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Course Criteria
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6.00 Credits
In this course, students will be exposed to a survey of Latin-American literature within its historical perspective. The course combines the analysis of both Spanish literature and civilization, the most natural way in which students will study and appreciate fully the evolution of a people from the earliest to the most contemporary periods.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to offer those with an intermediate language proficiency an additional career option, this course develops the technical skills of translating through readings in various specialized fields. Especially useful for those whose major concentrations are in language, science, business management, and health professions. Also highly recommended for students planning to pursue graduate studies. Prerequisite: SPA 226.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to promote growth in oral and listening skills in students who already have a strong foundation in Spanish. Students will use authentic materials, such as newspapers, radio broadcasts, videos, and films, taken from the Hispanophone world. Oral reports. Open to third and fourth year students, and other advanced students with special permission of the department. Required for majors who do not study abroad.
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3.00 Credits
The course aims to develop proficiency in writing at advanced levels of Spanish. Model texts, chosen from the various Hispanophone areas of the world, will be read and analyzed in terms of style, structure, and skills needed. Weekly writings. Grammatical structure will be studied in context. Open to third and fourth year students, and to advanced students with approval of the department. Required of majors who do not study abroad.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will explore the Cuban, Puerto Rican, Mexican, and Central American people and their culture as it relates to life in the respective countries and on the U.S. mainland. They will study issues of religion, identity, discrimination, injustice, repression, and resistance, and contemporary social and political issues through a variety of texts of fiction, non-fiction, and video. This course satisfies the global awareness and communication intensive core requirements. Juniors and seniors only.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will examine the 20th century struggle for human rights in various Latin American nations through selected films and literature. Issues include political repression, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, etc. Through novels, videos, and testimonial literature, students will examine the nature of human rights and democracy in contemporary Latin America. In order to receive credit towards the Spanish major, students must read selected materials and write papers in Spanish. However, the class will be conducted in English. Open to third and fourth year students, and others with permission of the instructor. This course satisfies the global awareness core requirement.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will examine the writings of the Generation of 98 in the aftermath of the disastrous Spanish-American War. They will explore the major poets of the Generation of 27 and writers of the Spanish Civil War period. The course will include films reflecting the reality of contemporary Spain. Authors will include Unamuno, Machado, Lorca, Cela, Laforet, Matute, and others. Prerequisite: two semesters of Literature and Civilization (SPA 301, 302, 303, 304); third and fourth year students only.
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3.00 Credits
This course gives you the opportunity to study the history, structure, and process of American government. The course examines the constitutional basis of the U.S. government and forms of government at the federal, state, and local levels. The powers, functioning, and relationship among Congress, the Presidency, and the Judiciary are presented. You will become familiar with political parties, current elections and candidates, the role of media in reporting on government policy, and the political process.
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3.00 Credits
Children's Literature:Psych & Social Issues
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3.00 Credits
In this course you will learn about the nature of evil and hate in the world. You will study the ability of one group to perpetrate injustice and atrocity on another group. The course focuses on historical, as well as more current, instances of oppression including the genocide of Native Americans, the enslavement of Africans in the United States, and racism and the struggle for civil rights for African Americans from the late 1800s to the present, the Armenian Genocide, the murder of the European Jews, sectarianism in Northern Ireland, Soviet oppression, the Cambodian genocide, ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, genocide in Rwanda, and the current murdering in Darfur. The course will help you to learn about these oppressed cultures, dynamics of intergroup relations, and the world's response when genocide and atrocities occur. Learning takes place through presentation from texts, journal articles, documentary videos, readings from literature (prose and poetry), independent research, popular films, and class discussion.
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