Spanish (SPANISH)
Spanish Courses
4 cr. Undergraduate.
Introductory course for students who have had little or no previous work in Spanish.
Prerequisites: none.
Course Rules: Open only to students with two years of high school Spanish or less, or a score of 1 on the Spanish placement exam.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
4 cr. Undergraduate.
Introductory course for students who have had little or no previous work in Spanish.
Prerequisites: none.
Course Rules: Open only to students with two years of high school Spanish or less, or a score of 1 on the Spanish placement exam.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
4 cr. Undergraduate.
Continuation of SPANISH 103.
Prerequisites: grade of C- or better in SPANISH 103(P) or level 2 score on Spanish placement exam.
Course Rules: Generates L&S credits for demonstrated equivalent preparation (4 retro crs).
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
4 cr. Undergraduate.
Continuation of SPANISH 103.
Prerequisites: grade of C- or better in SPANISH 103(P) or level 2 score on Spanish placement exam.
Course Rules: Generates L&S credits for demonstrated equivalent preparation (4 retro crs).
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-12 cr. Undergraduate.
Designed to enable students studying language abroad to receive course credit at appropriate level.
Prerequisites: acceptance in Study Abroad Program.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2020, Fall 2019.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Continuation of SPANISH 104. Review of the main grammatical concepts. Readings in modern Spanish and Spanish-American literature.
Prerequisites: a grade of C- or better in SPANISH 104(P) or level 3 score on Spanish placement exam.
Course Rules: Generates L&S credits for demonstrated equivalent preparation (8 retro crs).
General Education Requirements: Humanities and Arts
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Continuation of SPANISH 203. Review of the main grammatical concepts. Readings in modern Spanish and Spanish-American literature.
Prerequisites: grade of C- or better in SPANISH 203(P) or level 4 score on Spanish placement exam.
Course Rules: Generates L&S credits for demonstrated equivalent preparation (11 retro crs).
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Different manifestations of Hispanic culture across continents and centuries studied from many angles.
Prerequisites: none.
Course Rules: In English. May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
General Education Requirements: Civics and Perspectives
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-3 cr. Undergraduate.
Application of basic principles of Spanish in a business, organizational, educational, political, or other appropriate setting.
Prerequisites: introductory course in Spanish; 2.25 GPA, and consent of supervising faculty member.
Course Rules: One cr earned for academic work based on 40 hours in internship. May be retaken to 3 cr max.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-12 cr. Undergraduate.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before coursework level, content and cr are determined and/or in specially prepared program coursework.
Prerequisites: acceptance for Study Abroad Program.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Summer 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-6 cr. Undergraduate.
Course created expressly for offering in a specified enrollment period. Requires only dept & assoc dean approval. In exceptional circumstances, can be offered in one additional semester. May be retaken with change in topic.
Prerequisites: none; additional prerequisites may be assigned to specific topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2000, Fall 1999, Spring 1999, Spring 1998.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Development of proficiency in different writing styles; emphasis on the most difficult aspects of Spanish through reading and other exercises.
Prerequisites: a grade of C- or better in SPANISH 204(P), or concurrent enrollment or previous completion of SPANISH 318, or score level 4 on Spanish placement exam, or consent of instructor.
Course Rules: Counts as repeat of SPANISH 305 and SPANISH 316. Generates L&S credits for demonstrated equivalent preparation (14 retro credits).
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Development of oral proficiency in relation to Hispanic culture.
Prerequisites: C- or better in SPANISH 204(P), or score level 5 on Spanish placement exam, or consent of instructor.
Course Rules: For non-heritage Spanish speakers. Students cannot receive credit for both 318 and 319. Generates L&S credits for demonstrated equivalent preparation (14 retro cr).
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Development of full proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking skills in Spanish for students with native/near-native command of these skills.
Prerequisites: C- or better in SPANISH 204(P) or score level 5 on Spanish placement exam or consent of instructor.
Course Rules: Open only to heritage Spanish speakers. Others with near-native proficiency admitted at instr discretion. Students cannot receive credit for both SPANISH 318 and SPANISH 319. Generates L&S credits for demonstrated equivalent preparation (14 retro credits).
