Contact Information Office: 116G Dean Hall Email: Dana Ward Recent Presentations Alicante-Combinando la enseñanza con el turismo Central State Conference and Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers Association in Little Rock, AR (April 15-18, 1999) Creating and Using Spanish News Broadcasts American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages in Boston, MA (November 18, 2000) Spanish Camp Immersion Games and Cultural Celebrations American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages in Washington, D.C. (November 16, 2001) Miscellaneous Sponsor of Arkansas Tech Spanish Club Former Dean of the Spanish Weekend and Summer Immersion Language Camps with the Arkansas International Language Program Class Syllabi Spring 2004 Beginning Spanish I SPAN 1024 Conversation and Composition II SPAN 3013 Recent Syllabi Beginning Spanish I SPAN 1014 Intermediate Spanish SPAN 2014 Conversation and Comp I SPAN 3003 Spanish Literature SPAN 4213 Intermediate Spanish SPAN 2024 Conversation and Composition II SPAN 3013 Culture and Civilization SPAN 3123 Spanish American Short Stories

Teaching Philosophy: The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterward. Proverbs: Aunque la mona se viste de seda, mona se queda. No es oro todo lo que reluce. Más vale pájaro en mano que cien volando. Spanish Courses Taught at ATU: Beginning Spanish 1014 and 1024 Intermediate Spanish 2014 and 2024 Conversation and composition 3003 and 3013 Spanish Civilization and Culture 3123 Spanish-American Civilization and Culture 3133 Spanish Literature 4213 Spanish-American Literature 4223 Latin-American Short Stories 4993/5993 Spanish-American Short Stories 6073 Special Problems in 19th and 20th Century Spanish: 19th Century Latin American Literature 6893 20th Century Spanish Drama 4993 Medical Spanish 4991-4 Teaching Spanish Conversation 6883 Spanish Cultural Immersion and Research 4801/6801 Spanish and Latin American Film 5803/6803 English Courses: Freshman Composition 1013 and 1023 Honor's Composition 1053 ESL 0203 TESOL 4703/5703 TESOL Special Problems 4993/5993

Important Author Links: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Benito Pérez Galdós Antonio Machado Juan Ramón Jiménez Federico García Lorca Alejandro Casona Octavio Paz Juan Rulfo Julio Cortázar Antonio Buero Vallejo Gabriel García Márquez Surrealism Defamiliarization Magic Realism

Important Movie Links: El silencio de Neto Danzón Las mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios Yo la peor de todas Belle époque De eso no se habla El norte Como agua para chocolate El nido El Ángel exterminador