Spanish 49h: Spanish for Latino Students. Designed for Latino students, this course builds on students' previous knowledge of Spanish to expand and strengthen their oral and written interpersonal, interpretive and presentational communicative skills. Spanish grammar is reviewed using a functional approach to highlight differences found in informal and academic contexts. Students explore the topics of languages in contact, cultures and identity in the U.S and in the Spanish-speaking world , using a variety of texts and genres, music, videos, films and visual arts. The course also includes the innovative software Lectura Inteligente Herencia Latina that enhances students' reading skills as they become "multicultural readers" and strengthen their sense of community and identities as young Latinos of the 21st century. Read about this course in the Harvard Gazette.

Spanish 59h: Spanish for Latino Students II: Connecting with Communities. An advanced language course for Spanish heritage learners that aims to: strengthen students' oral and written linguistic range, with emphasis on Spanish use for academic contexts; and to further develop students' critical language and social awareness around important issues for Latinos in our globalized era: Spanish as global language, identity, language rights, global migration and labor, U.S.-Latino America relations, food and environment, the 'war on drugs'. Students explore these topics through various genres (newspapers and academic articles, debates, literary essays, short novels, poetry, visual art, film and music). The course includes a service learning component (4 hours a week).