Course Description Conducted in Spanish, the course introduces the principles of literary analysis, based on reading and discussion of Hispanic literary texts. Includes fiction, drama, essay, and poetry from Spain and Spanish America.
Course Reflective Narrative This course helped me increase my language proficiency and literary knowledge. This course fulfills major learning outcomes 1 and 3. In this course it was required to do a group presentation, this project helped me to sharpen my presentational skills in a professional setting. In this course I learned to work with a group, through this experience I was able to receive constructive feedback from classmates. It helped me to know what i was doing well and what needed improvement. The presentation project helped me to fulfill major learning outcome 1, I learned to communicate effectively in the three different modes: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational. This project gave me the experience to learn how to work with a group, interpret the literary work and do a professional presentation to a class. Furthermore in this class I was able to fulfill MLO 3, I gained literary and cultural knowledge. In this class I learned about most of the latin american authors. The book Aproximaciones al estudio de la literatura hispánica by Carmelo Virgilio had a variety of literary work: novels, short stories, poems and more. It was incredible to learn about different genres and authors. In this course I also learned about the latin american culture, its beliefs and values. Through the literary readings I was able to identify the old and actual beliefs and values of the latin american culture. I believe that I will never stop learning, I want to develop my literary knowledge and learn more about other authors that we did not cover during the class. Also I want to learn about the modern writers of Latin América, it is important to be updated in everything. This course relates to other courses I have taken at CSUMB, in most of the courses it is very important that students learn to work with a group since that is essential in the workplace. SPAN 304 also has similarities with other courses I have taken because they taught me to respect other cultures and perspectives.