual and visual narratives: Practices and Theoretical Frameworks. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Area V for the major in Hispanic Studies. Counts towards Gender & Sexualities Studies, the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory, and Latin American Studies. Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies the Post 1800 requirement Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents.
Instructor Staff Independent study under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who approves the course content and the research project, and determines the means of evaluation. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents.
SPA 371Latinx Culture in the US: Race, Gender, Sexuality
Instructor González This survey course will explore the development of a distinctly Latinx culture in the U.S. beginning in the nineteenth century and ending in the present day, with a focus on how constructions of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship have shaped this development. We will consider the long history and shifting borders of Anglo and Latina/o cultural and political interaction, countering the idea that U.S. Latina/o literary presence is a recent phenomenon in this country. Reading different genres alongside each other and exploring the relations between them, we will pay special attention to how these texts represent the interaction of minority and dominant cultures. Meanwhile, we will strive for analyses that consider the intersectionality of race, gender, class, and other social markers. Topics covered will include: the recovery of early Latina/o texts; the history and legacy of racism, colonialism, and zenophobia; the construction of canons; the effect of immigration and exile in the construction of ethnicities; the role of resistance in the formation of Latina/o culture; the politics of bilingualism; Chicana and Latina feminisms; culturally specific manifestations of gender and sexuality; the exoticization and marginalization of Latina/o culture; and the changing borders around nation and identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Satisfies major in Hispanic Studies requirement Satisfies Latin American Studies major requirement Satisfies Gender and Sexualuity Studies major requirement Satisfies the Justice Equality and Community requirement Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents. (Spring)
SPA 372Walls and Bridges: Mexico/US Border Culture
Instructor Staff US/Mexico Border Culture will explore the ways in which artists have depicted the diversity of experiences of crossing, settling or living in the border regions between the U.S. and Mexico. We will focus on fiction poetry, essays, and films from the beginning of the 20 th century to the present. We will reflect on: How and why have representations of the border changed over time? How are political, social and economic events influencing artistic representations of it? How does national identities are constructed in the border context? What alternative cultural discourses have emerged from the contemporary of border artists? A substantial final research project will be conducted. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Post 1800 requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 or 271/272 or their equivalents.
Instructor Boyer This course examines the European imperial project in the Americas through the lens of Indigenous writing and cultural responses. By examining indigenous texts from throughout the Americas, we will trace the way native orality and writing has negotiated the impact of imperialism, as well as the various ways in which these responses have helped to shape hybrid, autochthonous cultures throughout the western hemisphere. We will examine both primary texts and engage in a critical reappraisal of the framework we use to understand the origins, genesis and afterlife of European and American imperial projects. Although the bulk of the materials will be from the 16th through the 19th centuries, we will also examine more contemporary texts and cultural artifacts, as well as consider the ways in which genre and period insufficiently address the slipperiness and adaptability of the imperial project. Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies Justice, Equality and Community requirement. Prerequisites & Notes SPA 271 or SPA 272
Instructor Staff Literature and arts, ideas, and socio-economic structures in the Caribbean islands and rimlands (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, and Central America). Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Area III for the major in Hispanic Studies. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 and 270 or their equivalents.
Instructor Geyer The concept of border implies a sense of contradiction. Borders are at once points of separation and of union. They are the site at which nations, cultures, and languages divide themselves from one another, and the point at which they converge. Borders are a method through which the nation defines and conceives of itself, and yet are often the focal point of its greatest anxieties. Similarly, when we think of borderlands, we tend to think of geographic areas surrounding national borders. However, for many migrant communities and US Latinxs, living in the borderlands is an experience that is not bound by geography. Rather, it is a continual negotiation of the borders of race, language, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship that traverse all aspects of American society, which can take place anywhere from Nogales, Arizona, to Spanish Harlem, to North Carolina. In this course, we will address the complex forces that continuously form and reform our borders and borderlands, while focusing on Latin American and Latinx experiences of migration, diaspora, and border crossing. We will begin with border theory and an overview of the historical forces that produce the borders of the United States and that drive migration from Latin America and the Caribbean. We will then examine works of literature, film, visual art, and music from Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and the Latinx United States that critique the violent bordering practices of the present, while dreaming of new ways of living with borders and new forms of life in the borderlands. Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Latin American Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies Justice, Equality, and Community requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 and Spanish 271 or Spanish 272, or their equivalents.
