The Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers courses in language, literature, and culture that speak to a variety of interests, whether focused on Latin America or the Iberian Peninsula, or on some aspect of literature, language, or culture that cuts across geographic divides.
The development of fluency in reading, speaking, and writing the language is an important goal of courses at all levels.
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What's New...
The Puerto Rican community in Chicago: What are our graduates doing now? Talk with Julian Hill, 2008 Weinberg graduate.
Book review of a biographical account of Gabriel Garcia Marquez!
What is 'Day of the Dead'? Find out here!
Chyi Chung, Senior Lecturer, was awarded the School of Continuing Studies' Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award for 2008-2009. SCS awards three prizes each year, one for undergraduate teaching, another for graduate instruction, and a third for non-credit teaching.
Joel Colom-Mena, Lecturer, won a coveted place on the 2009-2010 ASG Faculty and Administrator Honor Roll in late May. The undergraduate student body selected him as one of seventy members on the Honor roll. The selection was very competitive ,with great candidates across each of Northwestern's six schools.
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