The course gives insight into central topics in modern Spanish American literature with an emphasis on tendencies in contemporary literature.
The students will work with a representative selection of texts, genres and periods, and develop an analytical understanding of the character of the texts. The course will give insight into central issues and questions within Spanish and Latin-American literature, and students will develop the ability to analyze subject material and draw their own conclusions.
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An introductory course in Spanish or Spanish Level 2 taken in upper secondary school (VGS).
Instruction is organized as a series of lectures, where the required course texts will be commented and analyzed. Both the historical context and the formal and thematic qualities of the texts will be discussed. In addition, the students will work in smaller groups with language, content, and other aspects of the texts in the curriculum. Lectures are given four hours a week for ten weeks. Additionally, there will be small group classes that focus on text analysis and writing competence, if resources are available.
There are two mandatory assignments: a short written summary of a literary text and an oral text commentary. These assignments must be completed by the deadlines, and are assessed as approved/not approved.
According to the University of Bergen's degree- and academic regulations, the students are given one new attempt per assignment if one or more of them were not approved the first time. Both assignments must be approved before the students can be assessed in the course.
The mandatory course assignments are valid for one semester after the semester the course was taken.
Assessment for the course is based on an oral exam. For the oral exam, the student will hold a 10-12 minute presentation of a topic given by the course instructor one week before the exam. After the presentation, the student will be examined on one other course topic. The grade will be based on the presentation and the conversation afterwards. The exam will be in Spanish.
The course reading (in total 400 pages) includes a selection of literary texts (novels, drama, short stories, and poetry) mainly from Spanish American contemporary literature. In addition, there will be historical reference works or a historical overview from an anthology relating to the literary texts. There will be an attempt to represent female and male authors equally.