Instructor Geyer In 2016, Puerto Rican photographer Adál Maldonado began a portraiture series titled Puerto Ricans Underwater / Los ahogados. Intended to metaphorize the experience of living in a Puerto Rico that was drowning in debt, the portraits displayed Puerto Ricans lying face-up and submerged in bathtubs, staring outward at the camera from underwater. These photos took on additional meaning in the aftermath of Hurricane María, which killed an estimated 2,975 people in the Puerto Rican archipelago in 2017. The most famous of these images shows a man, face and head obscured by a pink headwrap, gazing lifelessly beyond the photo’s frame and wearing a black shirt adorned with the words “Muerto Rico.” Muerto Rico has since become a figure for life under Puerto Rico’s colonial regime that has become unlivable, that leaves many of the island’s inhabitants literally and figuratively underwater. Yet, as Marisol Lebrón shows in her 2021 book Against Muerto Rico, Puerto Ricans are fighting back against the colonial imposition of a state of living death. As seen most famously in the 2019 protests that ousted Puerto Rico’s governor, this political practice involves not only activism, organizing, and mass mobilization, but also a literary and artistic practice that creates a space for imagining, for world-making, and for envisioning a future for Puerto Ricans. In this course, we will examine how the past and present of Puerto Rico have been shaped by colonial subjugation and how Puerto Rican literary and cultural production has gone about critiquing coloniality and imagining decolonial futures. Focusing on the 20th and 21st centuries, we will explore how the colonial status of Puerto Rico evolves from its absorption as an annexed US territory in 1898 to its nebulous designation in 1952 as a Commonwealth or “Free Associated State” [Estado Libre Asociado], which has lasted to the present day. We will investigate how the island’s colonial relationship to the United States has led to mass migration and displacement, suppression of independence movements, disaster capitalism, austerity measures, and ecological crisis. Above all, we will examine how Puerto Rican arts and letters-literature, film, music, performance, visual arts-represent, negotiate, and reimagine coloniality, on the island and in the diaspora. We will interpret how this archipelagic archive goes about dreaming, imagining, and mobilizing decolonial futures for Puerto Rico. Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Latin American Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.
SPA 378Beauty and Marginality in the Latinx Americas
Instructor Geyer In this course, we will examine the relationship between politics, aesthetics, and marginality in 20 th /21 st -century Latin America and its Latinx diasporas in the United States. Examining marginality in various Latin American and Latinx contexts-queer and trans stigma in Mexico and Argentina; racial and economic precarity in Special Period Cuba; and intersections of race, class, and language in Nuyorican and Chicanx diasporas-we will explore the role of stigmatizing forms of representation in enacting political exclusions. Subsequently, we will explore how Latin American and Latinx authors, artists, musicians, and filmmakers find beauty in stigmatized spaces and bodies, and how this beauty offers the promise of better worlds that we might create. Satisfies Justice, Equality, and Community requirement. Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Instructor Maiz-Pena This upper level interdisciplinary course examines Contemporary Latin American/Latino Women Icons. Considering canonical and non-canonical discourses we will explore performative subjects, gender, and the politics of representation. Life-writing, gender and sexualities, media and cultural studies readings will inform our understanding of celebrity and iconic representations. Satisfies the Foreign Language requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 and 270 or the equivalents. (Spring)
Instructor Sierra Audivert This course explores the cultural and intellectual contribution of the African descent population in Spain and the Americas, with a focus on the Caribbean context and the U.S. Latino production. This course features writers, activists, and artists such as Nicolás Guillén, Yolanda Arroyo, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Desirée Bela-Lobedde, among others. We will link conversations about race, racism, colonialism, and immigration with contemporary discussions about the African legacy in Spain. Our course will combine the analysis of different cultural texts from literature, music, and film to art, with trips to Spanish southern cities, like Sevilla and Córdoba, known for their North African influence.. Satisfies major and minor requirement in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement. Prerequisites & Notes SPA 260 or its equivalent.
Instructor Staff (Summer Program in Spain) This course presents historical and contemporary issues in Spanish society and culture through art, film, literature, music, geography, and the press. Half of the course focuses on the history of Spanish art beginning with prehistoric cave painting and ending in the avant-garde of the 20th century. Students will learn about artistic movements and apply critical terms to the analysis of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Course includes visits to museums and sites in Cádiz. Counts for the Visual and Performing Arts Ways of Knowing requirement. Satisfies AHispanic Studies major and minor requirement. Counts for the Visual and Performing Arts Ways of Knowing requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Spanish 260 and concurrent enrollment in Spanish 393.
