Spanish

This course offers an introduction to the historical evolution of Spanish, varieties of Spanish, and the grammatical, lexical, and linguistic characteristics of the language.

This course analyzes contemporary Mexican avant-garde literature, with an emphasis on the genre of poetry, considering literature as a product of the social and political conditions of the country. The course identifies formal and ideological characteristics of Mexican literary texts, recognizing the multiple poetics of the processes of rupture and tradition.

This course explores literary criticism and theory in Latin America and the theoretical foundations and critical and methodological contributions proposed for the study of Latin American literature. Topics include: Latin American literature in the 19th century and the problem of the formation of literature-- originality, independence, and nation; the professionalization of critical practice-- between tradition and modernity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, and originality and dependence; theory and criticism of the testimony genre-- the problem of genres in literary theory, forms and types of testimony, subject and voices in testimony, and fiction in testimony.

This course focuses on practicing, expanding, and improving Spanish language oral production in everyday contexts as well as improving pronunciation of Spanish through listening and articulation practice.

This course offers a study of intermediate Spanish equivalent to the B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Students who successfully complete the course can express themselves in a limited way in familiar situations and can deal in a general way with non-routine information.