SPN 329 - Hispanic Media

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirements HU and DE.
Prerequisite(s): SNC 301 Conversation & Debate , SNC 303 Spanish for Heritage Speakers II , SNC 304 Texts & Contexts or permission of instructor.
This course analyzes the influence of media and technology on Hispanic literature, cinema and theater. With a historical perspective, the class will critically analyze how cultural products incorporate new media (such as photography, film, internet, email, social media, among others), and will pay attention to how technology affects gender and sexuality in these works. The class will include some theoretical texts to complement the readings and audiovisual materials. This class will provide students with a historical perspective on the relationships between technology and culture during the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and will help them to analyze cultural texts in Spanish from other critical perspectives. In addition to that, it will offer them the opportunity to understand the context and some of the most important debates in Latin America and the Caribbean. The students will be able to close-read, think, write, and talk critically about the subject, in addition to exploring creative writing.