Instructor Staff Research-oriented advanced seminar in an area of literature or culture outside the content of other core courses. Specific topics listed as 401-411. A substantial final research project will be conducted. Prerequisites & Notes Any two literature or culture courses. Limited to juniors and seniors. Priority will be given to majors, then minors. (Fall and Spring)
Instructor Staff This discussion-intensive, interdisciplinary course will explore the cinematic representations of the U.S.-Mexico border region. This semester students will examine the socio-historical process, and perceptions through which border images have been constructed and shaped over time. Through an analysis of relevant films from the silent era to the present, we will engage in the study of historical themes and social issues arising between the U.S. and Mexico through a diversity of cinematographic genres and ideological perspectives. A substantial final research project will be required. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Hispanic Studies “Post-1800” requirement. Satisfies the Language requirement. Satisfies a requirement in the Latin American Studies major and interdisciplinary minor. Satisfies Cultural Diversity requirement.
Instructor Sánchez-Sánchez Research-oriented seminar that examines cultural representations of travels and pilgrimages in Spain as transformational experiences for the individual. This is a course about voyages, wanderings, quests, journeys, and pilgrimages both real and metaphorical. We will examine individual and collective journeys as processes through which individuals leave the familiar and the comfortable and join a liminal space of transit and transition as they move towards an experience which ultimately transforms the self. Interdisciplinary methodology to examine these concepts in an eclectic group of primary texts and artifacts from a variety of theoretical approaches across disciplines. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Post-1800 requirement for the major in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies a minor requirement in Hispanic Studies Satisfies Cultural Diversity requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Unless given special permission, this class is limited to Juniors and Seniors. Students must have already taken any two 300-level culture or literature classes in Spanish . Enrollment priority is given to seniors and majors.
Instructor González This course explores theories of gender and sexuality from both North and South and their dialogue with transnational American cultural production. Throughout the semester, we will consider a diverse group of U.S. Latina/o and Latin American literary texts, films, and performances and investigate their construction of sexual, gendered, national, and ethnic identities. A substantial final research project will be required. Conducted in Spanish. Prerequisites & Notes Limited to juniors and seniors. Instructor permission required.
Instructor Willis This course, transtemporal and transatlantic in nature, explores cultural representations of dissidence and the essential role that creative works have played in resistance movements in the Hispanic artistic tradition. Using various critical theories, we will explore fictional and non-fictional texts, as well as film, painting, music, and other forms of artistic expression in light of their socio-historical circumstances to gain a deeper understanding of literature and cultural expression in dissident social movements. A substantial final research project will be required. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Hispanic Studies “Post-1800” requirement. Satisfies the Foreign Language requirement Satisfies Justice, Equality, and Community requirement. Satisfies a requirement in the Latin American Studies major and interdisciplinary minor. Prerequisites & Notes Unless given special permission, this class is limited to Juniors and Seniors, and student must have already taken any two 300-level culture or literature classes in Spanish. Enrollment priority is given first to seniors and majors. Conducted in Spanish
Instructor Boyer What constitutes the modern? What is the relationship between progress and modernity? How does literary and artistic form respond to notions of modernity and innovation? How does modernity respond to, incorporate or reject notions of history and tradition? Examining a host of foundational and transformative literary and artistic works, we will put to use the research and analytical skills honed throughout the major and produce original research projects that illuminate our understanding of how the notion of “modernity” is at once proleptic and persistent, a paradoxical component of culture itself. We will focus on a broad range of works from canonical novels ( 100 Years of Solitude, Kiss of the Spider Woman ), short stories (Borges, Cortázar, Mercado), and poetry (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz) to plays ( Antigona furiosa ), films ( Zama ) and performance art (Regina José Galindo). Can count for area requirements with permission of instructor. Satisfies Foreign Language requirement. Satisfies Cultural Diversity requirement. Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Instructor Maiz-Peña Interdisciplinary research oriented seminar designed to engage students in the politics of unsettling modes of life-writing, gender, and representation. Life-writing theory and cultural analysis of contemporary Latin American/Latino fictional and non-fictional narratives. A substantial final research project will be required. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Hispanic Studies “Post-1800” requirement. Satisfies a requirement in the Latin American Studies major and interdisciplinary minor. Satisfies Gender and Sexuality Studies major in the Literary and Cultural Representations track. Prerequisites & Notes Unless given special permission, this class is limited to Juniors and Seniors, and student must have already taken any two 300-level culture or literature classes in Spanish. Enrollment priority is given first to Hispanic Studies Majors and seniors.
