SPAN 150
Topics in Contemporary Studies
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.
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Winter 2018 - I had Professor van Delden for Spanish 150, Contemporary Mexico. His class was a discussion-based one where we read texts at home each week and came to class to share our thoughts. At the start of one of the classes each week, we had a pop multiple-choice quiz about the reading. These quizzes were difficult in that they sometimes focused on specific details within the readings, but you could drop one grade. The course was split into three units, and for each, we had to write a paper comparing a couple of the texts that we had read. We had two extra credit opportunities where we had to attend a seminar and write a one-pager about it. Overall, the class was easy and the professor was kind and approachable, both during class and office hours. Native speakers may have difficulties in this class because he grades grammar in the essays.
Winter 2018 - I had Professor van Delden for Spanish 150, Contemporary Mexico. His class was a discussion-based one where we read texts at home each week and came to class to share our thoughts. At the start of one of the classes each week, we had a pop multiple-choice quiz about the reading. These quizzes were difficult in that they sometimes focused on specific details within the readings, but you could drop one grade. The course was split into three units, and for each, we had to write a paper comparing a couple of the texts that we had read. We had two extra credit opportunities where we had to attend a seminar and write a one-pager about it. Overall, the class was easy and the professor was kind and approachable, both during class and office hours. Native speakers may have difficulties in this class because he grades grammar in the essays.
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