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Student Learning
Outcomes:
SPAN 3570
Course Title:
Contemporary Spanish Culture and Society through Film
1. Program Objective #1: Oral Proficiency: students will be able to:
 Converse in a clearly participatory fashion
 Initiate, sustain, and bring to closure a wide variety of communicative tasks,
including those that require an increased ability to convey meaning with diverse
language strategies due to a complications or an unforeseen turn of events
 Satisfy the requirements of school and work situations, and
 Narrate and describe with paragraph-length connected discourse.
2. Program Objective #2: Writing: students will be able to:
 Argue, describe, collect and practice the lexical and syntactic aspects of the
target language through the arrangement of words, sentences and paragraphs
 Communicate conclusions from research and argue their case and position in
Spanish
 Demonstrate satisfactory control of the language by writing.
3. Program Objective #3: Cultural Awareness: students will be able to:
 Demonstrate a more full understanding of the people of Latin American and
Spain
 Have studied concepts and information and show understanding of the
civilization and fine art of Latin America and Spain, including art, literature,
history, geography, music and architecture.
4. Program Objective #4: Literature Analysis: students will be able to:
 Comprehend and use comfortably a variety of literary lexicon.
 Interpret and analyze literary texts in Spanish.
 Interpret and analyze the significance of time, place, class in which the works of
literature in Spanish were created.
 Evaluate and construct arguments in Spanish when comparing two or more literary
pieces belonging to different periods of time.
• Students will be able to write an academic film analysis.
Students will be able to write five page analysis using grammatically correct Spanish at an
advanced level.
• Students will be able to demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of particular periods in the
XIX through XXI centuries.
• Students will have the skills to understand the visual techniques used for communicating
through film.
• Students will develop an appreciation of what distinguishes film as an art form.
1. Introduction to cinematography. Basic film terms.
Cinema as an art form. History of Spanish Cinema.
Introduction to methodologies of film criticism.
General Outline of
Course Content:
2. Golpe al corazón
Film: Sístole diastole
Short story: Cine y malabarismo
Poem: “Tú me quieres blanca”
3. El Filo del poder
Film: El laberinto del fauno
Short story: Los censores
Poem: “Explico algunas cosas”
4. El lado oscuro
Film: Tercero B
Short story: El revolver
Short story: La noche boca arriba
5. Lazos de sangre
Film: El hijo de la novia
Short story: La prodigiosa tarde de Baltazar
Poem: “Canción de otoño en primavera”
6. Una cuestión de género
Film: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
Short story: Emma Zunz
Drama (extract): El eterno femenino
7. La moral a prueba
Film: El crimen del Padre Amaro
Short story: La conciencia
Short story: La nochebuena de Encarnación Mendoza
Methods of Student
Assessment (e.g.
type, number,
percent):
Attendance & Participation – 10%
Quizzes (3) – 30%
Film Analysis (6) – 30%
Oral Presentation – 10%
Final Paper – 20%
Possible Text
(or other materials):
Courtad, James, Kathryn Everly, and Martín Gaspar. Intrigas. Advanced Spanish through
Literature and Film. 4th ed. Boston: Vista Higher Learning, 2012.
Other Information:
Areas in bold are required.