SPAN 4401 - Latin American Culture Through Literature and the Media

Prerequisite: 2000-level SPAN course or testing placement. This course is a comprehensive exposure to essential Latin American cultural issues and patterns as they have developed historically. The course will cover how these issues manifest through representative works of popular and classical literature as well as music and film. The course will also provide a unique opportunity to produce in-depth cultural and literary analyses via oral discussion and written essays. Students minoring in Spanish have to read the primary texts in the original language and write exams and papers in Spanish. 3 credits.