Apr
18
Span 365 reflection
Posted by: | April 18, 2010 | Comments Off on Span 365 reflection
In the middle of Wiki edits and writing my paper I finally found a moment to give a brief reflection. I wasn’t sure what to expect coming into Span 365. I have always had an interest in understanding what magical realism was about and figured it woul…
Apr
17
Late, but done!
Posted by: | April 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Late, but done!
I know that this post is very very very late, but I feel like it is better to do it now rather than never. La clase me gusto mucho y este semestre se termino muy rapidamente. El libro favorito que habemos estudiado en clase fue Cien Anos de Soledad y t…
Apr
17
Comparaciones entre El Reino de este mundo, Leyendas de Guatemala y Cien Anos de Soledad.
Posted by: | April 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Comparaciones entre El Reino de este mundo, Leyendas de Guatemala y Cien Anos de Soledad.
Ahora que hemos leido todo estos libros tenemos que compararles para ver las semejansas y las diferencias. Todas las tres incorporan el elemento del realismo magico y experimentan con la mezcla de lo real y lo fantastico. En mi opinion, el libro Leyend…
Apr
17
Reflectionsitos
Posted by: | April 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Reflectionsitos
First I was afraid, I was petrifiedI thought how could I ever read this much and I stay aliveBut I spent so many nights looking up so many words and I survived hey hey……I just finished analyzing that song for my ear training class so it is infiltra…
Apr
17
Cien años en la eternidad
Posted by: | April 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Cien años en la eternidad
Por fin, después de semanas y semanas pasadas a posponer, llego a escribir mis últimas impresiones sobre la novela de Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Más que novela, Cien años de soledad, me pareció una tragedia, pero no una tragedia épica como las grie…
Apr
16
Ultimos Pensamientos
Posted by: | April 16, 2010 | Comments Off on Ultimos Pensamientos
No puedo creer que otro semestre ya ha terminado….Me disfrutaba mucho en esta clase y fue realmente “chill”- un elemento que faltan todas de mis otras clases!! Buenooooo…algunos pensamientos: Hemos leído tantos libros sobre…
Apr
16
“i can’t get my comments function working on this, if you are so inclined please email them to…”
Posted by: | April 16, 2010 | Comments Off on “i can’t get my comments function working on this, if you are so inclined please email them to…”
“i can’t get my comments function working on this, if you are so inclined please email them to josephine.mitchell@gmail.com and I can post them on the blog. sorry bout that.”
– josie
Apr
16
And the wrapping up…
Posted by: | April 16, 2010 | Comments Off on And the wrapping up…
I really enjoyed the structure of this course- the blogs, the wikipedia project, the reading list (that was pretty outstanding)- all fine holiday fun! But I still have to say, for the amount of stuff we went over or tried to go over, we needed way more time. We did NOT have enough time to read Cien Años for example and I still have so many questions about modern Latin American literature my head is spinning. And I know this complaint is perhaps more aimed at the structure of the university classes as a whole, but there was something about this specific class where I didn’t feel as satisfied with what I was learning as I have with other Literature classes within the Spanish department.
I feel like the course started out with a lot of ambition and a great lesson plan, (I was so excited the first day!) but in the end it just didn’t deliver for me. Organization kinda went awry for one. Why didn’t we discuss more of McOndo? Why we didn’t use the last week of classes to make up the two classes we missed during Cien Años is way beyond me?
Perhaps it was class time? That always felt rushed and I think us students had a lot more to say than we were given time for. That’s why we had the blogs I understand, but there’s something about face to face debate and direct discussion that shouldn’t be overlooked, especially in second language (for the majority of us, second language) course.
Perhaps it’s that I’m really intrigued by the subject matter and any course confined to a semester would be too little for me? I can’t really say.
But my final conclusion for the course is that it started out with a lot of ambition and a good structure but in the end it just didn’t deliver for me. There just wasn’t the zeal in the class that I had expected from the syllabus.
Reading others’ complaints I realize I must seem really harsh by saying this. It’s true, compared to other Spanish courses I’ve taken in the department, this course wasn’t terrible, it was good actually, but I expected it to be awesome and it wasn’t that exactly. I also realize, as unreasonable as I know it is, what I really want out of Spanish courses at UBC is an another immersion experience. Or at least an experience where I can see how the world changes and opens up to me when I speak a different language. It makes me wonder, because I know the majority of Spanish majors learned their Spanish abroad, how many of us students allow their Spanish courses to be sub-par because they’re not in a Spanish speaking country? Is the department just there to keep us practicing or do we take these classes to really question and investigate the Spanish language, its literature and its culture?
Apr
15
The Enemy Within
Posted by: | April 15, 2010 | Comments Off on The Enemy Within
Producer/Media Contact: Pam Bentley C: 778-386-1912 E: pjbentley63@yahoo.caTHE ENEMY WITHINa presentation of LIVE music and film:a collaboration betweencomposer/performer Jeff Caronand filmmaker Tara Flynnat the UBC Recital HallApril 17, 2010 at 8:00 p…
Apr
14
McOndo
Posted by: | April 14, 2010 | Comments Off on McOndo
I thought these stories were really great because it is a perspective that in theory is said to reject the genre we have spent the whole term learning about “magical realism”. Having a glance at the other side creates a broader understanding and I find…
