SPAN 150
Topics in Contemporary Studies: Jorge Luis Borges
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 25 or 27, and 119. Exploration of main trends that characterize contemporary Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures and main concepts used to address them. Possible topics include transculturation and heterogeneity, race and ethnicity, vanguard movements, lettered and popular cultures, literary modernization in Latin American boom, literature and revolution, autobiography, women's writing, border literature, and postmodernist fiction. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Summer 2024 - Professor Cortinez is extremely knowledgeable. Taking her class felt like something special, and I believe I would not have been able to learn what she taught and the extent to which she taught it from another professor. Professor Cortinez's class was definitely challenging due to the fast pace of the class, the amount of readings we were expected to get through, and the difficulty level of the readings. I feel most students in the class struggled with this, myself included. To accommodate this, however, Professor Cortinez made herself extremely available for students to ask questions. She also went over all the readings in depth to accommodate for gaps in student understanding. Professor Cortinez is also an extremely fair grader on exams-- if your work shows you have put in effort to keep up with the class, she will give you at least an A or a B. While you have to put in work to get an A, it is absolutely doable. Overall, I enjoyed this class very much and feel it was an extremely valuable experience.
Summer 2024 - Professor Cortinez is extremely knowledgeable. Taking her class felt like something special, and I believe I would not have been able to learn what she taught and the extent to which she taught it from another professor. Professor Cortinez's class was definitely challenging due to the fast pace of the class, the amount of readings we were expected to get through, and the difficulty level of the readings. I feel most students in the class struggled with this, myself included. To accommodate this, however, Professor Cortinez made herself extremely available for students to ask questions. She also went over all the readings in depth to accommodate for gaps in student understanding. Professor Cortinez is also an extremely fair grader on exams-- if your work shows you have put in effort to keep up with the class, she will give you at least an A or a B. While you have to put in work to get an A, it is absolutely doable. Overall, I enjoyed this class very much and feel it was an extremely valuable experience.
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