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Announcements &
Activities Spanish Placement
Exam: The online exam can be accessed at
http://webcape.byuhtrsc.org. Use the pull-down menu
feature to select Pomona College. The password is "sagehens1"
(ending with the digit 1). Follow the online
instructions for the exam. Results of the exam will be
sent automatically to the College and will be made
available to freshmen advisors. All students who have
studied Spanish and who plan to take Spanish courses at
Pomona College, including those who have taken AP and IB
courses, must take the placement exam during the summer,
before the beginning of the orientation adventure trips
in August. (Note: This exam does not fulfill the
language requirement.)
Be sure to take the online Spanish
Placement Exam before leaving on Orientation Adventure
on August 24, 2009. Information
Session will be offered regarding courses to be in
Fall 2009 at Pomona College.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Smith Campus Center, Rm 208
8:00am - 9:00am |
The Spanish curriculum consists of a sequence of courses
designed to both train students to the nuances of Spanish
language and to expose them to the finest cultural
achievements of the Hispanic world. Language courses focus
on the crucial areas of grammar, vocabulary and composition
even as to introduce students to contemporary cultural
issues. Transitional courses introduce students to
sophisticated literary texts and products of contemporary
culture as a continuation towards linguistic mastery. A wide
range of upper-level seminars offer students unique
opportunities to gain knowledge in both the breadth and
depth of literature and culture in the Spanish-speaking
world.
Our students are as multidisciplinary as our faculty; many
take double majors in Spanish or French and another field.
Students graduating with majors in French or Spanish in
recent years have been accepted into some of the nation's
most prestigious graduate programs in those fields,
including such universities as Harvard, Yale, Cornell and
Brown.
Pomona's program in Romance Languages is enhanced by a
state-of-the-art multimedia laboratory, the Foreign Language
Resource Center, with integrated
computer, audio, and visual components, including
interactive video disks and computer-assisted language
programs. Students can also improve their command of French
and Spanish by residing in the Oldenborg Center for Foreign
Languages and International Relations and participating in
the programs there, which include daily language tables at
lunch, frequent study breaks featuring cultural programming,
and a foreign language film series. Most students also spend
at least a semester at one of Pomona's Study Abroad
programs.The major in Spanish is designed to assist
students in achieving a superior level of linguistic fluency
in Spanish as well as cultural competency through the study
of the very finest literary production and the complex
histories and cultures of the Spanish-speaking countries of
Spain and Latin America, and of the Spanish-speaking
communities of the United States. Students majoring in
Spanish are required to complete major requirements and
senior exercises as described below. They are also expected
to participate in the Study Abroad Program and to reside in
Oldenborg Center for one year.
Upon graduation, Spanish majors should be able to:
1. demonstrate advanced competence in written and spoken
Spanish.
2. demonstrate the ability to read critically, interpret
analytically, and write coherently about both verbal and
visual texts produced in the Spanish-speaking world:
a. identify literary figures and devices and describe their
function.
b. compare and contrast analyses and interpretations of
different literary and cultural texts.
3. identify and evaluate the specific nature of a wide array
of literary genres.
4. recognize basic critical methodological approaches in the
study of these genres, such as close reading,
socio-historical contextualization, and literary and
cultural theory.
5. demonstrate knowledge of literary and cultural
traditions, such as major movements, writers, and works of
the Spanish-speaking world, focusing on at least one and
ideally multiple traditions: Spanish American, Spanish and
US/Latino literary cultures.
6. produce a senior thesis/paper with a clear thesis
statement, a logical structure, appropriate evidence and
persuasive analysis.
7. demonstrate an understanding of basic elements of
scholarly research and writing ,
a. locate, evaluate and incorporate material relevant to the
research project.
b. present the bibliography in proper scholarly format.
8. articulate an argument in an effective and convincing
manner in formal spoken Spanish.
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