1.     The student will be able to critically assess literary and cultural trends of the Global Hispanophone, developed in Spanish but outside Latin America and Spain, and connect them with more canonical works usually studied in programs on Hispanic Studies. 

2.     The student will acquire knowledge on literature written in Spanish and produced in the Philippines, various Sephardic communities, the Maghreb, West Africa (including Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea), and the United States. This is an important supplement to the literary panorama usually covered in university programs of Hispanic Studies, which typically limit its geographical scope to the study of literary production in Spain and in Latin America, without covering Africa or Asia.

3.     The student will be aware of the diversity of literature written in Spanish and connect it to the cultural and historical backgrounds of the places and nations where these works were created. 

4.     The student will be able to critically reflect on how the geographical and cultural displacement of the author affects the topics and structure of the literary work.

5.     The student will be able to identify and reflect on topics such as identity, power relations, nation, tradition, gender, race and ethnicity as they appear in these literatures.

6.     The student will be able to work independently and will be provided with extra materials to prepare prior to the class.

7.     The student will be able to discuss what they have learnt while reading secondary sources, and they will be able to reflect on their application to the non-canonical literary works that we approach during the course.