Languages across the Curriculum (LAC)

Enroll for fall 2026!

The Languages across the Curriculum program is piloting 1-credit discussion-based immersion courses that engage with disciplinary content and focus on academic topics from across the university curriculum. Students are afforded the opportunity to use their language skills in academic exploration, to create connections between disciplines by investigating new perspectives, and to enhance critical thinking by investigating a focused topic through discussion and study of primary sources in the target language.

1 credit, discussion-based immersion courses that will:

engage with interdisciplinary content
improve your skills in another language
internationalize your studies
look great on your resume!

Open to all students who have fulfilled the World Language Requirement

Contact Professor Hall (ebh3f@virginia.edu) with questions.

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Fall 2026 Course Schedule

SPAN 3500 Spanish across the Curriculum (day and time TBA)

Description

Spanish across the Curriculum is a 1-credit discussion-based course taught in Spanish engaging with disciplinary content and focused on academic topics from across the university curriculum. Through this discussion-based course, students will be afforded the opportunity to use their language skills in academic exploration, to create connections between disciplines by investigating new perspectives, and to enhance critical thinking by investigating a focused topic through discussion in Spanish and study of primary sources in Spanish.

Topic (Fall 2026): Anthropology of Language in Human Evolution

This course will be based around readings and related materials in Spanish from ANTH 2415 Language in Human Evolution. What are the qualities of human sociality that make language work for us? The human ability to learn and use languages is both built from communication practices shared with other animals and emerged to be something more for humans—an order of symbolic life process connecting sociality, thought, and collaborative action. Discussion will focus on examination of the interactive and cognitive environments, and the social and communicative functions that have shaped human language to take the familiar forms we know today.

Prerequisites

Any student having satisfied the World Language Requirement in Spanish may take Spanish across the Curriculum. Students do not need to be currently enrolled in ANTH 2415 to take SPAN 3501 (although current and formerly enrolled students are encouraged to participate).

This course does not count toward Spanish major or minor.