Spanish Major and Minor Credit Abroad

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Last reviewed

Spring 2025

Next review date

Spring 2028

Earning Minor Credit Abroad

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese has 3 minor programs: The Languages, Literatures & Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World, The Languages, Literatures & Cultures of the Portuguese Speaking World, and Hispanic Languages, Linguistics & Bilingualism. Each minor consists of a small number of lower-division prerequisites and 5 upper-division classes. Students pursuing a minor may satisfy lower-division language prerequisites and may take up to 2 upper-division courses while studying abroad.

  • Prerequisites:
    • Can be completed on or off campus - including abroad
    • Spanish 1-4 (Second Language Learners) or,
    • Spanish 21-22 (Heritage Speakers of Spanish),
    • Portuguese 50 (minor in Portuguese)
    • Spanish 25 must completed at Berkeley or through Berkeley Summer Abroad in Puebla, Mexico
  • 5 upper-division classes:
    • Maximum of 2 upper division classes can be taken abroad
    • Taught in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan (consult with the Undergraduate Advisor before considering a class or program taught in English)
    • Related to your area of study
    • Taken for a letter grade
    • Review the list of pre-approved coursework in the expandable sections below!

Earning Major Credit Abroad

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese offers one major with four concentrations: A) The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World, B) The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Portuguese-Speaking World, C) Latin American Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, D) Hispanic Languages, Linguistics, and Bilingualism. Each concentration consists of a small number of lower division prerequisites and 8 upper division classes. Students pursuing a major in Spanish & Portuguese may satisfy lower-division language prerequisites and may take up to 3 upper-division courses while studying abroad.

  • Prerequisites:
    • Can be completed on or off campus - including abroad
    • Spanish 1-4 (Second Language Learners) or,
    • Spanish 21-22 (Heritage Speakers of Spanish),
    • Portuguese 50 (major in Portuguese)
    • Spanish 25 must completed at Berkeley or through Berkeley Summer Abroad in Puebla, Mexico
  • Core Curriculum:
  • Upper-division Electives:
    • Maximum of 3 upper division classes can be taken abroad
    • Taught in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan (consult with the Undergraduate Advisor before considering a class or program taught in English)
    • Related to your area of study
    • Taken for a letter grade
    • Review the list of pre-approved coursework in the expandable sections below!

Sample Major Program Plans

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Argentina

Human Rights and Cultural Memory - Fall | Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile | Upper division courses offered in English only. Petition the Undergraduate Advisor to apply courses from this program towards a minor or major.

  • EAP LATAMST 162: Human Rights, Politics and Culture in Argentina
  • EAP SOCIOL 168: Human Rights and Memory in Argentina
  • EAP LATAMST 164: Human Rights, Social Justice, and Transitional Justice in Chile
  • EAP LATAMST 166: Memory and Human Rights: Chilean Literature, Film and Media

Global Internships: Buenos Aires, Argentina - Summer | Buenos Aires | Upper division course offered in English only. Petition the Undergraduate Advisor to apply courses from this program towards a minor or major.

  • History N100G: The History and Culture of Food in Argentina

Brazil

Brazilian Seminars - Summer | Rio de Janeiro |  Upper division courses offered in English only. Petition the Undergraduate Advisor to apply courses from this program towards a minor or major.

  • UCEAP LATAMST 114: Brazilian Seminars

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - Fall and Spring | Rio de Janeiro | Upper division courses offered in Portuguese approved for minor & major credit.

  • EAP PORTUG 117: Canons of Portuguese Literature
  • EAP LATAMST 116: Brazilian Pop Music
  • EAP FILM 116: Brazilian Cinema
  • EAP LATAMST 107: Urban Social Movements
  • EAP MEDIAST 120: History of Journalism in Brazil
  • EAP HISTORY 122: History of Brazil I

Chile

Human Rights and Cultural Memory - Fall | Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile | Upper division courses offered in English only. Petition the Undergraduate Advisor to apply courses from this program towards a minor or major.

