Spring 2023 Spanish Course Descriptions

This is an unofficial list of courses that will be offered in Hispanic Studies in Spring 2023. It is strictly for the use of expanded course descriptions. For the complete official course offerings please consult the My.UIC portal.

For a list of all courses and general course descriptions, please see the UIC Academic Catalog.

Spring 2023 Courses in English Heading link

SPAN/FR/ITAL 196 – Totalitarianism, Writing and Cinema
On Campus, TR 11:00-12:15
Instructor: Dr. Tatjana Gajic

Spring 2023 Courses in Spanish Heading link

These are four credit hour blended learning classes. They meet face-to-face three hours a week, and one credit hour is fulfilled with asynchronous online learning materials.
Days and times listed for these courses indicate required, on campus sessions. No online/remote attendance options are available.

SPAN 101 – Elementary Spanish I
MWF 8:00-8:50, 9:00-9:50, 10:00-10:50, 12:00-12:50, 1:00-1:50, & 2:00-2:50

SPAN 102 – Elementary Spanish II
MWF 8:00-8:50, 9:00-9:50, 10:00-10:50, 11:00-11:50, 12:00-12:50, 1:00-1:50, 2:00-2:50, & 3:00-3:50

SPAN 103 – Intermediate Spanish I
MWF 8:00-8:50, 9:00-9:50, 10:00-10:50, 11:00-11:50, 12:00-12:50 & 2:00-2:50

SPAN 104 – Intermediate Spanish II
MWF 8:00-8:50, 9:00-9:50, 10:00-10:50, 11:00-11:50, 12:00-12:50 & 2:00-2:50

SPAN 113 – Spanish for Bilinguals I
MWF 8:00-8:50, 9:00-9:50, 10:00-10:50, 11:00-11:50, 1:00-1:50, & 2:00-2:50

SPAN 114 – Spanish for Bilinguals II
MWF 8:00-8:50, 9:00-9:50, 10:00-10:50, 11:00-11:50, 12:00-12:50, 1:00-1:50, & 2:00-2:50

SPAN 202 – Spanish Grammar in Practice
On Campus, TR 9:30-10:45
Instructor: Dr. Jennifer Cabrelli

SPAN 202 – Spanish Grammar in Practice
On Campus, MWF 11:00-11:50
Instructor: Dr. Shane Ebert

SPAN 202 – Spanish Grammar in Practice
On Campus, TR 11:00-12:15
Instructor: Dr. Kara Morgan-Short

SPAN 202 – Spanish Grammar in Practice
On Campus, TR 12:30-1:45
Instructor: Dr. Kimberly Potowski

SPAN 203 – Extensive Reading and Writing for Non-Native Speakers of Spanish
On Campus, MWF 9:00-9:50
Instructor: Dr. David Rodriguez

SPAN 204 – Extensive Reading and Writing for Heritage Speakers of Spanish
On Campus, MWF 8:00-8:50
Instructor: Dr. David Rodriguez

SPAN 204 – Extensive Reading and Writing for Heritage Speakers of Spanish
On Campus, MWF 11:00-11:50
Instructor: Dr. David Rodriguez

SPAN 204 – Extensive Reading and Writing for Heritage Speakers of Spanish
On Campus, MWF 1:00-1:50
Instructor: Dr. David Rodriguez

SPAN 206 – Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
On Campus, MW 9:30-10:45
Instructor: Dr. David Miller
Words–and the rules that bring them to life–are at the core of the human experience. Linguistic sounds (phonology and phonetics), structure (syntax), meaning (semantics), and context (pragmatics) help us understand why hit is as trivial as a word can be, but adding an s- to the front will get your mouth washed out with soap; how a lawyer can crack a cold case based on a criminal’s use of tense; how “mere semantics” can cost us billions of dollars; or how lying, as terrible as it can be, is as commonplace to our linguistic repertoire as any other of the games we play with language. SPAN 206 will be a lens through which we come to understand these and other language-related phenomena as a wonderful feat of human cognition and, therefore, the human experience.

SPAN 206 – Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
On Campus, TR 11:00-12:15
Instructor: Dr. Luis Lopez

SPAN 206 – Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
On Campus, TR 12:30-1:45
Instructor: Dr. Luis Lopez

SPAN 210 – Introduction to the Formal Analysis of Hispanic Texts
On Campus, MW 9:30-10:45
Instructor: Felipe Neves

SPAN 210 – Introduction to the Formal Analysis of Hispanic Texts
On Campus, TR 12:30-1:45
Instructor: Dr. Dianna Niebylski

SPAN 210 – Introduction to the Formal Analysis of Hispanic Texts
Online synchronous, TR 2:00-3:15
Instructor: Dr. Silvia Rosman

SPAN 212 – Cultural and Literary Studies in Spain and/or Latin America
On Campus, TR 2:00-3:15
Instructor: Dr. Gabriel Riera

