Chicago habla español

Chicago is known to have multiple, diverse Spanish-speaking communities. In this course, students will immerse themselves in these communities to analyze and debate current issues confronting the LatinX experience in the United States and Midwest. In parallel, class instruction will reinforce and expand students’ grammatical and lexical proficiency in a manner that will allow students to engage in real-life activities involving speaking, reading, listening and writing skills. This intermediate-high language course targets the development of writing skills and oral proficiency in Spanish and is designed as an alternative to SPAN 20300. In class, students will review problematic grammatical structures, write a number of essays, and participate in multiple conversations using authentic readings and listening segments as linguistic models on which to base their own production. At the end of class, students are expected to produce an individual project.