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Business language and practice in Spanish-speaking countries.
Prerequisites: SPANISH 308(P) and SPANISH 318(C) or SPANISH 319(C).
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Designed to solidify written expression skills and provide a clear understanding of Spanish grammar rules at an advanced level.
Prerequisites: SPANISH 308(P), and either SPANISH 318(P) or SPANISH 319(P).
Course Rules: Generates L&S credits for demonstrated equivalent preparation (14 retro cr).
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Acquisition of intermediate conversational and written skills in medical terminology in Spanish through a communicative approach. For health care students.
Prerequisites: SPANISH 308(P) and a grade C- or better in SPANISH 318(P), SPANISH 319(P), or equivalent.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Spanish linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics, and sociolinguistics.
Prerequisites: SPANISH 308(P) and SPANISH 318(C) or SPANISH 319(C).
Course Rules: Generates L&S credits for demonstrated equivalent preparation (14 retro cr).
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Business terminology and concepts; instruction in the legal terminology of Hispanic countries.
Prerequisites: SPANISH 308(P) and SPANISH 318(C) SPANISH or 319(C); or consent of instructor.
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Basic skills necessary for professional translation. Translation of texts from English into Spanish. Summarizing texts; sight translation.
Prerequisites: junior standing, SPANISH 308(P), and SPANISH 318(C) or SPANISH 319(C).
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2017.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Critical tools needed to understand the literature and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world.
Prerequisites: SPANISH 308(P); SPANISH 318(C) or SPANISH 319(C).
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Introduction to the development of literature by Chicanos, Nuyoricans, and other Hispanics since the late fifties and its historical, social, and political background.
Prerequisites: junior standing or written consent of department.
Course Rules: Taught in English.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2016.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Some of the experiences of U.S. Hispanics as reflected in literature, film, and other cultural manifestations.
Prerequisites: junior standing or written consent of department.
Course Rules: Taught in English. May be retaken with change in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2015, Fall 2013.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Different aspects of the health care system in the U.S. in relation to the Hispanic culture(s).
Prerequisites: SPANISH 308(P) and a grade of C- or better in SPANISH 318(P) or SPANISH 319(P) or equivalent.
Last Taught: Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Culture of the Hispanic people, with a focus on a particular social or historical perspective and/or issue.
Prerequisites: SPANISH 308(P) and SPANISH 318(C) or SPANISH 319(C).
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-12 cr. Undergraduate.
Designed to enable students studying language abroad to receive course credit at appropriate level.
Prerequisites: junior standing and acceptance for Study Abroad Program.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Comprehensive review of Spanish syntax and morphology; the meaning of words, sentences, and discourse.
Prerequisites: junior standing or greater and SPANISH 341(P); or consent of instructor.
Last Taught: Fall 2016, Fall 2013.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Comprehensive review of Spanish syntax and morphology; the meaning of words, sentences, and discourse.
Prerequisites: junior standing or greater and SPANISH 341(P); or consent of instructor.
Last Taught: Fall 2016, Fall 2013.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Exploration of the literature and cultures of Spain and Latin America from the Middle Ages through the 19th century.
Prerequisites: junior standing and SPANISH 350(P).
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Exploration of the literature and culture of Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Prerequisites: junior standing and SPANISH 350(P).
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Exploration of the literature and culture of Spain in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Prerequisites: junior standing and SPANISH 350(P).
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-3 cr. Undergraduate.
Application of advanced principles of Spanish in a business, organizational, educational, political, or other appropriate non-salaried setting.
Prerequisites: junior standing, 6 cr at 400-level or above in Spanish, 3.50 GPA in Spanish major, and written consent of supervising faculty member and department chair.
Course Rules: One credit earned for academic work based on 40 hrs in internship. May be retaken to 3 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Spring 2008, Fall 2007.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
The culture of a group of Hispanic people from a particular social and/or historical perspective, with a focus on one or more manifestations of that culture.
