Spring 2021
SPAN 330: HISPANIC TESTIMONIALS
A course on individual and collective memoirs, diaries, confessions and traveling accounts. Students read and analyze written texts and films, keep journals, and create life writing or multimedia production in Spanish.
A course on individual and collective memoirs, diaries, confessions and traveling accounts. Students read and analyze written texts and films, keep journals, and create life writing or multimedia production in Spanish.
- In the Spring 0f 2021 I had taken the course of Spanish 330: Hispanic testimonios with Professor Fernandez which fulfills MLO 1: Language proficiency requirement. Through this course I had learned about Hispanic testimonios and the importance of it. The course materials were based on a Hispanic individual and their collective memoirs, diaries, confessions and traveling accounts found on Hispanic literature.I was able to analyze the text in which I was able to do critical thinking and analyze its importance in the Hispanic community and the effect on today's history. I took the course in the spring of 2021, which was during the pandemic. In the course we had read a text about testimony of writers in Guayaquil, Ecuador and their perspective on the pandemic. In the text I related with one testimonio and their experience through the pandemic. The testimonio of Jessica Zambrano Alvarado states the following, “Hemos estado viviendo en una burbuja. Y todas son ideas superficiales que promueven la inequidad. ¿Por qué dejamos sumergir nuestras ideas en frases chauvinistas de un Guayaquil independiente o madera de guerrero?”I related to her statement because in my perspective the city of Salinas has lived in a bubble and submerged in the ideology of a rich city with no inequality. During the pandemic in the Salinas area many indigenous communities were affected with no resources therefore having more of a disadvantage than the Spanish-speaking community.