Instructor Kietrys In this course, we will analyze the medical discourse in fiction and non-fiction texts insomuch as it creates the framework for constructing and justifying definitions of gender and sexuality. We will focus on the first half of the 20 th century, particularly the Second Republic (1931-1936), the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the Franco Dictatorship (1939-1975). We will consider both liberal and conservative viewpoints as well as contemporary perspectives. Satisfies Post-1800 requirement for the major in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies a minor requirement in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies Justice, Equality, and Community. Prerequisites & Notes Completion of a 300-level course in Spanish, or permission of the instructor. Limited to juniors and seniors. Priority will be given to majors, then minors.
Instructor Jimenez This course is an introduction to the fundamental issues in the study of contact linguistics with particular emphasis on English-Spanish bilinguals and the Latino experience in the US. Students will explore the particularities of linguistic contact including the linguistic outcomes and the processes underlying them, the ideologies and policies that effect the linguistic spaces in which Spanish is used, and the complexity of the relationship between minority and majority languages. Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Justice, Equality, and Community requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Completion of a 300-level course in Spanish, or permission of the instructor. Limited to juniors and seniors Classes will be taught in Spanish.
Instructor Boyer The course examines the origins of race and what might make race one of the modern period’s more salient categories. The class focuses on the late medieval and early modern periods in the Hispanic Atlantic, but always with an eye to contemporary racial politics, trying to underscore the long history that makes questions of race today such thorny, complex issues. Through careful analysis of cultural artifacts from interdisciplinary perspectives, we will attempt to tease out the way religion, culture, ethnicity and race form the crucible in which Spain crafted a specifically European brand of modernity. Additionally, the class explores how it is that imperialism, for all the ways it might seem to be a thing of the past, structures our experience of the world today. Satisfies Area IV for the Hispanic Studies major. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Any two literature or culture courses. Limited to juniors and seniors. Priority will be given to majors, then minors.
Instructor Willis “Writing/Righting the Cuban Revolution” examines literary texts, films, art and other cultural artifacts related to the “writing” and “righting” of the 1959 Cuban Revolution. We will find that the search for ideals, the hope for utopian place, was a part of the Cuban imagination long before 1959. For, Cuba has been part of the dialogue around notions of “Paradise lost” (and found?) since Columbus first sailed for the New World; many of those same ideals would be later rewritten in the lofty dreams the Cuban Revolution. This class explores critical and literary works that expose the frustrations and social divisions that led up to Castro’s Revolution, both the elation and the regret of the early days of the Revolution, along with that uncover much about the resilience of the contemporary pueblo cubano. The majority of the works studied are from the 1940s through contemporary Cuba, with some earlier texts that reveal struggles of the former colony, first made wealthy by exploration and slavery. Satisfies the Area V requirement for the Hispanic Studies major. Satisfies a requirement in the Latin American Studies major and interdisciplinary minor. Prerequisites & Notes Unless given special permission, this class is limited to Juniors and Seniors, and student must have already taken any two 300-level culture or literature classes in Spanish. Enrollment priority is given first to seniors and majors. Conducted in Spanish May include a week-long trip to Cuba in May
Instructor Sánchez-Sánchez Research-oriented seminar that examines cultural representations of travels and pilgrimages in Spain as transformational experiences for the individual. This is a course about voyages, wanderings, quests, journeys, and pilgrimages both real and metaphorical. We will examine individual and collective journeys as processes through which individuals leave the familiar and the comfortable and join a liminal space of transit and transition as they move towards an experience which ultimately transforms the self. Interdisciplinary methodology to examine these concepts in an eclectic group of primary texts and artifacts from a variety of theoretical approaches across disciplines. Conducted in Spanish Satisfies a major and minor requirement in Hispanic Studies. Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Unless given special permission, this class is limited to Juniors and Seniors. Students must have already taken any two 300-level culture or literature classes in Spanish. Enrollment priority is given to seniors and majors.
SPA 420Life-writing, Performance, and Narrative Textures
Instructor Maiz Pena Interdisciplinary research-oriented seminar designed to engage students in Latin American unsettling modes of life-writing, performance and narrative textures. Life-writing theory and cultural analysis of contemporary Latin American/Latino fictional and non-fictional narratives including chronicles, biofiction, autobiography, memoir, diaries, letters, photo-essay, short fiction & arpilleras (tapestries of hope), documentaries, and films. A substantial final research project will be required. Conducted in Spanish. Satisfies Hispanic Studies major and minor requirement. Satisfies Hispanic Studies “Post-1800” requirement. Satisfies a requirement in the Latin American Studies major and interdisciplinary minor. Satisfies Gender and Sexuality Studies major in the Literary and Cultural Representations track. Prerequisites & Notes Unless given special permission, this class is limited to Juniors and Seniors, and student must have already taken any two 300-level culture or literature classes in Spanish. Enrollment priority is given first to Hispanic Studies Majors and seniors.
