SPAN 482: Mass Media and Popular Culture in the Spanish-Speaking World
SPAN 482-001: Mass Media/Pop Culture Spanish
(Spring 2018)
04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R
Thompson Hall 1018
Section Information for Spring 2018
This course focuses on mass media in the Latin America & the Latinx US as forms of popular culture that have played a significant role in constructing local, national & transnational identity. Studying newspapers of the early republics to early 20th-century radio dramas to industrial film musicals to the globalized telenovela, students will learn to situate these mass media within historical processes, including nation-building, technological
innovation, migration & social upheaval.
Course Information from the University Catalog
Credits: 3
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
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