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SPAN 150Topics in Contemporary Studies

Spanish · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Exploration of main trends that characterize contemporary Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures and main concepts used to address them. Possible topics include transculturation and heterogeneity, race and ethnicity, vanguard movements, lettered and popular cultures, literary modernization in Latin American boom, literature and revolution, autobiography, women’s writing, border literature, and postmodernist fiction. May be repeated for credit with topic change.

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Requisites: courses 25 or 27, and 119.

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    • SPAN 25
    • SPAN 27
  • SPAN 119

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SPAN 150

  • SPAN 25Advanced Spanish Composition
    • SPAN 5Intermediate Spanish
  • SPAN 27Advanced Spanish Composition for Heritage Speakers
    • SPAN 7BIntermediate Spanish for Heritage Speakers
      • SPAN 3Elementary Spanish1 more beneath
      • SPAN 7AIntroductory Spanish for Heritage Speakers
  • SPAN 119Introduction to Literary Analysis
    • SPAN 25Advanced Spanish Compositionanother path to it
    • SPAN 27Advanced Spanish Composition for Heritage Speakersanother path to it

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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  • Fall 2025
  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Summer 2026
  • Fall 2026
  • Winter 2027
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.