  • EAP LATAMST 162: Human Rights, Politics and Culture in Argentina
  • EAP SOCIOL 168: Human Rights and Memory in Argentina
  • EAP LATAMST 164: Human Rights, Social Justice, and Transitional Justice in Chile
  • EAP LATAMST 166: Memory and Human Rights: Chilean Literature, Film and Media

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile - Fall, Spring, and Year | Santiago | Upper division courses offered in Spanish approved for minor & major credit.

  • EAP HISTORY 108: History of Gender in Chile
  • EAP LATAMST 105: Latin American Music
  • EAP FILM  102: Chilean Documentary Film Theory
  • EAP LATAMST 106: Quechua Language & Culture
  • EAP SPANISH 139: Chilean Folklore
  • EAP SPANISH 151: Contemporary Theatre: Body, Word and Document
  • EAP ARTHS 117: Introduction to Latin American Art
  • EAP LATAMST 112: Cinema and Latin American History
  • EAP SPANISH 155: Detective Fiction
  • EAP LATAMST 133: Latin American Culture & Society
  • EAP SPANISH 168: Chilean and Latin American Poetry I
  • EAP SPANISH 101: Chilean Poets: Gabriela Mistral and Violet Parra
  • EAP HISTORY 122: History of Contemporary Chile
  • EAP ARTHS 104: 20th Centure Chilean Art: 1950-2000
  • EAP LATAMST 108: 20C Chilean Rock and the Contemporary World
  • EAP ANTHRO 119: Contemporary Debates: Mapuche & chilean History and Culture
  • EAP LATAMST 161: To Understand Latin America Today: Visions from Political Science, History, and Geography
  • EAP SPANISH 127: Advanced Spanish Literature III
  • EAP SPANISH 153: Chilean and Latin American Essays
  • EAP SPANISH 115: Chilean and Hispanic American Thought and Essay
  • EAP HISTORY 131: Contemporary Latin American History
  • EAP LATAMST 110: Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Revolutions and Dictatorships 1959-Present
  • EAP HISTORY 109: Fashion and Society in 20C Chile

University of Chile - Fall, Spring, and Year | Santiago | Upper division courses offered in Spanish approved for minor & major credit.

  • EAP LATAMST 121: Latin American and Chilean Film
  • EAP SPANISH 138: The Issue of Violence in Contemporary Chilean Narrative
  • EAP LATAMST 138: From Indigenism to Indianism: Indigenous Movements in Latin America in the 20th and 21st Centuries
  • EAP FILM 102A: Chilean Documentary Film Theory
  • EAP PHIL 111: Philosophical Discussions in Chile and Latin America
  • EAP LATAMST: 118: Revolutionary Women from the Southern Cone
  • EAP SPANISH 151: Contemporary Theater: Body, Word and Document
  • EAP SPANISH 116: Literature and Society in Europe and Spain between the 12th and 17th Centuries
  • EAP ARTHS 117: Introduction to Latin American Art
  • EAP LATAMST 160: Social Memories, Subjectivities, and Aethetic Representation: Art and State Violence in Chile
  • EAP LATAMST 160: Cinema and Latin American History
  • EAP HISTORY 136: Democracy and Social Movements in Chile
  • EAP HISTORY 149: Recent History and Memories of the Dictatorship of the Southern Cone
  • EAP SPANISH 113: Semantics and Pragmatics of the Spanish Language
  • EAP SPANISH 149: Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics of Modern Spanish
  • EAP LATAMST 157: Indigenous Societies of Chile
  • EAP LATAMST 147: Indigenous Societies in America
  • EAP SPANISH 164: Latin American Spanish Seminar
  • EAP HISTORY 146: Anti-Colonial Thought in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 20th and 21st Century

Cuba

Beyond the Icons - Race, Gender & Social Change - Summer | Havana | Upper division course offered in English only. Petition the Undergraduate Advisor to apply courses from this program towards a minor or major.
  • ES N180: Selected Topics in Comparative Ethnic Studies

Dominican Republic

Community Public Health - Summer | Santiago | Upper division course offered in English and a Spanish for the Professions course. Petition the Undergraduate Advisor to apply courses from this program towards a minor or major.
  • EAP LATAMST 115: Pre-professional Healthcare Issues
  • EAP SPANISH 127: Advanced Spanish for the Health Professions

Mexico

Entre dos Mundos/Between Two Worlds - Summer | Puebla and Mexico City| Spanish minor & major prerequisite and upper division elective course taught in Spanish.
  • SPANISH 25: Reading and Analysis of Literary Texts
  • SPANISH 123: Mexican Language, History, and Culture

Contemporary Mexico - Summer | Mexico City | Upper division courses taught in English only. Petition the Undergraduate Advisor to apply courses from this program towards a minor or major.

