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SPA 01 — Beginning Spanish: Part I

Quarter: Fall
Instructor(s): Maria Cristina Urruela
Duration: 10 weeks
Location: Online
Date(s): Sep 22—Dec 1
Class Recording Available: Yes
Class Meeting Day: Tuesdays
 
Class Meeting Time: 5:30—7:20 pm (PT)
Please Note: No class on November 24
Tuition: $600
   
Refund Deadline: Sep 24
 
Unit(s): 2
   
Enrollment Limit: 30
  
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Quarter: Fall
Day: Tuesdays
Duration: 10 weeks
Time: 5:30—7:20 pm (PT)
Date(s): Sep 22—Dec 1
Unit(s): 2
Location: Online
 
Tuition: $600
 
Refund Deadline: Sep 24
 
Instructor(s): Maria Cristina Urruela
 
Enrollment Limit: 30
 
Recording Available: Yes
 
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Please Note: No class on November 24
 
 
¡Es hora de aprender español! Whether for business or pleasure, travel abroad, or a trip to the local market, millions of Americans have found Spanish so useful that it has become the nation’s most popularly studied second language. This course is designed to help build oral proficiency and comprehension and to foster an understanding of the Spanish-speaking world and its language and cultures, focusing on practical communication in a high-energy yet reassuring environment. By the end of the course, students will be able to converse on a basic level, talk about themselves and their likes and dislikes, and ask others about themselves.

This is the first course in a four-course sequence. Part II will be offered in Winter 2027, Part III will be offered in Spring 2027, and Part IV will be offered in Fall 2027. Students may enroll without intending to complete the full sequence.

MARIA CRISTINA URRUELA
Former Lecturer in Spanish, Stanford

María Cristina Urruela specializes in 19th-century Iberian Peninsula literature and has taught at various institutions, most recently in her long career as a lecturer in Spanish at Stanford. Her translations of short stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán and María del Pilar Sinués de Marco have been published by the Modern Language Association, and Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain contains several essays translated by Urruela. She received a PhD from the University of Texas.