SPAN-298 Intro to Span/Amer Literature

Credits 4 / 4 Contact Hours
Pre-requisite: Placement into ACRD-090, ACRD-091 or ACRD-092, completion of ELAP-110 with a minimum grade of 2.0, or successful completion of ACRD-080.
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.