THE SPANISH AMERICAN SHORT STORY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: ( CHICLA/SPANISH 222 or SPANISH 223 ) and SPANISH 224 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify key themes, motifs, literary devices, and main characters in short stories and illustrate their importance in constructing the main themes/topics. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Compare and contrast the construction of relevant plots and characters in targeted short stories. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Analyze the representation of main themes/topics in Spanish American short stories and assess the connections of those representations with other arts forms (e. g. cinema) and with the political, philosophical and literary history in contemporary Spanish American societies. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Evaluate and appraise various scholarly interpretations of key themes in Spanish American short stories, offering reasoned arguments for their positions. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Formulate and defend an original thesis on the portrayal of key themes in Spanish American short stories. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify key themes, motifs, literary devices, and main characters in short stories and illustrate their importance in constructing the main themes/topics. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Compare and contrast the construction of relevant plots and characters in targeted short stories. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Analyze the representation of main themes/topics in Spanish American short stories and assess the connections of those representations with other arts forms (e. g. cinema) and with the political, philosophical and literary history in contemporary Spanish American societies. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Evaluate and appraise various scholarly interpretations of key themes in Spanish American short stories, offering reasoned arguments for their positions. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Formulate and defend an original thesis on the portrayal of key themes in Spanish American short stories. Audience: Undergraduate