SPAN 170

Topics in Interdisciplinary and Transhistorical Studies

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

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Comparative study of cultural production in Latin American, Afro-Luso-Brazilian, and Iberian contexts across diverse historical periods, regional, and ethnic traditions, and aesthetic modes. Possible topics include Afrolatinidad; diaspora; feminism; folklore; gender; globalization; indigeneity and indigenous studies (Andean, Mesoamerican, Amazonian, Tupi, and Tapuia); migration and immigration; music (1960s Latin American protest songs, nueva canción , música regional , punk, rap, folk); popular culture; regionalisms. May be repeated for credit with topic change.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Winter 2026
Spring 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.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 25 or 27, 119.

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

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all of

one of
- SPAN 25
- SPAN 27
SPAN 119

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

SPAN 170

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

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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.