For students with advanced or native Spanish, this course is a gateway to the Spanish major focusing on global humanities in Spanish. Students examine key humanistic contributions in peninsular, Latin American and Latinx contexts, as organized around comparative themes, regions and eras. Topics range from colonial/indigenous encounter to border studies, Cervantes to José Martí and Rosario Castellanos to Sandra Cisneros, political economy to food studies, and natural history to decolonial arts and literatures. The course covers novels, films, poems and paintings, as well as critical and historical writing in digestible bites.

The course includes frequent, diverse writing assignments and group work and offers a foundation for lifelong cultural navigation/enrichment in Spanish.

Prerequisite: Native Spanish speaker status; AP Spanish exam score of 5; or other advanced Spanish training.