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Spanish Literature Course Requirements
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The AP Program unequivocally supports the principle that each individual school must develop its own curriculum for courses labeled "AP." Rather than mandating any one curriculum for AP courses, the AP Course Audit instead provides each AP teacher with a set of expectations that college and secondary school faculty nationwide have established for college-level courses. AP teachers are encouraged to develop or maintain their own curriculum that either includes or exceeds each of these expectations; such courses will be authorized to use the "AP" designation. Credit for the success of AP courses belongs to the individual schools and teachers that create powerful, locally designed AP curricula.
The AP Spanish Literature course should be designed by your school to provide students with a learning experience equivalent to that of a third-year college course in Peninsular and Latin American literature. Your course should introduce students to the formal study of a representative body of Peninsular and Latin American literary texts.
Students enrolling in AP Spanish Literature are typically in their fourth or fifth year of language study, or have had equivalent experience with the language.
All students who are willing to accept the challenge of a rigorous academic curriculum should be considered for admission to AP courses. The College Board encourages the elimination of barriers that restrict access to AP courses for students from ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in the AP Program. Schools should make every effort to ensure that their AP classes reflect the diversity of their student population.
High schools offering this exam must provide the exam administration resources described in the AP Coordinator's Manual.
Requirements
To request authorization to label a course "AP," complete the following two steps:
- Complete and submit an AP Course Audit form, on which the teacher and principal attest that their course includes or exceeds the following curricular requirements delineated by college and university faculty.
- Submit an electronic copy of the course syllabus that demonstrates inclusion or improvement on the curricular requirements (see Syllabus Preparation Guidelines). If your course does not include one or more of the curricular requirements but merits designation as a college-level course, see Instructions for Submitting Materials for the process for describing alternate approaches to the course.
 Syllabus Preparation Guidelines
Instructions for Teachers
Instructions on how to submit AP Course Audit materials via the Web will be posted on AP Central and mailed to principals in January 2007.
Curricular Requirements
- The teacher has read the most recent AP Spanish Course Description, available as a free download on the AP Spanish Literature Course Home Page.
AP Spanish Literature Course Home Page
- The course is structured to allow students to complete the entire AP Spanish Literature reading list, published in the AP Spanish Course Description. Abridged versions or films are not appropriate in place of the text.
- The teachers uses Spanish almost exclusively in class and encourages students to do likewise.
- The course teaches students the techniques of literary analysis and a basic vocabulary of critical terms.
- The course provides students with the opportunity to read, to discuss, and to analyze critically in Spanish representative works of Peninsular and Latin American literature through class discussion and essay writing.
- The curriculum includes representative works of prose, poetry, and drama from different periods with a consideration of their cultural context.
Resource Requirements
- The school ensures that each student has a copy of the works being read, for individual use inside and outside of the classroom.
- The school ensures that students have access to a school or public library that includes works of prose, poetry, fiction, and drama by a wide range of Peninsular and Latin American authors.
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