"SPAN 4060: Pre-20th Century Readings in Spanish," is a core class for majors and minors in Spanish at Tulane. The Latin American Library holds first and rare editions of many of the classics of colonial Latin American Literature that students read in the course.
For several sections of this class, we have designed a special collections workshop which doubles as a midterm review. Students rotate through tables and examine four or five colonial-era editions of texts they have read. The activity serves to give students a sense of the materiality of early modern books and manuscripts while prompting them jog their memories of authors, dates, and themes that will be on their midterm exam. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we moved this activity online.
Click on the links below to see the in-person and online lesson plans and worksheets.