Language & Legacy in the U.S.

Catalog description

SPAN 251 is the second section of a sequence of two courses (SPAN 201 or SPAN 203) covering the second year of college-level Spanish, it continues the development of the four communicative skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. This course prepares students to move into the advanced conversation and composition course, by using cultural and literary readings and videos, as well as grammar reviews. Emphasis is on vocabulary building and the use of Spanish to express ideas and opinions on the Latinx community in the United States. In addition, this course examines the political, historical, social, economic, and cultural realities of the Latinx community in the U.S.