Text and Cultural Analysis

Catalog description

This course is designed to develop writing and analytical skills in Spanish. Built around the questions, \201CWhat is literature?\201D and \201CWhat is a text?,\201D the course examines literary texts divided by genres (poetry, short story, theatre, novel, essay) and non-literary texts (autobiography, testimony, documentary film, chronicles), and looks to examine textual structure, narrative point of view, and focalization as principal analytical considerations. Students in this course develop skills for close textual readings in class discussions and engage in writing as a collaborative process that includes self-correction, peer correction and correction by the instructor. The course includes a final research paper that is developed throughout the semester and has readings from the Golden Age in Spain or slave narratives in the Caribbean to modern theatre and the novel. Critical Approaches counts for all Spanish majors and minors in the Department of Classic and Modern Languages. College of Arts & Sciences Classics & Modern Languages