SPAN 180

Topics in Visual Culture

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

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(Formerly numbered M180.) Study of visual knowledge production in Latin America and Iberia as complex relation between visual subjects, practices, and representation. Objects of analysis may include architecture and urban design, digital media and other technologies, documentaries, fashion, fictional and experimental films, graphic novels and other media, maps and cartography, photography, plastic arts and art history, theater and performance, video, among others. May be repeated four times for credit with topic change.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Winter 2026
Spring 2026
Summer 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
Requisites: courses 25 or 27, 119.

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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 180

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

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.