COURSE INDEX - LaGuardia Community College
COURSE INDEX - LaGuardia Community College
COURSE INDEX - LaGuardia Community College
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Education and Language Acquisition Department<br />
ELR201 Russian Literature of the 20th Century<br />
3 credits; 3 hours<br />
This course will familiarize students with key works by Russian<br />
writers from the end of the tsarist monarchy to the present.<br />
Prerequisite: Placement Exam<br />
Spanish<br />
ELS101 Elementary Spanish I<br />
3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />
This course for beginners is designed to develop listening, speaking,<br />
reading and writing skills through work in the classroom and<br />
the language laboratory.<br />
Prerequisite: CSE099, ENA/ENG/ESA099/ENC101<br />
Note: A student must successfully complete ELS102 before<br />
credit is granted for ELS101 Elementary Spanish I.<br />
ELS102 Elementary Spanish II<br />
3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, I lab)<br />
This is a continuation of Elementary Spanish I.<br />
Prerequisite: ELS101<br />
ELS103 Intermediate Spanish<br />
3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />
This course is designed to further develop language skills. The<br />
relationship among speaking, reading and writing is emphasized.<br />
Prerequisite: Exemption Exam<br />
ELS105 Spanish for Fluent Speakers I<br />
3 credits; 4 hours (3 lecture, 1 lab)<br />
This course is designed to enable the native speaker of Spanish to<br />
master the intricacies of Spanish accentuation and spelling, to<br />
expand his/her vocabulary and to allow him/her to conduct a<br />
basic grammatical analysis of the sentence.<br />
Prerequisite: Exemption Exam<br />
ELS150 Skills Maintenance in Modern Languages<br />
1 credit, 2 lab hours<br />
This laboratory course is designed to maintain foreign language<br />
skills during an interruption in the study sequence. Individual<br />
instruction is directly related to student’s particular field of interest.<br />
Hours individually arranged.<br />
Prerequisite: CSE099, ENA/ENG/ESA099/ENC101<br />
ELS200 Latin American Literature I<br />
3 credits; 3 hours<br />
This course deals with an introduction to Latin American literature<br />
and its relationship to the dynamics of social change. The<br />
course also traces the influence of European, North American,<br />
African and pre-Columbian elements on Latin American literary<br />
movements. Topics include pre-Columbian literatures, colonization<br />
and exploration, the wars of independence and abolition.<br />
Prerequisite: Placement Exam<br />
ELS201 Latin American Literature II<br />
3 credits; 3 hours<br />
This course is a continuation of Latin American Literature I. The<br />
second term deals with urbanization, social consciousness, alienation,<br />
black awareness and the new revolutions.<br />
Prerequisite: Placement Exam<br />
ELS204 Latin American Civilizations<br />
3 credits; 3 hours<br />
This course deals with an in-depth study of the peoples and cultural<br />
institutions of Latin America through the examination of<br />
selected topics such as caudillismo, machismo, mestizaje, honor,<br />
slavery and aboriginal traditions as reflected in different forms of<br />
literary and artistic expression. Students will learn to comment<br />
critically on Latin American civilization and to make significant<br />
comparisons with their own backgrounds and experiences.<br />
Prerequisite: Placement Exam<br />
ELS205 Latin American Civilizations<br />
3 credits; 3 hours<br />
This course deals with an in-depth study of peoples and cultural<br />
institutions of Latin America through the examination of selected<br />
topics such as caulillismo, machismo, mestizaje, honor, slavery and<br />
aboriginal traditions as reflected in different forms of literary and<br />
artistic expression. Students will learn to comment critically on<br />
Latin American civilization and to make significant comparisons<br />
with their own backgrounds and experiences. In English. No<br />
exemption credit in Spanish.<br />
Prerequisite: CSE099; ENA/ENG/ESA099/ENC101<br />
Note: Not open to students with credit for ELS/HUS104<br />
ELS 209 Spanish Grammar and Usage<br />
3 credits; 3 hours<br />
This course is designed as a descriptive study of the structure of<br />
the Spanish language, while offering writing practice through the<br />
analysis of lexical and morphological variations and differences in<br />
register in selected texts. Students will analyze Spanish syntax,<br />
increase their understanding of the structures of Spanish and<br />
develop stylistically correct prose. They will also be able to recognize<br />
dialectical variations, differences in register and linguistic<br />
calques. Taught in Spanish.<br />
Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101, ELS210<br />
ELS211 Spanish Literature 1<br />
3 credits; 3 hours<br />
This course will familiarize students with the literature of Spain<br />
from the Middle Ages through the 1700. Students will read and<br />
analyze representative works of different styles, genres and literary<br />
periods selected every semester. This course is taught in Spanish.<br />
Prerequisite: ELS105 or Exemption Exam<br />
ELS212 Spanish Literature 2<br />
3 credits; 3 hours<br />
This course traces the development of peninsular Spanish literature<br />
from Romanticism to the present. Students will learn about<br />
the thematic, stylistic and ideological characteristics of representative<br />
movements such as romanticismo, realismo, costumbrismo,<br />
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