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 2026/27b: Fiction and Nonfiction. This course develops theoretical and methodological tools to study the ambiguous boundaries of the fictional and scientific representation of social reality in Latin American cultural discourse and practice. Through the examination of hybrid texts that combine elements of fiction, science, journalism, photography, and art, the course explores assumptions underlying different conceptions of documentary and imaginary representation. Students consider models of analysis originating in cultural studies, along with other models from the social sciences, to arrive at an integral and multidisciplinary understanding of the formal and social characteristics of these diverse texts and practices. Michael Aronna

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

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS