Students will continue their studies of the main grammatical structures of Spanish and will read literary and cultural selections and a novel in Spanish. Students will be presented with audio-visual material to further develop listening and conversation skills. Classroom participation, attendance, an oral interview, compositions, departmental exams, and a video activity. For students with some previous experience in Spanish. Four class meetings per week plus one hour per week in the language laboratory.
Emphasis is placed on speaking, reading, writing, and oral comprehension.
Students will be presented with audio-visual material to further develop listening and conversation skills. Homework, quizzes and examinations, oral interviews, compositions, class participation, and a video activity. Reading, analysis, and discussion of selected works by Spanish-American authors from the colonial period to 1888. The course will emphasize the different literary styles and interpretations of the Spanish-American experience and introduce the student to the social and historical context in which the works were written. In particular, this course will focus on issues of cultural identity, as these unfolded through the transition from the colonial period to the establishment and consolidation of the newly independent states in the nineteenth century.