Students read short stories and other brief narrative texts, plays, poems and essays in order to facilitate their acquisition of critical skills and to identify basic ideological and formalistic issues within the texts being studied. This course teaches how to become a careful reader and writer. Reading comprehension and writing are its essential aspects. Compositions are written and revised. The course is a prerequisite for most advanced Spanish offerings. This is a critical thinking course and a capstone writing course. Note: Cornerstone to the Spanish major and capstone writing course.