May. Summer reading preceding arrival at School Year Abroad is required. This course offers a survey of Spanish and Spanish-American literature and thought while enriching the students knowledge of the Spanish language. Class discussions focus on the theme of the work, its characters and literary style. Students write essays frequently. These are graded on content and form.
Course work is supplemented by films shown in class and attendance at local theatre productions.
Summer reading preceding arrival at School Year Abroad is required. This course is taught by an instructor on leave from one of our home schools in the United States. Works studied vary from year to year depending on the interests and specialties of the teacher, but are usually chosen with the SYA experience in mind. Often the texts depict characters experiencing alienation, isolation, foreignness or self-discovery, and the notion of place, both geographic and internal, is a frequent topic of discussion. One year the theme was the geography of the imagination, and the students took up questions about exile, home and the radical displacements of slavery and war.