SPAN 140Topics in Modern Studies
Spanish · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Exploration of major literary movements and writers of 18th and 19th centuries in Spain and Spanish America. Possible topics include Enlightenment, Romanticism, nation-building literature, realism and naturalism, and works by Cadalso, Concolorcorvo, Lizardi, Larra, Sarmiento, Bécquer, Isaacs, Mera, Villaverde, and Galdós. May be repeated for credit with topic change.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Winter 2027
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 140
- 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.
Unlocks
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.