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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SPA 3610 - Race, Literature and Culture

Credits: 4
Through the exploration of literature, history, music, film, and contemporary media, this course will explore questions of race in Spain and Latin America. Through the analysis and discussion of discourses on race (in fiction, as well as in factual, historical or anthropological texts), students will understand the history of the relations between different races in the Spanish-speaking world, as well as the relationship between race and: nation-creation, class, empire, immigration, and social inequalities. This is a topic-centered course which might focus on one specific country or historical period.
Prerequisite(s): SPA 3200  or permission of the instructor.
Fulfills: Humanities distribution requirement. D in the LS Core and AL or FL in LS Core.