MLL 345 - Spanish Textual Analysis in a Multicultural Context

Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-D
The course will introduce students to textual analysis and production, allowing them to read and write within the context of academic and university discourses. Exposed to texts from diverse traditions both global and local, students will become competent readers and writers.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area D1-3 requirements.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better; and MLL 242.
Equivalent Quarter Course: MLL 3400.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-D - Upper Division Social Sciences
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Written Communication: Students will be able to express themselves in writing with a fair amount of sophistication, integrating research information while giving adequate credit to the sources used. They will also have the ability to convey critical ideas in both academic and social contexts in a respectful way.
Critical Thinking: Students will be familiar with major creative texts. They will also learn critical thinking, critical and analytical methods that are reinforced by their language skills. They should be able to relate a variety of cultural productions to the socio-cultural contexts in which they developed.
Multicultural Diversity: Students will demonstrate that they have acquired the knowledge of ethnic cultural diversity, and other forms of diversity such as gender, while developing an appreciation of contributions to the body of diverse textual cultural productions.
Social Justice and Sustainability: Students will be able to act responsibly and recognize the historical and individual perspectives vs the global. Students will demonstrate knowledge of global barriers to equality and social justice, identify and critically assess social, cultural, historical, political, national and/or global inequalities while acquiring the knowledge of multicultural diversity in more than one area. Students will be able to use multiple forms (essay, research, creative expression) to investigate, participate in, and/or critique social justice movements in an open-minded and respectful manner.

UD-D. Upper-division Social Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.