SPAN 130Topics in Medieval Studies
Spanish · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Exploration of medieval Iberian literatures: lyric poetry, prose, and history of peninsula, with emphasis on its literary and linguistic diversity. Possible topics include Convivencia (peaceful coexistence), Europe and Orient, beginnings of Inquisition, oral versus written traditions, origins of Hispano-Christian expansion beyond peninsula, and flowering of Al-Andalus. May be repeated for credit with topic change.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 25 or 27, and 119.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
SPAN 130
- SPAN 25Advanced Spanish Composition
- SPAN 5Intermediate Spanish
- SPAN 27Advanced Spanish Composition for Heritage Speakers
- SPAN 119Introduction to Literary Analysis
3 direct requisites. Showing 9 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.