Spanish

This course is designed for students at the B1.1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The course develops oral skills, comprehension, and expression. The course has three objectives and employs a variety of assignments to meet these objectives. The first is to develop the students' capacity to respond to a range of daily interactions. The next objective is to increase the students' ability to extract and express key points from oral and written materials about Spain's autonomous regions. The final objective of the course is to strengthen the students' capacity to participate in debates on subjects of personal interest.

This five-week advanced summer course is intended for students who have completed the intermediate series of Spanish language at the university level and stresses productive and receptive conversation and improvement of linguistic and communicative skills. The class aims to improve the development of comprehension and discourse production at a level near that of an educated native speaker. The course includes the practice of listening comprehension strategies in order to facilitate access to different types of discourse at varying levels of difficulty.

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.

The course offers a critical and historical perspectives of the Chilean theater in the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on the dramatic dimension. In particular, the course goes over the relationships between the production of drama in the region and the circumstances of cultural rearticulation in which this belongs to.