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

Critical examination of the significance of mass media and/or popular culture for the development of Spanish-speaking nation-states in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Forms studied may include but are not limited to: Newspapers, popular novels, lithography, photography, radio, film, television, public art, sport, performance, digital media. Students will use readings in critical theory to explore ways in which forms of mass and popular culture connect to social imaginaries. Enhancement of advanced analytical skills in Spanish through different modules of lecture, reading, discussion, and writing. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 6 credits.
Recommended Prerequisite: SPAN 305/306 or 309 or 315, SPAN 370, SPAN 385, SPAN 390.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
Additional Course Details: Taught in Spanish

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