Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

SPA 271 focuses on any combination of essays, novels, short stories, poetry and theater from Latin America, Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean and / or Spain. The course is designed to provide intermediate and advanced students of Spanish with the opportunity to study literature and to practice and improve skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing and vocabulary usage, as well as to further understanding and appreciation of diverse perspectives and experiences of and issues facing women in Spanish-speaking countries. The course is offered for one credit hour and fulfills the distribution requirements for the AA degree, the diversity requirement, and the general education requirement for other associate degrees.

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Students must attend regularly and come to class having read assigned selections and having prepared any assigned exercises, reflections and so on. Written work is required and the course will be conducted entirely in Spanish.