SPA558: Spanish Through Digital Media

This course is designed to emphasize the continued development of listening and speaking proficiencies in Spanish by viewing and discussing podcasts, video-talks, documentaries, and short films among other possibilities available on-line and in other media. As part of their daily tasks, students will watch audiovisual materials in Spanish that will cover a wide range of topics and speakers of different areas of the Hispanic world. Our study will provide an informative window for current events and cultural trends and the variety of speaking accents, lexicons, and idiomatic traits of Latin America, Equatorial Guinea, and Spain.