2025-2026 Academic Year

Fall 2025

SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish
This course is a continuation of Spanish 102. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on writing and speaking. Prerequisite: 102 or placement by department. This course fulfills the language graduation requirement.

SPAN 380 Topics in the Middle Ages
This course explores approaches the study of the Middle Ages, 11th to13th-centuries, by topics, rather than by focusing on history per se. Some of the topics explored are disability, domestic violence, medicine, social aspects of reproductive situations of women, diversity and (in)equity. It does not concentrate solely on one specific geographical area or one particular Medieval culture, though it mainly concentrates on some cultural aspects of some Western European countries as well as the Middle East. This course aims to show how some of these cultures may be interrelated.

Spring 2026

SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish
This course is a continuation of Spanish 102. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on writing and speaking. Prerequisite: 102 or placement by department. This course fulfills the language graduation requirement.

SPAN 229 Spanish Conversation
The primary goal of this course is to continue to strengthen students' oral, aural, reading, and writing skills in Spanish while acquiring a broadened intercultural perspective. Course topics will consist of a focused cultural theme chosen by the professor. Examples of possible topics include: Current Events in Hispanic Societies, Chronicling Everyday Life, Geographical Explorations in the Spanish-Speaking World, and Gastronomy and Health in the Hispanic World.Prerequisite: 202, 203 or 205. NOTE: May be taken concurrently with 202, 231, 238 or 239. Students who have completed 231 or courses above 239 may not take this course.