Undergraduate
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese provides Spanish and Portuguese language instruction to approximately 1700 students per semester through 7 coordinated courses offered at the first, second, and third years of Spanish and Portuguese Language study, plus an intensive second-year course. The department also offers modified Spanish language courses (SPAN 1010-800; 1020-800; 2110-800) which is a curricular accommodation in the foreign languages for college students who demonstrate inordinate difficulty learning a foreign language. Moreover, students may take Catalan Language courses.
We offer three different major tracks: Spanish Language and Literature, International Spanish for the Professions, and Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures as well as minors in Spanish and Portuguese.
For admissions information, including steps for applying, links to the on line applications and the university’s selection process, contact the Office of Admissions
Fall 2026 Featured Courses!
SPAN 4180: Major Works and Trends in 20th and 21st Latin American Literature
Mirrors and Labyrinths: The Worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez
Professor: Peter Elmore
T-TH: 12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
The book story collection Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges, and Cien años de soledad, by Gabriel García Márquez, are doubtlessly the two most important and influential works ever written in Latin America. The Argentine Borges and the Colombian García Márquez’s must be counted as the very best modern exponents of the fantastic and magical realism, respectively. In this course, we will read closely both Borges’ short stories and García Márquez’s multigenerational saga. We will also place the texts and their creators within the literary and historical contexts in which they emerged.
