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Provides additional language development for students, emphasizing academic writing skills in Spanish. This course requires students to have completed one year of college-level Spanish.

Esta clase está dedicada al estudio de la literatura española del periodo de la Dictadura de Franco desde 1939, en el tiempo de la postguerra en el que la sociedad española carece de libertades y el contraste con el nuevo periodo que se abre para la sociedad y la literatura con la llegada de la democracia en España en 1978 hasta la actualidad. Testigo esencial fue la solicitud a la CEE para una eventual integración de España en el Mercado Común el año 1962, en el que se inicia la larga ruta de la eupeización que culminará en 1986, con su ingreso en la Comunidad Europea.

This course is a study and investigation of the perceptions of Spain that Spanish authors have left us through their novels, articles, poems and plays. Three very rich and powerful literary movements—romanticism, realism and modernism—will be examined. The personality and plays of Federico Garcia Lorca will also be explored.

In this course you will study Spanish literature around 1898. This was a time of crisis in Spanish society from which a group of writers surfaced that made up the Silver Age of Hispanic arts. The period studied is after the Civil War of 1936 with the censor limitations of Franco. Lastly, authors of the restored democracy will be read and studied.In the Spring Semester and Spring Quarter this course is offered in Block B.

Review and development of aspects of Spanish grammar with special attention to idiomatic usage. This course requires students to have completed one year of college-level Spanish.

Throughout history some behaviors have been qualified as criminal and societies have found different ways of punishing them. Still, crime is a current issue and states and international institutions have worked unsuccessfully trying to find and provide solutions. As of late, global society has brought the tension between development and poverty to a critical point and responses in general point to the segregation and discrimination of many people and absolute disdain for human rights.

In this course, will participate in a series of conversational activities in order to develop their spoken Spanish. Activities will focus on building vocabulary, improving pronunciation, and learning culturally appropriate pragmatic conversation skills (turn taking, conventional turns of phrase, formulaic greetings, etc.). This course requires students to have completed one year of college-level Spanish.

In Latin American and Argentine History, you will learn to understand present day Argentina by discussing the country’s main political, social, economic and cultural processes. Using different conceptual and textual tools, you will expand your opportunities for understanding the Spanish language. In this sense, the priority will be speaking and reading comprehension. This course requires students to have completed two years of college-level Spanish.

In Latin American and Argentine Culture, you will learn about Argentine culture and how it relates to Latin America. Using different conceptual and textual tools, you will expand your opportunities for understanding the Spanish language. In this sense, the priority will be speaking and reading comprehension. This course requires students to have completed two years of college-level Spanish.

Like sailing, gardening, politics and poetry, journalism is a craft of place; it works by the light of local knowledge," said James Carey. The pre-structure of Italian journalism is different from that of American journalism and the journalistic tradition, as well as the state of the media of a country, has much to tell us about that culture. Media products do not necessarily mirror reality, but the media themselves, as a powerful symbolic agent that creates reality, are an important piece of the mirror image of society.