SPAN-298 Intro to Span/Amer Literature

Credits 4 / 4 Contact Hours
Pre-requisite: Placement into RDNG-030 (ACSR-030), completion of ELAP-110 with a minimum grade of 2.0, or successful completion of RDNG-016 or ACLT-074 with a minimum grade of 3.0.
This course is an overview of Spanish American Literature. Introduces the forms of literary expressions in Spanish. Reading in Spanish of selections form literary masterpieces by major Spanish-American writers including short story drama and poetry.

Course Outcomes
• Demonstrate intercultural competence through discussion of literary texts, analyzing in a critical and analytic way in Spanish. • Demonstrate the ability to express the ways in which Latin American artistic communities creatively decolonize and represent themselves under different and continuous processes of colonization. • Demonstrate a sensitivity for literary language in Spanish. • Tell about various literary terms and concepts and be able to use them in explicating and interpreting literary texts in Spanish. • Show understanding of a diverse range of literary genres, trends, schools, and groups in Spanish. • Analyze and interpret literary texts in Spanish. • Demonstrate understanding of the historical, social, and political context of literary works in Spanish and apply that knowledge to a literary analysis of those works.