This course focuses on the essential elements of effective communication in the Spanish language. The student will acquire a basic competence in the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), and learn to appreciate the language as a communication system for a different culture, including its distinct thought processes and viewpoints. (One course.)
- Teacher: Louise Barbaro-Medrano
This course focuses on the essential elements of effective communication in the Spanish language. The student will acquire a basic competence in the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), and learn to appreciate the language as a communication system for a different culture, including its distinct thought processes and viewpoints. (One course.)
- Teacher: Louise Barbaro-Medrano
This course focuses on the essential elements of effective communication in the Spanish language. The student will acquire a basic competence in the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), and learn to appreciate the language as a communication system for a different culture, including its distinct thought processes and viewpoints. (One course.)
- Teacher: Louise Barbaro-Medrano
A study of the history and culture of Spain from early life on the Iberian peninsula through the 21st century, including a focus on regional identities and cultures. Prerequisites: SPAN 220, 230 or 240 or permission of instructor. (One course.)
- Teacher: Sabino Luevano-Ortega
(Cross-listed as MERI-315 and LAST-315). This course explores Latin American Cinema, either as a whole or focused on one particular national tradition -- depending on the necessities of the students, and if its offered on campus or abroad. Either way, it will analyze films both in its artistic importance, and its historical value to approach to the political and cultural context of the countries/region studied. Some topics for the Latin American class are dictatorships in Argentina and Chile; multiculturalism in Peru and Bolivia; immigration in El Salvador and Honduras; revolution in Cuba and Venezuela, etc. We will use multiple approaches and methodologies to study national cinema(s), emphasizing their relationship to politics, history, and culture. This course also aims to build an idea of what 'national history' and 'national identity' meant over the last century, the role cinema played in that construction, and how these traditions and film industries currently interplay with global markets. (One course.)
- Teacher: Amy de Farias
- Teacher: Sabino Luevano-Ortega
Emphasis on the spoken and written language aimed toward accurate oral and written expression. Includes intensive review of grammar as well as readings and discussions of Hispanic culture. Prerequisite: SPAN 102 or placement. (One course.)
- Teacher: Sabino Luevano-Ortega
Continuation of SPAN 101. Practice and acquisition of increasingly complex vocabulary and sentence structure, tenses and moods, leading to greater accuracy in oral and written expression. Prerequisite: SPAN 101 or placement. (One course.)
- Teacher: Sabino Luevano-Ortega