Beginning Spanish II This course is a continuation of SPAN 0101. Intensive reading, writing, and oral activities will advance students’ proficiency in Spanish in an academic setting.

Sound, Race, and Resistance In this course, we will examine how works from across Latin America address intersections of listening and race. Exploring where sound serves as a site of racialization as well as how the ear can construct and contest difference, we will place films, literary texts, a tape documentary, and even a radio play into conversation with readings from the interdisciplinary field of sound studies. Doing so will allow us to consider how we might counter essentialist notions of sound as we critique misguided understandings of necessary connections between voice and race, to name one key concern. In addition to contemplating these ways that our ears have been tuned or trained, we will also study works that demand we listen differently.

Intermediate Spanish II A course for students seeking to perfect their academic writing skills in Spanish. The course is also an introduction to literary analysis and critical writing and will include reading and oral discussion of literary texts. The course will also include a thorough review of grammar at a fairly advanced level. This course may be used to fulfill the foreign languages distribution requirement.

Migrant Childhoods & Adolescence In this course we will examine Latinx and Latin American migrant childhoods and adolescence through literature, cultural production, and interdisciplinary scholarship. While children are often seen as innocent and in need of protection, the racialized and migrant child is represented in more complex ways. We will analyze how childhood and adolescence function in narratives of identity, belonging, and migration, focusing on tensions between vulnerability, protection, and agency. Beyond literature, we will consider film, media, and art to explore how representations of youth intersect with histories of displacement, borders, and globalization. By historicizing ideas of childhood and adolescence, we will study them as social constructions shaped by political economies, international law, migration, and cultural memory, emphasizing ongoing processes of “becoming.”

Intermediate Spanish This accelerated course is designed to review, reinforce, and consolidate the linguistic structures that students need in order to reach the intermediate level of proficiency in Spanish. A grammar review will accompany intensive language acquisition, vocabulary expansion, readings, discussions, and compositions.

Introduction to the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands The U.S.-Mexico borderland is a region of profound cultural and political significance, where connections and divisions have shaped the historical and contemporary landscape. In this course we will explore various forms of border crossing—geographical, racial, cultural, sexual, linguistic, and gendered. We will examine the history of the border, beginning with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the implementation of NAFTA, and the recent crisis of child detainment at the border. Through a combination of readings, music, film, and class discussions, we will analyze how the border is represented in cultural texts and how these portrayals bridge and exacerbate social differences. We will also explore how state and community institutions respond to and navigate these diverse forms of border crossings.

Alicia Nunez

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I took the class with Baird. The class is super chill. There are three tests all semester which are very easy. Baird is awesome and is very friendly and creates a good class environment. The class was mostly grammar but we did have classes where all we did was talk with another classmate. Overall, great class.

She was amazing! Very understanding about peoples different levels of Spanish and encouraging. She explains complex grammar structures very well and I feel I was really able to learn in her class. I never felt nervous or judged about my lower level Spanish speaking abilities and enjoyed how Spanish culture was connected into the class.

Professor Nunez was extremely accommodating! She advocates the importance of prioritizing student's well-being...Very understanding, and easy to work with. Standards of tests and homework are made clear in her syllabus and every class lecture. Would take her class again! 