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SPAN 228Introduction to Latin American Literature

Faculty
Arts
Last listed
Spring 2021

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2021 and last ran in Winter 2021. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

When it ran

  1. W21

Ran in 1 term, Winter 2021 to Winter 2021.

Through reading representative works, this course introduces students to the study of Latin American literature, paying special attention to questions of critical approach and terminology, genre, literary history, and the historicity of texts.

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: SPAN 201B or 210

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  • I found this class super challenging. I'm a student from Applied Health Sciences (doing a minor in Spanish) so I'm not used to analyzing fiction things. I'm used to the cold hard facts where there is no room for interpretation. That's what made this class so hard. Mario Boido is a fair marker though and was understanding. This class was good because I got to practice my Spanish but I didn't like it because I despise analyzing stories...and that's all you do. Also, there were no midterms/exams which was a plus!

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In the scanned calendars

How it read in each calendar from 1980–81 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

1980–81 to 1994–95 15 calendars

This course is a continuation of SPAN 227 and will study the period beginning with Modernismo (c. 1880) to the present day. Works of such renowned authors as Neruda, Borges and Garcia Marquez will form part of the material taught in this course, The approach will be similar to SPAN 227 with special emphasis on textual analysis.

(WLU 209/259-03)

Prereq: SPAN 227

Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit