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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Students improve their proficiency in the written language in this course, which provides opportunities for practice in accurate use of vocabulary, grammar, and syntax.Three credits.
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This course develops and improves student conversa-tional abilities via classroom discussion on a variety of contemporary topics.The course includes opportunities to improve pronunciation, increase vocabulary, and correctly use grammar.Three credits.
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The course provides students with the fundamentals of literary analysis in the genres of poetry, narrative, theater, and film.It uses materials from around the Hispanic world to present a broad historical-cultural context for further reading and to sharpen the skills of analysis, argumentation, speaking, and writing.Focused on a literary study whose critical terms derive from the structure of literature itself (plot, scene, shot, verse, etc.), the course includes a survey of the periods of literary history.Students complete critical papers.(Prerequisite: SP 221 or permission of instructor) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents the main currents of Spanish civilization by means of lectures and student participation in written and oral reports.Studies of the geography, history, literature, and fine arts of Spain underscore class discussions.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents a general view of Spanish-American civilization from pre-Columbian times to the present.Participants study the culture, social history, and politics of Spanish-America through select literary readings, articles, documentaries, films, newspapers, and Internet research.The course includes a special topic covering the globalization in Latin America and its impact in the 21st century.Students complete exams, oral presentations, written papers, and a final paper. This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Students in this course learn to translate from Spanish into correct, clear, and fluent English.The course assumes a solid command of both languages.Practice includes translation of newspaper and magazine articles, commercial announcements, chapters from guidebooks, and literary selections.The broad range of materials provides exposure to different styles and levels of written Spanish.The course requires numerous short papers and one long project.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines and analyzes film by Spanish and Latin-American directors (Bu uel, Saura, Littin, Sanjines, etc.).Students initially study films as an independent genre using specific structural form as the means of analysis (close-up, soundtrack, frame, etc.).Students then begin to formulate interpretations that move between the formal, technical composition of films and the concrete socio-historic and cultural reality to which each film refers.Course activities include screening of films, discussion of articles that deal with literary theory and analysis of film, and writing short papers.This course meets the world diversity requirement.(Prerequisite: SP 221 or permission of the instructor) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course, open to juniors and seniors only, presents a thematic view of Spanish literature from its origins to the end of the 18th century.When possible, students analyze and discuss complete works in class.Students are advised to complete SP 245 or a course similar to the content of SP 245 prior to enrolling in SP 301.(Prerequisite: permission of instructor) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This critical study of the principal authors and works from European contact with indigenous cultures to the end of the 19th-century provides students with an understanding of the origins and some of the preoccupations of Spanish-American literature through critical analysis of documents of travel, discovery, descriptions of the struggles for independence, rural versus urban life, and modernismo.The course may require critical papers and oral reports.Open to juniors and seniors only.Students are advised to complete SP 245 or complete a study abroad course similar to the content of SP 245 prior to enrolling in SP 303.(Prerequisite: permission of the instructor) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the interaction among mass, elite, traditional, and indigenous art forms, their relationship with the dynamics of national/cultural identity in Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries, and globalization.Forms of expression include oral poetry and narrative; the folletin (19th-century melodramas by installment) to 20th-century "fotonovelas," "radionovelas," and "telenovelas"; broadsides; comics; musical and political movements such as neo-folklore, new song, Nueva Troba, and Rock Latino; artistic movements such as Mexican muralist; traditional and popular crafts; cooking; popular dance; and film.Open to juniors and seniors only.(Prerequisites: SP 253 and permission of the instructor) Three cred
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