Instructor Willis The smallest and most western of the Greater Antilles, Puerto Rico and its 3.2 million citizens are far removed from metropolitan powers. A liminal place for centuries, Puerto Rico has been caught in a tug-of-war between those wishing for it to be the 51 st state of the U.S., those advocating for its complete independence, and those wishing to maintain its current status as a “estado libre asociado” (“commonwealth”). Disparaged in the 2024 U.S. elections and grossly neglected in the wake of Hurricane Maria in 2017, Puerto Rican activists and artists are demanding recognition, justice, and respect. Since the arrival of the Spaniards in 1508, Borikén has endured the abuses of the eradication of its indigenous population, slavery, exploitation, extraction, general colonial neglect, alongside frequent natural disasters, all of which continue having repercussions today. Following the Spanish-American War in 1898, the United States installed colonial governments in the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico, territories that were essentially passed from the dominance of one distant Imperial power to another. Puerto Rico and Guam have maintained their status as oft-neglected territories of the U.S. Though this course centers on contemporary Puerto Rico under U.S. rule, it also engages with the larger frame of Caribbean insurgencies, briefly examining influential events in neighboring islands (e.g. the Haitian Revolution, the Cuban Independence movements and Revolution). In recent years, the “Isla Encantada” (Enchanted Island) has been plagued by frequent power outages, food and water shortages, natural disasters, political corruption, energy crises, and an invasion of tourism. Tracing Puerto Rican history, with an emphasis on the 20 th and 21 st centuries, this class examines how writers, other artists, and community leaders have defined puertorriqueñidad (Puerto Rican identity) to express dissidence and resistance while fiercely defend their people and homeland. The course primarily engages with literature, visual culture, music, film, videos, and journalistic sources, illustrating how Puerto Ricans have developed creative means of survival and resistance against sometimes impossible odds. To contextualize our analysis of creative works, we also read selections from histories of Puerto Rico, alongside current journalistic sources. The overarching goal is to explore its cultural production to gain an understanding of Puerto Rico’s complex trajectory as a people, as a territory, colony, nationality, homeland, both on the island and in the diaspora. *The class also includes travel to Puerto Rico during Spring Break; though not required, it is strongly encouraged. If students do not participate in trip, they will need to arrange a separate research project with professor. Satisfies Latin American Studies major and minor requirements. Satisfies Cultural Diversity requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Unless given special permission, this class is limited to Juniors and Seniors, and student must have already taken any two 300-level culture or literature classes in Hispanic Studies. Enrollment priority is given first to seniors and majors.
Instructor Boyer, González, Jiménez, Kietrys, Maiz-Peña, Peña, Sánchez y Sánchez, Willis Special topics, themes, genre, or a single figure in literature, history, or culture, outside the content of other courses under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who approves the topic(s), the research project, and determines the means of evaluation. Open to Senior Majors. Prerequisites & Notes Any two literature or culture courses, or approval of the chair and the instructor.
Instructor Boyer, González, Kietrys, Maiz-Peña, Sánchez y Sánchez, Willis Intensive seminar of theoretical, literary, and cultural texts. Research is centered around a theme, which will vary each year. Required of all majors in Hispanic Studies. Prerequisites & Notes Limited to senior majors in Hispanic Studies. (Fall only)
Instructor Boyer, González, Jiménez, Kietrys, Maiz-Peña, Peña, Sánchez y Sánchez, Willis Special topics, themes, genre, or a single figure in literature, history, or culture, outside the content of other courses under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who approves the topic(s), the research project, and determines the means of evaluation. Open to Senior Majors. Prerequisites & Notes Any two literature or culture courses, or approval of the chair and the instructor.
SPA 498Senior Honors Thesis and Tutorial, SPA 498-499
Instructor Boyer, González, Jiménez, Kietrys, Maiz-Peña, Peña, Sánchez y Sánchez, Willis Both SPA 498 and 499 are required to be eligible for Honors. Research and writing of the honors thesis begins in SPA 498 (in the spring of the junior year or the fall of the senior year) and is completed in SPA 499 during the last semester of the senior year. SPA 498 requires a thesis outline, annotated bibliography, progress reports, and an introductory chapter. An oral defense of the honors thesis proposal is held at the end of SPA 498. An oral presentation of the completed honors thesis is conducted at the end of SPA 499. Details of these requirements can be found on the department website.
