Course overview
The course represents advanced learning, scholarship and research in the area of Latin American Studies. It is the final stage of formal culture tuition in the Spanish language as well as extending students' knowledge and research skills in Latin American cultures, building on the learning and research capabilities gained in the Spanish Studies major. It focuses on skills of higher order spoken and written expression, through tasks such as literary analysis and academic writing exercises. It will also develop skills of textual analysis and documentary scholarship in relation to specific forms of cultural expression, such as literature, film and music.
Course learning outcomes
- Comprehend the cognitive nature of artistic practices in Latin America
- Explore a wide range of diverse Latin American literary practices/discourses
- Better your interpretative competence in the target language
- In depth and critically discuss Latin American Literary texts
- Consolidate your communicative competence in the Spanish language
- Enhance his/her intercultural competence
- Reach an understanding of the diversity of ways in which Latin American artistic communities creatively decolonise
- Reach an understanding of the diversity of ways in which Latin American artistic communities represent themselves under processes of continuous colonisation.Understand the different loci of enunciation from which Latin American writers speak from as an expression of situated knowledge
- Enhance your reading & writing skills in the Spanish language