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Oct 31, 2024
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ENG 293 - Latin American Literature Credits: 3 Description An introduction to a rich and complex tradition of literary production from Latin America (including the Caribbean) that dates back from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Course will be conducted in English.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Analyze and synthesize a variety of sources, both primary and secondary, including poetry, chronicle letters, historiography, film, web sites, philosophical and theoretical essays of Latin American writers.
- Summarize the major themes and literary movements of Latin America.
- Classify work according to literary movements, such as Baroque, Romantic, Modernism, boom and post-boom.
- Explain the political, historical, and literary contexts that produce this body of literature.
- Describe the problems involved in translation.
- Discuss the complexity of a single area of world literature, as well as the relationship between themselves and the historic contexts and cultural traditions of that area.
- Conduct research using library and internet sources.
- Organize researched material into a paper, using MLA parenthetical documentation, and a list of works cited.
Prerequisite: ENG 100 or ENG 101 or ENG 101H or ENG 110 or ENG 113 with a grade of C- or higher; or Department Chair or Instructor approval Corequisite: None Graded: Letter Grade
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