Document r: syllabus

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   Date Prepared: January 2012
   

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   Prepared by: Amarilis Hidalgo de Jesus
   

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   Department: Languages and Cultures
   

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   Course Number: SPANISH 212
   

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   Course Title: Spanish American Culture and Civilization
   

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   Credit Hours: 3
   

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   Prerequisites: No prerequisites.
   

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   Catalog Description:
   

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   Content Outline:
   

Selections of readings and media illustrate the history of Spain and its culture, with emphasis on minority and gender issues. Required course content addresses cultural topics as they develop over time, especially the Spanish language, the arts, humanities, science and technology, geography, major historical events, and social and political structures and traditions. A course plan may include, but is not limited to the following:

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    Methods:
    

Course is taught in English and includes a combination of lecture and discussion. Class size is limited to 40 students in order to facilitate discussion and manage complex material. Students work on projects, take tests and quizzes, and participate in class discussions. Written assignments and oral presentations investigate specific topics. Activities outside class, such as participation in informal conversation groups or film viewings, may be assigned. Alternate assignments may be provided in lieu of out-of-class or co-curricular activities. Access to electronic resources such as the Internet is required. SPANISH 212 is offered in alternating semesters.

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    Student Learning Objectives:
    

SPANISH 212 is designed both to support the department’s established program goals, and to enhance the university’s General Education program. Cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience play a central role in general education. Cultural history examines the records and narrative descriptions of past knowledge, customs, and arts of a group of people, constituting a continuum of events leading from the past to the present and into the future. Because studies in culture and civilization records and interprets past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political settings, SPANISH 212 fulfills 2 GEPs for Goal 4 - Cultures and Diversity. Culture and civilization is inextricably integrated with Arts and Humanities and therefore a significant portion of historical study includes creative, philosophical, literary, and performative works. Hence SPANISH 212 fulfills 1 GEP for Goal 7 – Arts and Humanities.

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    Student Assessment:
    

Assessment instruments may include the following:

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   11a: Tests and the final exam include sections that specifically address Spanish American cultural history. Possible individualized and collaborative projects may focus on one or more specific selected cultural topics. On-line and in-class discussions also indicate the specific knowledge acquired regarding Spanish American cultural history.
   
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   11b: Tests and the final exam include sections that specifically address the relevance of Latin American cultural history to basic general issues of race, gender and class, including to those problems that arise in the students’ own world. Possible individualized and collaborative projects may focus on one or more specific selected issue of general relevance, as will on-line and in-class discussions.
   
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   11c: Guided written and oral presentations are structured according to approaches and methods of cultural inquiry.
   
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   11d: Guided written and oral presentations are structured to reflect the level critical understanding of intercultural awareness.
   
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   11e: Independent projects and prepared discussions based on readings from Hispanic literatures and cultures, including cultural artifacts from various media (film, etc.) are devoted to the critical confrontation with the products of Hispanic cultures in their historical and social contexts.
   

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    Evaluation of Individual Student Performance:
    

Evaluation of student performance may include but is not limited to projects, tests and quizzes, discussions during class, written assignments and oral presentations which investigate specific topics, activities outside class, such as participation in informal conversation groups or film viewings, and alternate assignments completed through co-curricular activities. Other measures of evaluation may be integrated as appropriate or necessary.

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    Course Assessment:
    

Specific course assessment will take place as imbedded test questions on final exams or embedded material on final exam projects. Additional assessment data may be gathered using independent projects and writing assignments. The assessment data gathered, as well as the tools used to gather the data, will be reviewed at appropriate intervals both by the department Assessment Committee and by the department General Education Committee to verify the extent to which student learning outcomes are being achieved. Modifications to the course will be made accordingly. Assessment data will be reported to the Office of Planning and Assessment.

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    Supporting Materials and References:
    

*Allen, Paula Smith. 1951 Metamorphosis and the Emergence of the Feminine: A Motif of "Difference" in Women’s Writing. New York: Lang, 1999. Print.

Bethel, Leslie. Ed. A Cultural History of Latin America: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2010. Print.

Dosman, Edgar J. The life and times of Raúl Prebisch, 1901-1986. Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. Print.

*Fojas, Camila. Cosmopolitanism in the Americas. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2005. Print.

Hernández-Rodríguez, Maria T. Pao, Rafael Agítese. Bien!: A New Look at the Hispanic Avant-Gardes. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2002. Print.

Ihrie, Maureen. Ed. World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. 3 Vol. Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2011. Print.

Jaffe, Catherine M. and Franklin Lewis Elizabeth. Eve’s Enlightenment: Women’s Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726-1839. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2009. Print.

*Legras, Horacio. Literature and Subjection: The Economy of Writing and Marginality in Latin America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. Print.

*Stavans, Ilan. Art and Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Print.

*Van Delden, Maarten and Grenier, Yvon. Gunshots at the Fiesta: Literature and Politics in Latin America. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2009. Print.

16. Prototype Text:

Goodman, Paul. Global Studies Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. Print.