PORT 6520a / CPLT 6570a, Clarice Lispector: The Short Stories  Kenneth David Jackson

This course is a seminar on the complete short stories of Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), a master of the genre and one of the major authors of twentieth-century Brazil known for existentialism, mysticism, and feminism.
M 3:30pm-5:20pm

PORT 9670a, Machado de Assis: Major Novels  Kenneth David Jackson

A study of the last five novels of Machado de Assis, featuring the author's world and stage of Rio de Janeiro, along with his irony and skepticism, satire, wit, narrative concision, social critiques, and encyclopedic assimilation of world literature.
T 3:30pm-5:20pm

SPAN 5000b / FREN 6700b / ITAL 6570b / LING 5640b, Principles of Language Teaching and Learning  Staff

Introduction to the basic principles of second-language acquisition theory, focusing on current perspectives from applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. Topics include language teaching methodology, communicative and task-based approaches, learner variables, intercultural competence, and models of assessment.
HTBA

SPAN 6330a / CPLT 9013a / FILM 6900a, Third Cinema: Arts and Politics in Latin America  Moira Fradinger

This seminar studies the articulation of art and politics proposed by the world renowned film movement usually identified as “Third Cinema” that took shape in Latin America roughly between 1955 and 1982. Continental in scope, the movement has also been called “New Latin American Cinema” joining the “new waves” of the global sixties and expanding its influence throughout the countries of the Non-Aligned Movement. The seminar examines the category of “Third cinema,” first formulated in Solanas's and Getino's 1969 “Manifesto Towards a Third Cinema” and opposed to “First Cinema” (Hollywood) and “Second Cinema” (“cinema d’auteur” or independent film art). The manifesto's political thinking will be framed in terms of contemporary political ideas about “the third way” or “the non-aligned third world” as well as put in dialogue with an array of film manifestos emerging at this time in the region. The seminar engages concepts such as “imperfect cinema,” “urgent cinema,” “cinema novo,” “aesthetics of hunger,” “liberation cinema”; the “camera as expropiator of image-weapons,” and so forth. The seminar casts a wide net in terms of the corpus, which includes a minimum of two films per week, from countries such as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, and Mexico. Taught in English; knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese is not required but certainly useful.
M 6:30pm-11pm, W 6:30pm-9pm

SPAN 7650a, Art and Resistance in Times of Uprising in the Global Iberian World  Aurelie Vialette

This course is specifically designed to explore the relationship between the arts and the practices of resistance in times of uprising. As such, we study a corpus of texts, newspapers articles, caricatures, propaganda posters, paintings, music, photographs, movies and comic books; a corpus that helps us to think about how personal, collective and national resistance is created and constructed through culture when a conflict arises on a territory. Taught in Spanish.
M 1:30pm-3:20pm

SPAN 7710a / EMST 8185a / RLST 7540a, The World(ing) of Tarot  Todne Thomas and Nicholas Jones

This new course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the exploration of tarot. It joins together religious studies, social scientific, historical, and aesthetic approaches to teach about contexts of practice, genealogies of tarot phenomena, and its visuality. It establishes a foundational knowledge of tarot by exploring popular culture (mis)representations, tracing its longstanding eclectic history, and studying its archetypes. Conceptually, the course uses tarot as an avenue to discuss conceptual themes of materiality and aesthetics, esotericism, politics, gender, culture, and worlding. Through this guided study of tarot, we explore tarot’s enduring yet contested appeal and relativize Western epistemologies, including that of the academy itself.
MW 11:35am-12:50pm

SPAN 8355a / CPLT 8355a, Ciencia Ficción, Fantasía y Neogótico en la Narrativa Hispanoamericana Contemporánea  Anibal González-Pérez

Graduate-level study of the speculative incorporation of scientific ideas and themes in twentieth and twenty-first century from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. Reading and discussion of twentieth-century precursors and founders of Spanish American science fiction, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Hugo Correa, Angélica Gorodischer, Leopoldo Lugones, Pablo Palacio, and Clemente Palma. Followed by examples of “techno-writing,” utopias, dystopias, and possible futures proposed by late twentieth and early twenty-first-century authors such as José B. Adolph, César Aira, Luis Carlos Barragán, Alberto Chimal, Liliana Colanzi, Mariana Enríquez, Yuri Herrera, Samantha Schweblin, Jorge Volpi, and Yoss, among others. Topics to be examined include posthumanism, ecofiction, and sociopolitical satire. Taught in Spanish.
W 1:30pm-3:20pm

SPAN 8595a / EMST 8336a / MDVL 7334a, Law and Humanities II: Emotions  Jesus Velasco

This is the second installment of a series of graduate seminars on law and humanities. The first one dealt with the question of fiction, and this one interrogates the ways in which legal thinking and legislations are in dialogue with emotions in general, and in particular with the creation of affective spaces through specific forms of legislation and jurisprudence. During our seminar we save some time to write together and share our insights on each of the texts we read.
W 3:30pm-5:20pm

SPAN 9200a, Tutorial  Staff

By arrangement with faculty.
HTBA

SPAN 9718b / ANTH 7818b / ER&M 6606b / WGSS 7718b, Multi-Sited Ethnography: Trans-Atlantic Port Cities in Colombia and Spain  Eda Pepi and Ana Ramos-Zayas

Critical to colonial, imperial, and capitalist expansion, the Atlantic offers a dynamic setting for adapting ethnographic practices to address questions around interconnected oppressions, revolts, and revolutions that are foundational to global modernity. Anchored in a Spanish and a Colombian port city, this course engages trans-Atlantic “worlding” through a multi-sited and historically grounded ethnographic lens. Las Palmas, the earliest mid-Atlantic port and Europe’s first settler colony in Africa, and Cartagena, once the principal gateway connecting Spain and its American empire, illuminate urgent contemporary issues such as climate, displacement, inter-regional subjectivities, and commerce. During a spring recess field experience (March 8–16, 2026), students will immerse themselves for four nights each in Las Palmas and Cartagena, developing critical “tracking” skills that bridge ethnographic practice with cultural theory. Preparation for fieldwork includes an on-campus curriculum, organized around Cartagena and Las Palmas, and sessions with Yale Ethnography Hub faculty, covering different methodologies. As part of this broader programming, the curriculum delves as well into trans-Atlantic migrations from the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa that have transformed port cities, labor and aesthetic practices, class-making racial formations, and global geopolitics. After recess, the course shifts toward independent work, as students synthesize field-collected data and insights into a collaborative multimodal group project and individual ethnographic papers. Instructor Permission: Interested students must apply by November first via the course website. This course does not have a shopping period, but students may withdraw by the university deadlines in April. Prerequisite: Conversational and reading proficiency in Spanish. Readings are in English and Spanish, with assignments accepted in either language.
Th 1:30pm-3:20pm