Course Description: Critical study of representative authors from colonial times to the twentieth century. Introduces students to key works by writers such as: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Ruben Dario, Gabriela Mistral, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, etc. By exposing students to these literary texts, the course will focus on further developing academic writing and its genres (narrative, persuasive, expository). Taught in English.
Course Narrative: This course helped me fulfill MLO 6. In this class I learned more about Latin American literature and topics such as surrealism, magic realism, fantasy literature, among others. This course consisted of online discussions, in person discussions, books analysis, and a final project, were I had to analyze a book of my choice. It had to be a Latin American author and it had to be from Spanish to English. In this written paper I was asked to claim an argument and detail its significance to further literary research. For my final project I chose to analyze the book No One Writes to the Colonel. This novel reflects on the loneliness, love and hope that the protagonist had despite the critical situations he was going through at home and the crisis the country of Colombia was facing. This novel has a main focus on the 3 situation that Colombia was going through in the 50's which is known as "La violencia.” Overall, this course was able to help me organize my thoughts and analyzations as well as practice my skills of asking questions that will help understand literary works to a deeper extent. I will carry this skill with me whenever I choose to read any literature because behind every story is a significance to why it was written.