SPAN 560 - Hispanic Service Learning/Internship

Credit Hours: 3

Course emphasizes increasing fluency in comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing skills as well as understanding of cultural issues while performing service in a Spanish-speaking atmosphere. Students are required to spend several hours providing service for a community partner to improve their language skills and appreciation for the Latino community. Taught every semester. such as José Donoso and Isabel Allende. The literature of Uruguay and Paraguay will concentrate on the short stories of Horacio Quiroga, the Modernista poetry of Delmira Agustini and the novel with Augusto Roa Bastos.