SPAN 302 – Exploring Spanish Grammar
On Campus, TR 12:30-1:45
Instructor: Dr. Inma Taboada

SPAN 303 – Advanced Oral Presentation, Writing, and Analysis
Online synchronous, TR 12:30-1:45
Instructor: Dr. Silvia Rosman

SPAN 320 – Spanish for Business and Law II
On Campus, MWF 4:00-4:50
Instructor: Stephanie Munoz-Navarro

SPAN 321 – Spanish for Health Personnel II
On Campus, MWF 12:00-12:50
Instructor: Dr. Diana Gonzalez-Cameron

SPAN 321 – Spanish for Health Personnel II
On Campus, MWF 1:00-1:50
Instructor: Dr. Diana Gonzalez-Cameron

SPAN 328 – Advanced Translation
On Campus, MWF 9:00-9:50
Instructor: Dr. Diana Gonzalez-Cameron

SPAN 366 – Spanish in the United States
On Campus, TR 2:00-3:15
Instructor: Dr. Kimberly Potowski
The U.S. has the fifth largest Spanish-speaking population on the planet, but fewer than half of the grandchildren of Latin American immigrants speak it at all. In this course we look at questions such as: Who speaks Spanish in the U.S., with whom, and for what purposes? Why do some Latinx children not learn it? What is “Spanglish” and why should people be proud to speak it? And how can we promote strong Spanish proficiency among future generations? Our textbook is in Spanish and the class uses Spanish, English, and Spanglish.

SPAN 375 – Contemporary Young Adult Literature from Spain and Latin America
On Campus, TR 12:30-1:45
Instructor: Dr. Dianna Niebylski
If you are or were a fan of contemporary YA literature written in English but wish to expand your cultural and linguistic horizons to include popular YA fiction in Spanish, this class is for you. We will read and discuss various subgenres of YA books written and marketed for adolescents in Spain, Mexico and Argentina that address multiple topics, including but not limited to cultural identity, class differences, sexuality, domestic tensions, friendship, technology, and a range of other topics of interest. In addition to developing critical and analytical reading skills for reading YA fiction in Spanish, this course includes an introduction to literary translation (from Spanish to English).

SPAN 375 – Current Topics in Hispanic Studies
On Campus, TR 12:30-1:45
Instructor: Dr. Gabriel Riera

SPAN 378 – Topics in Hispanic Cultural and Media Studies
On Campus, MW 3:00-4:15
Instructor: Felipe Neves

SPAN 380 – Professional Development
On Campus, W 3:00-3:50
Instructor: Dr. Inma Taboada

SPAN 434 – Topics in Latin American Letters from Modernismo to the Early 1970’s
On campus and online, T 3:30-6:00
Instructor: Dr. Silvia Rosman

SPAN/FR/GER 449 – Teaching Second Language Literacy and Cultural Awareness
On Campus, R 3:30-6
Instructor: Dr. Inma Taboada

SPAN 451 – Educational Practice with Seminar I
On Campus, W 4:00-5:50
Instructor: Dr. Inma Taboada

SPAN 505 – Seminar in Spanish Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics: Attrition
On Campus, MW 3:00-4:15
Instructor: Dr. David Miller
This course will examine the many variables that contribute to first language attrition, the process of forgetting a (native) language as a consequence of being bilingual. Throughout the course, we will look at various levels of language affected by attrition, such as issues remembering individual words, feeling like a foreigner in your native language, changing idiomatic expressions, disfluency, foreign accent development, sociopolitical fallout, etc. These phenomena will be discussed within the context of the existing formal research, both behavioral and psycholinguistic, that characterizes attrition and its roots. On the other side of the coin, we will also examine language maintenance and its relationship to attrition in a broader sense.

SPAN 505 – Indigenous languages of Latin America and Spanish in contact with indigenous languages
On Campus, W 5:00-7:30
Instructor: Dr. Liliana Sánchez
This seminar provides an initial overview of the language families spoken by indigenous peoples in Latin America, followed by an in-depth analysis of some of the most salient aspects of the syntax and morphology of a subset of languages. This semester the seminar will focus on the morphology and syntax of informational structure (topic/old information and focus/new information), evidentiality, and conjecture. We will discuss in depth the impact that the configuration of these phenomena in the indigenous languages of Latin America has had and continues to have on Spanish in contact with these languages. Some of the languages we will discuss are Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya, Quechua, Aymara, and Shipibo. The seminar will also include a discussion of revitalization efforts for these languages as well as the effects that language and educational policies have on the maintenance and development of indigenous languages in Latin America and beyond.

SPAN 512 – Syntactic theory and Spanish syntax
On Campus, TR 11:00-12:15
Instructor: Dr. José Camacho

SPAN 594 – Special Topics in Hispanic Studies
On Campus, R 5:00-7:30
Instructor: Dr. Steven Marsh