Prerequisites: completion of 9 credits in Spanish at the 300 level or above.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2019.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-12 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, contact, and credits are determined and/or in specially prepared program course work.
Prerequisites: junior standing and acceptance for Study Abroad Program.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Last Taught: Summer 2025, Fall 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-12 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, contact, and credits are determined and/or in specially prepared program course work.
Prerequisites: junior standing and acceptance for Study Abroad Program.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Last Taught: Summer 2025, Fall 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-6 cr. Undergraduate.
Course created expressly for offering in a specified enrollment period. Requires only dept & assoc dean approval. In exceptional circumstances, can be offered in one additional semester.
Prerequisites: junior standing; additional prerequisites may be assigned to specific topic.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Last Taught: Summer 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
One or more areas of Spanish Peninsular literature and culture across periods, genres, or regions.
Prerequisites: completion of 18 credits of Spanish at the 300 level or above.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2022, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2015.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
One or more areas of Latin-American literature and culture across periods, genres, or regions.
Prerequisites: completion of 18 credits in Spanish at the 300 level or above.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
A literary subject with manifestations in more than one Hispanic literature, including Latino literature, with focus on the differences between/among them.
Prerequisites: completion of 18 credits in Spanish at the 300 level or above.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max. SPANISH 508G was previously SPANISH 708.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2019.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-12 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Designed to enable students studying language abroad to receive course credit at appropriate level.
Prerequisites: junior standing and acceptance in Study Abroad Program.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-12 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Designed to enable students studying language abroad to receive course credit at appropriate level.
Prerequisites: junior standing and acceptance in Study Abroad Program.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-12 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Designed to enable students studying language abroad to receive course credit at appropriate level.
Prerequisites: junior standing and acceptance in Study Abroad Program.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-12 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Designed to enable students studying language abroad to receive course credit at appropriate level.
Prerequisites: junior standing and acceptance in Study Abroad Program.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-3 cr. Undergraduate.
Advanced independent work under supervision of Spanish faculty or instructional academic staff member. Instructor must approve student's study proposal. For more information, consult dept chair.
Prerequisites: junior standing, 2.0 overall GPA, 3.5 Spanish GPA, and consent of instructor, department chair, and Assistant Dean for Student Academic Services.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 3 cr max.
Last Taught: Summer 2015, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, UWinteriM 2008.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1 cr. Graduate.
Practical application within Spanish of methods and concepts taught in MALLT 700.
Prerequisites: graduate standing, MALLT 700(C) or consent of instructor.
Course Rules: Retakable to 2 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Seminar in selected subfields of Hispanic linguistics.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: Retakable with change in topic to 9 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2018.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Basic skills necessary for professional translation. Translation of texts from Spanish into English. Summarzing texts; sight translation.
Prerequisites: graduate standing and SPANISH 308(P) or equivalent.
Course Rules: Counts as a repeat of TRNSLTN 707. Not open for cr to students with graduate credit in SPANISH 347.
Last Taught: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: Retakable with change in topic to 9 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: Retakable with change in topic to 9 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: Retakable with change in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2011, Fall 1999.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
In-depth study of a specific topic or theme.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: Retakable with change in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
A study of women writers of Spain during the 20th and 21st centuries.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Last Taught: Spring 2023, Fall 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2009.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-6 cr. Graduate.
Independent study and research on a master's thesis under supervision of the student's advisory committee.
Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of advisory committee.
Course Rules: Retakable to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-3 cr. Graduate.
Individual program of supervised study in the student's area of emphasis or interest, different from content of course offerings, supervised by a graduate faculty. Topics selected in agreement with and the approval of supervising professor.
Prerequisites: graduate standing, 3.0 GPA in Spanish graduate courses, and written consent of instructor and department chair.
Course Rules: Retakable with change in topic to 3 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
0 cr. Graduate.
Available for graduate students who must meet minimum credit load requirement.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: Fee for 1 cr assessed; unit does not count towards credit load for Fin Aid. Repeatable to 3 cr max. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only.
Last Taught: Summer 2025, Fall 2019, Summer 2017, Spring 2016.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/