SPAN 260 Introduction to Spanish Literature

Course Summary: General Expectations Like all other Spanish courses, Span 260 is a lot of work! Moreover, a literature course requires a little more discipline than a language course. You will be reading literary texts, in their original language and form, and some of these might be challenging. Therefore, you are expected to work on the material on a daily basis and to schedule yourself so that you have time to read the complete text, assimilate the material and participate in class. However, it is worth the work because it will help you solidify the background you built in previous Spanish courses and it will prepare you for future Spanish courses. Span 260 will be very helpful when you take more advanced literature and culture courses at UNC. In addition, please read carefully: 1. This will be a course with a Project Based Learning Component (PBL). What that means in practice is that throughout the semester part of our work will be conducted collaboratively towards the creation of an end of semester project. 2. A good percentage of the course-work, inside and outside of class will entail peer review and assessment. For each one of our modules there will be a session in which you will edit and correct your work collaboratively. 3. This course takes a Design Thinking/Digital approach to learning. For each one of our modules there will be a Lab session where we will learn to "think" digitally and to "design" with an end user in mind. The course itself is designed to teach you about the methodologies of literary analysis via incremental iterations of the same exercises. 4. We will also use other digital tools, most prominently googledocs and native digital humanities tools TBD.