SPAN 495 - Spanish Capstone (cc)

Credit(s): 3
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 238 or approval of the Modern Foreign Languages Program Director.
This is a senior research seminar in literary and cultural studies for Spanish majors. The course will deepen the expertise students have granted in Spanish and Latin American literature and culture, and it will strengthen their formal writing abilities in Spanish through an individualized research project and paper. Students will hone their research skills by developing a valid research question, articulating a thesis, and providing convincing evidence. They will develop their critical thinking and writing skills and use those skills in close readings of literature, and analysis and interpretation of archival materials and secondary sources. Students will construct an original argument and situate their contribution within current debates in the field.

This is the Core Course for students enrolled in the Spanish major starting Fall 2019. For explanation of the core course, please see the Academic Regulations and Procedures and Student Policies page.