Course Details
Country:
Costa Rica
Institution:
Universidad Veritas
Course Title:
Latin American Dialects
Course Number:
SPN 3520
Course Description:
The student is able to function naturally, with little effort in different cultural interactions, since
he or she has enough linguistic resource that allows him or her to communicate fluently and
spontaneously in situations with a certain degree of complexity or external interference. In
addition, he or she also recognizes the denotative and connotative meaning of dialectal
Spanish expressions. He or she can comment on criteria such as: religion, politics, art and
history, as well as specific aspects of each culture of our Latin American countries.
This course answers the question: How to interact with Latin American natives in different
cultural contexts, through the effective and efficient use of the dialectal variables of American
Spanish?
To answer this question, the countries of Central America and South America will be studied
as thematic axes. Historical aspects of the Conquest and its influence on dialectal diversity.
Language:
Spanish
Approved Equivalent:
SPAN 335
Attachment Files:
SPN 3520 Latin American Dialects Semester Syllabus 2019 ENGLISH.pdf
