HISP 216 - Topics in Multidisciplinary Analysis

Semester Offered: Fall and Spring
1 unit(s)

This course develops a set of methodological and theoretical tools for the investigation of cultural practices such as literature, popular and mass culture, social movements and institutions in Spanish-speaking countries.

Topic for 2013/14a: Fiction and Non Fiction in the Multidisciplinary Classroom. This course explores the literary, historiograhical, autobiographical, and ethnographic boundaries of hybrid forms of writing, film, popular culture, and art in Latin America. Our focus questions the aesthetic and scientific framing of these texts as we consider them from the perspective of cultural studies and the social sciences in order to arrive at an integral understand of their formal and social features.

Topic for 2013/14b: Latin American Culture through Music. The course explores the history, culture and geographies of Latin America through its musical traditions, with particular attention to modern theories of cultural interpretation. Materials for analysis will include music videos, literary texts, film and art as we seek to piece together the social, anthropological and personal dimensions of the region’s music. Mr. Aronna. (a) Ms Paravisini. (b) Mr. Aronna (a); Ms. Paravisini (b).

Prerequisite(s): HISP 206 or permission of the instructor.

Two 75-minute periods.