Museum of New Mexico Press. Tatum, Charles, Editor. Inc. Adopted 1992. Instruction and classroom activities are designed to assist the students in reading and appreciating Mexican and Chicano literature in translation. The course includes an analysis of historical, lyrical, philosophical, and social dimensions of representative writers and themes.
Special emphasis is placed on writing skills, comprehension, and literary analysis.
Representative works are studied and analyzed orally and in writing according to their social, historical, philosophical and lyrical importance. Literary movements, chronicles, and historical literature are compared and discussed. The relationship of fine arts to literature is examined and discussed. A review of speech, grammar and syntax is provided. Discussion of historical facts, literary critiques, and actual novels and short stories are utilized in developing writing skills.