Students develop advanced reading, writing, and research skills by exploring how cultural and intellectual production in Latin America (after 1900) responds to various literary, political, and social movements. Alongside novels, stories, essays, and poems, this course also considers art, films, and music. Given in Spanish.
Athena Title
Latin Amer Voices of Change
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 develop an awareness, appreciation, and cultural/linguistic scholarly knowledge of Latin American and Hispanophone Caribbean cultures and communities in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Students will design, plan and complete written and digital assignments and oral presentations on a variety of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean 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 contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures.
Students will foment understanding of the diverse cultural, historical, aesthetic, and environmental contexts which have shaped Latin American and Caribbean cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Students will develop critical reading strategies to address different genres and cultural formations, which may be 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.
Students will develop the ability to support one’s own conclusions, hypotheses and arguments with sound reasoning both in writing and oral communications, as part of one’s understanding and appreciation of Latin American and Caribbean texts and cultures.
Topical Outline
The literary movements and trends comprising Spanish-American
literature and culture from Modernism to the present day:
Modernism, Vanguardism, the "Boom," Social Realism, Magical
Realism, Revolutionary literature, testimonio literature, and
Postmodern trends.
