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 or SPAN 307.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer

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