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SPAN 350 - Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Literature

(3 units) CO12
Introduction to literary analysis of Spanish and Latin American texts (narrative, lyric, and drama), with emphasis on discerning the ethical and moral issues they contain.

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 305.

Units of Lecture: 3
Core Status: CO12
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to define the main features of the four principal literary genres.
2. Students will be able to accurately apply Spanish literary terminology in their analyses and explications of narrative, lyric poetry, and dramatic works.
3. Students will be able to identify and analyze ethical issues evident in the narratives and dramatic works presented.
4. Students will be able to articulate what makes a given course of action ethically defensible for a particular character and weigh it against alternative courses of action.
5. Students will be able to assess their own ethical values and compare them with the values evidenced in the characters and situations presented.
6. Students will be able to apply the rules of Spanish prosody to determine the meter and rhyme schemes of verses.
7. Students will be able to develop cogent interpretations from narrative, lyric poetry, and dramatic works, and to express those interpretations in Spanish, orally and in writing.


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