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| Course ID: | SPAN 3030. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Texts in Global Contexts | Course
Description: | Explore, debate, and research literature, media, and art from the Spanish-speaking world while building fluency in the Spanish language. | | Oasis Title: | Texts in Global Contexts | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in SPAN 3030E, SPAN 3030H | | Prerequisite: | (SPAN 3010 or SPAN 3010H or SPAN 3011) and (SPAN 3020 or SPAN 3020H) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | This course introduces students to the vocabulary, methods, and
techniques of literary analysis of selected Spanish and Spanish-
American texts from the five literary genres to be studied:
poetry, drama, novel, essay, and short story. Students will
learn how to analyze competently a literary text as
artistically-formed content, paying special attention to plot
development, characterization, theme, structure, poetic rhyme
and meter, style, language, rhetorical devices, tropes, etc.
Successful completion of this course will enable students to
move on to the 4000-level surveys of literature. Given in
Spanish. | | Topical Outline: | Differences between literature and literary art.
Differences between non-fictional and fictional literature.
Terminology associated with the analysis of literature as an
art form.
Characteristics of poetry in general, its different forms,
determining meter and rhyme scheme, and methods of analysis.
Characteristics of drama and methods of analysis.
Characteristics of the novel and methods of analysis.
Characteristics of the essay and methods of analysis.
Characteristics of the short story and methods of analysis. | |
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