This course will offer students an opportunity to study selected texts (films, novels, poems, music, songs, news articles, paintings) from the Spanish-speaking world. We will watch/read, contextualize and discuss texts that explore cultural, economic, and social, issues pertaining to migration in the Spanish-speaking world. We will set out to discover themes of politics, economics, health, family, language, identity, gender, class, race, among others. We will approach these texts through both cultural studies and literary theory, recognizing that every representation is created within an ideological context. We will read these texts as cultural products and producers of culture. The main goal is for students to understand the complex interaction between representations and reality.
*IMPORTANT NOTE: To be in this course you need to have completed SPN301 & 370 or have my permission.