Spanish Storytelling

Catalog description

This course focuses on developing learners' linguistic and cultural competence in Spanish at the ACTFL intermediate-mid level through the process of storytelling. Adopting a multiliteracies approach to learning, students will analyze and evaluate various types of stories and/or texts in Spanish and discuss the different visual, cultural, and/or linguistic elements. Content in this course might include, but is not limited to, TED Talks, podcasts, personal narratives, written histories, and short films. Through the analysis of the content in this course, students will then create a culminating story of their own, one in which they will share about diverse perspectives and identities that are present in the Spanish-speaking world. Prerequisite: three courses from the following: SPA 302 , SPA 307 , SPA 309 , SPA 310 , SPA 312 , SPA 322 , SPA 323 , SPA 325 , SPA 332 , SPA 333 , SPA 335 . Offered Occasionally.