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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Designed to improve students' ability to speak Spanish at an advanced level, the course provides intensive practice in conversational skills through reading and discussion of current works that reveal sociocultural aspects of the Hispanic world. Using political and social ballads, popular verse, idioms, articles, short stories, plays and films, students will discuss contemporary topics with the goal of ensuring good communication skills. Attention will also be placed upon developing students' knowledge of syntax and writing ability. Four class meetings per week plus work in the language laboratory and media center.
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3.00 Credits
Readings in translation of significant works by modern authors from Latin America. (Also see courses offered through PRESHCO.)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to improve students' writing skills in Spanish, with emphasis on the practice of various types of writing: formal letters, diaries, poetry, essays, short stories, and analysis of literary texts and social and political issues in the Hispanic world. Attention is also given to improving conversational skills. Three class meetings per week plus work in the language laboratory and media center.
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A study of the major trends and development in the evolution of Spanish society and culture, from its origins to the present, from historical, political, social, artistic and intellectual perspectives. (Hector Medina)
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An advanced course that provides an introduction to Cuban culture while maintaining and improving Spanish language skills. The course is designed to give students an overview of the evolution of Cuban culture and society from the colonial times to the present, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Readings include novels, short stories, plays, poetry, essays and historical sources. Some of the authors that will be considered are José MarÃa Heredia, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda,José MartÃ, Nicolás Guillén, Lydia Cabrera, AleCarpentier, Fidel Castro, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Lourdes Casal, Nancy Morejón and Dolores Prida. (Hector Medina)
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3.00 Credits
An advanced course that provides an introduction to Spanish-speaking Latin American culture while maintaining and improving Spanish language skills. The course is designed to give students an overview of the diverse cultures of the region, moving historically from the first encounters of colonial times to the various communities that make up present-day Latino culture. While the temptation in such a course is to attempt to obscure differences in order to present a coherent narrative, our focus will rather be on the way many different and divergent voices make up Latin American identity and culture. Connections: Conx 23003 Modern Latin America
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3.00 Credits
In collaboration with the Filene Center for Work and Learning, majors and minors in Hispanic studies are placed in agencies in Massachusetts or Rhode Island that need Spanish-speaking volunteers. Students will be able to increase their fluency in Spanish through personal and continued contacts with the language and, at the same time, assist the Hispanic community in programs related to foster care, refugees, hospitalized children and adolescents, battered women and their children, legal advocacy, rape crisis, AIDS, substance abuse, runaways, family emergency shelter and in after-school programs, etc. Readings and class discussion will focus on the literatures, histories and cultures of Latinos in the United States. and other issues pertaining to this community. Connections: Conx 20058 Latino Culture
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3.00 Credits
A study of literary movements and genres in Spanish literature from the medieval period to the end of the Golden Age through the reading and discussion of representative works.
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A study of literary movements and genres in Spanish literature from the 18th century to the present through the reading and discussion of representative works.
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3.00 Credits
A study of Spanish American literature from the colonial period to 1910 through the reading and discussion of representative works.
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