HISP 206 - Reading and Writing about Hispanic Culture

Semester Offered: Fall and Spring
1 unit(s)

Reading, writing and speaking skills are developed through study of cultural and literary texts and audiovisual materials.

Topic for 2023/24a: Desbordes: Undoing Patriarchy in Latin America. Contemporary anti-patriarchal, anti-racist, and anti-colonial collectives, authors, and artists are changing the socio-political landscape of Latin America from the ground up. In this course we pay attention to how these activists undo and overflow patriarchal borders to create new territories of dissent and communality. While developing reading, writing, and speaking skills in Spanish, we analyze the works of various collectives, authors, and artists, to map this current affective cartography of Latin America. Materials range from comic strips, performance, short stories, poems, music videos, to essays, manifestos and calls to action. By the end of the course, students are able to engage with Latin American feminist theories, identify major interventions, and write short essays towards undoing patriarchy in Latin America. Montserrat Madariaga-Caro.

Prerequisite(s): HISP 205 or four years of high school Spanish.

Two 75-minute periods and one hour of conversation.

Course Format: CLS