Hispanic Literature: Understanding the Power of Words Through Spanish-Language Texts

Arts and Humanities
Hispanic Literature: Understanding the Power of Words Through Spanish-Language Texts

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  • Academic Plan
    AT_0030
  • Cognate
    Arts and Humanities
  • Responsible Academic Unit
    Contact Info
    • Name: Rebecca Doran
    • Email: rdoran@miami.edu
    • Phone: Please contact by email
    • Location: 210-11 Merrick
  • Recommended for
    All students.
  • Required Courses
    Students must complete at least 3 courses for at least 9 credits.
  • Number of Groups: 2

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Description

The tools and strategies used in analyzing Hispanic texts and then helps students put these to use as they hone their analytical and interpretative skills. Literature is a cultural realm in which words are used to create powerful effects. On the one hand, the study of Hispanic literature allows one to further refine one's understanding of the Spanish language and to expand one's expressive capabilities in the language. On the other hand, learning to decode rhetoric and style, in any language, is a process that helps us to appreciate and enjoy literature, to better understand the culture that produces that literature, and to comprehend the dynamics at play in all types of verbal expression, whether a poem, a novel, a newspaper article, a legal document, an advertising or marketing campaign, or a political speech. This cognate brings together linguistic, interpretative, and analytical skills.

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