  • EAP HISTORY 172: Issues in Contemporary Mexican History

National Autonomous University of Mexico - Fall, Spring, and Year | Mexico City | Upper division courses taught in Spanish approved for minor & major credit.

  • EAP LATAMST 105B: Latin American Critical Thought
  • EAP LATAMST 172: International Latin American Thought
  • EAP SPANISH 155B: Latin American Narrative I: Literature at the Margin of the Boom from 1870 to 1970
  • EAP SPANISH 122: Latin American Literature 1
  • EAP SPANISH 142A: Ninteenth-Century Mexican Literature I
  • EAP SPANISH 144B: Iberoamerican Literature 4
  • EAP SPANISH 115C: Spanish Literature 7: Knowledge in the Middle Ages: Texts, Criticism and Literary Projection
  • EAP SPANISH 167A: Pre-Hispanic Literature of Mexico I
  • EAP ANTHRO 125: Struggle, Resistance, and Decolonization of Latin America
  • EAP SOCIOL 137: Mexico: Nation and Multiculturalism
  • EAP SPANISH 138A: Twentieth-Century Mexican Literature I
  • EAP SPANISH 114: Literary Criticism and Theory in Latin America I
  • EAP ANTHRO 157: Nationalism and Tourism in Mexican Archeology
  • EAP LATAMST 136: Language, Culture, and Power
  • EAP SPANISH 134B: Colonial Mexican Literature
  • EAP GEOG 112: Political Geography of Mexico
  • EAP LING 105: Syntax
  • EAP LATAMST 186: Latin American Thought
  • EAP SPANISH 142B: Ninteeth-Century Latin American Literature II
  • EAP SOCIOL 155: Indigenism and Education in Mexico
  • EAP LATAMST 107: Indigenous Language I: Purepecha
  • EAP POLISCI 126: Latin America and the Carribean
  • EAP SPANISH 131: Latin American Poetry I
  • EAP LATAMST 141: Contemporary Themes in Latin American Politics
  • EAP LATAMST 106A: The Global System and Latin America I
  • EAP LATAMST: Contemporary Issues in Latin America
  • EAP HISTORY 120: Contemporary Mexico
  • EAP SPANISH 136B: Golden Age Spanish Literature
  • EAP LATAMST 108A:The Population in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • EAP LATAMST 105:The History of Ideas in Latin America
  • EAP GEOG 160: Geopolitics and Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • EAP LATAMST: Organization and Campesino Movements in Latin America
  • EAP SPANISH 153B: Latin American Literature II
  • EAP LATAMST 135: Mexico & North American Relations
  • EAP SPANISH 145A: Iberoamerican Literature I
  • EAP LING 144: Language, Meaning, and Social Action
  • EAP ANTHRO 106: Process of Colonization in America

Portugal

Global Internships: Coimbra Portugal - Summer | Coimbra | Upper division course offered in English only. Petition the Undergraduate Advisor to apply courses from this program towards a minor or major.
  • HISTORY N100G: Portugal Summer Internship & Cultural Heritage Journeyings

Spain

Global Internships: Barcelona, Spain - Summer | Barcelona | Upper division courses in English only. Petition the Undergraduate Advisor to apply courses from this program towards a minor or major.

  • HISTORY N100G: Food and Culture in the Mediterranean Basin

Barcelona, Spain: The Other Side/El Otro Lado - Summer | Barcelona | Upper division course offered in English only. Petition the Undergraduate Advisor to apply courses from this program towards a minor or major.

