Culture and Literature Courses
Spanish 3040-Intro to Hispanic Literary Forms
Universidad de Costa Rica
Introduction to the basic structures and elements of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay, including literary and critical theory, with readings in 19th- and 20th-century Spanish and Spanish-American literature.
Spanish 3070- The Hispanic World: Spain
Clemson University
Introduction to the significant aspects of the culture of Spain from its origins to the present. Emphasizes the artistic, social, historical, political, and contemporary issues of the Iberian Peninsula.
Spanish 3080- The Hispanic World: Latin America
Universidad de Costa Rica
Introduction to the significant aspects of the culture of Spanish-American countries. Emphasis is placed on the development of the political, economical, geographical, social, and artistic aspects of Spanish America from the indigenous period to the present.
Relevant Coursework
This is a paper overviewing the culture, economic, and political landscape of Argentina which I
wrote during my cultures class while abroad in Costa Rica. Each student picked a country and
presented a project based on the paper written as our final. Although this seems like a futile
project sometimes in which no one would pay attention to, it was a good way for the students
to see the cultural differences and similarities between each country and how it is important
not to put all Latinos (as) in the same box.
This essay came from my literature class that I took while studying abroad in Costa Rica. This class taught me a lot about how to read in Spanish, to analyze, and to have discussions with my classmates in Spanish about the stories that we had read. This was a difficult but really rewarding class to me because it helped
me to develop analytical soft skills that I had not gotten from other classes that I had taken.
This essay in question is my final project on a novela called Aura by Carlos Fuentes, a Mexican
writer that we studied.