SPN 350-399 TOPICS IN TEXTUAL INTERPRETATIONS

These courses continue to advance students' Spanish language skills and intercultural competency, while acquainting students with Spain's and Spanish America's intellectual, cultural, and historical development through selected events, periods or themes. They also introduce students to the analysis of language and texts of diverse genres from the Hispanic world, such as literary, cinematic, testimonial, journalistic, etc. Course content emphasizes critical reflection and the way meaning is created through language, form, and expression. Students start to use appropriate terminology and concepts to analyze selected language and texts from different genres. Topics will vary according to term and faculty as well as the materials examined in the course. The prerequisite for all of the courses below is two courses at the lower 300-level (numbered SPN 300-349).