Students develop advanced reading, writing, and research skills in Spanish by pondering the earliest writings from the Americas both by Europeans and native Americans. Given in Spanish.
Athena Title
Cultures in Contact After 1492
Prerequisite
SPAN 3030 or SPAN 3030E or SPAN 3030H
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will engage and motivate students to evaluate the debates related to the colonial representation of the indigenous subject and the formation of nation-states in Latin America.
Students will design, plan and complete written assignments and oral presentations on a variety of colonial and nineteenth-century texts.
Students will encourage evaluation of different points of view, facilitating respectful discussion and dissidence, in debate and other class activities that deal with political, social and ethical dimensions of colonial encounters and nationhood formation.
Students will support one’s own reasoning through written essays and other
argumentative assignments on indigenous, colonial, and nineteenth-century Latin American texts.
Students will foment understanding of the pre-Columbian, Colonial and nineteenth-century periods and their cultures, which are different from the students’ own, and to consider both similarities and differences with their own history, culture and present circumstances.
Students will instill the ability to perform readings of complex texts, analyzing their language, historical and cultural context, and a brief critical bibliography.
Topical Outline
The impact of and the responses to Columbus' encounter of the New
World; mapping the New World--epostles, diaries and chronicles;
aspects of "otherness"; epic and chronicle; Enlightenment aesthetics
in Spanish America; aspectss of "civilization" and "barbarism";
the female voice; the concept of "national" literature; revolution
in literature.
