In addition to required course work, students who decide to major in Spanish further demonstrate their mastery of these skills in the department’s senior integrative exercise.
Expected Outcomes
With Regard to Knowledge of the Field. Majors should be able to:
- Comprehend major
currents and concerns in Hispanic literature over time. - Understand the nature
of literary and cultural creations and phenomena within their specific context. - Understand and examine
the continued pertinence of the primary texts within the field of Hispanic
literature.
With Regard to Specific Skills of Inquiry, Analysis, and Expression. Majors should be able to:
- Read, discuss, present,
and write in the language at the level appropriate for advanced students in a
B. A. program. - Locate (with the
appropriate searching tools) and cite (in the format specified by the
department or instructor) primary and secondary sources. - Use primary sources as
evidence of thesis-driven argument. - Use secondary sources
to situate work in the context of the discipline. - Communicate
effectively, both orally and in writing, the results of their own research and
the research of others. - Write thesis-driven and
descriptive essays on sophisticated themes that are pertinent to the study of
literature in the context of the cultures in which it is produced. - Recognize and
understand the strategies and structures that constitute a literary text. - Recognize and locate
individual texts within the cultural, historical, aesthetic traditions from
which they arise. - Recognize and
critically examine key assumptions underlying exemplary texts in Hispanic
Literature.