SPAN 4082W

Students hone speaking, reading, and writing skills by analyzing and debating films from Latin America that explore gender, immigration, globalization, geopolitics, and the region’s diverse cultures and societies, in addition to creative questions related to different film genres and styles. Given in Spanish.

This version of the course, with the W suffix, is taught as writing intensive, which means that the course includes substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a) facilitate learning; b) teach the communication values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; c) support writing as a process; and d) prepare students for further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and in professional life. Writing instruction and assignments are integral to the class’s learning objectives, and the instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in supporting students as writers. More specifically, this course will involve students in informal writing assignments that promote course learning; stage and sequence assignments to encourage writing as a process of creating and communicating knowledge; maximize opportunities for guidance, feedback, and revision; teach the writing conventions that are inseparable from modes of inquiry in a discipline; and make writing a substantive component of the overall course grade to underscore the value of writing to the course, the discipline, and student learning.

Not open to students with credit in SPAN 4082.

Not offered on a regular basis.