Latin American Women Writers
Class Description: Taught in Spanish, the course focuses on reading and analyzing works from Latin American women writers. Examines fiction by and about women from varied socio-cultural backgrounds to discover the diversity and the commonality of female experience in different geographical regions. Students examine the narrative strategies employed by these writers in interpreting social, political, cultural, and religious forces that create gender, class, and ethnic barriers in Latin American society.
Personal Description:Latin-American Women Writers has been the course that I have enjoyed the most, although it was the most challenging intellectually. Taught by Dr. Zielina, this course focused on Latin American Women Writers and it explored cultural, historical and social issues that manifested themselves through literature. Much of what I learned from the course was introduced through the reading of several shorty stories and novels; the material learned from these sources was then discussed extensively throughout the semester. The material introduced helped me broaden my understanding of the Woman struggle in the Latin American continent. This course fulfilled the Major Learning Outcome 3 which covers Literary Knowledge, through this fulfillment students were immersed in the learning and refining their analyzing skills dealing with Latin American Literature. This course was instrumental in introducing new concepts for analyzing and being critical about Literature that has been recently analyzed. The course placed and emphasis in analyzing and using material that has reputable sources, through this emphasis, students learned how to be critical about the material dealt with within the context of the books introduced in class. Overall, the course introduced new concepts and approaches to material that may have been polemic in recent years, but allowed students to approach this material with an open mindset, that allowed for non-biased critical analyzing.
Analysis: La casa de los espíritus l Analysis: Arráncame la vida l Analysis: Hasta no verte Jesús mío l Midterm l Analysis: La última niebla
Personal Description:Latin-American Women Writers has been the course that I have enjoyed the most, although it was the most challenging intellectually. Taught by Dr. Zielina, this course focused on Latin American Women Writers and it explored cultural, historical and social issues that manifested themselves through literature. Much of what I learned from the course was introduced through the reading of several shorty stories and novels; the material learned from these sources was then discussed extensively throughout the semester. The material introduced helped me broaden my understanding of the Woman struggle in the Latin American continent. This course fulfilled the Major Learning Outcome 3 which covers Literary Knowledge, through this fulfillment students were immersed in the learning and refining their analyzing skills dealing with Latin American Literature. This course was instrumental in introducing new concepts for analyzing and being critical about Literature that has been recently analyzed. The course placed and emphasis in analyzing and using material that has reputable sources, through this emphasis, students learned how to be critical about the material dealt with within the context of the books introduced in class. Overall, the course introduced new concepts and approaches to material that may have been polemic in recent years, but allowed students to approach this material with an open mindset, that allowed for non-biased critical analyzing.
Analysis: La casa de los espíritus l Analysis: Arráncame la vida l Analysis: Hasta no verte Jesús mío l Midterm l Analysis: La última niebla