Need a stable job with the potential for professional growth and opportunities?? The UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese is hiring student workers for the 2019 summer sessions and the 2019-20 academic year. Apply NOW! Download Flyer Here!
Read MoreCheck out our summer course offerings this summer! We now offer Spanish for Medical Professionals, ONLINE Spanish courses and more. PDF Flyer
Read MoreThe Department of Spanish and Portuguese is proud to announce that Professor Juliet Falce-Robinson has been selected by the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching to receive one of three Distinguished Teaching Awards for Non-Senate Faculty. This award recognizes professors for their achievements and honors them for bringing respect and admiration to the teaching profession at…
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Michelle Medrado, a Luso-Brazilian Literature and Studies Ph.D. student in the UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department, recently had her article “Fluxo de Pesquisa: A tríade material figurino televisivo, vestuário-estilo e moda como objeto de estudo em Luanda” published in Revista TransVersos. This article is an ethnographic testimony based on Medrado’s fieldwork conducted in August 2018…
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Kristal Bivona and Isaac Gimenez, Ph.D. students in the Spanish and Portuguese Department, were recently interviewed for their involvement in creating the event Build Bridges, Paint Walls. Visit the Humanities Division website to learn more about how the event will strengthen the bond between UCLA and the Los Angeles community. Build Bridges, Paint Walls is…
Read MoreAttention Class of 2019, stand out from the crowd! Buy your custom-made departmental sash now! Order here
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During Summer Session A, students will now be able to learn Spanish for the medical field in a new course offering titled Spanish 28A: Spanish for Medical Professionals. In this intermediate Spanish class, students will practice listening, speaking, reading and writing in Spanish using appropriate vocabulary, grammar and cultural situations for the medical field. This…
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Professor Maite Zubiaurre and her alter ego Filomena Cruz were recently interviewed for her work exploring generosity and political activism in “The Wall that Gives/El muro que da” and for increasing empathy and pollution awareness through her trashcollages. Maite is a professor of Germanic Languages and Spanish & Portuguese and Filomena is a Venice, CA visual artist…
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José Luiz Passos, professor of Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures and director of the Center for Brazilian Studies, recently published a variety of works that allow readers to “viscerally relate to historical events and personages.” In the following publications “Marinheiro só [The Lonely Sailor],” the novels “O Marechal de Costas [The Iron Marshal]” and “Antologia fantástica…
Read MoreNew! Prof Chats Announcing a new opportunity for undergraduate students taking classes in Spanish & Portuguese to get to know their professors in a more informal setting than office hours. Please feel most welcome to come and chat with us on any topics of importance to you. Come chat with a Spanish & Portuguese professor…
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