SPAN at University of Pennsylvania

A suggested order for the 63 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate SPAN coursework.

• SPAN 1000Advanced Spanishopens 58 courses (3.5 directly)
• SPAN 1200Advanced Spanish II: Grammar and Compositionopens 56 courses (1.5 directly)
• SPAN 1800Contexts of Hispanic Culture and Civilizationopens 54 courses (28.5 directly)
• SPAN 1900Ways of Readingopens 52 courses (26.5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate SPAN work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 63 SPAN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 98 more SPAN courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on SPAN, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in SPAN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at SPAN 3110

  1. SPAN 0400Intermediate Spanish II
  2. SPAN 1000Advanced Spanish
  3. SPAN 1200Advanced Spanish II: Grammar and Composition
  4. SPAN 1800Contexts of Hispanic Culture and Civilization
  5. SPAN 3110Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for SPAN yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SPAN yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

SPAN does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Penn campus feed.