Overview
Description
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.
Requirements
Prerequisites
SPAN 305SPAN 307
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 305 or SPAN 307.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Terms
fall, spring, summer
Core
CO12
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- define the main features of the four principal literary genres.
- accurately apply Spanish literary terminology in their analyses and explications of narrative, lyric poetry, and dramatic works.
- identify and analyze ethical issues evident in the narratives and dramatic works presented.
- articulate what makes a given course of action ethically defensible for a particular character and weigh it against alternative courses of action.
- assess their own ethical values and compare them with the values evidenced in the characters and situations presented.
- apply the rules of Spanish prosody to determine the meter and rhyme schemes of verses.
- develop cogent interpretations from narrative, lyric poetry, and dramatic works, and to express those interpretations in Spanish, orally and in writing.