Shaping the Spanish Self
F05, S07
Sonia Perez Villanueva 
Through relaxation techniques, voice and body language exercises, and various methods of interpretation, students will develop their new self in Spanish, thus feeling the Spanish language and culture within their own skin. The course will provide an opportunity for students to show their new inner voice through the performance of small texts and dialogues extracted from plays written by Spanish playwrights such as Ignacio del Moral, Federico García Lorca, and Fernando Arrabal among others. Learning will be supported by a program of multimedia tools that will guide students through the acting process in Spanish. Students will be asked to keep a journal where they will record in the past tense their cultural and linguistic transition from basic paragraphs to more complex ideas. A final term project is required and will consist of a combination of research and performance.