  • CHICANO N180: The Other Side/El Otro Lado: A comparative look at migration and refugees along the Mediterranean and US-Mexico borderlands

UAB Barcelona Summer - Summer | Barcelona | Upper division courses offered in Spanish approved for minor & major credit.
  • EAP FILM [NEW]: Spanish Cinema and Society
  • EAP FILM [NEW]: Cinema and Memory: A Journey Through Contemporary Europe on Film 
UB Barcelona Summer School - Summer | Barcelona | Upper division courses offered in Spanish approved for minor & major credit.
  • EAP FILM 120: Spanish Cinema
  • EAP ARTHS : Barcelona Creative and Cultural City
  • EAP CATALAN 115: Catalonia: Language, Culture, and Society
University of Barcelona - Fall, Spring, and Year | Barcelona | Upper division courses offered in Spanish and Catalan approved for minor & major credit.
  • EAP LATAMST 146: Colonial Latin American History
  • EAP Spanish 106A / B: Spanish Pragmatics
  • EAP LING 120: Phonetics
  • EAP LING 172: Linguistics: Concepts and Applications
  • EAP SPANISH 168: Spanish Golden Age Theatre
  • EAP CATALAN 115A / B: Catalunya: Language, Culture, and Society I / II
  • EAP SPANISH 119: Latin American Literary Gengres
  • EAP ARTHS 125A / B: Art in Spain: From the Mosque of Cordoba and the Cathedral of Santiago to Gaudi, Picasso, and Dali I / II
  • EAP SPANISH 118: Cervantes and the Poetics of the Novel
  • EAP SPANISH 155: Spanish Morphology and Lexicology 
  • EAP SPANISH 102: 20th Centure Spanish Literature
  • EAP SPANISH 145: Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
  • EAP SPANISH 152: Contemporary Spanish Theatre
  • EAP GEOG 122A / B: Spain Today: Geography, Society, and Institutions I / II
  • EAP SPANISH 186: Medieval and Golden Age Literature
  • EAP HISTORY 116: History of Spain 15th to 18th Century
  • EAP LING 122: Sociolinguistics
  • EAP SPANISH 120A / B: Spanish Cinema I / II
  • EAP SPANISH 105: Realism and Naturalism: The Spanish Novel
  • EAP SPANISH 137: Spanish Sociolinguistics
  • EAP SPANISH 111: Devellopment of the Spanish Language
  • EAP SPANISH 108A / B: Barcelona: A Meeting Place for Spanish and Latin American Literature I / II
  • EAP ARTHS 108A / B: Barcelona: Creative and Cultural City I / II
  • EAP SPANISH 133A: Spanish Syntax I
  • EAP SPANISH 143: Normative Spanish Grammar
  • EAP SPANISH 171A / B: Spanish of the Americas I / II
  • EAP SPANISH 132: Aesthetics and Ideology in Spanish Romanticism
  • EAP SPANISH 180: Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature
  • EAP SPANISH 123: Baroque Spanish Literature: Poetry and Prose
  • EAP HISTORY 110A / B: Spain and Europe: Origins and Evolutions I / II
  • EAP SPANISH 139: Analysis of the Spanish Discourse
  • EAP LING 112: Phonology
  • EAP SPANISH 103: Twentieth Century Latin American Literature
  • EAP SPANISH 107: 20th Centure Literature and Thought
  • EAP SPANISH 130: Spanish Enlightenment: Literature and Thought
Carlos III University of Madrid - Fall, Spring, and Year | Madrid | Upper division courses offered in Spanish approved for minor & major credit.
  • EAP SOCIOL 105: Social Inequality in Spain. Service Learning
  • EAP SPANISH 102: Golden Age Spanish Literature
  • EAP SPANISH 140: The Short Story in Spain and Latin America
  • EAP SPANISH 130: 19th- and 20th-Centurey Spanish Literature
  • EAP FILM 136: Film and Television in Spain
  • EAP HISTORY 115: 20th Century Spanish History
  • EAP HISTORY 131: History of Spain
  • EAP SPANISH 144: Contemporary Spain through the Press
  • EAP HISTORY 108: Contemporary History of Spain
