Spring semester of 2020
- Course number: Spanish 301
- Course Title: Spanish Composition and Oral Practice
- Course description: Content-based instruction develops communicative language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing through readings and discussions of authentic Hispanic cultural and literary texts. For students with two or more years of Spanish or an intermediate level of Spanish language proficiency.
- MLO 1
- Course reflective narrative:Language proficiency was studied all around this course and prepared me to essentially conquer real-world conversations and build on that, by having me learn effective ways to transition from different ideas to build an essential profile of language use in real-world scenarios such as job interviews, formal and informal conversations. Language proficiency applied in this course pushed me to apply their language skills to meet the advanced low level of language proficiency in accordance with the ACTFL guidelines assigned by the world languages and cultures department.
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- Link:Ensayo Narrativo
- Course number: Spanish 325
- Course Title: Hispanic Cinema
- Course description:This course examines the multiple ways that Hispanic and Brazilian filmmakers have seen Hispanic world, its people, religious beliefs and cultures for more than a century. This course provides the student with a range of perspectives on cultural developments in Spain, Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean from the colonial to the modern period, using critical and literary texts as well as films.
- MLO 5
- Course reflective narrative:Hispanic Cinema fulfills my MLO 5 requirement by exploring different social justice issues related to Latin America through different films. The films directly implicated the social issues at the time in specific countries, if not the issues were portrayed arbitrarily throughout the film. This class engaged students through comprehension questions and reflection posts in order to make sure students understood the bigger picture of the issues portrayed in the films over time. The class tackled issues on machismo, LGBTQ societal issues, and persecution of people in other countries. This course ties in with other courses as it offers us an opportunity to explore history through films and connect what we’ve learned in prior history classes to answer questions on the setting and history of certain films. The class overall offered history through films and dramatization to examine how history is relevant, even in Hollywood. The use of literary texts made it essential to learning about how and why these films were important to view in the classroom. Some further steps that I can take to further expand my knowledge in these areas is to view more films and try to find history in them and what they can offer me, someone who is a Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures Major.
- Course evidence/work samples
- Link:The life of a humble servant
- Course number: Spanish 345
- Course Title: Bilingualism in the Spanish Speaking world
- Course description:This course explores the nature of bilingualism, focusing on its neurolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and linguistic aspects. Students will examine the most important concepts and research questions in these areas. In addition, the class will focus on bilingualism in the United States and the Spanish-speaking world, including the examination of bilingual education programs (e.g., immersion programs) and important political matters connected to them.
- MLO 2
- Course reflective narrative: A course that also focused on the linguistic aspects of the Spanish language was (Span 345:Bilingualism in the Spanish Speaking world). An assignment that focused on the linguistic aspects of the language was the characterization of the phonemes and graphemes of various words.
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