SPAN 270 Special Topics in Spanish: (Subtitle)
For students with years of previous study in Spanish as demonstrated by a placement protocol or with a passing grade in SPAN 202, SPAN 270 offers a bridge between skill-based courses and content-based courses approach to investigate a special topic in Spanish language and/or culture. While not limited to this list, topics may include phonetics, Spanish for heritage speakers, Spanish for a specialized field (science, business, etc.), Translation Studies in Spanish, Hispanophone cultural practices, Spanish approaches to literary study, literary theory, or selection of the literature of an author, movement, geographical region, or time period in the Spanish or Hispanophone tradition. While using the course’s topic as a content for academic inquiry, its objectives are primarily to develop the four skills of communication in Spanish (reading, writing, speaking, and listening), with a focus on real-time interpersonal and presentational oral production of cohesive paragraphs featuring narration and description in all tenses and on a variety of increasingly abstract and academic contexts, as well as on interpretive communication and argumentation through expository process writing. This course roughly targets the ACTFL Advanced-Mid rating. Teaching methodologies may include task-based, project-based, and other experiential learning assignments. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisite
Prerequisite:
SPAN 202, placement, or special instructor permission.
Notes
This course is repeatable for credit.