  • EAP HISTORY 104: 20th-Century Spanish Culture
  • EAP POLISCI 133: Topics in Spanish Politics
  • EAP POLISCI 109: Spanish Politics I
  • EAP POLISCI 145: Spanish and European Institutions
  • EAP POLISCI 120: Terrorism and its Victims in Spain and in the World: The Global Challenge since 9/11 and 3/11
  • EAP HISTORY 140: Latin American History and Politics
  • EAP RELIGST 104: Religion and Society in Spain
  • EAP SPANISH 161: Survey of 20th-Century Latin American Literature
  • EAP SPANISH 141: Spanish Cinema
  • EAP SPANISH 138: Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Literature
  • EAP HISTORY 136: Modern History of Spain
  • EAP ARTHS 140: History of Art in Spain
Complutense University of Madrid- Fall, Spring, and Year | Madrid | Upper division courses offered in Spanish approved for minor & major credit.
  • EAP SPANISH 115: Varieties of Spanish in America
  • EAP LING 150: Bilingualism
  • EAP SOCIOL 140: Social Structure of Spain
  • EAP SPANISH 152: Contemporary Spanish Literature
  • EAP ETHNIC 108: Religion and Symbolism in American Indigenous Cultures
  • EAP POLISCI 115: Spanish Political System
  • EAP SPANISH 106: Spanish Literature and Visual Performing Arts
  • EAP SPANISH 145: 20th-Century Latin-American Poetry
  • EAP ARTHS 132: Spanish Art of the 20th Century
  • EAP ANTHRO 1110: Cultural Anthropology of Spain
  • EAP SPANISH 123: Spanish Syntax
  • EAP SPANISH 117: History of Spanish
  • EAP PHILOS 130: Seminar on Contemporary Latin American Philosophy
  • EAP ARTHS 127: Picasso
  • EAP SPANISH 170: Latin American Literature: From the Avante-Garde to the Present
  • EAP HISTORY 137: 19th Century Contemporary Spanish History
  • EAP SPANISH 141: Spanish Short Story
  • EAP SPANISH 116: Dialectical Diversification in Spanish
  • EAP ARTHS 125: Spanish Baroque Art
  • EAP HISTORY 111: Political & Social History of Spain & Latin America
  • EAP SPANISH 168: Spanish Sociolinguistics
  • EAP HISTORY 135: Medieval History of Spain
  • EAP LATAMST 158: Latin American Political Systems
  • EAP SPANISH 127: Latin-American Literature: From Romanticism to Regionalism (19C-20C)
  • EAP LING 117: English-Spanish Contrastive Linguistics & Translation
  • EAP SPANISH 110: Colonial Latin American Literature: From Discovery to Independence
  • EAP SPANISH 155: Latin American Short Story
  • EAP SPANISH 103: Literature of Marginalization and Protest
  • EAP HISTORY 119: History of Culture and Thought in Latin America
  • EAP SPANISH 133: Cervantes and His Time
  • EAP SPANISH 119: Postwar Spanish Literature 1940-2000
  • EAP ARTHS 121: Contemporary Art in Latin America
  • EAP SPANISH 126: Eighteen Century Spanish Literature
  • EAP ARTHS 154: Contemporary Spanish Art
  • EAP LATAMST 161: Indigenous Political Systems in America
  • EAP SPANISH 160: Latin American Theater
  • EAP SPANISH 169: Twentieth-Century Latin American Novel
  • EAP HISTORY 143: Contemporary Madrid History
  • EAP HISTORY 138: 20th Century Contemporary Spanish History
  • EAP LATAMST 179: International Relations and Integration in Latin America and Iberia
Society and Culture in Madrid - Summer | Madrid | Upper division courses offered in English only. Petition the Undergraduate Advisor to apply courses from this program towards a minor or major.
  • EAP ANTHRO [NEW]: Spanish Food: Tradition, Terroir, & Sustainability
  • EAP ARTHS [NEW]: Contemporary Spain through Icons & Images
University of Alicante - Fall, Spring, and Year | Alicante | New program! Consult the Undergraduate Advisor to apply courses from this program towards a minor or major.